The following excerpt is from Hannah Lewis’s new book Mini-Forest Revolution (Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2022) and is reprinted with permission from the publisher. The hilltop view from the Sacré-Coeur Basilica is iconic. From there, Paris is a wide, ivory-gray mosaic where you might spot a juggler on a unicycle in the foreground if you’re lucky. The street view is one of dazzling relics: a Roman arena, medieval houses, a gilded opera house famed for its phantom, the burned and partially renovated Gothic cathedral home to a fabled hunch- back, labyrinths of street cafés and kebab stands, thirty-seven bridges over the curving Seine […]
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Above Photo: Antonio Marín Segovia / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. No country has successfully challenged the U.S. dollar’s global hegemony—until now. How did this happen and what will it mean? Foreign critics have long chafed at the “exorbitant privilege” of the U.S. dollar as global reserve currency. The U.S. can issue this currency backed by nothing but the “full faith and credit of the United States.” Foreign governments, needing dollars, not only accept them in trade but buy U.S. securities with them, effectively funding the U.S. government and its foreign wars. But no government has been powerful enough to break that arrangement […]
The True Adventure Of A 19-Year-Old North American Fighting In The Cuban Revolution With Fidel Castro By Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. March 23, 2022 The True Adventure Of A 19-Year-Old North American Fighting In The Cuban Revolution With Fidel Castro2022-03-232022-03-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/fidel-castro-the-author-right-and-his-college-friend-1958-sierra-maestra-cuba-e1648058185313.jpg200px200px Above photo: Fidel Castro, the author (right) and his college friend. 1958, Sierra Maestra, Cuba. Book Review: Wild Green Oranges, by Bob Baldock. (Clapton Press, London, 2021, 238 pages) Wild Green Oranges describes how author Bob Baldock dropped out of college and was at loose ends in 1958. Then he became inspired after a chance viewing of a newsreel. It […]
Without Farming And Art, There Is No Revolution By MB Grimes, Alliance For Global Justice. March 18, 2022 Without Farming And Art, There Is No Revolution2022-03-182022-03-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220318.png200px200px Above Photo: Members of the 2021 Friends of the ATC Agri-Cultural Brigade and their Nicaraguan hosts gather for a final picture before leaving the countryside to return to the city. As the 2021 Friends of ATC Agri-Cultural brigade comes to an end, participating members including myself return to our lives with a shifted perspective, a stronger understanding of Nicaragua and its struggle, culture and people, as well as hope and inspiration. Like-minded individuals from the […]
Above Photo: Protesters march during a rally against the military coup in Khartoum, Sudan, 9 January 2022. Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters / Alamy Stock Photo. Resistance committees are mobilizing at grassroots level to bring about a fundamental transformation of the state. A few hours after the military coup in Sudan on 25 October 2021, its leader, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, appeared on television to announce the dissolution of the Sovereign Council, the governmental body composed of military and civilian representatives, which had been formed in the wake of the 2018 revolution. In a typical justification for coups in the country, Al-Burhan declared […]
Above Photo: Protesters climb on top of a van in Almaty on January 6. (Nbcnews.com; collage by staff). Media Has Covered Crisis In Kazakhstan In Biased Way On January 2nd, protests erupted in the city of Zhanaozen in western Kazakhstan that have since spread across the country. Over 160 people have been killed, including at least 18 police officers, with hundreds more wounded. The New York Times and other mainstream media outlets depicted the violence as a result of the doubling of fuel prices and unhappiness with political authoritarianism and corruption. Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has been widely condemned for carrying out large-scale human rights abuses, […]
The late sociologist Erik Olin Wright used the phrase “ruptural transformation” as stand-in for revolution, inaccurately summarizing this as “Smash first, build second.” His immensely popular and useful work also unfortunately erased historical European anti-fascist strategy whose approach to revolution differed from the caricature he presented. To move beyond Wright’s important, yet misleading framework, one can even turn to DSA-founder Michael Harrington’s last book, Socialism: Past and Future. Published in 1989, Harrington expanded upon his own earlier critique of the German social democratic party, specifically the electoral path to socialism as strategy against Hitler and the Nazis. Harrington would ultimately look […]
Above Photo: A protester holds bread during a demonstration in Tunis, Jan. 26, 2021. Hedi Ayari / AP “Four Meals From Anarchy” The Political Consequences Of Hunger Are Profound And Unpredictable But Could Be The Spark That Lights A Powder Keg Of Anger And Resentment That Would Make The 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests Look Tame By Comparison. Washington – Already dealing with the economic fallout from a protracted pandemic, the rapidly rising prices of food and other key commodities have many fearing that unprecedented political and social instability could be just around the corner next year. With the clock ticking on […]
Above Photo: U.S. and Cuban flags hang from a wall with an old photo camera hung in between in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (Ramon Espinosa / AP) Biden’s Next Move in Cuba It Remains An Open Question As To How Successful The Upcoming Action Against The Cuban Government Will Be. But Who Is Behind The Protests Is Hardly In Doubt. Havana — The United States government is playing a key role in organizing, promoting and amplifying upcoming nationwide protests in Cuba planned for November 15. When directly challenged at a press conference as to whether the United States is directly involved in […]
Above Photo: Millions of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets in a show of force for the ‘Millions March’ in cities and towns across Sudan on Thursday, October 21. (SCP) While declaring their readiness to confront the military, the revolutionary forces which mobilized for the protests also made it clear that they no longer trust the centrist and right-wing civilian political parties sharing power with the military to mediate this confrontation. Demanding a full transfer of state power from military to civilian authority, millions of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets in a show of force in cities and towns across […]
Above Photo: Anti-communist Cuban-Americans ask for U.S. military intervention in against Cuba, July 26, 2021, at Lafayette Park near the White House in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP) Fabián Escalante helped establish Cuba’s state security services. He headed Cuba’s Department of State Security from 1976 to 1996, served as vice minister of the Interior Ministry, and after 1993 led the Cuban Security Studies Center. His views on threats from the U.S. government and on protecting Cuba’s Revolution carry weight. Writing Sept. 23 on Cuba’s Pupila Insomne website, Escalante notes that “the internal counterrevolution is reorganizing its forces and is on the offensive.” They were “calling […]
In An Insane World, Revolution Is The Moderate Position December 10, 2020 In An Insane World, Revolution Is The Moderate Position2020-12-102020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/help-e1607637837855.jpg200px200px Above photo: Pixaby. It should not be considered radical or extremist to oppose mass murder for profit and power. It should not be considered radical or extremist to oppose the globe-spanning power alliance that is perpetrating most of that mass murder on the world stage today. It should not be considered radical or extremist to oppose the existence of secretive government agencies which have extensive histories of committing horrific crimes. It should not be considered radical or extremist to say […]
The U.S. Army is expecting that robotic and autonomous systems will help future forces, operating as part of Joint teams, to help ensure overmatch against increasingly capable enemies. In a statement presented by the U.S. Army, said that researchers on verge of a major revolution in autonomous systems potentially preventing the necessity of ground force prescence. The future arrived at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in the summer of 2020, and the Army called it Project Convergence, according to a recent service news release. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The breadth of equipment and knowledge demonstrated was astonishing […]
WARSAW, Poland—One of the rare successes chalked up by the regime of Europe’s last dictator has been the establishment of a kind of East European Silicon Valley, which spawned a booming industry of Belarusian programmers and tech start-ups. The autocratic president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, now fears he has created a monster. An army of 30,000 tech-savvy professionals is turning against its creator. Coders and software engineers, many of whom are linked to the state-sponsored Hi-Tech Park in Minsk, have formed a hacking collective called Cyber Partisans which is wreaking havoc as Lukashenko tries to quell a growing revolution. Thousands of […]
The failed revolution The internet in 2030? To answer, two assumptions: First, we are still alive. Second, things on Earth are improving for more than just a few as we shake off our 20th century monetary systems and our 18th century systems of governance. There has been a radical transformation in these infrastructures of sociality for two main reasons: First, survival. The old political, monetary and communication structures simply cannot process the informational complexity necessary to sustain planetary life with 8 billion people. There are social movements demanding new forms of cooperation that take their needs and aspirations into account. Second, […]
MOSCOW—Men in civilian clothes with masks covering their faces grabbed the woman inspiring a revolution in Belarus on Monday. They pushed Maria Kolesnikova into a minivan at about 10am local time (3am ET)—the opposition leader hasn’t been seen since. Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’ brutal leader for the past 26 years, has been cracking down on protests and threatening to arrest members of the opposition Coordination Council for an alleged “attempt to seize power,” but this is not simply a case of heavy-handed policing. It was a classic abduction, a technique of repression favored by the likes of the KGB and its Russian […]
Belarus: NATO Lobby Acknowledges That Its Color Revolution Failed August 28, 2020 Belarus: NATO Lobby Acknowledges That Its Color Revolution Failed2020-08-282020-08-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/belarus2-e1598634572191.jpg200px200px Above photo: People gather on Independence Square in Minsk on August 22. Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko. On August 15 we explained why the color revolution in Belarus would fail. Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko had offered President Vladimir Putin of Russia to finally implement the long delayed Union State that will unite Belarus with Russia. In exchange he wanted full Russian backing for shutting down the U.S. led color revolution against him. Putin accepted the deal. In consequence: Lukashenko, and his police, will not hang […]
Chelsea have confirmed the arrival of Thiago Silva as the latest part of their summer spending spree, bringing in the Brazilian center-back as a free agent after he left French Champions League finalists Paris Saint-Germain. Silva, 35, called time on his PSG after the Champions League final defeat to Bayern Munich after playing more than 300 games for the French club. The Brazilian is expected to add some much-needed guile to a Chelsea backline which shipped an alarming 54 goals in the Premier League last season. Silva has signed on an initial one-year contract with the possibility of another season on […]
President Alexander Lukashenko has likened recent events in Belarus to color revolutions, saying protesters are trying to follow a similar, foreign-backed template to overthrow the government. “Everything is clear. As we expected, everything is following the plan of color revolutions by whipping up domestic political tensions in the country,” Lukashenko said. The embattled leader, who has headed Belarus for 26 years, also accused foreign countries of interfering with its internal affairs and of seeking “regime change.” ‘Color Revolution’ is a term used to describe anti-government movements throughout the world, particularly in the former Eastern Bloc. Upheavals in countries like Armenia, Georgia, […]
Belarus: This Color Revolution Is Already Dead August 20, 2020 Belarus: This Color Revolution Is Already Dead2020-08-202020-08-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/ef4szxwwoae-gy3-e1597950465476.jpg200px200px Above photo: Demonstrators in support of the government. Twitter. NOTE: There is no question that the United States is intervening in Belarus and that it is designed to antagonize Russia by gaining more access to its border for NATO. There is also no question that there are problems in Belarus and legitimate reasons for people to protest. This article from Socialist Project describes some of the concerns of Belarusians – weakening of the social safety net and a turn toward neoliberalism. The United States is […]
President Barack Obama broke precedent and slammed his successor President Donald Trump on Wednesday night during his DNC speech at the Museum of American Revolution. Obama, who led the greatest political scandal in US history and spied on the Trump campaign and Trump Transition Team, gave one of the most divisive speeches in US history. . @BarackObama’s Administration led a surveillance program against @realDonaldTrump’s campaign that was filled with Russian propaganda – and they knew it. — Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) August 20, 2020 TRENDING: Goodyear Bans Employees From Wearing ‘All Lives Matter,’ ‘Blue Lives Matter’ or MAGA Slogans, But Says Black […]
Mass anti-government protests in Belarus are actually a “color revolution” in action, and Russia may be the next target if the country fails to halt its progress, President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed. Lukashenko, whose reelection for a sixth term last Sunday sparked mass protests over an alleged rigging of the vote, believes his detractors are unwitting agents of foreign puppeteers and need to be stopped. “Don’t you lull us with [talk about] peaceful action and demonstrations. We can see what is happening deep down,” the Belarus leader said on Saturday at a government meeting, as cited by local media. We have […]
Evan Shapiro is CEO and co-founder of O(1) Labs, the team behind Coda Protocol, a lightweight chain that affords all participants fully P2P, permissionless access from any device. A hint: It’s not you. And it’s a far cry from the decentralized utopia many claim it to be. Systems of power are rapidly asserting control over Bitcoin. And their incentives are not your incentives. As an industry, we’re at a critical juncture, and we have to choose. We either demand that the properties of user ownership and censorship resistance pioneered by Bitcoin persist. Or, we accept the facade of false-decentralization that has […]
Land-Based Ethics And Settler Solidarity In A Time Of Corona And Revolution By Natalie Avalos, The Arrow. July 29, 2020 Land-Based Ethics And Settler Solidarity In A Time Of Corona And Revolution2020-07-292020-07-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/art-agricultre-ane-indusrry-e1596047892349.png200px200px Settler colonialism has been defined as a structure, not an event, meaning that settler societies like the U.S., Canada, and Australia endure over time through racist laws and ideologies that naturalize the dispossession of Indigenous populations. One of the most effective strategies that settler states rely on to eliminate Indigenous peoples and their power is the idea that their knowledge is primitive and superstitious, examples of failed epistemology. This view is rooted […]
Nicaragua: The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped July 17, 2020 Nicaragua: The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped2020-07-172020-07-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/07/39th-anniversary-of-nicaraguan-revoution-in-manaugua-july-2018.-source-redvoution.-e1570208911119.jpeg200px200px Above photo: The 39th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Revolution in Managua, July 2018.-From Redvolution. Nicaragua Advances Despite US Unconventional Warfare. The book is edited by Nan McCurdy and written by a collective of historians, researchers and activists committed to finding and sharing the truth about US intervention in Nicaragua. 2019 was an amazing year in the search for peace in Nicaragua with The Amnesty Law and the promotion of reconciliation between neighbors in every corner of the nation. It was a year of life-giving advances in […]
Chris Hedges: America Faces A Historic Choice — “Ugly Corporate Tyranny” Or Revolution By Chauncey Devega, Salon. July 16, 2020 Chris Hedges: America Faces A Historic Choice — “Ugly Corporate Tyranny” Or Revolution2020-07-162020-07-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/salon-e1594946136186.png200px200px Above photo: Police confront demonstrators as Black Lives Matter supporters demonstrate | Protesters hold their fists in the air during the protest against racism following the Black Lives Matter movement. John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency/Ying Tang/NurPhoto/Getty Images. These are “the good times,” says Hedges, compared to what may lie ahead. But there’s real hope in the streets. Time is broken in Donald Trump’s America. Minutes feel like hours, hours feel like days. […]
The Gates Foundation’s “Green Revolution” In Africa By Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. July 16, 2020 The Gates Foundation’s “Green Revolution” In Africa2020-07-162020-07-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/garrison_845x400.jpeg200px200px Agribusiness Wins, Small Scale Farmers Lose. Ann Garrison interviews Timothy Wise on why US-style corporate agriculture pushed by billionaire Bill Gates has been disastrous for Africa. “The number of hungry people in those 13 countries actually rose by 30% to 131 million people.” Fourteen years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with the stated goal of doubling productivity and incomes by 2020 for 30 million small-scale farming […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107670/39/1076703946_24:19:1224:694_1200x675_80_0_0_182592c87e4bd110258dc8c5741967fc.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png George Galloway. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/radio-moats/202007131079870168-sandinista-revolution-anniversary-us-election-maxwell–epstein-coronavirus-medical-update/ Join George Galloway on the new home for the Mother of All Talk Shows – this week we talk about US election, Epstein, and coronavirus. This week we talk to RT America’s news anchor Manila Chan about US election. Whitney Webb – independent investigative journalist will discuss with George the latest on the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell on charges related to Jeffrey Epstein and what’s next for Prince Andrew. Dr. Paul Oquist – Minister for National Policies of the Presidency of the Republic of Nicaragua commemorates 41 years since the Nicaraguan Revolution. Dr. Ranjeet […]
Today’s Revolution Includes Kale, Medical Care And Help With Rent By Rinku Sen, ZocaloPublicSquare.org. July 8, 2020 Today’s Revolution Includes Kale, Medical Care And Help With Rent2020-07-082020-07-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/mutual-aid-societiesl-e1594229471358.jpg200px200px Above photo: Laura Porras, right, prepares bags of fresh vegetables as Justin Ruiz, 17, left, and Porras’ niece Ana Karen Porras, 14, help in the vestibule at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York on May 12, 2020. The effort, which started two months earlier, is coordinated by the Brooklyn Immigrant Community Support mutual aid group. Kathy Lillens/Associated Press. In the Pandemic, Community Organizations Have […]
To decrease wealth inequality, one passionate financial adviser argues why financial education needs different content, from different voices, delivered through different channels. Financial education and financial literacy are at crisis levels in this country. Financial advisers spend billions on advertising but a fraction of that on education. The resources that are available tend to be inaccessible and not designed for the people who need them most. Financial media remains a boring, exclusionary acronym game. The net result of all of this is a population of Americans who don’t have the mental tools to understand, make sense of and make good decisions […]
Far from a fly-by-night, uneducated mania, the new day trader class represents a much more significant force for how public markets are changing. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, Reddit’s WallStreetBets channel was featured on the cover of Bloomberg BusinessWeek as an emerging market force. Since then, between the surge in signups for Robinhood and the wave of followers of Davey Day Trader Global Global, these day traders have taken an even bigger place in the conversation about the stock market. While many finance professionals (and, most certainly, traditional financial media) have treated the movement with skepticism, paternalism or outright derision, Slow […]
We reported a month ago that recent riots in the US in many Democrat-led cities around the country are hardly spontaneous. They are coordinated. The groups behind these riots are linked to communists, Islamic groups and the Democrat party. A major problem is that many US politicians, the mainstream media and companies are complying and supporting this hijacking. There clearly was no reason for the mass riots taking place around the country after the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Everyone who saw the police brutality was appalled and outraged at the sight of […]
The discovery has further perplexed historians as to what happened to the remains of les guillotinés. It’s believed that many of the revolutionaries who were executed at the Place de la Révolution were moved from a cemetery to the Paris Catacombs, but these remains found in the walls of the Chapelle Expiatoire have inspired further excavations. The remains of up to 500 people guillotined during the French Revolution are now believed to be buried in the walls of a 19th century chapel in Paris, according to archaeologists. Historians believed that the bodies of famous guillotinés were moved to the Paris Catacombs, […]
Why Is This Ongoing American “Revolution” Bound To Fail? By Andre Vltchek, Popular Resistance. June 27, 2020 Why Is This Ongoing American “Revolution” Bound To Fail?2020-06-272020-06-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/floyd-protest-1-e1593287765451.jpg200px200px Above photo: A stylized American flag is held upside down among hundreds gathered in Boston on Tuesday to protest against police brutality following the death of George Floyd. Charles Krupa/AP. Observed from outer space, the United States is in a revolutionary turmoil. Fires are burning, thousands of people are confronting police and other security forces. There are barricades, banners, posters, and there is rage. Rage is well justified. Grievances run deep, through the veins of a […]
Observed from outer space, the United States is in a revolutionary turmoil. Fires are burning, thousands of people are confronting police and other security forces. There are barricades, banners, posters, and there is rage. Source link
The Twitter mob has predictably begun to argue over the virtues and pitfalls of the French Revolution, after Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested that radicals have co-opted the Democratic Party and are marching the nation towards ruin. The South Carolina lawmaker triggered a large number of blue checkmarks after accusing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive cohorts of spearheading “the most radical mob” in recent American history. “It appears the French Revolution has now come to the Democratic Party,” the Republican senator tweeted. But his incendiary warning seemed to galvanize liberal Twitter pundits and media figures. Dan Saltzstein, a deputy editor at […]
Why Banking Needs A Co-operative Revolution By Iwan Doherty, Mutual Interest. June 24, 2020 Why Banking Needs A Co-operative Revolution2020-06-242020-06-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/banking-sector-scaled-e1593023275513.jpg200px200px You’d struggle to find anyone who believes our current banking sector was the ideal one for producing and maintaining a strong and just economy. The 2008 crisis showed how unstable, and vital to the wider economy, the sector is. The fact is, credit is both necessary and central to the global economy. Economists like Lazzarato have come up with theories about how debt drives economic production and an ever-increasing economy and in an era where finance has come to dominate our […]
An oil and commodities expert breaks down how the shale revolution reshaped global energy power and why oil went below $0 earlier this year. Today on the Brief: PayPal and Venmo reportedly adding crypto buying and selling Trump executive order temporarily suspends H1-B visa program Continued growth in bitcoin derivatives Our main conversation: Tracy Shuchart is an oil- and commodities-focused trader in the private equity space known for her wide-ranging insights on financial Twitter (FinTwit). In this conversation, she and NLW discuss: Why the shale revolution of the last 10 years shifted the power balance in global energy among the United States, Russia […]
via Twitter Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek For almost a decade, I have been covering “Color Revolutions” in virtually all parts of the world. While making a film for TeleSur, I was facing Egyptian tanks, risking my life under sniper fire, getting roughed-up in the middle of clashes of the supporters of al-Sisi and Morsi. Together with Syrian commanders, I was also facing the terrorists in Idlib; challenged the Ukrainian fascists; encountering Bolivian indigenous elders high in the Altiplano, after the revolution of Evo Morales and MAS was crashed by the U.S.-sponsored coup in 2019. I regularly worked in Venezuela, Lebanon, […]
Do Not Belittle US Protesters By Calling Their Uprising A Color Revolution By Andre Vltchek, Greanville Post. June 22, 2020 Do Not Belittle US Protesters By Calling Their Uprising A Color Revolution2020-06-222020-06-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/hong-kong-protesters-show-misplaced-love-for-the-us.-if-they-only-knew-the-extent-of-their-idiocy-and-ignorance.-photo-by-andre-vilcheck-e1592857537391.jpg200px200px Above photo: Hong Kong protesters show misplaced love for the US. If they only knew the extent of their idiocy and ignorance. Photo by Andre Vltchek. Warns us about the dangers of excessive and wild theorizing—and fixating on “personalizing” evils (Soros, Gates, etc.)— in a period of extreme informational confusion that takes the focus off of the system itself. The only clear thing is what we have known all along: the […]
Gunnar Jaerv is COO of First Digital Trust, a Hong Kong-based financial institution developing of tokenized asset custody solutions. In the last couple of years, traditional financial institutions and regulators have started to embrace digital assets. Asset tokenization – declaring ownership rights to an asset in digital form – is opening up new market opportunities, channels of investments and consequently, new streams of capital for global businesses and markets. Some estimates show that more than $544 trillion worth of assets could become tokenized in the future, and nations with progressive regulators will be the first to access its potential. There’s been […]
Unfinished Revolution: Where Do The George Floyd Protests Go From Here? By Tosh Anderson, Josephine Lee, Zishun Ning, The Indypendent. June 15, 2020 Unfinished Revolution: Where Do The George Floyd Protests Go From Here?2020-06-152020-06-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/an-anti-police-violence-protester-is-arrested-in-midtown-manhattan.-photo-by-sue-brisk-e1592228607644.png200px200px Above photo: A protester against racism and police violence is arrested in Midtown Manhattan. Photo by Sue Brisk. It takes but a few minutes for the ruling elite to recast collective calls for an end to state violence against black people into images of the criminality of black protesters and to call for an end to looting. How quickly the government wants us to get back to the status […]
From Rebellion To Revolution By Kali Akuno, Viewpoint Magazine. June 14, 2020 From Rebellion To Revolution2020-06-142020-06-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/free-e1592135762445.jpg200px200px The Floyd rebellion is changing the world before our very eyes. What type of change and to what degree it will shift the balance of forces between rulers and ruled, haves and the have-nots remains to be seen. What is clear is that there is an active and open political contest to shape the outcome. For the moment, the right wing and the Republicans have been relatively sidelined in this debate. The real contest as it stands is between the liberals and Democrats on the […]
Dr. William Jacobson is a minority professor at an Ivy League university. Dr. Jacobson is a lawyer, professor and he happens to be conservative.Being a conservative at an Ivy League school is not an enviable position.Academia is increasingly intolerant. For years now Dr. Jacobson has been writing at his prominent conservative website Legal Insurrection. But recently the leftist mob attacked Professor Jacobson for writing factually but critically of the black lives matter movement. TRENDING: “I Should Never Have Been There” – Gen Mark Milley Stands with the Mob – Apologizes for Walking to Torched St. John’s Church with President Trump (VIDEO) […]
Activists who established a commune around an abandoned police precinct in Seattle are finding out the hard way it’s not easy to run a revolution, dealing with food supply issues, internal squabbling and even a wannabe strongman. After Seattle PD vacated the East Precinct in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on Sunday, activists moved in and set up an “autonomous zone” spanning several city blocks, putting up barricades and “persuading” local residents and businesses to de facto separate from the city. Their creation has been dubbed the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or CHAZ. “Right now at CHAZ there is food, security, bathrooms, […]
A recap of one of the most significant weeks in recent American political history. The Breakdown Weekly Recap looks at the key themes that shaped the week. On this week’s episode, NLW discusses: Monday’s Breakdown | The Power and Peril of the ‘Bitcoin Fixes This’ Meme Tuesday’s Breakdown | Bitcoin, Cellphones and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein Wednesday’s Breakdown | 5 Numbers That Tell the Story of Markets Right Now Thursday’s Breakdown | The Mirage of the Money Printer: Why the Fed Is More PR Than Policy, Feat. Jeffrey P. Snider Friday’s Breakdown | The Biggest Realignment in the US-China Relationship Since Nixon, […]
Millions Of Tenants Are Ready For A Rent Strike Revolution June 4, 2020 Millions Of Tenants Are Ready For A Rent Strike Revolution2020-06-042020-06-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/slumlord-protest-sign-from-getty-images-e1591291396430.jpg200px200px Above photo: Activists break into the house of Kaotar Dee, to get her and her possessions back into her home of 21 years and for her to make a barricaded stand after being locked out by landlords during the coronavirus pandemic on May 29, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. The city has recently passed the right for tenants to sue landlords who violate restrictions that Los Angeles has placed on evicting renters during the coronavirus crisis. David McNew for […]
Could The Pandemic Start A Biking Revolution In Latin America? By Leonie Rauls, Americas Quarterly. May 20, 2020 Could The Pandemic Start A Biking Revolution In Latin America?2020-05-202020-05-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/bikes-e1589991142531.jpg200px200px Above photo: Mayor Claudia Lopez rides a bike in Bogotá Jyan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images. The crisis offers an opportunity to ease the congestion plaguing the region’s roads and public transit systems. The demand of social distancing is forcing cities across Latin America and the world to rethink public life. That includes a reconsideration of mass transit, with a number of public sector initiatives encouraging biking as a safer alternative. Already, city leaders in Bogotá, […]