The year is 2030, and you need to buy some new sunglasses. You browse through your options online. You use augmented reality to try on a few pairs, you find one you like, and now it’s time to pay. This piece is part of CoinDesk’s “Internet 2030” series about the […]
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Life In The US Has The Hallmarks Of A “Low-Grade War Zone” By Patrick Farnsworth, Truthout. September 21, 2020 Life In The US Has The Hallmarks Of A “Low-Grade War Zone”2020-09-212020-09-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/po.png200px200px Above photo: A mailman makes a delivery on September 9, 2020, in San Francisco, California. Santiago Mejia / The San Francisco […]
On Sunday, Tehran called on Washington to “return to the international community and stop the rebellion” following the US’ claims about the reinstatement of all UN anti-Iran sanctions. Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh has lashed out at the US in light of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent move to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009201080517287-the-last-voyage-indian-aircraft-carrier-ship-viraat-sails-to-gujarat-for-final-farewell/ After having served in the UK’s Royal Navy as the HMS Hermes, the vessel was inducted into the Indian Navy back in 1987. In India, the ship was renamed the “Viraat”, which is the Hindi word for “gigantic”. True to its […]
A Cold War Power Play At The Inter-American Development Bank By Yj Liao, Qiao Collective. September 18, 2020 A Cold War Power Play At The Inter-American Development Bank2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/iadb.png200px200px The election of former Trump advisor Mauricio Claver-Carone as president of the Inter-American Development Bank is a sign of the Trump administration’s […]
Wise People Know Winning A War Is No Better Than Losing One By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. September 18, 2020 Wise People Know Winning A War Is No Better Than Losing One2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/liu-bolin-china-guernica.jpg200px200px Above photo: Liu Bolin (China), Guernica, 2016. Dedicated to Soni Prashad, 1929-2020, who spent her life looking […]
There is no shortage of local topics that interest the Kremlin—from the poisoning of an inconvenient dissident, to the events in neighboring Belarus and the ongoing battle against the coronavirus. In the thick of it all, America remains front and center of the Russian state media’s steely focus. In Putin’s […]
A panel of United Nations war crimes investigators has called on Turkey to rein in allied militants in northern Syria, who may have committed a range of war crimes against civilians, including hostage-taking, rape and torture. In a report covering the first half of the current year and published on Tuesday, […]
We Can Still Win The War On Plastic By Michael K. Dorsey, Fair Observer. September 15, 2020 We Can Still Win The War On Plastic2020-09-152020-09-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/pvc-2.jpg200px200px Above photo: PVC pipes © koonsiri boonnak / Shutterstock. As with so many other things in 2020, the full-out war against plastic has abated. For many […]
Trump’s War On Journalism Takes Center Stage By Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof. September 14, 2020 Trump’s War On Journalism Takes Center Stage2020-09-142020-09-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/julian-assange-extradition.jpg200px200px Above photo: From AryNews. Julian Assange’s Extradition Hearing. In the last half-century, journalists James Bamford, Ben Bradlee, Seymour Hersh, and Neil Sheehan were each threatened with prosecution under the […]
Trump and Baghdadi in Syria By Nauman Sadiq for VT Islamabad In an editorial [1] last week, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, lambasted Donald Trump for canceling a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 due to rain, and accused him of disparagingly mentioning military veterans as […]
President Donald Trump took his defense of his intentional downplaying of the coronavirus to another level on Thursday night, comparing his decision to lie to the American public to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill telling London residents to stay calm during World War II bombing campaigns. During a rally in […]
Assange Extradition And The War On Journalism By Chris Hedges, ScheerPost.com. September 10, 2020 Assange Extradition And The War On Journalism2020-09-102020-09-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/shipton-e1599743398832.jpg200px200px Above photo: John Shipton, the father of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, stands in front of a “Don’t Extradite Assange” poster as he arrives at the Old Bailey, London, ahead of […]
The new report comes on the heels of predictions by market analysts and hedge funds that the US dollar could lose over a third of its value against the euro and slide against other currencies in the coming months owing to poor US economic performance and ballooning debt in the […]
Report: So-Called US War On Terror Has Displaced As Many As 59 Million People By Jake Johnson, Commondreams. September 9, 2020 Report: So-Called US War On Terror Has Displaced As Many As 59 Million People2020-09-092020-09-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/us_war_on_terror.jpg200px200px Above photo: Syrian refugees arrive at a humanitarian camp in in Dohuk, Iraq on October 17, […]
Huffington Post: President Donald Trump helped himself to art treasures he fancied in the U.S. ambassador’s historic 1842 mansion in Paris when he visited two years ago —and had them shipped to the White House with him on Air Force One, Bloomberg reported Sunday. Heh. The artworks Trump took from the ambassador’s mansion in Paris […]
War On Journalism Resumes On Monday By Nozomi Hayase, Commondreams. September 7, 2020 War On Journalism Resumes On Monday2020-09-072020-09-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/img_8758-2048×1536-e1599483093295.jpg200px200px Above photo: Assange supporters march on Parliament, February 2020. Joe Lauria. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing is set to start on Monday, Sept. 7 at the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of […]
The Trump administration’s white supremacist propaganda machine removed a video on Saturday that it had posted earlier in the week. The removal came hours after this story, which has been updated, reported on its use of false migrant crime statistics and a fictionalized story about a dark-skinned migrant murdering a […]
… by Preston James Traditionally, the business of starting wars has been a long arduous process of geopolitical and economic manipulations and numerous provocations. With the development of the War on Terror, it has become much faster and easier for the folks that really run things to start wars so […]
EU And France Call On US To Reverse ‘Unacceptable’ Sanctions Against ICC’s War Crimes Investigators September 5, 2020 EU And France Call On US To Reverse ‘Unacceptable’ Sanctions Against ICC’s War Crimes Investigators2020-09-052020-09-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/icc-prosecutor-fatou-bensouda-left-was-sanctioned-wednesday-by-us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-right-by-bas-czerwinski-for-pool-via-reuters-nicholas-kamm-for-pool-via-reuters-e1599327575710.jpg200px200px Above photo: ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (left) was sanctioned Wednesday by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) […]
Why There Should Be A Pivot To Peace, Not War, With China By K. J. Noh, Pivot to Peace Inaugural Webinar. September 5, 2020 Why There Should Be A Pivot To Peace, Not War, With China2020-09-052020-09-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/us-china-cooperation.png200px200px Speech by K. J. Noh, Journalist, Scholar, Peace Activist given on July 11, 2020 […]
AG William Barr’s praise for the police takedown of Michael Reinoehl, the self-avowed ‘Antifa’ who shot dead a Patriot Prayer member in Portland, has left the social media fuming. But his sister told the media she saw it coming. Reinoehl “attempted to escape arrest and produced a firearm” before he […]
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, whose late son Beau was a veteran of the Iraq War, said the latest anonymous claims against President Trump proved he was unfit for office. 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton said she was not surprised by the report. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has defended President […]
The view outside the Chinese technology company ByteDance in Beijing in August 2020. Trump’s executive order outlaws transactions between U.S. citizens and ByteDance. American instructors who work for ByteDance subsidiary GOGOKID said they feel like their jobs are under threat. Emmanuel Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Emmanuel Wong/Getty Images […]