Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If there is one reality that Americans need to accept, it’s that every system has a breaking point and there are no exceptions. Human beings are built to adapt and this has given us incredible resilience, but it also means we have a tendency to wait too long to […]
Posts Tagged ‘boycotts’
From Trucker-Boycotts To Grid-Down – There’s Only One Way To Survive A Food Crisis
McDonald’s says Israel boycotts are hurting its business
McDonald’s on Monday said the ongoing tensions in the Middle East are putting a dent in its business. In its fourth quarter and full-year 2023 report released Monday, the Chicago-based burger chain said sales in its licensed markets business — which includes most of its Middle East locations — increased by only 0.7 percent in… […]
Turkish parliament boycotts Coke, Nestle products over the companies’ alleged support for Israel
(NaturalNews) The parliament of Turkey has ordered the removal of Nestle and The Coca-Cola Company products from restaurant menus over their alleged support for… Source
COMPLICITY IN HATE: ISRAELI GOVERNMENT BOYCOTTS CONFERENCE ON ATTACKS AGAINST CHRISTIANS
JULY 5TH, 2023 MIKO PELED Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon denounced a conference organized by the Israeli Open University to discuss the increasing violence on Christians and Christian sites in Palestine. These attacks, carried out mostly by Anti-Chrisitan Zionist hate groups, have increased at an alarming pace. Close to twenty incidents were registered between the end […]
Boycotts hit stocks hard. Here’s what might be next for Bud, Target and others caught in the anti-Pride backlash
READ HERE: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/03/anti-pride-backlash-what-target-anheuser-busch-and-others-should-expect-next-.html Source
House Republicans are reintroducing a bill that would criminalize boycotts of Israel
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) has reintroduced legislation targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). The effort already has 46 Republican cosponsors. Zeldin introduced the same bill in 2020, ultimately gaining 63 GOP cosponsors and one Democrat. “Too many, even in the halls of Congress, have emboldened antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric by accepting the BDS movement […]
From Summits to Boycotts – America’s Waning Influence
In recent months the US has attempted to flex its geopolitical might on the global stage in regards to China. First, the US attempted to trigger a widespread diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympic games. After announcing no US diplomats would attend the games in Beijing, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada followed. New […]
Ineffectual Boycotts: The Beijing Winter Olympics
Making moral statements in the blood and gristle of international relations can often come across as feeble. In doing so, the maker serves the worst of all worlds: to reveal a false sense of assurance that something was done while serving no actual purpose other than to provoke. Anger, and impotence, follow. The Biden administration […]
Opposition boycotts presidential address as farmer unrest overshadows opening of crucial India budget session
More than a dozen opposition parties in the Indian parliament boycotted an address by the country’s president on Friday at the opening of India’s crucial annual Budget session, where the government is expected to outline plans to boost the pandemic-stricken economy. India’s president Ram Nath Kovind, who occupies a largely ceremonial post, was speaking after […]
Andrew Yang Says BDS Harkens ‘Back to Fascist Boycotts of Jewish Businesses’
New York City Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang wrote in The Forward that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement harkens “back to fascist boycotts of Jewish businesses” in a January 22 op-ed in The Forward. Yang, who previously ran in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, noted that Jews were the victims in nearly 60% of […]
UK Travel Agency Boycotts Qantas Over ‘No Vaccine, No Flight’ Policy
A UK travel agency has announced it will be boycotting Australian airline Qantas over its ‘no vaccine, no flight’ policy, saying travelers should have freedom of choice. Last week, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce announced the airline would implement a policy barring anyone who has not had the COVID-19 vaccine from using their service. “We are […]
Argentinian soccer team boycotts Israel — and ‘NY Times’ whitewash fails to quote a single player
Gonzalo Higuaín is a striker on Argentina’s national soccer team that is headed for the World Cup in Russia next week. After Argentina canceled a scheduled warm up “friendly” match against Israel set for June 9, reporters approached Higuaín for comment. “They’ve finally done the right thing” he said, and the Guardian report put his […]
Laws Targeting Israel Boycotts Fail First Legal Test
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Detroit farmer’s market boycotts local apple orchard owner for believing in Christianity
(Natural News) This week, a federal judge in Michigan heard arguments in the case of a Catholic apple farmer who is challenging a city ordinance in East Lansing, and a ruling is expected soon. The farmer, Steve Tennes, is the owner of Country Mill Farms, which is located in the nearby town of Charlotte. Tennes […]
On boycotts, Palestine, and resistance: a review of ‘Assuming Boycott’
Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production Edited by Kareem Estefan, Carin Kuoni, and Laura Raicovich 272 pp. OR Books, 2017. $18. In the winter of 2012 the highly-acclaimed Mvskoke poet and musician Joy Harjo found herself at the center of an excruciating public fray. Despite direct appeals from thousands of BDS advocates, including some […]
At NY premiere, David Grossman will join Netanyahu minister who boycotts Darwish
Liberal Zionist icon David Grossman and Netanyahu’s culture minister, Miri Regev of the Jerusalem dress, are joined in a delegation to a New York theater later this month. Zionism sure makes strange bedfellows. Or more to the point: When are liberal Zionists going to tell the settler movement to f— itself? Here’s the story. From […]
US Boycotts Historic Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
An unidentified man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 7, 1945. The vast ruin is a result of “Little Boy,” the uranium atomic bomb detonated on Aug. 6 by the U.S. The United States has joined a small group of global outliers on Friday after […]
Police Kill Masked Gunman At German Cinema
A masked gunman who stormed a movie theater in Germany on Thursday afternoon has been shot dead by police. The man armed with a rifle entered the Kinopolis movie theater in the small town of Viernheim in southwest Germany and started taking people hostage. The Christian Science Monitor reports: The armed man entered the Kinopolis movie […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner, endorses academic and cultural boycott of Israel
The following announcement was made today by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel: Scholar and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner and associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, has endorsed BDS and the cultural and academic boycott of […]
‘Her absurd generals, her military junk’ — Daniel Berrigan’s prophetic speech on Israel in ’73
I believe this is called a drive-by shooting. The New York Times devotes a whole page or so to an obituary of the great Daniel Berrigan, the Catholic priest who died yesterday in NY at 94. But this is paragraph 39: After visiting the Middle East, he bluntly accused Israel of “militarism” and the “domestic […]
President Rouhani arrives in Ankara
Ankara, April 15, IRNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived here on Friday evening to hold bilateral talks with high-ranking Turkish officials, especially his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. President Rouhani was welcomed by Turkish Development Minister Cevdet Yilmaz, Iranian ambassador to Ankara and Iran’s embassy staff at Ankara International Airport. The Iranian president arrived in […]
Israeli ex-soldier accused in assault on Columbia students
Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 7 March 2016 Columbia University student Gal Raif in his Israeli army uniform, in a picture posted on Facebook in October 2012. Last Thursday afternoon, members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) were taking down the mock apartheid wall their group had put up on the Columbia University campus […]
Israeli ex-soldier accused in assault on Columbia students
Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 7 March 2016 Columbia University student Gal Raif in his Israeli army uniform, in a picture posted on Facebook in October 2012. Last Thursday afternoon, members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) were taking down the mock apartheid wall their group had put up on the Columbia University campus […]
Dutch Experts and Council of Europe Slam Ukraine’s “Investigations” Into MH17 and Killing of Pro-Russian Protesters
The reliability of evidence in the MH17 research is in question by the sinister role of the Ukrainian secret service SBU in corruption and crime scandals. Criminal Experts predict problems for the future criminal proceedings against the mass murderers of the MH17 passengers, it now appears that the intelligence which resulted in all kinds of […]
70 Palestinians Injured in West Bank Clashes with Zionist Occupation Forces
Local Editor The Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday shot and injured at least 70 Palestinians in Tulkarem, Bethlehem and Ramallah, according to the Palestinian ministry of public health. In Ramallah’s al-Bireh city, Israeli occupation forces shot and injured more than 50 Palestinian youths with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes in the al-Balou […]
So Who Are the USA friendly Syrian “Moderates” Anyway? (Hint: Al Qaeda)
So Who Are the Syrian Moderates Anyway? (Hint: Al Qaeda) Source: Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg You don’t need me to tell you how disastrous the Obama Administration’s Syria “strategy” has been. After all, he pretty much admitted as much by announcing a pullback earlier today. While the retreat in itself is garnering all the headlines, with people […]