How The US Dominates Tech: The Untold Story December 10, 2020 How The US Dominates Tech: The Untold Story2020-12-102020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/tech-e1607639651566.jpg200px200px This is the untold story of how the US uses its hegemony and mass surveillance system to weaponize its laws and take down non-US tech giants. On May 27, 2020, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada finally ruled that Ms. Meng met the “double criminality” standard. […]
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The NYT’s Trump Iran ‘Attack’ Story By Ben Armbruster, Responsible Statecraft. November 23, 2020 The NYT’s Trump Iran ‘Attack’ Story2020-11-232020-11-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/nyt.png200px200px Above photo: Inspired By Maps and PixieMe via Shutterstock.com. And the failures of foreign policy reporting. The New York Times published a major story this week, reporting that President Trump recently sought options for a military strike on Iran’s nuclear program in response to a new International Atomic […]
In 2030, at the interminable tail end of another hot, smoky summer in Mexico City, the power went out again and she went down into the basement where it was cooler. Other people from the apartment block were already sitting on the gritty concrete: snacking, vaping, talking, thumbing through their devices and killing time. People shared charging bricks in a neighborly way. She had three phones; […]
Translated from French Note: The reports below outline negotiations now ongoing for a variety of things: Release of US military being held as prisoners of war by Syria, number unknown estimated at around 24, none of their families have been notified US withdrawal from al Tanf in Southern Syria, as part of a prisoner deal but also because the US is under attack by terrorists that […]
Twitter and Facebook have both moved to suppress New York Post reports that the former vice president lied about never talking to his son Hunter about his business dealings in Ukraine, where Biden had the prosecutor general fired. US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has lashed out at a journalist for asking his thoughts on allegations against his son. CBS reporter Bo Erickson, attached to the […]
Kamala Harris, then California attorney general, speaks to reporters on July 11, 2012. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Kamala Harris, then California attorney general, speaks to reporters on July 11, 2012. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Our latest episode of Code Switch, we took a look at vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s record as a prosecutor, and how she used her power as […]
US President Donald Trump has taken notice of the social media crackdown on the New York Post over a story about his challenger Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his business dealings in Ukraine, urging a crackdown on platforms instead. “So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of ‘Smoking Gun’ emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the [New York […]
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has blamed “bad communication” and a “lack of context” in response to public outcry over his platform’s censorship of a New York Post story on alleged backroom dealings of the Biden family. “Our communication around our actions on the [New York Post] article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: […]
Twitter has issued a clarification on its “Hacked Materials Policy” following fallout from the social media platform’s decision to block two New York Post articles about Hunter Biden. However, some netizens are arguing the platform has not been consistent with its application of the rule. “We want to provide much needed clarity around the actions we’ve taken with respect to two NY Post articles that were […]
Twitter has one-upped Facebook’s censorship regarding a story based on alleged emails from Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter about his Ukraine dealings, blocking all users from sharing it via tweet or direct message. Twitter users were blocked on Wednesday from sharing the New York Post story critical of the Bidens published just that morning. The decision was based on a never-before-invoked “hacked materials policy” that Twitter […]
Twitter and Facebook said their decisions to limit sharing of a New York Post article were meant to slow the spread of potentially false information. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images Twitter and Facebook said their decisions to limit sharing of a New York Post article were meant to slow the spread of potentially false information. Denis Charlet/AFP […]
After the New York Post dropped a bombshell story about Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s Ukrainian business dealings on Wednesday, social media giants Facebook and Twitter rushed to limit its spread, prompting accusations of censorship and in-kind aid to Joe Biden. On Wednesday, the New York Post threw gasoline onto the smoldering coals of the Ukraine affair that led to US President Donald Trump’s […]
“I know it sounds like I’m making this up,” Carla Gugino told me halfway through our interview. “But I’m actually not.” We were on the phone discussing The Haunting of Bly Manor—a follow-up to Netflix’s Haunting of Hill House in which Gugino makes a surprise appearance as the narrator. (Her character is also central to the season’s biggest, most spoiler-y twist, which we’ll get to later—with […]
The online entertainment news site Deadline has issued a mea culpa after accidentally publishing a draft story claiming Vice President Mike Pence had contracted Covid-19, fueling a flurry of rumors about the VP’s health. The premature story went well beyond the type of placeholder draft that news organizations often create for obituaries, featuring wild speculation from “armchair epidemiologists” who conjectured that Pence’s ‘bloody eye’ seen during […]
c“No one saw it coming, because second albums are notoriously shit,” Noel Gallagher recalled of the surprise success of Oasis’s second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? “We certainly didn’t see it coming. That’s for sure.” (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. It was a career-defining moment for Oasis, a band that had burst onto the British music scene in a […]
Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Media’s Role In Status Quo By Danny Sjursen, ScheerPost.com. September 28, 2020 Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Media’s Role In Status Quo2020-09-282020-09-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/nythl_0-1-e1601303702406.jpg200px200px Above photo: Misleading article in the New York Times. The military says they can’t find evidence to support it, yet the New York Times and others have not repudiated the reports or issued corrections. It is an old journalistic […]
This week, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron made the bombshell announcement that the cops who fatally shot Breonna Taylor would not be charged with killing her, calling their use of force in the March raid “justified to protect themselves.” In that justification, he said that one witness corroborated the three officers’ insistence that they knocked and identified themselves at Taylor’s Louisville home while executing a search […]
A recent story in The Atlantic suggested Donald Trump was working to appoint his supporters to the Electoral College so they can help swing the election his way, but one of the interviewees is now slamming the story as fake news. “The story is pure conjecture,” Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman told the Washington Examiner. Corman says he spoke to Atlantic writer Barton Gellman last […]
A supposedly ‘feel-good’ story about an 89-year-old pizza delivery man receiving a huge tip to help pay his monthly bills backfired, with social media users more angered that the octogenarian had to work into old age to survive. Derlin Newey from Utah’s Weber County works 30 hours a week delivering pizzas for Papa John’s because he can’t afford his monthly bills on social security alone. The […]
Democrats Ignore US Military’s Refutation Of ‘Russian Bounties’ Story September 16, 2020 Democrats Ignore US Military’s Refutation Of ‘Russian Bounties’ Story2020-09-162020-09-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/medium-2-e1600275551778.jpeg200px200px The US military has been unable to find any evidence that the Russian government paid bounties on US troops to Taliban-linked fighters in Afghanistan, confirming what was already obvious to anyone who hasn’t had their brain stem hijacked by mass media-induced Russophobia. NBC News reports the […]
After two months of digging for evidence that Russia’s government paid bounties to Taliban forces to kill American forces in Afghanistan, as reported by the New York Times, the US military has found no corroboration. “It just has not been proved to a level of certainty that satisfies me,” General Frank McKenzie, the commander who oversees US troops in Afghanistan, reportedly told NBC News on Monday. […]
[ Editor’s note: The more things change, the more they stay the same. It seemed like a good moment to revisit this VT Classic by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould-Fitzgerald. ] “Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, […]
Netflix has addressed a wave of condemnation directed at its new release ‘Cuties,’ defending the film as a “powerful” social commentary while hitting back at irate critics who say the movie sexualizes young girls. Released on the platform internationally earlier this week, the movie immediately stoked controversy, sending #CancelNetflix into the trends on Twitter as thousands denounced the film for wildly inappropriate depictions of children. After […]
VT Nuclear Education: Most Classified 9/11 Revealed The article below was written in May 2014. It tells its own story, a fascinating one. This is the first story of the hidden secret of our time: VT Nuclear Education by Ian Greenhalgh & Don Fox (2014) It was Dr. James Fetzer that introduced me to Veterans Today. We had worked together on 9/11 where my expertise in […]
In the history of love stories, few have been as strange and unlikely as the one depicted in My Octopus Teacher. Netflix’s first original South African feature documentary concerns the wholly unexpected, and ostensibly transformative, affair struck between Craig Foster, a South African filmmaker, and an amphibious mollusk that he discovered in the Atlantic Ocean near the small seaside bungalow he frequented as a kid. It’s […]
As nearby volunteers in reflective vests and medical-grade face masks swept broken glass and righted overturned trash cans in Wilmington, Delaware, earlier this summer, former Vice President Joe Biden promised to heal the pain of civil unrest sparked by racist violence. “We are a nation enraged, but we cannot allow our rage to consume us,” Biden vowed, one day after a night of protests and scattered […]
Donnie, some of us would rather be suckers, even dead and maimed, than you. pic.twitter.com/ih5xyoOJwm — Gordon Duff (@gpduf) September 5, 2020 #LincolnProject Airline Capt. Sully- “1st time in American history, a president has repeatedly shown utter & vulgar contempt & disrespect for those who have served and died serving our country,” “While I am not surprised, I am disgusted by the current occupant of the […]
Fox News hosts and pundits spent much of Friday morning pushing back against an eye-popping report from The Atlantic alleging President Donald Trump called fallen military heroes “losers” and “suckers.” The network largely focused on the story’s multiple anonymous sources to suggest it was fabricated. And without a hint of irony, Fox News correspondent John Roberts on Friday morning cited on-air two anonymous sources refuting the […]
In 2002, Matthew and Naomi, the latter eight months pregnant at the time, traveled to Norway for Naomi’s book tour. They were driving overnight to a signing in a remote area of the mountains when a gnarly winter storm hit and made continuing on not only unsafe, but almost impossible. They pulled over and decided to sleep in the car until it was clear to hit […]
Anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson told the Republican National Convention an exceedingly graphic story of helping to terminate a pregnancy as a Planned Parenthood employee—an account that has been challenged numerous times. The speech contained the kind of shock imagery embraced by some in the anti-abortion movement, with details that painted her former co-workers as heartless money-grubbers. She made reference to a “pieces of children” room and […]
As Fox News scrambled to contain the damage from its discredited reporting on murdered Democratic staffer Seth Rich in 2017, a top editor at the network stuck by the retracted story, going so far as to predict that the baseless coverage of Rich’s murder would eventually be “vindicated.” That revelation comes via newly released emails from FoxNews.com’s then-deputy managing editor Greg Wilson, as well as others […]
The S&P 500 has recovered to hit new all-time highs but how real is it, and how are leading finance minds interpreting the recovery? Today, NLW debuts a new format: “10 Takes in 10(ish) Minutes.” In this analysis, he looks at 10 takes surrounding the S&P 500’s return to positive territory on the year, including: Source link
In this 1945 file photo, an Allied war correspondent stands in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, just weeks after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb. AP Photo hide caption toggle caption AP Photo In this 1945 file photo, an Allied war correspondent stands in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, just weeks after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb. AP Photo When the […]