(2021-05-24). Over 800 Algerians detained for questioning in 118th week of Hirak protests. peoplesdispatch.org The latest round of Hirak protests saw police place multiple restrictions in Algiers and other parts of the country. Friday's mobilizations were the second round since the government announced a ban on unauthorized demonstrations…
(2021-05-24). 'The White Republic': A Response By Gerald Horne. popularresistance.org The good news is that Comrade Bob Wing's analysis represents a step forward in terms of the U.S. Left's understanding of the nation—"republic"—in which it struggles. | The bad news is that the U.S. left has not necessarily kept pace with the U.S. ruling class in terms of similar issues, or even with non-radical African-Americans, for that matter. | Consider the multi-part series on HBO Max (a member in good standing of the much reviled "corporate media") that premiered recently, i.e. Black filmmaker Raoul Peck's "Exterminate All the Brutes," a sweeping analysis and condemnation of settler colonialism…
(2021-05-24). Denmark: Do not copy Australia's draconian detention laws. greenleft.org.au Refugee rights activists protested at the Danish Consulate against that government's plans to detain asylum seekers and process them in Rwanda. Stephen Langford reports.
(2021-05-23). Mumia Abu-Jamal's Spiritual Advisor Confronts DA Krasner and the FOP. dissidentvoice.org 
This new mural featuring Pam and Ramona Africa alongside other Black community activists was unveiled on May 11, 2021 directly across the street from Philadelphia City Hall, on the very same block where the infamous statue of Frank Rizzo once stood.—Photo: Jamal Journal staff photographer Joe Piette Mark Lewis Taylor has been a professor in …
(2021-05-23). US Trying To Extradite Diplomat For The 'Crime' Of Securing Food For The Hungry. popularresistance.org Special envoy and ambassador to the African Union for Venezuela, Alex Saab, was on a humanitarian mission flying from Caracas to Iran to procure food and gasoline for the Venezuelan CLAP food assistance program. Saab was detained on a refueling stop in the African nation of Cabo Verde and has been held in custody ever since June 12, 2020. | Saab's "crime," according to the US government, which ordered the imprisonment, was money laundering. That is, Saab conducted perfectly legal international trade, but his circumventing the US sanctions — which are designed to prevent relief to the Venezuelans — is…
(2021-05-23). Saharawis Call for International Pressure Against Morocco for Its Handling of Migration Crisis. orinocotribune.com On Friday, May 20, the Saharawi independence organization Polisario Front called on the international community to pressure Morocco to stop instrumentalizing illegal immigration to push for its claim over Western Sahara. | According to an official statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, the Ministry has urgently called "on the UN, the African Union and the European Union to impose on Rabat the obligation to turn the page on its aggressive policies of drug trafficking and illegal immigration, and to abandon its shameful use of terrorism." | This was the first official…