Above Photo: Richard Rorty, Cornel West, Steve Fraser, Eric Foner, Ira Katznelson, Manning Marable, Betty Friedan, George Rupp, Patricia J. Williams, Joshua Freeman, & John Sweeney. (Columbia Archives) Amid the bleak political landscape of Clinton’s America, a 1996 summit of union organizers and intellectuals proved a surprise success. It also showed the weakness of left ideas without a strong labor movement. It was “the end of history”: America in the 1990s. Francis Fukuyama published a book with that title in 1992. Things would continue to happen, according to the philosopher, but the underlying story line had come to a finish with […]
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Above Photo: Ljazz Brooks, a third-year international business student, walks with other students in protest at California State University Los Angeles (CSULA) on February 25, 2014. He is part of the CSULA Ethnic Studies Coalition, a collective of students, educators, workers and activists demanding that at least one of the two diversity courses required to graduate from CSULA come from ethnic studies. Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times. Last year, as a massive uprising against systemic racism swept across the world, activists fighting for Black liberation and racial justice put radical demands against institutional racism on the table, such as abolishing and defunding the police. Another key step toward challenging institutional racism is the push […]
In one of the longest military convoys in recent history, U.S. Marines with 2nd Transportation Battalion, part of 2nd Marine Logistics Group, drove 18 vehicles approximately 2,500 miles from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina to Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California. And they’re driving almost 2,500 miles back, in a continuous mission lasting more than four weeks. During this convoy, Marines experimented with tactics and procedures for employing “distributed command and control” over vast distances. At each stop along the convoy, they used High Frequency (HF) beyond line-of-sight, highly secure radio communications to regularly speak with […]
A Brief History Of US Military Poisoning Of Hawai’i By Ann Wright, Kyle Kajihiro and Jim Albertini, Popular Resistance. December 7, 2020 A Brief History Of US Military Poisoning Of Hawai’i2020-12-072020-12-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/3-militarized-islands-of-hawaii-composite.png200px200px Above photo: Composite graphic from https://nohohewa.com/. Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange, a new book by Japan-based journalist Jon Mitchell, is a detailed investigation and documentation of U.S. and Japanese military chemical and biological poisoning and pollution across the Pacific, Asia and South East Asia. Mitchell’s work doesn’t cover the U.S. military poisoning of Hawai’i as that would require a separate […]
Racism In Britain Has A Long If Contested History By Angelique Richardson, Black Agenda Report. November 14, 2020 Racism In Britain Has A Long If Contested History2020-11-142020-11-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/britcolored_-_845x400-e1605376430329.jpeg200px200px The Brits practiced a nonjudicial form of Jim Crow against non-white immigrants from their colonial empire. “Racialization is one way of dividing labor and resources along unjust and oppressive lines; class is another.” The demobilized troopship HMT Empire Windrush that arrived at Tilbury Dock on 22 June 1948 was not Britain’s first migration ship, but its passengers were the first to be promised British citizenship, which the British Nationality Act of 1948 conferred on “every person born within the United […]
Scheer Intelligence: Tracing America’s Brutal Imperialist History By Robert Scheer, Scheer Intelligence. October 30, 2020 Scheer Intelligence: Tracing America’s Brutal Imperialist History2020-10-302020-10-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/exceptionalism_2-scaled-1-e1604070182625.jpg200px200px Above image: By Mr. Fish. A political anthropologist puts a much needed pin to the balloon of American exceptionalism with an invaluable guide to a country that, long before Orwell came along, said war was peace – and interventionism was the highest form of anti-colonialism. The United States has the largest number of military installations in the world, with about 5,000 bases in total and at least 600 overseas, according to the Pentagon. Although the Department of Defense is […]
The Supreme Court retains a strong but largely undeserved reputation as a protector of the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. In fact, there is a long history of right-wing Supreme Court majorities serving as dead hands to enforce reactionary policies favored by political minorities who have lost electoral power, or even wars. Most notoriously, a right-wing court favored the South’s radical, pro-slavery positions before the Civil War and, after that war, played a critical role in nullifying Reconstruction and instituting Jim Crow; the so-called Lochner court devoted years to voiding federal and state health and safety regulations and other progressive laws, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105550/74/1055507458_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_f1dbc088755abcab656ac7fb6cd661b1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010091080715748-us-federal-debt-will-soon-be-larger-than-any-time-in-history-american-budget-watchdog-claims/ Last month, a US Congressional Budget Office report revealed that the country’s federal debt is expected to stand at 98% of America’s GDP by the end of this year. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a survey indicating that the 2020 fiscal year saw the US deficit hit $3.13 trillion, or 15.2% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The 2020 fiscal year expired on 30 September. “If the CBO’s estimates are on the mark, the country’s total debt owed to investors […] will have outpaced the size of the economy, […]
The massive blast that destroyed a huge swathe of Beirut in August was one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history, releasing enough energy to power more than 100 homes for a year, new research has found. The devastating detonation was the result of the accidental ignition of approximately 2,750 tonnes of improperly stored ammonium nitrate at the port in the Lebanese capital. It resulted in at least 200 deaths and more than 6,000 injuries. New research from a team of experts at the University of Sheffield has revealed that the blast was the equivalent of up to 1,100 tons of […]
President Trump exits Marine One at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday in Bethesda, Md. He is staying at the hospital while receiving treatment for the coronavirus. Alex Edelman/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Edelman/Getty Images President Trump exits Marine One at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday in Bethesda, Md. He is staying at the hospital while receiving treatment for the coronavirus. Alex Edelman/Getty Images No sooner had it become known that President Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus than controversy arose over the amount and detail and truthfulness of the information about his […]
c“No one saw it coming, because second albums are notoriously shit,” Noel Gallagher recalled of the surprise success of Oasis’s second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? “We certainly didn’t see it coming. That’s for sure.” (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. It was a career-defining moment for Oasis, a band that had burst onto the British music scene in a big way barely a year earlier with the massive success of its debut album Definitely Maybe, and a string of chart-topping singles. But (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?—which contained the hit songs “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look […]
DOJ Charges Hundreds in Connection with $6B Healthcare Fraud DOJ charges hundreds in connection with $6B in healthcare fraud in largest takedown ever https://t.co/dHierDWYoS — FierceHealth (@FierceHealth) October 1, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Sad state of medical affairs in the U.S. During this COVID-19 pandemic or maybe because of this pandemic, we have rampant malfeasance on the part of some 100 doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. In total 345 people were charged in connection for cases responsible for more than $6 billion in losses. Billions of dollars in false claims were submitted to both private and public insurers, with $4.5 […]
The team previously won their maiden Stanley Cup in 2004. The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup on Monday claiming victory over the Dallas Stars with a 2-0 score. Brayden Point’s goal and goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy’s performance earning the shutout brought the team their second Stanley Cup in franchise history. Meanwhile, Tampa Bay’s defenceman Victor Hedman has won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in NHL’s Stanley Cup finals. The Stanley Cup final was played with no spectators in amid COVID-19. Source link
Author Fred Kaplan reveals how U.S. presidents, their advisers and generals have thought about, planned for — and sometimes narrowly avoided — nuclear war. Originally broadcast Jan. 27, 2020. Hear The Original Interview National Security New Book Presents A ‘Secret History’ Of Nuclear War Planning In America New Book Presents A ‘Secret History’ Of Nuclear War Planning In America Source link
380 pilot whales die after getting beached in Australia, 50 saved by rescuers in largest such incident in state’s history (PHOTOS) A total of 380 whales have died, local media reported, citing officials. Teams of rescuers managed to save 50 by towing them to deeper water, where they were released, while around 30 more remained beached and fighting for their lives as of Wednesday afternoon. Each animal weighs around three tons. “If they are still alive and in water, there is certainly hope for them, but as time goes on they get more fatigued and their chances of survival reduces,” Parks […]
In October of 2006, the FBI released an intelligence assessment titled, “White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement.” Though the document—culled from FBI investigations and open sources—was heavily redacted, it reached a number of disturbing conclusions. The assessment revealed that white supremacists “have historically engaged in strategic efforts to infiltrate and recruit from law enforcement communities”; that many of these white-supremacist infiltrators are known as “ghost skins” who “avoid overt displays of their beliefs to blend in”; and that the KKK have longstanding “ties to local law enforcement.” These firm ties between white supremacists and law enforcement persist to this day. Last […]
Editor’s note: This is a reprint from 2016 of a recap of an investigation done between May 5, 2014, and June 2015 by select members of a combined team including but not limited to: Gordon Duff, Ian Greenhalgh, Dr. James Fetzer, Jeff Smith of VT and the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dmitri Khalezov of the Soviet 12th (Nuclear) Directorate, Jim W. Dean, Dr. Kevin Barrett, A working group from the University of California at Los Alamos/Sandia National Labs, Colonel’s James Hanke and Eugene Khrushchev, Sources within the FBI and Russian Naval Intelligence, Michael Shrimpton, and substantial works by journalists such as Wayne Madsen and others. Sorry if I am not adequately inclusive. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0b/1080435760_0:194:1865:1243_1200x675_80_0_0_9db30805a1879cb5911e9a22d175a2b8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009111080435794-unga-adopts-resolution-recognizing-covid-19-as-one-of-greatest-challenges-in-its-history/ UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – The UN General Assembly said in a new resolution the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic represents one of the greatest challenges since the establishment of the United Nations. “The General Assembly [recognizes] that the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest global challenges in the history of the United Nations,” the text of the resolution adopted on Friday said. The resolution notes with concern the impact of the pandemic on health, the loss of life, wellbeing, humanitarian needs, human rights, livelihoods, food security, education, poverty and the global economy. According to […]
One of the defining feuds of our time might soon come to an end. As Fresh Prince of Bel-Air gears up for a reunion on HBO Max, Will Smith has shared a photo of himself smiling alongside the original Aunt Vivian, Janet Hubert. The photo might come as a shock to Fresh Prince die-hards and even casual pop-culture fans, given Smith and Hubert’s highly visible, decades-long fight. To commemorate the occasion here’s a timeline of how it all went down. Season 3 of Fresh Prince, which aired in 1993, marked Hubert’s last with the show. Despite the usual cloak of “creative […]
Editor’s note: This is a reprint from 2016 of a recap of an investigation done between May 5, 2014, and June 2015 by select members of a combined team including but not limited to: Gordon Duff, Ian Greenhalgh, Dr. James Fetzer, Jeff Smith of VT and the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dmitri Khalezov of the Soviet 12th (Nuclear) Directorate, Jim W. Dean, Dr. Kevin Barrett, A working group from the University of California at Los Alamos/Sandia National Labs, Colonel’s James Hanke and Eugene Khrushchev, Sources within the FBI and Russian Naval Intelligence, Michael Shrimpton, and substantial works by journalists such as Wayne Madsen and others. Sorry if I am not adequately inclusive. […]
Egyptians embalming a corpse. (Bettmann / Corbis) People Have Eaten Corpses to Cure Many Ills, But Did it Work? The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine https://t.co/OzHmoCp6S4 — Carol Duff (@CarolDuff18) September 10, 2020 Heath Editor’s Note: Just when you think you have heard it all….you find out you are a long way from it. People used to eat human blood, fat, and bones as remedies for various medical afflictions. You might ask where they got these human parts. Well, there was once a job with the title of ‘gravedigger’ and those who practiced this robbed graves and sold the […]
Shut Up, History By Susie Day, Counterpunch. September 8, 2020 Shut Up, History2020-09-082020-09-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/eddie-e1599610832329.jpg200px200px Above photo: Susie Day. Awhile back, a friend and I were talking about History and rebellions, and I lamented how the 1871 Paris Commune had failed. My friend, a self-avowed psychic, said, “Yes, history records very few total victories over oppression. That’s because, on this worldly plane, most things are not supposed to work out. It’s all about the trying.” So this will be a short essay on trying. On how, in the late 1960s, two Africa-American men met at the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party for […]
The UK’s Natural History Museum is reviewing options for its Charles Darwin exhibits, including possible removal, after an internal review ordered amid Black Lives Matter protests found that they could be deemed “offensive.” The museum’s directors are scrutinizing collections that may be considered “problematic,” which could lead to removal or lesser remedies, such as renaming, The Telegraph reported citing internal documents. Artifacts from the father of evolutionary theory are among the suspects because Darwin’s voyage to Galapagos Island on the HMS Beagle was one of the UK’s “colonialist scientific expeditions.” “In light of Black Lives Matter and the recent anti-racist demonstrations around […]
By Gordon Duff with Jeff Smith and the Editorial Staff VT has, over the past 72 hours, leaked more classified information, up to real ‘Q’ level, not fake ‘Qanon’ crap, than in US history. However, all material has been reviewed and redacted for real national security reasons. What is here? Real UFO information, real nuclear weapons facts, the ones you are never supposed to see, and physics that have been classified. Do governments, collectively, have the right or ability to alter natural laws and basic equations? They think so, we don’t. The articles are now processing through VT and will reside […]
By Gordon Duff with Jeff Smith and the Editorial Staff VT has, over the past 72 hours, leaked more classified information, up to real ‘Q’ level, not fake ‘Qanon’ crap, than in US history. However, all material has been reviewed and redacted for real national security reasons. What is here? Real UFO information, real nuclear weapons facts, the ones you are never supposed to see, and physics that have been classified. Do governments, collectively, have the right or ability to alter natural laws and basic equations? They think so, we don’t. The articles are now processing through VT and will reside […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/sport/202009051080375562-lewis-hamilton-posts-fastest-lap-in-formula-one-history-to-take-pole-at-monza/ Last month, Lewis Hamilton, six-time world champion, won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone despite suffering a puncture during his final lap. Six time-world champion Lewis Hamilton took the pole position in the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday, making the fastest lap in Formula One history. The Mercedes driver rushed through the Monza track with a sensational lap of one minute 18.887 seconds. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
www.youtube.com Convalescent Plasma Has Been Used to Treat Diseases in the Past 100 Plus Years Every time the world faces a novel disease threat, the treatment seems to experience another 15 minutes of fame. https://t.co/gxSsyJsH63 — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) September 1, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: While we have been hearing a lot about convalescent plasma during the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of convalescent plasma has been going on since the late 19th century. Over the years convalescent plasma had been used to treat measles, diphtheria, pneumonia, meningitis, plague, scarlet fever, Spanish flu, and other diseases, as well as being used to […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given approval for Amazon to operate its Prime Air delivery drones, an idea billionaire owner Jeff Bezos first introduced in 2013. The approval means the drones can be operated “beyond the visual line of sight” by operators. Amazon says it will soon begin testing the delivery technology, which is supposed to cut wait times for orders from days to hours and eventually minutes. The company also plans on eventually introducing the delivery practice across the globe. “This certification is an important step forward for Prime Air and indicates the FAA’s confidence in Amazon’s operating and […]
Retired postal worker Glenda Morris protests postal cutbacks on Aug. 25, 2020, in New York. African Americans make up 27 percent of the Postal Service, about twice their share of the overall workforce. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Retired postal worker Glenda Morris protests postal cutbacks on Aug. 25, 2020, in New York. African Americans make up 27 percent of the Postal Service, about twice their share of the overall workforce. Mark Lennihan/AP Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s cost-cutting measures have raised concerns about mail-in voting. But critics worry they may also set the stage for privatizing the U.S. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1f/1080323903_0:0:3168:1783_1200x675_80_0_0_2942101ef5c16c672968bb7be6043941.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008311080323936-trump-says-after-talks-with-abe-that-he-is-greatest-prime-minister-in-japans-history/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump said after phone talks with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that relations between the two countries are special and that Abe has done a great job. “Just had a wonderful conversation with my friend, Prime Minister @AbeShinzo of Japan, who will be leaving office soon. Shinzo will soon be recognized as the greatest Prime Minister in the history of Japan, whose relationship with the USA is the best it has ever been. Special man!” Trump wrote on Twitter. Just had a wonderful conversation with my friend, Prime […]
Protesters in Montreal pulled down and defaced a statue of John Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, as police stood by, echoing attacks on controversial historical figures in the US. The statue’s head was broken off as it slammed to the ground from its high pedestal Saturday in Montreal’s Dominion Square. Activists were shielded from view with umbrellas and sheets as they unbolted the statue, which was pulled from behind with a strap around its neck. Hundreds of protesters had marched to the site to call for defunding the police. They reportedly were organized by the Coalition for BIPOC Liberation, which bills […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1e/1080316990_0:136:2999:1822_1200x675_80_0_0_a59ecc2a8f9d61dd06131ecb2ed14ba4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008301080316978-chadwick-bosemans-last-tweet-becomes-most-liked-in-apps-history-twitter-confirms/ On Friday evening, the world was left heartbroken by the death of renowned Black Panther movie star, American actor Chadwick Boseman, passing away at the age of 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer. The sad news was confirmed by an official statement released in the actor’s Twitter account. The message tweeted on Friday evening from the Twitter account of American actor Chadwick Boseman, confirming his death of stage 4 colon cancer, has become the most liked post in the history of the social media network, Twitter said on Saturday. “A […]
Continuous Cycle of Oppression, Protest, and Violence in American History While the 1960s certainly provides some background for the current historical moment, it is the in-between times, which offer greater context to the continuous cycle of oppression, protest and violence in American history. https://t.co/5o3b8EFydn — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) August 28, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: When growing up in a small city in the mid-southern portion of Ohio, well Chillicothe to be exact, I saw no racial disparity. We had elementary and middle schools in a three sections of the city where every child who lived in that area attended that particular […]
The greatest economic recovery in US and world history continues. The S&P 500 hit a new all-time high today after the President showcased his list of great accomplishments this past week. The stock markets have increased faster since March than any time in history. The previous record was between President Trump’s election win and February of this year. Today the S&P 500 hit another all-time high – TRENDING: BREAKING: Violent Black Lives Matter Mob Attacks Sen. Rand Paul as He Leaves RNC in DC Americans who kept their money in the markets since March are very happy today with their 401k […]
President Trump delivered his RNC acceptance speech outside the White House on Thursday night. Trump mocked creepy Joe Biden. Advertisement – story continues below “For 47 years, Joe Biden took the donations of blue collar workers, gave them hugs — and even kisses…” Trump said. Trump is correct. TRENDING: You Knew This Was Coming… Nancy Pelosi: “I Don’t Think That There Should Be Any Debates… I Wouldn’t Legitimize a Conversation with Him” (VIDEO) Joe Biden has been in government for nealy 5 decades and all he has done is enrich himself and his family members. In fact, Biden is currently vacationing […]
“The Marxian program of drastic controls, so repugnant to the free Western mind, was no obstacle to the acceptance of Marxism by many Khazar Jews, for the Babylonian Talmud under which they lived had taught them to accept authoritarian dictation on everything from their immorality to the trade practices. Since the Talmud contained more that 12,000 controls, the regimentation of Marxism was acceptable, provided the Khazar politician, like the Talmudic rabbi, exercised the power of the dictatorship.” (81,000 words) Introduction There can be no such thing as “anti-Semitism” without “Semitism” or even “Semites.” If this seems strange to you, perhaps even […]
A New Zealand court has sentenced mass shooter Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at a mosque last year, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the first such ruling ever handed down in the country. The 29-year-old Australian previously admitted to some 92 charges – 51 for murder, 40 for attempted murder and one linked to terrorism – following the 2019 shooting rampage at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. At Tarrant’s sentencing on Thursday, High Court Judge Cameron Mander said the severity of his crimes justified the harsh penalty. “Your crimes… are so wicked that even […]
On Contact: Teaching History For Indoctrination August 23, 2020 On Contact: Teaching History For Indoctrination2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/chris-e1598205083919.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the teaching of history as a form of indoctrination with Professor James W. Loewen. Loewen’s book is: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. His new book, a memoir, is: Up a Creek, with a Paddle: Tales of Canoeing and Life. “The teaching of history in our schools is not an impartial or neutral discipline. It is at its core about justifying the power of the ruling elites in the present by defining the […]
A graphic used by CNN to break down speakers at the Republican National Convention described Nick Sandmann as someone who “sued major media outlets over viral video,” leaving out important details, including their own settlement. The graphic, spotted by reporter Cameron Gray, also provided no image for Sandmann, despite doing so for others. While CNN’s description is technically correct, it is quite misleading. It is true Sandmann sued major media outlets, including CNN, but these were defamation suits stemming from a 2019 video showing the former Covington Catholic High School student seemingly mocking Nathan Phillips, a Native American protester taking part […]
Firefighters make a stand in the backyard of a home in front of the advancing C.Z.U. Lightning Complex fire on Friday. California is seeing some of the worst first in the state’s history. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Firefighters make a stand in the backyard of a home in front of the advancing C.Z.U. Lightning Complex fire on Friday. California is seeing some of the worst first in the state’s history. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Hundreds of buildings have been destroyed, thousands of acres of land have been scorched and at least six people have died in […]
The greatest economic recovery in US and world history continues. The S&P 500 hit a new all-time high today after great news on housing and manufacturing data. The stock markets have increased faster since March than any time in history. The previous record was between President Trump’s election win and February of this year. Forbes reports: Stocks finished higher on Friday, with the S&P 500 hitting another new record high after manufacturing and housing data both came in stronger than expected…. TRENDING: SHOCK VIDEO: “Mom! Call 911!” – Biden Supporters Attack 7-Year-Old Boy Outside DNC Convention For Wearing Red MAGA Hat […]
by Preston James and Mike Harris 100-800 AD – an incredibly Evil Society Emerges in Khazaria: Khazarians develop into a nation ruled by an evil king, who had ancient Babylonian black arts, occult oligarchs serving as his court. During this time, Khazarians became known to surrounding countries as thieves, murderers, road bandits, and for assuming the identities of those travelers they murdered as a normal occupational practice and way of life. 800 AD – The Ultimatum is delivered by Russia and other surrounding nations: The leaders of the surrounding nations, especially Russia, have had so many years of complaints by their citizens […]
To foretell the future of decentralized finance (DeFi), the exploding new field in which decentralized governance protocols set and execute the terms for lending, borrowing and stablecoin issuance, one should look to the past. Specifically, look to Wall Street’s past. By some measures, DeFi is nothing new. It extends a four-decade cycle of ever-more sophisticated financial engineering – from junk bond financing to collateralized debt obligations to algorithmic trading. These waves of technological evolution have delivered spectacular profits to some, giant losses to others and lasting change to Wall Street, albeit while strengthening its large financial institutions’ dominance of our economy. […]
Exiled US whistleblower Edward Snowden is sensing a shift in the political winds in his favor, as news that President Donald Trump will consider pardoning him elicited opposition from “only the worst people in the country.” “Imagine my surprise to find only the worst people in the country willing to speak against a pardon this time around,” Snowden said Monday on Twitter. “How far we’ve come!” Imagine my surprise to find only the worst people in the country willing to speak against a pardon this time around. How far we’ve come! — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) August 17, 2020 Among those who […]
Jason Wright, pictured in 2009 when he was with the Arizona Cardinals, will lead the organization’s business divisions, including operations, finance, sales, and marketing, as team president. NFL Photos/NFL hide caption toggle caption NFL Photos/NFL Jason Wright, pictured in 2009 when he was with the Arizona Cardinals, will lead the organization’s business divisions, including operations, finance, sales, and marketing, as team president. NFL Photos/NFL Jason Wright knows he’s expected to be an outsider as he becomes the NFL’s first Black — and youngest — team president. The 38-year-old former running back is making history for the league with its record of […]
** Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx used the Imperial College Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the ENTIRE US ECONOMY.** The fraudulent model predicted 2.2 million American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic** The authors of the Imperial College Model shared their findings with the White House Coronavirus task force in early March** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx then met with President Trump privately and urged him to shut down the US economy and destroy the record Trump economy based on this model** A new critique of the Imperial College Model finds the study is “completely unusable for […]
Thirty-six years after Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman named to a major party ticket, we have a chance as a country to get it right, not just the outcome but the process itself. California Senator Kamala Harris is not a surprise out-of-the-box pick like Ferraro, a congresswoman from Queens. And there’s no expectation that it’s all on her—the way it was for Ferraro—to shake up the campaign and bring Joe Biden across the finish line. The former vice president is doing fine in the polls, thank you. Harris is an added benefit, not the Hail Mary pass Ferraro was when […]
Game Writers Made History By Going On Strike — And Winning By Nicole Carpenter, Polygon. August 15, 2020 Game Writers Made History By Going On Strike — And Winning2020-08-152020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/voltage-workers.jpg200px200px Above photo: From CWA. The 21-day strike ended with an agreement. Twenty-one writers who were contractors that create scripts for the mobile app Lovestruck: Choose Your Romance went on strike on July 15 — a move nearly unheard of in the video game industry. Calling themselves Voltage Organized Workers, the group demanded better pay and workplace transparency, but the company that owns the app, Voltage Entertainment, at first refused to recognize their requests. Working with the […]
Though I might like to claim otherwise, I’m no expert on big-screen T&A&D. Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies, however, makes a bid for being the definitive documentary on the subject. Driven by a cornucopia of film clip and talking heads—led by actors, directors, historians and critics—it delivers a thorough chronological timeline of cinematic nakedness. Too bad, then, that when it comes to actually delving into the most interesting aspects of its topic, Danny Wolf’s non-fiction film proves, ahem, skin-deep. Debuting on VOD on August 18, Skin is most valuable as a survey of movie nudity, ranging from the […]
The listing of the world’s biggest companies saw 133 Chinese firms across the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong make the roster compared with 121 US businesses. The news comes amid a major surge in foreign investment in Chinese tech firms amid the ongoing US trade war with China. Chinese firms listed on the Fortune Global 500 have surpassed US companies for the first time in history, it was found on Monday. Three Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) – Sinopec Group, State Grid and China National Petroleum – came in second, third and fourth, respectively, with Arkansas-based Walmart topping the list. “Chinese companies […]
In the last year we have covered a number of incidents where nuclear weapons have been used; from exposing the truth about the nuclear nature of the destruction of the WTC on 9-11 to being the only media outlet to cover the nuclear explosions in China. In the minds of most people, a nuclear weapon is a large device carried on the tip of an ICBM or carried in the belly of a huge bomber aircraft that when deployed produces a colossal explosion and spectacular mushroom cloud just like all those terrifying 1950s newsreels . The megatonne class bombs have never […]
State Rep. La Shawn Ford calls for a ban on college history classes in Illinois and is concerned, “current school history teachings lead to white privilege and a racist society.” Representative Ford stated, “I’m calling on the State Board of Education to end the teaching of history and the local school districts to take immediate action by removing the current history books and curriculum practices that unfairly communicate our history until a suitable alternative is developed. We should instead devote greater attention toward civics and ensure students understand our democratic process and how they can be involved. Today, I don’t know […]
LaShawn Ford, a Democrat in the Illinois General Assembly, has called for an immediate halt of history classes that he claims “lead to white privilege and a racist society,” sparking concerns over an Orwellian revision of history. “I’m calling on the state board of education to end the teaching of history and the local school districts to take immediate action by removing the current history books and curriculum practices that unfairly communicate our history,” Ford said Sunday at an event in Evanston, Illinois. His vague plan calls for temporarily replacing history classes by devoting greater attention to civics and ensuring that […]
The Biden campaign must be working on stealing the election because there is no excitement from his base. Sleepy Joe is a terrible candidate – he literally doesn’t even know where he is. For a long time we’ve thought the polls used in Presidential polling were fraudulent and fake. We saw in 2016 how the polls questioned more Democrats than Republicans and other methods of skewing the results in favor of Hillary and we are seeing it again this year. These polls are constantly used to discourage Republicans. Former Obama VP Joe Biden has a long past where he supported KKK […]
Five years ago this week, the first general-purpose blockchain went live on mainnet. Ethereum paved the way for a whole new use case for blockchain technology untethered from Bitcoin’s original vision as electronic cash. CoinDesk marked the milestone with a special series of stories, live–streamed conversations and even a pop-up newsletter. These charts first appeared in the newsletter, one for each day. Here are five charts for understanding Ethereum’s evolution. Part 1: A Bloodless Secession Source: CoinDesk Research Not one year after the launch of Ethereum, a seminal event split the community in two. So acute was the disagreement between these […]
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On July 28, 2020, Mattel announced it would be releasing its seventh presidential Barbie. They have released one in nearly every cycle since 1992, but of course, America has yet to see Barbie in the Oval Office. But this year, for the first time, Mattel gave her a campaign team. Candidate Barbie 2020 came with a campaign manager, a fundraiser, and one (1) voter. There was renewed hope in the Barbie camp that this could be the year she won. Flash forward to Nov. 4, 2020. In an alternate universe somewhere, the four women discuss with NPR how Barbie lost the […]
The Forgotten History Of The Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left By Sarah Lazare, In These Times. July 27, 2020 The Forgotten History Of The Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left2020-07-272020-07-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/zionism-an-election-poster-of-the-general-jewish-labour-bund-hung-in-kiev-in-1917.-the-heading-reads-where-we-live-there-is-our-country.png200px200px Above photo: An election poster of the General Jewish Labour Bund hung in Kiev in 1917. The heading reads, ‘Where we live, there is our country!’ A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish, working-class anti-Zionism in the 1930s and ’40s. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s push to forcibly annex up to 30% of the occupied West Bank is exposing the violence inherent in imposing a Jewish ethno-state on an indigenous Palestinian population. While the plan is […]
In a primary debate Sunday night, 39-year-old Rep. Joe Kennedy III was asked again about his decision to join a famously racist, Robert E. Lee revering fraternity in the early 2000s and why he’d only recently made the decision to disaffiliate himself from it. Kennedy punted again, saying that “I wish I hadn’t joined” but that his Stanford chapter of Kappa Alpha “had almost no relation with the national organization, and had none of the behaviors or traditions of that national organization,” while suggesting that he knew nothing about those behaviors or traditions while he was an undergrad. Those were the […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Sushant Singh Rajput ended his life on 14 June, and on 24 July, “Dil Bechara”, the last film to feature the Bollywood star, was released online, leaving fans and colleagues teary-eyed. The movie, based on the famous book “The Fault in our Stars”, directed by Mukesh Chhabra, broke every ratings record in India. Out of the 26,624 users who rated the movie on IMDb, 92.8 percent gave “Dil Bechara” 10 stars – making it the highest-rated movie of all time on IMDb. Since more and more users are tuning to the OTT platform Disney Plus Hotstar to watch […]
Eastern Christian, Catholic, Muslim and then secular – Hagia Sophia has played many roles throughout its nearly 1,500-year history. But following a Turkish court decision last week, this grand structure that has been serving as a museum for 85 years, has now been reconverted into a mosque. On Friday, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia opened for Muslim prayers for the first time since its reconversion from a secular cultural building back into a place of worship. The move was strongly opposed by the heads of Christian churches worldwide. And this is not surprising, bearing in mind its rich history and the significance it […]
The UK government has vastly expanded its free flu vaccination program, as the NHS prepares for a potential second spike in Covid-19 cases in winter. The hope is to vaccinate 30 million people during the upcoming flu season, in an effort to mitigate the effects of a potential resurgence of coronavirus, the government has announced. The flu shot program will, for the first time, include all people over the age of 50, as well as children in their first year of secondary school. In previous years, the shot was offered for free to anyone over the age of 65, as well […]
As reparations become a more and more popular topic while anti-police and anti-racism protests rage across the US, rapper Ice Cube wants to see Hollywood studios take part and give yearly payments to black-owned companies. “I think these studios that we know and love should kick in to a studio that’s ran by black people with no outside influences, and whose movies and projects are owned by those black people,” the musician and actor told radio show ‘The Breakfast Club’. These studios, he claims, have “contributed in our narrative, in our pain, in our misrepresentation.” First making waves as a rapper […]
For much of its history, the characters of the Bible have been whitewashed. Everyone from Jesus, to his disciples, to Moses and to the Virgin Mary have been depicted as blue-eyed Europeans. Even if we intellectually know that the heroes of the Bible had considerably more melanin than the improbably pale-skinned Jesus of Renaissance art, images of Scandinavian Jesus still abound on the internet, in artwork, and on book covers. One biblical character who has—for Americans, at least—been consistently portrayed as Black, though, is the Hebrew Bible hero Samson. Now a new study of Samson’s history in the United States shows […]
Far left billionaire George Soros has been systematically targeting district attorney races throughout the United States for several years now. Several of his candidates are already in office creating havoc. In St. Louis City George Soros was Kim Gardner’s biggest donor in her race for Circuit Attorney. Advertisement – story continues below Soros funded PAC even released an ad in support of this far left and unqualified nutcase. TRENDING: WOW! NBC Guest Doctor Who Was Suffering from Coronavirus in Hospital in TV Interviews — NEVER HAD CORONAVIRUS! (VIDEO) Kim Gardner may be the most radical Soros-funded Circuit Attorney in the nation […]
The elite military unit was one of the last subdivisions of the US Army not to have any women. Nicknamed for its distinctive headwear, the Green Berets are often deployed in counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency missions abroad. For the first time in the history of the US military, a female soldier will join the Green Berets, the New York Times reported. According to the newspaper, She graduated from US Army Special Forces training along with her classmates on 9 July, and wore her Green Beret during a “socially distant graduation” ceremony. “From here, you will go forward and join the storied formation […]
Michael Drake, a physician, previously served as the president of The Ohio State University. He was unanimously approved by the University of California Board of Regents on Tuesday. (Image credit: Susan Walsh/AP) Source link
The US Should Stop Lying About Its History By Jaisal Noor, The Real News. July 8, 2020 The US Should Stop Lying About Its History2020-07-082020-07-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/baltimore-columbus-statue-e1594216362594.jpg200px200px Not only should statues celebrating Columbus be removed, but textbooks should reflect his murderous legacy, argues Maryland Delegate Gabriel Acevero. Jaisal Noor: I wanted to get your response to events on July 4th, Saturday night, when in Baltimore, Maryland, protestors toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the harbor. You’re someone who is of Afro-Latino descent. Christopher Columbus never even set foot in the United States, which didn’t exist, but the monument […]
Of course Reverend Troy Perry is a preacher. He sounds like one. His voice booms smoothly. His Southern accent remains in place, despite years of Californian living. More than one sentence ends with a “And I will tell you…” On July 27th, Perry will celebrate his 80th birthday, and there’s a long, dramatic life to look back on which at its heart is about how one gay man who cherished his belief and faith in God did not believe—as he was constantly told—that God did not love him because he was gay. And to prove it, he created a church all […]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” Thomas Jefferson wrote 244 years ago, when a brand-new nation found itself already a year into war with the most powerful empire on the planet. Two and a half centuries later, the innately flawed country that was born out of the declaration Jefferson penned is fighting one of the deadliest battles in its history. Except this time around, it remains deeply split about the very nature of a horrifically fatal enemy. While leaders in some nations around the world have in many cases used a combination of aggressive lockdowns and mass testing to get […]
A Stonewall Jackson statue is loaded on a truck after being removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday. Ryan M. Kelly/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ryan M. Kelly/AFP via Getty Images A Stonewall Jackson statue is loaded on a truck after being removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday. Ryan M. Kelly/AFP via Getty Images In Richmond, Va., the former capital of the Confederacy, a bronze statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson sitting triumphantly astride his horse, Little Sorrel, no longer towers above that city’s Monument Avenue. To the cheers of a crowd of […]
As Independence Day celebrations draw near in the US, Americans are reminded about a history that Dr. Gerald Horne, a professor of history at the University of Houston, regards as a product of the malfeasance of historians. Horne, who authored numerous books such as “The Counterrevolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America,” asserted to Loud and Clear hosts Brian Becker and John Kiriakou on Thursday that Americans have been left “unable” and “unsuited” to understand the reason why the US continues to have a “pornography of violence” because they have yet to be taught […]
History Provides Clues Into Israel’s West Bank Annexation By Miko Peled, Mintpress News. July 2, 2020 History Provides Clues Into Israel’s West Bank Annexation2020-07-022020-07-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/apisrael.jpg200px200px Above photo: Two Israeli soldiers drag a Palestinian to the ground, Nov. 19, 1996 as he protests the bulldozing of his land near the Jewish settlement of Efrat in the West Bank. Jacqueline Arzt | AP. Learning from the past. Since 1948, Israel has annexed, occupied, taken, destroyed, built, and renamed everything from individual homes and property to public spaces, to historic monuments. And it has no intention, or reason, to stop. Palestine has been annexed, occupied, stolen, and Palestinians have […]
Each year, Canadians come together in celebration to mark their nation’s holiday – Canada Day. Falling this year on Wednesday, the country’s 153rd birthday will be uniquely quiet, as it makes moves to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic. Canada Day is a federal national holiday that falls on 1 July every year, marking the day of the formation of the country by the formal union of three separate British colonies under the British empire in 1867. The unification of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into a single nation marks a significant historical step towards independence for the former colony and […]
FOX News cable television set a new record this past quarter. The Tucker Carlson Show set the record for the largest cable news show audience during a single quarter in cable news history. He did this by calling for equal justice under the law and for free speech. These are two issues the Democrats cannot claim and Republicans appear oblivious to. Mike Cernovich tweeted last night the Tucker Carlson had the greatest quarter in cable news history this past quarter. Fox News Q2 2020 Ratings: Tucker Carlson Averaged 4.33 Million Viewers at 8 p.m., the Largest Audience in Cable News History […]
Silence Is Not An Option”: Black Women Make History By Keisha N. Blain, ROAR Magazine. June 30, 2020 Silence Is Not An Option”: Black Women Make History2020-06-302020-06-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/occupy-city-hall-from-the-new-york-times-e1593529656409.jpg200px200px Above photo: Occupy CIty Hall by Amr Alfiky, New York Times. Dr. Keisha N. Blain speaks to ROAR about the vital role of Black women leaders in the success of Black political movements in modern US history. On May 25, 2020, the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd triggered a landslide of popular unrest and mass protests against racialized police violence and structural racism in the United States and across the world. For many, the uprising […]
Miriam Amancay Colque, spokeswoman for the Bartolina Sisa Resistance movement, discussed the role of women and indigenous people in fighting the ongoing coup government as well as further updates on the crisis in Bolivia. Sputnik: How are grassroots movements like the Bartolina Sisa Resistance responding to the Campaign for Seven? Which actions will they take and how do they plan to confront the coup Bolivian government in this crisis? Miriam Amancay Colque: We are having a very positive response. The rights of those seeking asylum and refuge should be respected as these are enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of […]
Thirty-five years ago, the first B-1B Lancer long-range, multi-mission, supersonic conventional bomber was delivered to the U.S. Air Force. On June 29th, 1985, at 1:55 PM, a B-1B nicknamed Star of Abilene was the first example of the bomber to land at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas as part of a delivery ceremony in front of an air show crowd of 45,000. Initial operational capability was reached on 1 October 1986 and the B-1B was placed on nuclear alert status. Originally designed for nuclear capabilities, the B-1 switched to an exclusively conventional combat role in the mid-1990s. In 1999, during Operation […]
By Christian K. Anderson, The Conversation When I toured the South Carolina Governor’s Mansion in 2019, I noticed the multi-volume papers of John C. Calhoun on display. It struck me as remarkable that Calhoun’s ideas would be featured so prominently given his vigorous defense of slavery and his role in laying the groundwork for the Civil War. But the reality is Calhoun’s legacy until now has been quite prominent in American society—and not just in the South. His statue stands between the two chambers of the House and Senate in the South Carolina Statehouse. However, a separate statue in Charleston has […]
Earlier this week idiot criminal vandals announced their intent to tear down a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, DC, on Thursday at 7 p.m. The statue was paid for and erected by freed slaves to honor the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.Frederick Douglas spoke at its dedication. The Black Lives Matter criminal group then announced a delay to their planned destruction until Friday evening. This afternoon Black Lives Matter protest mob arrived back at the statue showing Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves. TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: Police Source: Woman Who Framed Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens Guilty […]
The ‘New’ American Mercenary: A Pocket History By Danny Sjursen, AntiWar.com. June 26, 2020 The ‘New’ American Mercenary: A Pocket History2020-06-262020-06-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/tcipic-e1593184838472.jpg200px200px Above photo: Private mercenaries. From Nation of Change. Though the bizarre story has been subsumed by other events, last month’s aborted invasion of Venezuela should’ve hardly shocked anyone. The United States has long used mercenaries to do its bidding. They have provided Washington distance and deniability for unsavory operations. During the Cold War, the U.S. hoped this would limit domestic and international protest. Policymakers also discerned mercenary alternatives to bloody, expensive quagmires like the Vietnam or Iraq Wars. Traditionally, most of these […]
George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to accept the integration of black players into the league, is to have his name removed from Washington Redskins “Ring of Fame” and website, the team has announced. Marshall, who died more than fifty years ago, was a noted segregationist didn’t agree to the addition of black players on the Redskins roster until he was “forced to do so” in 1962. That move came an entire decade after the rest of the teams in the NFL had moved with the times – a fact which, given the current climate in US professional sports, has […]
New Haven, Connecticut has removed a statue of Christopher Columbus from a city park, retitled a school previously named after the Italian explorer, and erased Columbus Day from the calendar, to appease the ‘migrant community.’ The bronze statue dedicated to the famous explorer was dismantled on Wednesday, a week after the city’s Parks Department voted to do so. It had stood in Wooster Square Park since 1955, when it replaced the original monument dedicated in 1892. Dozens of people had gathered in the park since early morning, including both the protesters demanding the statue’s removal and local residents determined to stop […]
Despite slipping off the news radar in recent weeks, the coronavirus has forced Saudi Arabian authorities to “cancel the annual Hajj pilgrimage for the first time in history.” That’s one story making headlines. It’s also untrue. The Hajj pilgrimage draws more than 2.5 million Muslims to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina every year, and is a journey every able-bodied Muslim is asked to make at least once in their lifetime. Those who do can take the honorific title ‘Hajji,’ after fulfilling one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith. However, the New York Times reported on Tuesday that, […]
They won’t stop til they crush the system. In August 2017 far left protesters demanded the New York Museum of Natural History remove their famous Teddy Roosevelt statue. The protesters carried signs that read “Black Lives Matter” and “Abolish white supremacy.” The scene outside of @AMNH today as #DecolonizeThisPlace‘s anti-#ColumbusDay tour covered the Teddy Roosevelt statue. (pic: @hoods4justice) pic.twitter.com/USiNOV0wie — Ash J (@AshAgony) October 11, 2016 TRENDING: BREAKING: Ten People Shot in Minneapolis, Reports of ‘100 People Fighting With Various Weapons’ On Sunday The New York Times announced liberal leaders agreed to take down the iconic Roosevelt statue outside the Museum of Natural History. […]
In the wake of protests against deeply entrenched racism, statues of slave traders and Confederate leaders are being torn town and toppled both in the U.S. and abroad. The dismantling of Confederate statues in this particular moment are not spontaneous acts of destruction; they follow decades of debate and peaceful protest about the significance and messaging around the public display of symbols of the Confederacy. Some, however, worry that the removal of public monuments will equate to the erasure of our collective history. None of this is anything new. As University of Iowa historian Sarah Bond has written, the practice goes […]
The US, as well as many major cities around the globe, are witnessing an ongoing wave of anti-racism and anti-police-brutality protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd and many other African-Americans at the hands of white police officers. Many Confederate statues and monuments have been removed, either officially or by demonstrators. Ben Crump, attorney for George Floyd’s family, said on Saturday during a Fox News interview that he is worried about rushing to remove Confederate monuments, calling on Americans to be patient and take a “broad view” of the main issue. “I think we have to figure out how to […]
US conservatives have blasted former National Security Advisor Susan Rice for saying Trump’s allies must end up in the “trash heap of history.” Her tirade ignited a fresh online war of words between the right and the left. Rice, a former US envoy to the UN and the White House national security advisor during Barack Obama’s presidency, went on a fiery tirade against current American leader Donald Trump on MSNBC. She slammed the Trump administration as “racist to its core.” The ex-diplomat also expressed hope that the Democratic Party contender in the 2020 presidential race, former Vice President Joe Biden, will […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107967/05/1079670514_0:71:2789:1639_1200x675_80_0_0_089a71956b21786fe5e2472877b2faf6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006201079670503-no-to-re-writing-history-uk-foreign-office-comments-on-vladimir-putins-ww2-article/ Vladimir Putin’s article, which is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, was published on the Kremlin’s website this week. It has also appeared in a US magazine as part of the effort to steer American foreign policy toward a more realist worldview, according to the publishers. Britain’s foreign ministry appeared to agree with several points Russian President Vladimir Putin made in his new article on the legacy of World War II. A spokesperson for the Foreign Office said in a statement that “our shared history should not […]
Rice, who was a national security adviser during the administration of US President Barack Obama, sounded adamant despite that her son, John David Rice Cameron, voiced his support for incumbent President Donald Trump, even hosting a “Make Stanford Great Again” party on his university campus. Former Obama-era National Security Adviser Susan Rice said on Friday that Donald Trump’s supporters in the Senate should be consigned to the “trash heap of history”, noting that the upcoming 2020 presidential election is about “getting Joe Biden in the White House”, a man she believes is capable of “healing and unifying the nation.” Rice is […]
Earlier today Susan Rice said Trump supporters belong in the “trash heap of history.” This is what they think of you. Susan Rice says Trump’s supporters belong in “the trash heap of history”pic.twitter.com/v3d2uC2oCI — Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) June 19, 2020 This happens to be the same belief Trotsky had on his political opponents!— Russian Bolshevik Leon Trotsky referring to the Mensheviks: “Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!” TRENDING: Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy: White People Should Shine Shoes of Black People to Express Shame for Racism Susan Rice quotes Lenin https://t.co/QKQ1AdTIwA — Daniel Greenfield #NeverKneel […]
In November 2018 a faulty electricity pylon triggered a wildfire in the tinder-dry bush of northern California which raged out of control for 17 days, killing 85 people. So who was to blame and how is Pacific Gas & Electric still soldiering on after years of bungling and lawsuits? The CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Bill Johnson, appeared in a courtroom in Butte County, northern California, on Tuesday, 16 June, and apologised for his company’s role in the events of 8 November 2018. Around 6.15am that morning a faulty power line near one of PG&E’s hydro-electric dams started […]
Infiltrating Antifa: The Feds And Their Long History Of Subversion By T.J. Coles, Counterpunch. June 15, 2020 Infiltrating Antifa: The Feds And Their Long History Of Subversion2020-06-152020-06-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/nazi-pigs-ahead.-photograph-by-nathaniel-st.-clair-e1592227387969.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Nazi Pigs ahead. Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair. On May 31, President Trump (or his people) tweeted: “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.” Attorney General, William Barr, said: “The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly.” Trump and Barr were referring to the Antifascist collective that has supported the ongoing, international Black Lives Matter […]
Amid demonstrations in the UK in solidarity with anti-police brutality and anti-racism protests sweeping America after the death of black man George Floyd in police custody, the statue of Winston Churchill and the Cenotaph in Parliament Square were boxed up to protect them from being vandalised further. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to resist any attempt to remove the statue of Winston Churchill from Parliament Square after it was vandalised during ongoing protests. Writing in The Daily Telegraph in response to the row over the removal of public monuments, triggered by the anti-racism demonstrations that have spilled over from […]
As often happens with mass movements, the international campaign for racial equality has taken on an overly simplistic tone. It can be summarised as follows: we’ve learned enough from history, let’s disavow it now. From the United States to Australia, protesters have been toppling or defacing historical monuments they deem problematic. What started as a campaign against systemic racism has turned into a flashmob of sorts, with activists compiling hit lists of statues that “celebrate slavery and racism.” Among the targets are Confederate monuments in the US, statues of King Leopold II in Belgium, Winston Churchill in the UK, and James […]
United Skates, a 2019 documentary film highlighting the history of black roller skating rinks, opens with a shot that is all-too-prescient for this summer of Black Lives Matter demonstrations: police sirens. As black families, many of them with children, wait to enter a roller skating rink, they are monitored by officers. Even at a recreational space long associated with nostalgia and good clean fun, the cops keep a close eye. But then the doors to the rink open, and the audience is treated to a weekend night at the roller rink. Two men in matching neon camouflage pants skate in unison, […]
The saying “Better late than never, I guess” has never felt so apt. After 18 years and 25 seasons, The Bachelor has finally announced the first black lead for its flagship series, Matt James. It’s a positive, if long overdue sign that the franchise is beginning to take its race problem seriously. But as longtime fans of the franchise well know, it’ll take more than one black lead to make amends for this franchise’s past failures on race. That The Bachelor is only now announcing its first Black lead, amid widespread Black Lives Matter protests in response to the murder of […]
Some of the arguments generated by the decision of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council to remove their Robert Baden-Powell statue highlight the hypocrisy and latent racism which pollutes much of England. I watched a middle-aged woman on Good Morning Britain proclaim that the statue should stay in place despite Baden-Powell’s well documented support for Hitler, fascism and virulent homophobia because her children ‘often climb onto the statue’ and ‘he did some good’ in his life. I despair at the attitudes of those like her who say they are sticking up for ‘British values’ and ‘British history’ by defending a Hitler loving […]
On Wednesday afternoon, amid a global pandemic that’s killed more than 400,000 people, a civil rights movement for black lives hitting all 50 states (and beyond), and a billionaire author’s childhood-shattering campaign of hate, the rapper Ice Cube apparently decided it was the perfect time to unleash a torrent of tinfoil-hat conspiracies—including several anti-Semitic memes suggesting that Jews are fomenting the oppression of black people. Yes, in between sharing memes positing Marvin the Martian as some sort of harbinger of anti-black racism (an odd claim, given Warner Bros.’ racist TV mascot), and alleging that Europeans destroyed the noses of sphinxes in […]