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‘We Demand The Immediate Release Of Julian Assange’ By Progressive International. September 24, 2020 ‘We Demand The Immediate Release Of Julian Assange’2020-09-242020-09-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assanfegraphic.png200px200px Above image: Max Gede. PI Council Members support the freedom of Julian Assange against the unlawful and dangerous extradition trial against him currently taking place in London. “Every […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/17/1080554773_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_beae01328d2651fd502ecaf511d18b6d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009231080554809-live-washington-dc-protesters-demand-justice-for-breonna-taylor-in-wake-of-grand-jury-decision/ Renewed Black Lives Matter protests have broken out across the US in the wake of a Wednesday decision by a Kentucky grand jury not to indict for murder any of the officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black […]
An oil rig towers over houses last week in Nigg, Scotland. Major players in the oil industry expect depressed oil demand and low prices to continue well into next year. Peter Summers/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Peter Summers/Getty Images An oil rig towers over houses last week in Nigg, […]
Asher Wool, 8, uses a ferro rod and striker to light a bundle of tinder aflame at Earthwork School in western Massachusetts. Ben James for NPR hide caption toggle caption Ben James for NPR Asher Wool, 8, uses a ferro rod and striker to light a bundle of tinder aflame […]
Hospital directors have repeatedly argued that the current lack in testing availability has led to more frequent absences among staff, which hinders the efforts of the crisis-hit NHS to recover. UK ministers are drawing up plans to restrict “frivolous demands” for coronavirus tests, conceding that they didn’t expect there would […]
Haitian police officers have flooded the streets of Port-au-Prince to call for the release of a fellow officer they say was “illegally” jailed, paralyzing the capital as they set vehicles ablaze and clashed with security forces. Scores of officers from the Haitian National Police, most dressed in civilian clothing, gathered […]
Opposition supporters protest against authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Sunday. TUT.BY/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption TUT.BY/AFP via Getty Images Opposition supporters protest against authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Sunday. TUT.BY/AFP via Getty Images More than 100,000 protesters flooded the streets of the capital […]
Hunger Strikers Demand Police Reform In Antioch By Judith Prieve, East Bay Times. September 8, 2020 Hunger Strikers Demand Police Reform In Antioch2020-09-082020-09-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/hungerstrike-e1599604268614.jpg200px200px Above photo: Activists have launched a hunger strike to demand police reform in Antioch. The activists want Antioch police to fire Officer Michael Mellone, who was involved in […]
Smith & Wesson is proving to be a chief beneficiary of the violence and unrest plaguing the country’s big cities, as the largest US handgun maker posted record quarterly sales amid surging demand for firearms. Gun sales in the company’s first fiscal quarter, ended July 31, jumped 141 percent from […]
Two House Democrats are urging the nation’s top intelligence official to make public what they argue is crucial information about the extent to which foreign actors are exploiting recent racial and social unrest in the U.S. to advance their own agendas. In a September 1 letter obtained by The Daily […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0a/1079843685_0:6:3072:1734_1200x675_80_0_0_6b22f0957d1045c071127670a894d1ba.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008311080332353-us-house-democrats-demand-trump-officials-testify-on-continuing-war-in-afghanistan/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US House National Security Subcommittee is demanding testimony from Trump administration officials on the United States’ strategy in Afghanistan and is threatening to subpoena the departments of State and Defence to end what it calls ongoing obstruction on the […]
The government of Paris is setting up five new sites to conduct free screening for Covid-19 and help private labs deal with demand for their services. Last week, France surpassed the national record of 900,000 weekly tests. Starting Monday, three permanent centers are collecting samples as part of free Covid-19 […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/19/1080268432_63:0:1897:1032_1200x675_80_0_0_e94a69751307649ae6f476d313188105.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008251080268498-videos-demonstrators-demand-police-reform-take-to-washington-dc-streets-after-wisconsin-shooting/ Local activists and demonstrators have taken to the streets of Washington, DC, to demand nationwide police reform and protest cops’ recent killings and shootings of unarmed Black individuals, including the recent attack which threatened the life of a Black man in Wisconsin. Though […]
Institutional demand for stablecoins may cool because yield on “carry trades” has been cut in half since Monday. The annualized rolling one-month futures basis shot as high as 28% at the start of the week on the Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx, the biggest in terms of open interest. That was […]
Prices for ren, the token for the RenVM DeFi network, surged by more than 100% over the past week. That’s because the total amount of renBTC, a tokenized bitcoin that is locked in RenVM, broke 10,000 on Monday, according to data collected by DeFi Pulse. Source link
A fortnight after their arrest raised eyebrows, and ignoring Ukrainian attempts to extradite most of them, the authorities in Belarus have released 32 Russian citizens they accused of attempting to undermine state security. The KGB claimed the men were fighters from the Wagner private military contractor company who arrived in […]
‘Execute Them’: Lebanon Protesters Demand Revenge After Blast August 10, 2020 ‘Execute Them’: Lebanon Protesters Demand Revenge After Blast2020-08-102020-08-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/lebanon-protests-e1597069282791.jpg200px200px Above photo: Lebanese protesters, enraged by a deadly explosion blamed on government negligence, clash with security forces for the second evening near an access street to the parliament in central Beirut on […]
A group of protesters has sued the Seattle government, arguing that “unmitigated police violence” has imposed a monetary cost on their right to demonstrate freely, forcing them to buy expensive gear to safely confront the cops. Filed by five plaintiffs who took part in ongoing protests in Seattle, the suit […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep Americans indoors, demand for energy has fallen to its lowest level since the 1990s. All the way back in April (which may as well be years ago at the rate that the news cycle is moving these days) Oilprice reported that in the […]
People in the city of Khabarovsk hold posters with messages demanding freedom for Sergei Furgal, the former governor of Russia’s Khabarovsk region, on July 18. Protesters have taken to the streets over Furgal’s arrest this month on murder charges, which he denies. Igor Volkov/AP hide caption toggle caption Igor Volkov/AP […]