Free Elections In Venezuela Are A Blow To Regime Change By Leonardo Flores, Popular Resistance. December 11, 2020 Free Elections In Venezuela Are A Blow To Regime Change2020-12-112020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/voter-dec-6-venezuela.jpg200px200px Above photo: A voter in Venezuela’s legislative elections. Photo: Manaure Quintero/Reuters. Venezuela held legislative elections on December 6 and, as has become the norm, the U.S. and sectors of the opposition that boycotted the election are claiming fraud […]
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Elections And The Path To Socialism In Venezuela By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. December 9, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Podcast Elections And The Path To Socialism In Venezuela2020-12-092020-12-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/20201206_103705-1-scaled-e1607270890967.jpg200px200px On December 6, Venezuelans elected a new National Assembly with a left political majority. This election, which was well-run and legitimate despite what the imperialist media and countries say, reconstitutes the Venezuelan parliamentary body with participation from […]
Parliamentary Elections In Venezuela: All You Need To Know December 7, 2020 Parliamentary Elections In Venezuela: All You Need To Know2020-12-072020-12-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/vzelection-e1607354683992.png200px200px For the first time in recent history, Venezuela’s left is divided. Will this disrupt the PSUV’s plans to retake control of the National Assembly? This December 6, Venezuela is holding its twenty-sixth election since Chavismo took political power in 1998. This time around, the people […]
Venezuela; 6D Elections, What’s At Stake And Who Will Win? By Dakotah Lilly, Popular Resistance. December 7, 2020 Venezuela; 6D Elections, What’s At Stake And Who Will Win?2020-12-072020-12-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/20201207_013613-scaled-e1607353410361.jpg200px200px Above photo: Indira Alfonzo, the President of the National Electoral Council in Venezuela (center) announces the preliminary results of the National Assembly election early in the morning of December 7, 2020. Margaret Flowers. NOTE: This article was written […]
Venezuela’s Legislative Elections By Carlos Ron, Valdai Club. December 6, 2020 Venezuela’s Legislative Elections2020-12-062020-12-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/vota-e1607246736947.jpg200px200px Above photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP. A Defiant Stand Against Neo-colonialism. Venezuela wins just by carrying out this election. The legislative process, stalled for years, will return to normal under a plural assembly that truly resembles the country’s current political landscape and positions itself in favour of self-determination and national sovereignty, writes Carlos Ron, Venezuela’s Deputy […]
Elections Proved Americans Are Done With The Drug War By Lee Camp, Scheer Post. November 22, 2020 Elections Proved Americans Are Done With The Drug War2020-11-222020-11-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/mushrooms-e1606056389657.jpg200px200px Above photo: A vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles in 2019. Voters in Oregon in voted to approve a measure legalizing therapeutic, regulated use of psilocybin. AP Photo/Richard Vogel. Despite a seeming media blackout […]
Brazilian Elections – A Day Of Shame For The Far Right By Brian Mier, Brasilwire. November 17, 2020 Brazilian Elections – A Day Of Shame For The Far Right2020-11-172020-11-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/brazilvotes.jpg200px200px Above photo: An illiterate voter uses his fingerprint to sign at a polling station in Igarape Miri, Para state, Brazil on November 15, 2020, during the first round of Brazil’s municipal elections. AFP/Tarso Sarraf. As the PT […]
The Red Nation Statement On US Elections November 16, 2020 The Red Nation Statement On US Elections2020-11-162020-11-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/photos-by-gabriella-marks-3.png200px200px Above photo: Photos by Gabriella Marks. The recent US election highlights the widespread disgust of the type of in-your-face white supremacy exemplified by Donald Trump. The large voter turnout, especially among Black and Indigenous working poor showed that large sections of the population reject his politics. But it also […]
Brazil: Municipal Elections Promise Gains For Left By Brian Mier, Brasilwire.com. November 14, 2020 Brazil: Municipal Elections Promise Gains For Left2020-11-142020-11-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/manurosseto-e1605381247838.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Porto Alegre mayoral candidate Manuela D’Ávila (PC do B) with her running mate, Miguel Rosseto (PT). Losses expected for Bolsonaro. Sunday’s elections promise to provide solid, but not breathtaking advances for the Brazilian left. On the other hand, all signs show that it will be […]
Protesters Demand Elections Remain Untampered Across United States By Jenn Schreiter, Unicorn Riot. November 6, 2020 Protesters Demand Elections Remain Untampered Across United States2020-11-062020-11-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/bostonblurfinal-min-2048×1177-1-e1604666853644.png200px200px Above photo: March in Boston on Nov. 4. Across the United States on November 4, demonstrators took to the streets while votes from the November 3 elections continued to be counted. Plains / Midwest “Don’t let Trump steal the election!” warned graphics […]
Sanctions, Elections And Tactical Opportunities By Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuelanalysis. October 31, 2020 Sanctions, Elections And Tactical Opportunities2020-10-312020-10-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/oliver_va.png200px200px Above photo: Oliver Rivas. A Conversation with Oliver Rivas. A candidate to the National Assembly talks about the political landscape today and the agenda of popular Chavismo. Oliver Rivas is an organizer based in Caracas, and one of a handful of National Assembly PSUV-bloc candidates with deep roots in […]
Bolivia Elections: All You Need To Know October 18, 2020 Bolivia Elections: All You Need To Know2020-10-182020-10-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/boliv-e1603042427982.jpg200px200px Above photo: Thousands of people show their support to MAS candidate Luis Arce during the campaign closure in Cochabamba on October, Tuesday 13. Twitter/@LuchoXBolivia. Bolivia – According to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, over 7.031.294 people are expected to vote out of the country’s estimated population of 11.428.245 citizens. On […]
Morales Warns About US Meddling In Upcoming Elections By October 15, 2020 Morales Warns About US Meddling In Upcoming Elections2020-10-152020-10-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/morales.jpg200px200px Above photo: Frame grab from an interview by Iran’s Hispan TV television network with Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales, in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 13, 2020. PressTV. Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales, who resigned last year under pressure from the country’s military and US-backed opposition, […]
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg will donate another $100 million to aid election officials around the US after an initial $300 million grant – ruled lawful by a federal judge even while he warned the money could distort the vote. A lawsuit challenging the grant scheme in Wisconsin was struck down on Wednesday, with US District Judge William Griesbach stating that he found no legal reason to […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – More than 10 million Americans have already voted in the US election, data from the United States Elections Project, led by University of Florida Professor Michael McDonald, shows. According to late Monday data, US voters have cast a total of 10,296,180 ballots in the reporting states, with Florida, Virginia and Michigan in the lead (over 1.6 million votes, over 977,000 votes and more […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0c/1080742826_0:24:3072:1751_1200x675_80_0_0_0819631529bc5aebee45bed888d78dfa.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010121080742858-over-93-million-us-voters-have-already-cast-ballots—us-elections-project/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – More than 9.3 million Americans have already voted in the US election, data from the United States Elections Project, led by University of Florida Professor Michael McDonald, shows. According to Sunday data, US voters have cast a total of 9,345,542 ballots in the reporting states, with Florida, Virginia, and Michigan in the lead (over 1.6 million […]
A county elections board in Ohio has confirmed that nearly 50,000 voters received “inaccurate” ballots in the mail, vowing to correct the error while fending off charges from President Donald Trump that the vote has been “rigged.” Election officials in Franklin County – Ohio’s most populous region and home to the state capital of Columbus – said on Friday that tens of thousands of erroneous ballots […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks at the Jose Marti Gym during a campaign stop in Miami on Monday. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks at the Jose Marti Gym during a campaign stop in Miami on Monday. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images Joe Biden, who’s long critiqued President Trump as a […]
Conservative critics of South Korea’s government persist in pressing claims of widespread fraud in the country’s April elections, pointing to what they say is new evidence—in the form of alleged electronic distortions and mail-in balloting irregularities—to suggest the country’s ruling party won its majority in the National Assembly with expertise and advice from China. The ongoing controversy comes as U.S. President Donald Trump and his Justice […]
People protest beside the parliament building in Bishkek, which also houses the offices of Kyrgyzstan’s president, during protests on Monday. Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images People protest beside the parliament building in Bishkek, which also houses the offices of Kyrgyzstan’s president, during protests on Monday. Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images Protesters in Kyrgyzstan, angered by weekend elections […]
The coalition between Netanyahu and Gantz has shown cracks since the moment of its inception, with gaps between the two leaders growing ever wider now, as they struggle to agree on everything from the way Israel should be handling the pandemic to the nation’s budget. For a month and a half Israel has been busy conducting peace talks with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain which […]
Shutting Down AFRICOM, International Solidarity And The US Elections By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. October 5, 2020 Shutting Down AFRICOM, International Solidarity And The US Elections2020-10-052020-10-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/usoutof-africa.jpg200px200px October 1, 2020, marked the twelfth anniversary of AFRICOM, the United States military’s presence in Africa. An international day of action was organized to call for AFRICOM to be shut down and for the US to stop interfering in […]
BISHKEK (Sputnik) – Opposition protesters have gathered on Bishkek’s Ala-Too Square, in support of political parties that failed to gain seats following Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentary election, a Sputnik correspondent at the scene reports on Monday, adding that violence seen earlier in the day has died down. There have been multiple instances of protesters clashing with law enforcement officers throughout the evening, and explosions have been heard in […]
US Sanctions Opposition Parties In Venezuela Ahead Of Elections September 28, 2020 US Sanctions Opposition Parties In Venezuela Ahead Of Elections2020-09-282020-09-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/vz-1-e1601302635914.jpg200px200px Above photo: A man passes a mural of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, July 22, 2020. Ariana Cubillos | AP. US hoping to force an outcome. Sanctions on Venezuela are nothing new. But Secretary of State Pompeo recently took the unusual step of sanctioning […]
“People are dying, tens of thousands of people are out of work—he’s embarrassing,” is not only the quote of the year from former Hillary Clinton senior adviser Philippe Reines, but also sums up how he, Rick Wilson, Molly Jong-Fast, and Lincoln Project co-founder Mike Madrid feel about Donald Trump’s dwindling support among his own base. To make matters worse for the president, he is set to […]
Facebook booted three troll networks linked to Russian intelligence and the St. Petersburg-based troll farm involved in meddling in the 2016 election. Nathan Gleicher, Facebook’s head of security, told reporters in a press conference that the three networks mainly focused on audiences and issues outside of the U.S. presidential election but that the company had suspended them now out of an abundance of caution because they […]
We’re so inundated with evidence of Donald Trump’s fascistic villainy—these days, largely related to the pandemic he’s neglected and mismanaged to the tune of 200,000 dead Americans and counting—that it’s sometimes easy to forget that he’s also a traitorous puppet who won the 2016 election with Russian assistance. Enter Agents of Chaos, a two-part HBO documentary from the insanely prolific Alex Gibney (debuting Sept. 23) which […]
Faced with a U.S. Treasury Department report linking him to a Russian agent, Rudy Giuliani defended himself Saturday by claiming he had no idea that Ukrainian lawmaker and conspiracy-peddler Andriy Derkach was a foreign operative. In an interview Saturday on AM Joy, the president’s personal attorney refused to directly answer questions from interviewer Jonathan Capehart about how he could have been in the dark about Derkach’s […]
David Schultz, Professor of Department of Political Science and Department of Legal Studies at Hamline University, advises to not look at the national polls and instead divert attention to the swing states, which is where the outcome of the 2020 election will be decided. In 2016, many criticised the polls in the United States, saying that they indicated that Hillary Clinton would win the presidential election, but she did […]
An aide to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has told protesters in Minsk that a new constitution is in the works and has called for peace – though the president himself was seen carrying a rifle outside his residence. A crowd of protesters that had assembled outside the home of the president in the Belarusian capital had the opportunity to talk face to face with one of […]
Responding To Voter Suppression, Understanding Manipulated Elections By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. August 23, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Newsletter Responding To Voter Suppression, Understanding Manipulated Elections2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/stop-voter-suppression-from-union-of-concerned-scientists-e1598211803467.png200px200px Above photo: Stop Voter Suppression from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Voter suppression in the 2020 election has become a topic of great concern. In reality, voter suppression has been part of US politics since the founding of the […]
Earlier Sunday, the Israeli cabinet scrapped its weekly meeting amid a months-long dispute over the budget, sparking fears that elections would be called automatically on Monday night in the absence of a last-minute deal in the Knesset to push back the deadline. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that he had accepted an offer to extend negotiations on the nation’s budget. In a televised address […]
The CIA Democrats In The 2020 Elections August 22, 2020 The CIA Democrats In The 2020 Elections2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/ciadems-e1598110000999.jpg200px200px Above photo: Left to Right: Cal Cunningham, Amy McGrath, MJ Hegar. Image Source: Candidates’ Campaign Website. In the course of the 2018 elections, a large group of former military-intelligence operatives entered capitalist politics as candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination in 50 congressional seats—nearly half the seats where the Democrats […]