Prisoners Won The Right To Stimulus Checks By Keri Blakinger and Joseph Neff, NBC News. October 24, 2020 Prisoners Won The Right To Stimulus Checks2020-10-242020-10-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/prison.jpg200px200px Above photo: Advocates in several states have raised concerns that some prisoners do not have access to the forms they need to apply for the stimulus money. NBC News; Getty Images. Some prisons are standing in the way. A federal judge ruled […]
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On Saturday, Germans marked the thirtieth anniversary of East Germany’s incorporation into the Federal Republic. On the occasion, the eastern German town of Dessau unveiled a monument to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for his personal contribution to German unity. Without the USSR as a whole and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev specifically, Germany would have been left divided, and the Kremlin would have been left without […]
Tuesday’s “debate” was a trainwreck. A national embarrassment. A disgrace. If Joe Biden were looking for a pretext to skip the next two debates, he found it. It would be hard to blame him for concluding this is simply a waste of everyone’s time. We’ll see. From the start of this debate, Donald Trump interrupted Biden. Repeatedly. For a while there, it looked like Biden was […]
It began with a call from John Bredin, who produces Public Voice Salon, a TV show, I had been on a way back. “I’ve just seen your Emmy in a junk shop in Williamsburg,” he told me. “It was wearing a wig. They were kind of using it as the store mascot,” he said. Did I want to get it back? Oh, yes. It had been […]
US’ Anti-China Call To Arms Has Not Won Over All Of Europe By Jiang Feng, South China Morning Post. September 2, 2020 US’ Anti-China Call To Arms Has Not Won Over All Of Europe2020-09-022020-09-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/chinas-foreign-minister-visits-europe.png200px200px Above photo: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits Europe. Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s tour of Europe comes at a time of heavy US pressure for the EU to step back from its dialogue and […]
Fed Chair Jerome Powell tried to make it seem like the end of an era, but didn’t inspire confidence in the central bank’s ability to lead in the era that comes next. On The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the shifting sands of the global economy. He says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole this week was an argument that an era […]
twitter.com Thousands Allowed to Bypass Environmental Rules An AP investigation has found that thousands of oil and gas operations and other sites in the U.S. have won permission to bypass environmental rules because of the pandemic. https://t.co/kA1vrJ7OTx — The Associated Press (@AP) August 24, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: As if ignoring the coronavirus which has long since reached pandemic proportions was not enough of an assault […]
Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs On The Economic Elite By Justin Vassallo, Truthout. August 24, 2020 Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs On The Economic Elite2020-08-242020-08-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/you-have-the-power-to-be-the-change-e1577647608266.jpg200px200px There’s a tendency in US progressive politics to focus on rehabilitating capitalism for working people. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for president had the patina of an “anti-corruption” crusade, giving a populist spin to technocratic fixes that […]
A Seattle police officer was filmed telling a rabid Black Lives Matter protester that they “won” and he is resigning. The officer is not named in the clip, but tells the militant leftist that I’m sorry for that “guess what? I’m leaving. You guys won. F***ing two months baby and I’m out.” The viral video begins with the cop asking the protester how his day is […]
How Socialists Won Our Democratic Rights By Adam J. Sacks, Tribune Magazine. August 10, 2020 How Socialists Won Our Democratic Rights2020-08-102020-08-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/fight-for-democracy-from-tribune-magazine-e1597090706842.jpg200px200px Above photo: The fight for Democracy from Tribune Magazine. The myth of modern democracy is that it was handed down from on-high. In fact, the ruling class resisted extending the franchise at every turn – and it was socialists who fought them for the right […]
‘How The South Won The Civil War’ August 4, 2020 ‘How The South Won The Civil War’2020-08-042020-08-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/service.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Bull Run, Va. July 21st 1861, Currier and Ives. Library of Congress. Yes, the Civil War brought an end to the slave order of the South and the rule of the plantation oligarchs who embodied white supremacy. But the Northern victory […]
Imagine you are an explorer who has dedicated your life to conquering one of the world’s last great unknowns: the North Pole. You have given up decades in which you abandoned your family, weathered almost unimaginable conditions, and sacrificed toes in your pursuit of becoming the first to reach the great wintry apex of the world that grabbed hold of your imagination as a youth and […]
President Trump invited the Little Sisters of the Poor to the White House. On Tuesday the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic religious group for women who have dedicated their lives to the service of the elderly, won their Supreme Court case against the Obama administration and their contraceptive mandate in Obamacare. SCOTUS ruled the Catholic order of nuns cannot be forced to take part […]
Federal immigration authorities are refusing to release an HIV-positive man who has been held in a Minnesota detention facility since January, despite the fact that the man has already won his case for release before an immigration judge—and despite his severe risk of medical complications from the coronavirus outbreaks that have spread inside detention facilities across the country. “I’m dying, slowly, even with my medication,” said […]
On Tuesday, Melissa Zarda was dealing with two things at home in Kansas City, Missouri: the loud barking and mischief of her new foster puppy Winnie, a cattle dog/pitbull mix, while—above the din—relishing the hard-fought, historic victory she had just won in the Supreme Court in the memory of her beloved, deceased brother Donald. His was one of three cases featuring LGBTQ people fired for their […]
Nina Ahmad declared victory as the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania auditor general nine days after the state’s June 2 primary. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Rourke/AP Nina Ahmad declared victory as the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania auditor general nine days after the state’s June 2 primary. Matt Rourke/AP On the night of Pennsylvania’s June 2 primary, things looked bleak for Nina Ahmad. The former […]
A combination of military and media pressure has resulted in the termination of Iraq war related criminal investigations, reflecting the power of the British military as “the only institution in the UK that is allowed to run their own criminal courts and prosecution service”, according to the Peace Pledge Union. The head of the UK military’s prosecuting body, the Service Prosecuting Authority, recently announced that they would […]
Steven Donziger Challenged A Corporate Polluter And Won, Now They’re Trying To Ruin Him By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. June 1, 2020 Steven Donziger Challenged A Corporate Polluter And Won, Now They’re Trying To Ruin Him2020-06-012020-06-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/donz.jpg200px200px Texaco was the first oil company to drill in the Amazon. To maximize profits, and because they thought they could get away with it, they did […]
Montgomery’s Capri Theatre, seen on March 22, was closed because of the coronavirus. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed says the city health system’s capacity to manage the crisis has hit unsustainable levels. Taylor Hill/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Taylor Hill/Getty Images Montgomery’s Capri Theatre, seen on March 22, was closed because of the coronavirus. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed says the city health system’s capacity to manage […]
Group That Won School-Funding Suit Now Challenging Private School Vouchers By Darrel Rowland, Columbus Dispatch. May 15, 2020 Group That Won School-Funding Suit Now Challenging Private School Vouchers2020-05-152020-05-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ohio-1-e1589552293792.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters hold up signs at a rally for increased school funding at the Statehouse in 2004. Adjusted for inflation, state funding for Ohio schools rose in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but since the Great Recession, […]