Black History Month: A Celebration of African Heritage (Oakland)
East Oakland Youth Development Center | indybay.org | 2020-02-19
East Oakland Youth Development Center, 8200 International Blvd, Oakland, California 94621…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/18/18830795.php

2021 World Ag Expo – Expanding CA Pan African Trade
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-02-19
Throughout the 2020 World Ag Expo, in the cities of Visalia, Tulare and Three Rivers the notion of expanding Pan African Trade embraced with open arms. It is time.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/17/18830744.php

NATO Wars Against Freedom, Justice and Humanity
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-19
NATO commits Supreme International War Crimes Against Peace as military doctrine. The criminality is normalized. Perceptions are inverted and Western populations are hypnotized to believe that NATO and its serial war crimes are making us safe. | . | . | Hidden from …
globalresearch.ca/nato-wars-against-freedom-justice-humanity/5703971

Russian Defense Minister Shoigu discusses Libya with east forces' commander Haftar
rt.com | 2020-02-19
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met with the commander of the Libyan National Army Khalifa Haftar on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Libya. | They discussed matters and "stressed the importance of talks held on January 13 in Moscow for establishing ceasefire and launching the process of normalizing the situation in the country," the Russian Defense Ministry said. | Shoigu and Haftar confirmed the need to fulfill the decisions made at the Berlin conference on Libya. | They also noted that there is no alternative to settling the domestic Libyan crisis by political means and confirmed commitment to L…
rt.com/newsline/481191-russia-shoigu-libya-haftar/

Erdogan slams EU plan to enforce Libya arms embargo
rt.com | 2020-02-19
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday criticized the European Union's decision to launch a maritime effort focused on enforcing the UN arms embargo around Libya, accusing the European states that have agreed to the operation of "interfering in the region." | Erdogan also hailed a decision by Libya's UN-supported government to withdraw from talks with rivals following an attack Tuesday on the sea port of the Libyan capital, Tripoli. The US called for the talks to be resumed "quickly." | EU foreign ministers agreed earlier this week to end 'Operation Sophia', the bloc's naval mission in the Mediter…
rt.com/newsline/481223-erdogan-eu-libya-arms/

Locusts swarm into South Sudan as plague spreads
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-19
Swarms of locusts ravaging crops and grazing land across east Africa have reached South Sudan, already reeling from widespread hunger and years of civil war, the country's agriculture minister said on Tuesday.The locusts crossed into southern Magwi county, on the border with Uganda, Minister Anyoti Adigo Nyikwach said.Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti are battling the worst locust outbreak in decades, and swarms have also spread into Tanzania, Uganda and now South Sudan.Desert locusts can travel up to 150 km (95 miles) in a day and eat their own body weight in greenery, meaning a swarm just one kilometre squar…
yenisafak.com/en/world/locusts-swarm-into-south-sudan-as-plague-spreads-3512352

US Secretary of State encourages Africa to liberalize
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-19
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday encouraged African countries to liberalize their economies, which he said is the only option out of poverty.Pompeo made the remarks in his brief policy speech "Liberating Africa's Entrepreneurs" at the UN Economic Commission for Africa meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, addressing African policy makers, academia, businesspeople and politicians as well as representatives of regional and international organizations."Centralized planning hasn't worked

Kenya's Safaricom to consider Huawei as supplier for 5G network
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-19
Kenya's biggest telecoms operator Safaricom will consider awarding a contract to China's Huawei as it rolls out its fifth generation (5G) network this year, its acting chief executive said on Wednesday.The United States government has been urging its European allies and others not to use Huawei, one of Safaricom's network vendors along with Nokia, citing security concerns."We will use Huawei in 5G … What will we do in terms of the American statements about not using Huawei? We don't have that situation in Africa," Acting CEO Michael Joseph said.Involving Huawei in Safaricom's 5G network could hamper talks on a…
yenisafak.com/en/technology/kenyas-safaricom-to-consider-huawei-as-supplier-for-5g-network-3512364

Libya's Serraj says talk about resuming peace negotiations 'overtaken by events'
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-19
Libya's internationally recognised Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj said on Wednesday talk about resuming peace negotiations has been overtaken by events on the ground amid ongoing shelling from eastern factions trying to take Tripoli."There must be first a strong signal from all international players who are trying to talk to us," he told reporters at Tripoli's sea port which got shelled by eastern forces on Tuesday.
yenisafak.com/en/news/libyas-serraj-says-talk-about-resuming-peace-negotiations-overtaken-by-events-3512361

The Slave Trade Used to Be Legal. Let's Not Glorify the Law
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
Throughout the history of Black America, progress has often required breaking the law. For this reason, it's worth questioning why, in sanitized mainstream narratives (for example, those shared in schools and government functions during Black History Month), the story of Black struggle is often divorced from incendiary, illegal acts. Most Black people in the United States are descended from enslaved Africans, and being Black in this country has never been wholly separated from that history. In fact, it still ha…
truthout.org/articles/the-slave-trade-used-to-be-legal-lets-not-glorify-the-law/

When Your Doctor Is Also a Lobbyist: Inside the War Over Surprise Medical Bills
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
When Carol Pak-Teng, an emergency room doctor in New Jersey, hosted a fundraiser in December for Democratic freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski, her guests, mostly doctors, were pleased when she steered the conversation to surprise medical bills. | This was a chance to send a message to Washington that any surprise billing legislation should protect doctors' incomes in their battle over payments with insurers. Lawmakers are grappling over several approaches to curtail the practice, which can leave…
truthout.org/articles/when-your-doctor-is-also-a-lobbyist-inside-the-war-over-surprise-medical-bills/

Mozambique Mourns Revolutionary Leader's Marcelino Dos Santos Death
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-18
A seven-day period of mourning in Mozambique following the death on Feb.11 of Marcelino dos Santos, the national figure of the struggle against colonialism, ended Tuesday. | RELATED: | Mozambique's Nyusi Elected for Second Term, Opposition Contests | Dos Santos who passed away aged 90 is a major political figure in his country, where he participated in the foundation of the leftist ruling Frelimo party. The revolutionary dedicated his life to the fight for the liberation of col…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mozambique-Mourns-Revolutionary-Leaders-Death-20200218-0032.html

Libya: Tripoli Port Hit, Govt Cancels Ceasefire Talks in Geneva
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-18
The Libyan National Army (LNA) hit Tripoli's port Tuesday allegedly targeting a Turkish ship bringing in arms, a LNA official said. | RELATED: | EU Members to Launch New Mission to Enforce Libyan Arms Embargo | "The Turkish ship loaded with weapons and ammunition that docked this morning at the port of Tripoli was destroyed," reads a short statement published by an LNA Facebook account. | Brigadier Khaled Al Mahjoub of the LNA told Al-Arabiya that the vessel had arrived in vi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Libya-Tripoli-Port-Hit-As-Ceasefire-Talks-Renewed-in-Geneva-20200218-0017.html

As Libya talks resume in Geneva, UN negotiator seeks to overcome sticking points
news.un.org | 2020-02-18
Talks to end fighting in Libya have resumed in Geneva, where UN negotiator Ghassan Salamé said that ongoing clashes must end for there to be a chance for progress.
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Guterres 'deeply concerned' over deadly assault in north-west Cameroon
news.un.org | 2020-02-18
The United Nations Secretary-General has extended his deepest condolences to the families of those killed in an attack on a village in north-west Cameroon.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/02/1057571

Locusts Swarm into South Sudan as Plague Spreads in East Africa
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-18
Swarms of locusts ravaging crops and grazing land across east Africa have reached South Sudan, already reeling from widespread hunger and years of civil war, the country's agriculture minister said Tuesday. | RELATED: | Over 6,000 Bodies Found in Burundi's Mass Graves | Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea, and Djibouti are battling the worst locust outbreak in decades, a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Locusts-Swarm-into-South-Sudan-as-Plague-Spreads-in-East-Africa-20200218-0027.html

Africa: A year of record climate disasters
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-18
Climate Nnimmo BasseyIssue 1254 Africa Paris agreement Climate DebtFebruary 18, 2020While the world literally burns from climate and political turmoil, it is possible for Africa and other vulnerable regions…
greenleft.org.au/content/africa-year-record-climate-disasters

Marxism and the Climate Crisis: African Eco-Socialist Alternatives
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-02-16
There is a rich inheritance of emancipatory Marxism in Africa, which includes Frantz Fanon, Ruth First, Samir Amin, Sam Moyo, Harold Wolpe and many others. Today, Satgar argues, the challenge is to defeat carbon capitalism accelerating the climate crisis and fomenting exclusionary nationalisms and for this there has to be a return to Marx. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/16/marxism-and-the-climate-crisis-african-eco-socialist-alternatives/

Canadian NGO Coalition aligns with Imperialism
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-15
The Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) exists primarily to lobby for increased aid. As a result, the NGO umbrella group broadly aligns with Canadian imperialism. When Justin Trudeau recently set off for an African Union Summit to build support for the government's bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council the CCIC …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/canadian-ngo-coalition-aligns-with-imperialism/

Painting A True Christ
Edward Curtin | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-15
There's an early scene in Terrence Malik's masterful new film

Newly licensed vaccine, 'milestone in the fight' against Ebola in Africa, UN health agency
news.un.org | 2020-02-14
Four countries in Africa have licensed an Ebola vaccine to "cement hard-fought progress" in keeping their people safe from the deadly disease, the UN health agency said on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/02/1057461

Guinea-Bissau: Swearing-in of new President unlikely to bring stability, says UN representative
news.un.org | 2020-02-14
Political discord in Guinea-Bissau could hamper the first-ever peaceful transfer of power to a democratically elected leader, the top UN official in the West African country told the Security Council on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/02/1057441

Detroit Overtaxed Residents by $600M, Causing Foreclosure Crisis. Residents Are Now Fighting Back
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-14
In Detroit, a showdown between progressive lawmakers and the city is taking on racist housing policies that robbed African Americans in Detroit of their homes and widened the racial wealth gap. On Thursday, the Coalition for Property Tax Justice announced a class-action lawsuit against the city of Detroit, Wayne County and the state of Michigan in response to unfair property tax foreclosures. One in four Detroit properties have been subject to property tax foreclosure, a level comparable only to tax foreclosure rates during the Great Depression. According to legal experts, many of the foreclosures were caused by…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/14/detroit_class_action_lawsuit_foreclosures

Amidst protection challenges, Eastern Route outpaces Mediterranean for people leaving Africa
news.un.org | 2020-02-14
A monthly average of 11,500 people traveling from the Horn of Africa to Yemen last year made the so-called Eastern Route the busiest maritime migration path on earth, the UN migration agency said on Friday.
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Did Amy Klobuchar Send an Innocent Teenager to Life in Prison? Questions Mount over Her Record as DA
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-13
After a surprising third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is attempting to gain ground in the national polls. But Klobuchar is also facing mounting scrutiny over her record as a district attorney in Minnesota. The Minneapolis NAACP, Black Lives Matter Twin Cities and other racial justice groups recently called on Klobuchar to suspend her presidential campaign following a shocking investigation by the Associated Press. The AP report centered on the case of Myon Burrell, an African-American teenager who was sentenced to life in prison over the 2002 murder of 11-year-old Tye…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/13/amy_klobuchar_myon_burrell

Feminist Scholar Barbara Smith on Identity Politics & Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-12
We speak with the legendary African-American feminist scholar Barbara Smith. She is a founder of the Combahee River Collective and of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. Barbara Smith recently wrote a column in The Guardian newspaper titled "I helped coin the term 'identity politics'. I'm endorsing Bernie Sanders." Her latest book is "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith."
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/12/barbara_smith_identity_politics_bernie_sanders

South Bend Politician: I Worked with Pete Buttigieg. He Did Not Respect Black Residents' Struggles
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-12
2020 presidential candidate and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg has surprised many with his strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire, two of the country's whitest states. But as the race moves on to South Carolina and Nevada, Buttigieg continues to poll extremely low with African-American voters. His own former constituents are condemning his treatment of the black community in South Bend during his time as mayor, calling out systemic racism in the police force. During Buttigieg's tenure, black residents were 4.3 times more likely to be arrested for possessing marijuana than white people. We…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/12/pete_buttigieg_south_bend_black_community

Weekend Read: 2020: African Americans and the Vote
splcenter.org | 2020-01-29
Historian Carter G. Woodson in 1926 established "Negro History Week" to celebrate the contributions to our nation made by Black people.
splcenter.org/news/2020/02/01/weekend-read-2020-african-americans-and-vote