First published 18 September 2020 Donald Trump has announced he will contest the presidential election if he loses, a bizarre statement from someone who may well have taken on a “life’s work” few might guess. Trump, the virtual “stepchild” of “Red Baiter” Roy Cohn, a man whose hatred of Russia […]
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First published 18 September 2020 Donald Trump has announced he will contest the presidential election if he loses, a bizarre statement from someone who may well have taken on a “life’s work” few might guess. Trump, the virtual “stepchild” of “Red Baiter” Roy Cohn, a man whose hatred of Russia […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107971/98/1079719823_0:35:1921:1115_1200x675_80_0_0_996d3d0a8484db37eed3f875257058a0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009181080498100-lightning-strike-in-cambodia-kills-6-injures-4-people-reports-suggest/ BANGKOK (Sputnik) – Six people have been killed and four others were injured as a result of a lightning strike on a residential building in northwestern Cambodia’s Battambang province, the Khmer Times reported on Friday. According to the media outlet, the incident took […]
University Of Michigan Asks Court To Halt Graduate Student Strike By Leah Graham, Barbara Collins, Emma Stein and Liat Weinsten, Michigan Daily. September 15, 2020 University Of Michigan Asks Court To Halt Graduate Student Strike2020-09-152020-09-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/umich-e1600168731413.jpg200px200px Above photo: Abigail Finlay, left, a University of Michigan mathematics graduate student instructor, marches with fellow […]
…from SouthFront.org Late on September 10, the Saudi capital of Riyadh came under a missile and drone attack from the Ansar Allah movement (more widely known as the Houthis). The Yemeni missile and air forces, loyal to the Houthi government, announced that they struck a “high-value target” in Riyadh with […]
University Of Michigan Residential Staff On Strike By Residential Staff, Popular Resistance. September 10, 2020 University Of Michigan Residential Staff On Strike2020-09-102020-09-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/umichresstaff-e1599737259619.jpg200px200px Above photo: Allison Engkvist/Daily. The bottom line is our health can’t wait. Our communities can’t wait. The University’s inaction in the face of ResStaff’s explicit concerns and action items […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105662/13/1056621337_194:0:2061:1050_1200x675_80_0_0_d8e95ce93ae1a8a23a0a84dfea88f6a4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202009031080360790-us-army-pursuing-another-medium-range-strike-missile-outside-discarded-inf-treatys-parameters/ A US Army spokesperson revealed earlier this week the service is looking to develop another new medium-range surface-to-surface missile that would have violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty the US left last year. According to Defense News, the Army is pursuing yet […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009021080351871-syria-intercepts-israeli-strike-on-central-air-base—state-media/ According to Syrian state media, several missiles fired at the T-4 air base were intercepted on Wednesday. According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Syrian air defenses over the city of Homs engaged a barrage of “rockets” allegedly fired by an Israeli […]
Desperate to display their woke credentials, tennis bosses at the Western and Southern Open in the US have set a dangerous – if altogether predictable – precedent by pandering to the social justice whims of Naomi Osaka. Osaka announced on Thursday that she would, after all, be playing her semifinal […]
Before the NBA kicked off its rebooted season in Disney World, promises were made. The league and Commissioner Adam Silver swore that despite being ensconced in a semipermeable bubble in Orlando, Florida, players would in no way be hindered from participating in the nationwide uprising against police brutality and state-sanctioned […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Republicans opened the third night of their convention with a series of speeches by veterans and officials including vice presidential National Security adviser Keith Kellogg who drove home the theme that President Donald Trump supports the military and is more patriotic than the rival party. Later […]
New York Teachers Union To Strike Against School Reopening August 21, 2020 New York Teachers Union To Strike Against School Reopening2020-08-212020-08-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/teachers-protest-re-opening-from-izod-news-e1597242732951.jpg200px200px Above photo: Teachers protest re-opening from Izod News. Despite Donald Trump’s administration pressure for schools reopening, several states and institutions postponed the resume of learning activities or issued not-in-person strategies […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008201080231822-israeli-aircraft-strike-targets-in-northern-gaza/ Israeli aircraft on Friday local time struck targets in the city of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip. According to reports, occupation warplanes have deployed three missiles in Beit Lahia, continuing attacks of the city for the tenth consecutive day. More details […]
Detroit Teachers Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Safety Strike By Detroit Federation of Teachers. August 20, 2020 Detroit Teachers Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Safety Strike2020-08-202020-08-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/detroit.jpg200px200px Above photo: Detroit Free Press. During an emergency special meeting Wednesday, members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) voted to authorize a potential safety strike […]
Tehran has exhibited an anti-ship and ballistic missile bearing the names of the renowned General Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi ally who perished in a US airstrike in January. Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami referred to the new weapons in a televised speech on Thursday, revealing that a new surface-to-surface […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008181080209725-three-rockets-strike-us-base-in-syrias-deir-ez-zor—report/ According to local authorities in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor Governorate, several rockets landed near the US base set up outside the region’s eponymous capital city, causing no damage or casualties. “On August 18, three small Kaytusha rockets impacted near Conoco base, Syria,” Col. Myles B. […]
Largest Private-Sector Strike Of The Year Is Headed For Union Victory By Jeremy Gantz, In These Times. August 15, 2020 Largest Private-Sector Strike Of The Year Is Headed For Union Victory2020-08-152020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/locals6-e1597505242581.jpg200px200px Above photo: The end of a strike is in sight at Maine’s Bath Iron Works shipyard. Getty Images. After nearly […]
Game Writers Made History By Going On Strike — And Winning By Nicole Carpenter, Polygon. August 15, 2020 Game Writers Made History By Going On Strike — And Winning2020-08-152020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/voltage-workers.jpg200px200px Above photo: From CWA. The 21-day strike ended with an agreement. Twenty-one writers who were contractors that create scripts for the mobile […]
Witness Against Torture Prison Hunger Strike By Witness Against Torture. August 15, 2020 Witness Against Torture Prison Hunger Strike2020-08-152020-08-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/wat-e1597451967424.jpg200px200px Above photo: Fast for Justice – Day 10: The Reverend Billy Talen marched with us to the White House and helped us hold banners during the vigil. Photograph by Justin Norman. Keep […]
General Strike: The Eviction Crisis Escalates August 8, 2020 General Strike: The Eviction Crisis Escalates2020-08-082020-08-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/cancel-rent-banner-e1596898340432.png200px200px Above photo: Cancel Rent banner from GenStrike. With an estimated 17 to 40 million people at risk of losing their homes by the end of September, and with the failure of the federal government to pass […]
The Russian Air Force is still expected to receive the first batch of newest stealth heavy strike unmanned aerial vehicle in 2024, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Head Yuri Slyusar reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. The mass deliveries of the latest Okhotnik (Hunter) stealth heavy strike drone to […]
Numerous vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 are currently being developed across the world, with more than 20 entering the final stages of trials. The World Health Organisation has warned, however, that there may never be a “silver bullet” for the disease, which has infected 18.2 million people worldwide and killed almost 700,000. […]
…by PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The Trump regime is hunkering down on releasing the Soleimani assassination file, as it does not want to risk the blowback from the potential that the imminent threat justification was hyped. VT has historically seen that with total secrecy assured, justification can be invented, […]
Poultry And Prisons: Toward A General Strike For Abolition By Carrie Freshour, Black Agenda Report. July 24, 2020 Poultry And Prisons: Toward A General Strike For Abolition2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/freshour_845x400.jpeg200px200px Poultry-processing plants are critical sites of racial capitalist accumulation produced through an unequal valuation of people and places. “People cannot be released from […]