The United States will host the Ninth Summit of the Americas June 6-10 in Los Angeles, California with the theme of “Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Future” for the Western hemisphere. This Summit comes at a time of growing disenchantment in Latin America and the Caribbean with an inter-American system rigged to advance US corporate interests, attack left and left leaning governments, and once again plunge the region into US-NATO cold war politics. The Biden administration’s approach to the June Summit, by failing to recognize the firm regional commitments to sovereign equality, integration, and engagement with a multipolar world, has turned […]
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Above photo: From left to right, President Ortega, President Maduro and President Arce of Nicaragua, Venezuela and Bolivia (respectively). The grandly named Summit of the Americas is due to be held in Los Angeles next month, if the Biden administration can decide who to invite and what to talk about if they turn up. As things stand, Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, Honduras and most of the Caribbean states have said they will not attend if Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are not included. Although Biden no longer calls them the ‘troika of tyranny’ like Trump did, the governments of these three countries are […]
Above Photo: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in Moscow with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022 In this episode of the Multipolarista podcast, Benjamin Norton is joined by Pakistani scholar Junaid S. Ahmad to discuss how Pakistan’s elected Prime Minister Imran Khan was overthrown in a US-backed coup aimed at reversing his independent foreign policy – like his close alliance with China, improved relations with Russia and Iran, and staunch support for Palestine. You can download the audio at Substack. PART 1 OF 2. You can watch or listen to part 2 here. Source link
Above Photo: The Google logo seen on a cellphone with a background saying ‘censored’. (Guillaume Payen / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Preventing Populations From Asking Who Benefits From A Protracted Proxy War, And Who Pays The Price, Is Paramount. A Closed Propaganda System Achieves That. If one wishes to be exposed to news, information or perspective that contravenes the prevailing US/NATO view on the war in Ukraine, a rigorous search is required. And there is no guarantee that search will succeed. That is because the state/corporate censorship regime that has been imposed in the West with regard to this war is […]
Gwich’in Steering Committee Responds To AIG’s New Policy On Arctic Drilling March 4, 2022 Gwich’in Steering Committee Responds To AIG’s New Policy On Arctic Drilling2022-03-042022-03-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220304.png200px200px Protecting The Arctic. Today American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) announced new company-wide policy, which rules out providing insurance and investment to “any new Arctic energy exploration,” among other climate commitments. With this announcement, AIG is the first American company among a growing list of international insurance companies to publicly issue a policy ruling out new energy exploration projects in the Arctic. This announcement demonstrates continuing momentum towards the recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ rights by the global insurance industry. AIG […]
Ukraine Exposes White Supremacist Foreign Policy By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. March 3, 2022 Ukraine Exposes White Supremacist Foreign Policy2022-03-032022-03-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220303-6.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Carlos Latuff. White supremacy is at the heart of US war propaganda. The exhortation to “stand with Ukraine” is no exception to this rule. By now everyone knows that Ukraine’s flag is blue and yellow. It is impossible to miss as the Empire State Building in New York, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris have all been bathed in those colors. Nearly every city and town across the United States has followed suit and politicians ranging from local legislators […]
A government truly committed to a “feminist foreign policy” would support Haitians striking to boost their 70-cents-per-hour wage. But thus far Canadian officials have responded to the workers’ action by paying a celebratory visit to a sweatshop and ignoring protests repressed by Canadian-funded police. At the start of last week thousands of Haitian apparel workers launched a strike for a higher minimum wage. Thousand have taken to the streets in Port-au-Prince calling for a tripling of their 500 gourdes daily salary (CDN $6.20). The largely female workforce stitches shirts and other apparel for brands like Gap, Walmart, Target, JCPenney as well […]
Above Photo: B-29 Superfortress strategic bombers on the Boeing assembly line in Wichita, Kansas, 1944. Photograph Source: United States Army Air Forces. Public Domain. The Threatened Peoples of East Asia and Europe Can Stop the U.S. Drive to Restore its Global Domination. “This is not going to be a war of Ukraine and Russia. This is going to be a European war, a full-fledged war.” So spoke Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky just days after berating the U.S. for beating the drums of war. It is not hard to imagine how Zelensky’s words must have fallen on those European ears that were attentive. His […]
Above Photo: Chairman and CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink (L) leaves a meeting about climate investments with heads of sovereign wealth funds in Paris on July 10, 2019. Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images. We cannot make the most urgent infrastructural investments of our lifetimes with gentle signals to financial markets. The clearest path forward is to embrace the capacity of the state. For many in the climate movement, Donald Trump’s defeat in 2020 was a moment of euphoric optimism. With Joe Biden in charge, we could look forward to a possible return to climate action and diplomacy. No longer […]
Above photo: Yemenis inspect the wreckage of buildings after they were hit by Saudi-UAE-led airstrikes at a neighborhood in Sana’a, Yemen, 18 January 2022. The Saudi-UAE-led coalition’s airstrikes targeted a neighborhood in Sana’a, killing at least 12 Yemenis, injuring 11 others and destroying five buildings. The coalition intensified airstrikes on the Houthis-held provinces of Yemen, including the capital Sana’a, after the Houthis claimed responsibility for drone attacks that targeted the UAE capital Abu Dhabi. EPA-EFE/Yahya Arhab. After Arab Spring protests erupted in the Middle East in 2011, toppling longtime dictators of the Arab World, including Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni […]
Above Photo: The US Justice Department launched the “China Initiative” in 2018 to fight suspected Chinese theft of technical secrets and intellectual property. (South China Morning Post / AP) Terrorizing Families And Ruthlessly Destroying Careers The Justice Department’s China Initiative Was Established By The Trump Administration To Crackdown On Chinese Economic And Scientific Espionage. However, Its Primary Targets Have Been Academics Prosecuted For Failing To Properly Disclose Their Connection To Chinese Universities On Grant Forms And It Has Led To Numerous Miscarriages Of Justice. On the Tuesday before Christmas, Dr. Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology […]
Above Photo: President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Aug. 27, 2021. Evan Vucci / AP. By No Means Has Voting Blue Meant A Change For The Better. In Fact, The Only Real Difference Between Biden And Trump In Terms Of Foreign Policy Is That Instead Of Mean Tweets, More Respectful Language Is Used To Give The New President The Veneer Of Respectability. Despite President Joe Biden having claimed earlier this year that “diplomacy is back” and that he would end the war in Yemen, revive […]
The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it’s not too early to point to areas in the foreign policy realm where we, as progressives, have been disappointed–or even infuriated. There are one or two positive developments, such as the renewal of Obama’s New START Treaty with Russia and Secretary of State Blinken’s initiative for a UN-led peace process in Afghanistan, where the United States is finally turning to peace as a last resort, after 20 years lost in the graveyard of empires. By and large though, Biden’s foreign policy already seems stuck in the militarist quagmire of the […]
The major challenges facing Americans today—pandemic disease, climate change, economic inequality, racial and gender injustice—cannot be solved without international solidarity and human compassion. The prevailing, militaristic conception of “national security” is steeped in racism and perpetuates white supremacy. The Racism-Militarism Paradigm is a way of looking at the world, widely shared among the U.S. policymaking community and much of the public, that arises from a largely unacknowledged doctrine of white supremacy and the necessity of using violence to uphold it. This paradigm establishes a rigid hierarchy, based on race, that values white lives more than any other—at home and abroad. It embraces […]
Ledet Muleta is the host of Prime Media’s “Prime Time.” She spoke with Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace on October 30. The interview is Important in light of the Ethiopian government’s recent declaration of a state of emergency. Ledet Muleta: Hello Prime Media audiences. Welcome to Primelogue. I’m your host Ledet Muleta. Today I’m here with Mr. Ajamu Baraka. I’m really grateful to Mr. Ajamu for joining us today. I’m well aware of his work, but I’d like to ask him to introduce himself to our audiences, especially in Ethiopia. Ajamu Baraka: Well, thank you for inviting me. […]
Above Photo: Juan Guaidó stands with former President Donald Trump at the White House. (Evan Vucci via Creative Commons) As Venezuelans head to the polls this November, it’s clear that the United States’ strategy of supporting the unpopular, far-right leader Juan Guaidó has backfired tremendously. Last year, then Special Representative Elliott Abrams declared that the Trump Administration was “working hard” to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Now Abrams (currently a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations), together with the Biden Administration, is urging the Venezuelan opposition to participate in the upcoming state and local elections this November. Washington’s recent backpedaling, however, does not mean […]
Above Photo: Shutterstock. After half a century studying the issue, here’s lesson number one: Wars are bad and empire is folly. For over 50 years I have been writing about foreign policy — mostly America’s, but those of other nations as well. I think I have a pretty good grasp of places like Turkey, China, India, Russia, and the European Union. I regret that I am less than sure-footed in Africa and Latin America. During this time I have also learned a fair amount about military matters and various weapons systems, because they cost enormous amounts of money that could be […]
President Biden addressed the UN General on September 21 with a warning that the climate crisis is fast approaching a “point of no return,” and a promise that the United States would rally the world to action. “We will lead not just with the example of our power but, God willing, with the power of our example,” he said. But the U.S. is not a leader when it comes to saving our planet. Yahoo News recently published a report titled “Why the U.S. Lags Behind Europe on Climate Goals by 10 or 15 years.” The article was a rare acknowledgment in […]
Socialist Alliance Victory In Venezuela’s National Assembly Is A Failure Of US Regime Change Policy December 9, 2020 Socialist Alliance Victory In Venezuela’s National Assembly Is A Failure Of US Regime Change Policy2020-12-092020-12-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/vzelection-e1607563003507.jpg200px200px Above photo: Members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela raise their hands with a clenched fist in a sign of victory on December 7, 2020 in Caracas, Venezuela. Getty Images / Leonardo Fernandez Viloria. The victory of Maduro’s political alliance in Sunday’s parliamentary election means that despite the Covid pandemic, economic hardships and sanctions by the US, Venezuelans voted for the continuation of the Chavista Revolution. A little […]
Eisenhower’s Ghost Haunts Biden’s Foreign Policy Team By Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. December 3, 2020 Eisenhower’s Ghost Haunts Biden’s Foreign Policy Team2020-12-032020-12-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/biden-scaled-e1606995179433.jpg200px200px Above photo: Tony Binken, second from left, has been Joe Biden’s right-hand man for almost two decades. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters. NOTE: This article questions what will be the foreign policy of the Biden administration. It is pretty clear from Biden’s history, rhetoric and cabinet picks that the foreign policy will be status quo neoliberal imperialism. We will need to be vigilant and prepared to mobilize to counter it. – MF In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s […]
Ten Foreign Policy Fiascos Biden Can Fix On Day One By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. November 21, 2020 Ten Foreign Policy Fiascos Biden Can Fix On Day One2020-11-212020-11-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/saudiarabia-e1605995000182.png200px200px Above photo: Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen Has Failed – Council on Foreign Relations. Donald Trump loves executive orders as a tool of dictatorial power, avoiding the need to work through Congress. But that works both ways, making it relatively easy for President Biden to reverse many of Trump’s most disastrous decisions. Here are ten things Biden can do as soon as he takes office. Each one can […]
How A Key Pentagon Official Turned China Policy Over To Arms Industry And Taiwan Supporters By Gareth Porter, Global Research. October 31, 2020 How A Key Pentagon Official Turned China Policy Over To Arms Industry And Taiwan Supporters2020-10-312020-10-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/randall-schriver-e1604178649566.jpg200px200px Above photo: From The Grayzone. The “Fortress Taiwan” arms deal overseen by ex-Assistant Secretary of Defense Randall Schriver is one of the most provocative U.S. moves against China in years. And a big win for his think tank’s arms industry and Taiwanese patrons. When the United States finalized a set of seven arms sales packages to Taiwan in August, including 66 upgraded F-16 fighter planes […]
How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. October 20, 2020 How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/biden-e1603234793201.png200px200px Toward the end of Joe Biden’s October 15 town hall session, a Trump supporter asked Biden the only foreign policy question of the night. “So peace is breaking out all over the world,” the questioner claimed. “Our troops are coming home. Serbia is talking to Kosovo. And the Arabs and Israelis are talking peace, which I believe is a modern-day miracle, what’s going on. Does President Trump’s foreign policy deserve some credit?” […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/14/1080821409_0:0:3543:1992_1200x675_80_0_0_aac99d4a1c1e9a1f2917e0bed372393a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Evan Craighead . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010201080821439-us-presidential-debate-commission-adopts-mic-muting-policy-ahead-of-october-22-face-off/ To avoid another disorderly match-up between the two US presidential hopefuls, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) will now mute the microphone of one candidate in order to allow the other to speak without interruption, it announced on Monday. The CPD announced Monday that US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would have their microphones turned off during their final debate on Thursday while the other candidate is speaking. Each candidate will be given two uninterrupted minutes at the beginning of each topic to give their answer to […]
The final debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will not include foreign policy as a topic, a decision for which the president’s campaign has slammed the commission, especially after the recent Hunter Biden allegations. “Good morning to everyone except Presidential Debate Commission members who changed focus of final debate away from foreign policy,” the Trump campaign’s senior adviser Jason Miller tweeted on Monday morning. Miller theorized the topics were steered away from foreign policy “so Joe Biden wouldn’t have to answer to being compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, supporting endless wars and sending pallets of cash to Iran.” Good […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/10/1080796219_0:56:3079:1788_1200x675_80_0_0_53cde43d83b97c6ce0e100837290728e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010191080811943-eu-foreign-policy-chief-says-shocked-by-beheading-of-french-teacher/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell says he was shocked by the recent deadly attack on a history teacher in a Paris suburb. “Deeply shocked by the appalling #ConflansSainteHonorine attack. We stand alongside our French friends and the victim’s family. Hate and violence, terrorism and extremism will never overcome freedom and democracy,” Borrell wrote on Twitter. Profondément choqué par l’attaque effroyable de #ConflansSainteHonorine. Nous nous tenons aux côtés de nos amis Français et de la famille de la victime. La haine et la violence, le terrorisme et […]
Caroline Amenabar/NPR; Joe Hall/Flickr Caroline Amenabar/NPR; Joe Hall/Flickr Key priorities Joe Biden Make public colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions tuition-free for families making less than $125,000. Make two years of community college and training programs tuition-free. Cancel $10,000 of every American’s student debt and revise the current loan repayment system. Establish universal prekindergarten. Read details of Biden’s plans below. Donald Trump Biden’s plans for education Biden is advocating to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for students with family incomes under $125,000. He links this proposal to the 2017 College for All Act, legislation introduced by Sen. […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Twitter said on Friday it would start labelling tweets with links to information sourced by hackers rather than blocking them after the company’s crackdown on a bombshell report alleging Joe Biden’s collusion with his son’s Ukrainian employer caused users to decry biased censorship. According to Vijaya Gadde, a Legal, Policy and Trust & Safety Lead at Twitter, the move has triggered “significant feedback” from the users over the past 24 hours, “from critical to supportive”. “After reflecting on this feedback, we have decided to make changes to the policy and how we enforce it,” Gadde said on her […]
Twitter has issued a mea culpa after using its “hacked materials” policy to bury a controversial story alleging shady backroom dealings by the Biden family, with the platform vowing to alter its rules and how it enforces them. “Over the last 24 hours, we’ve received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday,” Twitter policy head Vijaya Gadde said in a tweet on Thursday night, adding that the company would change how it applies the rule and lift its blockade on the Biden story, published Wednesday by the New York Post. We believe that labeling […]
Twitter has one-upped Facebook’s censorship regarding a story based on alleged emails from Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter about his Ukraine dealings, blocking all users from sharing it via tweet or direct message. Twitter users were blocked on Wednesday from sharing the New York Post story critical of the Bidens published just that morning. The decision was based on a never-before-invoked “hacked materials policy” that Twitter announced hours after Facebook had stomped on the same story. The Post cited emails that appeared to show Joe Biden – then vice president to Barack Obama – had met with Ukrainian Burisma exec Vadim Pozharskyi […]
According to a recent survey of adults in the US aged 18-39, almost a quarter said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, that it had been exaggerated or they weren’t sure. Institutions focused on Holocaust research and remembrance, such as Yad Vashem, have noted that Holocaust education is a key component in combatting anti-Semitism. Tech giant Facebook updated its hate speech policy on Monday to ban any content that rejects or distorts the reality of the Holocaust. The decision comes following a campaign spearheaded by Holocaust survivors around the world to target Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this summer, urging him to […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his thinking has “evolved” on how to balance free speech and the harms of Holocaust denial. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his thinking has “evolved” on how to balance free speech and the harms of Holocaust denial. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook is banning all content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust,” in a policy reversal that comes after increased pressure from critics. Just two years ago, founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview that even though he finds such posts “deeply offensive,” he […]
Andrei Anisimov, whose LInkedIn profile still describes him as a “Senior Software Engineer” at Coinbase, tweeted Saturday that this had been his last week at the cryptocurrency exchange. At press time it wasn’t clear whether Anisimov was one of the 60 people who accepted a severance package that was offered this week. Source link
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday updated its guidelines to note that COVID-19 may spread through airborne transmission. Kumi Smith, assistant professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota, joined Radio Sputnik Tuesday to discuss the new guidance. According to the new CDC guidelines, “Some infections can be spread by exposure to virus in small droplets and particles that can linger in the air for minutes to hours. These viruses may be able to infect people who are further than 6 feet away from the person who is infected or […]
CEO Brian Armstrong’s letter has not just the crypto world but the larger world of tech and business talking about the role of corporations in society. Monday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong published the innocuously titled “Coinbase Is a Mission-Driven Company.” While the post talked a lot about Coinbase’s core mission, its real goal seemed to be to make clear Coinbase would not be engaging with any other social or political issues beyond that, and to the extent employees wanted to do so they needed to do it on their own time. The reactions were intense, immediate and in many instances, totally opposite. In […]
Joe Biden, unless he has some huge brain fart, is going to win the debates. But it’s not likely to help him very much, for two reasons. So I would caution his campaign against thinking they can lock this thing down with solid debate performances. My advice would be: Rather than trying to win the debates, Biden should give Donald Trump the room to lose them. I’ll explain what I mean by that below, but first, let’s get to those reasons. Reason one why winning won’t matter much is that everyone expects him to win. This may sound kind of odd […]
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, picked by President Donald Trump for the US Supreme Court, has said a judge’s policy views must play no role in their decisions ahead of what is expected to be a highly-politicized confirmation process. Speaking alongside Trump in the Rose Garden, minutes after he officially tapped her to fill the SCOTUS seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barrett reaffirmed her commitment to the judicial philosophy of her mentor, former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. “I clerked for Justice Scalia more than twenty years ago, but the lessons I’ve learnt still resonate. His […]
A US envoy’s rare visit to Syria’s mostly Kurdish-held al-Hasakah region and his promise that Turkey won’t interfere in NE Syria indicates that Washington is pushing ahead with the plan of unifying various Kurdish regional groups with the aim of dividing Syria and Iraq, Turkish security expert Abdullah Agar has said. On 21 September, US Special Representative Ambassador James Jeffrey travelled to northeast Syria and held separate meetings with the leaders of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as well as the delegations of the ongoing intra-Kurdish political dialogue. Following the summit with the Syrian Kurdish leaders, Jeffrey headed to Erbil […]
On Monday, the Trump administration announced that it was imposing “UN” sanctions on the Iranian Defence Ministry and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for what Washington called aiding Tehran’s weapons programmes. Iranian analyst Mani Mehrabi has explained what’s behind the failure of the US to gain international support for its Iran policy. “Our actions today are a warning that should be heard worldwide: No matter who you are, if you violate the UN arms embargo on Iran, you risk sanctions,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated on 21 September. On 19 September, the US unilaterally re-imposed UN sanctions on Tehran through […]
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son of engaging in corruption in Ukraine during the administration of US President Barack Obama, allegations that the Dem presidential hopeful rejects. Senate Republicans have issued a report lashing out at former vice president and current Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, over his role on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, during the Obama administration. The report suggests that Hunter Biden’s position on the board of the Burisma company was “awkward” and “problematic”, and allegedly interfered with “efficient execution of policy”. At the […]
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has argued that the EU should focus on strengthening its external borders and fighting human smugglers, rather than reviving a scheme that would force member states to settle refugees. The EU is set to roll out a new asylum policy proposal on Wednesday. However, the return of mandatory quotas for accepting migrants is doomed to fail, Kurz said. “We find that the distribution in Europe [of asylum seekers] has failed and many states reject this. It won’t work like this,” the chancellor told AFP. He said that member states should focus on securing the EU’s outer borders […]
Facebook says the fake accounts it removed focused mainly on Southeast Asia. But they also included some content about the U.S. election, which did not gain a large following. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Facebook says the fake accounts it removed focused mainly on Southeast Asia. But they also included some content about the U.S. election, which did not gain a large following. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Facebook says it has taken down a network of China-based fake accounts whose posts included content about the U.S. presidential election. Most of the […]
Will A Biden Foreign Policy Make A Difference For The World? By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. September 18, 2020 Will A Biden Foreign Policy Make A Difference For The World?2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/baraka845x400.jpeg200px200px For the people of the world the real fascism of anti-democratic, brutal regimes supported by the U.S., murderous sanctions, and right-wing coups will continue unabated. The reoccupation of the Executive Branch by the Democrats will not bring any change in U.S. behavior in the global South.” The “left” rationalization for collaborating with the neoliberal wing of the Democrat Party is premised on the argument that a win for the national […]
A wide-ranging conversation about the state of macro, why central banks can’t really do anything and why private markets are leading the future of money. Raoul Pal is CEO and co-founder of Real Vision, a platform fundamentally disrupting macroeconomics and financial media. In this wide-ranging conversation, he and NLW discuss: Hot takes on the most recent Jerome Powell/Federal Reserve press conference Why central banks can’t do anything more until they merge with treasury departments Why stablecoins are disrupting how we think about global reserve assets Why traditional financial media missed an entire generation of investors Why all macro debates are boring […]
As Sweden has long enjoyed the reputation of having some of Europe’s most liberal policies toward immigration, asylum and family integration, the share of residents with a foreign background now exceeds a quarter of the population. The Swedish Migration Committee has submitted a new report with proposals on the country’s future immigration policy, national broadcaster SVT reported. The committee’s 600-page report includes a mixed bag of 26 proposals and features the strengthening of some measures as well as the relaxing of others. For instance, it wants time-limited residence permits instead of permanent ones to be the basic option for those seeking […]
Bitcoin’s price continues to move up, with a little help from the U.S. Federal Reserve, while ether traders are hedging in the options market. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,979 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 2% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $10,662-$11,099 BTC above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since Sept. 14.Source: TradingView Bitcoin hit as high as $11,099 on exchanges such as Coinbase Wednesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced it was keeping interest rates near zero until maximum employment is achieved. The price lost […]
The SushiSwap community has voted on policy changes to the protocol to reduce the token reward schedule, introduce a lock-up period for newly minted Sushi, and introduce fee staking. But these changes can’t be made without first migrating to new smart contracts, a research firm told CoinDesk. The current MasterChef contract doesn’t permit changes to the SushiToken contract, which in turn dictates other protocol functions for minting SUSHI tokens and for paying fee-staking rewards to SushiSwap holders. Each smart contract would have to be manually migrated to make the changes, the research firm claims, though the SushiSwap team is looking for […]
Today marks the 19th anniversary since the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history – a series of coordinated attacks by the Al-Qaeda Islamist group against the United States. Dr Rubrick Biegon, a lecturer in international relations at the University of Kent, an expert on US foreign policy, international political economy, terrorism, reflects on how the 9/11 terrorist attacks have changed the US foreign policy and international policy in general. Sputnik: The Patriot Act was written following the 9/11 attacks in an effort to dramatically tighten US national security, particularly as it relates to foreign terrorism. Were there any side effects from […]
A legacy of artificially low interest rates is not just the death of savings, but a forced buying into the perpetual growth machine of financial asset prices. Our main discussion: interest rates and the undermining of American resilience. In this discussion, NLW looks at a number of artifacts of the low interest rate world, including: Source link
Foreign Policy Of This Country Has To Reject US Exceptionalism By Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. September 9, 2020 Foreign Policy Of This Country Has To Reject US Exceptionalism2020-09-092020-09-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/phyllis-bennis-scarf-featured-1-1024×512.jpg200px200px Above photo: Phyllis Bennis. CounterSpin interview with Phyllis Bennis on foreign policy visions. Janine Jackson interviewed IPS’s Phyllis Bennis about foreign policy visions for the August 28, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: Describing the Democratic presidential candidates after a debate back in January, our next guest noted that they had “talked some about what it means to be the commander-in-chief,” but not “enough about what it means to be […]
Alexander Lipton is the CTO of Sila, a visiting professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Jerusalem Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Connection Science Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On Aug. 27, the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gave a widely watched speech entitled “New Economic Challenges and the Fed’s Monetary Policy Review” at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. In his remarks, Powell announced the Fed would allow inflation to run above its long-term 2% level. More immediately, the Fed will continue with its policy of keeping the Fed funds rate at (almost) zero and buying […]
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While our attention has been hyper-focused on the pandemic and the upcoming national elections, new regulations and protocols have been implemented by the Trump administration that are increasing the misery experienced by migrant children and families detained on the U.S. Southwest border. Since March, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have used a century-old provision in the federal code to grant unprecedented authority to the agency to halt immigration proceedings and accelerate the deportation of more than 100,000 families, unaccompanied minors, and individuals. Mark Morgan, the CBP chief, said, “We’re trying to remove them as fast as we can.” Indeed they […]
Poultry farmers in Maine are denouncing a massive increase in incidents of baby chicks dying en route to their farms, attributing the fatalities to operational changes recently implemented by the US Postal Service (USPS). The USPS is vital for poultry farmers, due to the fact that no privately-owned companies ship live animals by mail. Since Maine has no hatcheries of its own, the state relies on shipments from other places to meet its poultry needs. The chicks recently shipped via USPS mail that arrived dead have already cost Maine farmers thousands of dollars in losses, not to mention the sadness and […]
by Phil Butler, … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: Trump and Erdogan are both twisting dangerously in the wind politically. The Donald’s tactic of acting in an a threatening manner and then flipping so “Let’s make a deal” has worn thin in the US and abroad. Sultan wannabe Erdogan Just ask North Korea’s Kim Jon-un. He recently asked his people to give up their dogs to provide dinner table protein. It reminds me […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/13/1080211513_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_0a4842d68ef6c539f331f26c761a40b2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008191080211595-us-postpones-talks-with-china-over-beijings-policy-on-covid-19-trump-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US government has suspended its negotiations with China because of Beijing’s behavior in allowing the novel coronavirus to spread to the United States and around the world, President Donald Trump told a press conference in Yuma, Arizona. “I postponed talks with China”, Trump said on Tuesday. “I don’t want to talk to them right now. What China did to this country and the world was unthinkable. I canceled talks with China. If sleepy Joe Biden got in, they’d own the United States because Biden would give them everything. He’s not […]
So who blew up Beirut? The chances of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) accidentally blowing up in Beirut at this particular time do not seem to me to be high. The MSM love coincidences. Intelligence analysts do not. With every respect to those of my colleagues taking a different view I’m not thinking nuclear, nor the Israelis. Ammonium nitrate is a fertilizer. It’s not actually an explosive, which is why readers in Georgia are unlikely to hear conversations along the lines of ‘Hot diggety, I see Billy Bob got blown up by his fertiliser last night’ ’Dang, that just keeps […]
So who blew up Beirut? The chances of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) accidentally blowing up in Beirut at this particular time do not seem to me to be high. The MSM love coincidences. Intelligence analysts do not. With every respect to those of my colleagues taking a different view I’m not thinking nuclear, nor the Israelis. Ammonium nitrate is a fertilizer. It’s not actually an explosive, which is why readers in Georgia are unlikely to hear conversations along the lines of ‘Hot diggety, I see Billy Bob got blown up by his fertiliser last night’ ’Dang, that just keeps […]
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, neither A-level nor GCSE students in the UK were able to sit public exams this year, with the exams regulator for England suggesting that teachers grade pupils based on homework assignments, mock exams and recorded pieces of the student’s performance, with assessments subjected to external standardisation processes. Thousands of students have been left without places at their chosen universities after the UK exams regulator Ofqual revised its policy on exam appeals, and are holding the UK government to account, reported Sky News. Ofqual released a statement late on Saturday to announce a pending board “revision” of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107854/36/1078543683_0:178:2907:1813_1200x675_80_0_0_f6c56c57675670872ed36dc40b5f5cfa.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202008091080106271-uk-becoming-more-tied-to-us-policy-after-leaving-eu-russian-ambassador-says/ LONDON (Sputnik) – The United Kingdom aspired to regain independence in decision-making after leaving the European Union, but is now becoming increasingly reliant on US policy instead, Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrei Kelin told China’s CGTN channel in an interview. “The United Kingdom was mainly guided by the principles of the policy of the European Union … At the moment Britain will be more independent but the tendency which we are observing for the moment that UK policy is more and more linked to the policy of the United States, and this […]
The White House is mandating that all officials and staffers in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building agree to random coronavirus testing in the following weeks, according to two individuals familiar and a notice obtained by The Daily Beast. This is the first time the White House has made it mandatory that all employees get tested for the coronavirus despite multiple people testing positive, according to those same individuals. Officials working in the building, including those on the National Security Council and those working closely with the White House, told The Daily Beast medical professionals did draw their blood for antibody testing […]
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor, for Press TV Wendy Sherman is a professor at Harvard University. She’s the former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under Obama and worked on the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran. And now she is out with a new article in Foreign Policy magazine. Its headline is the “Total Destruction of US Foreign Policy under Trump.” Well, that’s an interesting title. I think US foreign policy has been heading in a lot of bad directions for a long time, but she makes some good points. She points out that the Trump administration hasn’t had […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105607/76/1056077692_0:159:3076:1889_1200x675_80_0_0_39c449819e7afee743319eb996c402eb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008041080051288-white-house-withdraws-nomination-of-anthony-tata-for-undersecretary-of-defence-for-policy/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Trump administration pulled the nomination of retired Army General Anthony Tata, under fire from lawmakers for past criticism of Islam, to take over a key Defence Department post, the White House said in a press release. The release issued on Monday, dubbed “Withdrawals Sent to the Senate”, named Tata but offered no explanation for the decision. President Donald Trump nominated Tata for Undersecretary of Defence for Policy, the No. 3 post at the Defence Department. Criticism of Tata centered on a series of past statements hostile to Islam and for […]
Joe Biden’s foreign policy is a disaster for America. No doubt it will enrich the Biden family and their accomplices around the world but not the average American. The Biden family enriched themselves while Joe Biden served as Obama’s Vice President, a Biden Presidency would no doubt increase the Biden’s riches off of the backs of Americans even more. The AP released an article over the weekend describing the Biden foreign policy that a President Biden would supposedly implement. The article never mentions Biden’s son Hunter recieving billions from China and the Ukraine, which he did during the Obama years, instead […]
by Jim W. Dean, …with Press TV, Tehran Feature image – Imam Reza Shrine, photo Jim W. Dean, 2018 Editor’s Note: The US sanctions war continues. Instead of the Teddy Roosevelt day of “Walking softly and carry a big stick”, we have “Promote unipolarism by sanctioning often and cutting off access to international banking and electronic settlement networks’. Somewhere in that is supposed to be a line about “defender of the free world”, but I am having trouble locating that part. It seems to have been swept under the rug somewhere, or in a museum. Pompeo and Trump have hunkered down on […]
Presumptuous Pompeo Pushes Preposterous ‘Peking’ Policy By Ray McGovern, Consortium News. July 29, 2020 Presumptuous Pompeo Pushes Preposterous ‘Peking’ Policy2020-07-292020-07-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/pompeo-speaking-at-nixon-library-july-2020-e1596039244411.jpg200px200px Above photo: Pompeo delivers speech on “Communist China and the Free World’s Future” at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, in Yorba Linda, California, July 23, 2020. State Department photo Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain. Quick. Somebody tell Mike Pompeo. The secretary of state is not supposed to play the role of court jester — the laughing stock to the world. There was no sign that any of those listening to his “major China policy statement” last Thursday at the Nixon Library turned to […]
A poll released by a Sydney-based think tank in June showed that only 23 percent, an all-time low, of Australians express trust toward China with regard to international responsibility. Australia’s agricultural business leaders are calling for a separation between foreign policy and trade ties in dealing with China as they’re concerned that rising tensions will impact the nation’s exports to the Celestial Empire. Mark Allison, the chief executive of agribusiness giant Elders and the president of Agribusiness Australia is among those concerned, stating that business is being used as a “weapon for foreign affairs”. “Foreign affairs is about protecting sovereign countries, and trade is […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107738/90/1077389085_0:0:3062:1723_1200x675_80_0_0_ae271363cfd059cfc5e227b40e01dc9f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007261079985081-uk-defence-secretary-stresses-need-for-policy-review-after-alleged-russian-space-arms-test/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has stressed the importance of the current comprehensive security review after the reports about the alleged anti-satellite weapon test by Russia. “This week, we have been reminded of the threat Russia poses to our national security with the provocative test of a weapon-like projectile from a satellite threatening the peaceful use of space. Space, and our access to it, is fundamental to our way of life. But Russia is not alone. China too is developing offensive space weapons, and both nations are upgrading their capabilities right […]
Long Overdue For Latin America: A “Good Neighbor Policy” By Medea Benjamin and Steve Ellner, CODEPINK. July 24, 2020 Long Overdue For Latin America: A “Good Neighbor Policy”2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/hands-off-vnz.jpg200px200px Above photo: An all-encompassing expression of goodwill in the form of a New Good Neighbor Policy will meet resistance from vested economic and military interests, as well as those persuaded by racist arguments. CC. Instead of continuing down this imperial path of endless confrontation, U.S. policymakers need to stop, recalibrate, and design an entirely new approach to inter-American relations. U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been a fiasco. Try as it might, the Trump regime-change […]
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/us/202007221079959028-us-eu-dialogue-on-china-to-be-action-oriented-for-more-policy-outcomes-state-dept-official-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun said he expects the US-EU dialogue on China to be action-oriented, according to Biegun’s written testimony published on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s website. “On 25 June, the Secretary [of State Mike Pompeo] announced the United States has accepted EU High Representative Josep Borrell’s proposal to create a US-EU Dialogue on China – a new mechanism for discussing the Transatlantic community’s common concerns about the threat the PRC [People’s Republic of China] poses to our shared democratic ideals”, Biegun said on Wednesday. “We anticipate it […]
De’Andre Arnold appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in January following his suspension from high school because of a grooming policy forbidding long hair in boys. Arnold refused to cut his dreadlocks and was barred from attending his high school graduation ceremony and senior prom. Courtesy Ellen Digital Ventures hide caption toggle caption Courtesy Ellen Digital Ventures De’Andre Arnold appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in January following his suspension from high school because of a grooming policy forbidding long hair in boys. Arnold refused to cut his dreadlocks and was barred from attending his high school graduation ceremony and senior […]
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/us/202007211079946584-white-house-vows-to-veto-national-defence-authorisation-act-over-afghanistan-funds-renaming-policy/ The Trump administration has threatened to veto the National Defence Authorisation Act in its current form. The White House said the bill would constrain the president’s authority on security and noted that it objects to the legislation’s requirement to rename military institutions and limit funds for the US military campaign in Afghanistan. According to an amendment to the National Defence Authorization Act proposed by Democrat Elizabeth Warren, the Pentagon would have to change the names of 10 US military bases named after Confederate generals. The White House said the proposal was part of a “sustained […]
Cuomo received an award in Savannah this week after he compiled the worst coronavirus record of any leader in the world. Andrew Cuomo is the hero of the left. New York state and Governor Cuomo had THE WORST Coronavirus death ratio in the world — higher than any state (except New Jersey) and higher than ANY COUNTRY! Advertisement – story continues below New York state under Cuomo’s leadership forced nursing homes to take in sick coronavirus patients. The policy resulted in at least 4,900 coronavirus deaths in New York state nursing homes. It was a New York state directive approved by […]
by Salman Rafi Sheikh, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: The US continued failure at world leadership under Trump and the Deep State’s Unipolare jihad has now been laid bare. Trump tried to reverse US isolation by shoe-horning Russia back into the G-7, to show he has Uni-polar power over somebody. The JCPOA is still holding against Trump But Russia wasn’t buying the ploy to pull it away from its close relations with China, […]
Relations between Brussels and Caracas deteriorated in late June, when President Nicolas Maduro ordered the expulsion of the EU’s envoy to Venezuela, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, in a move that came in response to the bloc expanding sanctions against the South American country. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has accused the EU of following the US path in terms of policy towards the Latin American nation. Referring to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, Arreaza slammed Brussels’ position on Venezuela as “aggression” that runs counter to international law and diplomatic conventions. “When Borrell served as the Spanish […]
Last week, Berlin expressed its “regret” after the Pentagon approved the withdrawal of 9,500 US troops from Germany over its alleged failure to commit a significant enough portion of its GDP to defence spending. Europe’s defence by the US is no longer something that can be taken for granted, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. “It must be said that 30 years after Germany’s reunification, 30 years after the end of the Cold War, the world is positioning itself in a new way. That which we took for granted, for example, that the United States will defend the European Union, is […]
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders take part in a Democratic primary debate on March 15. After Biden wrapped up the nomination, the two formed so-called unity task forces to formulate policy recommendations on six big issues. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders take part in a Democratic primary debate on March 15. After Biden wrapped up the nomination, the two formed so-called unity task forces to formulate policy recommendations on six big issues. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images A joint effort by former Vice President Joe Biden and […]
A US man was recently given the pink slip from his employer after cellphone footage surfaced on social media showing him lash out at a Costco shopper who asked him to wear a mask inside the Florida-based store. Identified as Daniel Maples, the Florida resident is seen in video footage yelling at the shopper that he feels “threatened” and that the filmer needs to “Back the f**k up and put your f**king phone down.” Maples, wearing a shirt that says “Running the world since 1776,” is also pictured glaring at the person taking the video in the Fort Myers Costco. The […]
A Libra executive has confirmed the project has still not lost sight of its original ambition to launch a multi-currency stablecoin. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
The Taiwanese startup Bitmark, which participated in a government-sponsored hackathon in May, was unable to promote its blockchain solution due to Apple’s pandemic moderation policy. “We were trying to essentially build a weather forecast but for public health,” said Bitmark CEO Sean Moss-Pultz. “It allowed people to volunteer their symptoms and what they are trying to do to get better, and connect that to public data from public health offices.” Precisely because the World Health Organization excludes Taiwan, the small Asian nation has developed a unique set of software tools for combatting COVID-19. However, the Apple store only lists health apps […]
The global health body has repeatedly faced criticism over its slow rate of changing its stance in response to the rapidly developing coronavirus outbreak. Namely, the organisation has failed to endorse wearing face masks in public places, despite many governments introducing such requirement domestically. A group of 239 scientists from 32 countries have drafted a letter to the World Health Organisation, urging it to adopt a new policy towards handling the coronavirus infection, arguing that strong scientific evidence suggests that the virus might spread indoors by air, The New York Times reported, citing the letter and some of its signatories. The […]
__________Politics.co.ukJohnson and Trump now share the same covid policy: Pretend it doesn’t exist By Jonathan Lis It is perhaps no coincidence that, before they became world leaders, both Boris Johnson and Donald Trump made cameo appearances as themselves on soap operas. In 2009 Johnson propped up the bar of the Queen Vic, while in 2005 Trump appeared in Days of Our Lives. Both men have short attention spans and love performing. The main appeal of soap, of course, is that things constantly happen but never for too long. New characters arrive, storylines get tidied up, and events that captivate viewers one […]
Yaquina Bay Bridge, Newport, Oregon. Photo by Erik on Wikimedia Commons. Amid a wave of public backlash, the rural county in Oregon that exempted “people of color” from Covid 19 mask requirements has now reversed its policy. Situated along the Oregon coast, well clear of Portland’s lunacy, Lincoln County made national headlines for their insane and racist policy. However, now they’ll likely face a new round of criticism for subjecting people of color to the same “ordinances” that whitey has to follow. The Statesman Journal reports: Lincoln County was hit by a tsunami on Tuesday and Wednesday, but it wasn’t the […]
FACT: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo enacted a policy that forced nursing homes to take patients, regardless of whether they were infect with COVID-19. But now, the Democrat is claiming the staggering death toll in New York nursing homes was all the fault of the federal government. “We followed federal guidance on the nursing homes,” Cuomo said Tuesday on NBC’s “Today Show.” “We had more people die than any other state. That’s a fact,” Cuomo said . “The reason that happened was because we had the virus coming from Europe when the federal government told us the virus was coming from […]
By Nebojsa Malic, senior writer at RT While special envoy James Jeffrey says the US no longer demands regime change in Syria, only “change of behavior,” his explanation shows this distinction is without a difference and no November election results will change it. “We’re not demanding total victory, we’re not saying that Assad has to go,” Jeffrey said on Monday, during a live event hosted by the Middle East Institute and moderated by MEI director Charles Lister. Instead, he explained, the goal of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act – a US sanctions law that came into effect last week – […]
When people said they were dying to see movies in cinemas again, the CEO of AMC Theatres may have taken the words too literally. Adam Aron, CEO and president of the country’s largest theater chain, is the target of pointed outrage after announcing that the company’s plan to reopen 450 of the more than 600 locations that were forced to close due to the coronavirus pandemic does not include a rule requiring patrons to wear masks. In states where wearing a mask is required, the company will adhere to that mandate, and all employees will be required to wear them. Patrons […]
By Supratim Barman for VT India It came like a Force of Nature; a Super Cyclone with an eye 30 kilometers wide and bearing winds that peaked at 230 kms per hour and constituted the 2nd strongest ever storm to emerge from the Bay of Bengal. The sustained energy carved its way through North Eastern Kolkata for nearly 8 hours and it felt like the city had been hit by the shockwaves of a nuclear explosion that mimicked by an order of magnitude a thousand times greater than the equivalent destructive force of water that rolls over Niagara Falls.Amphan, which means […]
FBI Launches Open Attack On ‘Foreign’ Alternative Media Outlets Challenging US Foreign Policy By Gareth Porter, The Grazyzone. June 8, 2020 FBI Launches Open Attack On ‘Foreign’ Alternative Media Outlets Challenging US Foreign Policy2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/fbi-social-media-censorship-from-the-grayzone-e1591638151390.jpg200px200px Above photo: FBI social media censorship from the Grayzone. Under FBI orders, Facebook and Google removed American Herald Tribune, an alternative site that publishes US and European writers critical of US foreign policy. The bureau’s justification for the removal was dubious, and it sets a troubling precedent for other critical outlets. The FBI has publicly justified its suppression of dissenting online views about US foreign policy if a […]
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised to review the guidelines on allowing posts about the use of “excessive force” by the state. He was blasted earlier for not removing a Trump post flagged as incendiary by Twitter. In a letter to employees, Zuckerberg promised to review the company’s policies regarding “discussion and threats of state use of force” posted on Facebook, and pledged to work on “building products to advance racial justice.” The CEO explained that he will focus on how to moderate posts about instances of “excessive” use of force by police and governments, including during times of civil unrest […]
The meme is “money printer go brrr,” but according to this macro expert, central banks have almost no power to actually influence money itself. The conventional wisdom is that central banks are the most important economic actors in the world. Markets hang on their every word. Yet, what if that power has less to do with actual monetary policy and more to do with how the performance of that policy creates a self-fulfilling prophecy as market actors respond to media coverage? Jeff Snider is the head of global research at Alhambra Investments. In this conversation, he and NLW explore: Disclosure The […]
US 01:17 GMT 20.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107935/95/1079359521_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_074661841de5f458bd41d86fe76712eb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005201079359551-us-extends-policy-to-immediately-reject-migrants-at-southern-border-indefinitely–dhs/ EL PASO (Sputnik) – The United States has extended a policy indefinitely that permits US immigration enforcement to immediately return immigrants back to Mexico after being apprehended on the southern border, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. “Today, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended Title 42 public health restrictions at the borders until he determines the serious danger from COVID-19 has ceased,” the statement said on Tuesday. Last week, US media reported that as of 21 March only two immigrants […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. The New York City Mayor is asking President Trump for $7 billion to bail out his city following years of failed far left policy and the recent coronavirus pandemic. During the discussion Maria Bartiromo asked Comrade de Blasio about New York City’s illegal sanctuary city policies. De Blasio argued his sanctuary city policies are “Constitutional.”Wow. TRENDING: Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Calls American Soldiers ‘Bitches’ Who Are ‘Killing Innocent Children Abroad’ (VIDEO) Mayor de Blasio: We follow the rule of law in this city and we […]
UK 16:07 GMT 16.05.2020Get short URL While the writings were on the wall for a long time that the party’s policy of unilaterally binning Brexit was irredeemably unpopular, the leadership continued to push for it, eventually suffering the harsh electoral consequences. The December 2019 Liberal Democrat election campaign which called for the abandoning of Brexit was akin to a “high-speed car crash,” according to a new internal party report. The 61-page damage assessment, led by Lib Dem peer Dorothy Thornhill, argues that the fiercely anti-Brexit party leader, Jo Swinson, and a band of ideologically committed close aides, “alienated large chunks of […]
Food Sovereignty Policy Prevents Hunger In Nicaragua By Yorlis Luna, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. May 14, 2020 Food Sovereignty Policy Prevents Hunger In Nicaragua2020-05-142020-05-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/nicar-food-800×445-e1589481244184.jpg200px200px Managua, Nicaragua – I think when many of us look at the world today we feel like we’re watching a science fiction movie: 22 million officially unemployed in the U.S. while analysts say the true figure may be double that[1],; predictions of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s; and lines up to 15-hours-long where they are giving away food[2]. In Ecuador, they give the families of people who die from COVID-19 cardboard coffins[3], […]
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 in summertime as early as the 2040s, nations are rushing to position themselves to maximally benefit from the newly available sea lanes. However, for policy wonks at think tanks like CSIS, US policy toward changing […]
Initial Reflections On ‘Debt Jubilee’, MMT, And Limits Of Monetary Policy May 9, 2020 Initial Reflections On ‘Debt Jubilee’, MMT, And Limits Of Monetary Policy2020-05-092020-05-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/fed-1-e1589039877971.jpg200px200px Above photo: End the Fed rally in San Francisco. One of the readers of this blog recently asked me my views on topics such as the call by some left economists for a general debt forgiveness (Debt Jubilee), on Modern Money Theory (MMT or sometimes referred to as ‘Magical Money Tree’), and the Federal Reserve bank (central bank) pre-emptive bailouts of banks and non-banks underway and whether the latter will succeed in generating an economic recovery […]
The Violence Of Non-Violence: Canadian Sanctions Policy In Times Of Covid-19 By Claudia Chaufan and Maria Victor Paez, Orinoco Tribune May 8, 2020 The Violence Of Non-Violence: Canadian Sanctions Policy In Times Of Covid-192020-05-082020-05-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/nonviolence-statute-of-gun-e1588958319265.jpeg200px200px Both at its birth, and later in the paradigmatic Alma Ata declaration, the WHO established a human right to health which required not only access to health care but the satisfaction of a broad range of human needs, such as appropriate nutrition, adequate housing, and personal safety. Decades later the notion that public policies beyond health policy shape health were consolidated in the concept of Health in All Policies. Foreign […]
Investigative reported Brad Edwards and CBS Chicago ran a segment this week where they snitched on the local ice cream truck.The driver wasn’t wearing gloves or a mask.So they snitched him out. The Village Manager at Hoffman Estates where this took place asked citizens to call 9-1-1 i they see this unmasked villain again on their streets. Sounds like a great place to live — Where they snitch out the ice cream man! It should be noted that Swiss and Dutch officials reopened schools this month due to the fact that children are not at risk of coronavirus and are not […]