With the coronavirus pandemic claiming hundreds more lives every day, one startup tech company has invented a clever way to tackle the problem feared to be helping the disease’s spread: ATMs dispensing the virus along with cash. Istanbul-based company Money Shower has created a disinfection module for ATMs that removes bacteria and viruses, including Covid-19, from paper money before it gets into people’s hands. With the […]
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Just in case the world needed yet another confirmation the world’s manufacturing industries, primarily construction and mining, are grinding to a halt, it got one late on Thursday when Caterpillar reported that in February its global machine sales suffered their biggest drop since December 2016. The report, which covers the first full month when the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed China’s economy and was rapidly spreading across the […]
Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, Around mid-January I started including coronavirus news in the daily Automatic Earth “Debt Rattle” news aggregators, and wrote the first essay on the topic on January 29. Tons of people since have asked why, but I thought the virus had “potential”. Though not everybody would agree, I still think that. So the Debt Rattles are full […]
International Conference Building Solidarity To Stop The US War Machine By Bahman Azaz, US Peace Council March 7, 2020 International Conference Building Solidarity To Stop The US War Machine2020-03-072020-03-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/06/us-bombs-imperialism-from-anti-imperialism.org_-e1583594946141.gif200px200px Cyprus International Conference: Confronting Imperialism’s War Machine — The Global Struggle For Peace, Social Justice, National Sovereignty And The Environment The conference seeks to create a broad, unified anti-imperialist front at the global level. Stopping the US war […]
The gun expert team at iconic arms maker Kalashnikov Concern has put a WWII-era RPD machinegun through a ‘full-auto’ nightmare, bringing the antique weapon to its demise in a new ‘Destroyers of Weapons’ video. The renowned arms producer has surely developed the taste for making literally hot internet content, adding its new video to its popular series. This time, the expert team obtained an RPD machinegun […]
CNN alums Stuart Varney and Maria Bartiromo delivered some harsh criticism of their former employer Tuesday. Speaking on Mornings With Maria, Varney noted that President Donald Trump called CNN “a disgrace to broadcasting” during remarks Tuesday in India. “I happen to agree with that, by the way,” Varney said. “Even though CNN is my alma mater.” The Varney & Co. host then asked his colleague, “How […]
Chicago’s torture machine was both a real mechanism to produce confessions through pain, and a racist political instrument. “For more than a decade, a group of Chicago police detectives regularly subjected black men to aggravated physical abuse until they would agree to confess under duress.” The Torture MachineRacism and Police Violence in Chicagoby Flint Taylor Haymarket Books (available as hard back or ebook) The Torture Machine, Racism […]
Tobias Hase/Getty Images Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald blasted MSNBC as “a full-scale disinformation machine serving the primary goal of the DNC” in a comment to Vanity Fair Tuesday. Greenwald, the founder of The Intercept and a defender of Bernie Sanders, made the comment in a new Vanity Fair report on MSNBC’s coverage of the senator and 2020 Democratic candidate. “There’s a reason the network is mocked as […]
The Fraud Machine At Work In Bolivia By Carlos Fazio, La Jornada, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau February 13, 2020 The Fraud Machine At Work In Bolivia2020-02-132020-02-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/2-12-bolivia.jpg200px200px Above Photo: La Jornada, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau The counter-revolution in Bolivia is advancing under the parameters of a U.S.-made hybrid war and with the blessings of the conservative hierarchy of the local Catholic Church. In its […]