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 […]
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MIAMI—Shortly after midnight on Sunday, a line of at least 50 men and women snaked from the entrance of Tootsie’s Cabaret to the sidewalk lining the perimeter of the massive strip club in Miami Gardens, a small city in South Florida that has clocked nearly 5,000 coronavirus cases since the coronavirus pandemic began. Two Miami Gardens police cars directed traffic to a satellite parking lot because Tootsie’s main lot was completely full. Less than 24 hours earlier, Tootsie’s owners had won a court injunction at least temporarily nullifying Miami-Dade County’s 12 a.m. curfew. The party was just getting started. Johnny Fernandez, […]
Germany has imposed a series of tough measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus, including curfews and harsher restrictions on private gatherings, but Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned the new policies may still fall short. The country’s 16 states agreed to the new restrictions after marathon negotiations on Wednesday, setting out uniform guidelines for hotspots across Germany and ramping up existing rules governing face masks, private events and business hours for bars and restaurants. “What we do in the coming days and weeks will be decisive for how we get through this pandemic,” Merkel said following the talks. “We are […]
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 […]
HONG KONG—In a rare act of bipartisanship, Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reestablish formal diplomatic relations with the United States, two and a half weeks after Chinese state media issued a threat against the personal safety of Taiwan’s president. Multiple factors explain the two parties’ convergence for the bill, and they all point to the Chinese Communist Party’s aggression toward Taiwan. On every day for more than two weeks, warplanes dispatched by China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force breached Taiwan’s air defense […]
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 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, […]
The Two Parties Have Failed Us, But The People Can Succeed By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance August 29, 2020 The Two Parties Have Failed Us, But The People Can Succeed2020-08-292020-08-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/ourfuture.jpg200px200px The Republican and Democratic Party conventions showed that both major parties are failing to control the pandemic and protect people, address the climate crisis and clean up the environment, support families and businesses during the economic collapse, prevent police violence or deal with any of the other major problems we face. These were two substance-less conventions. The Democrats focused on criticizing Trump without putting forward an agenda while […]
Eric Garcetti Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti a couple weeks ago went full Commie and authorized the city to shut off water and power to HOMES and businesses that are hosting large, unauthorized gatherings. Under Garcetti’s authoritarian Covid lockdown order, large gatherings are prohibited. On Wednesday Garcetti followed through with his threat and actually authorized the city to disconnect utility service from a home in Hollywood Hills. Southern California is on day 6 of a blistering heatwave, but Garcetti shut off utilities to a home anyway. TRENDING: Goodyear Bans Employees From Wearing ‘All Lives Matter,’ ‘Blue Lives Matter’ or MAGA Slogans, […]
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 […]
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday went full Commie and authorized the city to shut off water and power to HOMES and businesses that are hosting large, unauthorized gatherings. Garcetti previously threatened to cut off water and electricity to businesses that refused to shut down amid the Coronavirus panic. Now he’s targeting people in their own homes! The new level of tyranny will begin Friday night and LAPD will respond, then contact Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to cut it off, reported FOX LA reporter Bill Melugin. TRENDING: “Why the Hell Would I Take a Test?… Are You a […]
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti has warned that residents hosting large home gatherings can expect their water and power utilities to be cut, a sharp escalation of the city’s strict Covid-19 measures amid a series of recent house parties. Starting on Friday, Garcetti said that the city’s Department of Water and Power (DWP) would shut off service to properties where there are “egregious” violations of local health orders, pointing to house parties in the Hollywood Hills and Calabasas in recent weeks, which he said were held in “flagrant” defiance of the law. “While we have already closed all bars and nightclubs, these […]
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 […]
Israel’s new unity government was sworn in on 17 May 2020, following a deal made by political rivals Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, and Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White Party. Under a power sharing agreement, Netanyahu will remain as Prime Minister for 18 months, before Gantz takes over in October 2021. Israel’s coalition chairman, MK Miki Zohar, said that the country’s government is unable to function and is about to fall apart, due to the main coalition parties’ disagreements on a number of issues. In an interview with local radio station Kan, Zohar said that “The […]
Introduction: American so-called democracy is a mess. Some would say a joke. The votes are counted, allegedly, by black-box machines. Only about half the population bothers to vote. Of those naive enough to vote, most are brainwashed by big money into pulling the lever for one of the two totally corrupt major parties. If they accidentally elect someone with principles, like JFK or RFK or Paul Wellstone, we all know how that ends. And then there is the Electoral College. Some complain that it isn’t democratic enough because it gives people in states with lower populations more voting power. Others say […]
The parties, reportedly held and attended by “unsavory” residents, including gang members, are said to have taken place in Florida’s Osceola County. The allegation comes as a majority of US states, including Florida, witness a record resurgence of infections of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The Osceola County sheriff’s office has received over 600 noise complaints over the past months regarding so-called ‘COVID-19 Parties’ that usually take place at vacation rental homes with the aim of spreading the virus among attendees, Sherriff Russ Gibson revealed to local TV news channel Click Orlando, an affiliate of CBS. The sheriff asserted that his offices have […]
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 […]
The Senior Editor COVID 19 is now the most common murder weapon in America, being used to very purposefully kill off older Americans who are burning away the inheritances of their greedy little meth and Oxy sucking family members. Sometimes this backfires: Spouse of friend went to a coronavirus party where young people try to infect each other to get through it and get back to normal life. Of 22 in attendance, 2 are dead and 6 are in the hospital. Friend’s spouse is sick at home. All of them were under 35. — verum obdurat 🌺⏳ (@leucinedreams) March 28, 2020 […]
At barely 4.4 percent of the vote, the Green Party, the smallest in the Swedish parliament, appears to have imposed its will on its senior allies the Social Democrats, effectively quashing the opposition’s push for a more strenuous immigration policy. The talks on Sweden’s future immigration policy, intended to pave the way for broad cross-party agreement, have ended in disarray. The Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson announced that his party is leaving the talks and proceeding with its own proposal. Later, negotiations between the ruling Social Democrats and the Moderates, the largest opposition party, also broke down. “The Social Democrats […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Treaty on Open Skies will see its signatories convene for a meeting on Monday to discuss the decision of the United States to withdraw from an agreement that allowed parties to conduct regular unarmed surveillance flights over each other’s territory as a means of collecting data on military activities. The meeting is expected to take place via video conferencing. The Open Skies Treaty was signed in 1992 and entered into force 10 years later. The agreement has 35 signatories, in which one, Kyrgyzstan, has not yet ratified it. On 21 May, US President Donald Trump announced his […]
Democrat tyrant Gavin Newsom shut down 19 counties in California earlier this week due to a ‘surge in COVID-19 cases.’ Newsom told millions of Californians they aren’t allowed to go to the beach on 4th of July weekend, but he kept his winery, Plumpjack Winery, located in Napa Valley open for business. The Democrat dictator shut down 4th of July weekend but that didn’t stop people in Newport Beach, a conservative beach city in Orange County, CA from enjoying themselves on this Independence Day. People celebrated the 4th of July with beach parties on the Newport peninsula. TRENDING: Two Women Activists […]
Opposing sides in Syria’s conflict have agreed to reconvene in Geneva for talks on the constitution, United Nations special envoy Geir Pedersen said on Tuesday. He added that a lull in fighting could provide an opportunity to start healing “deep, deep mistrust” between them. “As soon as the pandemic situation allows, they have agreed to come to Geneva and they have agreed on an agenda for the next meeting,” he told reporters. The envoy did not give a date and said that a virtual meeting of the constitutional committee would not be possible. Pedersen also repeated a message made to the […]
Opinion 00:55 GMT 16.05.2020Get short URL Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) recently stepped down as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee after he was accused of selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock before the US COVID-19 outbreak, a symptom of inherent corruption in the US political system, Jim Kavanagh, the editor of ThePolemicist.net, told Sputnik Friday. “The problem for Burr is that he made these stock trades himself. [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein (D-CA), [Sen. Kelly] Loeffler (R-GA), a couple of other people who were involved in this, all have the excuse or rationale or reason that their stock trades were made […]
…from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: Who knows if this “agreement in progress” will be any different than the previous agreements, which often had the Saudis bombing the day after and the dying continued. One would think that with the Saudis having had their world turned upside down with the disaster of the oil war sparked at the worst possible time during the coronavirus pandemic, they would want to cut the bleeding on the pointless Yemen war. Crown Prince Salman has been completely out of the news for weeks, almost as if he is in mourning, possibly for himself. He seems […]