2021-05-27: News Headlines

Sara Flounders (2021-05-27). Venezuelan diplomat kidnapped: Release Alex Saab! workers.org Nearly a year ago, on June 12, 2020, Alex Saab was pulled off a plane at an U.S. demand for his arrest, during a refueling stop in the Republic of Cabo Verde, a small and very poor island archipelago nation off the West Coast of Africa. Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat . . . |

Eds. (2021-05-27). Mumia Abu-Jamal's spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP. mronline.org An interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal. | May 27, 2021 | Interview…

Global Research News (2021-05-27). Selected Articles: The 'Great Reset': A Technocratic Agenda that Waited Years for a Global Crisis to Exploit. globalresearch.ca By Previously coined as the "Tulsa Riot", was in actuality a full-scale assault on the rights of African Americans to live in peace and stability in the …

Anonymous007 (2021-05-27). Russia Delivers Mi-8 And Mi-24 Helicopters To Central African Republic. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Russian Ministry of Defensed delivered Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters to the Central African Republic (CAR). | This was reported in the Telegram channel "New Military Columnist". | There is also a video that proves the delivery. | A heavy transport aircraft An-124-100, part of the 224th air detachment of the Russian Defense Ministry, delivered domestic multipurpose helicopters to Central Africa. The footage shows the Russian military delivering the helicopters at the local airfield. |

F. William Engdahl (2021-05-27). "We are Human Guinea Pigs": Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action. globalresearch.ca Official US and EU data confirm alarming numbers of deaths and permanent paralysis as well as other severe side effects from the experimental mRNA vaccines. It is now clear that we are being asked to be human guinea pigs in an experiment that could alter the human gene structure and far worse.

Dick Nichols (2021-05-27). The Ceuta 'invasion': Exploiting young Moroccans desperate for a future. greenleft.org.au When thousands of Moroccan migrants reached Ceuta — a Spanish enclave on the north coast of Africa, bordered by Morocco — exhausted from the swim, they found they had been duped. Moroccan authorities had set in motion a wave of migration, to punish Spain for providing hospital care to the leader of the Polisario Front, which is leading the struggle to end Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. | The Spanish fairy tale begins…: | The first "invaders" appeared at dawn on May 17. Stealthily swimming ashore at El Tarajal beach in Ceuta, Spain's Moroccan enclave, they quickly overcame the resist…

Editor2 (2021-05-27). AU Day Celebration: Venezuelan Diplomat Calls on African Leaders to Resist Oppression. orinocotribune.com Today May 25, 2021 is being celebrated across the continent as Africa Day in commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963. | As part of the celebration, many statements have been made to celebrate the continent and also tackle various issues happening within the continent. | Venezuela's Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union, Ambassador Alex Saab in a statement on the occasion of the celebration said it is a day of liberation from foreign control and oppression and is worth celebrating. | Citing himself as someone who has suffered injustice over his detention a…

Staff (2021-05-26). "America on Fire": Historian Elizabeth Hinton on George Floyd, Policing & Black Rebellion. democracynow.org Protests and vigils were held across the U.S. to mark one year since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd's death sparked a national uprising and global movement against systemic racism and police brutality. Elizabeth Hinton, an associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and a professor of law at Yale Law School, connects the Black Lives Matter protests to a long history of Black rebellion against police violence in her new book "America on Fire" and notes that the U.S. has had previous opportunities to address systemic racism and state violence, but change r…

Anonymous669 (2021-05-26). Hamas Reported Loss Of 61 Fighters, Commanders In Gaza Battle. southfront.org Hamas rocket unit. Illustrative image. | Between March 22 and 26, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, revealed the names of 61 of its fighters and commanders who were killed during the recent battle in the Gaza Strip. | The heated battle started on May 10 with a rocket attack on Jerusalem. The rocket attack, which was launched from Gaza, was a response to Israeli plans to evict a number of Arab families from the Sheik Jarrah neighborhood in the city. The battle ended with an Egypt-bro…

Fight Back (2021-05-26). Police murder of George Floyd, 'the spark that lit a prairie fire'. fightbacknews.org On May 25, 2020, the world watched in horror and anger as George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. This was the spark that ignited uprisings and massive protests across the United States and around the world. While a hated symbol of the police went up in flames, people from coast to coast were confronting the police, who tried and failed to repress the protest. | Again and again, America has sacrificed the lives of Africans and African Americans on the altar of profits. Millions of Africans died in the slave trade that provided the captive labor that enriched southern plantation owners…

Editor2 (2021-05-26). Bodies of Babies, Toddlers Wash Up on Libyan Beach After Refugee Shipwreck. orinocotribune.com Charity organizations have posted photographs of the bodies of babies and toddlers having washed up on a beach in Libya after a shipwreck, highlighting the human toll of the refugee crisis at Europe's doorstep. | One of the charities that posted the photos on Twitter said the children had been traveling with their parents on one of the many dinghies that left Libya for Europe in recent days. | "I'm still in shock for the horror of these images," Oscar Camps, the founder of Proactiva Open Arms, wrote on Twitter. "These small children and women had dreams and life ambitions." | Nancy Porsia, an Italian journalist a…

commondreams (2021-05-26). CPJ Calls for Immediate Release of Seriously Ill Egyptian Journalist Gamal Al-Gamal. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2021-05-26). Proposed Proclamation for 2021 Africa Day – California State Capitol Celebration. indybay.org On May 25, 1963, the Organization of African Union was founded to promote the unity and solidarity of the African nation states to act as a collective voice for the people of the African continent. Today, the African Union continues that journey to secure Africa's long-term cultural, economic, and political future California, the fifth economic power on earth, has a profound role and responsibility towards expanding mutually beneficial trade and commerce.

Editorial Team (2021-05-26). Communist Party of Swaziland calls for working class unity for total liberation on Africa Day 2021. challenge-magazine.org The Communist Party of Swaziland marked Africa Day by issuing a comprehensive call to arms for working people across the continent. Challenge carries their statement in full. The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) in celebration of Africa Day 2021 salutes all our African liberation stalwarts for the gallant contributions they made in the anti-colonial struggles over the years. The CPS also salutes all the revolutionaries daily engaged in taking the African liberation struggle forward, particularly struggles against the subjugation of the African continent to imperialist forces. The CPS calls for working-class un…

WSWS (2021-05-26). Malian army detains president in French-backed coup aiming to strangle strikes. wsws.org The arrest of top Malian officials comes as the West African nation has been paralyzed by growing social unrest and the devastation of French imperialism's war in the Sahel.

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