Above Photo: Shengtian Zheng and Jinbo Sun, Winds of Fusang, 2017. ‘Fusang’ is an ancient Chinese word referring to what some believe to be the shores of Mexico. The work is an homage to Latin America’s influence on China, particularly that of Mexican artists on the development of modern Chinese art. In early March, Argentina’s government came to an Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a $45 billion deal to shore up its shaky finances. This deal was motivated by the government’s need to pay a $2.8 billion instalment on a $57 billion IMF stand-by loan taken out under former President Mauricio […]
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Above Photo: Carelle Homsy (Egypt), Liberté Egypte, 2009. For over a decade, Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been in and out of Egypt’s prisons, never free of the harassment of the military state apparatus. In 2011, during the high point of the revolution, Alaa emerged as an important voice of his generation and since then has been a steady moral compass despite his country’s attempts to suffocate his voice. On 25 January 2014, to commemorate the third anniversary of the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s government, Alaa and the poet Ahmed Douma wrote a moving epistle from their dungeon in Tora Prison, Cairo. This prison, […]
Above Photo: Rochelle Lubbers (center) tears up as she talks about putting her native identity aside while attending school as she and the Tulalip Tribes community gathered at the last remaining building from the Tulalip Indian boarding school for a Day of Remembrance on Thursday in Tulalip Reservation. (Andy Bronson / The Herald) A sunset gathering Thursday brought attention to mistreatment of children at Tulalip and elsewhere. Tulalip — Standing in front of the last remnant of the boarding school on Tulalip Bay Thursday evening, Tulalip leaders tearfully shared their families’ stories. Rochelle Lubbers, chief administrative officer for the tribes, is […]
Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, And Resistance In Dark Times By Henri Giroux, Counterpunch. October 24, 2020 Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, And Resistance In Dark Times2020-10-242020-10-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/refinery-e1603566578933.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Nathaniel St. Clair. We must believe in the Principle of Hope. A Marxist does not have the right to be a pessimist – Ernst Bloch Across the globe, democratic institutions such as the independent media, schools, the legal system, certain financial institutions, and higher education are under siege. The promise, if not ideals, of democracy are receding as the barbarians who breathe new life into a fascist past are once again on the move subverting […]
The Dragonfly 44 galaxy has been a thorn in the scientific community’s side ever since it was found to consist almost entirely of dark matter in 2016. New research has allowed for a collective sigh relief, however. The galaxy, located some 330 million light-years away in the Coma Cluster, contains 1,000 times fewer stars than the Milky Way, making it extremely dim. Four years ago, astronomer Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University counted the number of clusters around the galaxy and, using the standard technique for determining the quantity of dark matter in an area of space, was startled by what […]
In January 2016 the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, proposed a Holocaust Memorial be built in Victoria Towers Gardens, next to the Palace of Westminster. But the memorial, which would cost at least £75 million, has been opposed by local residents and many prominent Jews. A public inquiry has been told the proposed memorial to the Holocaust would be in danger of becoming a magnet for “dark tourism” and would do nothing to stop the “resurgence of anti-Semitism” in Britain. The plan is supported by all of Britain’s political party leaders and most of the 650 MPs. But Professor Geoffrey Alderman, a […]
President Donald Trump jumped into the deep end of conspiratorial waters on Monday night during a friendly interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, spinning tales about “people in dark shadows” pulling Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s strings and a plane full of “thugs” in “black uniforms with gear” looking to “do big damage” at the Republican National Convention. After spending much of the first half of the interview fear-mongering about Black Lives Matter protesters, going so far as to say the name of the movement is “discriminatory” and “bad for Black people,” the president then suggested that shadowy figures and […]
64 days to remove the most unfit (and bizarre) president in history https://t.co/IJizgWZ8zs — Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) September 1, 2020 This text is here only to facilitate wordpress opening the tweet properly VT Editors is a General Posting account managed by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff. All content herein is owned and copyrighted by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff ATTENTION READERS Due to the nature of independent content, VT cannot guarantee content validity.We ask you to Read Our Content Policy so a clear comprehension of VT’s independent non-censored media is understood and given its proper place in the world […]
Israel Cuts Fuel, Gaza Goes Dark By Tamara Nassar, Electronic Intifada. August 22, 2020 Israel Cuts Fuel, Gaza Goes Dark2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/gaza-flames-and-smoke-rise-after-bombing-2020-e1598107224502.jpg200px200px Above photo: Flame and smoke rise as a result of an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on 16 August. By Ashraf Amara for APA Images. The Gaza Strip’s only power plant shut down on Tuesday after Israel stopped the transfer of fuel to the territory. The halting of fuel transfers is among a series of collective punishment measures Israel has imposed on Gaza. Israel has claimed the measures are a response to incendiary balloons released from Gaza. The launching of […]
When Simon Cowell broke his back last week on what was first reported to be an “e-bike,” the news tore through not just the entertainment world but the booming e-bike industry. Turns out, Cowell wasn’t on an e-bike but an e-motorcycle. That’s an important distinction, because the “bike” Cowell was riding can hit top speeds of 60 miles per hour, which makes it patently more dangerous than e-bikes, most of which would be lucky to go half that fast. So, don’t let Cowell’s literal fall from grace keep you from picking up a sweet new battery powered cruiser, consuming public: E-bikes […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/01/1080034739_0:0:3001:1688_1200x675_80_0_0_56cba6531ebc7eb100698c03e8e69eef.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Max Gorbachev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008051080076661-2-million-americans-wake-up-in-the-dark-after-tropical-storm-isaias-causes-power-outage/ At the moment of writing at least six people have died due to the storm, which created deadly tornadoes and caused heavy rainfall and strong winds up to 140 kilometers per hour (86 mph). The natural disaster also grounded air travel on the east coast of the United States. Two million people in the United States woke up in the dark, as tropical storm Isaias caused a power outage in the northeast of the country. Trees felled by the storm knocked down electricity poles, while strong winds damaged homes. New Jersey has […]
Over the last couple of years, Japanese authorities have been trying to solve the puzzle over so-called “ghost ships”, presumably of North Korean origin, that have turned up on the country’s coast. Some of them contained decomposed human remains, prompting local officers and media speculate about origin of these mysterious phenomenon. Illegal fishing by Chinese vessels in North Korean waters may explain why hundreds of unidentified fishermen have been washed up on the Japanese coast, with these incidents often resulting in starvation and death, according to a study by Global Fishing Watch (GFW) published in Science Advances. The research used four satellite […]
The initial coin offering boom of 2017 and 2018 was the closest crypto came to mass adoption. It was a period of market and media exuberance. The Gray Lady, aka the New York Times, perhaps looking to court the new taste-makers and the hilariously wealthy, published think pieces about the crypto revolution and the leaders behind it. About 1,000 different token projects raised over $22 billion over two years, according to CoinDesk Research. To put it in perspective, that’s approximately half the gross domestic product of Tuvalu, the country with the smallest GDP at that time. Unlike the natural resources and […]
Tempers frayed in the pit lane at the Xfinity Series in Kentucky on Friday as drivers Harrison Burton and Noah Gragson traded blows in a fierce bust-up after their cars collided on the track minutes before. With just 13 of 200 laps remaining in the race, Gragson’s No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet clipped the back of Burton’s No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, causing both cars to graze the outside wall and lose ground on the race leaders. Also on rt.com Alex Zanardi: Racing icon who fought back from losing BOTH legs to win Paralympic gold has BRAIN surgery after crash with TRUCK […]
A 37-year-old female resident of the city of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of attempt to acquire a chemical weapon. A North Dakota US District Court sentenced Sijie Liu to six years behind bars on June 22, after she attempted to purchase a chemical weapon from an undercover FBI employee on the dark web, according to court documents cited by Canadian outlet CTV News Winnipeg. According to court documents observed by the outlet, Liu first made contact with the undercover agent some time between February 15, 2019, and […]
Watching Dark’s third and final season is like clutching the hand of a person who’s dangling from a helicopter over a vast canyon—you’re just holding on for dear life, desperate to maintain your grip on the wild situation. Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar’s German-language series has always been a masterpiece of time-travel intricacy, and that continues to be true with its closing eight-episode run (premiering Saturday, June 27), which keeps tying itself in temporal knots—heck, everyone even calls their interconnected circumstances “The Knot”—while simultaneously adding a new mind-melting complication to the mix: the multiverse! For a show about existential grief […]
Prior to the 20th century, astronomers believed that the dark spots on the visible side of the moon were dried up seas and oceans. The scientists assumed that the far side of Earth’s natural satellite was covered with the same traces, but in the end, both assumptions turned out to be wrong. Scientists from the Earth‐Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Florida, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Towson University, NASA Johnson Space Centre, and the University of New Mexico have presented new clues about the way the Moon gained its near‐ and far‐side asymmetry, the […]
Matthew Rhys is on a roll. It’s very charming. The Welsh accent is lilting along, as if ricocheting off the hills and dales of Wye Valley, as he stammers, jokes, and tells vivid stories about his time shooting HBO’s new reboot/prequel/reimagination, however you want to describe it, of Perry Mason. But he abruptly stops himself mid-thought, a fast-talker slamming the brakes so hard it almost sends the listener careening. “I’m trying to reel my pretentiousness in…” he says. A version of the apology, a sort of self-conscious, self-aware moral speed bump, arrives a few times in our conversation. Read any number […]
While we cannot conceive of the sky without the numerous stars that light up the heavens, back in the Universe’s infancy, it contained no stars at all. That obscure period holds many secrets which science seeks to gain an insight into, in a bid to learn more about today’s Universe. An international team of scientists is seeking to detect, measure and study a signal from the obscure, starless “dark age” of the Universe, that has travelled through space for 13 billion years. Researchers from the University of Washington, the University of Melbourne, Curtin University and Brown University had claimed in a […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Amid the corona pandemic, economies around the world are struggling to stay afloat, with massive amounts of jobs lost and a recession hitting even the most well-off countries. The situation is similar in India, where many people, who have been laid off during the lockdown, are surfing the web in search of opportunities. The cyber crime police branch of Maharashtra, an Indian state with over 50,000 COVID-19 cases, has confirmed that the personal data of around 29 million Indians seeking jobs via online portals has been leaked and is on sale on the dark web. The dark web […]
President Trump walks to St. Johns Holy Church in Washington DC after it was destroyed by a leftist mob. If you were thinking that the current struggles in our nation are between good and evil you are not alone. Carlo Maria Viganò is an archbishop of the Catholic Church who served as the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from 19 October 2011 to 12 April 2016. On Saturday Archbishop Carlo Maria Vagano sent a letter to President Donald Trump to encourage him on this righteous battle of good versus evil playing out in the United States today. TRENDING: Texas Man […]
Doctors Demand Hospital Industry Stop Funding Dark Money Lobby Group By Jake Johnson, Commondreams. May 29, 2020 Doctors Demand Hospital Industry Stop Funding Dark Money Lobby Group2020-05-292020-05-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ny-nurses-protest-for-patiens-over-profits-e1590761599424.jpg200px200px Above photo: New York City nurses and other hospital professionals protest dangerous working conditions and a change in sick leave policies during the Covid-19 pandemic on April 17, 2020. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images. Battle Covid-19, Not Blocking Medicare for All. “The AHA should immediately leave the PFAHCF and redirect that money to supporting patients and frontline healthcare workers.” A progressive organization of 23,000 physicians from across the U.S. demanded Thursday that the American Hospital Association […]
A shadowy online hacker collective claims to have obtained damning information on US President Donald Trump, threatening to publish the purloined documents unless someone puts up a $42 million ransom in a week’s time. The cybertheft outfit announced that it had infiltrated the computer systems of a major entertainment law firm – Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks – in a post to the dark web on Friday, first reported by Page Six. Claiming to have mined a vast trove of documents on celebrities ranging from Madonna, Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey, the hackers now say they have […]