Historian calls out media for failing to question UK's 'ever-growing' links with repressive regime
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-09-18
On 17 September, historian Mark Curtis slammed the media for failing to hold the British government to account over its increasing links with Egypt's repressive elitist regime. Tweeting a screenshot of a recent government announcement, he said: | UK has an "ever growing economic partnership"
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2019/09/18/historian-calls-out-media-for-failing-to-question-uks-ever-growing-links-with-repressive-regime/

Brazil's Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Benjamin R. Evans | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-18

| According to an incisive report by Deutsche Welle, "genetically modified mosquitoes are currently breeding in Brazil". | Under the researchers' original plan, "all released mosquitoes and their offspring should have died." But that did not happen. | " An attempt to | …

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Sterilized Mosquitoes Released in Burkina Faso to Fight Malaria
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-18
A new solution against malaria was applied as thousands of genetically sterilized mosquitoes were set free in Burkina Faso, a country where 100 percent of the population is at risk of getting that often deadly disease. | RELATED | 1st in Africa, Burkina Faso OKs Release of Modified Mosquitoes | For years scientists have been working on the technique known as Gene Drive which alters a gene on the species which are then spread through for reproduction. The goal, in this case, is…
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African Migrants Pledge to Continue Journey Despite US Asylum Ban
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-17
| The Trump administration's policy toward migrants and asylum seekers is, first and foremost, driven by an effort to deter migrants from attempting to reach the United States at all. The latest salvo in the U.S. government's efforts to fundamentally alter its asylum policy came last week with a Supreme Court ruling that allows U.S. officials to require migrants to first seek asylum from cou…
truthout.org/articles/african-migrants-pledge-to-continue-journey-despite-us-asylum-ban/

Tunisia: Saied, Karoui To Runoff Elections
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-17
Tunisia's Electoral Commission (ISIE) confirmed Tuesday that law professor Kais Saied and jailed media mogul Nabil Karoui won the most votes in Sunday's presidential election, heading thus to the runoff. | RELATED: | Absence Of Political Agreement Pushes Spain Back to Elections | The date of the second and final round has not been announced, but it must happen by Oct. 23. | "Tunisians have written a new and brilliant page in the history of the country," Saied told reporters at his headquar…
telesurenglish.net/news/Tunisia-Elections-Saied-Karoui-Go-to-to-2nd-Round-20190917-0027.html

The Making of Moroccan Funk
Marcus J. Moore | thenation.com | 2019-09-17
The Making of Moroccan Funk…
thenation.com/article/morocco-faradjallah-attarazat-addahabia-habibi-funk-album-review/

South Africa Apologizes to Nigeria for Xenophobic Attacks
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-17
South Africa apologized to Nigeria over a series of xenophobic attacks which escalated tension between the two countries. | RELATED: | South African President Vows to Quell Attacks on Foreigners | A special envoy from South Africa apologized to Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari Monday. | "The incident does not represent what we stand for," en…
telesurenglish.net/news/South-Africa-Apologizes-to-Nigeria-for-Xenophobic-Attacks-20190917-0019.html

Ecuadorean Congress Approves UNASUR Withdrawal
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-17
The National Assembly of Ecuador approved Tuesday a report denouncing the Union of South American Nations' treaty, formalizing the process to definitively leave the regional body. | RELATED: | Ecuador's Ex-President Rafael Correa on UNASUR 'Disintegration' | With 79 votes in favor, 36 against, 4 abstentions and no null votes, the national legislators approved the report that had been prepared by the Sovereignty, Integration and International Relations Commission and awaited the r…
telesurenglish.net/news/Ecuadorean-Congress-Approves-UNASUR-Withdrawal-20190917-0040.html

Lawmaker: African-Americans battle backlash to challenges to power structure
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-17
WASHINGTON–African-Americans are battling "a swift backlash" to their challenges to the U.S. power structure — a power structure and economy based on slavery, racism and Jim Crow — a top Virginia African-American legislator says. State Sen. Jennifer McLellan said the current backlash, under the GOP Trump government and its GOP allies nationwide, is part of …
peoplesworld.org/article/lawmaker-african-americans-battle-backlash-to-challenges-to-power-structure/

Lawmaker: African-Americans battle backlash to challenges to power structure
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-17
WASHINGTON–African-Americans are battling "a swift backlash" to their challenges to the U.S. power structure — a power structure and economy based on slavery, racism and Jim Crow — a top Virginia African-American legislator says. State Sen. Jennifer McLellan said the current backlash, under the GOP Trump government and its GOP allies nationwide, is part of …
peoplesworld.org/article/lawmaker-african-americans-battle-backlash-to-challenges-to-power-structure/

One million facing food shortages, nutrition crisis after Mozambique cyclones: UNICEF
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-16
Such was the extent of devastation caused by two back-to-back cyclones in Mozambique earlier this year, nearly one million people, including 160,000 children under five, are still facing food shortages and a nutrition crisis, the UN children's agency, UNICEF, said on Monday.
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Monday's Daily Brief: Ozone layer heals, 'regional conflagration' risk rises over oilfield attacks, South Sudan update, Myanmar genocide threat remains
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-16
A recap of Monday's top stories: The ozone layer is on track to repair; Instability rises over oilfield attacks in Saudi Arabia; General Assembly chief Espinosa bows out; Disaster and conflict displace thousands in Asia Pacific; Sexual violence unpunished in South Sudan; Genocide threat remains for Rohingya.
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How to find a Tiger in Africa
T.P. Wilkinson | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-14
Agostinho Neto declaring independence of Angola 11 November 1975 What I want to do here is something very simple. I want to explain how I began to search for Agostinho Neto. I also want to explain the perspective that shapes this search.1 When I was told about the plans for a colloquium I was asked …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/how-to-find-a-tiger-in-africa/

Donald Trump Just Admitted That It Makes Sense for America's Enemies to Get Nuclear Weapons
Jon Schwarz | theintercept.com | 2019-09-13
Trump noted that the overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi in 2011 sent foreign leaders a lesson: Disarmament can lead to your own personal doom.
theintercept.com/2019/09/13/trump-nuclear-weapons-libya-north-korea/

Friday's Daily Brief: 12 million may miss school, Bangladesh and Mali updates, Kenya's malaria vaccine, land degradation pact
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-13
A recap of Friday's top stories: 12 million children may never go to school; Monsoon rains crush Rohingya shelters; 3.9 million Malians in need of humanitarian aid; Kenya launches malaria vaccine; and agreement made to neutralize land degradation.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1046342

"Racism in America Is Endemic": Democratic Candidates Vow to Confront White Supremacy & Legacy of Slavery
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-13
During the third Democratic debate Thursday night, the discussion of race and racism got personal for former HUD Secretary Julián Castro, who brought up last month's El Paso massacre. He said the white gunman who killed 22 people, mostly Latinos, had driven to the border city "to kill people who look like me." Former Texas Congressmember Beto O'Rourke, who is from El Paso, said racism is endemic and foundational of the United States. He mentioned that this year will mark the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved African being brought to America, and promised he would create a slavery reparations commission.
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/13/democratic_debate_white_supremacy_racism

The world must recognise Western Sahara
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-13
self-determination Tony Iltis Tecber Ahmed SalehIssue 1237 Western Sahara Moroccan occupation of Western SaharaSeptember 13, 2019Tecber Ahmed Saleh, a health w…
greenleft.org.au/content/world-must-recognise-western-sahara

An Invisible Crisis: Thousands of African Migrants Are Stranded in Mexico Hoping to Head North
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-10
Hundreds of African migrants in Mexico are protesting the country's refusal to grant them transit visas to travel to the United States or Canada, where they want to apply for asylum. For months, thousands of African migrants have been forced by the Mexican government to stay in the southern state of Chiapas, on the Guatemalan border. Many of them have been sleeping in tent cities, cooking on the streets and bathing their children in buckets, without the promise of shelter, food or work permits. The long waits for African migrants began in June, when it was reported that Mexican immigration authorities were ignori…
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/10/african_migrants_mexico_transit_policy

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…
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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 …
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