Almost immediately after the devastating Tuesday explosion that nearly destroyed Beirut and killed at least 137 people, a number of verified Twitter accounts linked to Saudi Arabia started firing off tweets blaming the Iran-backed group Hezbollah. Within 24 hours, the hashtag “Hezbollah’s Ammonia Burns Beirut” was trending, even though authorities […]
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US Empire Of Bases Is Spreader Of US COVID-19 Disaster By Andrea Mazzarino, Tom Dispatch. August 4, 2020 US Empire Of Bases Is Spreader Of US COVID-19 Disaster2020-08-042020-08-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/pentagon.jpg200px200px Above photo: U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, left, speaks during a briefing with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. […]
Just in…. The president was being pressed by claims Immanuel has made that include face masks not working in combating COVID, alien DNA being used in prescriptions, and that the medical community is trying to make a vaccine to make a person immune to religion. Trump ended the matter by […]
Frances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” explains how modern money creation and quantitative easing work, and advocates “helicopter money” to help economies out of recession. There’s a widespread belief that the exorbitant […]
TRIAL DESIGN AND OVERSIGHT We conducted this three-group trial at 55 hospitals in Brazil. The trial was designed by the executive committee (see the Supplementary Appendix, available with the full text of this article at NEJM.org) and approved by the Brazilian National Commission for Research Ethics, the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency […]
An evacuee lies on a cot at an evacuation shelter for people with disabilities in Stuart, Fla., in preparation for Hurricane Dorian on Sept. 1, 2019. Now, with the pandemic raging, officials across the South are trying to adjust their evacuation and shelter plans. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption toggle caption […]
On Using Our Power To Stop Climate Disaster And Create A Just World By System Change Not Climate Change. July 20, 2020 On Using Our Power To Stop Climate Disaster And Create A Just World2020-07-202020-07-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/jeremy-brecher-strike-e1595273202701.jpg200px200px What can the history of strikes teach us about our power in the present moment? […]
Daily Beast: Like many of my fellow Texans, I was shocked when Senator Ted Cruz was recently spotted not wearing a mask on a flight from Dallas to Houston as COVID-19 cases were spiking across the state. Pandemic petulance is pretty on brand for the junior senator, but his latest […]
A British nuclear-powered submarine was at “serious risk of collision” with a passenger ferry with hundreds on board after the commanding officer made decisions on “inaccurate information,” an investigation has found. A report conducted by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) – published on Thursday – found that the two […]
JERUSALEM—Israel’s unchecked resurgence of COVID-19 was propelled by the abrupt May 17 decision to reopen all schools, medical and public health officials have told The Daily Beast. “We know Israelis have terrible discipline, but now, it’s the leadership. ” — Galia Rahav, Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv The assessment […]
Loonietunes now scapegoated by Shitstain Daily Beast: President Donald Trump has said that he regrets following advice from son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, according to an Axios report. Trump has reportedly decided to stick with his own instincts and reject any policy he disagrees with, including those aimed at […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow,…and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: The dust has settled on the Tulsa disaster. The Trump campaign has […]
Here is one story about life with the Republicans. It is now legal to sell bottled water to the public with so much arsenic in it that if the same water came out of the faucet in your home, FEMA would force you to leave. This is one of thousands […]
The Trump administration’s attempts to implement longstanding policy goals on immigration in the name of fighting the coronavirus pandemic has helped spread the deadly virus to Central America, according to a new report from an international refugee organization provided to The Daily Beast. Among the findings, a staggering one in […]
Shortly after Saturday night’s less-than-packed rally in Oklahoma, President Donald Trump was handed pieces of printed paper that aides thought would cheer him up. The pages, according to an individual involved in the matter, included a collation of various copy-and-pasted live tweets by some of the president’s most prominent allies […]
When Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas last September, the small island of Abaco was among the hardest hit. Dorian stalled over the island for two days, unleashing some of the strongest winds ever recorded in the Caribbean. Shortly after the storm died down, and long before Bahamian government aid arrived, […]
A coyote trots along a lush, green clearing near the town of Fort McMurray, Canada. It is brazenly undeterred by the presence of humans. Sniffing the grasses still wet with rain on an overcast summer day, it pauses at the edge of a wide expanse of thick, dark sludge. The […]
Watch FFWN above with co-host Michael Brenner, Professor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh; a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS-Johns Hopkins (Washington, D.C.), contributor to research and consulting projects on Euro-American security and economic issues. By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor What if they […]
Few would have guessed that this season would culminate in top clubs deferring wages and Premier League champions-in-waiting Liverpool tightening their purse strings. Here’s how Roman Abramovich is ensuring Chelsea take advantage. While sport’s spring shutdown has altered the financial outlook for many teams to a potentially irreversible extent, the certainty […]
Our Disaster – The Horrific War On Yemen By Kathy Kelly, Voices For Creative Nonviolence. June 4, 2020 Our Disaster – The Horrific War On Yemen2020-06-042020-06-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/health-worker-disinfecting-people-in-yemen-e1591289913519.png200px200px Above photo: Sanaa, Yemen. 30th April 2020. A health worker wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant on the hands of people at a market […]
The Statue of Liberty is seen behind refrigeration trucks that function as temporary morgues at New York City’s South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. “If you’re driving by … you might just assume that this was some sort of distribution hub,” Time reporter W.J. Hennigan says. “But they are each filled with […]
UK 16:07 GMT 16.05.2020Get short URL While the writings were on the wall for a long time that the party’s policy of unilaterally binning Brexit was irredeemably unpopular, the leadership continued to push for it, eventually suffering the harsh electoral consequences. The December 2019 Liberal Democrat election campaign which called […]
This story was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletter here. At the Dane County Jail in Madison, Wisconsin, robots that look like fancy space heaters have rolled from room to room 24 hours a day, seven days a […]
NYTimes: When diagnosing the ills afflicting modern science, an entertainment that, along with the disparagement of his critics and fellow researchers, he counts among his great delights, the eminent French microbiologist Didier Raoult will lightly stroke his beard, lean back in his seat and, with a thin but unmistakable smile, […]