The decision returns the property, which had been held in trust by the federal government as reservation land, to the tribe and disestablishes the reservation, placing projects on the land in limbo. Construction of 42 affordable housing units for tribal members on the land in Mashpee has yet to be finished. The construction of a $1.5 billion casino and resort on the land in Taunton has […]
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The first two Ilyushin Il-76 military transport planes carrying medical supplies and experts to help Italy battle the devastating Covid-19 outbreak have landed at the Italian air force base Praktik de Mare. The planes brought Russian military medics and specialists in infectious diseases, as well as equipment necessary for diagnostics and disinfection of the deadly coronavirus. The experts will immediately begin their work once the Italian […]
Russia is creating the first ever topographic three dimensional map of the Moon to help decide where cosmonauts will land in future journeys to Earth’s natural satellite. The director of the Russian Space Research Institute Anatoly Petrukovich announced the plan on Sunday, saying the map will be created using stereo imaging and it will have a resolution of two to three meters. “After the work of […]
Tunisia closed its land crossings with Algeria at midnight in its effort to counter the coronavirus pandemic. An Algerian diplomatic source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Tunisia’s decision to close its border is a sovereign decision, however, out of the deep fraternal relations, the government informed Algerian authorities of the measure on Monday. The source added that the governments agree that the decision serves the interests of […]
Over 3500 Landless Women To Occupy Brasilia At 1st National MST Women’s Meeting By Staff, Brasil de Fato March 9, 2020 Over 3500 Landless Women To Occupy Brasilia At 1st National MST Women’s Meeting2020-03-092020-03-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/3-9-brazil.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Juliana Adriano / MST With the motto, “Women in the Struggle: Sowing Resistance”, around 3500 women will occupy Brasilia, between the 5th and 9th of March, during the 1st National Landless Women’s Meeting. […]
A prestigious school in Brazil got dragged into a scandal after one of its students ran an election campaign styled after Adolf Hitler, recruiting a dozen supporters eager to have him as their ‘Furher.’ A photo of the candidate greeting his backers with a Nazi salute in a school classroom, with them responding likewise, was apparently made public by the teen himself. He thought it was […]
Senior White House officials were yesterday quoted by Israel’s Channel 13 as saying the US will back Israeli annexation of swathes of West Bank territory within months, if the Palestinians do not resume negotiations, reported the Times of Israel. According to Channel 13, “the sources said they intend to go ahead with the implementation of the peace plan unveiled earlier this year by US President Donald […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied said that “the Tunisian Jews are citizens who have equal rights and duties with the rest of the Tunisians. There is no room to talk about a Jewish community, but citizenship is the basis.” According to the Tunisian presidency page, Saied confirmed that many Tunisian Jews fought against colonialism and contributed to building the country after independence. Some of them assumed essential […]
5 Mar, 2020 19:36 Two rockets have reportedly landed in the Green Zone in Baghdad, setting off sirens at the US embassy. Witnesses report seeing smoke and hearing explosions. One of the rockets reportedly fell near the Turkish embassy. The attack comes less than a week after two unguided ‘Katyusha’ rockets landed inside the Green Zone on Monday, an incident which resulted in no casualties. The […]
Hundreds of people led by Indigenous land defenders and a coalition of environmental groups worked to shut down a large mining industry convention in downtown Toronto on Sunday, blockading the entrances to the building where the meeting was taking place as they protested against “the extractive industry’s violence, ongoing colonization, and complete disregard for the future of life on this planet.” Sunday’s action—aimed at the Prospectors […]
After his train wreck 60 Minutes appearance when he couldn’t answer basic questions from Anderson Cooper about paying for some of his proposals, Sen. Bernie Sanders returned the next night while appearing on CNN and released a fact sheet claiming he can pay for all his new spending proposals. But, alas, conventional economic and budget analysis reveal that this claim is not remotely credible. First, it […]
Athens has tightened sea and land borders with Turkey after developments overnight in the Syrian region of Idlib, Reuters reported on Friday, citing government sources. A senior Turkish official said his country would no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe, as Ankara responded on Friday to the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in a reported airstrike by Syrian government forces in Idlib. The Greek sources […]
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has condemned the intrusion of its territory near the village of Tayasir, in the occupied West Bank, by thousands of Israeli settlers who stormed it without permission and gathered on land belonging to the Catholic church. Crowds of Israeli settlers arrived aboard dozens of buses and cars last week, overrunning church land without permission, Independent Catholic News reported. A few days […]
Israel is building yet another bypass road for use by Jewish settlers only and, yet again, it is stealing Palestinian land to do so. The land in question is in Huwwara, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The 7-kilometre road will start from the village of Zaatara and pass through land owned by Palestinians in Huwwara, Beita and Odala. Until now, the […]
Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett has announced that the Israeli government will never give up one inch of land to Arabs, Al Watan Voice reported on Friday. “In order to achieve this goal, we must continue the settlement enterprise,” Al Watan Voice reported Bennet informing Israel Hayom. He added: Settlement is one of the poles of Zionism so we must expand and continue going ahead with it. […]
The Israeli housing ministry filed a request on 9 February for the construction of 9,000 houses in occupied East Jerusalem, on land marked as Palestinian in US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”, watchdog Peace Now reported. If approved, the homes will be built on land between the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Kafr ‘Aqab, Qalandiya and Al-Ram in East Jerusalem, and on the site of the […]
Syria’s Aleppo International Airport has resumed civilian flights for the first time in almost nine years, with the first inbound flight from the capital, Damascus, landing today. Earlier in the day, Syrian Tourist Minister Bishr Al-Yazigi and Transport Minister Ali Hammoud officially re-opened the airport to the public. The second largest terminal in Syria was opened after recent military victories by the Syrian army with the […]
The amount of supply chain disruptions that are coming out of the woodwork is nothing short of astonishing. This could shock the hell out of the global economy, forcing a trade recession that would lead to a readjustment of stock prices. At this moment, central bankers are terrified, because monetary policy is virtually ineffective during a virus outbreak. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) warned Tuesday that their UK factory […]
The Indigenous Wet’suwet’en land defenders protecting their territory in northern British Columbia from the construction of the TC Energy Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline are experiencing many of the situations, risks and dynamics that environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) around the world encounter. Challenging extractivism — EHRDs are commonly at risk for opposing destructive extractive projects such as mining, hydroelectric dams, logging and agribusiness. The Wet’suwet’en oppose a […]
Protests across Canada continued Wednesday in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en First Nation hereditary chiefs and land defenders fighting against a fracked gas pipeline that would cut through their unceded territory in northern British Columbia. For more than a year, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) raids on camps established by Indigenous people to protest construction of TC Energy’s Coastal GasLink pipeline have garnered global headlines and inspired solidarity actions around the world. Such demonstrations […]
Israeli occupation authorities banned Palestinian farmers from working their own land last month, on the basis that the area “had been declared an antiquities site during the British Mandate period”. According to the report by Haaretz, the Palestinian landowners in question – residents of Al-Mughayyir village in the occupied West Bank – have been farming the area since the 1950s. Brothers Nader and Rasem Abu Aleiyeh […]