All is riding on the nomination process at this point. The elections team at Telford told the candidates at their election presentation that they could file all hundred signatories as being from West Mercia, which we did on my form. Yet today I was told by an official viewing my list of signatories in a […]
Posts Tagged ‘stifling’
Stop Stifling Democracy! Enter Into Dialogue With Youth To Secure India’s Future
A group of prominent people, including artists, environmental and social activists, parents, teachers, professionals, adivasis, dalits and farmers, today spoke out against the illegal and disproportionate response of the government in targeting young activists, including Disha Ravi, and the government’s intent to criminalise dissent. At a press conference organised today, Kavita Srivastava, Nagraj Adve, Ram […]
Virus hunters delve into stifling Gabon forest to search for next threat
ZADIE CAVES, Gabon (AFP) — The scene looks like something out of a science fiction movie, or maybe some dystopian TV series. Six men in yellow biohazard suits clamber in suffocating heat towards a cave in the heart of the Gabonese jungle. Their quest: to unlock new knowledge on how pathogens like the coronavirus leap […]
How Russia-Gate Transformed from Taking down Trump to Stifling Dissent
Opinion — At the end of October, I wrote an article for Consortiumnews about the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign paying for unvetted opposition research that became the basis for much of the disputed story about Russia allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin. And the second was CrowdStrike, an anti-Putin […]
No compromise: Lavrov says Russia won’t discuss ‘return’ of Crimea with anyone
The West and Ukraine better just get over it already that Crimea was, is, and will be Russian Russia is in talks with no one on Crimea’s returning back to Ukraine as Crimea is a Russian territory, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “There is nothing to return, we are in talks with no […]
No compromise: Lavrov says Russia won’t discuss ‘return’ of Crimea with anyone
The West and Ukraine better just get over it already that Crimea was, is, and will be Russian Russia is in talks with no one on Crimea’s returning back to Ukraine as Crimea is a Russian territory, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “There is nothing to return, we are in talks with no […]