2019-09-09: Social Media Postees

Robert Mugabe's Legacy: Revolution, Amity and Decline
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-09
Robert Mugabe is the sort of figure that always caused discomfort. He was a permanent revolutionary, becoming, in time, the despotic ruler who frittered away revolutionary gain. He played multiple roles in international political consciousness. As Zimbabwe's strongman, he was demonised and lionised in equal measure for a good deal of his time in power.
counterpunch.org/2019/09/09/robert-mugabes-legacy-revolution-amity-and-decline/

Robert Mugabe's Legacy: Revolution, Amity and Decline
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-09
Robert Mugabe is the sort of figure that always caused discomfort. He was a permanent revolutionary, becoming, in time, the despotic ruler who frittered away revolutionary gain. He played multiple roles in international political consciousness. As Zimbabwe's strongman, he was demonised and lionised in equal measure for a good deal of his time in power.
counterpunch.org/2019/09/09/robert-mugabes-legacy-revolution-amity-and-decline/

Chagos Islanders use papal visit to Mauritius to highlight desire to return home
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-09
Exiled Chagos Islanders have used Pope Francis's visit to Mauritius to draw attention to their campaign to return home.Earlier this year, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to demand that the UK, which held onto Chagos after granting Mauritius independence in 1968, ends its "colonial administration" and return Chagos to Mauritius.Britain has refused to do so, saying its presence on the archipelago is strategically important.Britain evicted a…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/09/09/chagos-islanders-use-papal-visit-to-mauritius-to-highlight-desire-to-return-home/

The Corporeal Wreckage of War
Nick Turse | thenation.com | 2019-09-09
The Corporeal Wreckage of War…
thenation.com/article/libya-afghanistan-body-war/

Hong Kong protesters: Turn to the Chinese working class, not US imperialism
wsws.org | 2019-09-09
Any turn to the United States plays directly into the hands of Beijing, which seeks to malign the Hong Kong protests as the work of radical agitators and the "black hand" of Washington.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/09/pers-s09.html

California Admission Day – Impact on California Pan Africans Today
Rockwell D. Hunt Ph.D | indybay.org | 2019-09-09
October 1849 the California State Consritution stipulated "white men only" as citizens throughout the land. The 9 month journey to September 9, 1850 began a salient transformation still impacting California Pan Africans today.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/09/18826111.php

Papua New Guinea New Leader James Marape's Ambitious Vision: Make His Country "The Richest Black Christian Nation on Earth"?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-08
The new Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (PNG) recently elaborated on his vision to make his country "the richest black Christian nation on earth" through a combination of fairer resource deals with transnational corporations and a renewed focus on …
globalresearch.ca/papua-new-guinea-new-leader-james-marapes-ambitious-vision-make-his-country-the-richest-black-christian-nation-on-earth/5688406

Sudanese Tribes Sign Peace Deal After Clashes
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-08
Representatives of the Beni Amer and Nuba tribes in Sudan's Red Sea state signed a reconciliation deal Sunday under pressure from the country's most prominent military commander after clashes that triggered a state of emergency and left at least 16 dead last month. | RELATED: | Sudan Selects First Civilian Government in Decades | Sudan is embarking on a three-year transition after the overthrow of former president Omar al-Bashir in April and faces challenges including simmering…
telesurenglish.net/news/Sudanese-Tribes-Sign-Peace-Deal-After-Clashes-20190908-0006.html

Italy's 'Closed Ports Policy' Stays, Minister Luciana Lamorgese
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-07
Italy's Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese confirmed Friday that the "Ports Closed" policy remains in force, although the far-right politician Matteo Salvini is no longer part of the new ruling coalition. | RELATED: | Italy: Pro-Migrant Mayor Lucano Allowed to Return to His City | This comes as the rescue vessel 'Alan Kurdi', which is currently waiting off Malta with Tunisian migrants rescued at the Mediterranean sea, has not been authorized to enter Italian ports. | "We asked…
telesurenglish.net/news/Italy-Closed-Ports-Policy-Stays-Minister-Luciana-Lamorgese-20190907-0006.html

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longtime president, dies at 95
wsws.org | 2019-09-07
Mugabe was the last surviving leader of Africa's anticolonial struggles who subsequently came to power in a newly independent nation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/07/muga-s07.html

Robert Mugabe's Legacy: Revolution, Amity and Decline
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-07
Robert Mugabe is the sort of figure that always caused discomfort. He was a permanent revolutionary, becoming, in time, the despotic ruler who frittered away revolutionary gain. He played multiple roles in international political consciousness. As Zimbabwe's strongman, he was | …
globalresearch.ca/robert-mugabes-legacy-revolution-amity-and-decline/5688388

Robert Mugabe's Legacy: Revolution, Amity and Decline
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-07
Robert Mugabe is the sort of figure that always caused discomfort. He was a permanent revolutionary, becoming, in time, the despotic ruler who frittered away revolutionary gain. He played multiple roles in international political consciousness. As Zimbabwe's strongman, he was demonised and lionised in equal measure for a good deal of his time in power. …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/robert-mugabes-legacy-revolution-amity-and-decline/

Hong Kong Strongly Condemns Vandalistic Acts of Protesters
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-07
Hong Kong's government has strongly condemned the vandalistic acts of radical western-backed protesters, as more actions to affect the city's infrastructure and normalization of activities continue. | RELATED: | Hong Kong Chief Lays Out Plan To End Protests | Saturday's planned airport disruption was thwarted by police who were ready, with authorities searching public transport heading for the airport ahead of what was planned to be a "stress test" of road and rail links to one of the world's b…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hong-Kong-Strongly-Condemns-Vandalistic-Acts-of-Protesters-20190907-0008.html

Russia, Ukraine Swap Prisoners In First Step To Settle Conflict
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-07
Russia and Ukraine swapped 35 prisoners on each side Saturday in a lengthy and carefully-negotiated rapprochement that is considered a "first step" to mend the relations between Kiev and Moscow, although full normalization is still a long way ahead. | RELATED: | Ukraine's President Zelenskiy Leads Exit Poll on Snap Elections | Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova hailed the prisoner exchange as "a historical mass-scale humanitarian action," confirming the sw…
telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Ukraine-Swap-Prisoners-In-First-Step-To-Settle-Conflict-20190907-0007.html

Pope denounces exploitation of Madagascar's unique resources
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-07
Pope Francis has denounced the illegal logging and exploitation of Madagascar's unique natural resources as he opened a visit to the Indian Ocean nation. | He pleaded for the government to fight the corruption that is ravaging the island's environment and keeping its people in "inhumane poverty". | Francis urged President Andry Rajoelina to provide Madagascar's people with jobs and alternative sources of income so they are not forced to cut down trees to find fertile soil and engage in contraband and illegal exportation of the island's diverse flora, fauna and mineral resources. | Madagascar is home to 5% of the…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/09/07/pope-denounces-exploitation-of-madagascars-unique-resources/

Obituary: African-American novelist Toni Morrison dead at 88
wsws.org | 2019-09-07
Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison wrote several significant novels, but as a public figure turned to the selfish racialist politics of the upper middle class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/07/morr-s07.html

Mexican Soldiers Clash with Haitian, African Migrants at Border
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-06
Dozens of Haitian and African migrants clashed with Mexican security forces on Thursday outside the Siglo XXI migration post in Tapachula in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, close to the Guatemalan border, demanding to be given visas to continue on their journey north. | RELATED: | African, Haitian Migrants Protest in Mexico's Southern Border | The migrants continued Friday for the sixth day in a row the demonstrations they have been holding for a week. No people were reporte…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexican-Soldiers-Clash-with-Haitian-African-Migrants-at-Border-20190906-0012.html

When Remembering Robert Mugabe's Corrupt Legacy, Blame Britain
James North | thenation.com | 2019-09-06
When Remembering Robert Mugabe's Corrupt Legacy, Blame Britain…
thenation.com/article/mugabe-zimbabwe-britain/

Looking Back to Move Forward: The First Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algeria, 1969
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-06
Fifty years ago this year from July 21-31, 1969 in the capital of Algeria, thousands of people gathered for a groundbreaking Pan-African Cultural Festival (PACF). | Official delegations were sent to the manifestation from over 30 independent and contested nations on …
globalresearch.ca/first-pan-african-cultural-festival-algeria-1969/5688025

Gaddafi vs the West: Two Revolutions on the Wrong Side of History
Garikai Chengu | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-06
Sunday marked half a century since Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan revolution, which led to the overthrow of the American-backed King Idris. | In Libya's 1969 revolution, Muammar Gaddafi inherited one of the poorest nations in Africa; however, by the time …
globalresearch.ca/gaddafi-west-two-revolutions/5688253

The art of 'The Heal,' Sophocles's 'Philoctetes' in a Malibu amphitheater
Ed Rampell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-06
MALIBU–Making my odyssey up the Pacific Coast to the Getty Villa in Malibu to experience a Greek play under the stars in the Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater is a yearly highlight. Not unlike attending the Festival of Dionysus, with its theatrical competitions, in 5th-century BCE Athens, except nowadays our chariots are motorized. Indeed, in …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-art-of-the-heal-sophocless-philoctetes-in-a-malibu-amphitheater/

Serena Poised for Multiple Record-Breakers at US Open Final
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-06
Tantalizingly close to tying Margaret Court's record 24 Grand Slam titles, Williams is already tennis' undisputed GOAT (Greatest of All Time) in the eyes of her legions of adoring fans, with an ever-growing, odds-defying career and trophy case. | RELATED: | #UyineneMrwetyana: South Africans Storm Twitter Against University Student's Rape, Murder | Of course, winning at the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday would also mean breaking Chris Evert's record of 10…
telesurenglish.net/news/Serena-Poised-for-Multiple-Record-Breakers-at-US-Open-Final-20190906-0011.html

Soccer Becomes a Casualty of South Africa's Violence
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2019-09-06
Soccer Becomes a Casualty of South Africa's Violence…
thenation.com/article/south-africa-soccer/

Dossier 20: When you ill-treat the African people, i see you
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2019-09-06
The Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union (ICU)–a trade union, rural peasant movement, and urban squatters' movement–formed on the docks in Cape Town in 1919. Within a decade, the ICU had expanded across Southern Africa without regard for national borders and counted people from various African countries and the Caribbean in its leadership, as well as […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/06/dossier-20-when-you-ill-treat-the-african-people-i-see-you/

Friday's Daily Brief: Desertification summit, Dorian death toll rising, UN project eases Mali tensions, Yemen funding crisis, hope for Cameroon
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-06
A recap of Friday's main stories: Desertification solutions can ease other world woes; Dorian death toll expected to rise; UN moves to ease communal tensions in Mali; Yemen funding crisis threatens reproductive health nationwide; special report on countering terror in Cameroon.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1045812

Robert Mugabe, Ousted Zimbabwean President & Liberation Leader, Dies at 95
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-06
Zimbabwe's first post-independence leader, Robert Mugabe, has died at the age of 95. In 1963, he helped found the Zimbabwe African National Union in an effort to liberate the country from decades of white-minority rule. He was jailed from 1963 to 1974. Once freed, Mugabe became a leader of the liberation movement which successfully led to the formation of an independent Zimbabwe in 1979. He became Zimbabwe's first prime minister in 1980, but he would continue ruling the country for the next 37 years. While Mugabe has been hailed as one of the most significant anti-colonial leaders of the 20th century, he was wide…
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/6/zimbabwe_robert_mugabe_horace_campbell

Growing a future free of terrorism: UN News special report from Cameroon
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-06
When terrorists attacked and ransacked 30-year old Mamma Hamidou's village in the Far North region of Cameroon four years ago, she faced an impossible choice. Hand over her young daughter or risk that her husband be executed on the spot.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1045742

Libyans continue 'spilling their blood on the battlefield' as fight for Tripoli rages on
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-04
It is five months to the day since the forces of the self-styled Libyan National Army launched an offensive to seize control of Tripoli, halting "an active and promising political process", the United Nations top envoy for the country told the Security Council on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1045622

New UN book club helps children deal with global issues
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-04
For children in Chad, getting an education can involve manual labour. That's because, every year, there's a chance that the rainy season will destroy their school, and they will have to join their teachers in rebuilding it. This is the story recounted in the children's book "Rain School", which is on the reading list of the UN's SDG Book Club.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1045542

Wednesday's Daily Brief: Fear rampant in Burundi, WHO on nutrition, Hurricane Dorian latest, Cyberbullying poll, Bachelet, one year on
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-04
A recap of Wednesday's main stories: UN rights experts warn 'climate of fear' rampant in Burundi; New health report on proper nutrition; One in three young people say they've been bullied online; and UN's top rights official on world's crises…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1045652

Central Africans 'need our help now': UN's deputy relief chief
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-04
"Spikes of violence" in previously unaffected areas of the Central African Republic (CAR) have prompted new displacement, the United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator said on Wednesday, calling for additional funding to meet the humanitarian needs of 2.9 million people.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1045662

Nigerian Journalist & Activist Omoyele Sowore Remains Jailed for Calling for Peaceful Protests
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-04
Journalist and pro-democracy activist Omoyele Sowore is entering his second month in jail for calling for peaceful nationwide protests against the government. Sowore called his movement "Revolution Now" and mobilized activists to take to the streets August 5. But just two days before the protests were set to begin, Sowore was arrested by the state and accused of attempting to take over the government. He's been imprisoned for more than a month now as human rights groups continue to call for his immediate release. We speak with his wife Opeyemi Sowore and Nani Jansen Reventlow, one of the attorneys representing Om…
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/4/nigerian_journalist_activist_omoyele_sowore_jailed

Insecurity and violence turn Nigeria into a 'pressure cooker' that must be addressed, says UN rights expert
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-03
Nigeria is a pressure cooker of internal conflicts and generalized violence that must be addressed urgently, an independent United Nations expert said on Tuesday, following a fact-finding visit to the country.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1045472

Tuesday's Daily Brief: Guatemala, Hurricane Dorian, Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia and post-Brexit UK trade
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-03
A recap of Tuesday's stories: International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala successfully completes mandate; UN prioritizes Hurricane Dorian assistance; Nowhere to hide in Yemen; Insecurity and Violence in Nigeria; Post-Brexit export losses likely in billions for UK; Hunger in Somalia.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1045502

Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August
Joe Tache | liberationnews.org | 2019-08-30
This article originally appeared on Liberation School Exactly 400 years ago, in August 1619, enslaved Africans touched foot in the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States for the first time. The centuries since have seen the development of a racial system more violent, extractive, and deeply entrenched than any other …
liberationnews.org/study-fast-train-fight-the-roots-of-black-august/

Headlines for August 30, 2019
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-30
Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Hurricane Dorian, Justice Department: Comey Violated FBI Rules But Will Not Face Charges, Former FARC Rebels to Take Up Arms Again in Colombia, Report: Indian Forces Are Beating and Torturing Kashmiris in Detention, UAE Accused of Bombing Saudi-Backed Forces in Yemen, Prominent Pro-Democracy Activists Arrested Ahead of Saturday's Protest, Scottish Judge Refused to Block Boris Johnson's Plan to Suspend Parliament, Ebola Death Toll Tops 2,000 in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Environmental Groups Threaten to Sue Trump over Methane Rules, NAACP Calls for Alabama Gov. t…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/30/headlines

Pacbi Welcomes Statement by More Than 500 Filmmakers Against "Close Up" Initiative Normalizing Israeli Apartheid
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-08-28
Pacbi Welcomes Statement by More Than 500 Filmmakers Against "Close Up" Initiative Normalizing Israeli Apartheid: UpdateFilmmakers denounce "Close up," a new documentary film project that aims to normalize relations with Israel as if it were a normal state, not a regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. | Cultural BoycottAugust 28, 2019 | B…
bdsmovement.net/news/pacbi-welcomes-statement-more-500-filmmakers-against-close-initiative-normalizing-israeli

Israeli Filmmakers Letter on Greenhouse Project
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-08-26
Israeli Filmmakers Letter on Greenhouse Project: In the NewsLeonidas Kioussis | Catherine COLOMB-NANCY | (EuropeAid Co-Operation Office of the European Commission) | Rosamaria Gili | (European Commission Delegation in Morocco) Cultural BoycottFebruary 16, 2006 | By: | | Israeli filmmakers, producers, scholars and artists …
bdsmovement.net/news/israeli-filmmakers-letter-greenhouse-project

Sudan's Bashir "Took Millions in Cash From Saudi Crown Prince," Trial Hears
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2019-08-19
Detective tells court the deposed president was handed the money by Mohammed bin Salman's envoys.

Sudan's Bashir "Took Millions in Cash From Saudi Crown Prince," Trial Hears