An aircraft carrying Vice President Mike Pence, known as Air Force Two, was forced to turn back and land after it reportedly collided with a bird over New Hampshire shortly after take-off. The plane struck a bird soon after taking off from New Hampshire’s Manchester Airport on Tuesday following a […]
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The Indian government said last year that it would turn the state-backed telecom giant BSNL into a profit-making entity by selling off its properties, which are valued at approximately $67 billion. Senior officials from the telecom department say that revenue rules are being flouted in the process, causing a loss […]
Toronto: Rally For Six Nations Members Arrested In Land Dispute By Muriel Draaisma, CBC.ca. September 14, 2020 Toronto: Rally For Six Nations Members Arrested In Land Dispute2020-09-142020-09-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/landback.png200px200px Above photo: Demonstrators gathered outside of the office of the Ontario ministry of Indigenous affairs near Bloor Street East and Church Street. Nicolas Haddad/CBC. Parcel […]
Black Families Purchased Land To Build Their Own City By Because of Them We Can. August 29, 2020 Black Families Purchased Land To Build Their Own City2020-08-292020-08-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/freedom-e1598730350364.jpg200px200px Cooperative economics at work! In Toomsboro, Georgia, a group of 19 Black families banded together to create what has the potential to be the next […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107855/83/1078558374_0:0:3077:1731_1200x675_80_0_0_8746bb01adfb5766bbbdd850b392588e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008271080297198-three-katyusha-rockets-land-inside-baghdads-green-zone-no-casualties-reported/ Three Katyusha rockets have landed inside Baghdad’s Green Zone on Friday local time, according to the Iraqi Prime Minister’s press office. No casualties have been reported. The rockets were launched from the Al-Baiji area, a neighborhood in Baghdad west of the Green Zone. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1a/1080285175_0:0:2560:1440_1200x675_80_0_0_90bda70800bc6bacc882f80e96469034.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008261080285140-land-of-heroes-what-to-expect-on-day-3-of-the-republican-national-convention/ A number of military veterans are slated to speak at the event, and it seems that US President Donald Trump himself is also expected to make “some sort of appearance”. The Republican National Convention, which kicked off on Monday, 24 August, […]
Haudenosaunee Land Defenders Call For Peace And Safety By Brent Patterson, PBI Canada. August 23, 2020 Haudenosaunee Land Defenders Call For Peace And Safety2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/1492landbacklane-e1598185292224.png200px200px On August 20, the land defenders at 1492 Land Back Lane tweeted: “We call on our allies to continue to amplify our demand for peace and safety.” […]
President Trump nominated William Perry Pendley in June to lead the Bureau of Land Management, but it has never been clear he had enough support to win confirmation in the Senate. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kirk Siegler/NPR President Trump nominated William Perry Pendley in June to lead the […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a leading non-partisan professional association of physicians across the United States. Today the AAPS filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to compel the release to the public to the public of hydroxychloroquine by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107868/68/1078686873_0:0:1862:1048_1200x675_80_0_0_60f03d192b6b22d00c7091db6bde5ee1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008031080048047-two-rockets-land-near-iraqs-taji-military-base-hosting-us-troops/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Two rockets fell in the vicinity of Iraq’s Taji military base, which is located north of the Baghdad capital and hosts US-led coalition troops, but did not explode, Al Sumaria broadcaster reported on Monday. “The security forces found two rockets […]
COLOGNE, Germany – The Hungarian army has taken delivery of four used Leopard-2 tanks to begin training on the weapons as manufacturer Kraus-Maffei Wegmann works on the country’s order of 44 new tanks. The Hungarian government ordered the equipment in late 2018 as part of an effort to replace its […]
On Contact: Paying The Land July 26, 2020 On Contact: Paying The Land2020-07-262020-07-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/5f1d3f0c2030271b392f1fde-e1595781451310.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to comics journalist Joe Sacco about his new book, ‘Paying the Land’. In the book Sacco travels to the frozen Canadian Northwest Territories to reveal the Dene people in conflict […]
A new poll by the Cato Institute shows 62 percent of Americans feel they must censor themselves from openly expressing their political views, in some cases out of fear of losing their jobs or missing career opportunities. The fear is especially common among conservative respondents, 77 percent of whom agreed […]
Oklahoma Is – Always Has Been – Native Land By Dwanna L. McKay, The Conversation. July 22, 2020 Oklahoma Is – Always Has Been – Native Land2020-07-222020-07-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/native-tribes-gather-in-oklahoma-in-1880-from-the-national-archives-e1595432450712.jpg200px200px Above photo: Delegates from 34 Native tribes at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, now called Oklahoma, 1880. National Archives. Some Oklahomans are expressing trepidation about the Supreme […]
Land Loss Has Plagued Black America Since Emancipation By Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone, The Conversation. July 20, 2020 Land Loss Has Plagued Black America Since Emancipation2020-07-202020-07-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/former-slaves-harvesting-for-their-own-profit-getty-e1595259351932.jpg200px200px Above: A group of escaped slaves that gathered on the former plantation of Confederate General Thomas Drayton. After Federal troops occupied the plantation these former […]
Next, our film’s American cinema release was cancelled and a US TV network pulled the plug on screening it. This was after Trump International had issued a legal threat to anyone who showed the film or repeated Molly’s allegation about her water supply. The threats were enough to undermine our film’s […]
Report Warns Of Unprecedented Wave Of Land Privatization By Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute. July 15, 2020 Report Warns Of Unprecedented Wave Of Land Privatization2020-07-152020-07-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/lans-privatization-report-from-the-oakland-institute-e1594830202326.jpg200px200px Above photo: Cover of Driving Dispossession, land privatization report from the Oakland Institute. Amidst a worsening climate crisis, the Oakland Institute’s new report, Driving Dispossession: The Global Push […]
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that about half of the land in Oklahoma is within an Indian reservation as stated in treaties. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that about half of the land in Oklahoma is […]
CAIRO (Sputnik) – The Saudi-led coalition has carried out over 60 intensive airstrikes on the positions of the Shia rebel Houthi movement in four western Yemeni provinces over the past 24 hours, the Houthi-controlled Al Masirah broadcaster reported. The coalition’s air force hit the province of Marib with 52 airstrikes, […]
Chicago Protest: No To The Continuation Of The Theft Of Palestinian Land By the US Palestinian Community Network. July 6, 2020 Chicago Protest: No To The Continuation Of The Theft Of Palestinian Land2020-07-062020-07-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/palestinian-rights-protest-chicao-july-2020-e1594068424627.jpg200px200px Above photo: Palestinian rights protest, Chicago, IL, July 2020. From the US Palestinian Community Network. Over 300 cars and […]
Watch a special episode of the documentary series ‘Dagestan: Land of Warriors’, which serves as a tribute to the life of Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, the father and coach of UFC champion Khabib and Russia’s leading MMA trainer. Footage used in this film was shot in October 2019 for the fifth installment […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s most prominent Animal Cruelty prevention law was enacted in 1960 and has since been strengthened. But from killing elephant by feeding them with explosive-laced fruit to various incidents of stray dog torture, the plight of animals remains largely neglected. In a barbaric incident of human brutality […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Three opposition parliamentarians in Nepal had earlier put forth a motion in the House of Representatives asking to restore territory encroached upon by China through dialogue. There were also media reports quoting a “Nepali government department doc” that China had occupied 36 hectares in 4 of the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107971/59/1079715976_0:274:1600:1174_1200x675_80_0_0_a8a34a599595a9d6cf37206d7fe73f87.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202006251079715433-nepal-opposition-mps-move-resolution-in-parliament-to-reclaim-land-allegedly-encroached-on-by-china/ New Delhi (Sputnik): China has allegedly encroached on 36 hectares of land in four northern districts of Nepal by diverting the flow of rivers that act as a natural boundary. The Survey Division of Nepal’s Agriculture Department reported the encroachment back in November […]