A plan for the Syria provinces Bassam Abu Sharif for VT Damascus (English and Arabic) It is clear that Washington, Tel Aviv and Riyadh are working to drain Syria in all fields: militarily, socially and economically, and Washington has been plundering the natural resources of Syria for some time and is now escalating to burn crops as part of the starvation war, which Trump launched with […]
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Republican Senator Ben Sasse is at the center of a national online discussion after his ideas to reform the US Senate according to the Founding Fathers’ supposed wishes were critiqued as both undemocratic and simply “weird.” Sasse’s Wall Street Journal opinion piece, published on Tuesday and titled “Make the Senate Great Again,” most notably made the case for repealing the 17th amendment of the constitution. This […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/03/1080352578_0:91:3318:1957_1200x675_80_0_0_bfd6e72e4f36435d7f83343ff79322f8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009031080361288-trump-issues-plea-to-iran-not-to-execute-popular-wrestling-star-navid-afkarai/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Iran should spare the life of young wrestling star Navid Afkarai and not execute him for participating in an anti-government demonstration, US President Donald Trump said in a public appeal to Tehran. “Hearing that Iran is looking to execute a great and popular wrestling star, 27-year-old Navid Afkarai, whose sole act was an anti-government demonstration on […]
Popular Viral Video Firm Sues Facebook Over Russian Propaganda Label By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. August 16, 2020 Popular Viral Video Firm Sues Facebook Over Russian Propaganda Label2020-08-162020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/mint.jpg200px200px Above photo: Antonio Cabrera. The company behind In The Now, Soapbox and Waste-Ed is taking on media giant Facebook, who it claims is falsely labeling it as Russian state-controlled propaganda. An online media company is suing social media […]
Responding to what I wrote a few weeks back about full celebrity names in puzzles, @guywriter mentions a few other celebs with 7-letters-or-shorter first and last names: Nice list, and let’s take this opportunity to focus nerdily on one answer, comic book legend STAN LEE. The others are all famous, but STAN LEE is that rarest of crossword birds: he appears regularly in puzzles via his […]
Popular Movements Can Overcome Authoritarian Policing By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. July 26, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Newsletter Popular Movements Can Overcome Authoritarian Policing2020-07-262020-07-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/portland-protests-go-home-feds-e1595781307540.jpg200px200px Above photo: Portland protests say Go Home Feds as protests grow. By Noah Berger, AP. Today is the 60th day of protests since the murder of George Floyd. This weekend, people marched in cities across the country in solidarity with Portland […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Earlier this week, the verified accounts of several well-known people including Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian West and Elon Musk were hacked by crypto-criminals, who posted infected Bitcoin links to lure their victims into a scam. The crypto hack has now reached India via YouTube. Ajay Nagar, one of India’s most popular YouTubers, who also goes by the name of CarryMinati and has over […]
Justin Kucera; photo via Twitter A Michigan school fired a teacher and coach for simply saying “Trump is our President” on social media. Justin Kucera was a well-liked social studies teacher and varsity baseball coach at Walled Lake Western, but the school district decided to get rid of him over his political views. Kucera tweeted earlier this month, “I’m done being silent. Donald Trump is our […]
The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that state governments have the right to penalize so-called ‘faithless electors’, members of the Electoral College who do not support the victor of their states’ popular presidential vote. Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the court’s Monday ruling that states have the right to instruct their electors that they “have no ground for reversing the vote of millions of its citizens.” […]
Amid the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, some of its soldiers were taught in the UK how to look good in front of the world’s media in case of any “potential wrongdoing,” a new report says. Ministry of Defence data published by Declassified UK reveals that hundreds of Saudis entered the country for training at six Royal Air Force (RAF) sites in 2019. As the Saudis […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. This week: Everyone watching Netflix is horny. Floor Is Lava, a thing that exists. 30 years later, Splash Mountain is finally not racist! Hanging at the LGBTQ Community with Britney Spears. […]
Seth Meyers could hardly wait to ridicule President Trump for his “disaster” of a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the weekend. After running down stories about John Bolton and William Barr, the Late Night host finally arrived at the president’s latest “mosh pit-slash-group therapy session.” “Never mind the fact that Tulsa is a coronavirus hotspot with spiking numbers that have alarmed local health officials,” Meyers […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/17900/02/179000287_0:310:3006:2000_1200x675_80_0_0_70edc063e5d38c391f2a108e70c94364.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006201079671761-bye-bye-eskimo-pie-twitter-abuzz-as-popular-ice-cream-brand-drops-derogatory-term-for-its-product/ The decision to rename the ice cream comes amid a series of similar moves by other companies that seek to review the names of their brands that could be considered discriminatory. This was prompted by a global push against racism following the murder of an Afro-American man, George Floyd, in US police custody in May. Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday night once again devoted a lengthy monologue to attacking Black Lives Matter, this time bemoaning the social justice movement’s rising popularity while wondering why the federal government hasn’t filed conspiracy charges against it. Carlson, who has seen advertisers flee in recent days after saying Black Lives Matter “is definitely not about black lives,” kicked off Monday night’s program by […]
The UK Labour Party has spent a decade in opposition since the defeat of Gordon Brown in 2010 and the subsequent Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. Despite almost reaching power in 2017, former leader Jeremy Corbyn stepped down with historically low approval ratings and was replaced by Keir Starmer. Sir Keir Starmer has become the most popular opposition leader since Tony Blair, according to a new poll on […]
The top bitcoin derivatives product is now available on decentralized finance (DeFi). Andreessen Horowitz-backed dYdX released its Bitcoin Perpetual Contract from private alpha on Wednesday, bringing the most liquid digital asset derivative to Ethereum’s burgeoning DeFi market for non-U.S. investors. Unlike similar futures products, perpetual contracts don’t expire at a set time. “For the first time, users can trade the most popular financial product in crypto […]