It Is Not China, But The Western World That Should Be Defined As The “Real Sick Man” By Andre Vltchek, Informationclearinghouse.info March 27, 2020 It Is Not China, But The Western World That Should Be Defined As The “Real Sick Man”2020-03-272020-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/49629561786_331fb2a8df_c-1-e1585350953743.jpg200px200px Above Photo: sergio santos/Flickr Not long ago, the Wall Street Journal insulted China, calling it “the Real Sick Man of Asia”. China retaliated, and then the U.S. […]
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The Bio-Economic Pandemic And The Western Working Classes By Ingar Solty, Socialistproject.ca March 25, 2020 The Bio-Economic Pandemic And The Western Working Classes2020-03-252020-03-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/corona-recession.png200px200px Above Photo: From Socialistproject.ca “Sick… guess we didn’t move quick enough after all…” — Stephen King, The Stand. The Covid-19 Shock Meets an Impending Economic Recession As of March 2020, the world is back to the future. The global financial crisis of 2007-08, which escalated into a […]
The Covid-19 pandemic lifted the veil on Western democracies’ failures, but the media has had no interest in exposing how liberalism and free-market ideologies are silent killers, French philosopher Michel Onfray told RT France. RT France: Maybe a few more weeks of quarantine, it’s not really a surprise; what is your reaction to that? Onfray: It is obvious that the president of the Republic is stumbling […]
Anyone reading the news in 2014 may remember all those US/UK media articles predicting economic punishments handed out by the West would soon break Russia. Six years later, most Russians are rather blasé about their impact. The vast majority now believe that the sanctions on Russia didn’t create problems for them and their families, according to independent pollster Levada. Moscow daily Vedomosti reported on Tuesday that […]
The head of Russian Parliament’s upper chamber had hidden a glorious space-faring past until the Daily Mail blew the lid off her secret. Or it might just be a fantasy tale propelled by a rush for clicks instead of a Soyuz rocket. Senate Speaker Valentina Matvienko, the Daily Mail writes in their latest insight into Russian politics, is “an MP and Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the […]
Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Since the end of World War II, have we ever seen the entire globe gripped by so much fear? This week, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. and Europe has absolutely exploded, and authorities all over the western world are rushing to shut down public gatherings of all kinds. The NCAA has banned fans from upcoming tournament […]
Trump Illegally Opened Western Colorado Forests To Coal Mining March 8, 2020 Trump Illegally Opened Western Colorado Forests To Coal Mining2020-03-082020-03-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/sunset-road0_forest-service-800-e1583682191543.jpg200px200px Above photo: US Forest Service. Ruling Gives New Hope for Protecting Western Colorado’s Public Lands, Climate. Denver— A federal appeals court today ruled that the U.S. Forest Service illegally approved a loophole allowing the coal industry to despoil unroaded National Forest lands in western Colorado. The […]
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has had his relatives arrested for plotting a coup against him and King Salman with the help of “foreign powers, including the Americans,” Western media claim. RT asked Middle East analysts to weigh in. Three senior members of the Saudi Royal family were arrested on Friday, several Western media outlets have reported, citing sources. The list of detainees includes prince Ahmed bin […]
Turkey’s coastguard rescued around 120 migrants trying to reach a Greek island on three dinghies early on Friday after they said their passage was blocked by Greek coastguard vessels, Reuters reports. Drifting in the darkness in the Aegean Sea and packed into one of the dinghies stranded without a functioning motor, migrants shouted as coastguard vessels approached them off the coast of western Turkey’s Izmir province. The migrants, […]
Turkey’s coastguard rescued around 120 migrants trying to reach a Greek island on three dinghies early on Friday after they said their passage was blocked by Greek coastguard vessels, Reuters reported. Migrants shouted as coastguard vessels approached them off the coast of western Turkey’s Izmir province. The migrants included people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and various African countries.Last week, Ankara said it would no longer stop […]
With Help From US Media, Nicaragua’s Coup-Mongers Aiming For Western Hearts And Minds By Nan McCurdy and Nora Mitchell, Popular Resistance March 2, 2020 With Help From US Media, Nicaragua’s Coup-Mongers Aiming For Western Hearts And Minds2020-03-022020-03-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/nicaragua-novice-reporter-carl-david-goette-luciak.jpg200px200px Above: Novice ‘reporter’, Carl David Goette-Luciak from the Grayzone “How an US anthropologist tied to US regime-change proxies became the mainstream media’s reporter on the ground in Nicaragua.” With its […]
As Usual, Western Media Grossly Distort Syria’s Conflict By Staff , Strategic-culture.org February 26, 2020 As Usual, Western Media Grossly Distort Syria’s Conflict2020-02-262020-02-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/screenshot-81-e1582748781523.png200px200px Above Photo: From Strategic-culture.org Western news media are once again distorting the conflict in Syria with lopsided coverage this week, claiming to focus their concern on a humanitarian crisis in the northwest of the country. Outlets such as the New York Times and the […]
TEHRAN (Sputnik) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday accused Western media of trying to discourage the country’s population from casting their votes in the recent legislative election by using the coronavirus outbreak as a pretext. “This negative propaganda began several months ago, increasing as the election was moving closer. In the last two days, the media, under a pretext of the disease and […]
The dumbing down of America was explained in the 2006 movie Idiocracy, where Private Joe Bauers (played by Luke Wilson), is the definition of an “average American,” takes part in a top-secret hibernation program via the Pentagon, wakes up five centuries later to only discovery just how dumb society has become. Bauers wakes up in the year 2500, and he’s immediately declared the smartest person in the world. […]
Middle East 16:25 GMT 18.02.2020(updated 16:37 GMT 18.02.2020) Get short URL The day before, a 4.2-magnitude hit the Sivrice region of Elazig Province in western Turkey at around 14:42 local time. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) stated on Tuesday that a 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit the town of Kırkağaç, western Turkey at around 19:09 pm local time. No information on casualties or damage has been reported so far. […]
Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson chose Russia for his detox because the country’s medical industry is less dependent on big pharma than North America’s, his daughter Mikhaila told RT’s World Apart program. Peterson, who rose to fame for his vocal and unapologetic opposition to extreme political correctness, has been struggling with an addiction to the drug clonazepam for over a year now. The benzodiazepine-class tranquilizer was prescribed […]
Government-backed Iranian hackers have targeted universities in Europe, the United States and Australia in recent months, consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers has found, Dutch broadcaster NOS and Reuters reported on Friday. It is unclear whether the attempts to break into computer systems, including those of three Dutch universities, were successful. The hackers were attempting to steal academic literature and course material to use in Iranian schools, the NOS said, citing PricewaterhouseCoopers’ cyber security specialist Gerwin Naber. Diplomatic relations between the […]
Taking aim at a “one-size-fits-all” approach to settling conflicts on the world stage, India’s deputy UN envoy said Western nations have imposed a form of “justice” on the world that ignores their own colonial legacies. Historical injustices committed by colonial regimes are “rarely the focus of transitional justice,” Indian Deputy Permanent Representative Nagaraj Naidu told the UN Security Council on Thursday. He was referring to a […]
Shell is still open to receiving offers from potential buyers of the company’s onshore upstream assets in Egypt’s Western Desert, Shell Egypt’s country chair, Khaled Kacem, announced yesterday. The Dutch oil giant said in October it was planning to sell its onshore upstream assets in Egypt’s Western Desert, in an attempt “to focus on expanding its Egyptian offshore gas exploration,” according to Reuters. Kacem did not […]