Another Front in Saudi War: Kingdom Deports Yemeni Workers to Face Starvation at "Home"
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-18
Eight out of the 10 Yemenis expelled from Saudi Arabia who were interviewed for this story told MintPress that they were beaten, deprived of food, had their personal property stolen, or faced sexual and physical abuse. | The post Another Front in Saudi War: Kingdom Deports Yemeni Workers to Face Starvation at "Home" appeared first on MintPress News.
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Is MBS Saudi Arabia's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Of Disaster?
Salman Rafi Sheikh | iranian.com | 2018-10-18
Notwithstanding his self-projection as a moderate Saudi, Muhammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, has already established a personal long list of failures within only one and a half year of his rise to power. Starting from his adventures in Yemen, where Saudi has been blamed, rather held responsible, many times by the […] | The post Is MBS Saudi Arabia's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Of Disaster? appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/18/saudi-arabias-self-fulfilling-prophecy-of-disaster/
Statistics: 1300 Days of Saudi Crimes in Yemen
Yemenpress | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-18
Over 1300 days of Saudi-led aggression against Yemen, the number of victims has changed exponentially, while the International Community and the UN silent towards what's happening! | A human-made disaster, killing and starvation, airstrikes, lack of food and medicine, blockade with … | The post Statistics: 1300 Days of Saudi Crimes in Yemen appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/statistics-1300-days-of-saudi-crimes-in-yemen/5657346
Congo in the Abyss
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-10-17
The aggression of Western governments has inflicted multiple holocausts on the Congolese people, Congolese historian Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko tells Ann Garrison. By Ann Garrison Black Agenda Report This week I spoke to Swiss Congolese historian and activist Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko about… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/10/17/congo-in-the-abyss/
New report from SPLC, Alabama Appleseed finds Alabama's marijuana laws costly, dangerous and disproportionately harmful to African Americans
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-10-17
Marijuana prohibition costs the state and its municipalities an estimated $22 million a year, creates a dangerous backlog at the agency that tests forensic evidence in violent crimes, and needlessly ensnares thousands of people — disproportionately African Americans — in the criminal justice system, according to a report released today by Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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The Comoros Crisis Pits China Against France Off the Coast of East Africa
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-17
Two of Africa's most influential extra-regional Great Powers are competing for influence in this East African archipelago, and the resolution of its current crisis will determine which of them comes out on top. | The Comoros is probably one of the … | The post The Comoros Crisis Pits China Against France Off the Coast of East Africa appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/the-comoros-crisis-pits-china-against-france-off-the-coast-of-east-africa/5657204
Is China Winning the War for Africa?
Cesar Chelala | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-17
While traveling in Africa in the 1980 and 1990s, I was surprised to see Chinese crews building roads, schools, and houses. Although at the time this meant little to me, I later realized it was part of a policy of Chinese insertion into the African countries' economies. Historically, the African continent has been plundered by…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/17/is-china-winning-the-war-for-africa-2/
Investigation: As U.S.-Backed War in Yemen Raged, UAE Hired U.S. Mercenaries to Kill Yemeni Leaders
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-17
A shocking new investigation has revealed that the United Arab Emirates hired U.S. mercenaries to carry out assassinations of political and clerical leaders in Yemen. The former elite U.S. special operations fighters were paid to take part in missions to kill those deemed to be "terrorists" by the UAE. The UAE worked with the U.S. company Spear Operations Group, founded by an Israeli-American man named Abraham Golan, who told BuzzFeed, "There was a targeted assassination program in Yemen. I was running it." The group's first target in Yemen was a local leader of al-Islah, a political party whose members include N…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/17/investigation_as_us_backed_war_in
It's Crunch Time for Activism Against US Involvement in Yemen
Chris Gelardi | thenation.com | 2018-10-17
It's Crunch Time for Activism Against US Involvement in Yemen…
thenation.com/article/its-crunch-time-for-activism-against-us-involvement-in-yemen/
Amid furor over Khashoggi murder, UN warns millions more face starvation in Yemen
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-17
While leading Democrats and Republicans have called for sanctions over the Saudi journalist's killing, Washington has maintained a discreet silence over the US-backed mass murder in Yemen.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/17/yeme-o17.html
What You Can Do About the Saudi Atrocities in Yemen
Muhammad Othman | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-17
Since the war criminality embedded in U.S. complicity in Yemen is no less than what was represented at the Nuremberg Trials, it is incumbent upon us to take action. U.S. citizens — no matter what their politics are — must do something about the horror we're inflicting upon the innocent citizens of Yemen. After all,…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/17/what-you-can-do-about-the-saudi-atrocities-in-yemen/
Desmond Meade Hopes to Win Voting Rights for 1.4M Floridians with Felony Convictions–Including Himself
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-16
Voters in Florida are preparing to vote on a measure that would restore voting rights to 1.4 million people with nonviolent felonies who have fully completed their sentences. One in five African Americans in Florida and 10 percent of the state's adult population are ineligible to vote because of a criminal record. Across the United States, more than 6.1 million people with felony convictions are not eligible to vote. Florida is one of just four states that bar ex-felons from voting for life. The other states are Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia. The Brennan Center for Justice reports that Florida disenfranchises…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/16/meet_desmond_meade_a_former_felon
WATCH NOW: Bishop TD Jakes Sends a Special Message to Voters
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2018-10-16
NAACP and Bishop TD Jakes agree on one thing: African Americans need to VOTE! Our lives depend on it. Watch his special message.
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Stacey Abrams Runs to Become Georgia's First Black Governor as Her Opponent Suppresses the Vote
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-16
With the midterm elections just three weeks away, voting rights advocates are accusing Republican officials in several states of orchestrating a campaign of voter suppression targeting people of color. In Georgia, the Democratic candidate for governor, Stacey Abrams, is calling on her Republican opponent, Brian Kemp, to step down as secretary of state for placing 53,000 voter applications on hold. Seventy percent of the applicants are African-American. Abrams has accused Kemp of using the state's "exact match" system to disenfranchise voters. With exact match, even a minor discrepancy in a voter's registration an…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/16/is_georgias_brian_kemp_disenfranchising_53
Chicago Finally Releases Video of Police Officer Shooting Unarmed and Disabled Ricky Hayes
Jamie Kalven | theintercept.com | 2018-10-16
Chicago's police accountability office released a video of the August 2017 shooting of Ricky Hayes, a mentally disabled African-American teenager. | The post Chicago Finally Releases Video of Police Officer Shooting Unarmed and Disabled Ricky Hayes appeared first on The Intercept.
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Top wildlife official resigns after posing on hunt with dead baboons & giraffe (PHOTOS)
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-16
An intense backlash has prompted the resignation of Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer after he was pictured posing with a family of dead baboons and a dead giraffe while on an African hunting trip.
rt.com/usa/441415-idaho-commissioner-resignation-baboons/
Trump Won in 2016 Thanks to Voter Suppression Says Carol Anderson, Author of "One Person, No Vote"
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-16
Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election due to voter suppression. That's what professor Carol Anderson argues in her new book "One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy," which tracks the rise of restrictive voting laws across the United States. In it, Anderson examines how African-American voter participation has been systematically compromised since a 2013 Supreme Court decision that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By the 2016 election, turnout among black voters nationwide dropped from 66 percent to under 60 percent. The discrepancy was even larger in key areas like Milw…
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Wildlife official who killed 'whole family of baboons' faces backlash, calls for resignation
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-14
An Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner who shared graphic images of animals he killed in Africa, including a "family of baboons," is facing calls to resign.
rt.com/usa/441234-fischer-hunter-baboons-idaho/
Rep. Ro Khanna Condemns Saudi Barbarity from Disappearance of Saudi Journalist to War in Yemen
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-12
President Donald Trump is rejecting calls to cut off arms sales to Saudi Arabia following the disappearance and probable murder of the Saudi-born Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Washington Post is reporting the Turkish government told U.S. officials it has audio and video evidence that Khashoggi was killed last week inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Officials say the recordings confirm that a Saudi security team detained Khashoggi after he walked into the consulate on October 2, before killing him and dismembering his body. We speak with Ro Khanna, Democratic congressmember from California.
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/12/rep_ro_khanna_condemns_saudi_barbarity
Decades After Taking Henrietta Lacks's Cells Without Consent, Johns Hopkins Names Building After Her
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-12
Johns Hopkins University has announced plans to name a new research building after Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman who permanently changed modern medicine nearly 70 years ago when it was discovered that her cells could live forever. These "immortal cells" have helped scientists produce remedies for numerous diseases, including the first polio vaccine, that have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But Lacks's cells were taken without her consent when she was a patient at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in 1951. For decades, the woman whose cells would transform modern medicine was unknown. Instead,…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/12/decades_after_taking_henrietta_lackss_cells
"Voting needs to become ubiquitous to the Black community as quickly as possible," says NAACP President
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2018-10-10
NAACP President and CEO, Derrick Johnson, penned an opinion piece for Essence magazine, a leading magazine publication for African-American women. In it, he emphasizes the need to mobilize the Black vote for the 2018 midterm elections, the organization's plan to support this effort, and the Black individual's role in relational organizing: "Voting needs to become […] | The post "Voting needs to become ubiquitous to the Black community as quickly as possible," says NAACP Pre…
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Eve Ensler: Nobel Peace Prize for Mukwege & Murad Is an Award for Every Rape Survivor in the World
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-05
After a landmark year for the "Me Too" movement, which ignited an international conversation on sexual assault, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday morning to two champions of women's rights who have built their careers fighting sexual violence: physician Denis Mukwege and human rights activist Nadia Murad. Dr. Denis Mukwege founded the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1999. The clinic receives thousands of women each year, many of them requiring surgery as a result of sexual violence. Nadia Murad is a 25-year-old Yazidi Kurdish human rights activist from Iraq. She was kidnapped and held…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/5/eve_ensler_nobel_peace_prize_for