What Price Will Israel Pay For Annexing The Last Of Palestine? By David Hearst, Middle East Eye. July 2, 2020 What Price Will Israel Pay For Annexing The Last Of Palestine?2020-07-022020-07-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/palfree-e1593704489880.jpg200px200px Above photo: A demonstration in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to denounce Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West […]
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As coronavirus cases persist and some states even backtrack their reopening plans, essential workers have flooded social media with calls for hazard pay. Malte Mueller/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Malte Mueller/Getty Images As coronavirus cases persist and some states even backtrack their reopening plans, essential workers have flooded social […]
Exposed: States Relying On ‘House Of Cards’ To Pay For Coal Mine Cleanup By Mark Olalde, Desmog Blog. June 29, 2020 Exposed: States Relying On ‘House Of Cards’ To Pay For Coal Mine Cleanup2020-06-292020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/upper-big-branch-e1593390683379.jpg200px200px Above photo: A memorial in a West Virginia hollow pays homage to the 29 coal miners who […]
This should come as no surprise.Radical Democrat Ayanna Pressley took to the House floor last week and demanded the American people “pay us what you owe us.” The Massachusetts Representative says Black Lives Matter has a mandate. Rep. Ayanna Pressley: “Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It’s […]
Bayer says a settlement worth more than $10 billion will resolve most of the roughly 125,000 claims the company currently faces over its Roundup product. Here, a farmer sprays the glyphosate herbicide in northwestern France in September. Jean-François Monier/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jean-François Monier/AFP via Getty […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – German pharma giant Bayer said Wednesday it will pay up to $10.9 billion to settle a raft of lawsuits against its US affiliate Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, accused of causing cancer. “Company will make a total payment of $10.1 billion to $10.9 billion… to resolve current and address […]
Some cities, such as Washington, D.C. are offering free coronavirus testing for people who’ve attended protests. Where free tests aren’t available, some people may find insurance refuses to cover precautionary testing. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Some cities, such as Washington, D.C. are offering free coronavirus testing […]
Ryde, Singapore’s first carpooling app, will now let customers pay for rides with bitcoin. Starting next week, its users will be able to store and convert bitcoin to the company’s RydeCoin with zero transaction costs, the company announced Wednesday. Customers can top up a maximum of S$999 (just over US$700) […]
Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006171079636010-north-korea-will-pay-if-it-takes-real-military-action—south-korean-military/ The statement comes after the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) destroyed an Inter-Korean Liaison office, unexpectedly raising tensions between North and South Korea. South Korean military warned that if People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) takes real military action against South Korea, “it […]
Going out to the street to support Black Lives Matter movement isn’t enough anymore. If you’re white and want to remain in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, you must also share your cash with black people. “I want you to give $10 to one African-American person from this […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107961/24/1079612427_0:0:2902:1633_1200x675_80_0_0_5b7baa897301d2864cfbeac323335f37.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006141079612456-palestinian-government-announces-inability-to-pay-salaries-to-employees/ GAZA (Sputnik) – The Palestinian government cannot pay salaries to its employees, as it did not receive tax deductions from Israel, spokesman Ibrahim Milhim said on Sunday. “The government did not receive tax deductions from Israel. The Palestinian leadership will not be subject […]
Can build a better blockchain by paying people to burn one down? Beniamin Mincu, Transylvanian chief executive and founder of the Elrond Network, is in the midst of a 15-day campaign to do just that. Nearly two years after first revealing his “secure proof-of-stake” sharding protocol in a technical white […]
US 20:33 GMT 04.06.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107952/17/1079521785_0:132:3406:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_a60de6ec64b833f0d7f3277477e92fe8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006041079521837-did-mxico-pay-for-it-netizens-scoff-as-white-house-erects-fencing-concrete-barriers—video/ The federal government’s decision to fortify the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) has drawn criticism from netizens and Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser. Tall, metal fencing, along with concrete barriers, appeared along 17th […]
It’s next to impossible to socially distance in Eureka Springs. Built in the late 1880s as a rural spa village, the northwest Arkansas hamlet is defined by painstakingly preserved Victorian buildings and narrow cobblestone streets that snake through its perpetually bustling entertainment district. Just as European settlers traveled to Eureka […]
Renters in the Woodner apartment building in Washington, D.C., protest to demand their rent be forgiven during the COVID-19 pandemic on May 28. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images Renters in the Woodner apartment building in Washington, D.C., protest to demand their […]
US Firms Shield CEO Pay As Pandemic Hits Workers, Investors By Jessica DiNapoli and Ross Kerber, Reuters. May 31, 2020 US Firms Shield CEO Pay As Pandemic Hits Workers, Investors2020-05-312020-05-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/whpng-e1590953388840.png200px200px Above photo: Christopher Nassetta, the President and CEO of Hilton, participates in a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and tourism industry […]
Women’s world number three Karolina Pliskova says any male stars complaining over demands for equal pay for their female counterparts are “super weak” – but insisted she is not pushing for parity between the sexes. Recent weeks have seen renewed calls from the likes of men’s icon Roger Federer for […]
This weekend, temporary pay bumps for workers during the coronavirus pandemic are ending at companies across the country. In a normal world, high hazard pay might be the only way to stop employees from quitting en masse. But with tens of millions unemployed, workers quickly lost a lot of leverage. […]
Rent Strike: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay By Amy Hall, The New Internationalist. May 29, 2020 Rent Strike: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay2020-05-292020-05-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/04/rent-strike-e1590508502204.png200px200px Above photo: Students with their ‘Rent Strike’ banner from the News Line. The Covid-19 crisis has triggered an international rent strike. Housing activists hope to build strong networks of solidarity as a […]
BuzzFeed News staff are taking a paycut and agreeing to share the workload in a deal to offset most of the potential employee furloughs the company planned for its editorial employees. Following the massive downturn of the advertising market in the coronavirus pandemic’s wake, numerous news media companies including BuzzFeed […]
BitClave, a California startup whose Ethereum-based search engine raised $25.5 million in a 2017 token sale, will pay back its 9,500 investors in a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The settlement ended BitClave’s court saga almost as soon as it began. Prosecutors with the SEC announced […]
Essential Sanitary Workers Strike For Hazard Pay And PPE By Mike Ludwig, Truthout. May 17, 2020 Essential Sanitary Workers Strike For Hazard Pay And PPE2020-05-172020-05-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ppe1-e1589725714406.png200px200px Above photo: Rahman Brooks and other striking sanitation workers gather around a car at a picket line in New Orleans. The strikers are demanding higher wages […]
The elderly have already been hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, but one Oxford economist thinks that they should shell out to ease the economic burden on the young. He’s since been accused of “scapegoating” the vulnerable. “Young people benefit the least from the lockdown measures, because they are less […]