Ethiopia: The TPLF’s Precipitous Fall By Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion, Black Agenda Report. December 1, 2020 Ethiopia: The TPLF’s Precipitous Fall2020-12-012020-12-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/ethiopia_pmabiy_845x400.jpeg200px200px The TPLF was a “darling” of the West, especially the US and UK. The two articles below should be read together, bearing in mind the sources. The first, by Horn of Africa scholar Fikrejesus Amahazion,is an historical background and analysis of the forces in play in […]
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Top shelf Token protestFive of the largest Filecoin miners, which secure that data storage network, have gone on strike, bringing attention to the project’s “unfair” economic model. According to a report by 8btc.com, miners are required to stake a significant amount of FIL tokens to start mining operations. But there’s a critical lack of FIL tokens off the bat. Purchasing tokens on exchanges at what could […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/12/1080806839_0:246:2363:1575_1200x675_80_0_0_2f04f339320e4da4216137ef380543e6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/photo/202010181080807590-new-masks-for-fall-2020-how-different-countries-prepare-for-halloween/ Halloween is celebrated every year on 31 October, on the eve of All Saints’ Day, traditionally considered the only day of the year when the spirits of the dead can return to Earth. Have a look how people around the world are preparing for Halloween in Sputnik’s photo gallery. Halloween is most widely celebrated in the US and Canada, […]
Recently released data suggests there are fewer police officers per person in the United States that at any point in the last 25 years. The figures are from the Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll. According to recent federal data there were 214 officers per 100,000 Americans in 2019, which represents a nine percent fall since 2007 when police numbers were at their […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. As these last weeks have brought the first crop of scripted TV shows that directly tackle the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve come to the conclusion that I want to watch the coronavirus […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0d/1080758482_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_60fe93f4245f1380fe59ab7a444d1e47.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202010131080758092-watch-indian-yoga-guru-ramdev-fall-off-an-elephant-while-performing-deep-breathing/ World famous yoga guru Ram Kisan Yadav, popularly known as Ramdev Baba, made headlines earlier, in August, when a video of him skidding on a curvy road and falling off his bicycle went viral on social media. Indian Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev had a nasty fall on Tuesday while performing a deep breathing exercise, sitting on a decked-up elephant’s […]
Open interest on the Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange is down nearly 50% from the $125 million observed Oct. 1. Source link
Is that sneezing or coughing fit a sign of allergies, a cold, the flu or COVID-19? If you also have a fever — a temperature above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit — those symptoms probably signal infection and not just allergies acting up. sestovic/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption sestovic/Getty Images Is that sneezing or coughing fit a sign of allergies, a cold, the flu or COVID-19? If […]
The cryptocurrency and Asian stock markets dumped early Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he and his wife had tested positive to COVID-19. Source link
The attention may have been with DeFi when it was warm, but as the cold winds of COVID-19 return fears and election volatility blow, bitcoin is resuming narrative dominance. Our main discussion is a narrative shift from DeFi back to bitcoin. Over the summer, DeFi led the crypto charge. From growth in total value locked to narrative dominance to even leadership in the all important category […]
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Chris Rock’s greatest performances are as Chris Rock. There’s his stand-up comedy, and the many times he’s played himself, or versions of himself, Woody Allen-style, on TV and in movies: Louie, Top Five, I Think I Love My Wife… Don’t be fooled. Those are great performances, deftly allowing the indelible, too-large-to-stifle “Chris Rock-ness” to breathe through the characters. But they’re also a testament to how hard […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107010/28/1070102896_0:195:3021:1894_1200x675_80_0_0_621ad440aaf85688c3fa0293ad98de03.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009261080576712-japan-russia-were-very-close-to-signing-peace-treaty-in-fall-2018-abe-says/ TOKYO (Sputnik) – Japan and Russia were very close to signing a peace treaty in the Fall of 2018, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the Nikkei newspaper in an interview published on Saturday. “There was a feeling that we were approaching the talks aimed at signing the peace treaty,” Abe said. He expected to dismiss both chambers […]
Pledge Of Resistance: Stop Austerity This Fall September 25, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Resist! Pledge Of Resistance: Stop Austerity This Fall2020-09-252020-09-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/cooper-baumgartner.jpg200px200px Confronting the threat of Capitalism without the pretense of Democracy. Addressing the Crisis of the Presidential Transition and its (global) Implications. We are living in tumultuous times. The core capitalist countries are rapidly abandoning any pretense of democracy and advancing toward war. We, the oppressed […]
COVID-19: On The Decline In Nicaragua As Its Critics Fall Silent By John Perry, Popular Resistance. September 22, 2020 COVID-19: On The Decline In Nicaragua As Its Critics Fall Silent2020-09-222020-09-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/nicaragua.jpg200px200px Above photo: INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images. No country can yet claim to have defeated Covid-19, but clearly some are having more success than others. Nicaragua is one of these, and could yet be recognized as a […]
Bitcoin is dropping alongside stocks as soaring cases of COVID-19 threaten economic activity in Europe. Source link
President Trump on Wednesday directly contradicted the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on when the coronavirus vaccine will be available to the general public. Asked at a White House press briefing about Dr. Robert Redfield’s statement earlier on Wednesday that the public most likely won’t get the vaccine until next summer or even fall, Trump said, “That’s incorrect information.” “When he said […]
Bitcoin was trending upward before losing momentum; ether holders are moving their cryptocurrency off exchanges. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,284 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 0.12% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $10,174-$10,488 BTC below its 10-day but above 50-day moving averages, a sideway signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since September 8.Source: TradingView Bitcoin continued its upward momentum […]
Camp Robin Hood in in Freedom, N.H., was one of the few around the country to offer a summer sleepover camp. This fall, it’s offering a program where students can live and attend classes remotely. Jacob Spiers/Camp Robin Hood hide caption toggle caption Jacob Spiers/Camp Robin Hood Camp Robin Hood in in Freedom, N.H., was one of the few around the country to offer a summer […]
The ancient Indus Valley Civilisation was located in present-day Pakistan and northwestern India on the plains of the Indus River. Evidence obtained during archaeological excavations show a flourishing civilisation existed in this area around 5500 BCE. A study by an Indian-born American scientist has revealed that the Indus Valley Civilisation possibly declined due to shifting monsoon patterns linked to climate change. In an article published in […]
As millions of Americans prepare to travel for Labor Day, health experts fear the holiday weekend will cause a COVID-19 spike in areas that are already hot spots—and could determine how the deadly virus spreads in the coming months. To date, 186,834 have died and 6,153,735 more have been infected with the coronavirus, numbers that will only increase as the United States heads into fall—and with […]
It’s now clear that the dumbest kids in class have taken over the institutions of the Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten decided to postpone all fall sports recently based on a clearly political decision. ESPN reported: The Big Ten has faced significant backlash over the timing of the decision, which came just six days after the league announced its 10-game, conference-only schedule on the Big […]
This week’s online 2020 Democratic National Convention felt like the best PBS telethon since they threatened to publicly execute Elmo, according to The Daily Beast’s senior White House correspondent Asawin Suebsaeng in this episode of The New Abnormal. But it also, and finally, turned the “senile Biden” trope on its head. And as a special treat, Steve Bannon went down in the middle of it all. […]
Kendra Mendoza’s son, Joshua, has cerebral palsy. She says he loves school, but got little of the therapy he needed this spring. Scott Alario for NPR hide caption toggle caption Scott Alario for NPR Kendra Mendoza’s son, Joshua, has cerebral palsy. She says he loves school, but got little of the therapy he needed this spring. Scott Alario for NPR For Sarah McLaren, who lives in […]
In space, no one can hear you scream—and that’s also true of being in a secret Soviet research facility circa 1983, the setting of director Egor Abramenko’s Sputnik. A clever riff on Alien (and its sequel) that generates solid suspense from assured formal touches and a story that only succumbs to heavy-handed gestures at a few key moments, it’s a capable horror show that, like its […]
When Impossible Becomes Inevitable: The Fall Of ‘Petty Racism’ By Bill Mosley, Washington Socialist. August 14, 2020 When Impossible Becomes Inevitable: The Fall Of ‘Petty Racism’2020-08-142020-08-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/08/silent_sam_protest_carr_quote_dunning-150×100.jpg200px200px Above photo: A sign held at a protest over the “Silent Sam” Confederate monument on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill quotes the racist speech given at its dedication by local industrialist and philanthropist Julian Carr. Photo by Rodney Dunning via Flickr. The […]
From the size of a second round of stimulus to COVID-19 litigation to reshoring, last week previewed some key issues for the months to come. On this week’s edition of The Breakdown Weekly Recap, NLW argues the big story of the week was actually a set of smaller stories that preview the faultlines and economic debates likely to absorb us in the coming months. Disclosure The […]
Colette Pierce Burnette is the president of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. The HBCU is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state. Hadewumi hide caption toggle caption Hadewumi Colette Pierce Burnette is the president of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. The HBCU is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state. Hadewumi Historically Black colleges and universities have an extra factor to consider […]
What Scientists Know About How Children Spread COVID-19 By Jim Morrison/Smithsonianmag.com Every year, children are a major driver of transmission for the viruses that cause the flu and the common cold. So this March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, Tina Hartert of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine expected the same to be true for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. But months later, Hartert and […]
This local TV report from CBS 12 News in Palm Beach county shows that the the inflation of COVID deaths in Florida is HUGE! Florida officials included falls and at least one suicide as COVID-19 deaths. A local Palm Beach investigator found that only 169 out of 581 deaths listed as COVID-19 deaths without any contributing illnesses. Source link
When Irem Ozturk got the email from Dickinson College in mid-June announcing “we intend to bring all students back to campus,” she was elated. She’s originally from Turkey, but after two years on campus, she’s come to think of Carlisle, Pa., as home. “I was thrilled because I felt like I was returning back home, excited to see friends and faculty,” she says. “I felt happy. […]
A new survey released Wednesday by Politico and Morning Consult revealed that a majority of Americans oppose the Trump administration’s demand that schools fully reopen in the fall. According to the survey, 53% of voters somewhat or strongly oppose reopening day cares or K-12 schools in the fall, with 38% either somewhat or strongly supporting reopening day cares or K-12 schools. Fifty percent of those surveyed […]
Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services Admiral Brett P. Giroir spoke to NPR Tuesday about the state of testing in the U.S. Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Pool/Getty Images Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services Admiral Brett P. Giroir spoke to NPR Tuesday about the state of testing in the U.S. Pool/Getty Images Public health experts generally agree that, in spite of improvements, […]