Tag: lawfare

Near-final results confirm populist victory in Serbia while the opposition claims fraud

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — An early official vote count of Serbia’s weekend election on Monday confirmed victory for the ruling populist party in a parliamentary vote in the Balkan country, but political tensions rose over reported irregularities in the capital, Belgrade.

Near-final results confirm populist victory in Serbia while the opposition claims fraud

I call BS on the ‘irregularities’!

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CeSID links:

Freedom House, Open Society Fund, United States Institute for Peace, National Endowment for Democracy, Rockfeller Brothers Fund, Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, National Democratic Institute, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (UK Gov), Olof Palme International Center, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, IREX: International Research & Exchanges Board (Ford Foundation, US State Department), European Commission.

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On the strategic relationship between Venezuela and China

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

During a state visit to the People’s Republic of China in September 2023, Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro met president Xi Jinping and both agreed to strengthen the relationship of their countries by establishing seven sub commissions to elevate it to the level of ‘all-weather strategic partnership’. This is the culmination of a relationship that began with president Hugo Chavez’s first visit to Beijing in 1999, the very first year of his presidency.

On the strategic relationship between Venezuela and China

World Court orders Venezuela to refrain from action in border dispute with Guyana + More

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

World Court orders Venezuela to refrain from action in border dispute with Guyana

Friday’s ruling is the latest development in the larger border dispute. The ICJ said in April it had jurisdiction over the case, but a final ruling could be years away.

Interestingly, Judge Joan Donoghue used to work for the US State Department. 🤔

Related:

Essequibo and Other Border Issues: Venezuela’s Territorial Losses to Imperialist Powers Through the Centuries (Part 1)

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GAZA in real time: Geopolitics versus Genocide

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Prefatory Note: A modified version of this interview conducted by Daniel Falcone, with a long introduction was published online in Truthout on October 29, 2023, The situation in Gaza and its increasingly regional implications grow more humanly distressing and politically menacing with each passing day. Israel has succeeded in influencing the Global West and its corporate main media platforms to accept two interpretations of events following the Oct 7 Hamas attack that are at best highly contentious and controversial and, in my understanding, deeply misleading and distorting: (1) that Hamas is nothing other than a group of terrorists engaged in barbaric crimes, and should be addressed in the same manner as ISIS and Al-Qaeda; (2) that it is legitimate in such a conflict to override normal rules of international law, even to the extent of engaging in genocidal means of ethnic cleansing.

GAZA in real time: Geopolitics versus Genocide

Ex-Pakistani PM charged amid US interference scandal

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A special court in Pakistan formally charged former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his then-foreign minister on Monday with breaching state secrecy laws. The charges stem from their alleged conspiracy to reveal what Khan characterized as US interference in orchestrating his removal by political opponents last year.

Ex-Pakistani PM charged amid US interference scandal

Did The Intercept mess things up, again?!