US Congress And Corporate Media Claim Venezuela’s Government Threatened To Starve Non-Voters By Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil, The Grayzone. December 7, 2020 US Congress And Corporate Media Claim Venezuela’s Government Threatened To Starve Non-Voters2020-12-072020-12-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/venezuela-diosdado-cabello-threat-food-starve-voters-e1607355882439.jpg200px200px Spun out by the US Congress and Wall Street Journal, the cynical deception is part of an assault on Venezuela’s legislative election, in which even opposition politicians were sanctioned for participating. […]
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Congress Is Deadlocked On COVID-19 Relief By Sarah Lazare, In These Times. December 5, 2020 Congress Is Deadlocked On COVID-19 Relief2020-12-052020-12-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/military-planes-e1607190497480.jpg200px200px Above photo: Hospital staff look on as the United States Navy Blue Angels pass over Medical City Dallas on May 06, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. Tom Pennington/Getty Images. But Came Together to Fund the Pentagon for $740 Billion. There is always money for war. The […]
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced this week that the U.S. State Department has cleared a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of 76 M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles. According to DSCA, the Pentagon’s top arms broker, the possible deal has an estimated value of $757 million. The proposed package includes the following according to the DSCA notice: modernization of 76 M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles and […]
Massive Protests In Guatemala Against President And The Congress By La Izquierda Diario Argentina, Left Voice. November 23, 2020 Massive Protests In Guatemala Against President And The Congress2020-11-232020-11-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/guatemala.jpg200px200px Above photo: EFE/Esteban Biba. Thousands of Guatemalans demonstrated this Saturday in front of the National Palace of Culture, the seat of the national government in the center of Guatemala City, to express their rejection of the government of […]
Guatemala’s Congress Burns Amid Mass Protest November 22, 2020 Guatemala’s Congress Burns Amid Mass Protest2020-11-222020-11-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/guatemala-e1606055920157.png200px200px Above photo: Fire at Guatemala’s Congress in the capital as protests are held in the main square. November 21, 2020. Twitter / @Sandra_Cuffe. The Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office of the Central American nation called on the police forces to avoid repression. Guatemalans have taken to the streets for a national protest in […]
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced this week that the U.S. State Department recently approved the potential sale to Australia of more than $46 million worth of Javelin anti-tank guided missiles. On October 30, the DSCA, the Pentagon’s top arms broker, has released a statement saying that the State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Australia […]
The predominantly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh region declared independence from Azerbaijan in 1991 and announced plans to join Armenia. This led to a major war between Yerevan and Baku that lasted until 1994, when the sides agreed to start peace talks on the dispute mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group, headed by Russia, the US, and France. Source link
The U.S. State Department reportedly has informed Congress it plans to sell modern artillery systems to Taiwan. The story was first reported by Reuters, which cited its sources in the Trump administration, said that the State Department recently approved the potential sale of a truck-based rocket launcher made called a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System to Taiwan. The advanced artillery system, commonly known as HIMARS, is a […]
The lack of a widespread testing regimen at the Capitol is in the spotlight as three senators tested positive for COVID-19 in recent weeks. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP The lack of a widespread testing regimen at the Capitol is in the spotlight as three senators tested positive for COVID-19 in recent weeks. J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Republican-controlled Senate returns this […]
Imagine Teresa Sickles, the wife of U.S. congressman Daniel Sickles, gazing out her window overlooking Lafayette Square in D.C. day after day for a year, anxiously awaiting the shake of a handkerchief that would signal another meeting with her lover. At a young age, Teresa had been saddled with a much older husband who was not only a philanderer but someone who used his high-profile position […]
Two local politicians from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh, have defended the accused in a recent alleged gang rape of a young girl in Hathras. A former BJP legislator even held a meeting defending the accused, while another blamed the deceased victim, saying she might have had an affair with one of the accused. India’s main opposition party Congress has […]
India’s principal opposition party, Congress, has been attacking the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on multiple fronts. From organising protests against the gruesome murder of a lower-caste girl in BJP-governed Uttar Pradesh, to opposing farm laws, the sale of state firms, and the economic slowdown, the party has severely upped the ante. Congress Party politician P Chidambaram, who was also India’s former finance minister, has hit out […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/05/1080667801_0:65:2950:1724_1200x675_80_0_0_a176a2becc376202828ac7f5b7c7afad.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Advitya Bahl. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010051080667093-indias-premier-probe-agency-raids-congress-leaders-residences-in-alleged-corruption-case/ India’s main opposition parties, including Congress, have long accused the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government of misusing investigation agencies to target political rivals. India’s premier probe agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday conducted raids at the premises of Karnataka’s Congress chief, DK Shivakumar, in connection with a corruption case. According to a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107976/42/1079764252_0:303:3072:2031_1200x675_80_0_0_19340c3c76f52b1df062dbdf5cc6a359.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Ashutosh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010031080651879-narendra-modi-opens-worlds-longest-tunnel-connecting-ladakh-takes-a-dig-at-congress/ The Manali – Lahaul Spiti tunnel named after former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will make Ladakh more accessible for those on the mainland cutting the travel distance and time significantly. Over the past six months, India and China have been embroiled in a border dispute in Ladakh. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday opened the strategic […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/03/1080649552_0:0:3000:1688_1200x675_80_0_0_7203e4e091eff277d11d480b33ee2a07.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010031080649609-facebook-twitter-google-ceos-to-testify-before-congress-in-late-october/ The CEOs of the most prominent social media networks are going to testify on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which is designed to strip online intermediaries of responsibility for what is said/published by other people on their websites. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have agreed to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee […]
Seventeen Republican lawmakers declined on Friday to support a measure in the House of Representatives that condemned the pro-Trump QAnon movement as a “collection of unfounded conspiracy theories.” The resolution, which passed nearly unanimously, urged the FBI and intelligence agencies to focus on the threats from fringe conspiracy groups, which have grown in mass as the election has neared. All told, 371 members voted in favor […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010021080636174-us-house-of-representatives-passes-democrats-22-trillion-covid-19-relief-bill/ The Democrats’ $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill has been approved by a 214-207 vote on Thursday and now advances to the Republican-controlled US Senate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) COVID-19 bill advanced in the chamber on October 1, despite opposition from 18 Democratic members of Congress. 214-207: House passes Democrats’ $2.2T COVID-19 relief bill. 18 Democrats joined all Republicans […]
The United States has approved more than $55.3 million dollars in potential surface-to-air missiles sales to Japan. On September28, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Pentagon’s top arms broker, announced that the U.S. State Department has cleared possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Japan of RAM Block 2 Tactical Missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $55.311 million. According to the DSCA, […]
The U.S. State Department recently approved the potential sale to the Netherlands of more than $241 million worth of PAC-3 missiles. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency issued a press release on September 24, that announced that the U.S. State Department had approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of the Netherlands of Patriot Advanced Capability‑3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles and related equipment […]
The clock is ticking for tens of thousands of pilots, flight attendants, reservation agents and other airline employees, who will likely lose their jobs on Oct. 1 if Congress doesn’t extend federal aid for the airlines. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP The clock is ticking for tens of thousands of pilots, flight attendants, reservation agents and other airline employees, who will likely lose […]
Jesus Gonzalez of Lexington, Ky., has been struggling to make ends meet after the $600 per week in extra federal unemployment benefits ran out. Stacy Kranitz for NPR hide caption toggle caption Stacy Kranitz for NPR Jesus Gonzalez of Lexington, Ky., has been struggling to make ends meet after the $600 per week in extra federal unemployment benefits ran out. Stacy Kranitz for NPR When the […]
Congressional staffers have heard State Department representatives say the government has yet to close on the sale of the United States Ambassador’s residence in Israel—but documents obtained by The Daily Beast reveal that State is misleading Congress on the sale. Israeli land registry documents, obtained by The Daily Beast, show legal notification that a Delaware-registered company, Bayit by the Sea, has a lien, or legal claim, […]
Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI has recorded about 100 domestic terrorism arrests in the last nine months. “A majority of the domestic terrorism cases we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence,” he told the panel. Wray said the number of the domestic terrorism arrests has increased and is now close to the number of […]
Inside The World Uyghur Congress By Ajit Singh, The Grayzone. September 15, 2020 Inside The World Uyghur Congress2020-09-152020-09-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/wuc-bush-e1600174452532.jpg200px200px The US-backed right-wing regime change network seeking the ‘fall of China’. While posing as a grassroots human rights organization, the World Uyghur Congress is a US-funded and directed separatist network that has forged alliances with far-right ethno-nationalist groups. The goal spelled out by its founders is clear: the […]
A picture of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen is seen in Washington, D.C., in July. Congress is launching an investigation into her killing and other deaths at Fort Hood. Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images A picture of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen is seen in Washington, D.C., in July. Congress is launching an investigation into her killing and other […]
On 19 August, the Indian cabinet gave its approval to a proposal to lease out the Jaipur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram airports, currently run by the government agency Airports Authority of India (AAI) to the private sector. In February of this year, India’s Adani Group took over three AAI airports at Ahmedabad, Mangaluru, and Lucknow. Indian opposition Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed a decision […]
American whiskey makers must have been feeling good in 1970. After suffering through Prohibition and a shutdown for World War II, they were finally back on track, boasting record sales that year. Little did they know the next 30 years would be one hell of ride…straight down. The year 2000 offered a glimmer of hope that whiskey wasn’t completely doomed; a new generation of drinkers who […]
The move met harsh criticism from the Democrats, with US Speaker of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff denouncing the withdrawal as “a shocking abdication of its lawful responsibility to keep the Congress currently informed”. The director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, sent a letter to the House and the Senate, notifying that his office will no longer provide full in-person briefings […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s main opposition party Congress is grappling with an internal crisis in view of rising demand for a complete overhaul of leadership and to revive and restructure the group. The party’s last full-time chief Rahul Gandhi resigned following the organisation’s debacle in the 2019 parliamentary elections. In a major development, interim Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has made appointments to several positions in the […]
In a letter sent to Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun Tuesday, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said he is launching a probe into the circumstances surrounding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to address the Republican National Convention from Jerusalem. Castro, the chair of the subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Pompeo’s choice to speak at the convention “may violate […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Twenty-three prominent members of India’s main opposition Congress, who wanted sweeping changes, were snubbed by the core decision-making body of the party on Monday. In a resolution, the party rallied behind Sonia Gandhi, Interim President of Congress and her son Rahul Gandhi. A day after India’s Congress party warned 23 of its prominent members over demanding reforms and a change in the party […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Congress party is facing a crisis of leadership after interim president Sonia Gandhi is said to have declared that she wants to resign. Her decision is said to have come after key Congress party leaders demanded an overhaul at the top of the party, complaining about policy drift. Source link
Congress: Postal Service Delays ‘Far Worse Than Previously Acknowledged’ By J. Edward Moreno, The Hill. August 23, 2020 Congress: Postal Service Delays ‘Far Worse Than Previously Acknowledged’2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/dejoy1-e1598183992875.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (2nd R) arrives for a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows at the US Capitol […]