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Curfews, Crackdowns & Collective Punishment Can’t Crush Nat’l Uprising Venezuela

Curfews, Crackdowns & Collective Punishment Can’t Crush Nat’l Uprising

Philly police gas protesters en masse; DC Homeowner shelters dozens of activists from crackdown; Iran-Venezuela cooperation heralds new eraIn this episode of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Mecca Bullock, an organizer with the Liberation Center in Philadelphia, to talk about yesterday's brutal…
bubmag
June 3, 2020
Exclusive: Flush with corruption cash, Brazilian states step up deforestation fight Brasilia

Exclusive: Flush with corruption cash, Brazilian states step up deforestation fight

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian states are bolstering the fight against destruction of the Amazon rainforest with millions of dollars from an oil company’s corruption settlement that allows them to partially compensate for weakening environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro. FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of a tract of Amazon jungle…
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June 3, 2020
Op-Ed: Coronavirus: Why California’s small businesses may not survive Feudalism

Op-Ed: Coronavirus: Why California’s small businesses may not survive

Whatever the medical benefits achieved from the prolonged coronavirus lockdown, California’s small business community will be suffering severe symptoms, likely for decades to come. The state’s small entrepreneurs, particularly in poorer areas, face major readjustments and perhaps obliteration, a situation further complicated for some by damage stemming from the protests…
bubmag
June 3, 2020
Remember the ‘yellow vests’? Now, Italy is seeing an ‘orange vests’ movement that says coronavirus pandemic doesn’t exist Matteo Salvini

Remember the ‘yellow vests’? Now, Italy is seeing an ‘orange vests’ movement that says coronavirus pandemic doesn’t exist

Activists of the new political movement "Orange Vests" (Gilet Arancioni) protest during a demonstration against the Italian Government for the economic problems the country is having due to the coronavirus pandemic as phase two of the lifting lockdown exit plan continues on June 2, 2020 in Rome, Italy.Stefano Montesi -…
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June 3, 2020
Enraged Italians Abandon Masks, Denounce Pandemic As Scam Matteo Salvini

Enraged Italians Abandon Masks, Denounce Pandemic As Scam

Hundreds of Italian demonstrators gathered in Rome's Piazza del Popolo on Tuesday, ditching their masks in a protest against the Italian government's lockdown restrictions aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19. The group, which calls themselves the 'Orange Vests,' is led by retired Carabinieri general Antonio Pappalardo, who doesn't believe…
bubmag
June 3, 2020
Exclusive: Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO Huawei

Exclusive: Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO

LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) - China’s Huawei Technologies acted to cover up its relationship with a firm that had tried to sell prohibited U.S. computer gear to Iran, after Reuters in 2013 reported deep links between the firm and the telecom-equipment giant’s chief financial officer, newly obtained internal Huawei documents show. FILE…
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June 3, 2020