Above Photo: Activists across New Jersey and Pennsylvania have long fought against PennEast’s proposed fracked gas pipeline. Delaware Riverkeeper Network/Twitter. ‘Momentous Win’: Opponents in Pennsylvania and New Jersey cheer “cancellation of this unneeded, dangerous fracked gas pipeline.” Environmental and public health advocates on Monday celebrated the demise of a proposed fracked gas pipeline across Pennsylvania and New Jersey after PennEast decided to cease development because of difficulties acquiring certain state permits. “This is a huge victory. Today, water, the environment, and people spoke louder than fossil fuels,” said Jim Waltman, executive director of the New Jersey-based Watershed Institute, in a statement. “We congratulate and […]
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Reuters Looks Away As Ecuador Tries To Outlaw Opposition Parties By Joe Emersberger, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. December 9, 2020 Reuters Looks Away As Ecuador Tries To Outlaw Opposition Parties2020-12-092020-12-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/lenin-moreno-1024×691-1-e1607563357420.jpg200px200px Above photo: Reuters depiction (10/17/19) of Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno. Henry Romero. Reuters routinely buries information that would badly damage the reputation of US allies in the Americas. Whether those allies are bureaucrats from the Organization of American States and the dictatorship they helped install in Bolivia (FAIR.org, 12/17/19), violent protesters in Nicaragua (FAIR.org, 8/23/18) or Venezuelan politicians who support lethal US sanctions on their own country (FAIR.org, 6/14/19), the London-based news service can be […]
As Private Cities Advance In Honduras, Hondurans Renew Their Opposition By Beth Geglia, Center for Economic and Policy Research. December 5, 2020 As Private Cities Advance In Honduras, Hondurans Renew Their Opposition2020-12-052020-12-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/honduras.jpg200px200px Above photo: La Voz de Zacate Grande. Efforts to develop semi-privately governed jurisdictions called Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs) in Honduras have recently emerged anew. ZEDEs, first legislated as Special Development Regions (REDs) and informally known as “charter cities,” “model cities,” or “startup cities,” are a flexible territorial concession that can be used for city-scale real estate and tourism development, resource extraction, energy production, manufacturing, banking, and the […]
Belarusian Opposition Figure Awarded Freedom Prize Will ‘Sell Belarus Out’ By Mohamed Elmaazi, Sputnik News. October 29, 2020 Belarusian Opposition Figure Awarded Freedom Prize Will ‘Sell Belarus Out’2020-10-292020-10-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/belarus-e1603980658859.jpg200px200px Above photo: Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. From EPP Group. Western-led institutions and governments are not genuinely interested in the right of self-determination of the Belarusian people as is evidenced by their one-sided support for anti-government groups and individuals, a student of Eastern European politics tells Sputnik. The European Parliament selected Belarus’ opposition movement as the winners of 2020’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The European Union’s legislative body specifically singled out a number of people […]
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/world/202010171080800680-belarusian-opposition-holding-womens-march-in-central-minsk—photos-videos/ MINSK (Sputnik) – Several dozen opposition supporters are holding a traditional women’s march in Minsk on Saturday, a Sputnik correspondent reported. A small group of participants first gathered near a shopping mall in the Belarusian capital and then started marching down Independence Avenue. Initially, they marched without slogans and symbols but later unfurled opposition white-red-white flags. Participants of the unsanctioned procession are also carrying flowers, white-and-red umbrellas and banners. As they move, other people join the column, not just women. From time to time, the marching crowd shouts to passers-by: “Join us!” No law […]
Stargazers perk up — Mars is getting big and bright the coming week, as the sun, Earth and Mars line up close to a new moon on the night of Oct. 13. The event that happens about every two years is called “opposition” in astronomy terms: the sun and Mars on opposite sides of Earth. From the earthling’s perspective, according to NASA, Mars rises in the east just as the sun sets in the west, and would stay up in the sky the whole night, setting in the west just as the sun rises. Because we’re seeing the whole dayside of […]
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has paid an unexpected visit to a detention center in Minsk, meeting incarcerated members of the so-called ‘Coordination council of the opposition’. The unusual move was reported by local media on Saturday, with a short video from the meeting emerging on social media later in the day. Members of the opposition ‘council’ were detained over calls to overthrow the government amid the unrest that followed the contested August 9 presidential election. The activists are currently being held at the pre-trial detention center of the Belarus State Security Committee (KGB) in Minsk. Among other things, Lukashenko touched upon […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/07/1080691304_0:0:3484:1961_1200x675_80_0_0_d93bf413e0179b7ab3930045964595f5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202010091080714764-four-kyrgyz-opposition-political-parties-propose-single-candidate-for-prime-minister/ BISHKEK (Sputnik) – Four Kyrgyz opposition political parties — Respublika (Republic), Ata Meken (Fatherland), Bir Bol (Unity) and Reforma (Reform) — nominated jointly one more candidate to the post of the country’s prime minister, Omurbek Babanov, according to opposition politician Tilek Toktogaziev, a member of Ata Meken. “A decision was made to nominate a single candidate from our parties: Omurbek Babanov to the post of the prime minister and Tilek Toktogaziev to the post of the first deputy prime minister”, Toktogaziev read out a memorandum, which was signed by the leaders of the four […]
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 said the alleged gang rape victim from Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras deserves justice and not slander. Reacting to the claim of a ruling BJP functionary that the young girl had an “affair” with the accused, Congress […]
The two Asian giants have been involved in a tense military face-off since April this year as both sides have accused each other of crossing the loosely demarcated Line of Actual Control in the eastern Ladakh region. On 15 June, 20 Indian soldiers were killed in the first violent clash at the border in 40 years. India’s key opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has faced a barrage of social media attacks from netizens for claiming at a public meeting that he would have “thrown out” the Chinese troops from the Indian territory had his Congress Party been in power. “If we were […]
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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 leaders of local opposition parties in an attempt to pressure them to pull out of upcoming elections. Elections for Venezuela’s National Assembly are fast approaching. But the United States does not want them to go […]
The Imran Khan government has expedited inquiries into political leaders since assuming office in 2018. Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister and the brother of Shehbaz Sharif, had been facing a non-bailable warrant after refusing to appear before court in Pakistan earlier this month. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) – the constitutional body responsible for investigating corruption cases – on Monday arrested the leader of the opposition in the lower house of parliament (National Assembly), Shehbaz Sharif, after the Lahore High Court (LHC) rejected his bail application in a money-laundering case. Shehbaz Sharif, 69, who is the younger brother of former […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/1b/1080589803_0:0:2234:1257_1200x675_80_0_0_d3f1b8e9d5059c2bcacf23a6b0fc5165.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202009271080589850-nearly-200-detained-across-belarus-at-sunday-opposition-rallies-interior-ministry-says/ MINSK (Sputnik) – The number of people detained at protests across Belarus this Sunday has approached 200 in total, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Olga Chemodanova said. “According to updated information, the number of detainees has approached 200,” Chemodanova said. A list of detained individuals posted on the website of the Viasna human rights centre shows that detentions have taken place in many cities in Belarus, including Minsk, Grodno, Mogilev, Vitebsk and others. Weekend opposition rallies have become commonplace across the nation following the disputed August 9 presidential election, in which longtime President Alexander Lukashenko claimed […]
The Indian government had been working on consolidation of the scattered labour laws in the country over the last one year. At least 44 labour laws have been codified and consolidated in four bills over the past year. The Indian Parliament’s upper house, the Rajya Sabha passed three key labour reform bills on Wednesday amid a boycott from the opposition parties. The opposition parties believe the passage of the bills will provide industries with the unrestrained power to hire and fire workers whenever they like. The bills were passed in the lower house, the Lok Sabha, on Tuesday. The Bills in […]
Farmers in India and opposition parties have been up in arms against two bills introduced by the federal government to bring farming into “a competitive pricing environment” and “modern trading system”. While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s central government has passed two bills to ensure that the farming sector experiences reform, they are witnessing stiff opposition from not only rival political parties in parliament but a big section of farmers as well. The two bills are titled ‘Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill 2020’, and ‘Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, […]
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The Saudi government must make 24 current and former officials available to testify on their knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, a US judge has ruled, in a victory for victims’ families despite opposition from the Attorney General. Riyadh was ordered to make the officials – including a prince and his chief of staff – available for deposition in a judgment made public on Thursday, just a day before the 19th anniversary of the worst terror attack ever to take place on US soil. Manhattan federal Judge Sarah Netburn ruled the victims’ families have the right to question Saudi officials about their […]
A woman covered in a red and white flag is among protesters in Minsk on Sept. 6. Sunday’s demonstration marked the beginning of the fifth week of daily protests calling for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s resignation. AP hide caption toggle caption AP A woman covered in a red and white flag is among protesters in Minsk on Sept. 6. Sunday’s demonstration marked the beginning of the fifth week of daily protests calling for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s resignation. AP In Belarus, another member of the country’s opposition has been detained by security agents — the latest in a series of disappearances […]
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European nations have expressed concerns over the fate of Maria Kolesnikova – one of Belarus’ leading opposition figures, apparently kidnapped in Minsk – threatening sanctions and demanding the release of detained protesters. The EU, as well as Germany and the UK, have accused Minsk of quelling protests that have gripped Belarus for almost a month with “repressions” on the heels of reports of Kolesnikova’s disappearance in Minsk on Monday. The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell did not mince words as he accused Belarusian authorities of “unabating arbitrary and unexplained arrests and detentions on political grounds” in a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107357/44/1073574411_0:26:1539:891_1200x674_80_0_0_92fdc3a02d4abaa7a4f7014a7cfeabc7.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/latam/202008311080331228-venezuelas-nicolas-maduro-issues-presidential-pardons-to-dozens-of-opposition-figures/ The Venezuelan government announced on Monday that President Nicolas Maduro had pardoned more than four dozen political figures in opposition parties. Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez announced on Monday that more than 50 opposition politicians had received pardons ahead of the December parliamentary elections, and assurances they would be able to participate. “We hope that all of these measures taken by the Bolivarian government help maintain the democratic focus of all of these political actors,” Rodriguez said in a press conference at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. Many of those pardoned had been charged […]
A Ukrainian opposition MP has accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of imposing a “little Russians” complex on Ukrainians, after the country’s Independence Day celebration featured songs performed in the Russian language. The accusation came from Oleg Sinyutka, a representative of the center-right European Solidarity, an opposition party that supports keeping Ukrainian as the sole official language, despite the country having millions of native Russian speakers. “What we heard on Sofievskaya Square was the desire of the authorities to impose the ‘little Russians’ complex on society,” Sinyutka said. He claimed the nation has “been fighting this complex” for a long time. The controversy came after a concert […]
Many assumed despite playing a prominent role in Belarus’ opposition, Svetlana Alexievich’s fame made her somewhat ‘untouchable.’ Nevertheless, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature winner was summoned for questioning on Wednesday. The Belarusian Investigative Committee wanted to ‘discuss’ the case it has opened against the country’s opposition for allegedly making “calls to seize state power.” The writer, who sits on the movement’s ‘Coordination Council’, arrived at the committee’s building accompanied by other council presidium members Pavel Latushko, Maxim Znak and Maria Kolesnikova. After the meeting ended, Alexievich told journalists that the movement is not strong enough to resolve its political dispute with […]
Former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has rejected claims that the opposition wants to close the frontier with Russia, rubbishing the idea that the country wishes to turn away from its eastern neighbor. “People are saying that we want to shut down the borders with Russia,” she told Polish news portal Onet. “This is nonsense.” Tikhanovskaya also refused to discuss any Russia-specific policies, noting that all decisions would be made by a future elected president. Despite encouragement from the West to turn against their long-time partner, opposition figures inside Belarus have clearly stated that the country will not be dictated to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/18/1080265729_0:30:2200:1267_1200x675_80_0_0_dbbce245c5b4505ff912b821b8916873.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202008261080281193-boris-johnson-calls-for-transparent-investigation-into-russian-opposition-figure-navalnys-illness/ Alexey Navalny fell ill during a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow last week. He was later transported to Berlin’s Charite clinic for further treatment. German doctors said they have traces of intoxication with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has commented on Russian opposition figure Navalny’s illness. Johnson took to Twitter to outline his country’s position on the matter. The poisoning of Alexey @Navalny shocked the world. The UK stands in solidarity with him & his family. We need a full, transparent investigation […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Ex-Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said in an interview with Fox News that US Assistant Secretary of State Stephen Biegun had vowed to help Belarus’ opposition. Biegun “assured me that he, as a person, and the American people, will do their best to support us and to help us in this situation,” Tikhanovskaya said commenting on a meeting with Biegun. She called their conversation “wonderful and kind.” Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said in an interview that no one should interfere in the situation in Belarus. “Our people want to live in a democratic country,” Tikhanovskaya said. “No one country should […]
Belarus Opposition Candidate Revealed As Western Regime Change Puppet By Steve Topple, Peace Data. August 25, 2020 Belarus Opposition Candidate Revealed As Western Regime Change Puppet2020-08-252020-08-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/st-e1598397061790.jpg200px200px Above photo: Svetlana Tikhanovskayas (center). AP. Belarus’s political and social landscape grows more complex and precarious as time passes, with the aftermath of the recent election still unfolding. But what has already become apparent is that in this game of political chess, the people will not be winners. Because now-deleted webpages reveal opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya may be little more than a Western regime change puppet. And the end result will offer no solutions for […]
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 leadership, a few of the dissenters claimed they had actually acted in the “best interest of the party”. These key Congressmen conveyed their demands in a letter sent to party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi. […]
Donald Trump Jr. posted this photo of himself on Facebook in 2014. He tweeted his opposition to Alaska’s Pebble Mine this month, noting its potential harm to the salmon fishery. via Facebook hide caption toggle caption via Facebook Donald Trump Jr. posted this photo of himself on Facebook in 2014. He tweeted his opposition to Alaska’s Pebble Mine this month, noting its potential harm to the salmon fishery. via Facebook After a pressure campaign by people with President Trump’s ear, the Army Corps of Engineers says a proposed open-pit gold mine upstream from Alaska’s most valuable salmon fishery can’t proceed as […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/14/1080229790_0:38:3072:1766_1200x675_80_0_0_e3ff6d44b9e66cc43760f4588146560d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202008241080259954-kremlin-putin-wasnt-involved-in-talks-on-transportation-of-opposition-figure-navalny-to-germany/ Navalny was transported to the German clinic on Saturday after he fell ill on Thursday while on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. His press secretary suggested he may have been poisoned. However, doctors in Omsk, where he was hospitalised, said there were no traces of poison in Navalny’s blood or urine. Russian President Vladimir Putin did not participate in talks on the transportation of opposition figure Alexey Navalny to a German clinic, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. “No, this is not the president’s prerogative at all. This is a doctors’ decision […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s Congress party, which has been associated with the national freedom movement, is now in dire straits over leadership issues. Since 2014, when the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party swept general elections, the Congress has been reduced to an abysmal tally in the Parliament and also lost power in several major states. Nearly 23 senior Congress members and lawmakers have written to the party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi, urging her to consider the complete overhaul of the party leadership. In the letter, the members of the party stated that the “uncertainty” over the leadership demoralises the cadre and has […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104849/26/1048492683_0:255:4891:3006_1200x675_80_0_0_88b58afdb6cf3764b4b3f08f0c7ed99f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202008201080224754-live-from-hospital-where-russian-opposition-figure-navalny-was-admitted/ Earlier in the day, a spokeswoman for Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation said that the Russian opposition figure was in a coma in an intensive care unit, and his condition had been assessed as grave. Live from premises of a medical institution in Omsk, where Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was hospitalised. Earlier in the day, Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said the plane Navalny was travelling in had to make an emergency landing in Omsk, because he started feeling bad while en route from Tomsk to Moscow. After that, the opposition figure was hospitalised in Omsk, with […]
Belarus was engulfed in a wave of street protests and clashes between police and demonstrators after holding presidential elections on August 9, with forces opposing President Alexander Lukashenko accusing him of falsifying the results, and demanding a ‘peaceful handover of power’. Belarusian state television has publicized what it says is the platform of the united opposition, with the document, the authenticity of which has yet to be independently verified, said to include elements which would dramatically weaken Belarus’s relationship with Russia and move Minsk toward closer relations with the West and NATO. The program, dubbed the ‘Reanimation Package of Reforms for […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Indian parliamentary panel on information technology headed by main opposition party Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor earlier indicated, the panel would ask social network platform Facebook to clarify its position on allegedly bending hate speech rules in favour of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and opposition parties clashed on Parliamentary Panel on Information Technology Chairman Shashi Tharoor’s statement that the panel would wish to hear from the tech company about reports of bending its “hate speech rules” in India. BJP lawmaker and member of the Parliamentary Panel on Information Technology Nishikant Dubey […]
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 voting booth. “I am ready to take responsibility and act as a national leader during this period,” Tikhanovskaya said, adding that opposition activists, who have been protesting for a week, should continue to push for […]
The United Kingdom’s Health Secretary is reportedly seeking to replace Public Health England (PHE) amid criticisms that the organisation failed to respond effectively to the coronavirus pandemic. Government ministers are facing criticism on Sunday following reports that Health Secretary Matt Hancock is looking to scrap Public Health England (PHE) and replace it with a new pandemic response agency. Hancock is reportedly going to announce the formation of a National Institute for Health Protection in the coming week, tasked with overseeing PHE’s work on Covid-19 as well as the implementation of the UK’s NHS Test and Trace system. Opposition MPs have accused […]
Videos posted online show the chilling moment a young protester falls to the ground during clashes with police in Belarus. His death has sparked outrage across the country grappling with post-election protests. A clip first released by AP shows police officers in full riot gear lined up on the street. A man in a bloodied white T-shirt, who was believed to be Taraikovsky, collapses on the ground. WARNING: DISTURBING VIDEO Videos filmed from other angles and published in local media show the same man approaching the officers with his hands up in the air. He then falls to the ground after […]
Biden, a fierce advocate against so-called ‘Russian meddling’, has openly said that the US should work to unseat the Turkish president and make sure he “pays the price” for daring to cooperate with Russia. Turkey has accused Joe Biden of meddling in its internal affairs after an interview emerged in which the Democratic presidential candidate flirts with the idea of unseating Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “US Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s remarks (made in December but reported by the media today) reflect the games being played over Turkey and their interventionist attitudes,” Erdogan’s spokesman Fahrettin Altun tweeted on Saturday. He added that Biden’s […]
A video, showing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden arguing that the US should rally behind the Turkish opposition, drew a huge backlash in Ankara, which denounced the remark as meddling in its internal affairs. The clip, which was filmed in December for a January episode of the New York Times’ documentary series The Weekly, began making waves on social media on Thursday, after it was picked up by Kurdish journalist Arif Zêrevan. In the video Biden says that the US, presumably under his presidency, should “make it clear” that “we support opposition leadership.” I’m still of the view that if we […]
According to preliminary results of presidential elections in Belarus that were held on Sunday, incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko received 80.23 percent of the votes. However, many citizens were not satisfied with these results, with unsanctioned protests erupting across the country. The office of Belarus opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya demanded the “peaceful” transition of power from Alexander Lukashenko amid ongoing protests in the country, following the presidential election on Sunday. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya sees herself as the winner of presidential election, the office said, suggesting that additional protests in the country were still possible. According to preliminary results from the Belarusian Central Election Commission, Tikhanovskaya has received 9.9 […]
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,” the Sunday statement says, adding that 27 parties have “unanimously agreed not to participate in the electoral fraud.” The previous parliamentary election was held in Venezuela in 2015; the powers of the current convocation of […]
A coalition of over two dozen parties, all backing opposition figurehead Juan Guaido, have announced they would not take part in the upcoming parliamentary vote in December, claiming any outcome is an “electoral fraud” by default. Although the election is to be held only in five month from now, on December 6, the block has already denounced it as fraudulent, arguing that the electoral system itself is unfair.The coalition at the same time rejected the notion that they are abstaining from the vote, arguing that it was “not an election” they have refused to participate in. The statement, which was signed […]
RIP Arnold Trebach – Made Opposition To The Drug War Respectable By Jacob Sullum, Reason.com. July 30, 2020 RIP Arnold Trebach – Made Opposition To The Drug War Respectable2020-07-302020-07-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/dpf-1988-1989-biennial-report_p5close_1280-e1596129053669.gif200px200px Above photo: Arnold Trebach (left) and Kevin Zeese (right). The American University professor called for “drug peace” at a time when both major parties were committed to ever-escalating violence. NOTE: Here is a tribute Kevin Zeese wrote to the Alliance of Reform Organizations, which he organized, following the news of Arnold Trebach’s death: “Arnold Trebach died at 92 years of age. He worked on many issues during his career but we all […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/19/1079979884_0:0:2902:1633_1200x675_80_0_0_eea68456e44a544b2fe02aad273f7945.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007251079979914-canadian-opposition-leader-calls-on-trudeau-morneau-to-resign-over-we-scandal/ TORONTO (Sputnik) – Canada’s opposition leader Andrew Scheer on Friday called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau to resign amid the ongoing WE Charity scandal. Scheer said Trudeau and Morneau chose to use the novel coronavirus pandemic as cover for their actions, adding that the entire WE Charity affair has been nothing short of “corruption at the highest level”. “We are in an unprecedented crisis, we are facing a fiscal situation that is completely unprecedented and we are facing the health consequences of the virus and the economic fallout. And […]
The campaign team for the opposition challenger in Poland’s presidential election, Rafal Trzaskowski, says it now wants the vote annulled, citing numerous irregularities. The liberal Warsaw Mayor lost the July 12 runoff by a narrow margin to conservative incumbent President Andrzej Duda. Trzaskowski, who received 48.97 percent of votes, earlier conceded defeat to Duda, who received 51.03 percent. Trzaskowski’s team and his Civic Platform party lodged a protest with the Supreme Court last week. They argued that state-run media and the government were unfairly involved in boosting Duda’s campaign, while not all Poles abroad were able to cast ballots. Polish media […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s main opposition party Congress had earlier alleged that the federal ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was trying to lure away its legislators in Rajasthan and topple its government headed by Ashok Gehlot. Congress claimed it has audio recordings of the purported talks between BJP leaders and rebel Congress members. India’s federal ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded a probe by the apex national investigative agency, Central Bureau of Investigation into the alleged tapping of phones of its leaders in Rajasthan. BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra asked Rajasthan chief Ashok Gehlot if phone tapping was carried out […]
TORONTO (Sputnik) – Canadian opposition lawmakers said in a letter to the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada Nancy Belanger that they are calling for an investigation into WE Charity’s efforts to lobby the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “I am thus asking that you investigate whether anyone in the WE organization ought to have registered to lobby public office holders, but failed to do so, which would be an infraction under section 14(1) or any other unidentified sections of the lobbying act,” Conservative Pierre Poilievre, the shadow minister of finance, said in the letter on Friday. The letter was co-signed […]
With fewer than four months to election day, Democrats in the nation’s most competitive Senate contests are crushing their Republican opposition in the money race. Quarterly financial reports filed on Wednesday show that in the most competitive Senate contests in the country, Democratic candidates outraised Republicans in all but two. Two candidates, Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) and Texas Democrat MJ Hegar, had not filed their reports shortly before midnight on Thursday. In the twelve races where The Daily Beast was able to examine finances for both parties’ candidates—contests in Colorado, Maine, Iowa, Montana, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Alaska, […]
Opposition To ‘Pause’ On Johns Hopkins Private Police Force Grows By Jacob Took, Baltimore Beat. July 14, 2020 Opposition To ‘Pause’ On Johns Hopkins Private Police Force Grows2020-07-142020-07-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/img_7432-1024×768-e1594759470440.jpg200px200px Above photo: By Brandon Soderberg. Abolish, Not Delay. Two weeks after Johns Hopkins University administrators announced what they called a two-year “pause” on a controversial plan to establish their own private police force, about 100 students, faculty and community members marched to the home of Hopkins President Ronald Daniels to tell him that this proposed pause is not enough. Wearing masks and trying to keep six feet apart, demonstrators gathered on June 29 […]
As the United Kingdom negotiates its exit from the European Union single market and customs union, concerns over a potential trade deal with the United States impacting domestic food standards begin to rise. Demonstrators from Save British Farming (SBF), farmers, and their supporters took to Westminster, London on Wednesday to show their opposition to any future reduction of food standards in any potential trade deals. Around 20 tractors slowly drove through the streets around Parliament in a loud demonstration just before the Agriculture Bill’s return to the House of Lords on Thursday. Other activists dressed up in fruit and vegetables to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107974/24/1079742488_0:0:3181:1790_1200x675_80_0_0_d53801e89bcf45ab5272d94f783a89f1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006281079742465-polands-duda-opposition-candidate-trzaskowski-win-1st-round-of-presidential-election/ According to the exit poll, Duda came first with 41.8 percent of the votes cast, falling short of the 50 percent needed to ensure victory without the need for a second round, while Trzaskowski came in second at 30.4 percent. Polish President Andjei Duda and his rival from the largest opposition party – the centrist Civic Platform (PO), the current mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, have both won the first round of the presidential election, Ipsos showed on Sunday. The first round of Poland’s presidential election had 11 candidates compete against each other. Polling places closed […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107971/59/1079715976_0:274:1600:1174_1200x675_80_0_0_a8a34a599595a9d6cf37206d7fe73f87.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202006251079715433-nepal-opposition-mps-move-resolution-in-parliament-to-reclaim-land-allegedly-encroached-on-by-china/ New Delhi (Sputnik): China has allegedly encroached on 36 hectares of land in four northern districts of Nepal by diverting the flow of rivers that act as a natural boundary. The Survey Division of Nepal’s Agriculture Department reported the encroachment back in November 2019, but the K.P. Sharma Oli government put a lid on its claims. Three members of Nepal’s Parliament belonging to the opposition Nepali Congress Party have moved a resolution in the House of Representatives asking the government to restore territory allegedly encroached upon by China through dialogue with Beijing. “China has […]
A police reform bill proposed by Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) failed on a procedural vote due to opposition from Democrats, who said it does not go far enough. Wednesday’s vote on the cloture motion was 55 in favor and 45 against, with 60 votes needed to move the bill forward. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has told his opposition they are wrong about his ratings, asking them to stop calling him names, as he “never insulted anybody personally.” “I still lead the republic, and in no country is it allowed to insult people,” Lukashenko said during a meeting with the opposition in the city of Brest. He urged the public not to insult him with the phrase “mustachioed cockroach” or other words. Lukashenko also mentioned that the opposition should tell him about existing problems, rather than trying to lower his ratings ahead of the upcoming elections. “Listen, no one will solve these […]
A small German party has installed a monument to the first Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, in the western city of Gelsenkirchen. City authorities sought to block the initiative but ended up launching an online educational campaign. The former West Germany has seen the very first monument to Lenin erected on its soil on Saturday, courtesy of a tiny fringe party, the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD). The party proudly unveiled the over two-meter (6.5-foot) tall statue, originally produced in the former Czechoslovakia in 1957 and now placed outside of its office in Gelsenkirchen. The MLPD told the crowd of its red […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): In a dramatic turn of events, the Indian and Chinese armies clashed at a disputed territory in eastern Ladakh on Monday night. Per Indian Army sources, 20 soldiers including a commanding officer were killed and an unspecified number of troops were injured or missing. There were also reports of casualties on the Chinese side. India’s main opposition party Congress has questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the violent clashes between the armies of India and China in the Ladakh region. Former Chief of the Congress Party, Rahul Gandhi in a tweet on Wednesday said, “Enough is […]
The UK Labour Party has spent a decade in opposition since the defeat of Gordon Brown in 2010 and the subsequent Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. Despite almost reaching power in 2017, former leader Jeremy Corbyn stepped down with historically low approval ratings and was replaced by Keir Starmer. Sir Keir Starmer has become the most popular opposition leader since Tony Blair, according to a new poll on Friday. Just two months into the role, the new Labour leader’s currently approval rating stands at 51 percent among UK voters with 20 percent dissatisfied. In total, 77 percent of Labour voters say they are satisfied […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The tensions along the India-China border are far from over despite several rounds of talks at the diplomatic and military level. While both countries have agreed to peacefully settle disputes along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the two armies continue heavy posturing at the border. Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s prime opposition party Congress, on Tuesday again questioned the defence minister if the Indian territory in Ladakh has been occupied by troops from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Once RM is done commenting on the hand symbol, can he answer: Have the Chinese occupied Indian territory in Ladakh? […]
The honesty of a local African-American politician has shot a huge whole in the official tale of George Floyd and his tragic death: During an interview with MSNBC Vice President of Minneapolis city council Andrea Jenkins claimed that the two men had worked together. Ms. Jenkins claims that the two men both worked as bouncers at El Nuevo Rodeo Club in 2019, a claim since confirmed by the owner. Santamaria’s comments are in conflict with those of Jenkins who appeared to suggest that Floyd and Chauvin worked together for 17 years. During her interview with MSNBC Jenkins said: “They were coworkers […]
Five Myths About The Venezuelan Opposition By Tatuy TV & Venezuelanalysis.com. May 25, 2020 Five Myths About The Venezuelan Opposition2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/trump-and-guaido-at-the-white-house.-from-reuters.-e1590420691625.jpg200px200px Above photo: President Donald Trump raising his thumb during his meeting with Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido at the White House in Washington, DC. By Kevin Lamarque for Reuters. The latest video produced by VA and Tatuy TV explores the “myths” that sustain the mainstream media’s favorable coverage of the Venezuelan opposition. The corporate media is almost unanimous in its support for US regime change plans in Venezuela. This support naturally extends to the US-backed Venezuelan anti-Chavista opposition, which in the […]
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock was threatened with being kicked out of the Commons Chamber by House Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, after heckling the Labour leader during a heated PMQs on the Covid-19 crisis in care homes. Hoyle made the dramatic intervention on Wednesday during a grilling of Prime Minister Boris Johnson by Labour leader Keir Starmer over the lack of coronavirus testing for elderly residents and staff, following accusations the UK government had failed to protect care homes. Also on rt.com ‘Total fiasco’: Dismay after UK minister admits government prioritized NHS over care homes during Covid-19 early stages Starmer name-checked the […]
Venezuela Makes Fresh Arrests as Opposition Splinters over Failed Coup By Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelanalysis May 11, 2020 Venezuela Makes Fresh Arrests as Opposition Splinters over Failed Coup2020-05-112020-05-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/venezuela-arrests-suspected-participants-from-operation-gedeon-were-arrested-on-saturday-in-la-guaira-state.-from-ceofanb-e1589219823297.jpeg200px200px Above: Venezuela arrests suspected participants from ‘Operation Gedeon’ were arrested on Saturday in La Guaira State. From @Ceofanb. Trump said the operation “was not a good attack,” again denying any US involvement. The Venezuelan government announced 16 new arrests in the aftermath of a thwarted invasion attempt last week. Two separate raids on Sunday resulted in three and eight arrests, respectively. There were three other arrests on Saturday and two on Friday, bringing the total of those detained to 39. On […]