Above Photo: Freshwater City SWD 01 injection well site in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. (David Levy). As billions in federal funds start flowing to state orphan well programs, a DeSmog investigation raises questions about whether oil-friendly states will put industry interests ahead of the environment. If you had ventured down a dirt road running through remote marshland along the Gulf Coast in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, at just the right time back in late February, you might have come across a pit of gray muck. Down in that pit, you’d find a contractor welding a steel cap about the size of a dinner […]
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Above photo: Activism Munich. Events are unfolding at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we are looking to our most respected and renowned thought leaders for an honest assessment of both U.S. foreign and military policy to offer their most current thoughts and insights. We know they have some ideas for improving the prospects for peace. Abby Martin is an American journalist, TV presenter and activist. She helped found the citizen journalism website Media Roots and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored. She hosted Breaking the Set on the network RT […]
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?” […]
Russian journalists are facing prejudice and routine harassment by American authorities, Russia’s Embassy in Washington has warned, after US security services questioned an RT filmmaker for hours and combed through his devices. RT documentarian Konstantin Rozhkov was stopped by US federal agents at a New York airport soon after arriving in the country on Wednesday, where he was subjected to a three-hour interrogation and forced to provide access to his electronics. “The journalist was requested to open all electronic media, as well as explain publicly available information, including about him receiving the Russian-made vaccine, Sputnik V,” the embassy said in a […]
While Ret. Marine General James Mattis was reportedly surprised by the question about anti-Daesh strategy directed at him by Ivanka, Donald Trump himself appeared “proud” by her move. Ivanka Trump expressed an interest in a certain aspect of the country’s foreign policy shortly after her father got elected president, The Mercury News reports, citing “Rage”, a new book by veteran American investigative journalist Bob Woodward. According to the newspaper, this particular episode occurred when retired Marine General James Mattis arrived at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club on 19 November, 2016, where he was invited by Mike Pence to talk with […]
…from SouthFront.org The southern part of Greater Idlib remains the main point of instability in Syria. The military situation, which had temporarily stabilized after the end of the Turkish attack on the Syrian Army codenamed “Operation Spring Shield”, is once again deteriorating. And this time it seems that even the Turkish leadership, who have made extensive efforts to defend the so-called ‘moderate opposition’, incidentally consisting mostly of al-Qaeda terrorists, from the bloody Assad regime, is forced to admit this. On March 5, Turkey and Russia signed a de-escalation deal that put an end to the open military confrontation in Idlib between […]
By Gilad Atzmon for VT At a time of health crisis one would expect to see an open global scholarly, multi disciplinary debate among scientists, scholars from different fields, politicians and finance experts. Not only does such a discourse not exist, what we have seen instead is a crude attempt to eradicate any such exchange. It isn’t our governments that interfere with this crucial discourse: it isn’t Trump or the FBI that deleted seven million FB posts that didn’t agree with the World Health Organisation’s narrative. It wasn’t the Tories or Boris Johnson who erased thousands of salient videos from Youtube. […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off on 30 May 2020, marking the first US space launch in a decade since the suspension of the Space Shuttle Program. The mission ferried NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX’s Crew Dragon space suits are impressively designed, but their safety level remains an open question, said Vladimir Pirozhkov, CEO of the KINETICA High Complexity Prototyping Centre at the National University of Science and Technology MISiS. According to the renowned industrial designer, the sleek space garb developed by the celebrated Hollywood […]
Voters in Kirkwood, Mo., cast ballots on Nov. 6, 2018 that helped decide the balance of power in Congress. Next week they’ll get the chance to decide whether to expand Medicaid in their state. The measure could extend health coverage to more than 230,000 more Missourians. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Voters in Kirkwood, Mo., cast ballots on Nov. 6, 2018 that helped decide the balance of power in Congress. Next week they’ll get the chance to decide whether to expand Medicaid in their state. The measure could extend health coverage to more than 230,000 more […]
A Texan doctor’s full-blown onslaught of what she called “fixed” science promoted by Big Pharma that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) does not work has earned her praise and scorn online, with critics delving deep into her background. A clip from a press conference by a group of American doctors calling themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors,” starring Dr Stella Immanuel, a self-described primary care physician in Houston, Texas, sparked a ruckus online before it was removed by Twitter on Monday. In the video, which was retweeted by US President Donald Trump and many conservative pundits, Immanuel said that she first used the drug to treat […]
The revered and troubled presidential candidate has gone on a Twitter rant claiming his wife Kim Kardashian wants to have him “locked up” after his comments on abortion at the first campaign rally. American rapper Kanye West threw his presidential bid into uncertainty as he said he would “focus” on making music again. “Ima focus on the music now,” he tweeted on Monday night, before dropping a tracklist for his new album titled ‘DONDA’ and saying that the album would come out on Friday. Kanye then appeared to say that he may try another run for the White House in four […]
Colombians Question Deployment Of US Security Forces July 17, 2020 Colombians Question Deployment Of US Security Forces2020-07-172020-07-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/protest-against-us-military-in-colombia-e1595003241358.jpg200px200px Above photo: A 2019 protest in Bogotá, Colombia against military aggression in Venezuela. Tom Power. The United States backs anti-narcotics operations as Colombia’s military faces a storm of criticism. Colombian soldiers and military brass have been implicated in a string of human rights violations in recent weeks. On May 1, Semana magazine reported that the Colombian military illegally used U.S. military aid to spy on journalists and human rights defenders, including U.S. citizens. On June 4, Colombian armed forces carried out forced eradication of illicit crops and injured six […]
The Great American Firewall: On The Question Of Censorship By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. July 17, 2020 The Great American Firewall: On The Question Of Censorship2020-07-172020-07-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/46852660991_7fba1c6a37_c.jpg200px200px Above photo: A close-up on an abstract design of a display, which is warning about a cyber attack. Multiple rows of hexadecimal code are interrupted by red glowing warnings and single character exclamation marks. The image can represent a variety of threats in the digital world: data theft, data leak, security breach, intrusion, etc… It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of US imperialism in the realm of […]
Unfazed by the lack of evidence, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro went on accusing China of creating Covid-19, possibly even purposefully, as he was grilled about the US readiness for the pandemic. Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper what the president and his team are doing to prepare for a potential second wave of the coronavirus, Navarro quickly launched into a diatribe about China. “China created this pandemic,” he said. “They hid the virus. They created that virus. And they sent over hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens here to spread that around and around the world,” he said. “Whether they […]
The army of contact tracers hired by New York City to conduct the ‘test and trace’ campaign to weed out coronavirus infection vectors will reportedly not be allowed to ask people if they attended Black Lives Matter protests. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on May 8 that NYC would be hiring hundreds of Covid-19 contact tracers to help bring the coronavirus, which wreaked havoc on the densely-populated city’s population, to heel. The city has witnessed 210,000 cases resulting in at least 17,193 deaths from the infection. However, before May came to an end, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, sparking […]
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer speaks to a group gathered for a vigil in memory of Breonna Taylor on June 6. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brett Carlsen/Getty Images Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer speaks to a group gathered for a vigil in memory of Breonna Taylor on June 6. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images Louisville youth confronted Mayor Greg Fischer on Sunday, pressing for answers about whether he values Black lives and why he waited so long to speak out on the police killing of Breonna Taylor. A Facebook Live video posted by Lavel White, a filmmaker and city employee, captured about […]
US 19:01 GMT 28.05.2020Get short URL Newly released footage of the Monday night arrest of Minnesota resident George Floyd has offered additional insight into conduct exhibited by police on the scene prior to the fatal move that saw Floyd’s airway blocked for several minutes by an officer. Earlier this week, the Minneapolis Police Department explained that officers who responded to the scene at a Cup Foods grocery store for a “forgery in progress” call used force against Floyd after he reportedly physically resisted arrest. However, at present, new cellphone and surveillance footage fail to support that claim. The first video that […]
A sign encourages newly sworn-in U.S. citizens to register to vote outside a naturalization ceremony in 2019 in Los Angeles. After failing to get the now-blocked citizenship question on the 2020 census, the Trump administration is continuing to gather government records to produce citizenship data for redistricting. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images A sign encourages newly sworn-in U.S. citizens to register to vote outside a naturalization ceremony in 2019 in Los Angeles. After failing to get the now-blocked citizenship question on the 2020 census, the Trump administration is continuing to gather government records to produce citizenship […]