Radical Neoliberalism Was Born And Will Die In Chile By Patricio Zamorano, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. October 31, 2020 Radical Neoliberalism Was Born And Will Die In Chile2020-10-312020-10-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/chile-1-e1604179018157.jpg200px200px Above photo: Pressenza News Agency. A wave of Indigenous peoples supporting the Luis Arce-David Choquehuanca presidential ticket defeated the main right-wing candidate, Carlos Mesa by 20 points, restoring democracy to Bolivia. Just days later around 80% of Chilean […]
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On Contact: Radical Hamilton October 25, 2020 On Contact: Radical Hamilton2020-10-252020-10-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/oncontact-1.png200px200px Alexander Hamilton, popularized by the musical, “Hamilton,” was the first treasury secretary of the United States. He has been called ‘the founding father of capitalism and imperialism,’ but Hamilton was far more complex than a simple advocate for a market-drive economy. Christian Parenti, in his new book, “Radical Hamilton; Economic Lessons From a Misunderstood […]
US President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr have gone on the warpath against Big Tech, unveiling proposed reforms to the firms’ Section 230 liability that would curtail their ability to effect political censorship. Singling out Twitter’s censorship of “conservative views,” the president warned the major tech platforms that the days of their exercising unrestrained political influence were numbered. He was speaking on Wednesday at […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died on Friday aged 87 of pancreatic cancer. A fierce critic of US President Donald Trump, her dying wish, she told her granddaughter, was that her replacement would not be found until “a new president is installed”. “She led an amazing life,” President Trump said on Friday on learning from journalists that Ruth […]
Rebecca Minkoff Rebecca Minkoff had the distinction of being one of the few designers to stage a physical show at New York Fashion Week this season. What in past seasons has been a line so knee deep an attendee would wonder if they were giving out free clothes, was now limited to a select group of editors, buyers, stylists, and influencers who lined up in their […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/09/1080413404_0:135:1277:854_1200x675_80_0_0_f36ea2d3096b7d606a8919ec1bebbb81.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009091080413455-radical-leftists-charged-with-robbery-hate-crime-after-stealing-maga-hat-from-7-year-old-boy/ Two women were recorded on a video that later went viral, ripping up Trump signs and taking away a red “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat from a seven-year-old kid. The incident happened near the site of the Democratic National Convention. Two women from Delaware were indicted on Tuesday for second-degree robbery and felony hate crimes after […]
A movement calling to “defund the police” seeks to reduce the amount of financing for law enforcement and for the dismantling of police departments amid nationwide protests against racism and police brutality, sparked by the death of George Floyd in the United States. The Michigan Republican Party said its headquarters in the city of Lansing was vandalised with “radical anti-police statements”, posting photos of graffiti on the […]
Trump’s hostility toward what he describes as ‘the Radical Left’, considering the majority of his Democratic rivals to fit this label, is well known. The president also repeatedly denounced Democratic city governors that rejected the deployment of federal security forces to curb the protests against police brutality and racism. US President Donald Trump lashed out at Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler in a series of tweets on […]
The Many Faces Of The Radical Right And How To Counter Their Threat By Archie Henderson, Open Democracy. August 30, 2020 The Many Faces Of The Radical Right And How To Counter Their Threat2020-08-302020-08-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/charlottesville-unite-the-right-rally-august-12-2017-by-anthony-crider-from-flickr-cc-by-2.0-e1598799023936.jpg200px200px Above photo: Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ Rally’, August 12, 2017. By Anthony Crider from Flickr. CC BY 2.0. We should not assume that the radical right will collapse under the weight of its many […]
An urgent care worker wears personal protective equipment in drive-up testing for the coronavirus in the Los Angeles area. Leading public health scientists tell journalist Alexis Madrigal that widespread at-home testing could help contain the virus. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Winter/Getty Images An urgent care worker wears personal protective equipment in drive-up testing for the coronavirus in the Los Angeles area. Leading […]
The Republican National Convention is taking place from 24 and 27 August, re-nominating the incumbent President Donald Trump as GOP candidate for the November election to face Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The former US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, took verbal shots at Joe Biden and Democrats during a speech at the Republican National Convention, voicing her support for Donald Trump, stating that “America […]
At Washington Post, Defunding Police Is A Step Too Radical By Oivia Riggio, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. August 22, 2020 At Washington Post, Defunding Police Is A Step Too Radical2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/blm-wapo.png200px200px Above photo: If Americans resist the idea of defunding police, they’re following the lead of outlets like the Washington Post (7/21/20). NOTE: There is an honest critique of defunding the police on the Left as a non-solution that […]
A Portland theater has cancelled a planned showing of the 1990 comedy Kindergarten Cop because some social justice warriors complained on Twitter that it glorifies policing. The film was scheduled to be played during the Northwest Film Center’s summer drive-in series “for its importance in Oregon filmmaking history” because it was shot in Astoria. The theater daring to show a classic funny movie about a cop prompted a […]
Obama appointed radical left Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who never votes against a far-left leaning position no matter how unconstitutional the argument, claims the conservative Justices on the court are biased. What a horrible joke. Law and Crime reported yesterday that Justice Sotomayor is disgusted with the actions of the other Supreme Court Justices: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called out her conservative colleagues […]
What could the Democrats possibly be thinking? Their new policy for social justice is to slander the police, defund the police, close prisons and set criminals free. What could possibly go wrong? On July 8th we reported that radical leftists have pushed through a proposal to shut down one of two St. Louis City jails labeled ‘The Workhouse’. They claimed this will save money but these […]
Buckingham Palace declared victory Tuesday in a 45 year battle over whether the queen ordered a radical Australian prime minister to be fired. Secret letters from 1975, which have been made public for the first time, showed that the monarch was not tipped off directly before the controversial sacking. Republicans were swift to argue, however, that the documents prove she was “aware of what was happening […]
LONDON (Sputnik) – Irish parents raise concerns following a protest over a “radical” sex education programme and the uncovering of Irish Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman’s links with controversial activist Peter Tatchell, President of the Irish Freedom Party Hermann Kelly said on Monday. “Many parents are concerned about the imposition of an extreme LGBT ideology on our children through the education system. We are also concerned […]
Maximo Alvarex, the president of Sunshine Gasoline, praised President Trump and called out the radical left destroying the US. President Trump on Friday held a roundtable discussion about the political situation in Venezuela during his trip to Doral, Florida. Maximo Alvarez, an immigrant from Cuba, recalled his family’s journey to the United States in their quest for freedom from the hell of Communism. Alvarez praised Trump, […]
In June radical far left activists in St. Louis called on local officials to remove the historic St. Louis statue in Forest Park and to rename the city. Then two weeks ago The Gateway Pundit called on local Christians to come together for a prayer rally at the statue of St. Louis in Forest Park. This was in response to recent efforts by local radicals and […]
Covid Recovery And Radical Social Change By Christos Zografos, The Ecologist. July 11, 2020 Covid Recovery And Radical Social Change2020-07-112020-07-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/10/capitalism_isnt_working_via_popularresistance-e1592851999723.png200px200px A post-Covid world must genuinely value care, embrace vulnerability, and attack the existing structures of privilege. The view that radical social change has been taking place during the Covid-19 pandemic has been expressed by progressive figures and organizations. For example, George Monbiot has recorded a series of […]
President Donald Trump has announced that the Treasury Department will examine the tax-exempt status of the US’ universities and schools, accusing them of indoctrinating children with “Radical Left” ideology. “Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education,” Trump tweeted on Friday. “Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status and/or funding, which will be taken away if […]
Communist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant (Socialist Alternative) gave a victory speech Tuesday night after passage by the city council of the so-called Amazon Tax in which she vowed to overthrow the United States, replacing the government and society with a “socialist world”. Sawant, 46, immigrated from India as an adult with a B.S. in computer science from the University of Mumbai received in 1994. Once […]
President Trump speaks during the Fourth of July “Salute to America” event on the South Lawn of the White House, on Saturday. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP President Trump speaks during the Fourth of July “Salute to America” event on the South Lawn of the White House, on Saturday. Patrick Semansky/AP In a Fourth of July speech aimed at commemorating the military on […]
On Wednesday The Gateway Pundit announced a prayer rally on Saturday at the iconic St. Louis Statue on Art Hill in Forest Park. ** The prayer rally is planned at noon at the St. Louis statue.We will recite a rosary — the prayer used by St. Louis of France.If you are Catholic, Christian or an ally we urge you to join us.We will have a Christian […]
Abolishing The Police: A Radical Idea That’s Been around For Over A Century June 19, 2020 Abolishing The Police: A Radical Idea That’s Been around For Over A Century2020-06-192020-06-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/san-francisco-strike-1934-e1592606080526.jpg200px200px Above photo: 1934. Nearly every so-called race riot in the United States since 1935 has been sparked by a police incident. StockSnap. In 1905, Pennsylvania did something unprecedented: It founded America’s first state police force. The new institution, […]
Radical St. Louis Islamist Umar Lee was arrested in Ferguson, Missouri in September 2014.Umar Lee once threatened to behead his critics and watch them squeal “like Daniel Pearl.” Lee was cuffed and detained in September 2014 in Ferguson. Umar Lee is now passing around a petition to remove the grand St. Louis Statue from Art Hill in Forest Park in St. Louis. TRENDING: Chick-fil-A CEO Dan […]
There is no one answer for what the coming school year will look like, but it won’t resemble the fall of 2019. Wherever classrooms are open, there will likely be some form of social distancing and other hygiene measures in place that challenge traditional teaching and learning. Future outbreaks will make for unpredictable waves of closures. Virtual learning will continue. And all this will happen amid […]
When Shoshana Zuboff returns my call 15 minutes late, it’s because her previous call with an organization in Israel dropped halfway through and it took them a while to reconnect. Such is the peril of functioning in quarantine, even as tech companies exert more power than ever. Rather than having time over the summer to reflect and plan her next book as she intended, Zuboff has […]
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) continues to prove herself to be the greatest hypocrite in the nation. Whitmer took to the streets last week and marched with Black Lives Matter while Michigan was still under a Coronavirus lockdown order. She encouraged leftists to protest in the streets while telling small businesses and churches they must remain closed because of the Coronavirus. On Wednesday, the tyrannical governor […]
This is not about race.This is about revolution. Advertisement – story continues below Churchill is the hero of World War II credited with saving England from Nazi Germany. The left is so radical that even Winston Churchill is a villain in their eyes. They’ve defaced Churchill! pic.twitter.com/rkINK4oac6 — Jack Dawkins (@DawkinsReturns) June 7, 2020 TRENDING: Black Lives Matter End Protest by Vandalizing Streets in DC: Paint […]
University of Alabama at Birmingham professor and Guggenheim Fellow Sarah Parcak was so moved by the rioters and looters this past weekend that she posted instructions on how to topple government monuments. Sarah Parcak was a guest on the Colbert Late Show. Parcak posted instructions this past weekend on how to rip down and destroy government monuments. She felt this was her civic duty. TRENDING: PURE […]
After four nights of random looting, rioting and vandalism across the United States CNN contributor Van Jones defended the carnage by comparing it to the Boston Tea Party which was a targeted attack on the British East India Company. The riots this week are random assaults and lootings on businesses and government offices. While we argue CNN said same about Boston tea party pic.twitter.com/HRFd3sEeUf — Chidi […]
When Donald Trump’s national security adviser-designate made his fateful phone calls with the Russian ambassador, the conversations that set in motion his downfall had a goal behind them. Drawing closer to the rival power that interfered in the 2016 election didn’t occur for its own sake, transcripts declassified on Friday show, but to create a new Mideast partnership against what retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn saw […]
COVID-19 is the great leveler. Glen Weyl, like all of us, is cooped up in his apartment. “Love? The bleach stuff is fine for downstairs, I think,” he says to his wife from the other end of our Skype call. “Alcohol wipes would be great for the phones and for things like that.” The coronavirus has turned us all into neat freaks. And it’s a refreshingly […]