Zhang Yiming, chief executive officer and founder of ByteDance Ltd., poses for a photograph in Beijing, China in 2019. Bloomberg/Gilles Sabrie/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg/Gilles Sabrie/Bloomberg via Getty Images Zhang Yiming, chief executive officer and founder of ByteDance Ltd., poses for a photograph in Beijing, China […]
Party
83 posts
Ren Zhiqiang seen at a business conference in Beijing in 2008. Ren was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday for corruption, following his public criticism of Chinese president Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images Ren Zhiqiang […]
Democrats Campaigning To Keep Green Party Off The Ballot By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. September 16, 2020 Democrats Campaigning To Keep Green Party Off The Ballot2020-09-162020-09-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/hawkins-e1600274569141.jpg200px200px Above photo: Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins reads a newspaper in a holding room before a television interview. Mike Groll | AP. Voter shaming did […]
Time For Unions To Give The Democratic Party An Ultimatum By Hamilton Nolan, In These Times. September 15, 2020 Time For Unions To Give The Democratic Party An Ultimatum2020-09-152020-09-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/bidenunion-e1600173351445.jpg200px200px Above photo: Frederic J. Brown/ AFP via Getty Images. Money spent on organizing is always well spent. You can’t say the […]
A crowd estimated to be thousands strong gathered outside the infamous ‘Jersey Shore’ house, following the arrival of YouTube stars the Nelk Boys. Police had to call for reinforcements from nearby towns to control the masses. Outdoor gatherings in New Jersey cannot exceed 500 people under current coronavirus rules, and […]
In light of the unfurling Epstein scandal, which has cost the Duke of York his reputation among other top figures, a royal biographer believes Andrew’s loss of his HRH title is only a matter of time. Prince Andrew will be effectively excluded from his father Prince Philip’s 100th birthday next […]
Barely two weeks ago, a Quran burning by the same party unleashed massive riots, and Hard Line pledged to continue their demonstrations, which they see as a celebration of free speech. Another copy of the Quran has been burned in Sweden by representatives of the Danish party Hard Line, which […]
The college town of Pullman, Washington, is in the midst of a COVID-19 crisis. It has one of the highest per capita infection rates in the country; the National Guard was called in to help with testing; and Washington State University asked students to stay on campus last weekend to […]
A movement calling to “defund the police” seeks to reduce the amount of financing for law enforcement and for the dismantling of police departments amid nationwide protests against racism and police brutality, sparked by the death of George Floyd in the United States. The Michigan Republican Party said its headquarters […]
Leading Euroskeptic Nigel Farage has issued a stern warning to the UK’s ruling Conservative Party, vowing to cause electoral havoc for it once again if it caves to the European Union in Brexit negotiations. Farage, one of the chief architects of Brexit, made a grim forecast about the UK’s performance […]
On 19 August, the Indian cabinet gave its approval to a proposal to lease out the Jaipur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram airports, currently run by the government agency Airports Authority of India (AAI) to the private sector. In February of this year, India’s Adani Group took over three AAI airports at […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009011080333665-ex-japanese-foreign-minister-fumio-kishida-plans-to-run-for-ruling-party-leadership/ TOKYO (Sputnik) – Former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday announced his intention to contest the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. “I would like to propose my candidature for the election of the party chair. I would like to do […]
Fed up with decades of two-party rule, hundreds of thousands of Americans tuned in for the People’s Convention, where they voted to form a new political alternative unbeholden to corporate power or the military-industrial complex. The event drew more than 400,000 viewers to its livestream on Sunday, organizers said. It […]
One of the loudest and most aggressive conservative advocacy groups of the past decade is asking Americans to calm down and stop talking about politics, if only for a day. FreedomWorks, the libertarian outfit that rose to prominence through its hard-line opposition to Barack Obama, the Affordable Care Act, and […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s main opposition party Congress is grappling with an internal crisis in view of rising demand for a complete overhaul of leadership and to revive and restructure the group. The party’s last full-time chief Rahul Gandhi resigned following the organisation’s debacle in the 2019 parliamentary elections. In […]
EU Commissioner Phil Hogan is the latest political casualty of the ‘Golfgate’ scandal in which a host of Irish politicians partied at a golf club dinner, hours after introducing strict lockdown measures for the public. Hogan, a member of Ireland’s Fine Gael party, announced his resignation on Wednesday. One day […]
President Trump delivered lengthy remarks to delegates gathered in Charlotte, N.C., on the first day of the Republican National Convention. Jessica Koscielniak/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jessica Koscielniak/Pool/Getty Images President Trump delivered lengthy remarks to delegates gathered in Charlotte, N.C., on the first day of the Republican National Convention. […]
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 […]
Donald Trump Jr. showed his love for his father and for this country. He spoke at the first night of the RNC and encouraged Americans to vote for his father. Donald Trump Jr., the son of the President of the United States, gave an impressive speech this evening at the […]
The Democratic National Convention recently concluded, which saw the party officially select former Vice President Joe Biden as their candidate to face off against Donald Trump in the November presidential election. Rapper Ice Cube blasted the US Democratic Party on Saturday, following their national convention, for supporting the “the same old” […]
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 […]
Actress and #MeToo pioneer Rose McGowan has continued an all-out assault on the Democratic Party, sparring with liberal celebrities over 2020 presidential pick Joe Biden and the Dems’ progressive bonafides. McGowan launched a fresh offensive on Friday night, picking up from a rapid-fire tweet session the day prior – in […]
KOKTEBEL (Sputnik) – Koktebel Jazz Party founder Dmitry Kiselev suggested on Friday reviving certain traditions as part of the festival, including those involving nudists. “Koktebel implies a certain free spirit. You know that Maximilian Voloshin is considered to be the grandfather of Russian nudism: he believed that clothing makes a […]
Thursday night’s Democratic National Convention ended with Joe Biden accepting his party’s nomination with what may be the best speech of his presidential run: an electric call to action, profound acknowledgement of our nation’s grief, and as close to a “mad as hell” moment as we’ve seen from him as […]