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 […]
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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 […]
Russian communications giant Rostelecom has finally published details about its blockchain-based voting system that will be deployed for by-elections in September. There will be two blockchain voting pilots in different regions of the country next month. One will be run by Rostelecom, the state-owned major telecom provider, and the other by the Department of Information Technologies, a branch of the Moscow city hall that ran the […]
Protesters gather in front of the Minsk Tractor Works Plant to support workers leaving the plant after their work shift in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday. Dmitri Lovetsky/AP hide caption toggle caption Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Protesters gather in front of the Minsk Tractor Works Plant to support workers leaving the plant after their work shift in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday. Dmitri Lovetsky/AP The European Union on Wednesday said […]
The hot dog left on Cris Dosev’s front step in northwest Florida was laced with toothpicks. The first assumption many folks made on seeing his photo of the boobytrapped frankfurter on Facebook last month was that it was an attempt to harm the family pooch, Maverick. And since Dosev was in a truly down and dirty campaign to unseat incumbent Florida state Rep. Alex Andrade in […]
As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections A Third Time, Media Continue To Ignore Coup By Bryce Greene, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. August 17, 2020 As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections A Third Time, Media Continue To Ignore Coup2020-08-172020-08-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/11/bolivia-manifestantes-5-1-1-nueva-e1595946854565.jpg200px200px In the Bolivian elections last October 20, incumbent President Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS in Spanish) won a 10-point victory over his nearest challenger, as pre-election polls […]
This doesn’t sound like a man who’s going to go quietly. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko warned protesters Monday that he will not give in to their demands for a new presidential election—unless they assassinate him. Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in the capital city of Minsk over the weekend to protest against the disputed elections held earlier this month. Protesters have been infuriated by alleged […]
Opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has said she is ready and willing to be the interim leader of Belarus if the country holds new elections, amid growing political turmoil in the country. Tikhanovskaya, who fled to Lithuania last week, said in a video message that she was prepared to take the reins in Minsk should the nation void President Alexander Lukashenko’s election victory and return to the […]
By: Andre Vltchek Today, the Western press went absolutely mental again, radically schizophrenic. Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam declared that the September 6 elections in SAR would be postponed by one year. Right away, she offered a rational explanation: “We have 3 million voters going out in one day across Hong Kong, such flow of people would cause a high risk of infection.” Fair enough. […]
As protests gather steam in Beirut, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab has called for early elections, saying they are the only way out of the deep political crisis which has worsened following the explosion in the city’s port. In a short speech on Saturday, Diab said the country “cannot get out of this crisis without early parliamentary elections.” He added he was not to blame for […]
BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) – A number of opposition parties in Venezuela will not be participating in the parliamentary elections set to take place on 6 December, a statement released by the National Communication Center of opposition leader Juan Guaido said. “The Venezuelan democratic parties called on all the social and political sectors of the country to build a new democratic offensive for the salvation of Venezuela,” […]
HONG KONG—July has been a month of constant struggle for this city in recent years, but especially since the protests last summer, which raised the stakes in the quest for universal suffrage. This year is even more chaotic: A third wave of COVID-19 infections has revived worries that Hong Kong, one of the densest cities in the world, may soon see an overwhelmed hospital system. Meanwhile, […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unloaded on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. The Trump Secretary of State discussed the Chinese app TikTok, the Chinese human rights abuses and the postponed election in Hong Kong. At the of 8:45 mark in the interview, Pompeo said the following about […]