Posts Tagged ‘blowback’

Postcards from a Police State: 22 Years of Blowback from the USA Patriot Act

For those who remember the days and months that followed 9/11, there is an unnerving feeling of déjà vu about the Hamas attacks on Israel. The same shocking images of carnage and grief dominating the news. The same disbelief that anyone could be so hateful, so monstrous, so evil as to do this to another […]

Trump risks GOP blowback with Netanyahu remarks

Former President Trump risks potential backlash in the Republican presidential primary over his criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks in Israel.  In a speech Wednesday, Trump accused Netanyahu of “letting us down” in 2020 just before the U.S. killed a top Iranian general. Trump also suggested… […]

Mulvaney campaign blowback: Bud Light maker AB InBev AXES hundreds of workers

(NaturalNews) AB InBev, the company that produces Bud Light, has laid off hundreds of workers at its U.S. offices after months of slumping sales for the beer… Source

The Blowback of Washington’s Geopolitics of Containment

When President Joe Biden upgraded the US policy of containment to dual containment i.e., a simultaneous containment of Russia and China via a crisis manufactured in Europe (Ukraine) and Asia (Taiwan), little did he, or his administration, know this could mark the beginning of a process that could alter the existing world order in ways […]

China is now threatening JAPAN with missiles, which could mean blowback from the U.S.

On the heels of Nancy Pelosi’s highly controversial visit to Taiwan, communist China has decided to launch five ballistic missiles straight into Japan’s exclusive economic zone, according to Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi. After earlier scrapping a high-level diplomatic meeting with Japan, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reportedly blasted the weapons into waters near Taiwan, […]

Orbán gets warm CPAC reception after ‘mixed race’ speech blowback

DALLAS — Viktor Orbán took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas with an invitation for the American right. “I’m here to tell you that we should unite our forces,” said Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister who has found himself increasingly alienated from democratic countries in Europe, as he has opposed immigration […]

Bowman Blowback

A photo tweeted by Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Nov. 11, 2021 showing him and with a Democratic Congressional delegation including Rosa DeLauro, Barbara Lee, Mark Pocan, Mondaire Jones, and Jamaal Bowman. Palestine, Bowman, and The DSA A growing number of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapters are calling on the national organization to take […]

Moderator Chris Wallace Receives Blowback After Rocky Debate Performance

Several prominent journalists and political commentators took to social media on Tuesday to share their frustration with moderator Chris Wallace’s performance during the first of three presidential debates between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. At one point during the debate, amid several arguments between Biden, Trump, and Wallace, President Trump said, “I […]

Blowback: The Costs of War Continue to Soar in the Trump Era

As I was putting the finishing touches on my new book, the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute published an estimate of the taxpayer dollars that will have gone into America’s war on terror from September 12, 2001, through fiscal year 2018. That figure: a cool $5.6 trillion (including the future costs of caring […]

The Blowback Against Facebook, Google and Amazon Is Just Beginning

By Charles Hugh Smith This is how we end up with a neofeudal society that benefits the Protected Few at the expense of the powerless, exploited Many. Blow-out earnings from Facebook and Amazon have cheered Wall Street, but institutional owners might want to focus not just on blow-out earnings but rising blowback against the tech […]

Blowback: How a CIA-Backed Coup Led to the Rise of Iran’s Ayatollahs

Unlike citizens of the Islamic Republic, however, citizens of the United States tend to have short memories. The historical reality is that Iran did have a secular, democratic government, led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh between 1951 and 1953 — but Mossadegh was removed from power in a coup organized and funded by the CIA and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also […]

Riyadh explores anti-Iranian embrace of Israel – but risks 1979-like blowback

The existence of some form of security and intelligence cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Israel is hardly news for Middle East observers. United by their mutual opposition to Iran and strong ties with the US, the two countries have plenty of things in common. Whatever differences people in the two countries may have over issues […]

Blowback: CNN Pushes Plan To "Ban The Term ‘Fake News’"

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via InfoWars.com, CNN is now pushing an effort to “ban the term fake news” after the slogan became synonymous with CNN itself thanks to President Donald Trump. In a CNN opinion piece written by Hossein Derakhshan and Claire Wardle, who are affiliated with the globalist […]

The Sanctions Blowback From the EU Begins

Yesterday, the Senate voted 98-2 to impose punitive sanctions on Russia and limit the President’s ability to remove them without Congressional review. That vote—the culmination of a lengthy process that saw the sanctions initially approved in the Senate, then held up in the House, and later rewritten after substantial objections—now clears the way for the […]

Merkel Migrant Blowback Begins: Chechen Sharia Police Terrorize Berlin

Source: Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute Threats of violence against “errant” women are viewed as “acts of patriotism.” “They have come to Germany because they wanted to live in Germany, but they keep trying to turn it into Chechnya with its medieval ways.” — Social worker interviewed by Meduza. “Everyone’s attention is fixed […]

Inevitable blowback: Manchester a Product of West’s Libya/Syria Intervention

Product of West’s Libya/Syria Intervention Here’s what the media and politicians don’t want you to know about the Manchester, UK, suicide attack: Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old who killed nearly two dozen concert-goers in Manchester, UK, was the product of the US and UK overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya and “regime change” policy in Syria. He […]

Manchester attack: Blowback for UK’s support of terrorism in Libya, Syria and beyond

     When I first learned of yesterday’s terror incident in Manchester, UK I snarked: Moon of Alabama‏ @MoonofA So another heroic “Syrian rebel” – which the British government avidly supports – blew himself up. But why in #Manchester? 6:26 AM – 23 May 2017 Several people attacked my over that tweet. How would I know […]

By the Numbers: How Dangerous Is It to Be a Cop?

Defenders of police militarization, such as that on display in Ferguson, Missouri, often claim that it’s necessary to provide military gear to cops, given how dangerous law enforcement has become. Indeed, in the name of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, the federal government has provided thousands of pieces of military-grade body […]

Birthday surprise: Bear crashes through Alaskan family’s skylight, eats the birthday cupcakes

     Bear and cupcakes sounds like the most unusual combination ever, but not in Alaska! A young male black bear randomly crashed through the Alaskan family’s skylight while a birthday party was going on. The little boy named Jackson, was hardly expecting such a surprise visit. When the bear fell into the party they both […]

Update: 2 of 4 Officers In Oakland Underage Sex Scandal Leave Dept.

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Most US Jewish students don’t see Israel as ‘civilized’ or a ‘democracy,’ Luntz tells secret anti-BDS conference

I don’t know what Mr,Luntz has discovered concerning non-Jewish students. I’m writing this on the way home from the opening event in London Israel Apartheid Week, Malia Bouattia of (I think) the National Union of Students spoke of increasing BDS support in the UK student world – and certainly if the atmosphere was in even […]

Trump Responds to Terrorist Recruitment Video: ‘What am I Going to Do?’

Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals Donald Trump, frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, appeared on CBS Face The Nation to, among other things, completely gloss over the fact that his anti-Muslim rhetoric appeared in an Islamic terrorist recruitment video. On the program, Trump responded to […]

The IMF SDR Rights and the Global Currency Markets: Impacts of the Elevation of the Chinese Yuan (Renminbi)

The elevation the Chinese renminbi (also known as the yuan) to the basket of global currencies making up the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights (SDRs), in effect making it an international reserve currency, is unlikely to have any major immediate effects. But it does underscore the vast transformation in the foundations of the world […]

The IMF SDR Rights and the Global Currency Markets: Impacts of the Elevation of the Chinese Yuan (Renminbi)

The elevation the Chinese renminbi (also known as the yuan) to the basket of global currencies making up the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights (SDRs), in effect making it an international reserve currency, is unlikely to have any major immediate effects. But it does underscore the vast transformation in the foundations of the world […]

Israel kills and injures hundreds of Palestinians within 2 days

Tehran, November 28, The Iran Project- Following Israeli massacre of Palestinians, the occupied territories have been bloody scene of clashes between the Tel-Aviv forces and Palestinian protesters on Thursday and Friday that left several people killed and more than one hundred injured . Palestinian Red Crescent on Friday has announced that at least 82 Palestinians have been shot […]

Russia sends German Shepherd puppy to French Police to replace fallen police dog

     The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to send a puppy to their French counterparts to replace Diesel the police dog that was killed during a police raid in Paris on Wednesday. Diesel, a 7-year-old Belgian Malinois, was a member of a French anti-terrorist police unit. The dog bravely died when the French Special […]

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