War Crimes Report Means Get The Fuck Out Of Afghanistan November 20, 2020 War Crimes Report Means Get The Fuck Out Of Afghanistan2020-11-202020-11-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/afghan-e1605886158896.jpeg200px200px The much-anticipated report on potential war crimes by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in Afghanistan has been released, recommending 19 current or former soldiers be investigated for up to 39 murders. Not combat kills. Not accidental kills. Not non-combatants killed by disputable decisions made […]
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What Biden’s Election Means For Venezuela By Anya Parampil, The Grayzone. November 14, 2020 What Biden’s Election Means For Venezuela2020-11-142020-11-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/bidenvz.jpg200px200px Leo Flores of CODEPINK joins Anya Parampil to discuss what the election of Joe Biden will mean for US Venezuela policy, and the importance of Venezuela’s upcoming parliamentary elections in preserving the country’s sovereignty. Anya Parampil: In July you wrote a piece for The Grayzone and […]
One is a Grammy Award-winning musician with lots of spare time. Another is a software engineer with nowhere to go during the pandemic. There’s also an editor for a data site and a fund manager who invests in digital assets. What these people have in common is an obscure side gig known as “yield farming,” a type of cryptocurrency trading and investing that didn’t really even […]
Martial law has also been declared in the unrecognised breakaway Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic); Azerbaijan declared martial law only in some of its regions. As armed clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh region, the government of Armenia has declared martial law in the country. “Based on a decision by the government, martial law and a full mobilization have been declared in the […]
President Trump and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett walk along the Rose Garden Colonnade on Saturday. The focus on the court just weeks before the election could help energize conservatives in key states. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trump and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett walk along the Rose Garden Colonnade on Saturday. The focus on the court […]
Three Cities Designated As ‘Anarchist Jurisdictions’ – What That Means September 23, 2020 Three Cities Designated As ‘Anarchist Jurisdictions’ – What That Means2020-09-232020-09-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/nyc-e1600889905357.jpg200px200px Above photo: A man raises his arm in support of the crowd of protesters marching in downtown New York on July 26. Pablo Monsalve / VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images file. Everything old is new again. A glance back at 1887 proves there is a very […]
The announcement followed the Abraham Accords signed by UAE and Bahrain with Israel at the White House, which were negatively met both by the Palestinian authorities and Iran. The deputy head of the Lebanon-based Shia militant group, Sheikh Naim Qassem, has spoken on the Palestinian cause, calling for military efforts along with “other forms of resistance” against Israel. “We should make efforts for the liberation of […]
Foreigners staying in Russia for more than 30 days may be required to submit fingerprints and photos, undergo a medical examination, and receive an ID card, according to a new law being drafted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to Valentina Kazakova, the head of the ministry’s migration department, the ID card would contain all the foreigner’s personal data. The proposed changes would apply to […]
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., fended off a primary challenge on Tuesday from Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., for a second full term in the Senate. Although both ran as progressives, young climate change activists helped fuel Markey’s victory. Steven Senne/AP hide caption toggle caption Steven Senne/AP U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., fended off a primary challenge on Tuesday from Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., for a second […]
Alexander Lipton is the CTO of Sila, a visiting professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Jerusalem Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Connection Science Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On Aug. 27, the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gave a widely watched speech entitled “New Economic Challenges and the Fed’s Monetary Policy Review” at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. In his […]
Today Is Earth Overshoot Day, Here’s What It Means By Mathieu Pollet, Euro News. August 23, 2020 Today Is Earth Overshoot Day, Here’s What It Means2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/earth-e1598187452128.jpg200px200px Above photo: Guillaume de Germain/Unsplash. From today onwards, we have used every last bit of natural resources that Earth can provide within one calendar year and are now living on ecological credit. This year, Earth Overshoot Day occurs on August […]
Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition July 11, 2020 Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition2020-07-112020-07-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/surveillance-e1594489812130.jpg200px200px Above photo: We see the videos of the people police hurt and kill—but the surveillance that led to that brutality is often hidden from us. Jon Shireman/Getty Images. What’s happening in Detroit should be a wakeup call for the nation. We can’t stop police violence without ending police surveillance. Uprisings for […]
If there’s one thing we can thank the coronavirus pandemic for, it’s a math lesson. Watching an infection lead to two, then four, then eight, then 16, then 32, then 64, then 128 and so on, people found a real-world reason to comprehend the phenomenon of exponentiality. Without such context, it has been historically hard for our linear-minded brains to appreciate how rapidly network-driven growth happens. […]
Solidarity Means Dismantling The System Everywhere By Progressive International. June 19, 2020 Solidarity Means Dismantling The System Everywhere2020-06-192020-06-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/pi.png200px200px Above photo: By Marco Grasso. PI Council members on the uprising in the United States and around the world. A new solidarity movement is rising. From Los Angeles to Sao Paulo, Minneapolis to London, “Black Lives Matter” is a cry and a demand heard around the world. The […]
Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation By Dorothy Roberts, Chronicle of Social Change. June 17, 2020 Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation2020-06-172020-06-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/parents-e1592407928700.png200px200px Above photo: Jaquelyn Martin/AP. The uprisings taking place across the nation and the world have brought unprecedented attention to abolition as a political vision and organizing strategy. More Americans are recognizing that police killings of black people are so pervasive that they can […]
Cell culture operators prepare a 2000-liter single-use bioreactor to produce proteins used to make vaccines. Philip Taciak/Emergent Biosolutions hide caption toggle caption Philip Taciak/Emergent Biosolutions Cell culture operators prepare a 2000-liter single-use bioreactor to produce proteins used to make vaccines. Philip Taciak/Emergent Biosolutions Once upon a time, developing a new vaccine was a step-by-step process that went from concept, to design, to tests in humans, to […]
The largest 50-day “Robinhood” rally in stock market history and even stocks of bankrupt companies are up more than 100%. What is going on? Saudi Arabia injects $13 billion in bank liquidity via blockchain. China’s state TV CCTV says Binance is still allowing crypto trading in China. MakerDAO community greenlights real world collateral. Our main topic: The “Robinhood Revolution.” The next time someone tells you crypto […]
With US President Donald Trump clashing with social media behemoth Twitter, what does the fight over ‘Section 230’ really mean and can decentralization offer a better solution? U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Thursday, seeking to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 prevents social media companies from civil liability for the content posted on them. The order targets Twitter […]
In the nearly eight years since I first described millennials as “the screwed generation,” things have only worsened for those born between 1982 and 2000—and the coronavirus is now accelerating that slide. In the midst of a pandemic, millennials are twice as likely to be uninsured as Boomers (PDF). Despite their superior educational credentials, millennials on average earn wages that are 20 percent less than what […]
Beijing Biden on Saturday once again showed he is a globalist who will not put America first. China Joe said to the class of 2020: “Some of you will redefine what it means to be a global citizen and lead the way in uniting people regardless of age, gender, race, or zip code.” This shouldn’t surprise us because Biden recently bragged he would not put America […]
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/Getty Two years ago, the voices of survivors of sexual harassment and assault launched an unprecedented movement the world over, using Tarana Burke’s MeToo framework. That one moment was a spark into the unknown, but the movement itself was no happy accident. It was built to fuel a reclamation of power for those who had been silenced for too long, […]
The news that Ronaldo ‘”Jacare” Souza, plus his two cornermen, tested positive coronavirus test couldn’t have come at a worse time for the UFC, who had done everything they could to mitigate risk ahead of UFC 249 The event, which is set to be the first major sporting event in the United States since the COVID-19 outbreak, was the focus of much of the sporting world […]