Pandemic Could Push Up To 150 Million Into ‘Extreme Poverty’ By 2021 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams. October 9, 2020 Pandemic Could Push Up To 150 Million Into ‘Extreme Poverty’ By 20212020-10-092020-10-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/poverty.jpg200px200px Above photo: A man wears a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 in Manila, Philippines on March 18, 2020. Maria Tan via Getty Images. “Early evidence also suggests that […]
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Rafael Nadal says the conditions at this year’s delayed French Open will be the toughest he has faced as the 12-time champion lamented the frigid weather facing players in Paris. ‘King of Clay’ Nadal will be bidding for a 20th Grand Slam title when the action at Roland-Garros gets underway this weekend, which would put him level with great Swiss rival Roger Federer on the all-time […]
ROME—A San Francisco State University-sponsored talk by convicted Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled was canceled by Zoom and YouTube, according to the Lawfare Project, a pro bono U.S. group that supports Jewish causes around the world. Khaled—who is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine group, which the U.S. has labeled a terrorist organization—helped hijack an Israel-bound flight from Rome in 1969, and […]
‘Extreme Option: Overthrow Allende’ By Peter Kornbluh, Portside. September 19, 2020 ‘Extreme Option: Overthrow Allende’2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/handwritten_instructions-e1600520490593.jpg200px200px Fifty Years Ago, President Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to organize a coup against Chile’s elected President Salvador Allende. Here is the story, with the just-declassified documents recording the genesis of this infamous directive. Washington, DC – On September 15, 1970, during a twenty-minute meeting in the Oval Office between 3:25 […]
AMMAN (Sputnik) – The recent powerful blast at an ammunition warehouse in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, northeast of the Amman capital, has been blamed on the high temperature, according to an initial investigation, a senior military source in the General Command of the country’s Armed Forces said on Friday. “According to a preliminary investigation, the explosion has been caused by the extremely high temperature, as […]
Germany: Extreme Right Marches Under Anti-Lockdown Banner By Hans-Gerd Öfinger, Der Funke. September 4, 2020 Germany: Extreme Right Marches Under Anti-Lockdown Banner2020-09-042020-09-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/berlin1-e1599259504400.jpg200px200px Above photo: An anti-Coronavirus protest in Berlin on 29 August 2020. MV/SULUPRESS.DE/DPA/PA Images. The large Berlin demonstration and rally against the federal government’s corona policy on August 29 was a moral victory for the right and neo-Nazis. Pictures of fascists occupying the stairs to the Reichstag […]
Extreme Right In Venezuela Seeks To Sabotage The Election By Katu Arkonada, La Jornada. August 31, 2020 Extreme Right In Venezuela Seeks To Sabotage The Election2020-08-312020-08-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/12/venezuela_hands_off-e1597763660828.jpg200px200px In a little more than three months, on December 6, parliamentary elections will be held in Venezuela. The previous elections were on December 6, 2015 and the opposition gained a majority thanks to the abstention of 2 million Chavista voters who decided […]
A wildfire in Lassen County in Northern California on Saturday spawned at least one fire tornado that prompted the National Weather Service to issue a tornado warning. As of Monday, firefighters were still trying to contain the blaze. Katelynn & Jordan Hewlett/AP hide caption toggle caption Katelynn & Jordan Hewlett/AP A wildfire in Lassen County in Northern California on Saturday spawned at least one fire tornado […]
Minneapolis: Anti-Racism Uprising Infiltrated By Extreme Right By Andre Vltchek, Popular Resistance. August 15, 2020 Minneapolis: Anti-Racism Uprising Infiltrated By Extreme Right2020-08-152020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/anti-racist-art-at-lake-street-minneapolis-e1597511836310.jpg200px200px Above photo:All photos from Andre Vltchek. The city of Minneapolis is where it all began. It is where the last drop fell on the surface of a proverbial overflowing lake, causing the dam to burst, consequently starting to destroy the foundations of the empire. […]
The Democrat Party continues to drift radically leftward, and its leadership will never rebuke militant elements like Antifa, because it’s controlled by billionaire leftist George Soros, former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich said. “All of these Democrats are now basically owned by the left,” Gingrich said Wednesday in an interview on Fox News. “They are not going to pick any fights. They are owned by people […]
Police in Louisville, Kentucky have parted ways with Brett Hankison, one of the three officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor. The nurse was killed following a no-knock raid on her boyfriend’s home in March. The department informed officer Brett Hankison of his dismissal in a notice sent on Tuesday, stating that by “wantonly and blindly [firing] ten rounds into the apartment of Breonna Taylor on […]
World number one Novak Djokovic has questioned the coronavirus safety protocols in place for the US Open, calling the measures “extreme.” The 33-year-old Serbian has won the tournament three times, but is unhappy at the concessions players are expected to make for the hard court Grand Slam, which is set to get underway on August 31 at New York’s Flushing Meadows. Speaking to Prva TV in […]
It’s a cult. Thousands of George Floyd protesters were lying on the hot pavement in extreme heat and humidity — baking underneath their masks in Washington DC on Wednesday afternoon. Temperatures soared into the 90’s in DC on Wednesday. But these protesters are committed to the cult. TRENDING: “Wealth Transfer Is Exactly What’s Needed” – BET Founder Calls for $14 Trillion in Reparations to 42 Million […]