Above Photo: A Starbucks worker cleans the window next to a company logo at a coffee store on May 31, 2006 in Seoul, South Korea. Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images. Some Companies Say They Will Cover Abortion Travel. Here’s What’s Wrong With Relying On Their Benevolence. Following last week’s Supreme Court ruling that struck down federal protections for abortion rights, major companies, including a number of Silicon Valley giants, publicly broadcast their intention to assist their workers in traveling out of state to obtain an abortion. Meta, Apple, Disney, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Condé Nast were among them, the New York Times noted, joining […]
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Elon Musk’s purchase of the Twitter platform was a hotly debated topic. But neither Musk nor any other individual is the root of the world’s problems. Liberalism which pretends to oppose capitalism and US state hegemony but which is in fact an ally, is the problem. Elon Musk successfully won his bid to purchase Twitter on April 25th just days after a rally in New York City chanted “Azov” to express support for Ukraine. While these events appear unrelated on the surface, they represent key examples of the road to hell paved by U.S. imperialism’s dominant ideology: liberalism. Liberalism is often viewed as […]
Climate Change, Up Close And Personal. Half a mile south of what’s left of the old Gold Rush-era town of Greenville, California, Highway 89 climbs steeply in a series of S-turns as familiar to me as my own backyard. From the top of that grade, I’ve sometimes seen bald eagles soaring over the valley that stretches to the base of Keddie Peak, the northernmost mountain in California’s Sierra Nevada range. Today, stuck at the bottom thanks to endless road work, I try to remember what these hillsides looked like before the Dixie Fire torched them in a furious 104-day climate-change-charged rampage across nearly […]
Above Photo: Columbia student workers picket on campus. (Student Workers Of Columbia). A Dispute Over Whether The University Can Permanently Replace Striking Student Workers Is Coming To A Head This Week. Thousands of striking Columbia University graduate student workers are vowing to “shut down” the campus Wednesday with a major picket line aimed at highlighting the university’s threat to fire those who are still on strike by December 10. In a year marked by labor strikes, one of the largest and most contentious is happening at one of the most elite bastions of American higher education. The 3,000 members of the Student Workers of Columbia, members of UAW Local 2110, […]
Despite over a year of failing to stop hostilities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that he will be able to end the war in Donbass, and says someone else should lead the country if he can’t. Speaking to the BBC, Zelensky also claimed that he will be able to make a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and return Crimea to the control of Kiev. “I believe in this. Otherwise, I would not have run for Ukrainian President,” Zelensky said. “This is very difficult, and we need the help of the whole world, that’s true. But I’m not losing faith.” The […]
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wanted to have US troops in Afghanistan home by Christmas, after 19 years of combat in the Middle East. The assertion reportedly caught many military and civil officials by surprise and is seen by some Democrats as a way for Trump to gain additional points prior to the 3 November election. Leaders of the Afghan militant group, the Taliban, said on Saturday that they hoped US President Donald Trump would beat Democratic rival, Joe Biden, in the US general election in November. “We hope he will win the election and wind up [the] US […]
Twelve-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal is targeting his 20th career Grand Slam title at Roland Garros on Sunday, but says he’ll face his toughest test on court against world No. 1 Novak Djokovic. Nadal has been the world’s top clay-court player for more than a decade, including two French Open final victories and four other Roland Garros wins over Djokovic, but says that nothing less than his very best play will be enough to stop the in-form Serb in Sunday’s final. “Different circumstances, different kind of tournament and different situation,” Nadal told reporters ahead of the final. “I can’t predict […]
In outright rejection of US unilateralism, E3 tells UNSC Iran sanctions relief to continue beyond Sep. 20 …from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: I would like to be able to say that, with this latest plain English statement from the E3, the US JCPOA agreement reneging saga would be behind us, but as long as Trump and gang are in power, I doubt that will be the case. With the US going trillions in debt year after year, it has to stay on full offense to keep the American house of cards from falling down. China, Russia, S. Korea and Japan […]
There’s a Jewish tradition that someone who dies on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, must have been a tzaddik, a righteous person. After all, God waited all year to carry out the decree. Perhaps that offers some comfort to those mourning the loss of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hebrew name, Yita Ruchel bat Tzirel Leah), who finally succumbed to cancer at the age of 87, after convincing many of us that she was immortal. But the themes of Rosh Hashanah offer another lesson as well: a warning to those Republican senators pondering whether or not to support Senate Majority Leader […]
PORTLAND—When Lucy Francisco of Medford, Oregon, learned that the Almeda fire had burned through two small towns and was racing toward her city, she didn’t wait to be evacuated. She knew what to pack. She had a list on her phone, which she’d gone through again and again over the years. She and her husband grabbed their two young children, jumped in the car, and headed north. “It was so smoky, I was literally crying, so scared we were driving into another fire,” Francisco told The Daily Beast. They were: Fires outside of Eugene were blocking their path. So they pivoted […]
High alert: Deadly Northwest fires burn hundreds of homes First published 9 September 2020 By Gillian Flaccus And Sara Cline, The Associated Press ESTACADA, Ore. – Deadly windblown wildfires raging across the Pacific Northwest destroyed hundreds of homes in Oregon, the governor said Wednesday, warning it could be the greatest loss of life and property from wildfire in state history. “GO Now!” The blazes from the top of the state to the California border caused highway closures and smoky skies and had firefighers struggling to contain and douse flames fanned by 50 mph (80 kph) wind gusts. Officials in some western Oregon […]
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Monday. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag hide caption toggle caption Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Monday. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Postmaster General Louis DeJoy promised some of the nation’s top election officials on Thursday that mailed ballots would be the Postal Service’s top priority this autumn. DeJoy and the Postal Service have been engulfed in a political firestorm following operational changes he ordered — and now […]
Dozens of anti-police protesters have been swarming around downtown Denver, Colorado, setting fires and smashing windows, with authorities seemingly struggling to contain the hit-and-run violence. Police officers in riot gear were seen guarding the Denver Police Department on Saturday night, but elsewhere across downtown Denver, local reporters described “ugly scenes” of arson and vandalism. Police conducted eight arrests as smaller groups of rioters have been running rampant, apparently using guerilla tactics and largely avoiding direct clashes, but throwing fireworks and other projectiles at the officers. Police put out another fire set in the middle of the road. The backdrop is the Denver […]
MOSCOW— Vladimir Putin has registered the world’s first state-approved vaccine against the coronavirus and probably expected congratulations—at least at home—for winning the global race for a vaccine, but even Russians aren’t so sure this is a good idea. Epidemiologists, pharmacologists, and doctors in Russia have responded to the alleged breakthrough with skepticism, and they certainly aren’t lining up to be injected first. Russian scientists plan to start the final stage of the trials on Monday, planning to begin the mass vaccination in October. Siberian scientists in the city of Novosibirsk are offering thousands of volunteers $1,997 for giving the vaccine a […]
Reopening Schools: We Don’t Have To Descend Into COVID Hell By Steve Miller, Rosemary Lee and E.B. Shaw, HamptonThink.org. August 16, 2020 Reopening Schools: We Don’t Have To Descend Into COVID Hell2020-08-162020-08-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/school-e1597621537164.jpg200px200px Above photo: Gov. Lamont speaks with hospital staff. Mark Lennihan/AP. With Corona virus cases spiking across the country, America is on the verge of forcing millions of people into extreme danger. Suddenly, everyone from CEOs, the President, state governors, and the corporate media are calling for schools to open “to save the economy”. No country has tried to open schools with the virus spreading like here in the US. We […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/0f/1080175582_0:29:3199:1827_1200x675_80_0_0_c44f814d9780f90077f796e9f1d4af5b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008151080175612-rep-swalwell-calls-to-create-commission-to-investigate-potus-when-we-escape-this-trump-hell/ Representative Eric Swalwell was one of the key figures behind the impeachment of US President Donald Trump, having penned an article pointing at Trump’s alleged “quid pro quo” with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskiy. Rep. Eric Swalwell has now suggested creating a commission on “presidential crimes” which would investigate US President Donald Trump when he leaves the Oval Office. “I don’t say this lightly: when we escape this Trump hell, America needs a Presidential Crimes Commission. It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president. […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis First of all, it must be pointed out that Moshe Feiglin, a former member of Israel’s Knesset, called the recent explosion in Beirut “a gift from God.” Feiglin wrote explicitly: “Today is Tu B’Av, a day of joy, and a true and huge thank you to God and all the geniuses and heroes really (!) who organized for us this wonderful celebration in honor of the day of love. Marking Tu B’Av holiday, we’ve got a fantastic fireworks show from Beirut’s port.”[1] Feiglin even went further by saying that the explosion was not an accident, and that […]
Firefighters across the nation consult a go-to website for cautionary tales. The “Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center” shares things that have gone wrong so that next time everyone can hopefully avoid the pitfalls. Today, the site is brimming with the uncharted challenges of combating natural disasters during a pandemic. It’s hard enough to confront a blaze, or hurricane, or earthquake at the best of times. Weather forecasters expect a busy natural disaster season, following Hurricane Hanna’s debut last weekend. But the historic knowledge of how to cope no longer applies, and the Lessons Learned website’s posts paint a disturbing picture. While […]
On Sunday night, the almighty Desus & Mero—two of the funniest late-night hosts who were foolishly shut out of the recent Emmy nominations—roasted the hell out of one of Trump’s more embarrassing fanboys: Charlie Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA. Turning Point USA recently recently made headlines because its other co-founder, Bill Montgomery, died of COVID-19 after the organization pushed a number of conspiracy theories concerning the coronavirus, including that social distancing in churches was a “Democratic plot against Christianity” and that hydroxychloroquine was proven to be “100% effective” in treating the virus (it has proven to be otherwise). But the […]
Another peaceful protest.Black Lives Matter-Antifa goons beat the hell out of some white guy in Portland on Sunday outside the Justice Center. Via Drew Hernandez. Advertisement – story continues below MUST WATCH: ANTIFA MILITANTS & BLM RADICALS PHYSICALLY ASSAULT WHITE GUY WITH FISTS & OBJECTS WHILE LEAVING THE JUSTICE CENTER IN DOWNTOWN PORTLAND pic.twitter.com/xlC63izJZu — Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) August 2, 2020 TRENDING: Federal Government and Yale Are Holding Clinical Trials on How Best to ‘Persuade’ Americans to Take COVID-19 Vaccines Here’s the tattooed goon who was beating on the white guy. For law enforcement: Here’s the criminal in the video physically […]
In June angry Black Lives Matter leftists tore down the statue of Hans Christian Heg in Madison, Wisconsin. They beheaded the statue and then threw it in a lake.Hans Christian Heg was an abolitionist who gave his life to end slavery in America. The protesters are idiots. During their rioting Democrat Senator Tim Carpenter stopped by and took a video of the destruction.The mob turned on him. They punched him, beat him in the head, neck and ribs.They socked him in the left eye and gave him a concussion. TRENDING: TGP at Tech Hearing: Rep. Greg Steube Grills Google CEO on […]
Dear Television Academy: I just want to talk! I’ll let my colleague Kevin Fallon handle the snubs and surprises from Tuesday morning’s nominations, but I do have to ask: How do you rationalize, year after year, snubbing actual living legend Rita Moreno? Tuesday’s Emmy nominations included zero Latinx acting nominees. None. Not Rita Moreno, who has been killing it on One Day at a Time for four seasons. Not Laura Gómez, whose performance in Orange Is the New Black’s excellent final season was alternatively haunting and inspiring—and as timely as it gets. Not Melissa Barrera or Mishel Prada of Vida, a […]
National Football League Hall of Famer Mike Ditka has gone fully un-woke on the issue of players kneeling during the national anthem before games to protest police brutality, saying the practice is unpatriotic and disrespectful. “If you can’t respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country,” Ditka said in an interview posted Sunday by TMZ Sports. “That’s the way I feel. Of course, I’m old fashioned, so I’m only going to say what I feel.” Ditka, 80, said he prefers that such demonstrations not be allowed in the X League, a new women’s tackle football organization of which […]
The Trump campaign’s payments to the Trump Organization for a week-long “donor retreat” at Mar-a -Lago earlier this year look awfully similar to money laundering. Investigative reporter David Fahrenthold tweeted out the receipts earlier this week, showing $380,000 in payments over two days, broken into chunks of $10,000 and less—which happens to be the reporting requirement for receipt of cash payments in a trade or business to FinCEN (the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network)—that he described as “Campaign donations turned into private revenue for POTUS.” The Trump Organization’s record of the payment raises many questions I’m familiar with from my 30-year career […]
US President Donald Trump said he could shutter additional Chinese consulates following the closure of a diplomatic facility in Texas, leaving the door open for further escalation as tensions soar between the two nations. The comment came during a White House presser on Wednesday, following the State Department’s decision to order a Chinese consulate in Houston to shut down within 72 hours “in order to protect American intellectual property and Americans,” according to a department spokesperson. “I guess they were burning documents and burning papers,” Trump said, referring to the Chinese consulate staff. Also on rt.com US abruptly informs Beijing to CLOSE consulate in […]
The disturbing federal crackdown happening against Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon, may seem like an obscure, far-away problem for some Americans right now. But Trevor Noah broke down on Tuesday night why everyone should be worried. “Portland has now seen more than 50 straight days of Black Lives Matter protests,” the Daily Show host said. “But over the last few days, something new has been happening, with more and more protesters facing off against heavily-armed law enforcement in some very dramatic ways.” Those “dramatic” face-offs included the one with the woman known as “Naked Athena,” who was able to […]
The Trump administration plans to send federal forces to violence-torn cities across the nation to help quell riots and surging crime, regardless of whether Democrat mayors and governors welcome Washington’s involvement. “I’m going to do something, that I can tell you,” President Donald Trump said Monday in the Oval Office. “We’re not going to let New York and Chicago, and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore and all of these – Oakland is a mess – we’re not going to let this happen in our country. All run by liberal Democrats.” The move comes as US House Democrats demand inspectors general investigate […]
The Reds previously enjoyed great success, having won the Club World Cup, the UEFA Super Cup, etc. but nothing in their recent past compares to this season’s much-coveted English Premier League title, masterminded by Jurgen Klopp, the club’s manager since 2015. Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp has revealed to the German publication SWR Sport, that he will spend another four years with the newly-minted Premier League champions, until his recently extended contract expires, and will then return home, to Germany. Addressing his longer-term plans, the former Borussia Dortmund boss asserted: “Definitely to live, after my career. Most likely even [go] to Mainz”. Klopp said […]
John Kavanagh, a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives, who represents District 23, has spoken out on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the electoral chances of the GOP in the state as well as nationwide and has suggested that despite the pandemic-inflicted economic issues, President Trump still can win the upcoming election. Sputnik: Your primary is scheduled for the 4th of August. What are the main challenges and issues the people of Arizona and your district are facing right now? John Kavanagh: Well, this is a primary, which means that we’re all Republicans in the primary. So we’re […]
US President Donald Trump said that Democratic Party mayors and the Barack Obama administration have done “virtually nothing” to combat violent crime in major American cities like Detroit and Chicago. “Chicago is an example, it’s worse than Afghanistan, it’s worse than… Honduras,” Trump told Fox News anchor Sean Hannity. We have cities that are worse, in some cases – far worse. Take a look at Detroit. Take a look at what’s happening in Oakland. Take a look at what’s happening in Baltimore… These cities, it’s like living in hell. Also on rt.com 104 people SHOT & 5 KIDS DEAD over Father’s […]
This clip has mega millions of views, 5 million on Snapchat and millions on Twitter from several accounts — A young black man was filmed beating the crap out of an older man inside the just re-opened Macy’s at the Genesee Valley Center mall in Flint, Michigan. This is Flint Township police, Michigan State Police-Flint post, and Genesee County sheriff’s police. The assault happened on on Monday or Tuesday. The camera caught the face of the perpetrator perfectly. TRENDING: Supreme Court Rules Against President Trump on Ending DACA – John Roberts Again Sides with Liberal Judges In the video that was […]
Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on police reform blew up when Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) took offense to remarks made by Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) about race, asking the Black congressman “who the hell” he thought he was. Debating the Democratic-backed Justice in Policing Act on Wednesday afternoon, Richmond began his remarks by noting that lawmakers of different parties tend to call each other “good friends” before noting that this may not be the case when he’s done. “By the time I’m finished, you will be clear that we are not good friends,” he added sharply. Taking issue with GOP members […]
Jimmy Kimmel spent the bulk of his monologue Monday night on the “historic” speech President Trump delivered to cadets at West Point over the weekend. “No president in the history of this country has ever taken a weirder drink of water than this,” the host said before showing viewers the clip of Trump using two hands to lift the glass to his mouth. “Is that one of the side effects of the hydroxy?” Kimmel joked. “What is up with his hand? Did he hurt it holding the Bible upside down? Let’s look at that again because there’s clearly something going on. […]
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) confirmed on Sunday that he’ll attend President Donald Trump’s upcoming campaign rally in Oklahoma, adding that despite the state’s rising coronavirus cases he has yet to decide if he’ll wear a face mask during the event. During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, Lankford was asked by anchor Jake Tapper about the Tulsa rally, which will be held this Saturday in an arena that has canceled all other events through July due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed over 115,000 Americans. “CDC guidelines say that you shouldn’t go into a packed arena indoors,” Tapper […]
The nationwide demonstrations for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death have attracted hundreds of thousands of people to the streets—including some surprises, like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who joined a march in Washington last Sunday. But don’t expect to see Ben Carson out there anytime soon. In an interview with The Daily Beast on Monday, the Secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development—and the only black member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet—didn’t totally rule out the idea of participating in a Black Lives Matter demonstration, but said “I think I have other things that probably require my […]
Living the Little House On The Prairie life has been a dream of mine since childhood, and lockdown in the Californian desert has given me the chance to do it for real. Except it’s not quite how I imagined. On the one hand, there are the rabbits, the hummingbirds, the friendly coyote, the exotic plants, the rocks, the rising sun yoga, not to mention the endless time to eat cannabis edibles and idle time away trying out new sex toys as I watch bees buzzing in the creosote bushes and ravens soaring in the endless skies. Then there’s that incredible light. […]
Report Summary1 – CLUES OF A PREMEDITATED MURDER2 – TRACES OF A DEEP STATE PLOT3 – TANKER AGAINST CROWD DRIVEN BY A SOLDIER4 – ANTIFA ARMED AS CANVAS-CIA MILITIANS5 – FBI: ANTIFA AS ISIS TERRORISTS’ ALLIES6 – CANVAS AND SOROS WITH BLACK LIVES MATTER “Do not turn away from your mouth the Book of this law, but meditate on it day and night, to observe and put into practice all that is written on it; in this way you will bring your path to a successful end and you will succeed ”.Book of Joshua – Holy Bible by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo […]
America’s heartbreak brought considerable joy to Vladimir Putin’s Russia, but the gloating also exposes the deep ugliness of his regime. Russian reporters covering protests on American soil appear to sympathize with the protesters, but state media reports for domestic audiences tell an entirely different story. “Mockery of the ongoing protests in the United States made references to ‘muscular criminal Negroes,’ described ‘twerking’ as the ‘national Negro dance.’” War correspondent Dmitry Steshin authored a despicably racist article for the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, purporting to give advice to the American protesters. His mockery of the ongoing protests in the United States made […]
Reopening The Economy Will Send Us To Hell By Mike Davis, LA Progressive. May 6, 2020 Reopening The Economy Will Send Us To Hell2020-05-062020-05-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/minn.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters in Minnesota April 17 demanded that “the economy” be reopened. Lorie Shaull, CC BY-SA 2.0, screen capture, cropped. As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak, millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell. As unemployment (officially reported) soars toward 30 percent or more, an estimated 20 million more people will fall helplessly below the poverty line. In a recent Pew poll, 60 percent of Latinos reported […]