Chris Hedges: The United State’s Death March By Chris Hedges, SheerPost.com. August 10, 2020 | Educate!, Featured Campaign Chris Hedges: The United State’s Death March2020-08-102020-08-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/uncle-sam-with-skelton-e1597073390540.jpg200px200px Above image: Art by Mr. Fish/Original to Scheerpost. Regardless of the outcome, the election will not stop the rise of hypernationalism, crisis cults and other signs […]
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The “uptick in searches” for the porn in question hardly seems surprising in light of all the news about “police and policing these days”, xHamster vice president suggests. As protests swept the United States, sparked by the tragic demise of African-American George Floyd in police custody, a particular type of […]
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Why The United States Shouldn’t Have Nuked Japan By Brett Wilkins, Asia Times. August 7, 2020 Why The United States Shouldn’t Have Nuked Japan2020-08-072020-08-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/hiroshima-aftermath-from-afp-e1596760352274.jpg200px200px Above photo: A survivor walks through the ruins of atomic-bombed Hiroshima in August 1945. AFP. US belief that atomic bombings were necessary to obviate even deadlier invasion of Japan […]
United States Stealing Syrian Oil By Amberin Zaman, and Joe Snell, Al-Monitor. August 4, 2020 United States Stealing Syrian Oil2020-08-042020-08-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/syrian-makeshift-oil-refinery-e1596568182693.jpg200px200px Above photo: A man walks at a makeshift refinery using burners to distill crude oil in the village of Bishiriya in the countryside near the town of Qahtaniya west of Rumaylan (Rmeilan) in […]
A MASSIVE explosion rocked Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday. As reported earlier by Cristina Laila The National News Agency reported that the explosion was at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port. A Powerful explosion has occured in Beirut. It’s not yet clear what caused the blast. #Beirut pic.twitter.com/h7ayT5DKdK — Sputnik […]
Killing Democracy In The United States By William J. Astore, Tom Dispatch. July 28, 2020 Killing Democracy In The United States2020-07-282020-07-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/04/nowar_0-e1586616258533.jpg200px200px Killing Democracy in America. The Military-Industrial Complex as a Cytokine Storm. The phrase “thinking about the unthinkable” has always been associated with the unthinkable cataclysm of a nuclear war, and rightly so. […]
Some 396,000 tons of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) were exported to China in June, according to a Bloomberg report citing data from China’s General Administration of Customs. That figure reflects a 20.7 percent rise compared to May. Statistics showed that US LNG exports to China amounted to 340,000 tons during […]
Is The United States A Failing State? A Failed State? By Richard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century. July 25, 2020 Is The United States A Failing State? A Failed State?2020-07-252020-07-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/second_harvest-e1595687099234.jpg200px200px Above photo: “I’ve never witnessed a system being more strained,” said Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America. “Our estimations are […]
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In a moment that will go down in history, the United Arab Emirates and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre are ready for their first interplanetary voyage: the Emirates Mars Mission. The probe, called Al Amal (which translates to “Hope” from Arabic), is set to launch on a Japanese H-IIA […]
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Millions Don’t Have Access To Safe Water In The United States By Holly Secon, Havovi Cooper, and Hannah Jiang, Business Insider. July 14, 2020 Millions Don’t Have Access To Safe Water In The United States2020-07-142020-07-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/flint-e1594753460139.jpg200px200px Above photo: A water tower at the Flint Water Plant in Flint, Michigan. Rebecca Cook/Reuters. A lack of clean water […]
The Indian Air Force has taken delivery of the last five of 22 Boeing AH-64E(I) Apache Guardian attack helicopters and five of 15 CH-47F(I) Chinook transport helicopters ordered from the United States. The AH-64E(I) Apache Guardian attack helicopters were formally inducted into the Indian Air Force at Air Force Station […]
This Month, Three Countries Are Heading Off to Mars by Tony Reichardt/Smithsonianmag.com. June 2020 Every 26 months or so, when the planets are favorably aligned, spacecraft can be sent to Mars at a discount—in terms of the rocket fuel required. NASA, which has a lot of experience in this area, […]
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 […]
United States: Record 47.2% Of Working-Age Without Jobs July 7, 2020 United States: Record 47.2% Of Working-Age Without Jobs2020-07-072020-07-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/image-1.jpg200px200px Above photo: A pregnant woman waits in line for groceries with hundreds during a food pantry, sponsored by Healthy Waltham for those in need due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, at St. […]
In early January the United States killed General Qassim Soleimani, a top commander of Iran’s al-Quds Force, in an airstrike at Baghdad’s International Airport. The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces. Seven people were reportedly killed in the […]
The Government of Israel has requested to buy approximately 990 million gallons of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency said on Monday in an official notification to Congress. According to a recent service notification, the State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign […]
The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced on 6 July that the State Department has approved a possible sale to Lithuania of 6 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters and related equipment. The potential deal is for 6 UH-60M Black Hawks,14 T700-GE-701D engines (12 installed and 2 spares), as well as other systems […]
Manchester United’s World Cup-winning midfielder Paul Pogba has taken an extra step in his support of the “Black Lives Matter'” campaign which has been central to the recent resumption of the Premier League. The French talisman, who has forged a dynamic partnership with Bruno Fernandes in the heart of the United […]
De-Militarizing The United States By Melvin Goodman, Counterpunch. July 2, 2020 De-Militarizing The United States2020-07-022020-07-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/img_1242-e1593715533340.jpg200px200px Above photo: By Nathaniel St. Clair. More than a half-century ago, exactly one year before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. brilliantly identified the keys to the American political, economic, and social crisis that […]
__________The Economic Collapse blogClose To Half Of All Working Age Adults In The United States Do Not Have A Job Right Now by Michael Snyder There is a lot of talk about the “unemployment rate” these days, but the way that it is calculated has become so convoluted that it […]
Restrictive Immigration Boomerangs Against The United States By Rosa Miriam Elizalde, La Jornada. June 30, 2020 Restrictive Immigration Boomerangs Against The United States2020-06-302020-06-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/02/bk_beckons_border-e1487795281351-150×99.jpg200px200px Above photo: The ‘Wall of Crosses’ along the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales. Jonathan McIntosh/cc/flickr. “How can we keep Donald Trump talking about immigration?” Sam Nunberg asked Roger Stone in […]