Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, is looking to develop new options for human spaceflight, according to its head Dmitry Rogozin. It wants to replace the current Soyuz MS with a winged space shuttle, similar to the 1980s Buran. The Buran (‘blizzard’ in Russian) was similar in design to the US space […]
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A former vice president of a top Chinese bank has argued that digital currency should replace fiat in the nation’s financial systems. 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 […]
Seattle lawmakers are attempting to completely defund the city’s police department and replace it with a new “civilian-led” public safety system in response to ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. The Seattle City Council has already come under fire this week for proposing a 50 percent cut to the police department’s […]
First Minneapolis, now Seattle. Seattle City Council on Friday moved to abolish the entire police department and replace it with a Marxist “civilian led Department of Community Safety & Violence Prevention.” In the proposed legislation, the city council asserted that the Seattle Police Department perpetuates “racism and violence” and upholds […]
US Democratic Party Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was blasted on Twitter for proposing that police officers be swapped with mental health staff at schools. Many argued online that the idea would make the schools even less safe. Omar tweeted that “over-policing doesn’t make them safer – it criminalizes Black and brown […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed earlier this month that her liver cancer has returned. The 87-year-old revealed in a statement on Friday that she began a course of chemotherapy to treat a recurrence of cancer on May 19. Advertisement – story continues below “Immunotherapy first essayed proved unsuccessful,” […]
A 3D hologram of George Floyd has begun its tour of southern US states, debuting Tuesday night in Richmond, Virginia. It is due to be displayed at several confederate monument sites across the US in the coming days. Floyd was the black man who died at the hands of the […]
(Author Joe Hoft lived in Hong Kong for nearly a decade and provides this first hand perspective) China took control of Hong Kong, the former British colony, in 1997. Ever since that time, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the small group that runs China, has attempted to control the tiny […]
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 […]
Despite seeing a major exodus of advertisers over some of the statements made during his prime time show, Carlson is seeing the number of viewers going through the roof, with conservative Republicans being his primary audience. Famous conservative Fox News host, Tucker Carlson, could be the top choice for Republican […]
Submitted to VT by the Washington Post Ty Seidule, retired U.S. Army brigadier general and professor emeritus of history at West Point, writes in Washington Post Opinions: Ten Army posts named during World Wars I and II honor men who fought for the Confederate States of America against the United States […]
Since the onset of the wave of Black Lives Matters protests, numerous monuments to historic figures proclaimed “racists” and “slave traders” have been vandalised or demolished across Europe. In a new twist to the crusade against undesirable monuments sweeping Europe, a case for removing the statues of one of Sweden’s […]
A new poll revealed that Democrats want to replace the senile Joe Biden with the New York Governor who killed 5,800 people in nursing homes. Democrats want Andrew Cuomo over Sleepy Joe Biden. The New York Post reported: A majority of Democrats want to nominate New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo […]
Minneapolis has officially voted to abolish the existing policing system in favor of a ‘public safety’ model. Hailed as transformative in the wake of protests, the suggestion is still vague on details. A resolution jointly co-authored unanimously approved by all 12 city council members acknowledged that “no amount of reforms […]
Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar has joined a growing call to disband the Minneapolis police force, arguing it is “beyond reform” after the killing of George Floyd. Critics have pilloried the suggestion as dangerous and “asinine.” The congresswoman took to Twitter on Friday to endorse an op-ed penned by a Minneapolis […]
Digital currencies could supersede bank accounts as low-interest rates make them increasingly obsolete. That’s the view of Massimo Buonomo, the UN’s global blockchain expert, who added that digital currencies, particularly central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), could soon “eliminate the need for a bank account” altogether. Speaking on an online panel […]
Central bank digital currencies might one day replace commercial banks. But that comes with risks, according to new research from the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia. The 32-page research paper – titled “Central Bank Digital Currency: Central Banking for All?” – investigated the implications of an account-based central bank digital currency […]
India 08:09 GMT 01.06.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): Two major Indian airlines – IndiGo and GoAir – have come under scrutiny since their Airbus A320 Neo aircraft, powered by American Pratt & Whitney engines, reported a series of technical failures last year. The deadline for replacing the engines has […]
The Race To Replace A Dying Neoliberalism By Walden Bello, Foreign Policy In Focus. May 20, 2020 The Race To Replace A Dying Neoliberalism2020-05-202020-05-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/doors-to-choose-from-shutterstock-e1589987674504.jpg200px200px Above: Doors to choose from Shutterstock. The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them? The morning will comeWhen the world […]
Pivot To Peace Must Replace US Pivot To War With China By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance May 10, 2020 Pivot To Peace Must Replace US Pivot To War With China2020-05-102020-05-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/us-china-fists-and-weapons-from-the-financial-times.-1-e1589134846611.jpg200px200px Above: US and Chinese Fists and Weapons face-off from the Financial Times. The Trump administration, in seeking to […]
US 15:32 GMT 06.05.2020(updated 15:33 GMT 06.05.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107918/06/1079180662_0:0:3069:1727_1200x675_80_0_0_3302eb80897e8c9c16972230e5a2dd70.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005061079218872-top-3-candidates-who-could-replace-joe-biden-as-democratic-nominee/ Following his denial of sexual assault allegations and speculation about the poor state of his mental health, former Vice President Joe Biden may have fallen out of favour with some Democratic voters, recent […]