(2021-06-22). Headlines for June 22, 2021. democracynow.org South African President Blasts Big Pharma for Refusing to Share COVID-19 Vaccine Technology, Cuba Says Abdala Vaccine Shows 92% Efficacy Against COVID-19, Coronavirus Surges in Indonesia; Colombia Death Toll Passes 100,000, White House Falls Behind Goal of Donating 80 Million Vaccine Doses by End of June, Deaths Soared by 32% in U.S. Nursing Homes, Where 4 in 10 Had COVID-19 in 2020, Senate GOP to Filibuster Restoration of Voting Rights Protections, Belarus Hit with New Sanctions as U.N. Rights Chief Decries Torture and Other Abuses, Zapatistas Arrive in Spain, Marking 500 Years Since Cortés's Conquest of Mexico,…
(2021-06-22). Georges Abdallah's statement for week of action salutes Palestinian resistance, urges solidarity. samidoun.net 
Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Communist revolutionary and struggler for Palestine who has been imprisoned in France since 1984, delivered the following statement for the International Week of Action for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah, marked at demonstrations and events around the world between 12 and 19 June. Georges Abdallah is now the longest-held political prisoner in Europe. His story is chronicled in the new film, Fedayin: The Struggle of Georges Abdallah, screened in cities across France, Switzerland, Italy and Tunisia as part of the Week of Action. Fedayin is available in French, English, Arabic, Spa…
(2021-06-22). Cuba's Abdala and Soberana 02 Vaccines Near the Finish Line. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch "In name of Cuba, congratulations," said Miguel Díaz-Canel to the researchers of CIGB that worked to create Abdala, the anti-COVID-19 vaccine. Photo: Granma The Abdala vaccine showed 92.28% efficacy with three doses during the third phase of clinical trials and the Soberana 02 vaccine showed 62% efficacy with just two of its three…
(2021-06-22). Colombia's Uribismo Forms Urban Paramilitary Cells (Cali's Ciudad Jardin Massacre). libya360.wordpress.com On June 16, the Colombian investigative journalism group Cuestion Publica published the report "When the Police Are Allied with Armed Men in Civilian Clothes" which consists of the reconstruction—from videos, audios and chat messages—of an incident to the south of Cali, Colombia, which reveals how the police and civilians formed an armed self-defense group. Data,…
(2021-06-21). Alex Saab Reveals New Details about his Abduction in Cape Verde (CNN). orinocotribune.com 
When repeating the grievances regarding his arbitrary, illegal and illegitimate detention, the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab mentioned new details about his experience in Cape Verde, where he remains incarcerated and faces the threat of extradition to the United States, a country where he is not expected to benefit from the rule of law. | In a letter sent through his team of lawyers, Saab answered some questions from US news network CNN. He asserted his rights once again amid what he considers incoherent actions from Cape Verde, a country that prides itself on its independence and sovereignty. | "If I am extradi…
(2021-06-21). Peru: "The Armed Forces are Not Political Arbitrators" libya360.wordpress.com Interview with Juan Carlos Ruiz Molleda, Attorney at Law, Institute of Legal Defense (IDL) The lawyer of the Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL), Juan Carlos Ruiz Molleda, clarifies why the Armed Forces cannot intervene in the current electoral process. "The Armed Forces are not political arbiters. Article 169 of the Constitution states that they are…
(2021-06-21). South Africa To Produce COVID-19 Vaccines Using mRNA Tech. telesurenglish.net The World Health Organization (WHO) and France will support the creation in South Africa of a center dedicated to the production of COVID-19 vaccines using messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-based technologies. | RELATED: | "Relying on a few companies to supply global public goods is restrictive and dangerous," the WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said and stressed that the pandemic demonstrates that "resource-p…
(2021-06-21). COVID-19: First mRNA vaccine tech transfer hub a 'great step forward'. news.un.org The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting a South African consortium in establishing the first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub, the UN agency announced on Monday.
(2021-06-21). This week in history: June 21-27. wsws.org 25 years ago: Union, company, ANC gang up against South African minersDuring the last week of June 1996, the Anglo American Platinum Corporation began firing miners at Rustenburg, the world's largest platinum mine. It dismissed 21,000 workers in the first round of firings, and the last 7,000 were sacked the following week by July 4.
(2021-06-21). Slow progress, stubborn cycles of violence, as South Sudan turns 10. news.un.org South Sudan, the UN's youngest Member State, is marking its tenth anniversary of independence amid languishing political progress and a range of humanitarian challenges, the Secretary-General's Special Representative told Security Council members on Monday.
(2021-06-21). Headlines for June 21, 2021. democracynow.org More Transmissible Delta Variant Becoming Dominant, Threatening COVID Recovery, Cuba's Soberana 02 Vaccine Offers Hope as COVID Surges in Latin America, Brazil Tops 500,000 Deaths, Japan, Uganda Impose New Measures Amid Mounting COVID Cases, Hard-Line Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi Wins Iranian Presidency as Nuclear Deal Talks Continue, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to Meet with Biden Amid Surging Violence and Taliban Advance, MSF Warns Access Urgently Needed to Bring Aid to Syria's Idlib Region, Authorities Uncover Likely Remains of Missing Indigenous Activist 3 Weeks After Disappearance, Ethiopia Holds Twice-Del…
(2021-06-21). Vaccine Billionaires Show Why Medicine Can't Be Left To The Market. popularresistance.org Monopoly medicine has allowed for the normalisation of a neoliberal approach in an arena it should never have penetrated: global health. As a result of pandemic profits, a wave of new billionaires has emerged — in stark contrast with the destitution faced elsewhere, and with the disturbing persisting inequality to access which is quickly becoming a vaccine apartheid. | Since the beginning of the pandemic, nine new people have become billionaires off vaccine fortunes, with a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion ( £13.6 billion). According to the People's Vaccine Alliance, between them, their net worth…
(2021-06-21). Biden Administration Rejects Maduro's Call to Lift Venezuela Sanctions. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration has In an interview last week, Maduro said President Biden should lift sanctions and normalize relations with Venezuela. Responding to Maduro's comments in an email to Bloomberg, a State Department spokesman said a change in Venezuela policy would only be done if Maduro engages with Juan Guaido, who the US recognizes as interim president…
(2021-06-21). U.S. Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela Hamper the Global Fight Against Covid-19. libya360.wordpress.com Cole StanglerIn Cuba, the smallest country in the world to produce its own Covid-19 vaccines, five immunizations are currently in clinical trials. Soberana 2 and Abdala have reached Phase 3, making the island nation the only country in Latin America to reach the final stage in vaccine development. In the meantime, three other kinds of…
(2021-06-21). El gobierno argentino baila al compás de las próximas elecciones. globalizacion.ca Para el gobierno argentino, sin formalidades pero con fuerza, ya ha comenzado la campaña electoral. Dentro de lo posible, se habían planificado cuidadosamente los plazos y, con la aparición pública de la vicepresidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner y el gobernador…
(2021-06-21). No polls in war-hit Tigray as Ethiopia holds parliamentary elections & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the parliamentary elections in Ethiopia against the backdrop of the crisis in the Tigray region, the ongoing violence against Palestinians protesting illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank, the cuts to additional federal unemployment benefits announced by several state governments in the US, and the indefinite strike launched by community health or ASHA workers in India to demand fair compensation and safe working conditions.