A large ‘tsunami’ of trash has hit a beach in the town of Omoa in northern Honduras. The garbage traveled from neighboring Guatemala, where anti-waste barriers were damaged by heavy rain. Footage from the scene shows thick layers of plastic bottles and other waste carried by the waves and piled […]
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Hot on the heels of a coronavirus scare, Julian Assange’s extradition hearing was postponed on Monday following a farcical videolink failure which meant the court could not hear the testimony of a prominent witness. The court was hearing from witness Eric Lewis, an experienced US lawyer, when out of the […]
Fox host Tucker Carlson kicked off an angry backlash after saying authorities were to blame for days of violent unrest in Wisconsin, which critics took as a defense of the vigilante gunman who shot two people dead on Tuesday. Carlson’s segment on the ongoing protests and rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin […]
On Friday, The US Department of Justice confirmed a Thursday report by The Wall Street Journal, that US authorities had “successfully” disrupted a “multi-million dollar fuel shipment” by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), after seizing four oil tankers in international waters carrying alleged Iranian gasoline bound for Venezuela. Iran’s […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Delhi has 350,000 students studying at schools under the BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation – a civic body. Manish Sisodia raised concerns calling it a “serious ” situation amid reports of over a five-month delay in issuing books to 714 schools, and salaries to teachers. Delhi’s Deputy […]
COVID-19 Crisis Failure, People Must Save Themselves And The Economy By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. August 2, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Newsletter COVID-19 Crisis Failure, People Must Save Themselves And The Economy2020-08-022020-08-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/covid-test-positive-from-shutterstock-e1596403076579.jpg200px200px Above photo: Positive COVID-19 Test. Shutterstock. The US is at a moment of truth. This […]
On Monday New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released a poster at his press conference Monday that celebrates his response to the COVID-19 China coronavirus that devastated New York state and especially New York City this year. New York state ended up being the epicenter of the coronavirus. The state totaled […]
Bountygate: Scapegoating Systemic Military Failure In Afghanistan By Scott Ritter, Consortium News. July 6, 2020 Bountygate: Scapegoating Systemic Military Failure In Afghanistan2020-07-062020-07-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/us-marines-in-afghanistan-e1594064711313.jpg200px200px Above photo: U.S. 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit after seizing a Taliban forward-operating base Nov. 25, 2001, shortly after U.S. invasion. (Sergeant Joseph R. Chenelly, U.S. Marine Corps). The story of […]
Founded in 2004, the private US aerospace company has put 53 spacecraft into low-Earth orbit and most of its missions have been successful. Saturday’s launch was initially scheduled for 5 July, however, due to a bad weather forecast, the company moved it one day earlier, a rare occurrence in the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107969/97/1079699775_0:81:1651:1009_1200x675_80_0_0_d4f82d73330f83701e35a00d5c2bbe48.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202006231079702279-us-congress-committee-probes-lockheed-martin-failure-to-meet-f-35-contract-demands/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Lockheed Martin must face accountability for its continuing and expensive failure to provide enough spare parts for the troubled F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, senior members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee said in a letter on Tuesday. […]
Several civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), have urged corporations to boycott advertising on Facebook in July because they believe the platform has failed to address hate speech. The boycott campaign, dubbed “#StopHateForProfit,” calls on Facebook advertisers […]
India is currently ruled by a far-right extreme Nationalist party known as the BJP. The BJP, like all Hindu Nationalist groups, have been closely allied to the Zionist International since the 1920s, finding common cause in their respective struggles to overthrow British Imperial hegemony. Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed Narendra Modi to […]
US 20:28 GMT 14.05.2020Get short URL A recent study based on New York medical system data has found that some 36.6% of patients diagnosed with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus also experienced acute kidney injury (AKI) and, in some cases, required dialysis to survive. Northwell Health, the largest health provider in […]
Two weeks ago, this column focused on Telegram’s litigation with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In that column, I argued Telegram’s TON and Kik’s kin strike me as not serving any functionality other than being a money substitute and an investment vehicle. Whether this is legally the case will […]
Indian news agencies reported on Friday morning that the country’s Air Force MiG-29 fighter jet crashes near Hoshiarpur district in Punjab. According to local media, the aircraft fell to the ground in the Chuharpur village of the district and burst into flames. The pilot ejected safely. Some sources reported about […]