Above Photo: Thousands of Palestinians commemorate the 74th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba in downtown Ramallah, center of the occupied West Bank. Mohammad Abu Zaid. Palestinians continue to resist the continued attempts to displace, dispossess, and expel them from their native land by the Israeli state. A few days before Palestinians were set to commemorate the 74th anniversary of their forceful displacement from their ancestral lands, known as the Nakba or catastrophe, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a 23-year-old petition by the residents of Masafer Yatta in the occupied southern West Bank and allowed the Israeli military to demolish hundreds of their houses […]
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On Wednesday, March 23, 2022, the United States announced that it would freeze Russia’s access to its gold. Russia has the fifth highest amount of gold in the world. Economist Michael Hudson explains that this action, which follows the US seizing Venezuela and Afghanistan’s gold and assets, has effectively ended dollar hegemony, which has been in decline in recent years, and the free ride that the US has enjoyed abroad. Hudson states that we are now in uncharted territory as nothing like this has occurred in modern history. Sanctions on Russia are driving a shortage of fertilizer, which will lower food […]
Above Photo: Damian Dovarganes / AP Phot. ‘That’s Progress.’ In the first month after the Biden administration allowed a pandemic-era unemployment benefit boost used by 8 million people to expire, the US economy recorded its slowest increase since US President Joe Biden took office in January. According to a new jobs report published by the US Department of Labor on Friday, the US economy only added 194,000 new jobs in September – the smallest number this year and just barely half the 366,000 added in August. “Jobs up, wages up, unemployment down. That’s progress,” Biden said on Friday. “Jobs up, wages up, unemployment […]
A Russian Navy upgraded frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov tried and failed to launch a test Kalibr-NK cruise missile during trials. The Marshal Shaposhnikov, Russia’s upgraded project 1155M frigate, tried to launch a test version of the Kalibr cruise missile, but almost immediately after launch, the missile went into uncontrolled flight and crashed close to the ship itself. As a result of the incident, the ship itself and its crew were not injured. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov underwent repairs and an upgrade at the Dalzavod Ship Repair Center in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. During […]
How To Remember A Feminist Movement That Hasn’t Ended By Erin L. Thompson, Tom Dispatch. August 24, 2020 How To Remember A Feminist Movement That Hasn’t Ended2020-08-242020-08-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/the-monument-of-elizabeth-stanton-susan-b.-anthony-and-sojourner-truth-would-be-the-first-statue-of-real-women-in-central-park.-photo-credit-monumental-women.jpg200px200px Above photo: The monument of Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth would be the first statue of real women in Central Park. Credit Monumental Women. On August 26, 2020, Alice in Wonderland will get some company. She will be joined in New York City’s Central Park by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, the first statues there of women who, unlike Alice, actually existed. The monument is a gift to the park from […]
Racism contributes to uncountable conflicts around the globe. Recently, the topic of racism saw a sharp resurgence in the wake of the killing of an unarmed African-American man, George Floyd, by white police officers in the United States in May, sparking a wave of anti-racism and anti-police-brutality protests around the world. American science communicator and television presenter William Sanford Nye, best known as ‘Bill Nye the Science Guy’, has called for ending racist practices, hinting at their senselessness in light of the origin of humanity’s multiple skin colours. In a now-viral video posted Saturday on Chinese social platform TikTok titled ‘The […]
The new research postulates that a star has to be at least 1.5 solar masses in order to spread its “ashes” upon its demise. It appears that when a star dies, it ends up spreading chemical elements such as carbon across other celestial bodies, phys.org reports citing a new study that was recently published in Nature Astronomy. As the media outlet explains, the new research suggests that during the last stages of their lives, stars twice as big as the Sun produce carbon atoms that then get expelled to the surface and carried into the surrounding environment via stellar winds. “The […]
Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner If British Had Defeated Colonists’ Bid For Independence? By Keith Brooks, www.blackagendareport.com July 4, 2020 Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner If British Had Defeated Colonists’ Bid For Independence?2020-07-042020-07-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-07-at-8.58.15-AM-e1499432660389-150×98.png200px200px Above Photo: From blackagendareport.com Note: This article was first published on July 7, 2017.KZ By the evidence of their actions, most Blacks wanted the British to defeat their white settler masters. Most Native Americans, too. The British had prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian mountains, and showed some signs of moving towards abolition of slavery. “While 5000 mainly free black people from northern colonies joined with the colonists’ fight […]
Fake News media Jumps the Shark! On Thursday the Trump economy created 4.8 million jobs. It was the best economic report in US history!The unemployment rate dropped from 13.3% to 11%! President Trump made the announcement today in front of the White House Press Corps. But rather than focus on the historic economic news — The White House press corps asked if President Trump is “more focused in preserving the confederacy.” TRENDING: Not So Tough Talking Now: Woke Harvard Grad Has Meltdown, Says Lost Dream Job After ‘I’ma Stab You’ Video Went Viral The Civil War ended 155 years ago — […]
The T-55, a veteran main battle tank design created in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and introduced into the Soviet Army in 1947, continues to be operated by a host of nations across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, with over 100,000 T-55s of various modifications built between the late 1940s and the early 1980s. A deadly incident involving the testing of a Soviet T-55 tank at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, in May 2009 led to the deaths of two personnel, and the severe maiming of a third, a newly declassified report by the […]
On Monday, New York City moved into Phase II, allowing New Yorkers their closest sense of normalcy in months. But even though the transition to the second phase of reopening symbolizes New York City’s progress in containing the coronavirus, it doesn’t necessarily provide a reprieve from the restrictions and worries for New Yorkers. “The reopening has not really changed how I feel,” Dior Vargas, a 33-year-old resident of Upper Manhattan, told The Daily Beast. “My assumption is to just hunker down, stay in, and see what happens next. I’m very wary of making any sudden movements.” COVID-19 hit Vargas and her […]
VT has an initial diagnosis, after conferring with real medical specialists. Trump has had either a stroke, most likely, Parkinson’s Disease or has a brain tumor. Insider access has given us a real look at the Trump White House, now a carnival act with Trump the dancing bear His West Point speech had inexorable signs, the shuffle down the ramp and the incident where he uses a second hand to steady a drinking glass. From the Guardian: “Donald Trump attempted to solidify his bond with the US army on Saturday, delivering the graduation speech to cadets at the United States Military Academy […]
A combination of military and media pressure has resulted in the termination of Iraq war related criminal investigations, reflecting the power of the British military as “the only institution in the UK that is allowed to run their own criminal courts and prosecution service”, according to the Peace Pledge Union. The head of the UK military’s prosecuting body, the Service Prosecuting Authority, recently announced that they would be ending over 1,000 criminal investigations into alleged war crimes committed by British forces in Iraq. This decision comes only a few months after the Ministry of Defence was accused of covering up killings of […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. “The drama has left” The royals are keen to move on from the “soap opera” surrounding Harry and Meghan, The Sunday Times reports. Source link