Tag: Election meddling

Categories Russia

Comrades in arms? West is cheering on Russia’s Communists, but heirs of Bolsheviks even more skeptical of US, EU & NATO than Putin

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With voting having closed in Russia’s parliamentary elections, it appears that Russia’s ruling party may have lost a sizable share of its votes compared to 2016, potentially ending up with fewer than half of all ballots cast. … Read More >Comrades in arms? West is cheering on Russia’s Communists, but heirs of Bolsheviks even more skeptical of US, EU & NATO than Putin

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More than 20 foreign NGOs tried to interfere in Russia’s elections & should now be banned from country, top Moscow lawmakers claim

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Nearly two dozen overseas organizations operating in Russia attempted to influence the results of the country’s parliamentary elections held over the weekend, a leading lawmaker has claimed, promising to take action against them. … Read More >More than 20 foreign NGOs tried to interfere in Russia’s elections & should now be banned from country, top Moscow lawmakers claim

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Apple & Google delete Navalny’s ‘Smart Voting’ app after top Russian officials accuse US tech giants of ‘election interference’

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An online tactical voting initiative backed by jailed campaigner Alexey Navalny has been removed from app stores on the eve of Russia’s parliamentary elections, after Moscow hit out at tech firms it says were circumventing a ban. … Read More >Apple & Google delete Navalny’s ‘Smart Voting’ app after top Russian officials accuse US tech giants of ‘election interference’

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Moscow summons US ambassador over ‘meddling’ in Russian elections, accuses Americans of being ‘detached from reality’ in reaction

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Moscow has “irrefutable evidence” of American tech giants breaking Russian law, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, on Friday, as it summoned the US Ambassador, John Sullivan, to tell him it won’t tolerate election interference. … Read More >Moscow summons US ambassador over ‘meddling’ in Russian elections, accuses Americans of being ‘detached from reality’ in reaction

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Moscow’s meddling bad, Western interference good: Ahead of next month’s Russian elections, the hypocrisy is on full view again

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In recent years, the media has become obsessed with purported Russian interference in US elections. While the claims turned out to be entirely unsubstantiated, the West itself openly engages in efforts to influence votes abroad. … Read More >Moscow’s meddling bad, Western interference good: Ahead of next month’s Russian elections, the hypocrisy is on full view again

Categories Op-ed

Biden’s readiness to scream ‘Russian interference!’ while staying silent on Big Tech’s meddling is astounding cognitive dissonance

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As the 2022 midterm election season approaches, Joe Biden and the Democrat Party are already repeating their 2016 claims of “Russian interference,” which they falsely spewed throughout the entire first term of Donald Trump. … Read More >Biden’s readiness to scream ‘Russian interference!’ while staying silent on Big Tech’s meddling is astounding cognitive dissonance

Categories Journalism & Mass media

How the US gov’t cultivated environmental and Indigenous groups to defeat Ecuador’s leftist Correísta movement

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When socialist Rafael Correa became Ecuador’s president, CIA cutouts poured money into environmental and Indigenous groups, while the US embassy cultivated opportunistic leaders to undermine his constituency. … Read More >How the US gov’t cultivated environmental and Indigenous groups to defeat Ecuador’s leftist Correísta movement

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US intelligence thinks you’re stupid: ODNI report blames Russia, ignores Colombian election interference

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Russiagate is back! That’s right. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) says Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei meddled in the 2020 U.S. election. But not only they: Lebanese Hezbollah, Cuba and Venezuela did it too. … Read More >US intelligence thinks you’re stupid: ODNI report blames Russia, ignores Colombian election interference

Categories Latin America

US, OAS, Colombia try to steal Ecuador’s election from popular socialist candidate, while spreading fake news

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The US State Department is pushing a politicized vote recount, overseen by the coup-sponsoring OAS, after socialist Andrés Arauz won Ecuador’s election in a landslide. Meanwhile Colombia’s ex-president warns his country’s “radical right” is “interfering” with “slander” and a “dirty game.” … Read More >US, OAS, Colombia try to steal Ecuador’s election from popular socialist candidate, while spreading fake news