Fascism Is A Failed Response To Capitalist Crisis By William I. Robinson, Truthout. October 27, 2020 Fascism Is A Failed Response To Capitalist Crisis2020-10-272020-10-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/poverty.png200px200px Above photo: Protestors demonstrate during a ‘No Evictions, No Police’ national day of action protest against law enforcement who forcibly remove people from homes on September 1, 2020, in New York City. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images. Few would disagree in light […]
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by Viktor Mikhin, …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: Viktor gives an analysis of Erdogan’s expansionist policies and the destabilization that it is causing. He goes further than others have to weave into the drama the economic rollercoaster […]
President Donald Trump has had a rough week—and it really, really shows. In an incredibly angry hour-long call-in interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network Thursday morning—his first live media appearance since he was hospitalized with COVID-19—Trump snarled at length about the decision to hold his next debate with Joe Biden virtually. “I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate” — Trump, […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump received a positive result from a rapid test for the coronavirus on Thursday but decided not to disclose the result while waiting for a more thorough screening, The Wall Street Journal reports citing anonymous sources. Trump got the positive result from the rapid test on Thursday evening, before his appearance on Fox News, where he said he was being […]
US President Donald Trump’s campaign did not contact Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign to notify them of potential exposure to COVID-19 after the president revealed Friday that both he and his wife, Melania, have contracted the disease. “PBS NewsHour” correspondent Yamiche Alcindor and CNN’s Sarah Mucha both tweeted Friday that there was no communication from the Trump campaign to alert the Biden campaign of potential exposure. […]
In 2012, the political scientist Ross Baker spent a sabbatical brushing up on his congressional knowledge by spending time in the office of Harry Reid, the then Democratic majority leader in the US Senate. Baker vividly remembers Reid telling him a story about Mitch McConnell, his opposite number in the Republican party. “Reid told me he couldn’t get McConnell to go to the White House with him,” […]
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has argued that the EU should focus on strengthening its external borders and fighting human smugglers, rather than reviving a scheme that would force member states to settle refugees. The EU is set to roll out a new asylum policy proposal on Wednesday. However, the return of mandatory quotas for accepting migrants is doomed to fail, Kurz said. “We find that the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107896/04/1078960490_0:0:1201:676_1200x675_80_0_0_a7e15917d1a2e25dd6190311e143c19e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009171080494028-turkey-russia-failed-to-reach-common-position-on-syrias-idlib–source/ ANTALYA, Turkey, September 18 (Sputnik) – According to the source, Turkey refused to leave checkpoints on the territories controlled by the Syrian army as well as reduce the number of its troops in the region and withdraw heavy weapons. The negotiations between Turkish and Russian military on the situation in the Syrian province of Idlib have not resulted in […]
Palestinians used to pride themselves with the achievements of their diplomacy, says a Fatah member, critical of his government. Now, however, that past glory is gone as Gulf states prefer to sign deals with Israel, bypassing the PA. Final preparations are currently underway in Washington, where Israel will sign its peace and normalisation agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain respectively. However, the event has […]
I attended my very first Sundance Film Festival in January of 1997. I loved the energy and the community that came together around a shared passion for independent film and the discovery of new filmmakers. But when the lights came on, I saw very few people in the audience who looked like me. It was mostly white men. Were there Black filmmakers who didn’t know about […]
The Two Parties Have Failed Us, But The People Can Succeed By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance August 29, 2020 The Two Parties Have Failed Us, But The People Can Succeed2020-08-292020-08-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/ourfuture.jpg200px200px The Republican and Democratic Party conventions showed that both major parties are failing to control the pandemic and protect people, address the climate crisis and clean up the environment, support families and businesses […]
Belarus: NATO Lobby Acknowledges That Its Color Revolution Failed August 28, 2020 Belarus: NATO Lobby Acknowledges That Its Color Revolution Failed2020-08-282020-08-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/belarus2-e1598634572191.jpg200px200px Above photo: People gather on Independence Square in Minsk on August 22. Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko. On August 15 we explained why the color revolution in Belarus would fail. Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko had offered President Vladimir Putin of Russia to finally implement the long delayed Union State that […]
The official page of the US taxpayer-funded government outlet Voice of America on a Russian social media site was not just neglected for years, but allowed to be taken over by hostile hackers, a former executive has claimed. The last official post on the LiveJournal page belonging to Voice of America Russian Service was in April 2012. Ever since, “anti-US propaganda, violence, and pornography” have appeared […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/14/1080226703_0:316:1200:991_1200x675_80_0_0_c6f8d2a95ecac120049daa51bfa112cf.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202008201080227372-failed-attempt-dog-slides-into-pool-after-trying-to-climb-slope/ Dachshunds, which were once used to flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals, are well-known for their agility, speed, and the ability to get into the most hard-to-reach places. A video published recently on Instagram shows a dachshund playing at the side of a pool. The little guy attempted to ascend a giant slope leading to the pool, but on […]
The Gateway Pundit has reported repeatedly on Dr. Fauci’s many absurd statements, inconsistencies and outright lies. His greatest mistake that cost tens-of-thousands of American lives was condemning hydroxychloroquine treatments for coronavirus. Advertisement – story continues below The latest international testing of hydroxychloroquine treatment of coronavirus shows countries that had early use of the drug had a 79% lower mortality rate than countries that banned the use […]
Israeli jets bombed several Syrian military sites south of Damascus late on Monday, the IDF has confirmed, saying that the attack had been launched in response to the attempted planting of a bomb in the Golan Heights. The airstrike took place in the countryside southwest of Damascus, SANA news agency reported, describing explosions being heard in the city. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) then said in […]
As many as 40 million Americans are under threat of losing their homes due to the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, with tens of millions of people unsure where they will get the money to pay for rent after being put out of work, and a federal eviction moratorium expiring late last month. Outspoken comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore has slammed the […]
Is The United States A Failing State? A Failed State? By Richard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century. July 25, 2020 Is The United States A Failing State? A Failed State?2020-07-252020-07-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/second_harvest-e1595687099234.jpg200px200px Above photo: “I’ve never witnessed a system being more strained,” said Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America. “Our estimations are that we will need to serve an additional 17.1 million people through this crisis, on top […]
…from SouthFront On July 19, the Libyan National Army (LNA) test-fired the Soviet-era P-15 Termit anti-ship missile near Zawiyat Zanzur, on the Libyan coast. The P-15 Termit is guided by active radar homing and equipped with an inertial navigation system. Missiles of this type have a range between 35 and 80 km depending on the variant and a top speed of Mach 0.95. The Gaddafi-era Libyan […]
LONDON—Britain’s Conservative government never bothered to find out whether the Brexit referendum was influenced by the Kremlin, according to a scathing report by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. The extraordinary finding was at the heart of a bombshell report that Boris Johnson has repeatedly sought to delay—despite it being ready for publication nine months ago. Kevan Jones, a Labour member of the committee, said it was […]
On this episode of The Critical Hour, co-hosts Dr. Wilmer Leon and Garland Nixon discuss health reform with activist Dr. Margaret Flowers and how states are now looking at returning to lockdown because of COVID-19. “Reproductive rights advocates celebrated on Monday after a federal judge blocked Tennessee’s sweeping new restrictions on abortion within in an hour of Republican Gov. Bill Lee signing them into law,” Common Dreams reported Monday. This is […]
Israel has been praised for the way it handled the outbreak of the pandemic in late February, but now, with the virus still raging, claiming more lives than before and causing significant economic damage, Israelis have started questioning whether their government has done enough. Protests amid the raging coronavirus have become a regular phenomenon in Israel. On Tuesday hundreds of artists, media people, activists and ordinary […]
How The Pentagon Failed To Sell Afghan Government’s Bunk ‘Bountygate’ Story By Gareth Porter, The Grayzone. July 13, 2020 How The Pentagon Failed To Sell Afghan Government’s Bunk ‘Bountygate’ Story2020-07-132020-07-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/us-troops-in-afghanistan-from-the-grayzone-e1594661222785.jpg200px200px Another New York Times Russiagate bombshell turns out to be a dud, as dodgy stories spun out by Afghan intelligence and exploited by the Pentagon ultimately failed to convince US intelligence agencies. The New York Times […]
Earlier this week, online fashion retailer Boohoo said that it had found “some inaccuracies” as it probed operations at its Leicester factory over allegations that employees there are paid less than the minimum wage and work in “unsafe” conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. UK Home Secretary Prit Patel has privately voiced alarm that due to a fear of being called racist, police preferred to turn a […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), when confronted with her previous criticisms of then-President Barack Obama’s handling of the Ebola outbreak in 2014, claimed on Sunday morning that President Donald Trump is “stepping forward” in his response to the coronavirus pandemic that’s now killed 130,000 Americans. During the 2014 midterm elections, Ernst joined a chorus of Republicans who exploited the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa for political […]
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin July 4th is around the corner and you may be wondering why Canada is not a part of this celebration. If you were living in the time of Benjamin Franklin, it would have appeared in all likelihood that Canada was most certainly going to be […]
What’s in a name? The power to render someone mute. Last week, Scott Alexander, the author of the influential rationalist blog Slate Star Codex (SSC), abruptly shut down (perhaps temporarily) his blog in advance of a New York Times (NYT) story on him and SSC that would include his real name. “Scott Alexander” is the pseudonym he has written under for years. As a practicing psychiatrist, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107233/53/1072335380_0:86:1280:806_1200x675_80_0_0_819371348c74f94f158b9f5b9cf5a150.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202006261079731393-uk-defence-ministry-failed-to-account-for-final-cost-of-aircraft-carriers-public-watchdog-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The UK’s Ministry of Defence has not counted all future costs of operating its two aircraft carriers in the upcoming budgets, a report by a public spending watchdog has concluded. The National Audit Office said in a 61-page report published Friday that the Ministry did not know how much its aircraft carrier project would cost over […]
Citing regulatory concerns, Berlin-based security token startup Neufund has announced plans to freeze its fundraising campaigns and sideline future tokenized equity offerings. “Many European countries had aspirations to become a blockchain-friendly hub … [T]he authorities have stifled this plan, blocking the innovation in its tracks,” the firm wrote in a blog post Monday. Launched in 2016, Nefund helped allocate some $19 million in capital through novel […]
VT: When we didn’t think things could get worse for veterans, we got Donald Trump with his hiring freezes and near total shutdown of VA healthcare and claim processing long before the pandemic. The private care program he came up with sent vets to local hospitals and doctors but also failed to pay any of the bills even though the care was carefully authorized. This left […]
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) failed to adequately police its undercover agents’ handling of cryptocurrency, even years after one of its agents stole $700,000 in bitcoin in 2015, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (IG). Published in redacted form Wednesday, the IG report – an audit of “income-generating, undercover operations” – casts the federal government’s leading […]
Nationwide Uprising Against Failed State Triggered By Police Killings By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. May 31, 2020 Nationwide Uprising Against Failed State Triggered By Police Killings2020-05-312020-05-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/dc-e1590973927102.jpg200px200px The nationwide uprising sparked by the murder of George Floyd and other recent racially-motivated events is another example of the bi-partisan failed state in which we live. It comes in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic and […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has declared that Hong Kong can no longer be considered autonomous from mainland China, admitting that Washington had once hoped to use the city to change the system in Beijing, but failed. “I certified to Congress today that Hong Kong does not continue to warrant treatment under United States laws in the same manner” as before Britain returned the city […]
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she and her husband regret what she described as his “failed attempt at humor” when he invoked her position while allegedly asking a dock manager to get the family boat ready before Memorial Day. The conversation—which came to light when the dock manager posted about it on Facebook—was seized on by Whitmer’s opponents as an example of hypocrisy by a Democrat […]
_________The Daily Beast by Clive Irving Where are the billionaire tech innovators when we need them? America’s health security has to be rebuilt from the ground up. We’re in a war for survival. The skills and systems essential to win that war are known. It’s no use looking to the White House to grasp this reality. Trump has no concept of what a wartime grand strategy […]
A cryptocurrency investment fund has launched a class-action lawsuit against Block.one and EOS’ high command, arguing the “fraudulent scheme” failed to deliver on its primary promise of decentralization. The Crypto Assets Opportunity Fund (CAOF), along with individual investor Johnny Hong, has accused Block.one, its CEO Brendan Blumer, CTO Dan Larimer, former chief strategy officer Brock Pierce and former partner Ian Grigg, of trying to “capitalize on […]
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The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) watchdog has recommended the US Navy conduct its own analysis of its contracting approach after it was recently determined that ship maintenance schedule outcomes were less than positive and led to unexpected delays. Despite the Navy shaving down initial price estimates for ship repairs through the implementation of its Multiple Award Contract-Multi Order (MAC-MO) contracting strategy in 2015, the US […]
The FBI claims Dr. Qing Wang received more than $3.6 million in grants from the NIH while also collecting money for the same research from the Chinese government. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP The FBI claims Dr. Qing Wang received more than $3.6 million in grants from the NIH while also collecting money for the same research from the Chinese government. […]
US 22:08 GMT 13.05.2020(updated 22:09 GMT 13.05.2020) Get short URL The FBI has arrested a researcher for NASA who reportedly did not disclose his connections to the Chinese government and other Chinese entities. According to the US Justice Department (DoJ), Simon Saw-Teong Ang, a 63-year-old Arkansas professor, was arrested Friday and charged with wire fraud. “In the one-count complaint, Ang was charged with one count of […]
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Venezuela Makes Fresh Arrests as Opposition Splinters over Failed Coup By Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelanalysis May 11, 2020 Venezuela Makes Fresh Arrests as Opposition Splinters over Failed Coup2020-05-112020-05-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/venezuela-arrests-suspected-participants-from-operation-gedeon-were-arrested-on-saturday-in-la-guaira-state.-from-ceofanb-e1589219823297.jpeg200px200px Above: Venezuela arrests suspected participants from ‘Operation Gedeon’ were arrested on Saturday in La Guaira State. From @Ceofanb. Trump said the operation “was not a good attack,” again denying any US involvement. The Venezuelan government announced 16 new arrests in the aftermath […]
US Wants Release Of Two Veterans Who Led Failed Coup Attempt In Venezuela By Dave Lindorff, This Can’t Be Happening. May 11, 2020 US Wants Release Of Two Veterans Who Led Failed Coup Attempt In Venezuela2020-05-112020-05-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/etsz-e1589225511979.jpg200px200px Above photo: Luke Denman (right) and Airan Berry (left), both former U.S. special forces soldiers, who were arrested in Venezuela. MEGA. Venezuelan forces capture invaders led by two US mercenaries who are […]
The Hidden Plot Of The New Failed US Attempt Against Venezuela By Marco Teruggi, Resumen English. May 10, 2020 The Hidden Plot Of The New Failed US Attempt Against Venezuela2020-05-102020-05-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/maduro-e1589131195167.jpg200px200px Above photo: Personal documents are shown by Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro during a virtual news conference in Caracas, Venezuela May 6, 2020. Miraflores Palace/Handout via Reuters. Operation Gideon. (From May 5, 2020) In Venezuela, Operation Gideon is underway; […]
Washington is seeking to get rid of prominent Venezuelan military figures including dissident generals in order to undermine the country’s resistance potential and Chavista movement, suggests former Hugo Chavez adviser Heinz Dieterich explaining the amphibious botched raid. On 3 May, the Venezuelan Armed Forces thwarted an amphibious mercenary operation and captured 13 individuals including two American citizens. As it turned out later, the botched naval raid […]
On Sunday, the Venezuelan army frustrated an attempted naval invasion by armed mercenaries allegedly coming from Colombia; killing or capturing multiple militants. Among the captured were at least 2 US citizens, described by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as Donald Trump’s security guards. Venezuelan Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez announced on Friday that the nation’s military had arrested two more people involved in Sunday’s boat incursion aiming to […]
The White House has tapped a new ambassador to Venezuela, the first in a decade, even as relations with the country’s government hit all-time lows. The appointment comes as the US continues to deny any role in a recent coup plot. Formerly the interim charge d’affaires of the Venezuela unit based at the US Embassy in Colombia, James Broward Story was nominated to be “Ambassador Extraordinary […]
This photograph released by the Venezuelan government purports to show the ID cards confiscated from Airan Berry and Luke Denman in Caracas. The former U.S. service members are now in detention after Venezuelan security forces stifled an ill-fated raid earlier this week. Miraflores Palace presidential press office via AP hide caption toggle caption Miraflores Palace presidential press office via AP This photograph released by the Venezuelan […]
Guaidó And The Failed Military Operation Against Venezuela By Patricio Zamorano, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. May 6, 2020 Guaidó And The Failed Military Operation Against Venezuela2020-05-062020-05-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/contrat-guaid-new-2-800×445-e1588770919975.jpg200px200px Above photo: Signatures on the contract between Jordan Goudreau and Juan Guaido. A Story of Betrayal and Financial Corruption. Now that we have had a few days to study the failed, illegal paramilitary incursion by a group of American and […]