2021-04-29: News Headlines

F. William Engdahl (2021-04-29). What's Not Being Said About the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. "Human Guinea Pigs"? globalresearch.ca The Pharma giant Pfizer use an experimental technology known as gene editing, specifically mRNA gene-editing, something never before used in vaccines. Before we rush to get jabbed in hopes of some immunity, we should know more about the radical experimental technology and its lack of precision.

Arab News (2021-04-29). Russia's Expanding Footprint In The Middle East — OpEd. eurasiareview.com By Talmiz Ahmad* | Over the last month or so, the shadow of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has loomed large across the Middle East. In March, he visited the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He was soon back in the region, visiting Egypt and Iran on April 12-13. | Russia became a key player in the Middle East when it brought its armed forces into Syria in September 2015 to prevent externally sponsored regime change. Having achieved this fairly quickly, its diplomatic canvas has broadened to include all the regional states, with which it is building substantial ties in the areas of energy, economics and defe…

Scott Timcke (2021-04-29). West Africa is the Latest Testing Ground for US Military Artificial Intelligence. mintpressnews.com In its preparation for great power competition, the US military is modernizing its artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and testing them in West Africa.

Anonymous669 (2021-04-29). ISIS Released Photos Of Recent Ambush In Mali Which claimed The Lives Of Over 30 Soldiers. southfront.org Click to see full-size image. | On April 27, ISIS news agency Amaq shared photos of a recent deadly attack by the group's fighters in the Malian Gao Region. | The attack, which took place on March 15, saw ISIS terrorists ambushing a convoy of the Malian military near the town of Tessit, located 60 km southeast of Ansongo, near Mali's border with Burkina Faso and Niger. | At least 33 Malian soldiers were killed and 14 wounded as a result of the attack, according to the Malian military. Amaq said that three…

Rick Rozoff (2021-04-29). Morocco: U.S. to lead war games after 30-year ceasefire with Western Sahara ends. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Morocco: U.S. to lead war games after 30-year ceasefire with Western Sahara ends Rick Rozoff The U.S. and NATO and African military allies are now planning this year's iteration of the annual African Lion war games in Morocco and adjoining countries. The largest military exercise in Africa. Military planners from U.S. Army Africa/Southern European Task Force were in the Moroccan city of …

_____ (2021-04-29). Police Killing Black Americans Amounts To Crimes Against Humanity. popularresistance.org The systematic killing and maiming of unarmed African Americans by police amount to crimes against humanity that should be investigated and prosecuted under international law, an inquiry into US police brutality by leading human rights lawyers from around the globe has found. | A week after the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder in George Floyd's death, the unabated epidemic of police killings of Black men and women in the US has now attracted scorching international attention. | In a devastating report running to 188 pages, human rights experts from 11 countries hold the US a…

Sustainability Times (2021-04-29). How Renewables could Forestall an Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia War over the Grand Renaissance Nile Dam. juancole.com By Laureen Fagan | — ( Sustainability Times) — Renewable sources have the power when it comes to the energy future of East Africans, but they also may prove a solution to a complicated diplomatic and geopolitical problem. That's according to scientists at Belgium's Vrije Universiteit Brussel, who say that adding solar and wind energy …

news.un (2021-04-29). Madagascar edges toward famine, UN food agency appeals for assistance. news.un.org An unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar, an island State off the East African coast in the Indian Ocean, is forcing hundreds of thousands to the brink of famine at a scale "beyond belief", a senior UN food agency official said on Thursday.

Dave DeCamp (2021-04-29). Veteran Interventionist Samantha Power Confirmed to Head USAID. news.antiwar.com On Wednesday, From her post on Obama's National Security Council, Power pushed hard for the US to intervene in Libya

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-04-28). Colombia on Strike against the Far-Right and Neoliberalism. libya360.wordpress.com Tanya Wadhwa Banner reading "The narco-paramilitary state will fall" hung from a bridge in Bogotá on the morning of April 28. Photo: Congreso de los Pueblos Organizations reject Duque's neoliberal tax reform which seeks to make Colombia's working class pay for the fiscal deficit incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic Colombian citizens, members of trade…

MISES (2021-04-28). It's Time To End The Embargo Against Cuba — OpEd. eurasiareview.com By Jacob G. Hornberger* | Now that Cuban president Raul Castro has resigned the presidency of Cuba, will the U.S. government lift its six-decades-long economic embargo against Cuba? | Don't count it. Squeezing the life out of the Cuban people as a way to get regime change has become such a normalized way of life for the United States that it is unlikely that this cruel and brutal policy will be ended anytime soon. | Back in the day, the embargo was justified as part of the Cold War against "godless communism" and, specifically, the international communist conspiracy that was supposedly based in Moscow, Russia,…

G. Dunkel (2021-04-28). Chad's president's death upsets imperialists. workers.org Idriss Déby, president of Chad, died April 19 in the Tibesti mountains, weapons in hand, as Chad troops fought an armed convoy of his regime's opponents from the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, which had entered the country from Libya. Déby's loss was a major blow to French . . . |

Anonymous669 (2021-04-28). In Photos: Nigerian Army Sustained Heavy Losses In Fierce Attack By ISIS Cells. southfront.org A T-55 battle tank. Click to see full-size image. | The Nigerian Armed Forces (NAF) sustained heavy losses as a result of a fierce attack by ISIS terrorists in the northeastern state of Borno. | The attack, which took place on April 25, saw ISIS terrorists storming a large base of the NAF near the town of Mainok. Sources in Borno alleged that the terrorists disguised as NAF troops had entered the base. | According to ISIS news agency Amaq, 14 Nigerian service members were killed and several others were wo…

Anonymous103 (2021-04-27). Two Spanish Journalists, An Irish National Abducted In Burkina Faso (Photos). southfront.org Illustrative Image | Two Spanish journalists and an Irish national were abducted in eastern Burkina Faso on April 26. They disappeared alongside a Burkinabe soldier after an attack on an anti-poaching military unit in a national park in the east of the country, near the border with Benin. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez confirmed that two Spaniards were killed, naming the victims. Both were described as seasoned war journalists. They reportedly had histori…

Danny Haiphong (2021-04-28). The China-Africa Relationship in the 21st Century. globalresearch.ca "US corporate media have called China a 'new colonizer' in Africa …

SA News (2021-04-28). South Africa Celebrates Freedom Day. eurasiareview.com South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa says government has made great progress towards realising the rights of people and advancing human dignity. | "Today we have a country where all enjoy human rights and freedoms," the President said. | Speaking at this year's Freedom Day celebration in Botshabelo in the Free State, President Ramaphosa said the country has a Constitution that is a shield and a protection for all. | "And yet, even as we have lived in a democratic country for the past 27 years, we know that across many parts of South Africa, the promise of 1994 has not yet been fulfilled. Millions of South…

IDN (2021-04-28). State Funeral For Leader Of Chad Embraced By Western Nations. eurasiareview.com By Lisa Vives | European and American military leaders lost a key African ally in their fight against insurgent movements across Africa. Foreign forces face an uncertain future with the recent death of the President of the African nation of Chad. | Idriss Deby Itno died on April 20 during a firefight with militants of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) who had crossed into Chad from Libya. His death coincided with his reelection victory for a sixth term that would have made him one of the longest-serving leaders in the world. | Deby, 68, a French-trained officer and pilot, was hailed by his Wester…

sputniknews (2021-04-28). Nigerian President Urges US to Relocate AFRICOM HQ From Germany to Africa. sputniknews.com US Africa Command (AFRICOM) was founded under the US Department of Defense in 2007, and ultimately based in Germany due to concerns about Washington's military presence on Africa. While former US President Donald Trump ordered AFRICOM to move locations, the Pentagon's press secretary recently dashed those hopes.

news.un (2021-04-28). 370,000 children displaced in Central African Republic; highest level since 2014. news.un.org Child displacement in the Central African Republic (CAR) has now reached its highest level since 2014, according to the latest estimates from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), warning of the mounting risks children face.

_____ (2021-04-28). Our 'Dear Friend' Deby Is Dead. popularresistance.org The tributes to the late President Idriss Deby just poured in last week — especially from Western leaders. And boy were the condolences nauseating — at least to anyone vaguely familiar with Chad and its longtime strongman, or those even faintly fond of decency. The worst of it came — unsurprisingly and unapologetically — from the country's former (officially) and persistent (de facto) colonial masters in Paris. Coming right on the heels of Deby's — still hazy on its exact details — death on the battlefield against a rebel rebellion, President Emmanuel Macron's office released a…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-04-28). Peru: A War Strategy to Prevent the Coming of the New. libya360.wordpress.com Ariana àÅlvarez Orellana Pedro Castillo and Perú Libre have the upper hand in the second round of the Peruvian elections, not only because of the wide lead given by the polls, but also because their rival, Keiko Fujimori, her political and image advisors, as well as her occasional allies from the political right, are carrying…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-04-28). 'Evo is Our President': Voices from Rural Peru. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Benigno Vengoa (left) and Carlos Cusihuaman (right) in Villa Tunari. April 24, 2021. Photo: Kawsachun News Kawsachun News spoke to Benigno Vengoa and Carlos Cusihuaman, who visited Bolivia as part of a delegation from Peru to participate as observers of the meeting of the RUNASUR technical commission in Villa Tunari, Cochabamba on April…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-04-28). Apure: Transition to a Conventional War? libya360.wordpress.com Anahi Arizmendi The situation in the state of Apure is part of a strategy to measure the operational capacity of the FANB, to destabilize the central states of the country, and advance in the preparation of the military forces of the United States and Colombia for a regular war against Venezuela, as analyzed by Congressman…

Abel Novoa (2021-04-28). El pasaporte vacunal es discriminatorio. globalizacion.ca Desde el principio de la pandemia han existido intentos por establecer criterios que permitieran la progresiva incorporación de parte de la población a la normalidad. La hipótesis es razonable: con aquellas personas en las que sea poco probable desarrollar daños…

Staff (2021-04-28). At least 11 killed in Somalia car bomb explosion. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) — A car bomb that exploded at the entrance to Somalia's central prison in west of the capital Mogadishu has killed at least 11 people.

Dave DeCamp (2021-04-28). Russian FM: US-Russia Relations Worse Than During Cold War. news.antiwar.com On Wednesday, Lavrov said that Moscow was prepared to normalize ties with Washington but warned that if the US would not participate in a respectful dialogue, "we would live in conditions of a 'Cold War' or worse." | "During the Cold War, the tensions were flying high and risky crisis situations often emerged, but there was also a mutual respect," he said. "It seems to me there is…

ISS (2021-04-28). Will Total Confront Another Islamic State-Linked Insurgency In Uganda? — Analysis. eurasiareview.com After retreating from ISIS-Mozambique, the French company is tapping oil in Uganda, in the backyard of ISIS-DRC. | By Peter Fabricius* | On 24 March, Islamist insurgents attacked the northern Mozambican coastal town of Palma, killing dozens of people and looting and destroying buildings. The incident forced French energy giant Total to abandon its multibillion-dollar liquid natural gas processing plant at nearby Afungi. | Theoretically, Total will return if Mozambique's security forces can guarantee a sufficient radius of stability around Afungi — one that would certainly include Palma. But there are omi…

teleSUR (2021-04-28). Armed Conflicts Threaten Life of 200+ Endangered Species. telesurenglish.net Armed conflicts and civil unrest threaten over 200 endangered species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported on Wednesday. Some of them are the critically endangered Eastern gorilla, which inhabits Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. | RELATED: | "Degradation of nature increases the likelihood of conflict, while wars devastate not only lives but also the natural environment," IUCN director general Bru…

ecns.cn (2021-04-28). China, 40 plus countries launch Group of Friends on Safety and Security of UN Peacekeepers. ecns.cn The Group of Friends on the Safety and Security of United Nations Peacekeepers was launched here on Tuesday, under the joint initiative of China, Brazil, Indonesia and Rwanda.

ecns.cn (2021-04-28). China helps start UN peacekeeper support group. ecns.cn A group to support United Nations peacekeepers was launched on Tuesday under the initiative of China, Brazil, Indonesia and Rwanda.

ecns.cn (2021-04-27). China helps start UN peacekeeper support group. ecns.cn A group to support United Nations peacekeepers was launched on Tuesday under the initiative of China, Brazil, Indonesia and Rwanda.

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