CARACAS, Venezuela — At first blush, it looked like cryptocurrency adoption was poised to make a huge stride in Venezuela. Late last month, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó announced he would use the digital currency exchange Airtm to redistribute some $19 million to Venezuelan health care workers. The money would […]
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Tribute To Kevin Zeese: Life And Loss In The Struggle For Liberation By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. September 17, 2020 Tribute To Kevin Zeese: Life And Loss In The Struggle For Liberation2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/haiphong845x400-e1600354425970.jpg200px200px Zeese never wavered in his opposition to the corporate duopoly, white supremacy, and the forces of militarism. “His […]
MicroStrategy has put even more of its treasury into bitcoin, Paxful is pulling out of Venezuela and the Bitmain power struggle appears to have found a short-term solution. Top shelf Bitcoin buyMicroStrategy, a business intelligence company, told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday it “may increase” its BTC holdings beyond […]
The Arab Spring uprising led to a transition to democracy in Tunisia, but young people decry widespread corruption and a lack of job opportunities. It’s led to protests, including self-immolation. (Image credit: Nicole Tung) Source link
Earlier this week, Facebook announced it had ejected an influence operation linked with a Russian disruption and trolling mill that sought to sow agitation in the U.S. election. Joerg Koch/AP hide caption toggle caption Joerg Koch/AP Earlier this week, Facebook announced it had ejected an influence operation linked with a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/01/1080334420_92:0:1292:675_1200x675_80_0_0_2c49cda31259d918e5c03ae6694f051a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202009011080334214-are-they-edible-watch-little-pup-struggle-to-play-with-chicks—video-/ Dogs are known to love to goof off, but something that they love even more is playful friends. However, building a relationship can be difficult when you are trying to befriend another species. A little puppy has been caught on camera trying to […]
Tell The People That The Struggle Must Go On By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. August 20, 2020 Tell The People That The Struggle Must Go On2020-08-202020-08-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/mst-brazil-quilombo-campo-grande-e1597943390233.jpg200px200px Above photo: MST (Brazil), Families had tear gas hurled at them during eviction proceedings at the Quilombo Campo Grande in Minas Gerais, […]
Corn plants are shown pushed over in a storm-damaged field on August 11 in Tama, Iowa. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said that early estimates indicate that 10 million acres, or nearly a third of the state’s crop land, was damaged in a powerful storm that battered the region a day […]
Uphold Palestinian Struggle In All Its Forms By Khaled Barakat, Electronic Intifada. August 15, 2020 Uphold Palestinian Struggle In All Its Forms2020-08-152020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/kite-e1597509163826.jpg200px200px Above photo: Israel and its allies have never accepted any form of Palestinian resistance. Oren Ziv/ActiveStills. Fifty years ago, Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafani put forward a clear position about the boycott […]
Trevor Noah is feeling pretty good about Joe Biden’s decision to go with Kamala Harris as his running mate. “Say what you want about Joe, but the man went Black and he is not going back,” the Daily Show host joked. He then explained how “impressed” he was with the […]
With the summer holiday season in full swing, some tourists seem to have taken coronavirus with them to the coast. That’s prompted Crimea to search for more doctors as infections in crowded resorts are overloading local hospitals. With Russia’s international borders partially closed, the Black Sea peninsula is experiencing a […]
50 Years Of Struggle From Black August To Black Lives Matter By Judy Greenspan, Workers.org. August 5, 2020 50 Years Of Struggle From Black August To Black Lives Matter2020-08-052020-08-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/jonathan-jackson-17.jpg200px200px Above photo: Jonathan Jackson, 17, with William Christmas, James McClain and Ruchell Magee take judge, prosecutor, three jurors as hostages to waiting […]
Madrid-based payment app and card issuer 2gether said it can only reimburse investors with its native tokens following Friday’s hack. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/17/1079964385_0:22:1200:697_1200x675_80_0_0_54cb6904901ed710511ca9e1b6e0420a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202007241079966134/ The higher you climb, the harder you fall, they say. This adorable pooch’s goal was rather modest – it simply tried to get on a bench. Yet even this task was beyond his capacity – after all, he is not to blame that […]
The ongoing battle between the co-founders at Bitmain has now essentially hard forked the world’s largest bitcoin miner manufacturer into two different operations and supply chains for making its flagship AntMiner equipment. Wu Jihan, the co-founder who ousted his rival co-founder Micree Zhan Ketuan last year, registered a new entity […]
Bolivia’s Struggle To Restore Democracy After OAS Instigated Coup By Frederick B. Mills, Rita Jill Clark-Gollub and Alina Duarte, COHA. July 12, 2020 Bolivia’s Struggle To Restore Democracy After OAS Instigated Coup2020-07-122020-07-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/bolivia-presidential-candidate-luis-arce-with-vice-presidential-candidate.jpg200px200px Above photo: Luis Arce, presidential candidate, and David Choquehuanca, running for the vice presidency. They lead all surveys so far […]
The Struggle For No Police In Los Angeles Schools: Victory In Sight By Eric Mann, Counterpunch. July 12, 2020 The Struggle For No Police In Los Angeles Schools: Victory In Sight2020-07-122020-07-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/protest1-e1594574901861.jpg200px200px On Tuesday, June 23, in Los Angeles, the decade’s long struggle for No Police in the Schools had a […]
The 2020 Elections: The Struggle Is For Power Not Reform By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. June 30, 2020 The 2020 Elections: The Struggle Is For Power Not Reform2020-06-302020-06-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2015/01/Rolling-Rebellion-Illusion-of-Democracy-150×100.jpg200px200px Above photo: Rolling Rebellion Illusion of Democracy. The following is excerpted from a presentation by Ajamu Baraka to a national webinar Electoral […]
How Palestine Advocates Can Support Black Struggle By Kristian Davis Bailey, The Electronic Intifada. June 29, 2020 How Palestine Advocates Can Support Black Struggle2020-06-292020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/main_image-e1593396586377.jpg200px200px Above photo: One of the best ways for Americans to display solidarity with Palestinians is to support the Black revolution in their own country. Tess Scheflan/ActiveStills. The recent Black […]
The Struggle To Protect The Sacred Place Where Life Begins By Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. June 28, 2020 The Struggle To Protect The Sacred Place Where Life Begins2020-06-282020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/arctic-e1593356059900.png200px200px Above photo: Porcupine caribou herd. Wikimedia/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Indigenous groups lead fight against Arctic oil drilling. A nationwide grassroots movement led […]
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 […]
Zhan Ketuan, the formerly-ousted Bitmain co-founder who returned to power earlier this month, is proposing a solution to end the firm’s internal war. In a letter Sunday, Zhan, who as Bitmain’s biggest shareholder owns 36% of its stock, offered to buy back shares possessed by his rival co-founder Wu Jihan, […]
The Struggle For Justice Continues In Post-Coup Bolivia By Ben Dangl, ROAR Magazine. June 21, 2020 The Struggle For Justice Continues In Post-Coup Bolivia2020-06-212020-06-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/dsc5126-crop.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters in defense of the wiphala in La Paz. November 15, 2019. Radoslaw Czajkowski. A brutal wave of repression followed the right’s seizure of power last […]
Some nursing homes and long-term care facilities say they’re struggling to fill shifts as certified nursing assistants opt for unemployment benefits during the pandemic. SolStock/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption SolStock/Getty Images Some nursing homes and long-term care facilities say they’re struggling to fill shifts as certified nursing assistants opt […]