Above Photo: Yana Paskova / The Washington Post. So They’re Trying To Co-Opt It. The Democrats are fighting hard to co-opt the radically independent Amazon Labor Union. But organizing with Democrats is a dead end; the way forward is through workers organizing across sectors, independent from capitalist parties and politicians. The Amazon Labor Union’s (ALU) victory is shaking the country. After unionizing a warehouse for one of the world’s biggest companies, the ALU is being flooded with messages from other workers, from Amazon workers and beyond, asking for help to organize their workplaces. This win is part of a new upsurge […]
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NATO Is A Problem, Not The Solution March 23, 2022 NATO Is A Problem, Not The Solution2022-03-232022-03-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220323-1.webp200px200px While in no way excusing Russia’s criminal invasion, NATO expansion eastward increased its likelihood. Although we’ll never know if the war would not have happened under different circumstances, after a month of Russian violence against Ukraine the two countries’ negotiators have reportedly agreed that it will reject joining NATO as part of a peace pact. Russia has long objected to NATO’s eastward expansion, particularly Ukraine’s de facto incorporation into the alliance. It repeatedly raised objections to NATO encircling its territory in the months leading up to […]
Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. March 12, 2022 Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem2022-03-122022-03-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220312-1.png200px200px Above Photo: Paul Robeson in the Soviet Union in 1958. The American public are inundated with anti-Russian war propaganda that is worse than in the days of the Red Scare. Russia has been the subject of intense outrage in the West following its decision to wage a military offensive against Ukraine. The military operation caught many by surprise. While the Western foreign policy establishment exploited the development as a “told you so” moment, the general public was thrown into a […]
Above Photo: New Orleans residents held a “trash parade” on September 18, 2021, in protest of the city’s inaction, dumping their garbage on the steps of City Hall. (Simonette Berry.) ‘Sanitation issues in New Orleans are pre-Ida and pre-pandemic.’ As crews in New Orleans cleared roads, tarped roofs, and worked to restore power following Hurricane Ida this August, something else was festering—literally. Parts of the city went weeks without garbage collection in the aftermath of the storm, leaving food and wet debris to rot in the heat, and attracting swarms of disease-carrying insects and vermin. Alexander Wallace, a Black actor living […]
Not a Democracy Problem. Managua, Nicaragua – US President Joe Biden hectored Nicaragua about their November 7 elections accusing them of “a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic.” Three days earlier, the US lavished a $650mil arms deal on Saudi Arabia, a monarchy where they don’t even pretend to have elections for higher office. Clearly more than democracy is at issue with the US offensive against Nicaragua. At issue is what Biden described as “the arbitrary imprisonment of nearly 40 opposition figures since May, including seven potential presidential candidates.” An objective investigation reveals: (1) the […]
The authors argue that the theory of Afropessism is antithetical to the development of political movements. As teachers, we’re tasked with educating our students, students who are increasingly, like their teachers, becoming politically conscious and called to act. Yet the dominant political theories and forms of action are inadequate for real revolutionary transformation. In other words, the schools and universities in capitalist society are all too ready to accommodate and guide this consciousness and energy into forms it can accommodate. This is not a new phenomenon, but one that’s accelerated since the 1960s in particular. For example, Charisse Burden-Stelly documents how […]
How Do We Solve A Problem Like Amazon? By Craig Gent, Novara Media. December 2, 2020 How Do We Solve A Problem Like Amazon?2020-12-022020-12-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/amazon-e1606932321101.png200px200px On a cool morning in April 2013 over a thousand workers outside the small town of Bad Hersfeld in central Germany took an action of global significance. Armed with whistles and high-visibility vests, members of the general union Ver.di set up a picket line outside an Amazon fulfilment centre – company nomenclature for its massive processing and distribution hubs – marking the first strike in Amazon’s history. Today, that most confected and bemusing of late capitalism’s holidays […]
Iran’s Air Defence Troops already operate four battalions of upgraded S-300PMU2s, including launchers themselves plus the accompanying target detection and designation radar equipment. Furthermore, the country’s domestic defence industries have created a range of first-rate air defence systems, including the Bavar 373 and the Khordad-3. Moscow would have “no problem” selling its S-400 air defence system to Iran, Russian Ambassador Levan Dzhagaryan has said. “As you know, S-300s have already been delivered. Russia has no problem delivering S-400s to Iran. This was never a problem from the very beginning,” Dzhagaryan said, speaking to Iran’s Resalat newspaper in an interview published Saturday. […]
Canada Has A War Crimes Problem By Matthew Behrens, Rabble.ca. September 30, 2020 Canada Has A War Crimes Problem2020-09-302020-09-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/canada.jpg200px200px Two new reports on Canadian weapons exports reveal that Canadian-based corporate entities (and, by extension, government agencies that support and encourage their exports) are complicit in the commission of war crimes in Yemen, Turkey, Libya, Syria and Iraq. These findings build on previously raised concerns that the Canadian military was complicit in war crimes during the occupation of Afghanistan (including when current Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan operated there as a soldier). Earlier this month, the United Nations criticized Canada, among other nations, for continuing to export weapons […]
RIP Andre Vltchek: ‘Western Imperialism Is World’s Biggest Problem’ By Peter Koenig, Information Clearinghouse. September 27, 2020 RIP Andre Vltchek: ‘Western Imperialism Is World’s Biggest Problem’2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/andrevltcheck-e1601216460368.jpeg200px200px André, my good friend and comrade is no more. We worked on several investigative projects together. André’s professional rigor, sharpness of understanding, vision and ability to connecting the dots is exemplary. We shared some unforgettable moments, when we followed a refugee trail from Bodrum, Turkey, to the Greek Island of Kos in the Aegean Sea – onwards to Athens. I’m deeply shocked and saddened beyond words by André’s sudden passing. In the night from […]
Vietnam’s Intergenerational Self Help Clubs encourage older people in the neighborhood to find solutions to their own challenges, whether it’s feeling lonely or needing a little extra cash. (Image credit: Nguyễn Văn Hốt) Source link
It’s one of the most baffling problems in astrophysics. If the solar surface is 5,500℃, how can the solar atmosphere (the corona) be between 1 million and 10 million degrees C? For the first time, scientists have observed nanojets, bright thin lights traveling perpendicular to the magnetic field lines of the Sun that are the telltale signature of nanoflares: localized, rapid heating events of the corona. The issue of coronal heating was first identified by astrophysicists in the 1940s. Since then, numerous hypotheses have been put forth to explain how the Sun’s atmosphere is many times hotter than its surface. One […]
Dr Matt Cole, a political historian of modern Britain at the University of Birmingham, has shared his views on the new set of restrictions announced by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Sputnik: How effective will these new measures be? Dr Matt Cole: Well, what the British government has done today, and it’s still discussing in Parliament, is effectively a ratcheting up of the measures they already have so that businesses can continue to operate. But the greatest dangers of transmission of the virus can be reduced. So pubs and restaurants will have to close at 10 o’clock instead of 11 o’clock, when […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009151080464643-trump-says-he-would-have-no-problem-with-selling-us-weapons-to-gulf-states/ Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/06/1080384407_0:181:2000:1306_1200x675_80_0_0_8aeb75fe231f985d9a66b6c6afc54145.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009061080384390-saudi-king-tells-trump-kingdom-willing-to-reach-permanent-and-just-solution-to-palestinian-problem/ Tensions have risen in the region after the UAE and Israel reached an agreement that will make the Emirates the third Arab country in modern history to establish diplomatic ties with the state of Israel. US President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz have had a phone conversation during which the Saudi monarch expressed the Kingdom’s willingness to reach a “permanent and just solution to the Palestinian cause to bring peace”, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Sunday. He added that it is the starting point for the Kingdom’s efforts and the […]
Why do police murder African American men? Want the truth? We don’t think you can handle the truth. The old themes, that the light skinned “house negro” was the progeny of only the male slave owner is a hollywood concoction. Sure, some wanted to be urinated on, we know that but the real attraction was always sexual humiliation, the highest form of eroticism in Christian evangelical America, one that requires taboos and race hatred, race envy, to work. But we all know that as well, don’t we? Today we are going to raise some hard truths while discussing a sensitive subject […]
YouTube has long struggled with disinformation, misleading content and outright scams on its site. Despite lawsuits and Google’s own ad policies, cryptocurrency scam ads are still making it through the gates and circulating for days. In April the CEO of Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, filed a lawsuit against YouTube, alleging the company’s inaction against fraudulent content on its platform has damaged Ripple’s reputation by not curbing scam “giveaways” of XRP. According to the complaint, in one instance a scammer stole $15,000 worth of XPR from a victim. Garlinghouse is not alone. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is also suing YouTube and its parent […]
President Donald Trump has offered federal assistance to the mayors of cities dealing with violent “antigovernment” protests, saying he can “solve [the] problem fast” if they can’t properly police their own communities. “These riots are an antigovernment movement from the Left that are all in Democrat run cities,” the president tweeted on Sunday. “The mayors have got to let their police do what they know how to do. Would be very easy to suppress or, call in the Federal Government. We will solve problem fast!” These riots are an antigovernment movement from the Left that are all in Democrat run cities. […]
From the devastation of the service industry to never-ending central bank intervention, these factors make predicting the future of the economy nearly impossible. In a recent essay, John Mauldin argues the economy is actually experiencing an “eight-body problem.” On today’s episode, NLW explores each of those dimensions shaping the challenge we face, including: In the end, he argues that in a world ruled by chaos, fighting to control the narrative might be the only rational move. Source link
As Serie A winners Juventus ended their season with a whimper by slumping to their third defeat in four, Cristiano Ronaldo’s warning to fans that silverware doesn’t come easily might have more to do with him than he imagines. “It seems easy but it isn’t,” came the platitudinal post on Cristiano Ronaldo’s Instagram after he sat out the 3-1 final day loss to Roma that gave Juventus their first home league defeat since 2018, accompanied by a photo of himself celebrating with the squad and the league trophy. Few had been under the illusion that this season had been a stroll for […]
VT: Cohen has the real facts behind dozens of rape accusations against Trump including several child rape and one child murder charge…that crooked courts handled as ‘civil cases.’ Daily Beast: A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday allowed Michael Cohen to be released from prison this week after finding that authorities “retaliated” against the former Trump lawyer for his plans to publish a tell-all book about the president. BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the release of Michael Cohen to home confinement. This ruling in our case is a victory for the First Amendment. — ACLU (@ACLU) July 23, 2020 Breaking via […]
Crypto companies enthusiastically building solutions to bring the industry in line with anti-money laundering (AML) benchmarks may be creating their own interoperability problem. There are a number of promising and popular solutions coming to the fore, but If a virtual asset service provider (VASP) using one solution is unable to talk to a counterparty using another, the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) requirement to leave an identifiable trail when transferring funds becomes pointless. To remedy this “Travel Rule” conundrum, Netki is adding a system of “translators” to its TransactID protocol that the company says creates “an interoperability bridge” between VASPs, having […]
VT: it goes 1000 times past Trump’s calling Nelson Mandela a “monkey” or using the term “kike.” Cohen has told us, time and time again, that he silenced 500 people for Trump and Jane Doe was one of them, there were others, all tied to Jeffrey Epstein and the 15 years they spent together, which VT has sources on. They paid models $10,000 to provide cover for them on the days they spent with kids. New York’s mob controlled courts allowed Trump and Cohen to use non-disclosure agreements, often imaginary, often at virtual gunpoint, to silence victims. Dozens have come forward, […]
Preston Byrne, a columnist for CoinDesk’s Opinion section, is a partner in Anderson Kill’s Technology, Media and Distributed Systems Group. He advises software, internet and fintech companies. His biweekly column, “Not Legal Advice,” is a roundup of pertinent legal topics in the crypto space. It is most definitely not legal advice. Among the libertarians, I am something of an odd duck in that I am not a journalist, yet I have a blue check mark. I am proud of my blue check mark. I’m not sure how I got it. Back in the day, Twitter had a form you could fill […]
Finance writer Jon Turek argues that between Federal Reserve swap lines, Europe stabilization and a few other factors, the strong dollar problem may be (temporarily) solved. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss: Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
Campaign shake ups are overrated. This is especially true of a presidential campaign where the candidates have 100 percent name recognition. The real manager of Donald Trump’s campaign is Trump. He can hire Brad Parscale or Bill Stepien or Mother Teresa and it won’t make a bit of difference. In this regard, the main reason for switching campaign managers (aside from Trump’s desire to self-soothe) is to change the narrative. This is a campaign that is desperately in need of reinvention—of a new start—and since you can’t fire the candidate, your first “go-to” move is to fire the manager and introduce […]
The UK government has yet to tackle the modern slavery problem despite the adoption of the Modern Slavery Act five years ago, British law and human trafficking specialists warn. They claim the legislation does not work, and allows business owners to circumvent its provisions and benefit from sweatshop labour. “Modern slavery” is thriving in some parts of the UK, with workers in Leicester factories making clothes in unsafe conditions for as little as £3.50 ($4.38) an hour which is far below the UK minimum wage of £8.72 ($10.92), according to The Sunday Times’ 6 July report. Modern slavery is defined in the […]
Ethereum developers are aspiring to launch Eth 2.0 in 2020. But that doesn’t mean all the technical details have been spelled out yet. The sum of account balances maintained by the network’s nodes – called the state – continues to grow larger and larger as applications and projects transact. Adoption is good, but runaway growth is bad. Independent developer Alexey Akhunov may have a solution – one pulled from Cosmos, the interoperability blockchain. His new proposal, dubbed “ReGenesis,” posted on EthResearch on June 24, would bring stateless client research to the current Ethereum chain (also known as Eth 1.x) by “nuking” […]
The US Military Has A Boogaloo Problem June 26, 2020 The US Military Has A Boogaloo Problem2020-06-262020-06-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/boogaloo-images-from-getty-images-e1593181234608.jpg200px200px Above photo: Boogaloo images from Getty Images. Some of the largest private Facebook groups catering to the boogaloo movement have scores of members who identify as active-duty military. The U.S. military appears to have a brewing boogaloo problem. Active-duty military are flocking to online networks frequented by the anti-government movement, known for its meme culture and Hawaiian shirt-clad adherents, who are often called Boogaloo Bois. “Boogaloo” is code for civil war, which is the ultimate goal of the movement, and some of its followers trade […]
A few years ago, when MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini was leading an interactive digital art project, she found the facial recognition technology it employed was far better at recognizing her lighter-skinned MIT colleagues. The discovery sent Buolamwini on a mission. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League and started doing research that builds awareness about biases in software algorithms. One paper she co-authored with Timnit Gebru, the technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team at Google, found facial-analysis software had an error rate of 34.7% for dark-skinned women versus just 0.8% for light-skinned men. Facial recognition is the tip […]
Leah Callon-Butler, a CoinDesk columnist, is the director of Emfarsis, a consulting firm focused on the role of technology in advancing economic development in Asia. When Chef Bagus closed the doors to his restaurant in the Balinese tourist resort of Kuta, the only thing left in the kitchen was the hallmark aroma of his world-famous BBQ ribs. With Indonesia’s usual inflow of cash-happy and Instagram-snappy tourists all but dried up due to global travel restrictions, Chef and his crew emptied the chiller, cleared the shelves and cooked every last ingredient on hand. Then, they promptly donated the food – about 150 […]
Iranian newspaper Sobhe Sadiq interviews Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor Question: Protests over police brutality and the death of George Floyd continue to rage across the US. What do you think about the protests? I sympathize with people who are angry about the murder of George Floyd and other abuses by American police. Abusive police are a serious problem here in the USA, epecially in black communities. The police abuse problem is one aspect of the larger problem of rampant injustices and inequalities. There is also the related problem of the moral, ethical, and spiritual vacuum left by the decline of […]
The Problem Of “Peaceful Protesters” May 28, 2020 The Problem Of “Peaceful Protesters”2020-05-282020-05-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/protest-1-e1590683327599.jpg200px200px NOTE: This article was originally published in It’s Going Down in February 2019. In light of the uprising in Minneapolis over the police murdering George Floyd, it seems important to bring this back. Solidarity is critical in times of crisis and we can’t allow the state or “white moderates” to cause division. We are all protesters. We use different tactics in different circumstances. Let’s stay focused on the root causes of injustice and oppression and avoid being complicit with injustice and oppression. – MF “I’m not a protester. […]
Mining reward halvings are a hot topic in the crypto markets, as they alter a cryptocurrency’s supply and often have a significant impact on prices. Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by market value, underwent its third halving on May 11, which reduced the reward per block mined to 6.25 bitcoin from 12.5. Bitcoin offshoots bitcoin cash and bitcoin SV also witnessed halvings in April. Next in line is zcash (ZEC), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency first created in 2016 that uses a proof-of-work (or mining) algorithm and encrypts user information within shielded transactions. Currently, it is the 26th largest cryptocurrency by market value, as per […]
When Activist Burnout Was A Problem 50 Years Ago, This Group Found A Solution By George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence. May 24, 2020 When Activist Burnout Was A Problem 50 Years Ago, This Group Found A Solution2020-05-242020-05-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/photo.jpg200px200px Above photo: Occupy Wall Street protest, two days after dismantling of Zuccotti Park camp. Christopher Smith. As activists weary from war, campus killings, a tyrant in the White House and poverty at home started dropping out, Movement for a New Society built a model of sustainability. “I’m throwin’ in the towel,” he said in a tone of resignation. I’d been away for a while and didn’t […]
Dissociated Press At a joint White House press conference this morning, Bill Gates and Donald Trump announced that the Gates Foundation has acquired the bankrupt United States Government (USG) for pennies on the dollar and launched a new emergency initiative to address the coronavirus crisis. Trump explained that the first act of the new United States of Bill and Melinda Gates will be signature legislation to “make America great again through better health and shared prosperity.” The president added that a bipartisan Trump-Gates coalition has introduced legislation to jump-start America’s stalled economy: HR666-666, the Back-to Work America! Helping Americans Help Americans […]