(2018-09-17). Inaugural Pan African Global Trade and Investment Week. indybay.org Expanding California Pan African Trade in a global marketplace requires a new paradigm that honors our collective past.
(2018-09-17). STEP 3:The SFCC HR Hearing Of SEIU1021 Potrero Hill Health Center Steward Cheryl Thornton. indybay.org SEIU 1021 SF Potrero Hill Health Center steward Cheryl Thornton is a whistleblower and has been fighting to defend the clinic against racism and gentrification. The city is planning to close the community clinics down in their privatization drive. She talks about the frame-up against her and also others discuss the racist attack on African American workers and ethnic cleansing in San Francisco.
(2018-09-16). Trump Is Giving Protectionism a Bad Name. truthout.org While it might not seem like it now, President Donald Trump is a gift to free market—oriented economists and policymakers. His clumsy approach to protectionism has ignited a trade war that inevitably will harm the US economy. When the pendulum inexorably swings the other way after the Trump fiasco, free-trade ideology will return with a vengeance. This is a potential tragedy for left-leaning policy analysts who have long been concerned about the excesses of neoliberalism and argued for a more measured use of tariffs to foster local economic development. As such, it is critical that we distinguish between Trump's right-wing nationalist embrace of tariffs and the more nuanced use of this tool to support infant industries. | As a development geographer and an Africanist scholar, I have long been critical of unfettered free trade because of its deleterious economic impacts on African countries.
(2018-09-14). Fascism and Islamic Fundamentalism. counterpunch.org The rise of Fascism and Totalitarianism Just over 100 years ago, Britain, France, Germany and Russia ruled half of the world — most of Europe, all of Africa, South Asia, most of Southeast Asia, and most of the Pacific region. They dominated China and were of course influential everywhere else. During the past century, including the More
(2018-09-14). African-American gubernatorial nominees emphasize authenticity. peoplesworld.org 
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(2018-09-14). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
(2018-09-13). Why We Should Be Protesting the National Anthem. theintercept.com 
Francis Scott Key observes the bombardment and the U.S. flag over Fort McHenry. | he compared Africans to apes. He had sex with an enslaved woman and kept her children in bondage. | This is not just me looking back 242 years and imposing my present-day worldview onto a different era — the hypocrisy was seen and known in real-time. | "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?" English writer Samuel Johnson wrote in 1775. A year later, English abolitionist Thomas Day wrote, "If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature it is an American patriot signing resolutions of independency with the one hand and with the other brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves."We are expected to judge this nation's early leaders on their words and not their…
(2018-09-10). CIA builds new drone base in Niger, lethal Libya mission may have been launched from it — report. rt.com 
Since February, the CIA have been developing a drone base in a tiny Niger town in the middle of the Sahara desert — which may have already been used to fly a lethal mission in southern Libya, the New York Times reports.
(2018-08-17). In DeVos's Home State, Students Push for their Right to Literacy. progressive.org Literacy has been, and continues to be, a critical component of African-American liberation.