Above Photo: Ukrainian Sports Bar (Image: BBC Panorama 2012 documentary “Stadiums of Hate”) The Biden administration is dusting off the same playbook that gave arms and money to jihadists in Afghanistan and Syria. Now the beneficiaries of American foreign policy largesse are white supremacists from around the world who have made their way to Ukraine. Hilary Clinton declared during a February 28, 2022 interview with MSNBC that the model for Ukraine should be Afghanistan where the U.S. armed the Afghan mujahideen as part of the U.S. strategy to create a “Vietnamese quagmire .” For Clinton and some elements of the foreign policy community, it […]
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Ukraine Exposes White Supremacist Foreign Policy By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. March 3, 2022 Ukraine Exposes White Supremacist Foreign Policy2022-03-032022-03-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220303-6.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Carlos Latuff. White supremacy is at the heart of US war propaganda. The exhortation to “stand with Ukraine” is no exception to this rule. By now everyone knows that Ukraine’s flag is blue and yellow. It is impossible to miss as the Empire State Building in New York, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris have all been bathed in those colors. Nearly every city and town across the United States has followed suit and politicians ranging from local legislators […]
Above Photo: French Military Bases in Africa. NATO is the means of continuing colonial aggressions against African countries. Considering the public media attention and concern about possible expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it is worth reminding people about NATO’s bloody history in Africa. NATO was founded in 1949 after WWII at a time when African countries were still under the yoke of colonialism. In fact most of the original founders of NATO had been Africa’s principal colonizers such as UK, France, Portugal, Belgium, Italy and the USA as lead NATO organizer and dominant partner. The organization was established […]
For President’s Day week, Clearing the FOG brings back this 2020 interview with Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report. She is the author of “Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents” that chronicles how every president, even the ‘good ones,’ has upheld the white supremacy upon which the United States was founded and how social movements have been the only effective tool to bring about meaningful social change. Kimberley also urges Black America to break with the Democrats in order to build political power. In addition to current news and analysis, this program contains a segment by Paul Tulloch of Ottawa who […]
Above Photo: Proud Boys in MAGA hats at a neo-Confederate rally in 2019 / credit: Anthony Crider/Flickr The current crisis in Ukraine had its beginnings in 2014, when the U.S. allied itself with right wing, white supremacist forces to overthrow an elected government. Supposed leftists in this country were largely silent about the danger and were themselves supportive of white supremacist politics carried out by the U.S. and its NATO partners. Note: This opinion was published as “Left-Right White Solidarity?” in Common Dreams in 2014, shortly after the U.S.-backed neo-Nazi coup in Ukraine, in response to solidarity emerging between left-wing and right-wing people of […]
Above Photo: New recruits take an oath of allegiance before being sent to the eastern part of Ukraine to join the ranks of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in Kiev, Ukraine. Sergei Chuzavkov / AP. There’s an increasingly surreal air regarding the war scare over Ukraine. The original roles in the drama seem to be reversed. Back in December, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Oleksii Reznikov was warning that “not provoking Russia—that strategy does not and will not work,” claiming that Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 because NATO hadn’t let it join. In fact, Georgia began that war by attacking South Ossetia, driving tens […]
Above Photo: White supremacists march with tiki torchs through the University of Virginia campus on the night before the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11, 2017. (Zach D Roberts / NurPhoto Via Getty Images). When Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.’s plummet toward authoritarianism. As a result, we are at this moment in a state of free-fall, the culmination of a state-level Legislative And Enforcement Landscape that directly mirrors Jim Crow — or as fascism scholar Jason Stanley recently put it, “America is now in […]
Above Photo: USAID Biodiversity & Forestry / Flickr.com. As forest fires and floods rage in an unprecedented fashion across the planet, world leaders are scrambling to devise sweeping solutions to protect the last remaining vestiges of the planet’s biodiversity. But what are the assumptions underpinning the proposals being put forward? Vijay Kolinjivadi and Gert Van Hecken examine the impacts and manifestations of the “White Savor” logic for nature conservation that prevails in the world today, and how it is informed by damaging and outdated notions of securitization, cultural appropriation, and displacement. There is no denying that the world’s biodiversity is under […]
NOTE: Listen to this Clearing the FOG interview with Bruce Gagnon about the US’ support for Nazis in Ukraine and provocation of Russia. – Margaret Flowers With a bold and completely self-sabotaging diplomatic blunder, one which fails on every level including the least rigorous sanity test, this past Wednesday the U.S. was one of two nations to vote against a UN resolution designed to discourage the glorification and promotion of Nazi ideology. The other nation was Ukraine, which currently is overrun and effectively ruled by Jew-hating, Russia-hating, LGBT-hating neo-Nazis, who openly flaunt their allegiance to Stepan Bandera, a collaborator with the Third Reich during WWII. The reason the […]
Above photo: A poster with a Nazi swastika printed on a Russian flag and reading “The colours of the occupiers” has been glued on Independence Square in Kiev on March 12. Yury Kirnichny/AFP – Getty Images. Only the United States and Ukraine voted against a UN Resolution denouncing the “glorification of Nazism.” History proves that racism in all its forms is foundational to this country and continues to be affirmed. Writing these words during the Thanksgiving “celebration” is sadly ironic as it illustrates the contradictions of a culture that has yet to reconcile itself with its colonial and white supremacist ideologies, […]
Above Photo: Ian Prior, executive director of Fight for Schools, leads a rally against critical race theory in Loudoun County VA. Nathaniel Cline, Loudoun Times-Mirror. Critical Race Theory and Wokeness. Anti-Black racism is at the heart of the debate on Critical Race Theory and use of the word “woke” as a pejorative. The white peoples party, republicans, have new weapons, and democrats, the putative black peoples party, shove their constituents under the bus. Appeals to racism are once again the keys to electoral victory. Perpetual fear of something is characteristic of the white American psyche. Especially when the fear is about […]
Above Photo: This undated screenshot taken from a video shows the arrest of Miko Peled by Israeli forces during a protest in occupied Palestine. A Chink In My Privilege I Have Been Questioned Enough Times To Know That Things Are Not Going Well When The Officer Looks At Your Passport And Asks You Questions For Which The Answers Are Written In The Passport Itself. Jerusalem — “I need a cell for a Jew,” the Israeli cops driving the jeep called into the jail. I was the Jew they were referring to and the jail was the infamous “Muskobia,” in the heart of […]
Above Photo: Biden Administration Stays Silent Nearly 400 people have been arrested at the White House since Monday to pressure President Biden to take aggressive climate action and halt fossil fuel projects Washington, D.C. — Demonstrators returned to the White House on Wednesday morning for the third day of the “People vs. Fossil Fuels” mobilization, keeping up the pressure on President Biden to declare a climate emergency and stop all new fossil fuel projects. Under a giant banner that read “Biden: Our Communities Can’t Wait,” hundreds of people marched to the White House this morning to highlight the dangerous ongoing impacts […]
Above Photo: Indigenous groups and their allies march to the White House. Demands President Biden Declare A Climate Emergency And Stop Approving Fossil Fuel Projects. “Joe Biden, you have been making false promises. You stopped Keystone XL — what about DAPL, Line 5, MVP?” said Joye Braun of Indigenous Environmental Network, who was arrested at today’s action. “This is indigenous land. Indigenous Peoples will be here for 1000s of years. Biden, can you hear us now?” The demonstrations marked the first day of “People vs. Fossil Fuels,” a week of demonstrations and civil disobedience organized by Build Back Fossil Free, a coalition of […]
The newly created AUKUS alliance is the latest futile effort to end China’s rise as an economic super power and competitor for global influence. The United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have formed an alliance called “AUKUS” to create, in the words of Australia PM Scott Morrison, “a partnership where our technology, our scientists, our industry, our defense forces are all working together to deliver a safer and more secure region that ultimately benefits all.” AUKUS is primarily a military relationship but is said to include broad economic measures that undoubtedly seek to counter China’s rise in all spheres of development. […]
The newly created AUKUS alliance is the latest futile effort to end China’s rise as an economic super power and competitor for global influence. The United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have formed an alliance called “AUKUS” to create, in the words of Australia PM Scott Morrison, “a partnership where our technology, our scientists, our industry, our defense forces are all working together to deliver a safer and more secure region that ultimately benefits all.” AUKUS is primarily a military relationship but is said to include broad economic measures that undoubtedly seek to counter China’s rise in all spheres of development. […]
Above Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci “Does Not Present Sufficient Cause” President Joe Biden has been touring climate-ravaged areas of America, warning that climate change is a “code red” emergency for the planet. And yet, his administration has continued to boost fossil fuel projects and is now preparing to vastly expand offshore drilling. The White House argues that a court order it opposes and is appealing requires federal officials to lease more than 78 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico for fossil fuel exploration. Environmental groups, however, assert that federal law gives the administration broad discretion over whether or not to […]
The Pentagon’s top arms broker, Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced that the U.S. State Department has cleared a possible of $132.2 million sale of 155mm artillery rounds to Australia, including White Phosphorous projectile munitions. On December 4, 2020, the U.S. Military’s Agency reported that the U.S. State Department had approved the sale of 155mm Ammunition and Accessories, and related equipment to Australia. The proposed sale package includes the following according to the DSCA notice: M825A1 155mm White Phosphorous projectile munitions, M782 Multi-Option Fuze for Artillery, M762A1 electronic-timed fuzes, M231 and M232A2 propelling charges, percussion primers, technical publications and books, technical data […]
Trump’s Zealots: White Supremacists And Evangelicals By Gilbert Mercier, Telesur English. November 2, 2020 Trump’s Zealots: White Supremacists And Evangelicals2020-11-022020-11-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/trump.jpg200px200px Above photo: Social Distancing = Communism: this is the ideological angle of Trump’s most belligerent storm-troopers. Gilbert Mercier. Gearing up for a New Civil War? What the gun-toting, Trump 2020 and Confederate-flag waving Trump have been organized and likely paid to do, is to make sure the U.S. goes back to work as soon as possible. Let us not be naive. If President Trump recently called on his adoring followers to “liberate” states like Michigan, Virginia, Maryland*, and Minnesota, which all happen […]
The idea of living and traveling in a van may evoke images of long-haired hippies and flower power, but now a new generation is embarking on this lifestyle. From a desire to live as a digital nomad to affordable housing shortages in major cities, there are a variety of reasons why 21st century van dwellers decide to hit the road. This year in particular has seen a rise in the popularity of vanlife as people searched for alternative ways to travel amidst the coronavirus pandemic. But with increased popularity also comes the reality that the world of vanlife seriously lacks diversity. […]
After giving a deadline to the Trump administration to reach an agreement for a Covid-19 stimulus plan, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) slammed officials for wording changes she says are “unacceptable.” In a letter sent out to House Democrats on Sunday, the House Speaker did not sound optimistic on a stimulus deal being reached anytime soon. The specific disagreement at the moment appears to come down to funding for coronavirus testing and contact tracing. “The White House had assured Democrats that they would accept our language on testing with a ‘light touch,’” Pelosi wrote, presumably referring to a Saturday talk with Secretary […]
The Democratic House Speaker said if a deal isn’t reached by Tuesday evening, a package won’t be likely before Nov. 3. Source link
Twitter has removed a tweet from White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Scott Atlas questioning the effectiveness of mask mandates, claiming the message violated the platform’s Covid-19 Misleading Information Policy. “Twitter seems to be censoring the science if it goes against their own goals of public indoctrination,” Atlas told Newsweek on Sunday about his tweet being removed. In the original tweet, Atlas wrote, “Masks work? NO,” before citing various examples and quotes from health officials pushing back against the protection face coverings can provide. Also on rt.com Kansas man arrested for threatening to ‘kidnap’ and ‘slash’ the throat of Wichita […]
A firetruck drives along state Highway 168 last month while battling the Creek Fire in the Shaver Lake community of Fresno County, Calif. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP A firetruck drives along state Highway 168 last month while battling the Creek Fire in the Shaver Lake community of Fresno County, Calif. Noah Berger/AP Updated at 4:37 p.m. ET In a reversal, the White House has approved California’s request for federal disaster relief for wildfire recovery, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday. California is dealing with the damage caused by wildfires that have burned through nearly 3,000 square miles, killing […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/05/1080674105_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_90bfd1da37b83d688594631a01bc873a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010171080797357-white-house-press-secretary-kayleigh-mcenany-says-recovered-from-covid-19/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that she had recovered from COVID-19. McEnany wrote on her Twitter page on late Friday that she is “COVID clear”. The press secretary said that she had tested positive for the coronavirus disease on October 5. Three days earlier, US President Donald Trump said that he had been infected with COVID-19. After undergoing treatment, the US leader tested negative for the coronavirus disease on October 10. Source link
Twenty-one Utah-based white supremacists have been indicted on drug and firearms charges – a move by the Justice Department that comes just days after alleged white supremacist gang members in Texas, Kentucky and Mississippi were brought up on similar charges. In the latest case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah said in a statement that the charges were unsealed in federal court following an investigation by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force of the Soldiers of Aryan Culture, Silent Aryan Warriors, Noble Elect Thugs, and associates. The defendants were described as “documented gang members and associates of […]
UFC president Dana White told reporters on “Fight Island” that his matchmaking team is working on securing big fights for both Islam Makhachev and Khamzat Chimaev as he looks to stack the deck ahead of the final months of 2020. Makhachev was due to face former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos on “UFC Fight Island” next weekend at UFC 254, but after the Brazilian tested positive for COVID-19, the rising Russian lightweight contender has been left without a fight. And, even though there is a spare lightweight – former Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler – in Abu Dhabi, White said […]
Sen. Ben Sasse, pictured here during Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing before the Senate, berated President Trump in a telephone town hall with constituents. Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Pool/Getty Images Sen. Ben Sasse, pictured here during Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing before the Senate, berated President Trump in a telephone town hall with constituents. Pool/Getty Images Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska excoriated President Trump in a telephone town hall with constituents on Wednesday, saying the president badly mishandled the coronavirus pandemic, mistreats women, and cozies up to dictators. “I’m not at all apologetic for having fought […]
UFC president Dana White is risking the ire of his biggest star, Conor McGregor, after ruling out the Irishman’s request to fight Dustin Poirier this year and instead offering him a January 23 date for the potential bout. McGregor has been vocal in his desire for a rematch with Poirier, initially calling for a charity ‘exhibition’ match with the American in his native Dublin in December – but those plans appear to have fallen by the wayside after White confirmed that he was in the process of arranging for a UFC bout agreement to be sent to both men. Also on […]
Syrian Militants Delivered Chlorine Barrels to Stage Provocation in Idlib – Russian Military …from Sputnik News, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: Here we go again with another White Helmets attempted clorine attack to stir things up against the Assad regime. One would think that with their track record they would stay away from the staged gas attacks. But then on the other hand, when you have built in support from the US, Turkey, and maybe NATO, what’s to lose. The Jihadis have never been punished for the one in the past that VT has chronicled over the years. And God help us […]
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. Hello again. This is the first time I’ve hosted our show since Labor Day while I’ve been tending to a family health crisis. I’m deeply grateful to my on-air partner Dave Davies for hosting the show while I’ve been gone, to our book interview producer Sam Briger, who also stepped up to record some great interviews and to everyone else on our team who has protected me from having to think about anything but family. And thanks to our listeners who have expressed concern and support. It will probably be a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0b/1080739779_0:25:1463:847_1200x675_80_0_0_353ba2cd198c860a40ef9de9f6306e14.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010121080752045-trump-tests-negative-for-covid-19-for-consecutive-days-white-house-physician-says/ The US president earlier contracted the novel coronavirus, along with his wife Melania, but the White House doctors said his condition was improving steadily. President Donald Trump has tested negative for COVID-19 for consecutive days, White House physician Sean Conley said in a statement on Monday. Earlier, Conley said that the president no longer poses risk to others in terms of coronavirus transmission. Trump tested positive for the virus on 3 October and later departed the Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment. The doctors initially reported he has had high fever and his blood oxygen levels dropped. […]
White House Hosted COVID-19 Superspreader Event White House hosted Covid “superspreader event”, Dr Fauci says https://t.co/W4qmAoWb3B — BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 9, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Old news but we need to keep at this. Trump thinks he is too good to wear a mask or maintain physical distancing. Just more proof that Trump has no clue what he is doing and cares nothing for Americans. Who had COVID-19 at the event? Who really cares when everyone there obviously thought they were immune to COVID-19….Carol Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her […]
At the beginning of October, young white farmer Brendin Horner was brutally murdered in South Africa’s Free State. Two black suspects have now been charged in relation to his killing, with the court hearing on the case witnessing riots from pressure groups which see Horner’s death as ethnically motivated. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected claims that recent attacks on farmers should be viewed as racial actions, according to his comments distributed in a weekly newsletter. “Contrary to the irresponsible claims of some lobby groups, killings on farms are not ethnic cleansing”, the President wrote. “They are not genocidal. They are acts […]
The White House spokesman has said It would be “nice” if the US Commission on Presidential Debates reversed its decision to scrap the second Trump-Biden bout. The president wants the debate to be held in person. “It would be nice if the commission would get the debate back on the schedule. I think the president is ready to go. He wants to be on stage debating Joe Biden in person,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Brian Morgenstern told the media on Sunday. Morgenstern added that he believes that Trump “will be happy to show up” to trade verbal blows with the […]
Donald Trump hosted hundreds of people outside the White House on Saturday for his first in-person event since contracting COVID-19—but his administration wouldn’t say whether he’s still infected with the virus. “We gotta vote these people into oblivion,” Trump told the crowd of supporters in a brief 18 minute speech from a White House balcony. The in-person event marked Trump’s return to the campaign spotlight after announcing his COVID-19 diagnosis on Oct. 2 and being hospitalized at Maryland’s Walter Reed hospital. Trump appeared on several conservative media outlets, and plans to hold rallies in Florida on Monday, Pennsylvania on Tuesday and […]
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected the White House’s recently boosted $1.8 trillion stimulus offer, saying it doesn’t provide enough in the way of coronavirus testing, worker safety and child care, the Financial Times reported, setting back hopes for an imminent breakthrough in talks. Source link
Bitcoin is up 54% this year on speculation that trillion-dollar stimulus efforts by governments and central banks will lead to inflation. Source link
The US Department of Justice has sued Yale University for racial discrimination in its admissions process, arguing the school deliberately put Asian and white applicants at a disadvantage for decades. Filed in the US District Court in Connecticut on Thursday, the lawsuit accuses Yale of considering race as a factor for admissions for “at least 50 years,” claiming the school has violated a provision in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars recipients of federal funds from engaging in race-based discrimination. “Yale’s race discrimination includes imposing undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular most Asian, and white applicants,” […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/08/1080712840_27:-1:2485:1383_1200x675_80_0_0_fe1d2b40820d4478fcaa42972527ea54.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010081080712870-white-house-does-not-think-trump-got-covid-19-from-military-families/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The White House does not think that US President Donald Trump got the novel coronavirus after meeting with the families of soldiers who died while serving in the military, the White House spokesperson Alyssa Farah told reporters on Thursday. Earlier in the day, Trump suggested in an interview that he may have contracted COVID-19 during a recent meeting with the families of soldiers who died while serving in the military, saying he could not ask them to keep their distance. “Based on contact tracing, the data we have, we don’t think […]
I got a tension headache from watching the vice presidential debate. I recognized the source instantly, because it felt exactly like the throbbing pain I’ve felt every time I’ve had a man shout me down, cut me off and interrupt me during what’s supposed to be a public conversation. And I honestly cannot imagine that millions of women didn’t also instantly recognize the same feeling after watching Mike Pence’s performance on the debate stage. People spend a lot of time emphasizing the supposed odd-couple pairing of Vice President Pence and the president—contrasting the corrupt evangelicism of the former with the corrupt […]
There has been one gnawing question that the White House has refused to answer ever since President Donald Trump publicly announced he tested positive for coronavirus last Friday, was hospitalized for three days due to his worsening condition, and returned home this week despite his doctors acknowledging he is “not entirely out of the woods yet”: When was the last time the president tested negative for COVID-19? That question, of course, would inform the public on whether the president was potentially already infected when he participated in last Tuesday’s presidential debate and if he caught the virus during what appears to […]
On Tuesday night, The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah took a break from clowning on first lady Melania Trump’s hatred of the White House Christmas to address the more serious news wafting from its walls: President Trump’s made-for-TV return to the White House, even though he is still battling the novel coronavirus (and surely contagious). Trump made a big show of his premature return from Walter Reed Medical Center—where he’d spent three days recuperating on supplemental oxygen, an experimental cocktail of antibodies, steroids, and various other treatments—standing proudly on the balcony of the White House and ripping off his mask for all […]
Health experts working with President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force are accusing White House officials of ignoring the guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as they try to stop the spread of the coronavirus within their complex. Over the last several days, Trump administration officials have attempted to quickly pull together a plan to mitigate the burgeoning outbreak in the White House. But as positive test results have poured in, officials have struggled to make decisions about who should be asked to work from home, whether White House personnel should wear protective masks and even if […]
Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller became the latest White House staffer to test positive for COVID-19 late Tuesday. Miller said he tested positive after repeatedly testing negative, raising concerns there may be many more within the president’s orbit unknowingly carrying the virus even as they report testing negative. “Over the last 5 days I have been working remotely and self-isolating, testing negative every day through yesterday,” Miller said in a statement. “Today, I tested positive for COVID-19 and am in quarantine.” Miller joins the president and first lady Melania Trump, top Trump adviser Hope Hicks, and White House press secretary Kayleigh […]
A volunteer in a clinical trial for an experimental COVID-19 vaccine receives an injection last month at Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images A volunteer in a clinical trial for an experimental COVID-19 vaccine receives an injection last month at Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration published guidance Tuesday detailing what’s required for the emergency authorization of a coronavirus vaccine after the advice to pharmaceutical companies was delayed by White House review. […]
The display is reportedly in protest against the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the administration of US President Donald Trump, as the United States death toll from the virus tops 210,000. A display of 20,000 empty chairs was placed outside the White House in Washington DC on Sunday, in tribute to coronavirus victims in the United States. The chairs, placed on the lawn across from the White House, represent less than 10% of the victims, as the US COVID-19 death toll stood at 210,637 as of Tuesday, according to data collated by the Johns Hopkins University. The static display […]
Why has mass media once again failed us, with video proof that a seriously ill Trump was allowed to return to the White House to be a sock puppet? …from Dave Dole, The Rational National [ Editor’s Note: Here we are with the American people screwed again by our fake ‘free media’. I only found this like because YouTube did a recommendation for me, one of the rare benefits of being spied on. Before I began to lay this out, I googled to see what other media was already leading with this video today. There was nobody. If someone has seen […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/06/1080678454_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_d439238a2c09580ac6fd8b584a05a056.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202010061080678484-video-massive-fire-engulfes-white-house-amid-protests-in-kyrgyz-capital/ The fire in the building of the Kyrgyz White House, which hosts the parliament and the presidential office, started shortly after protesters seized it on early Tuesday as mass demonstrations erupted in Bishkek after preliminary results of the parliamentary election were released. Video recorded by Sputnik correspondents near the Bishkek White House shows the building engulfed in fire, with flames moving to other floors after the fire started in the upper part of the building. Firefighters arrived to the scene shortly after the fire began. Earlier on Tuesday, the White House was […]
US President Donald Trump urges Americans to get back outside and not let the contagious COVID-19 novel coronavirus dominate their lives. Trump posted a new video to Twitter on Monday that appeared to have been recorded shortly after he left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and returned to the White House. “One thing that’s for certain: Don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it,” he said. “You’re going to beat it. We have the best medical equipment. We have the best medicines.” “Don’t let it dominate, don’t let it take over your lives,” Trump added, echoing […]
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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has tested positive for COVID-19, just days after the president and a slew of Republican officials revealed a similar diagnosis. McEnany announced her diagnosis on Monday, stating she has tested positive “while experiencing no symptoms.” Reporters note that on Sunday she talked to the press without wearing a mask. “No reporters, producers, or members of the press are listed as close contacts by the White House Medical Unit,” she said in the statement. “Moreover, I definitively had no knowledge of Hope Hicks’ diagnosis prior to holding a White House press briefing on Thursday. As an […]
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/us/202010051080671574-trumps-condition-continued-to-improve-overnight-white-house-chief-of-staff-says/ The day before, United States National Security Adviser Robert C. O’Brien said that US President Donald Trump was “in great shape and firmly in command of the country” while he is being treated for coronavirus. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Monday stated that US President Donald Trump’s condition continued to improve overnight, adding that the White House expects the president to be able to leave the hospital and return to his residence later in the day. “Spoke to the president this morning. He continued to improve overnight and is ready to […]
An investigation by political appointees into Steve Herman, the Voice of America’s White House bureau chief, for anti-Trump bias is the latest act that may break federal laws promising its journalistic independence. Voice of America hide caption toggle caption Voice of America An investigation by political appointees into Steve Herman, the Voice of America’s White House bureau chief, for anti-Trump bias is the latest act that may break federal laws promising its journalistic independence. Voice of America Two political appointees at the federal agency that oversees the Voice of America recently investigated one of its most prominent journalists to make the […]
White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah faced some unexpectedly tough questions about President Donald Trump’s medical condition during an interview on Fox News Sunday afternoon. And in the process, she admitted that the president’s physician Dr. Sean Conley deliberately misled the American people to make his patient feel better. Fox anchor Trace Gallagher highlighted the “confusion” and “mixed messaging coming from the White House and coming from the doctors,” asking Farah, “Why hasn’t the White House come out and just cleared the deck, cleared up all this stuff and said, you know, this is the way it is, here’s what happened […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/01/1080634581_0:0:3035:1709_1200x675_80_0_0_6ae94ff03f3931aafb126f0fbb921373.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Asya Geydarova. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010041080658689-white-house-physician-says-trump-made-substantial-progress-team-cautiously-optimistic/ The US president is now being treated at the Walter Reed Medical Center, where he has recorded a video saying he feels “much better” and promising to finish up his election campaign. White House physician Dr Sean Conley said on Saturday that Donald Trump has “made substantial progress” in treatment, adding that the team of medics remains “cautiously optimistic” about the president. He added that Trump remains fever-free and off supplemental oxygen. “He spent most of the afternoon conducting business, and has been up and moving about the medical suite without difficulty”, […]
President Donald Trump has shown “substantial progress” since he was diagnosed with Covid-19, but is not yet out of danger, White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said in the latest health update. “He spent much of the afternoon conducting business, and has been up and moving about the medical suite without difficulty,” Conley said in a statement on Saturday night. He remains fever-free and off supplemental oxygen with a saturation level between 96% and 98% all day. The medical team continues to treat Trump with Remdesivir antiviral drug without any complications. In a video address to the American people on Saturday, Trump […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/03/1080651031_0:43:2842:1642_1200x675_80_0_0_e29256fc5dfee514c92f0d0a7279ff55.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010031080650781-defence-of-kenosha-gunman-demands-biden-remove-video-depicting-him-as-white-supremacist/ WASHINGTON, October 3 (Sputnik) – A legal team representing teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two people during riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August, is demanding that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden take down a video depicting their client as a white supremacist, according to a letter from the Lin Wood legal firm. The lawyer said in the letter on Friday that Rittenhouse demands Biden and his campaign to immediately issue a full retraction and a public apology. “There is no evidence whatsoever that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist either, and he […]
3 Oct, 2020 03:51 Follow RT on US President Donald Trump has begun taking an antiviral therapy after testing positive for the coronavirus, his doctor said, noting that he is responding well so far and does not require supplemental oxygen to aid his breathing. “This afternoon, in consultation with specialists from Walter Reed and Johns Hopkins University, I recommended movement of the president up to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for further monitoring,” wrote Sean Conley, the president’s physician. I am very happy to report that the president is doing very well. He is not requiring any supplemental oxygen, but in […]
US President Donald Trump has been flown to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to undergo tests and will remain there for a ‘few days’ on advice of doctors, the White House told reporters. The president, who tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday night, was flown to the hospital complex in Bethesda, Maryland – just outside Washington, DC – on Friday afternoon, where a special suite was prepared for him. Doctors urged the move so Trump could get immediate care if needed, an unnamed White House official said. The president will remain at the hospital for “a few days” and […]
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As President Donald Trump is quarantined with Covid-19, his reelection campaign is canceling events or making them virtual. Vice President Mike Pence has handled some White House events and may do more if Trump’s symptoms worsen. “All previously announced campaign events involving the President’s participation are in the process of being moved to virtual events or are being temporarily postponed,” campaign manager Bill Stepien said in a statement on Friday. While everything involving the First Family has been put on hold, other campaign events will proceed on a case-by-case basis, he added. Trump and his wife Melania both tested positive for […]
News that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump had contracted the coronavirus may have sent shockwaves through the nation’s capital as it awoke Friday morning. But for those who worked for the president, the surprise was that it had taken this long to get to this point. The White House may house some of the most important figures in government. But for months, the testing protocols to screen potentially infectious individuals have been more lax than the president’s aides present to the public. Olivia Troye, a former senior adviser for the White House coronavirus task force, said in an […]
Hope Hicks, who has traveled with President Trump at least three times in the past week alone, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Hope Hicks, who has traveled with President Trump at least three times in the past week alone, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Updated at 10:55 p.m. ET President Trump and the first lady are quarantining and being tested for the coronavirus after a close adviser to the White House, Hope Hicks, has tested positive for the virus. Hicks is considered one of the president’s […]
The topic of white supremacy was brought up during an interview today following remarks Trump made at the first presidential debate against Joe Biden in Cleveland. US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he denounces all white supremacists, mentioning the “Proud Boys”. “Yesterday I made a statement that was according to most, a perfect statement … I’ve said it many times, let me be clear again, I condemn the KKK, I condemn all white supremacists, I condemn the Proud Boys I condemn all white supremacists, I condemn the Proud Boys. I don’t know much about the Proud Boys but I […]
Speaking with Fox’s Sean Hannity, the president said: “Let me be clear again: I condemn the KKK. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys.” (Image credit: Julio Cortez/AP) Source link
US President Donald Trump has denounced the Ku Klux Klan, white nationalists and the Proud Boys – a faction of right-wing provocateurs he was asked to condemn at a recent debate – while goading Joe Biden to do the same for Antifa. “I’ve said it many times, and let me be clear again: I condemn the KKK, I condemn all white supremacists, I condemn the Proud Boys – I don’t know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing, but I condemn that,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night. But [Biden] should also condemn Antifa. Antifa is a horrible […]
After President Trump stated during Tuesday night’s debate that the right-wing political activist group Proud Boys must “stand back and stand by”, the public, including a number of Trump’s Republican allies, have urged the president to clarify his stance and unequivocally denounce white supremacy. Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts has taken aim at some of his Twitter followers for “hammering” him over asking White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany for a “definitive and declarative statement” that POTUS condemns white supremacy and groups who espouse this ideology. “Why didn’t he say, ‘I don’t know who they are. Can you give me more […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/01/1080633516_0:0:2801:1576_1200x675_80_0_0_3d1c472b8d8d23c8e662bf49efdda763.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010011080633552-trump-opposes-debate-changes-that-cover-for-biden-inability-to-perform-white-house-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump wants to participate in the next presidential debate but does not want the rules changed simply to cover for his rival’s inability to perform, White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany said on Thursday. “First, with regards to the commission rules changes, the president made it clear his view on that yesterday that he thinks the only way there is a fair debate is changing the moderator and is changing the Democrat nominee”, McEnany said at a press briefing. “He wants to debate. He plans on being at the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/01/1080626970_0:269:3071:1997_1200x675_80_0_0_94a0bdc1a9ded6bb17757575300a4cf7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010011080626959-lawyer-of-kenosha-shooter-threatens-to-sue-biden-over-white-supremacist-remarks/ 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged with fatally shooting three people during an anti-racism and anti-police protest in Wisconsin in August. The Kenosha shooter’s lawyer, Lil Wood, has accused Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden of falsely claiming his client is a “white supremacist”. Wood posted on his Twitter on Wednesday that a legal complaint is being prepared for the former vice president demanding that Biden immediately retract his “false accusation” of “white supremacy” against Rittenhouse. Formal demand for public retraction is being prepared for Biden/Harris Campaign on behalf of Kyle Rittenhouse. I also hereby demand […]
By Lauren Weber and Katheryn Houghton | Kaiser Health News While the president and vice president forgo masks at rallies, the White House is quietly encouraging governors to implement mask mandates and, for some, enforce them with fines. In reports issued to governors on Sept. 20, the White House Coronavirus Task Force recommended statewide mask mandates in Iowa, Missouri and Oklahoma. The weekly memos, some of which have been made public by the Center for Public Integrity, advocate mask usage for other states and have even encouraged doling out fines in Alaska, Idaho and, recently, Montana. Masks, a political flashpoint since […]
A lawyer for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with murder for shooting three people last month during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has threatened to sue Joe Biden’s campaign for calling the teen a “white supremacist.” “Formal demand for public retraction is being prepared for Biden-Harris campaign on behalf of Kyle Rittenhouse,” the lawyer, Lin Wood, said Wednesday on Twitter. “I also hereby demand that Joe Biden immediately retract his false accusation that Kyle is a white supremacist and militia member responsible for violence in Kenosha.” Formal demand for public retraction is being prepared for Biden/Harris Campaign on behalf of Kyle […]
President Trump answers questions about his remarks in Tuesday’s presidential debate about white supremacist groups after many congressional Republicans suggested he needed to be clearer denouncing the movement. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP President Trump answers questions about his remarks in Tuesday’s presidential debate about white supremacist groups after many congressional Republicans suggested he needed to be clearer denouncing the movement. Carolyn Kaster/AP President Trump attempted to clarify his position on white supremacists after a litany of members of his own party urged him to more clearly condemn the right wing group know as The Proud Boys, whom […]
President Donald Trump might have choked on his Egg McMuffin on Wednesday when tuning into his favorite morning show. Fresh from an aggressive debate performance which his campaign chalked up as a victory before it had even happened, Trump most likely tuned into Fox & Friends expecting the kind of sycophantic flattery he’s become accustomed to over the past four years. However, even the president’s pals at Fox thought his debate performance, well, kinda sucked. All three of the hosts—Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Ainsley Earhardt—made clear how deflated they felt the morning after the debate. In particular, Kilmeade seemed despondent […]
President Trump participates in the first presidential debate Tuesday evening at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland. Olivier Douliery/AP hide caption toggle caption Olivier Douliery/AP President Trump participates in the first presidential debate Tuesday evening at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland. Olivier Douliery/AP President Trump’s hesitation, once again, to denounce white supremacy during Tuesday’s debate is drawing quick condemnation from anti-racism activists — as are his unusual comments directed at a white supremacist group called the Proud Boys. During an exchange on the debate stage, moderator Chris Wallace repeatedly asked Trump if he would condemn white […]
President Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration would hand out 100 million coronavirus tests to states across the country, free of charge, for community distribution but stressed state leaders should use the additional resources to reopen schools. The administration plans to ship the Abbott BinaxNOW point of care tests in batches and will distribute them on a per capita basis, according to officials working with the White House coronavirus task force. It’s unclear which states will receive the tests first In a private call on Monday morning, Vice President Mike Pence pleaded with governors directly, saying that while they are […]
A gang of raccoons attacked journalists outside the White House, with one of the trash pandas allegedly grabbing a photographer and a correspondent. Are they President Trump’s anti-media stormtroopers, people on Twitter ask. A raccoon “attacked multiple news crews” on the North Lawn of the White House on Monday morning, CBS journalist Paula Reid reported on Twitter. One of the critters “allegedly grabbed [the] pant leg of a photographer & then a correspondent before being fended off.” Strong Pawnee vibes at White House this morning as a raccoon attacked multiple news crews on North Lawn. 🦝 allegedly grabbed pant leg of […]
On Contact: Origin Of White Supremacy September 27, 2020 On Contact: Origin Of White Supremacy2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/ghorne-e1601223824338.jpg200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the origin of white supremacy and how it plays out in contemporary society with historian Gerald Horne. Horne is the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, Texas. Horne’s new book is ‘The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century’. YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
UFC boss Dana White has dismissed speculation that British welterweight star Leon Edwards will be next up for rising Russian-born star Khamzat Chimaev as he aims to continue his record-breaking assault on the rankings. Chimaev picked up a third UFC victory in the space of a little over two months when he destroyed Gerald Meerschaert with a one-punch KO just 17 seconds into their contest in Las Vegas earlier in September. The victory added to the red-hot hype surrounding Chimaev, with White saying he had “never seen anything like” the Chechen-born fighter. White confirmed in the build-up to UFC 253 this weekend […]
If the build-up to their UFC middleweight title clash had seemed unexpectedly serene, then things exploded into life at Friday’s final staredown between Israel Adesanya and Paulo Costa. Middleweight ruler Adesanya and Brazil’s Costa both put their unbeaten records on the line as they headline UFC 253 in Abu Dhabi this weekend, and things got heated ahead of time when they faced off on Friday. Costa appeared first on deck and shook hands with UFC boss Dana White with a smile, before Adesanya arrived and also appeared in relaxed mood. That swiftly changed however when Costa revealed a black judo belt […]
Despite India being an important partner for the United States geopolitically, a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) is unlikely to be reached soon regardless of who wins the upcoming US presidential election. That’s according to Todd Buchholz, who served as the director of economic policy at the White House under President George H.W. Bush. He said as cited by the Economic Times that both US President Donald Trump and his opponent Joe Biden look at India amenably but have their own compulsions not to proceed with such a far-reaching deal. “I find it difficult to imagine that in four years’ time, […]
While one could fairly question how much influencers have given to us—as a species and a society—it’s undeniable that they’re real innovators when it comes to finding ways to be weird about race. Whether it’s blackfishing or posting black squares on Instagram as though that somehow supports Black Lives Matter, influencers just have a knack for being thoroughly embarrassing. And now they have a new medium: a photo-editing app with a brand-new feature that allows users to make their photos appear as though they were “were born on a different continent.” We can all see where this is going, right? This […]
WASHINGTON (Times of Israel) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election. “We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said at a news conference, responding to a question about whether he’d commit to a peaceful transfer of power. “You know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.” Trump has been pressing a monthslong campaign against mail-in voting this November by tweeting and speaking out critically about the practice. More states are encouraging mail-in voting […]
As the United States is rocked with nationwide protests against police brutality and racism, Louisville, Kentucky, has become another hotspot for outrage after an announcement that white police officers involved in the killing of a Black woman, Breonna Taylor, would not be prosecuted over her killing. Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL star player and civil activist, slammed the recent move not to charge the involved police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor, demanding that “the white supremacist of policing that stole Breonna Taylor’s life” be abolished “The white supremacist institution of policing that stole Breonna Taylor’s life from us must […]
Black People’s March On The White House By the Black is Back Coalition. September 22, 2020 Black People’s March On The White House2020-09-222020-09-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/bibcmarchonwhitehouse.jpg200px200px Call to Black People’s March on White House!!! Black Power Matters: Down with colonialism! Black Community control of the police! Register for the Black People’s March on the White House! Nov. 6-8, 2020 The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations (BiBC) is calling on colonized and unrepresented people of the U.S. to join us Nov. 6-8 for the Black Power Matters march on the White House opposing the reactionary U.S. agenda being imposed on […]
Forbes‘ journalist Dan Alexander writes about the president’s potential conflicts of interest in White House, Inc. “You can’t have a blind trust and have a building that says ‘Trump Tower’ on the outside of [it],” Alexander says. “How blind is that?” Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Forbes‘ journalist Dan Alexander writes about the president’s potential conflicts of interest in White House, Inc. “You can’t have a blind trust and have a building that says ‘Trump Tower’ on the outside of [it],” Alexander says. “How blind is that?” Scott Olson/Getty Images Past occupants of the White House […]
In this May 28, 1957, photo, Rev. Robert S. Graetz, center, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, left, talk outside the witness room during a bombing trial in Montgomery, Ala. Graetz, the only white minister to support the Montgomery Bus Boycott, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. He was 92. AP hide caption toggle caption AP In this May 28, 1957, photo, Rev. Robert S. Graetz, center, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, left, talk outside the witness room during a bombing trial in Montgomery, Ala. Graetz, the only white minister to […]
Federal authorities are investigating after ricin, a deadly toxin, was discovered in mail intended for the White House. The Secret Service intercepted the envelope which was positively identified with mail meant for the White House, law enforcement sources tell NPR. The ricin never made it to White House grounds, but authorities are still searching for other undiscovered dangerous packages that may be linked to the ricin. Law enforcement sources also said investigators are narrowing down suspects, but have made no arrests. Both the White House and Secret Service are declining to comment. Ricin, a toxin derived from castor seeds, has been […]
Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI has recorded about 100 domestic terrorism arrests in the last nine months. “A majority of the domestic terrorism cases we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence,” he told the panel. Wray said the number of the domestic terrorism arrests has increased and is now close to the number of international terrorism arrests the bureau has made. Wray’s testimony followed a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in May, where FBI counterterrorism chief Michael McGarrity testified that the bureau was investigating 850 potential domestic terrorism cases. McGarrity said […]
Daily Beast: The baffling guidance published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month advising against COVID-19 testing for those who have been exposed to the virus if they do not have symptoms was penned by Trump administration officials and published against the objections of CDC doctors, The New York Times reports. Breaking NYT: A heavily criticized recommendation from the CDC last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by CDC scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections. https://t.co/fMOyxAmTUg — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 17, 2020 I know it’s hard to keep […]
A potential planet… where no planet should be. An international team of astronomers utilizing NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and data obtained from the now-retired Spitzer space telescope have reported an astounding potential discovery of a surviving planet closely orbiting a white dwarf. So what’s the big deal? Scientists have found many exoplanets in close orbits of their parent stars. Here’s the confusing part: The way a white dwarf is created destroys nearby objects either by incineration or gravitational destruction. White dwarfs form when stars like the Sun near the end of their life cycles. They swell up, expand to hundreds […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates officially opened normal relations Tuesday, signing diplomatic agreements during a White House ceremony that was hosted by President Trump. “The blessings of the peace we make today will be enormous,” Netanyahu said. “First, because this peace will eventually expand to include other Arab states and ultimately, it can end the Arab-Israeli conflict once and for all; second, because the great economic benefits of our partnership will be felt throughout our region … and third, because this is not only a peace between leaders – it’s a peace […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0f/1080466587_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_baf7399e5bb9b711bb2942379c41ed0d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009151080465823-us-president-trump-participates-in-israel-uae-bahrain-deal-signing/ In August, Israel and the UAE agreed to normalise bilateral relations, which, among other things, entailed Israel giving up its plans to expand sovereignty over some West Bank areas. Nearly a month later, Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa officially announced a similar treaty in a trilateral phone conversation with Trump and Netanyahu. A live broadcast shows US President Donald Trump taking part in a signing ceremony for peace agreements normalising relations between Israel on the one side and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the other at the presidential residence in […]
Police move in on demonstrators in Lafayette Square near the White House with tear gas and smoke on June 1. U.S. Park Police made announcements asking protesters to leave, but few people appeared to hear them. Jose Luis Magana/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AFP via Getty Images Police move in on demonstrators in Lafayette Square near the White House with tear gas and smoke on June 1. U.S. Park Police made announcements asking protesters to leave, but few people appeared to hear them. Jose Luis Magana/AFP via Getty Images Federal police officers who cleared a crowded […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – A decision by the Trump administration earlier this year to move the flag honoring missing war veterans from a prominent position atop the White House to a less visible spot on the South Lawn has angered some veterans and lawmakers, who see it as disrespectful and potentially illegal. Trump signed the act, which only repeated earlier law, then was the first to violate it: Lawmakers said the National POW/MIA Flag Act would ensure the banner is prominently displayed at the U.S. Capitol, the White House, the WWII Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0a/1080423256_44:-1:1244:675_1200x675_80_0_0_9b769871b6170de43515c01e452c79e2.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/environment/202009101080423286-videos-heavy-rains-flood-white-house-basement-submerge-roads-around-washington-dc/ Photos of the White House basement flooded with water were shared on social media Thursday, as heavy rains fell on the Washington, DC, area. “Flash flood warning. Basement of the @WhiteHouse. Trying to remember how long a cubit is…..” Fox News Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts tweeted Thursday, along with photos of carpeted floors soaked in water. In another tweet, Roberts shared a photo of a flooded hallway with the caption: “Time to start bailing…!!” Roads across the US capital are flooded, with flash flood watches currently in place until 8 p.m. local […]
Downplay the white supremacist threat. Hype up rhetoric about anti-fascists and other “left-wing” groups stoking violence. That’s what the Department of Homeland Security’s leadership ordered one of its top intelligence officials to do, according to a complaint from that staffer, Brian Murphy, released Tuesday. In a filing with the Department’s Inspector General, Murphy, until recently a top official in the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis, alleges he was recently demoted for his repeated refusals to cook the books on DHS intelligence, particularly that which did not favor the Trump administration. Murphy, who alleges unfair retaliation, claims he was pressured to […]
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/world/202009081080401562-trump-will-attend-signing-ceremony-of-israel-uae-peace-deal-at-white-house-israeli-media-says/ Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi agreed to normalize ties last month in a deal brokered by Washington. Palestinian leaders slammed the agreement, calling it a betrayal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the UAE’s decision, saying it showed that Arab countries will not be “held hostage by the Palestinians” in dealing with Israel. US President Donald Trump will personally attend the signing ceremony for the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates at the White House on September 15, Walla diplomatic correspondent Barak Ravid has reported, citing White House officials. According to […]
By Deena Stryker and New Eastern Outlook of the Russian Academy of Science Fifty-seven years after Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech, thousands of black Americans turned out on the same Washington Mall to reaffirm that ‘Black Lives Matter’ on Saturday, August 29th, setting off speculation that the country may be descending into a kind of civil war. Black American history began with the importation of slaves from Africa by the first white settlers more than four hundred years ago. Yet neither the nineteenth century civil war that killed more Americans than all of the country’s foreign wars, nor the legislative […]