(2023-10-01). Dying For Inches In Ukraine. popularresistance.org A heartbreaking graphic is going around right now showing the almost microscopic changes that have occurred to the frontline of the war in Ukraine this year despite nonstop death and destruction of unfathomable horror the entire time. | The graphic comes from a New York Times article titled "Who's Gaining Ground in Ukraine? This Year, No One," which eventually gets around to acknowledging that Russia has actually gained more ground than Ukraine in 2023 despite Kiev's much-hyped counteroffensive, which began in June. | "When both sides' gains are added up, Russia now controls nearly 200 square miles more territory…
(2023-10-01). Paradoxes Of Democracy In Ukraine. popularresistance.org On September 10, elections to regional and municipal assemblies were held across the Russian Federation. For the first time, they were held under Russian law in the two Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk which formally became part of the Russian Federation in February 2022. Elections also took place in the two 'new territories', as they are called in Russia, of the Russian-controlled parts of Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions (that is, the areas of those two regions lying south and east of the Dnieper River). The governing regime in Ukraine as well as the Western countries allied with it condemned and refuse…
(2023-10-01). Canada, Ukraine, And Nazis. popularresistance.org There is something especially satisfying when one's opponents help make a case for something they have denied. Recently the Canadian government did just that. Their effort to prop up the failing Ukraine proxy war instead exposed that country's Nazi past and present. | Ukraine has been a divided nation ever since its founding as a state after World War I. Its population is divided by language with Ukrainian and Russian speakers, with some favoring its status as a Soviet republic while others were vehemently opposed. So strong was that faction that there were many Ukrainians who actively collaborated with German oc…
(2023-10-01). A Global Call For Peace In Ukraine Emerges At UN General Assembly. popularresistance.org As it did last year, the 2023 United Nations General Assembly has been debating what role the United Nations and its members should play in the crisis in Ukraine. The United States and its allies still insist that the UN Charter requires countries to take Ukraine's side in the conflict, "for as long as it takes" to restore Ukraine's pre-2014 internationally recognized borders. | They claim to be enforcing Article 2: 4 of the UN Charter that states "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or…
(2023-10-01). Russia and Venezuela Sign Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Agreement. orinocotribune.com 
The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, and the president of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, Vyacheslav Volodin, signed an agreement aimed at the strengthening of inter-parliamentary ties. | Rodríguez and Volodin highlighted the cooperation that has existed between Venezuela and Russia since the triumph of the Bolivarian Revolution in different areas especially in the defense of sovereignty. | Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez (left) and Russian State Duma President Vyacheslav Volodin (right) shake hands after the signing of the inter-parliament…
(2023-10-01). Youth Challenge 32 European Nations In 'Truly Historic' Climate Trial. popularresistance.org After Portugal experienced massive wildfires and extreme heat waves this summer, six children and youth from the nation appeared in the European Court of Human Rights Wednesday for a landmark lawsuit against 32 European nations charged with violating their human rights due to the impacts of climate change. | At the hearing in Strasbourg, France, lawyers representing six Portuguese young people said the youth were being discriminated against by state inaction in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of which have been "foreseeable for decades." | Inadequate action to curb global emissions, the lawyers argu…