In late 2019, US President Donald Trump openly admitted that Washington had “left troops behind” in Syria “only for the oil.” Damascus has blasted Trump for pillaging the Arab Republic’s resources, but President Bashar Assad also praised him for openly admitting the real reason US forces continue to occupy part of his country. A convoy of 20 tankers laden with oil pumped from wells in US-occupied […]
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BISHKEK (Sputnik) – Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov has expressed readiness to leave his post after the appointment of new heads of executive bodies and the country’s return to the legal order. “We need to return the situation to the legal order as soon as possible. After the appointment of legitimate heads of the executive bodies and the country’s return to the legal order, I am ready […]
While more than half of Swedes have consistently polled for tighter immigration laws in recent years, the recent increase may be linked to a remarkable u-turn from Prime Minister Stefan Löfven who admitted a connection between gang crime and immigration. Nearly six out of ten Swedes want Sweden to change its laws and regulations to receive fewer refugees than today, a recent survey by the newspaper […]
Britain’s Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has stated parts of the UK’s controversial internal market bill would remain despite EU requests to remove them. Gove has assured colleagues in London and his European counterparts in Brussels that he is still “committed” to reaching a deal on the UK’s future relationship with the EU. Looking at these moves in greater detail, Sputnik spoke to the Political Commentator […]
A Tuesday Washington Post article revealed the US Congress gave the Pentagon $1 billion in March to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, that money has mostly been paid to defense contractors, further growing the US war machine, according to medical doctor Dr. Yolandra Hancock and investigative journalist Daniel Lazare. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed by Congress earlier this year provided […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited four South American countries around Venezuela this week, pledging hundreds of millions in aid to those fleeing the South American nation’s economic crisis but also reiterating threats to depose socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has accused his US counterpart Mike Pompeo of crying crocodile tears over the South American country’s woes. Arreaza insisted in a […]
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/asia/202009161080470494-yoshihide-suga-elected-as-japans-new-prime-minister/ The new chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, Yoshihide Suga, was confirmed on Wednesday as the country’s prime minister. The voting procedure was broadcast live on the website of the lower house of the National Diet, Japan’s parliament. 314 legislators voted for Suga; in total, 462 ballots were recognised as valid. The House of Representatives met […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1a/1080284166_0:94:3072:1822_1200x675_80_0_0_adaa326dfcdfe4169db4f16033c280c3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202009101080423126-russia-wants-to-make-its-vaccine-against-covid-19-available-in-every-country-rdif-ceo-says/ MOSCOW, September 10 (Sputnik) – Russia wants to provide the Sputnik V vaccine to all countries without discriminating against anyone, Kirill Dmitriev, the chief executive officer of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, involved in the development of the vaccine, said on Thursday. “Only in partnership with other countries can we manufacture our vaccine and we want to make it […]
Foreign Policy Of This Country Has To Reject US Exceptionalism By Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. September 9, 2020 Foreign Policy Of This Country Has To Reject US Exceptionalism2020-09-092020-09-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/phyllis-bennis-scarf-featured-1-1024×512.jpg200px200px Above photo: Phyllis Bennis. CounterSpin interview with Phyllis Bennis on foreign policy visions. Janine Jackson interviewed IPS’s Phyllis Bennis about foreign policy visions for the August 28, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine […]
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/202009081080403323-insult-to-our-country-trump-says-kamala-harris-could-never-be-us-president/ US President Donald Trump told attendees of his Tuesday campaign rally that “nobody likes” Democratic vice presidential nominee and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and that she “could never be the first woman president” of the US. “That would be an insult to our country,” Trump expressed during his Tuesday campaign rally at Smith-Reynolds Regional Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. President […]
A triage team screens patients outside the Emergency Department at Owensboro Health. The hospital lost two-thirds of its revenue while elective surgeries were halted, but it didn’t lay off any workers. Owensboro Health hide caption toggle caption Owensboro Health A triage team screens patients outside the Emergency Department at Owensboro Health. The hospital lost two-thirds of its revenue while elective surgeries were halted, but it didn’t […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/06/1080384172_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_21eaf9830b5e7d50286ff90338195c5d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/africa/202009061080384202-malis-military-coup-leaders-announce-cancellation-of-curfew-across-country/ NOUAKCHOTT (Sputnik) – Representatives of the military who took power in Mali have announced the cancellation of the curfew across the country, the National Committee for the Salvation of the People said on Sunday. According to the committee’s statement, a curfew that had been in force for more than two weeks after the toppling of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita […]
Free elections should be held in Belarus under international supervision and the country should remain a close ally of Russia. That’s according to Valery Tsepkalo, one of three high-profile men barred from last month’s election Along with Viktor Babariko and Sergey Tikhanovsky, Tsepkalo tried to run for president, in opposition to the long-time incumbent Alexander Lukashenko, but authorities prevented his nomination. Eventually Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Sergey’s wife, […]
America’s Great Ambassador First Lady Melania Trump spoke at the RNC 2020 on Tuesday night. Melania is the most gracious and beautiful First Lady in American history. Melania has been a rock for this president and a courageous example to all American women. Melania Trump, “It is my greatest honor to serve you… Thank you to all who serve our country in our military.” TRENDING: Media […]
Brazil’s crypto scene has been unbanked, unregulated and awash in legal uncertain for its entire history. Source link
2020 Democrat nominee Joe Biden on Friday told ABC reporter David Muir that he would shut down the entire country to stop the spread of COVID-19 if the scientists recommended. Biden called for a mandatory nationwide mask mandate during his unhinged Democrat nomination acceptance speech in Delaware. “I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists,” Biden told Muir Friday in his first joint […]
Peru had one of the earliest mandated lockdowns due to the coronavirus.But now Peru leads the world in coronavirus deaths. It is sad that poor countries believed quack doctors like Dr. Fauci and the CDC for guidance.We now know that the lockdowns were a disaster. Jordan Schachtel reported: Once hailed as a COVID-19 “success story,” Peru is now the COVID-19 case study that lockdown advocates no […]
Lebanon: The Top Ten Myths About The Country And Its Conflicts By Danny Sjursen, Antiwar.com. August 19, 2020 Lebanon: The Top Ten Myths About The Country And Its Conflicts2020-08-192020-08-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/12/lebanon-protest-e1575811916920.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protest in Lebanon, 2020. This is the second segment in the author’s backstory series – “Lebanon: Bellwether, Battleground, and Bastard Child” – in the wake of the August 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion. Read part one here. […]
Sweden’s new Arab Party, established to champion the rights of the country’s Arab population, has vowed to assist integration “and protect the rights of Arabs” while denying any claims it might “Arabize Sweden.” According to its website, the party assumes a “socialist orientation with certain capitalist elements” while highlighting that it is a “secular party and no religious symbols or clothing are allowed within the party’s […]
The Democratic National Convention came in for a round of online ridicule after Senator Elizabeth Warren, who once passed herself off as Native American, took part in discussions of how Covid-19 affected the “Indian country.” Warren (D-Massachusetts) spoke at the Native American Caucus virtual panel on Tuesday, the second day of the convention, to accuse President Donald Trump of having “failed Indian Country” by not sending […]
So we now know the Democrat plan to win in 2020… Lie to the American people about Trump and blame Europe and not China for the Wuhan coronavirus. Governor Andrew Cuomo from New York State has the worst coronavirus numbers in the world. The mortality rate in New York is significantly higher than any country in the world today! As reported earlier according to the Worldometer:** […]
The only thing more dangerous than monsters in Lovecraft Country are racists—although there are plenty of both in HBO’s new series, and sometimes they’re one and the same. Blending comedy and drama, horror and sci-fi, social commentary and genre thrills, showrunner/writer Misha Green’s adaptation of Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel tackles American intolerance through the prism of author H.P. Lovecraft, whose famed work about ancient, incomprehensible evils […]
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris will take the helm of their party at the virtual convention, with a challenge to offer voters a vision of the future. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris will take the helm […]
While Russia is still home to the fourth highest number of active coronavirus cases in the world, the country is winning the battle with the pandemic. That’s according to PM Mikhail Mishustin, himself a survivor of the disease. Mishustin told the government’s anti-coronavirus coordination council on Monday that a large-scale coronavirus testing programme continues across Russia. He says it remains one of the most effective measures […]
The number of deaths are decreasing – the severity of COVID-19 cases is lessoning – but Democrats want to shut down the government for the next 6 weeks. Why would they do that? We reported a couple days ago that Dr. Michael Levitt, a Stanford professor who also has a degree from Cambridge, claims that COVID-19 in the US will basically be over in 4 weeks. […]
National Football League Hall of Famer Mike Ditka has gone fully un-woke on the issue of players kneeling during the national anthem before games to protest police brutality, saying the practice is unpatriotic and disrespectful. “If you can’t respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country,” Ditka said in an interview posted Sunday by TMZ Sports. “That’s the way I feel. Of course, […]
Bolivia, A Devastated Country By Primera Linea, Resumen English. July 23, 2020 Bolivia, A Devastated Country2020-07-232020-07-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/bolivia.jpg200px200px Above photo: Officials dressed in personal protective equipment, look at the covered body of a dead man, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, July 6, 2020. Reuters. Bolivia has surpassed the 61,000 person barrier of Covid-19 with more than 2,200 deaths in four distressing months of […]
The woman first states, “This is my message for the greatest country in the world. In the light of the recent events in the United States, I felt morally obliged to shed light on a very similar chain of events that took place in my country during the 90s. The cause of those events was the same, a constantly reemerging ultimate evil.” She continues, “Legalistic, non-theistic […]
The US is one of the worst countries in the world to raise a family, while Britain also scores badly, according to new research. America was ranked 34 out of 35 in a comparison of the world’s biggest economies, scoring three ‘F’ grades for safety, cost of living and work-life balance, a ‘D minus’ for health, and a ‘C+’ for happiness and education. Overall, it was […]
“From day one, any discussion of herd immunity or survival of the fittest or, you know, ‘Say farewell to the elderly,’ are the things that just did not sound right for us,” Jordan’s Prime Minister Omar Razzaz tells NPR. “So we went for a very different model in Jordan, based on social solidarity.” Jane Arraf/NPR hide caption toggle caption Jane Arraf/NPR “From day one, any discussion […]
Iran has resolutely denied that fires breaking out across the country in recent days are the result of cyberattacks, while admitting that foreign states and groups have been relentlessly testing the nation’s cyber defenses. In recent weeks, Iran suffered scores of fires and malfunctions on its refineries, gas plants, nuclear plant, power stations, sea port as well as forest fires. But a spokesman for the foreign […]
The Iranian Foreign Minister arrived in Moscow for face-to-face talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday. The talks focused on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal signed in 2015, as well as bilateral ties and matters of regional and international significance. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sat with Sputnik to discuss what steps Iran expects from Russia […]
Why Iraqis Hate The US Troops Who Occupy Their Country By Eric Zuesse, Strategic Culture. July 20, 2020 Why Iraqis Hate The US Troops Who Occupy Their Country2020-07-202020-07-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/us-troops-in-iraq-e1595272208969.jpg200px200px Above photo: From US troops found nearly 5,000 abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq. Screenshot from Chemical Secrets In Iraq War. American ‘news’-media present a very distorted view of America’s international relations. For example, consider this: Retired Marine’s message about […]