Above Photo: Amazon employees on strike outside a warehouse in Saran, France, last month. Mourad Guichard / Reuters Fighting for wage increases that at least keep pace with inflation, workers at Amazon in France are expanding their strike across the country. A strike by Amazon workers in France resumed in earnest on Tuesday, April 5, and extended to all Amazon sites across the country. “Management offered us a 3 percent increase, but we want at least 5 percent,” Antoine Delorme of the CGT Amazon trade union at Châlons-sur-Saône told Révolution Permanente. This is happening in the context of compulsory annual negotiations (NAO) […]
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Disarming Ukraine – Day Nine – Europe Increases Its Own Losses March 4, 2022 Disarming Ukraine – Day Nine – Europe Increases Its Own Losses2022-03-042022-03-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/ukrop13-1-e1646427960742.jpg200px200px I feel too outraged and frightened about what is now happening in our societies to write about it. I thus continue to quote others at some length. Patrick Armstrong continues to be the best military intelligence analyst on Russia: So far the Russian military operation in Ukraine has been a reconnaissance in force preceded by the destruction of the supplies and headquarters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by standoff weapons. The object being to suss out where […]
Above Photo: Though 25 states will raise the minimum wage this year, only two of those states are in the South. (Fight For $15 Florida /Twitter ). 2022 marks 10 years since fast food workers in New York first went on strike to demand higher wages, better working conditions, and the right to unionize — sparking the Fight For $15 movement. Since that time, the movement has gained traction, with California raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour and several other states passing legislation that will gradually do so. As the ongoing global pandemic has drawn attention to the fact that the people who keep the […]
Belarus is stepping up military activity over the country across the country amid continuing to deteriorate relations with neighboring countries and NATO. Hundreds of videos are circulating on social media showing the movement of heavy military vehicles and troops. Numerous witnesses report the movement of military convoys and trains loaded with large amounts of military hardware, including tanks and other heavy armored vehicles in areas along the Ukrainian and Russian borders. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Video posted on Twitter on Apr. 20 appear to show trainload of BTR-80 armoured personnel carriers and Cayman armoured reconnaissance vehicles train station […]
The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps are on heightened alert and increase patrols over Iraq to respond to a potential Iranian attack at U.S. troops in Middle East region. Pentagon officials are concerned about movements of Iranian-backed militias amid heightened tensions on the eve of the liquidation anniversary of Iran’s top commander General Qasem Soleimani that been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad on 3 January 2020. Specifically, the Pentagon is closely watching “troubling indicators of potential attack preparations” from Iranian militias in Iraq, the official said. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – “It is worrisome,” one […]
In the last few months, the U.S. Army has significantly expanded its activities in the Black Sea Region. On 19 November, Members of 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment, 41st Field Artillery Brigade (41st FAB) deployed two M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) with 2 launcher crews, comprised of six personnel, from Ramstein Air Base, Germany to conduct Exercise Rapid Falcon in Romania. According to the 41st Field Artillery Brigade, this was the unit’s second live fire event since reactivation just 90 days ago and was the first time U.S. Forces fired HIMARS from land into the Black Sea in […]
Solitary Confinement Increases Risk Of Premature Death After Release By Andrea Fenster, Prison Policy Initiative. October 15, 2020 Solitary Confinement Increases Risk Of Premature Death After Release2020-10-152020-10-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/solitary-e1602783273925.jpg200px200px Above photo: PBS. Any amount of time spent in solitary confinement increases the risk of death after release from prison, including deaths by suicide, homicide, and opioid overdose. A recently published study of people released from North Carolina prisons confirms what many have long suspected: solitary confinement increases the risk of premature death, even after release. Personal stories, like those of Kalief Browder’s isolation and subsequent suicide, are canaries in the coal mine. Underneath seemingly isolated events, researchers […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008201080227379-iran-increases-capacity-to-enrich-uranium-amid-us-plans-to-reimpose-sanctions/ TEHRAN (Sputnik) – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) on Thursday announced that the Middle Eastern country has increased capacity to enrich uranium in light of Washington’s plan to reinstate sanctions against Tehran. “It does not matter if the snapback mechanism [which envisages restoration of sanctions] will be activated or not, the atomic energy organisation has taken big steps to increase the capacity to 190,000 SWU [Separative Work Units]”, the AEOI tweeted. The capacity increase was announced after US President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that the United States intends to restore […]
In an interview with Axios that aired Monday on HBO, US President Donald Trump made several false claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic as he scrambled to appeal to his base, Max Blumenthal, a bestselling author and journalist whose latest film is “Killing Gaza,” told Sputnik on Tuesday. At one point in the interview with Jonathan Swan, Trump pulled out his own printouts of COVID-19 data as evidence that the US supposedly is the “lowest” in “numerous categories” related to the pandemic, such as case fatality rate. When Swan explained that he was referring to the US death rate per capita, […]
…from SouthFront On July 19, the Libyan National Army (LNA) test-fired the Soviet-era P-15 Termit anti-ship missile near Zawiyat Zanzur, on the Libyan coast. The P-15 Termit is guided by active radar homing and equipped with an inertial navigation system. Missiles of this type have a range between 35 and 80 km depending on the variant and a top speed of Mach 0.95. The Gaddafi-era Libyan Navy had large stockpiles of P-15 missiles and also operated an unknown number of 4K51 Rubezh coastal defense systems, which were armed with an advanced copy of the missile. Thus, the LNA may have access […]
Two grounded American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8s are seen parked in Miami in 2019. The airline industry is seeing more travelers than in March and April but faces a long road to recovery. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Two grounded American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8s are seen parked in Miami in 2019. The airline industry is seeing more travelers than in March and April but faces a long road to recovery. Joe Raedle/Getty Images U.S. airlines are boosting their flight schedules in preparation for the summer after experiencing an increase in customer demand, but […]
The price of bitcoin continues its rise ahead of next week’s anticipated halving. That event is trending as a topic on social media, even as few appear to be considering what may happen after it’s over. At press time bitcoin (BTC) was trading up 6.5% over 24 hours, currently at $9,882. It’s been on a run upward on high volume since 12:00 UTC (8 a.m. ET), moving from $9,270 during that time to as high as $9,971 on spot exchanges like Coinbase. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since May 5Source: TradingView Discussion of “bitcoin halving,” the once-every-four-year event that will lower by […]