Immediately following the expulsion of the Spanish colonizers in the mid 1970’s, Western Sahara was occupied by Moroccan forces. With support from the United States, those occupiers, who treat the indigenous Sahrawi People very similarly to the way the Israeli occupiers treat the Palestinians, have been committing human rights abuses. Clearing the FOG speaks with Ruth McDonough and Tim Pluta, who have been staying with the family of a human rights defender, Sultana Khaya, since March 15. Ruth began a hunger strike on May 4 to demand an end to the violence against the Khaya’s and an investigation into the crimes […]
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Above photo: US delegation to Western Sahara. DZ breaking. Washington, D.C./Boujdour, Western Sahara – Ruth McDonough, a US/British citizen, began a hunger strike on Wednesday, May 4, in order to bring attention to human rights abuses occurring in Boujdour, Western Sahara. Dr. Tim Pluta, US/Irish citizen, will be supporting McDonough as caretaker. Both McDonough and Pluta have been guests in the home of the Khaya family since March 15, 2022. Their arrival came on day 482 of an arbitrary detention in which Moroccan agents had periodically broken and entered the Khaya family home, attacked, beaten, and raped Sultana Khaya and her sister, […]
I Know, I Went To See. According to Western media, now copy-paste reporting the same claims, Russian forces apparently secretly buried up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians in “mass graves” in a town just west of the city. Except, it never happened, there is no mass grave. It’s actually just a normal, small, cemetery…no pits, no mass graves, just an orderly cemetery whose grave diggers refuted Western claims. On April 23, with journalist Roman Kosarev, I went to Mangush (Manhush in Ukrainian), found a normal cemetery setting, and spoke with the men responsible for burials, who refused the allegations and said […]
Above Photo: China police liaison team officers train local Solomon Islands police officers in drill. (RSIPF / AFP/Getty Images). The Solomon Islands are in the process of cementing into place a security pact with China. According to an alleged leaked draft, this pact includes provisions allowing the Solomon Islands to request the presence of Chinese police and military personnel to “assist in maintaining social order, protecting people’s lives and property, providing humanitarian assistance, carrying out disaster response, or providing assistance on other tasks” agreed upon by the Solomon Islands and China. There also appear to be provisions for Chinese ships to […]
Above Photo: The Google logo seen on a cellphone with a background saying ‘censored’. (Guillaume Payen / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Preventing Populations From Asking Who Benefits From A Protracted Proxy War, And Who Pays The Price, Is Paramount. A Closed Propaganda System Achieves That. If one wishes to be exposed to news, information or perspective that contravenes the prevailing US/NATO view on the war in Ukraine, a rigorous search is required. And there is no guarantee that search will succeed. That is because the state/corporate censorship regime that has been imposed in the West with regard to this war is […]
Above Photo: A protest against US sanctions in Caracas, Venezuela in August 2019 (Benjamin Norton). Major Switzerland-based bank Credit Suisse forecasts Venezuela’s real GDP growth to be 20% in 2022 and 8% in 2023. This is despite an illegal US blockade, which starved the government of 99% of its revenue, according to the top UN expert on sanctions. The major Switzerland-based bank Credit Suisse has predicted that Venezuela’s real GDP growth will be 20% in 2022. The prominent Western financial institution also forecasted that Venezuela’s real GDP will increase by an additional 8% in 2023. These predictions come despite an illegal […]
Spain Abandons Former Colony In The Western Sahara By Abayomi Azikwe, Popular Resistance. March 26, 2022 Spain Abandons Former Colony In The Western Sahara2022-03-262022-03-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/western-sahara-solidarity-demonstration-in-2007.jpg200px200px Above photo: Western Sahara Solidarity Demonstration, 2007. Provided by author. Endorses Morocco Domination. Polisario Front denounces the announcement by Madrid which is following the lead of the United States. Spain has announced that it has endorsed a proposal by the Kingdom of Morocco to designate the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as an “autonomous” region within the North African state. Former United States President Donald Trump in 2020, recognized Moroccan control over the Western Sahara in an […]
Neo-Nazis In Ukraine Fake Incidents To Gain More ‘Western’ Support March 17, 2022 Neo-Nazis In Ukraine Fake Incidents To Gain More ‘Western’ Support2022-03-172022-03-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220317-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: @shashj / Twitter. Striking satellite imagery taken on Monday of the Mariupol Drama Theatre—hit by an air strike today. 1,200 civilians were sheltering in it. The image shows that the word “children” is written in Russian in large white letters in front of & behind the theatre.(📸: @Maxar) pic.twitter.com/JEuvRadBUK — Shashank Joshi (@shashj) March 16, 2022 The Ukraine claims that such an attack took place. Russia says that the Azov battalion blew up the building. Evidence for ‘hit by an […]
Western Rush To Ban Everything Russian, From Cats To Dostoevsky, Smacks Of Totalitarianism By Joseph Massad, Middle East Eye. March 14, 2022 Western Rush To Ban Everything Russian, From Cats To Dostoevsky, Smacks Of Totalitarianism2022-03-142022-03-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220314-4.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A pro-Ukraine demonstrator protests against Russia outside the venue of the MWC (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona on 1 March, 2022 (AFP) Russophobic campaign straddles the entire western political spectrum, with the full endorsement of cultural elites. Western Russophobic hysteria is now in full force. German political culture, heir of the most totalitarian system the world has ever known, has led to the recent firing of […]
Western Media Accuse China Of Wanting To Do What US Does To Other Countries By Gregory Shupak, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. March 3, 2022 Western Media Accuse China Of Wanting To Do What US Does To Other Countries2022-03-032022-03-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220303-3.jpg200px200px A flurry of recent newspaper articles have denounced what they describe as Chinese imperialism. Such texts are part of a new Cold War media blitz against China that simultaneously serves US imperialism by blessing it or denying that it exists. Last month, the Washington Post (2/15/22) ran an opinion piece by David Von Drehle claiming that, “in a sense, the alliance of democracies” (by which he […]
When the corporate media push for war, one of their main weapons is propaganda by omission. In the case of the recent crisis in Ukraine, Western journalists have omitted key context about the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War, as well as US support for the Maidan coup in 2014 (FAIR.org, 1/28/22). A third and crucial case of propaganda by omission relates to the integration of neo-Nazis into the Ukrainian armed forces (FAIR.org, 3/7/14, 1/28/22). If the corporate media reported more critically about Western support for the neo-Nazi-infested Ukrainian security services, and how these forces function as a front-line proxy of US foreign policy, public support for […]
Unexplained Ordnance: Military weapons testing is destroying Aboriginal heritage sites — a new case brings the fight to the weapons manufacturers themselves. Weapons testing by the Australian military has long threatened Aboriginal land and heritage — but efforts to hold the Australian government accountable have proven largely fruitless. Now, after discovering an unexploded missile at a supposedly protected Indigenous cultural site, Kokatha Badu Andrew and Robert Starkey are filing a landmark complaint with the OECD about the corporate practices of weapons manufacturer Saab. Culturally significant Aboriginal heritage sites continue to be put at risk in Australia, despite the international outcry following […]
Above Photo: 23 million people in Afghanistan are facing acute food insecurity. (Tolo News). The UN has issued an urgent appeal to countries across the world to raise billions of dollars in aid for Afghanistan amid an impending humanitarian catastrophe. On January 11, 2022, the United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths appealed to the international community to help raise $4.4 billion for Afghanistan in humanitarian aid, calling this effort, “the largest ever appeal for a single country for humanitarian assistance.” This amount is required “in the hope of shoring up collapsing basic services there,” said the UN. If this appeal is not met, […]
Above photo: Card sections with the image of the Dictator and his wife during the 88 Seoul Olympics. The Death of South Korean dictator Chun Doo Hwan, signals the consolidation of a false media narrative. This is misleading and dangerous. Speaking ill of the dead General Chun Doo Hwan was the corrupt military dictator that ruled Korea from 1979-1988, before handing off the presidency to his co-conspirator General Roh Tae Woo. Chun took power in a coup in 1979, and during his presidency he perpetrated the largest massacre of Korean civilians since the Korean war. He died on November 23rd, in pampered, sybaritic luxury, impenitent and […]
Data acquired by plane-tracking site FlightRadar confirms redeployment of at least two Russian A-50 Aerial Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft to the country’s western border. According to an account by a user who posted one of the FlightRadar screengrabs to the Russian Telegram social media site, two Russian A-50 aircraft taking off from Ivanovo (150 miles northeast of Moscow) and landing at Rostov-on-Don (close to the border with Ukraine) and Kaliningrad (Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania). The A-50 AEW&C is intended to detect and identify airborne and sea objects determining their position, bearing, and speed. The object data collected […]
The New US War On Western Sahara By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. November 17, 2020 The New US War On Western Sahara2020-11-172020-11-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/sahara-e1605643331531.jpg200px200px Above photo: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen (left) and his wife Janet Langhart Cohen (center) meet with King Mohammed VI, of Morocco, at his palace in Marrakech, on Feb. 11, 2000. DoD photo by R. D. Ward. I’m not misusing the word “war” to mean something like the war on Christmas or drugs or some TV pundit whom somebody else insulted. I mean war. There is a new U.S. war in Western Sahara, being waged by Morocco […]
The Huge New Trade Deal ‘Western’ Media Do Not Like To Talk About November 15, 2020 The Huge New Trade Deal ‘Western’ Media Do Not Like To Talk About2020-11-152020-11-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/rcep-e1605481536466.jpg200px200px November 14, 2020 – Tomorrow a new trade agreement between 15 Asian states will be signed. It will soon be seen as a milestone in the global economic history. But only very few ‘western’ media have taken note of it or of the huge consequences the new agreement will have. The agreement is also a huge victory for China over U.S. hegemony in Asia: Fifteen Asia-Pacific nations including China and Japan plan to sign […]
BERLIN (Sputnik) – Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain have expressed concern about Israel’s plans to built nearly 5,000 housing units in the occupied West Bank and called on Tel Aviv to stop all settlement-related activities in the region, according to the joint communique by the foreign ministries of these states. “We are deeply concerned by the decision taken by the Israeli authorities to advance more than 4,900 settlement building units in the occupied West Bank. The expansion of settlements violates international law and further imperils the viability of a two-state solution to bring about a just and lasting […]
How Russia’s five-year long involvement in Syria war changed balance of power in Mid East & beyond …from Sputnik News, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: VT has had to do most of our work at long distance due to budgetary and time constraints, plus the physical wear and tear of road trips, which can include having to get through Homeland Security when coming back. The Stew Webb attempt to set us up with being searched on one return blew up in their faces when the “leak” that Gordon had traveled to Syria to train ISIS snipers and that he was running guns […]
by Phil Butler, Cyprus, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: It is not news that Russia bashing has an army of media personages engaged in the well funded work, including more stink tanks than you could count. This has gotten worse with social media, where the profiling has substantiated that you really can control what people think to a great degree based on how many times they hear your message, no matter how shallow […]
RIP Andre Vltchek: ‘Western Imperialism Is World’s Biggest Problem’ By Peter Koenig, Information Clearinghouse. September 27, 2020 RIP Andre Vltchek: ‘Western Imperialism Is World’s Biggest Problem’2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/andrevltcheck-e1601216460368.jpeg200px200px André, my good friend and comrade is no more. We worked on several investigative projects together. André’s professional rigor, sharpness of understanding, vision and ability to connecting the dots is exemplary. We shared some unforgettable moments, when we followed a refugee trail from Bodrum, Turkey, to the Greek Island of Kos in the Aegean Sea – onwards to Athens. I’m deeply shocked and saddened beyond words by André’s sudden passing. In the night from […]
According to the hacktivist collective, the files provide, for the first time, “a detailed map” on the British intelligence services’ clandestine operations in Syria to fund, arm and provide a sanitized, publicly acceptable media voice to an array of opposition militants and jihadists seeking to topple the Assad government. Anonymous, the international hacking group behind the 2018 publication of documents detailing the UK government’s Integrity Initiative media manipulation project, has released a new trove of dozens upon dozens of files on a separate, clandestine project by the British and American governments to handcraft a broad, pro-opposition, anti-Assad propaganda narrative which has […]
With only several weeks left before the 3 November presidential election, the contradictions between the Democrats and the Republicans are peaking in the stand-off between Trump and Biden. The president faces pressure from Democrats who criticise him for downplaying the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, the state of the country’s economy and his response to nationwide anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests. Sharing with Sputnik her opinion on the ongoing presidential race, conservative pundit DeAnna Lorraine rolled out her concerns on a possible “chaos and anarchy” that “the left” might cause in America, and advocated Trump policies amid the challenges of his […]
Guo Wengui – Too Anti-Chinese Even For Western Establishment By Andre Vltchek, Popular Resistance. September 23, 2020 Guo Wengui – Too Anti-Chinese Even For Western Establishment2020-09-232020-09-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/guowengui-e1600896620271.jpg200px200px Above photo: Don Emmert/ AFP via Getty Images. NOTE: I am sad to announce that Andre Vltchek, 57, died yesterday unexpectedly in his sleep while traveling in Turkey. I had developed an email correspondence with Andre over the past few years, since we interviewed him on Clearing the FOG about the uprisings going on around the world. Andre traveled constantly to show us what was happening on the ground. He described himself as a “revolutionary, […]
The Black Lives Matter activism group has deleted a page called “What We Believe” from its website, disappearing such objectives as disrupting the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” as the Nov. 3 election nears. The manifesto was published on BLM’s “What We Believe” page at least as long ago as on February 2 but was no longer available as of last Friday. The page is now blank, except for an error message indicating that it can’t be found. BLM gave no explanation for its missing manifesto; nor did it offer a comparable replacement, forcing all those curious about the movement’s goals to […]
Earlier, Moscow and Manila struck an agreement to jointly work on clinical trials of the first coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V. The Philippine president has even volunteered to be the first to test the Russian vaccine in his country. President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has said in a statement that his country will prioritise coronavirus vaccines produced in Russia and China, should they be “as good as any other in the market”. He added that with the vaccine’s procurement, should it be available, the country would be “back to normal” by the end of the year. Duterte explained narrowing his selection […]
Cutting Through Western Imperialist Propaganda About China, Plus A Tribute To Kevin Zeese By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. September 14, 2020 Cutting Through Western Imperialist Propaganda About China, Plus A Tribute To Kevin Zeese2020-09-142020-09-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/beijing-shopping.jpg-e1600118325369.jpg200px200px As US empire wanes and China’s economy and global reach grow, the United States has entered a Cold War with China that includes economic warfare, military antagonism, and a misinformation campaign. Western imperialist media promote myths designed to build public opposition to China and support for this US aggression. This leaves even those on the left confused. Rarely do we hear from Chinese […]
Nearly two decades after the 2002 Hayman fire in Colorado, this high-severity burn area near Cheesman Lake is still treeless. Michael Elizabeth Sakas/CPR News hide caption toggle caption Michael Elizabeth Sakas/CPR News Nearly two decades after the 2002 Hayman fire in Colorado, this high-severity burn area near Cheesman Lake is still treeless. Michael Elizabeth Sakas/CPR News After a quick hike off a steep dirt road, forest ecologist Marin Chambers stands surrounded by grasses, shrubs and blackened bare trees. This is part of where the Hayman fire — until last month, Colorado’s largest in recorded history — burned northwest of Colorado Springs […]
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/india/202009071080393532-chinas-western-theatre-command-claims-retaliation-after-indian-troops-use-bullets-on-patrol-team/ According to a People’s Liberation Army spokesperson, Chinese border defence troops were forced to take countermeasures following what he described as Indian army illegally crossing the line. Source link
In late July, Chinese President Xi Jinping underscored the importance of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) developing its drone warfare capacity to add to the PLAAF’s fleet of “advanced aircraft”. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) remains “the largest aviation forces in the region” and the third biggest in the world, the Pentagon revealed in a recently released report on China’s military power. “The PLAAF is rapidly catching up to Western air forces across a broad range of capabilities and competencies”, the report claimed, referring to the Chinese Air Force’s “2,500 total aircraft and approximately 2,000” combat […]
An endorsement from the bin Laden family is hardly the most coveted prize on the campaign trail, but Noor bin Ladin, niece of the 9/11 mastermind, has backed President Trump, claiming only he can save Western civilization. “ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration,” bin Ladin, who spells her surname different from her infamous uncle but has never made her relation a secret, told the New York Post on Saturday. “Trump has shown he protects America and us by extension from foreign threats by obliterating terrorists at the root and before they get a chance to strike,” bin Ladin added. Born in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/16/1080248188_0:0:2837:1596_1200x675_80_0_0_1bf9d73a452cf783a34fdc6c6a24c853.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009031080356435-head-of-russian-intelligence-service-on-navalny-western-provocation-cannot-be-ruled-out/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A provocation of Western special services cannot be ruled out in the situation with Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin said Thursday. “This cannot be excluded,” Naryshkin said when asked if the situation with Navalny could be a provocation of Western special services. Regarding the statement of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that Germany’s claim of Navalny’s poisoning was based on false information, the SVR head said that “if president Lukashenko said so, he had reasons to do so.” “I for one, […]
A new narrative being spun in Western media claims Russian President Vladimir Putin is the mastermind who poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group, reviving an old trope used to stoke Russophobia. However, one journalist advises not jumping to conclusions before all the facts are known. Kevin Zeese, editor of Popular Resistance, told Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits hosts Bob Schlehuber and Michelle Witte that Russia, China and other “targets of Western foreign policy” have to defend themselves from the US on a number of fronts – including the media. “German government spokesman Steffen […]
On 12 August, Russia become the first country in the world to register a vaccine against the new coronavirus. The fact that the vaccine was approved before large-scale safety trials prompted disbelief on both sides of the Atlantic – but now health authorities there say they might do the same. A Russian official linked to COVID-19 vaccine research has hit back at the United States and United Kingdom’s about-face on vaccine approval. Kirill Dmitriev, director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, told reporters on Monday that the fund “notes the desire of the US and British authorities to follow the fast-track […]
Belarus Opposition Candidate Revealed As Western Regime Change Puppet By Steve Topple, Peace Data. August 25, 2020 Belarus Opposition Candidate Revealed As Western Regime Change Puppet2020-08-252020-08-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/st-e1598397061790.jpg200px200px Above photo: Svetlana Tikhanovskayas (center). AP. Belarus’s political and social landscape grows more complex and precarious as time passes, with the aftermath of the recent election still unfolding. But what has already become apparent is that in this game of political chess, the people will not be winners. Because now-deleted webpages reveal opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya may be little more than a Western regime change puppet. And the end result will offer no solutions for […]
The lion’s share of cyberattacks around the world originate from the US – a fact the West avoids mentioning too often. That’s according to.a high-ranking Russian official, citing research conducted by cybersecurity companies. Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Oleg Khramov said in an interview that the majority of hacks are conducted utilizing American IT infrastructure. From 2016-19, 40 to 75 percent of all attacks were launched from US territory, while Russia was home to no more than two to seven percent of such cases, Khramov told the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty. This “clearly demonstrates to any sensible person” that […]
The ongoing Republican National Convention has re-nominated incumbent US President Donald Trump and his vice president, Mike Pence, for the presidential ticket in the 2020 November election. Charlie Kirk, a pro-Trump student activist and a founder of Turning Point USA, called US President Donald Trump a “bodyguard of western civilization” during a speech at the beginning of the Republican National Convention. “Speaking to you in my personal capacity tonight as a 26-year-old, I see the angst of young people, as well as the challenges facing new parents. I am here tonight to tell you, to warn you, that this election is a […]
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/europe/202008221080245952-lukashenko-says-deployment-of-troops-on-belarus-western-borders-was-his-main-decision-in-25-years/ Earlier in the day, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko instructed the country’s military command to take “the most stringent measures” to protect the territorial integrity in light of mass anti-government protests. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday that putting the army on combat alert and deploying troops on the country’s western borders was his main decision in 25 years. The statement was made after Lukashenko arrived at a military training area near the western Belarusian city of Grodno earlier in the day for an inspection ahead of planned military drills. He earlier warned of the […]
Beirut Explosion, Western Imperialism And Media Misinformation By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. August 17, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Podcast Beirut Explosion, Western Imperialism And Media Misinformation2020-08-172020-08-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/lebanon-1-e1597682245748.jpg200px200px On August 4, 2020, an explosion of tons of ammonium nitrate being stored at the port of Beirut Lebanon ripped through the city killing 0ver 170 people and injuring 6,000 people. This happened at a time when Beirut was already suffering an economic collapse and the COVID-19 pandemic. We speak with Rania Khalek, a Lebanese-American independent journalist who was in Beirut, about what it was like during and after the explosion, […]
On Saturday, the Belarusian president ordered an air assault brigade to be transferred from Vitebsk region in the country’s northeast to Grodno region near Belarus’s borders with Poland and Lithuania after expressing concerns about increasing military activity in those two NATO nations. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has announced that a buildup of NATO forces, including tanks and aircraft, is taking place on his country’s western borders, and warned that he will not allow foreign powers to interfere in the country’s internal political affairs. “Look around: there are tanks, there aircraft are taking off 15 minutes from our borders. And this is […]
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said an air assault brigade will be moved to the country’s border, amid massive anti-government protests that the leader has dubbed a “color revolution” directed by foreign agents. Speaking to state media on Saturday, Lukashenko said he was “worried” that NATO was carrying out military exercises in Poland and Lithuania, regarding it as an arms build-up on Belarus’ borders. The president said that Belarus “cannot calmly observe this” and do nothing, adding that he has ordered the transfer of an airborne brigade from Vitebsk to Grodno. Lukashenko also slammed foreign countries which he said were attempting […]
The sun sets through smoke created by the Ranch Fire on Aug. 13, 2020, in Azusa, Calif. A heat wave has prompted electrical providers to issue the first rolling blackouts in the state since 2001. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP The sun sets through smoke created by the Ranch Fire on Aug. 13, 2020, in Azusa, Calif. A heat wave has prompted electrical providers to issue the first rolling blackouts in the state since 2001. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP California electrical providers instituted rolling blackouts Friday night – the first since 2001–as an intense and prolonged heat […]
Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley speaking at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colo., last October. Matthew Brown/AP hide caption toggle caption Matthew Brown/AP Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley speaking at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colo., last October. Matthew Brown/AP Republicans up for reelection in key western states could be facing an uncomfortable vote soon as President Trump’s controversial nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management is expected to come before the Senate for confirmation. Last week, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee received final documents and […]
BEIJING (Sputnik) – The joint statement of the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States on Hong Kong is yet another instance of interference in China’s domestic affairs, the Chinese embassy in Canada said in a statement on Monday. “On 9 August, the foreign ministers of Canada and other countries made a statement which once again contained irresponsible comments on the Hong Kong affairs and amounted to gross interference in China’s domestic affairs. China expresses its strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to this,” the Chinese embassy said. Postponing the elections was out of public […]
Scott Hobgood and Jason Niupulusū grew up in Webster County, Ky., and joined NPR’s David Greene for a roundtable discussion about race and social justice. Scott Hobgood, Jason Niupulusū hide caption toggle caption Scott Hobgood, Jason Niupulusū Scott Hobgood and Jason Niupulusū grew up in Webster County, Ky., and joined NPR’s David Greene for a roundtable discussion about race and social justice. Scott Hobgood, Jason Niupulusū If you spend any time on social media, you know it can be a war of words out there. Whether it’s the debate over wearing masks, the racial unrest sweeping across the U.S. or the […]
After a Russian TV channel loosely inspired by America’s Fox News was blocked by video-streaming service YouTube earlier this week, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says Western web giants should be treated with a “low degree of trust.” Dmitry Peskov emphasized that the companies are completely unaccountable and can do as they please. He said the public needs to be aware that they can be “thrown out of there along with their account” at any moment.Tsargrad TV – launched with the help of ex-Fox producer Jack Hanick in 2015 – announced that the Google subsidiary blocked its account on July 28 over an […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107976/89/1079768987_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_c9784b7804aac6e3bafa4d9ee468a5a2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202007261079985566-district-in-western-mongolia-on-quarantine-over-suspected-bubonic-plague-case-reports-suggest/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Mongolia has indefinitely put a district in western Zavkhan province on quarantine over a suspected bubonic plague case, the Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, citing local authorities. The patient in question is a 39-year-old resident of the Uliastai district. He experienced high fever, headache and muscle aches after eating marmot meat with his family a week ago. He has been isolated at a local hospital. At least nine people who had come into contact with him have been isolated at homes. Earlier, several herds were diagnosed with bubonic plague in […]
On 10 July, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, after a Turkish court ruled that the site’s secularisation was unlawful. Following an outcry over the site’s status change Turkish observers have weighed up the possible political consequences of Ankara’s decision both domestically and internationally. Consecrated as a Christian cathedral in 537, Hagia Sophia (“Holy Wisdom”) was turned into a Muslim house of worship after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. However, nearly 500 years later, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder and first president of the Turkish Republic, transformed it into a museum as […]
Ebola spreading in western Congo with nearly 50 confirmed cases: WHO Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay, Editing by Hereward Holland and Andrew Cawthorne/Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) – Ebola is spreading in western Democratic Republic of Congo, with nearly 50 known cases across a large region bordering the Republic of Congo and Central African Republic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Since authorities announced the outbreak on June 1, 48 cases have been confirmed in Congo’s Equateur province, with a further three probable cases and a total of 20 deaths, WHO’s top emergencies expert Mike Ryan said. “This is still a very […]
The former Trump campaign PR pro suggested the western world is actively building a case against Beijing, attempting to prove that the novel virus “leaked from a Wuhan virus lab”, claims denounced by China as a bunch of “conspiracy theories”. Staffers from the Wuhan laboratory, which has now taken centre stage in the debate about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, “defected” and landed in the hands of Western intelligence, Donald Trump’s former campaign strategist Steve Bannon told the Mail on Sunday. In an exclusive interview with the British media outlet, Bannon claimed that spies, who he said also have “compelling evidence”, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107980/62/1079806241_0:179:2049:1331_1200x675_80_0_0_1340bb78fac1b95bdb50a23feb2749db.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202007061079806140-another-suspected-case-of-bubonic-plague-reportedly-identified-in-western-mongolia/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Another suspected case of the bubonic plague has been identified in western Mongolia, the Chinese official Xinhua agency reports on Monday, citing the Mongolian Ministry of Health. According to the agency, a 15-year-old resident of Ulaankhus, in the province of Bayan-Olgii, was taken to hospital on Sunday suspected of having the disease after eating marmot meat. Dorj Narangerel, a representative of the Mongolian Ministry of Health, urged citizens during a press conference not to hunt marmots or consume marmot meat, the agency reported. Two cases of the disease were confirmed in […]
By: Andre Vltchek for VT Let us start with the punchline: “Mass media in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia is depicting the People’s Republic of China as ‘capitalist’ because ‘capitalist’ is now a dirty word. Even people in the West see ‘market economy’ as some sort of filth.” To call China ‘capitalist’ is to smear China. It is as if to say: “Chinese people are precisely like us. China is doing to the world the same injustice, committing the same crimes as we have been doing for 500+ years.” Western, but particularly the British and the U.S. demagogy, […]
The Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile June 30, 2020 The Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile2020-06-302020-06-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/new-york-times-building-1-e1561633886615.jpg200px200px All western mass media outlets are now shrieking about the story The New York Times first reported, citing zero evidence and naming zero sources, claiming intelligence says Russia paid out bounties to Taliban-linked fighters in Afghanistan for attacking the occupying forces of the US and its allies in Afghanistan. As of this writing, and probably forevermore, there have still been zero intelligence sources named and zero evidence provided for this claim. As we discussed yesterday, the only correct response to unsubstantiated […]
“You will not fear the terrors of the night nor the arrow that flies during the day, the plague that wanders in darkness, the extermination that devastates at noon“Holy Bible – Psalm 90 by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione Originale in Italiano WUHAN-GATES – REPORT 14. «I want to thank Tanzanians of all faiths. We have been praying and fasting for God to save us from the pandemic that has afflicted our country and the world. But God has answered us. I believe, and I’m certain that many Tanzanians believe, that the corona disease has been eliminated by […]
Decentralized lending platform Cred has welcomed former National Security Agency computer scientist Bethany De Lude and Western Union executive Daniel Goldstein as chief information security officer (CISO) and chief technology officer (CTO) respectively, the firm announced Monday. Dan Schatt, Cred’s chief executive, told CoinDesk the crypto community stands to benefit a great deal from a financial infrastructure that supports the banking of tokens. That the new executives were willing to come in from the traditional financial sector is indicative of an overall maturing of the blockchain community, and a growing consensus that the technology is here to stay, he claimed. “You […]
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has accused the western media of “taking his words out of context” after numerous articles covered him equating LGBT “ideology” to communism, insisting he supports equality. Duda’s Saturday campaign speech, in which he stated that LGBT is an ideology even more sinister than “Bolshevism” was picked up by numerous outlets worldwide. The president seeks re-election and conservative voters constitute his base as he is expected to face liberal Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski, known for his pro-LGBT position as the main rival. Yet, extensive foreign media coverage has somehow put him on the defensive. “Yet again, as part […]
How Western Media Confines US Imperialism To The Past By John McEvoy, Brazil Wire. June 10, 2020 How Western Media Confines US Imperialism To The Past2020-06-102020-06-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/dilma-rousseff-with-hugo-chavez-during-the-inauguration-braslia.-by-adriano-machado-for-afp-and-veja-e1591808795735.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Dilma Rousseff with Hugo Chavez during the inauguration, Brasília. By Adriano Machado for AFP and VEJA. Paralysis Of The Present. Venezuela demonstrates the Western media tendency to ignore and erase US imperialism in the present day, only to acknowledge it in hindsight, when it is already too late and the damage is done. This is especially true in Latin America, not least in Brazil, where the US role in the 2016 coup against Dilma […]
US and allied media outlets seem frustrated that the Covid-19 pandemic isn’t killing more Russians, so they’re claiming the death toll is higher, despite a lack of evidence – while insisting Moscow is the one spreading disinfo. When the number of confirmed coronavirus cases started accelerating in Russia last month, western media pounced, presuming the increase would be followed by the kind of spike in casualties seen in the US and many European countries. That hasn’t happened, and the same outlets that were licking their lips waiting for the Russian body count to explode now seem to feel cheated. “Experts want […]
Two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer strategic bombers, after a transatlantic flight, conducted training bombing at the Tapa training ground in Estonia, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. According to a 28th Bomb Wing press release, the flight, which lasted more than 25 hours, included integration and interoperability training with Danish F-16s overflying Bornholm Island in the Baltic Sea. The B-1s also worked with Estonian Joint Terminal Air Controllers to provide training with inert devices at Tapa Range before conducting a formation low approach at Tallinn Airport, Estonia. Russian news agency Interfax said that Tapa training ground is located close to Russia’s […]