Above Photo: Illustrations By Matt Rota. Maquiladora Workers In The Border City Of Mexicali Strike Against Working Conditions. Workers in the Mexican border city of Mexicali, many of them young migrant women, were fighting for their lives. It was the deadliest point of the pandemic in 2020 in one of the hardest-hit states in Mexico, Baja California. By May 2020, a local news outlet reported that 432 of the 519 Covid-19 fatalities to date had been workers in maquiladoras—assembly plants on the border that mostly supply the United States. On April 8, 2020, the Mexicali workers forced two maquiladoras of Gulfstream — a U.S. aerospace company with several active contracts with the Department of Defense— to shutter for […]
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Above Photo: First responders surround an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Edwardsville, Illinois, on December 10, 2021, after it was hit by a tornado. (Tim Vizer / AFP / Getty Images) Grief, Anger, And Demands For Answers After Tornadoes Kill At Least 14 U.S. Workers. In the aftermath of a rare string of December tornadoes last Friday night that left 80 people dead across six states, labor activists are questioning why employees at two large worksites in the path of destruction were left exposed to danger. A candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky was totally destroyed after sustaining a direct tornado hit with 110 workers inside. At least eight people […]
A new report, jointly issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on work-related deaths for the year 2016, shows that workplace-related diseases and injuries led to the deaths of 1.9 million people in that year. The WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-Related Burden of Disease and Injury, 2000-2016, conducted before the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, gives a glimpse of the terrible toll taken on the international working class by the insatiable profit drive of the corporations. Globally, 34.3 out of every 100,000 people over age 15 die each year from work-related causes. The WHO/ILO study […]
Keep Calm And Just Die By Lee Camp, Consortium News. November 24, 2020 Keep Calm And Just Die2020-11-242020-11-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/capitalism-e1606224391984.jpg200px200px Above image: Jared Rodriguez. Truthout.org, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The government of Great Britain doesn’t want English students studying how capitalism is killing us. The British government has ordered schools in England not to use resources and materials from organizations that have expressed any desire to end capitalism. There are several different ways one can think about this, but I believe the best may be to envision a government ordering its teachers to never inform someone on fire that they may want to stop, drop and roll. And maybe also […]
Radical Neoliberalism Was Born And Will Die In Chile By Patricio Zamorano, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. October 31, 2020 Radical Neoliberalism Was Born And Will Die In Chile2020-10-312020-10-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/chile-1-e1604179018157.jpg200px200px Above photo: Pressenza News Agency. A wave of Indigenous peoples supporting the Luis Arce-David Choquehuanca presidential ticket defeated the main right-wing candidate, Carlos Mesa by 20 points, restoring democracy to Bolivia. Just days later around 80% of Chilean voters decided by referendum to re-found their nation with a new constitution. These momentous events represent twin victories for Latin American independence, the rejection of radical neoliberalism, a desire for socio-economic reform, and the insistence […]
An 89-year-old Dutch woman is the first confirmed case of a person dying from a COVID-19 reinfection, according to the Oxford University Press. The woman had a relatively easy first infection, in which she spent five days in the hospital earlier this year exhibiting mild symptoms including a fever and cough and testing positive for the coronavirus. Her symptoms subsided, with the exception of chronic fatigue, and she tested negative. Two months after her first infection, and two days after starting a round of chemotherapy treatment for a rare type of bone marrow cancer called Waldenstrom’s disease, she tested positive for […]
Why has mass media once again failed us, with video proof that a seriously ill Trump was allowed to return to the White House to be a sock puppet? …from Dave Dole, The Rational National [ Editor’s Note: Here we are with the American people screwed again by our fake ‘free media’. I only found this like because YouTube did a recommendation for me, one of the rare benefits of being spied on. Before I began to lay this out, I googled to see what other media was already leading with this video today. There was nobody. If someone has seen […]
BISHKEK (Sputnik) – Opposition protesters have gathered on Bishkek’s Ala-Too Square, in support of political parties that failed to gain seats following Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentary election, a Sputnik correspondent at the scene reports on Monday, adding that violence seen earlier in the day has died down. There have been multiple instances of protesters clashing with law enforcement officers throughout the evening, and explosions have been heard in the vicinity of Bishkek’s White House, where the parliament building and presidential administration are located. The clashes, which went on for approximately five hours, have mostly come to a stop, according to reports. Several thousand […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis Anya Parampil, the journalist who has recently appeared on Fox News earlier this week, nailed it: Washington is filled with “washed-up criminal Neocons.” The Neocons, she added, “don’t seem to die” because they are now switching sides. They were behind the Republican Party, and are now supporting a number of Democrats. Bill Kristol, the guy who was one of the architects of the Iraq disaster, is now beating the drum for Biden. Why? Because people like Kristol aren’t Democrats or Republicans. They are Israeli firsters, Middle East destroyers, and are always behind the military industrial complex. That’s […]
Amid the latest news of Donald Trump testing positive for COVID-19, the media has been focusing attention on a number of world leaders who contracted the coronavirus earlier in the pandemic. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was the first, requiring intensive care treatment in April. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has revealed that he was afraid Prime Minister Boris Johnson might die when he was hospitalised with COVID-19, reported The Sunday Times. In a speech recorded for Saturday’s virtual Conservative conference, the foreign secretary said: “I really worried we might lose him and I was worried for Carrie pregnant with baby […]
The West coast is burning and the fires are being set. Perpetrators are being apprehended; one supposedly a vagrant somehow had more than two ounces of methamphetamine in his possession. (1) Bums have been filmed lovingly tending to the fires that burn the fields where they once slept. (2) Others brashly live stream their pyromaniacal activities onto Facebook and laugh in the face of the police who come to arrest them. (3) All three incidents of blatant police brutality that ignited America’s urban pyrotechnical display; Kenosha, Atlanta and Minneapolis seem to have been staged to anyone giving them more than […]
380 pilot whales die after getting beached in Australia, 50 saved by rescuers in largest such incident in state’s history (PHOTOS) A total of 380 whales have died, local media reported, citing officials. Teams of rescuers managed to save 50 by towing them to deeper water, where they were released, while around 30 more remained beached and fighting for their lives as of Wednesday afternoon. Each animal weighs around three tons. “If they are still alive and in water, there is certainly hope for them, but as time goes on they get more fatigued and their chances of survival reduces,” Parks […]
When COVID-19 claimed its first 100,000 lives in the U.S., Hidalgo County, Texas, seemed to have avoided the worst of it. The county, which sits on the border with Mexico, had just 10 deaths when the U.S. crossed that tragic milestone on May 27. But the U.S. has now doubled its death count to top 200,000 victims, and Hidalgo County has become one of the deadliest hot spots for COVID-19. Despite the lack of dense urban areas there — its largest city, McAllen, has fewer than 150,000 residents — the disease has killed more than 1,500 people across the county. “We […]
Co-workers say Shyla Pennington, a longtime Florida teacher’s aide, was a natural with her students—patient, kind, and committed to each child as if they were her own. Pennington, who worked for almost 20 years in the Volusia County School District, lived with her brother, Gerald Jones, a paramedic whom community members described as “selfless” and “devoted” to protecting other people. This weekend, both died of COVID-19. The progression of the disease—slow, then devastatingly fast—played out on the Facebook page of their father, Greg Jones. “Our daughter Shyla Pennington is now with God, she lost her battle with COVID-19,” Jones wrote on […]
The West Coast of the United States awoke Wednesday morning to a dark orange sky as wildfire smoke enshrouded wide swaths of the region in darkness and sent ash raining from the sky. Dozens of gargantuan fires are burning in California, Washington, Oregon, and Colorado. Blazes in Oregon surpassed 330,000 acres. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and tens of thousands of people evacuated. “We expect to see a great deal of loss, both in structures and in human lives,” said Oregon Gov. Kate Brown. “This could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfire in our […]
Better To Launch Balloons Than Die In Silence By Ahmed Abu Artema, Electronic Intifada. August 28, 2020 Better To Launch Balloons Than Die In Silence2020-08-282020-08-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/balloons-e1598635501856.jpg200px200px Above photo: Incendiary balloons bear no resemblance to the deadly weapons in Israel’s arsenal. Ashraf Amra, APA images. In recent weeks, the tension between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel’s forces of occupation has increased. Israel has used the launching of incendiary balloons by Palestinian youths as a pretext to bomb Gaza once again. The release of the balloons is a gesture of protest against how the Israeli occupation has procrastinated in abiding by its previous agreements with the Palestinian resistance. […]
Grad Students And Faculty ‘Die In’ To Protest Reopening August 8, 2020 Grad Students And Faculty ‘Die In’ To Protest Reopening2020-08-082020-08-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/georgia-e1596892948618.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty images. The University of Georgia staff and graduate students held a silent “die-in” demonstration Friday to protest plans for the campus reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 50 demonstrators lay scattered 6 feet apart wearing face coverings on the lawn outside the school administration’s building, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Some protesters held signs resembling tombstones with phrases like “R.I.P. campus safety,” or “In loving memory.” HAPPENING NOW: @universityofga students and staff hold unique “die-in” in protest of school’s […]
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Fernando Guillén, a 22-year-old gamer and YouTuber, switched on his computer, took a sip of water and a deep breath and thanked God for being alive, before beginning his live stream on video games from his bedroom in San Antonio, Texas. Sitting in a high-backed gaming chair and dressed in a black hoodie with a white bandanna around his head, Fernando began: “My heart’s beating. I’m a little bit nervous, because I usually wouldn’t do this, but,” he exhaled. “O.K., so, as of May 27, 2020, my biological father passed away and it… it came to me as a […]
Archaeologists excavating near Amman, Jordan, have discovered a collection of over a hundred flint objects from 10,000 years ago. The hypothesis, initially dismissed as confusion brought on by sunstroke, would revolutionize our understanding of Neolithic artwork and, potentially, provide some of the earliest evidence for ancient ancestor worship. The group of Spanish researchers, led by Juan Ibáñez of the Milà y Fontanals Institution of the Spanish National Research Council, were digging at Kharaysin when they came across the roughly two inch-long figures. Ibáñez and his team published his results in the journal Antiquity. When the first few figurines were discovered, a […]
Andrew Cuomo is the hero of the left. New York state and Governor Cuomo had THE WORST Coronavirus death ratio in the world — higher than any state (except New Jersey) and higher than ANY COUNTRY! Advertisement – story continues below New York state under Cuomo’s leadership forced nursing homes to take in sick coronavirus patients. The policy resulted in at least 4,900 coronavirus deaths in New York state nursing homes. It was a New York state directive approved by Governor Cuomo that forced infected people into nursing homes. TRENDING: “Re-Fund the Police!… We Will NEVER Support Black Lives Matter!… Trump 2020!” […]
NY Times: As Trump administration officials have increasingly sought to undermine him in recent days, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and one of the most trusted federal officials working on the pandemic, made his most pointed remarks yet on Wednesday addressing tensions with the White House. Phew, this @PeterAtlantic interview with Dr. Fauci.https://t.co/Iw6LwzLDxb pic.twitter.com/MJ1JUOHHLX — Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) July 15, 2020 From The Atlantic: “Ultimately, it hurts the president to do that,” Fauci told The Atlantic in a series of interviews this week. “When the staff lets out something like that and the entire scientific and press community […]
Elementary school children boarding school bus, Mount Shasta, California In May the CDC equated the Wuhan coronavirus to the seasonal flu. The COVID-19 hospitalization rates are “similar to” those in the 65 and older category during “recent high severity influenza seasons.” And the COVID-19 hospitalizations for children 17 and under is MUCH LOWER than the seasonal flu hospitalization rates during recent influenza seasons. The COVID-19 is LESS DANGEROUS to children than a typical influenza! TRENDING: Radical Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls For “Dismantling” of US “Economy and Political Systems” (VIDEO) CDC equates covid19 & flu, 5/1/20: covid19 hospitalization rates are “similar […]
Trump claims 99% of US Covid-19 cases are ‘totally harmless’ as infections surge By David Smith in Washington/theguardian Donald Trump has celebrated independence day with a string of false and misleading claims attempting to play down the coronavirus pandemic and warning that China will be “held accountable”. The US president staged a “Salute to America” jamboree on the south lawn of the White House with flyovers by military jets, parachute jumps and patriotic songs, but little effort among guests to physical distance or wear face masks. The country has undergone staggering changes unthinkable when Trump hosted the first such event a year […]
Fox News host Laura Ingraham spoke in stark and apocalyptic terms about the coming election on Monday night, warning viewers that “more chaos is coming” and that they needed to “suit up for this battle” because it was do-or-die time. The right-wing primetime star opened up her Monday evening broadcast by sniping at “conservatives on the sideline in this battle” while the country “is under attack,” taking aim at Never Trump Republicans for trying to help elect Democrats this cycle. She also blasted conservative politicians who she claimed weren’t stepping up to fight back as Black Lives Matter protests rage across […]
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Devil love is propelling the deep state to stomp on the U.S. Constitution and deprive us of our God-given oxygen along with our inalienable rights by making us wear face masks on orders from those who are poised to defund the police. And those officials who follow the devil’s law and mandate masks the way the Nazis once mandated yellow stars for Jews will be subject to citizen’s arrest by We the People for crimes against humanity. If you believe all that, you would have fit right in with the more fervent opponents who testified on Tuesday as the Palm Beach […]
As reported earlier—Irami Osei-Frimpong, a University of Georgia graduate student and teaching assistant recently wrote that some white people may have to die before black communities will be made whole. Note: His name is spelled Irami Osei-Frimpong on Twitter. Osei-Frimpong made the comments on Facebook and says he’s confused on why his words are so controversial. TRENDING: BREAKING: Ten People Shot in Minneapolis, Reports of ‘100 People Fighting With Various Weapons’ WSBTV reported: He speaks frequently about race and equality, but some critics believe he crossed the line when he made a post online that stated, “Some white people may have […]
Washington has long opposed the Nord Stream 2 project, claiming it would increase Europe’s dependency on Russian gas. The US slapped sanctions against firms directly involved in the pipeline’s construction, with Senators subsequently introducing a bill potentially sanctioning companies for issuing insurance to vessels working on Nord Stream 2. The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is practically completed, and the United States has no way of influencing the situation, reported Die Welt. Despite Washington’s efforts to hamper the process, Moscow managed to circumvent restrictive measures imposed against the ambitious project, that is scheduled to carry up to 1.942 trillion cubic feet […]
On February 11th all four DOJ prosecutors in the Roger Stone case abruptly resigned after the Department of Justice backed down from their outrageous and excessive sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone after he was caught lying to Congress in a process crime. Roger Stone, a Republican and Trump confidante, is 67 and has NO criminal record. Democrats and Amy Berman Jackson want him to die in prison. So who exactly are these so-called “career line prosecutors” as the fake news media keeps calling them in the Roger Stone case? Everyone of them has a direct tie to Hillary Clinton or Barack […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105309/47/1053094757_0:137:3153:1911_1200x675_80_0_0_a0442c47da77346e94399a5297dd926b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202006131079600909-heat-wave-impact-camel-hundreds-of-fish-die-amid-drought-in-indian-state-of-rajasthan/ New Delhi (Sputnik): Troubles haven’t ended for the state of Rajasthan in western India, which has been struck by a heat wave amid the ongoing pandemic. After witnessing a major locust attack and a rising number of COVID-19 cases, the state is now experiencing drinking water shortages due to the exceptionally hot weather. Rajasthan, a state which is 61% covered by desert and home to the Thar Desert, is witnessing a massive drought as hundreds of fish and a camel have reportedly died due to water scarcity. Amid rising temperature and no rainfall, hundreds of […]
Twitter employee Erik Froese publicly called for President Donald Trump to “die in a fire” in 2017, something that should violate Twitter’s own policy against “glorifying violence.” The tweet has resurfaced after Twitter censored a tweet from the president saying that he violated their terms of service by “glorifying violence.” I do believe this is Twitter employee Erik Froese calling for the President to suffer an agonizing death. pic.twitter.com/1ndgbcKpAS — Brett MacDonald (@TweetBrettMac) May 29, 2020 TRENDING: Barack Obama Uses Death of George Floyd to Fan Flames, Condemn America as Racist Froese has worked at Twitter for seven years, as a […]
There has never been a greater scam in the history of the world. Advertisement – story continues below The American “experts” and “elites” destroyed the greatest economy in history over a virus that leaves children and those healthy Americans of working age virtually untouched. The experts closed the schools and churches and businesses. And now know from a new report in the UK a child under 15-years-old has a greater chance being struck by lightning that dying from coronavirus. TRENDING: BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Deep State FBI Asked George Papadopoulos’s Wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, to Spy On Her Husband! Dr. Andrew Bostom reported: […]
Friday night Laura Ingraham admitted she thinks maybe it’s time to stop coddling granny. “If you want to stay at home, stay at home. But for the rest of us, we’ll make our own decisions. Since the so-called experts say it will be around forever, it’s time to move on with our lives. The testing issue is just another Democrat red herring. More impossible hoops.” So she finally said the quiet part loud—that testing and tracing were too complicated and hard to do, ergo they were a Democratic conspiracy, as opposed to the truth, which is that Donald Trump has broken […]
The number of deaths from coronavirus in the US has been plummeting since mid April. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) there were 78 coronavirus deaths in the United State in the 0 to 29-year-old age group this year. The numbers were totaled from the week ending Feb. 1 2020 to May 9, 2020 during the current outbreak. Those coronavirus victims under age 60 are also likely to have at least one comorbidity. In the United States since 1999, an average of more than 815 children ages 14 and under have died as a result of unintentional drowning each […]
Africa 00:41 GMT 14.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107929/71/1079297121_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_392fa8bff0654da3574a94aa1c68e1ba.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/africa/202005141079297151-over-25-people-die-in-clashes-in-sudans-south-kordofan–reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – At least 26 people have died and 19 more have been injured over two days as a result of clashes in the southern Sudanese state of South Kordofan, Sudanese media reported. The new clashes erupted between armed residents over arms trafficking in a market in the city of Kadugli and nearby villages, the Al-Sudani newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing Deputy Chief of Staff of Sudan’s military, Abdalla Bashir. Authorities imposed a round-the-clock curfew for three days to stabilize the situation, he added. Abdalla Bashir called on […]
Sumo wrestler Shobushi has become the first practitioner of the Japanese martial art to die from the coronavirus. The 28-year-old suffered multiple organ failure on Wednesday after falling ill with the disease last month. The Japan Sumo Association (JSA) announced on Wednesday that Shobushi, real name Kiyotaka Suetake, was admitted to a Tokyo hospital with Covid-19 infection on April 10, the Japan Times reports. An initial test for coronavirus came back negative, despite the wrestler reportedly coughing up blood, but then a follow-up showed up positive. Following a worsening of his condition, Shobushi was moved to an intensive care unit but […]
It is unknown if the Supreme Court will finally issue a ruling on Thursday about whether it is legal to fire LGBTQ people on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. It is also unknown if Aimee Stephens will be alive to hear their decision. Stephens, 59, is presently receiving end-of-life hospice care at home in Michigan, her wife Donna at her side. Stephens’ is one of three cases before the court, bought on behalf a trio of LGBTQ people—Stephens, the family of Donald Zarda, and Gerald Bostock—who claim they were fired because of their gender identity or sexual […]
Three children, including a five-year-old boy, have died of a mysterious inflammatory syndrome resembling Kawasaki disease or a toxic shock, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, as the state authorities began an inquiry into the cases. A total of 73 cases of the new disease, involving toddlers and elementary school children, have been registered in New York to date, the governor’s office has said. The illness is believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus that has been gripping the state for more than two months and has since infected almost 333,000 and claimed more than 26,000 lives. New York is not the […]
Much of the world is shocked at the coronavirus numbers coming out of Italy. The country has one of the oldest populations in Europe and also has the largest Chinese diaspora in the EU today. The Italian government also released the percentage of deaths by age group. 90+ years old: 6% of deaths80 – 89 years old: 42% of deaths70 – 79 years old: 35% of deaths60 – 69 years old: 16% of deaths TRENDING: So Good! Kayleigh McEnany DESTROYS Liberal Hack Yamiche Alcindor and Fake News Media at Friday Presser (VIDEO) Back in March there was already claims that Italy’s coronavirus death numbers were false and […]
Live and Let Die: The Data Manipulation Begins By Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel May 8, 2020 Live and Let Die: The Data Manipulation Begins2020-05-082020-05-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/covid-19-healthcare-workers-wheel-the-bodies-of-deceased-people-from-the-wyckoff-heights-medical-center-in-brooklyn-by-andrew-kelly-for-reuters.jpg200px200px Above: COVID-19, healthcare workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn By Andrew Kelly for Reuters. From the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, various entities in the United States were always engaged in the kind of dishonesty we accuse China of to hide the extent of the virus. Trump tried to keep a cruise ship offshore so it wouldn’t count against “his” numbers. States everywhere didn’t reveal the crises in nursing homes by […]