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Berta Cáceres In Her Own Words By Asís Castellanos and Adrienne Pine, Toward Freedom. July 30, 2020 Berta Cáceres In Her Own Words2020-07-302020-07-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/berta-e1596127094463.jpg200px200px Above photo: Berta Cáceres, photo provided by Silvio Carrillo and used with permission of COPINH. Much of what has been written about Lenca/Honduran activist Berta Cáceres has focused on […]
Feeling comfortable or relatively unbothered about the state of the world? Then we’re sorry to remind you that the President of the United States, who holds at his fingertips a devastating nuclear arsenal, is bragging on television about acing a dementia test that involves remembering five whole words and counting […]
A primer on DeFi and yield farming. We’ll also cover liquidity mining, automated market making plus the other terms shaping this brave new world. Today’s episode of The Breakdown is a primer for anyone who has lost track of the terminology surrounding decentralized finance. In it, NLW goes over: Disclosure […]
Speaking about health check-ups ahead of the November polls, Trump bragged about his “unbelievable” results in cognitive testing, insisting his rival Joe Biden would fail it if he took it. President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he recently took a cognitive test and “aced” […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107973/70/1079737073_0:0:2982:1676_1200x675_80_0_0_911ca97ea3138f46b57e6d92be4367a3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006271079737013-loreal-says-removing-words-whitewhitening-from-skin-products/ In the wake of protests against racism and inequality, popular brand Unilever said it was changing the name of its “Fair & Lovely” cream that is especially popular in South-Asian countries. French cosmetics company L’Oreal has announced it will be removing the words […]
A seemingly random combination of words “oxygen” and “frequency” has triggered Twitter to automatically flag tweets with a Covid-19 fact-check warning. Users responded by gaming the algorithm into absurdity. The strange message began appearing under tweets on Friday. Within hours, people were testing it with random posts that mentioned the […]
Ex-CrossFit Games champ and ‘fittest woman on earth’ Katrin Davidsdottir has angrily rebuked the culture at the heart of CrossFit in the aftermath of the resignation of CEO Greg Glassman, issuing a demand for more change. Glassman sparked outrage by linking George Floyd, the man whose killing by police has caused […]
Protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally in Toronto on Saturday. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally in Toronto on Saturday. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images It’s not often that Justin Trudeau is caught speechless. But when the […]
Chase Bank has settled a class action lawsuit brought by defendants who claim the J.P. Morgan subsidiary overcharged credit card fees for crypto purchases. Meanwhile, a new report shows that a million “timelocked” bitcoin transactions are open to a hypothetical exploit, while CoinKite has unveiled a new way to recharge […]
‘The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Recently the hosts of the Let’s Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss state sponsored propaganda, corporate censorship and how cryptocurrency or decentralization changes the game. The rallying cry of the totalitarian is “He farted first”, but if both systems have produced […]
This woman seems sane. Advertisement – story continues below Far left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday during a press conference said she has two words for President Trump: “F— you.” “I will encode what I really want to say to Donald Trump,” Lightfoot said. “It’s two words: It begins […]
DNI John Ratcliffe released the Flynn-Kislyak transcripts on Friday afternoon. Ratcliffe sent the transcripts to Senators Grassley, Ron Johnson. The transcripts were copied to Democrat Senators Dianne Feinstein and Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, Devin Nunes and Adam Schiff. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released the transcripts on Friday afternoon. Here […]
Nancy Pelosi Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) lashed out at President Trump on Wednesday morning during a press conference. A reporter asked Pelosi about Trump’s tweets calling for an investigation into the suspicious death of Joe Scarborough’s former intern. ….Roger Stone has been treated very unfairly. How about that jury Forewoman, does […]
The Russian Foreign Ministry has declined a request by a Federal Assembly commission to revoke accreditation for the New York Times and Financial Times newspapers following a slew of false reporting on the country’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier on Wednesday, a Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia’s […]
A dispute between the US and China scuttled the proposed UN resolution calling for a global ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic, after Beijing insisted on support for the World Health Organization and Washington vetoed it. All 15 members of the UN Security Council agreed in principle with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s […]