‘Unacceptable threat’ and ‘provocation’: European nations fume after US pulls out of talks on global digital tax …from Russia Today, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: The US pulled out of the digital tax talks with Europe when they were at the 11th hour. Gosh, might it have something to do with […]
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Plummeting Facebook shares have wiped out billions of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth. The impetus? Corporations such as Coca-Cola and Verizon have pulled their ads, demanding that Facebook censor hate speech. Zuckerberg lost $7.2 billion, after Facebook’s shares fell by 8.3 percent on Friday, Bloomberg reported. The dive […]
Athletic brand Reebok and several affiliate gyms have canceled their partnerships with fitness giant CrossFit after its CEO tweeted a mocking response to a statement calling racism a “public health issue.” CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman might have cost his company millions with just 13 characters. After he replied to a […]
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 […]
Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid To Invade Venezuela Count Are Mercenaries By Joshua Cho, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. May 13, 2020 Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid To Invade Venezuela Count Are Mercenaries2020-05-132020-05-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/mercenaries-e1589391922696.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Telesur (via People’s Dispatch, 5/6/20) of captured mercenaries in Venezuela. When an attempted invasion of Venezuela launched from […]
Bernie Blackout, a new VICE TV documentary directed by Pat McGee examining the mainstream media’s alleged bias against the Sanders campaign, is rooted in independent and alternative journalism instead of the corporate cable news outlets like MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. While McGee’s film straightforwardly breaks down the cynical function […]