Inmate Sues Prison Over Lack Of COVID19 Precautions By Nick Muscavage, Central New Jersey. October 27, 2020 Inmate Sues Prison Over Lack Of COVID19 Precautions2020-10-272020-10-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/inmate.png200px200px Above photo: Nick Muscavage. Union, NJ – An inmate at the state’s only prison for women has filed a lawsuit alleging the state Department of Corrections is failing to take proper precautions against the COVID-19 pandemic. Jennie Cullum filed the lawsuit in […]
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A truck sits in still water after Hurricane Laura swept through Cameron Parish, La. The hurricane inflicted at least $8 billion in damage to southwest Louisiana when it hit in late August. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption toggle caption Ryan Kellman/NPR A truck sits in still water after Hurricane Laura swept through Cameron Parish, La. The hurricane inflicted at least $8 billion in damage to southwest Louisiana […]
Despite the Israel Defence Forces introducing a number of measures aimed at keeping the disease in check, the virus contines to spread across the military’s facilities. As of Wednesday, over 1,300 soldiers had tested positive for the virus. Some 9,881 others are in quarantine. Israel’s coronavirus czar, Ronny Gamzo, who was appointed to tackle the raging pandemic, said on Tuesday that the lockdown imposed on the […]
Conservatives have been up in arms over Twitter’s failure to remove a journalist’s call for teen shooter Kyle Rittenhouse to be murdered in prison, while at the same time wiping out tweets in his support. Journalist Dustin Nichols tweeted Saturday that Rittenhouse, who was charged with murder after shooting three people last month in Kenosha, should be stabbed to death in prison. The post elicited an […]
The former aide said she resigned because she was not happy with how the administration has been handling the pandemic, claiming that Trump is only focused on his re-election efforts. Ex-top coronavirus task force adviser of Vice President Mike Pence, Olivia Troye, has claimed that the US president was thankful for the coronavirus pandemic because he now doesn’t have to shake hands with “disgusting” people. “Maybe this […]
The University of Rhode Island is taking down murals that were painted at its student Memorial Union more than 60 years ago because they show too many white people and lack “sensitivity to today’s complex and painful problems.” “These murals were a snapshot in time, but the images no longer represent who we are today and where we are going in the future,” university vice president […]
Democrats have labored to make the case that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy knowingly acted as a henchman for President Donald Trump’s designs on the U.S. Postal Service. But during a high-profile congressional hearing on Monday, they might have made a different point more successfully: that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. When he took over the Postal Service’s top job in June, DeJoy, a former logistics […]
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s continued push to delegitimize mail-in voting, brushing off CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s insistence that there’s no evidence of “widespread voter fraud” by retorting that “there’s no evidence that there’s not, either.” In a wild and combative State of the Union interview that spanned nearly 30 minutes, Tapper repeatedly pressed the top aide on […]
LONDON (Sputnik) – UK scientists have warned that the second wave of coronavirus could be more than twice the size of the first if no effective testing and contact tracing system is in place before schools reopen in September. “To prevent a second COVID-19 wave, relaxation of physical distancing, including reopening of schools, in the UK must be accompanied by large-scale, population-wide testing of symptomatic individuals […]
House Representative Liz Cheney is the third highest Republican in the US House of Representatives. She is House GOP Conference Chair and she is being asked to step down from her position by top Republicans. Most conservatives were shocked when the House GOP elected Liz Cheney to one of the top three positions in the House. VP Cheney was ridiculed, slandered and abused by the MSM […]
The Bold Type star Aisha Dee has called on both the series and its home network, Freeform, to do better when it comes to diversity behind the camera—and expressed disappointment with one of this season’s most controversial storylines. Dee voiced her concerns in a lengthy post on Instagram, which she began by noting the positive effect the series had on her life and career. With this […]
Thursday marks the 75th commemoration of the Trinity Test, the first detonation of a nuclear bomb, in the New Mexico desert. However, the bomb’s dirty explosion has caused untold suffering downwind of the blast – suffering never acknowledged or compensated for by the US government, an expert told Sputnik. In the Jornada del Muerto region of New Mexico on July 16, 1945, the world entered the […]
Texas Teachers Union May Strike Over Lack Of COVID-19 Precautions July 13, 2020 Texas Teachers Union May Strike Over Lack Of COVID-19 Precautions2020-07-132020-07-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/texas-teacher-union-strike-from-ra-news-e1594662468497.png200px200px Above photo: Texas Teacher’s Union Strike, from RA News. The president of the Texas branch of the American Federation of Teachers says that going on strike is an option if teachers are forced back into the classroom this fall without proper precautions for […]
In January, Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group, urging the court to revoke the company’s export license and restrict it from selling technology allegedly used to violate human rights across the globe. The Tel Aviv District Court has rejected a petition filed by Amnesty International to suspend Israeli spyware firm NSO Group’s export license over allegations that the company’s technology is used […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107974/37/1079743766_0:0:3094:1741_1200x675_80_0_0_687c8bc7289b666d79006cfb91cba03f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006291079743655-us-intel-admits-that-reports-about-alleged-russian-bounty-intelligence-lack-credibility-trump-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump says he has been told by the US intelligence that they did not find the recent reports about alleged Russian bounty intelligence credible. On Friday, The New York Times published an article where it cited unnamed government sources as saying that Trump had been presented with an intelligence report that claimed that […]
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the whole world is coming to realize that Iran has been “lying” about its nuclear activities, and called for “paralyzing sanctions” to be imposed on the Islamic Republic over its alleged breach of the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran has “become the most dangerous country in the Middle East,” Lieut. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, Israel Defence Forces’ Chief of General […]
Already tense relations between the two countries have been further strained by border tensions and Ankara’s oil and gas exploration plans in the Mediterranean Sea. Earlier this month, Greece’s defence minister warned that Athens would be prepared to defend itself against an “aggressive” Turkey by any means necessary. Turkey remains ready for new talks with its Greek counterparts on the normalization of relations in the Mediterranean, […]
Travelers make their way through ticketing and TSA inspection at the Pittsburgh International Airport on May 7. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Travelers make their way through ticketing and TSA inspection at the Pittsburgh International Airport on May 7. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images The Transportation Security Administration withheld N-95 masks from staff and exhibited “gross mismanagement” in its response to the Coronavirus […]
Racism, Lack Of Jobs As Workers Face Social Pandemic By G. Dunkel, Workers World. June 17, 2020 Racism, Lack Of Jobs As Workers Face Social Pandemic2020-06-172020-06-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/black-unemployment-from-workers-world-e1592410910565.jpg200px200px Above: photo Black Unemployment from Workers World. On June 5, President Donald Trump was over the moon with joy. The numbers were “stupendous,” “AMAZING” and “INCREDIBLE.” The Dow Jones stock index was up by 829 points, or 3.2 percent, so speculators who […]
Coronavirus: Sweden’s Tegnell admits too many died BBC News Sweden’s controversial decision not to impose a strict lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to too many deaths, the man behind the policy, Anders Tegnell, has acknowledged. Sweden has seen a far higher mortality rate than its nearest neighbours and its nationals are being barred from crossing their borders. Dr Tegnell told Swedish radio more […]
World 21:18 GMT 12.05.2020Get short URL Academics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a hawkish Washington, DC, think tank with heavy influence over US foreign policy, have criticized the paucity of the Pentagon’s Arctic policy, where it ostensibly aims to challenge growing Russian and Chinese presence as global warming opens the region’s icy sea lanes. With Arctic sea routes expected to become ice-free […]
Senator Rand Paul told Anthony Fauci during a senate hearing on Tuesday that scientists should “have a little bit of humility” because they do not understand what is best for the economy. In response, Fauci claimed that he “doesn’t give advice about anything other than public health.” Sen. Paul critized Fauci during Tuesday’s Senate coronavirus response oversight hearing. “I think we ought to have a little […]