Amman, Jordan — “I didn’t join the Palestinian resistance because I experienced suffering, I joined out of a sense of patriotism,” Theresa Halasa, a revered veteran of the Palestinian resistance said this in an interview in 2009. Halasa died in Amman on March 28, 2020, after succumbing to cancer. She was 65 years old. In 1972, Halasa was one of four Palestinians who hijacked a Belgian […]
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Videos of the crew of USS Theodore Roosevelt cheering their captain, relieved of command by the Navy amid a Covid-19 controversy, have become a surprise hit among the critics of President Donald Trump, who is getting the blame. Hundreds of sailors gathered on the deck of the Roosevelt on Thursday night to bid farewell to Captain Brett Crozier, cheering him and chanting his name as he […]
US President Donald Trump eviscerated NBC’s Peter Alexander during a coronavirus presser, chewing him out as a “terrible reporter” sending a “very bad signal” to Americans over what the reporter insisted was a softball question. “What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?” Alexander asked the president during a press conference on Friday, after questioning whether Trump’s “impulse to […]
The militant white supremacists of the current generation are either products of, or influenced by, the “third Klan” of the 1970s and 1980s. “The Klan’s resurrection was a reaction to the radical insurgencies of the era.” “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA!” has been a popular protest chant since the New York real-estate mogul and former reality TV star became the 45th president of the United States. […]
Iraq’s Resistance Reveals How U.S. Troops Will Be Removed From Its Country By Staff, Moonofalabama.org March 18, 2020 Iraq’s Resistance Reveals How U.S. Troops Will Be Removed From Its Country2020-03-182020-03-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/istrike2.jpg200px200px Above Photo: From Moonofalabama.org Yesterday the U.S. attacked five sites in Iraq and killed 3 Iraqi soldiers of the 19th Division, two policeman and a civilian. The strikes came after some 10+ rockets, fired by unknown people, had hit the […]
Shaikh Ali Al-Harizi, a leader of the resistance movement in Yemen’s eastern Al-Mahrah province, on Tuesday declared that the peaceful resistance against the Saudi occupation has now entered a new stage of armed struggle following air raids by Saudi Apache helicopters. The movement opposes both Saudi and UAE involvement in Yemen. Al-Harizi confirmed in an interview with YemenNet that the “sons of Mahrah” are at war […]
Kanesatake — Brigitte Rice had been on her feet for 24 hours by Tuesday morning, hoisting the Warrior flag in one hand and using the other to slow traffic into Mohawk territory. She came to the blockade Monday to “hold it down” for the protesters arrested for stopping rail traffic in Tyendinaga that morning. Hours after the raid, Rice was among the dozens of Mohawks on […]
Resistance Episode 2: Shut It Down! By Staff, Stewis Media GbR February 29, 2020 Resistance Episode 2: Shut It Down!2020-02-292020-02-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/screenshot-86-e1583025529241.png200px200px Above Photo: From Stewis Media GbR After the shock of the 2016 election started to sink in, activist groups across the United States began planning days of action and civil disobedience around inauguration day. They would not let this go by without some consequence.In this episode, […]
Israeli occupation authorities yesterday reopened crossings with the besieged Gaza Strip, but kept the fishing zone closed, Quds Press reported. Reporting Ynet News, Quds Press said the spokesperson for the Israeli occupation army said: “After evaluation of the situation, all the crossings in the peripheries of Gaza were reopened and train service from Sderot [Israeli town 1.6 kilometres from Gaza] to Ashkelon resumed.” The leadership of […]
During the handoff between their shows on Friday night, CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon soberly invoked the Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort and a famous Nazi resistance poem, respectively, to warn about an “emboldened” President Donald Trump’s loyalty campaign. The pair’s ominous reference riffed off of Cuomo’s “Be On the Lookout (BOLO)” final segment, where he told viewers to watch for fewer government officials daring […]
Four Months After The Revolt In Chile: Repression, Resistance And Struggle Continues By Carlos Aznárez, Resumen-english.org February 21, 2020 Four Months After The Revolt In Chile: Repression, Resistance And Struggle Continues2020-02-212020-02-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/2-19-chile-image-e1582321119222.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Resumen Latinoamericano, translation North America bureau They have not been able to cope with this stubborn and brave people who for four months have not only gone out into the squares by the thousands but […]
More than forty days ago a US drone assassinated Major General Qassem Soleimani, leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – Quds Brigade and leader of the “Axis of the Resistance”. He was killed after midnight at Baghdad airport between the second and the third of January along with his companions. Has the “Axis of Resistance” been weakened by this event, and what has it […]
Since the first stages of European colonisation of the Middle East, as with other imperial powers elsewhere, there has been resistance in one form or another. This has been the case right up to and including the stifling US military presence in the region, particularly since 9/11 and the subsequent toppling of Saddam Hussein, when Iraqi insurgents and extremist groups actively opposed America with armed struggle. […]
President Donald Trump told reporters that he knows the identity of the anonymous insider who penned a scathing op-ed and book about the inner workings of his administration, but stayed cagey about what he intends to do about it. An anonymous New York Times op-ed entitled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” made waves when it was published in September 2018. Its […]
Data Governance And The New Frontiers Of Resistance By Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami, Roarmag.org February 15, 2020 Data Governance And The New Frontiers Of Resistance2020-02-152020-02-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/28464456904_c325edc8e8_o.png200px200px Above Photo: From Roarmag.org Four centuries after the East India Company set the trend for corporate resource extraction, most of the world is now in the grip of unbridled corporate power. But corporate power is on the cusp of achieving “quantum supremacy” […]
Middle East 19:14 GMT 15.02.2020(updated 19:20 GMT 15.02.2020) Get short URL Iran has rarely commented on the extent of its cooperation with Yemen’s Houthi militia, which maintains de-facto control over a wide area of the war-torn country and has been fighting a Saudi-led military coalition attempting to restore its ousted government. Revolutionary Guard Aerospace Force Commander Brig. Gen. Amir-Ali Hajizadeh has called on Iran’s partners in […]