(2021-07-12). Headlines for July 12, 2021. democracynow.org Police Arrest Man Who Planned to Assume Haitian Presidency as More U.S. Ties Emerge, COVID Cases on the Rise in 42 U.S. States; CDC Urges Schools to Reopen in Fall, Thousands Take to Streets of Cuba to Protest Economic Crisis, Pandemic, Top U.S. Military General Leaves Post in Afghanistan as Withdrawal Nears End, Ethiopian Elections Deliver Win for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Racist Trolls Attack England Soccer Team's Black Players After Loss to Italy in Euro 2020, G20 Members Back 15% Global Minimum Tax; Critics Say Greater Change Is Needed, Biden Signs Order to Combat Monopolies, Low Wages, Biden Fires Trump-Era…
(2021-07-12). Reds in Ed statement on attacks on Critical Race Theory. liberationnews.org 
Originally posted on RedsInEd.org At the instigation of deep-pocketed conservatives, nine states have adopted bans on Critical Race Theory education, and similar bills are being considered in 26 others. While the language in these bills is often vague, the intent is clear: to silence a truthful presentation of the role of racism in U.S. history …
(2021-07-12). Durban food riots turn the wheel of history. peoplesdispatch.org South Africa's social crisis has erupted as the people Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma deem expendable, those who bear the brunt of the past and of the social costs of Covid-19, appropriate the bread of life.
(2021-07-12). Eswatini rocked by protests demanding democracy, end to police violence. greenleft.org.au Protests have erupted in Eswatini, a southern African kingdom formerly known as Swaziland, following the alleged police murder of a law student in early May, reports Maxime Bowen.
(2021-07-12). Emir And His Family Abducted In Nigeria's Kaduna, As Kidnappers Upgrade From Taking Children. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On July 11th, unidentified gunmen kidnapped an emir and 10 members of his family in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state, police said. | Police and members of Nigeria's army are currently engaged in a search and rescue mission in a forest close to where the Chief of Kajuru, 83-year-old Alhaji Alhassan Adamu, was kidnapped. | Adamu's abduction marked the first time such a high-profile victim had been kidnapped in the state. | In a statement, Kaduna State Police Command said the…
(2021-07-12). Interests Behind the Request for "Humanitarian Intervention" in Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com Misión Verdad Rally in Miami in support of the protests in Cuba calling for "humanitarian intervention" by the United States (Photo: Eva Marie Uzcátegui / AFP) For months now, new efforts for "regime change" have been stirring the coals in Cuba under the cover of the San Isidro Movement, a group of artists from the…
(2021-07-12). At Least 49 Dead In Clashes Between Terrorists And Security Forces In Niger. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On July 11th, approximately 100 heavily armed terrorists riding motorcycles attacked the Tchoma Bangou village in Niger. | The Ministry of Defense announced the attack in a statement read on public television that did not identify who it suspected was behind the latest deadly incident. | The "prompt and vigorous reaction" by the Defense and Security Forces (FDS), "made it possible to repel the attack and inflict heavy losses on the enemy", the ministry said, adding t…
(2021-07-12). Cuba Possesses the Most Precious Asset: Revolutionary Conscience. libya360.wordpress.com Jorge Capelan For those who say that in Cuba: "…they have nothing. It can neither import nor export anything. Production is low due to lack of inputs and machinery and they cannot buy spare parts, people are hungry and tired…" We tell them: Don't believe it, there are reserves…. What is happening today is nothing…
(2021-07-11). American Association of Jurists on Illegal Detention of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab by Cape Verde for Extradition to the United States (Statement). orinocotribune.com 
The American Association of Jurists (AAJ) denounces the illegal arrest on June 12, 2020, of Alex Nain Saab Morán, diplomat of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Mr. Saab, of Colombian and Venezuelan nationality, was arrested when the flight to the Islamic Republic of Iran made a stopover in the Republic of Cape Verde. He was traveling to obtain medicine and medical equipment required by Venezuela for fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. The arrest, with no valid grounds, took place at the request of the United States government for extradition to the USA. | Saab was traveling as Venezuela's Special Envoy, a positio…
(2021-07-11). Alex Saab Case: State of Cape Verde Between Ambiguity and Schizophrenia (Part I). orinocotribune.com By José António dos Reis — Jun 29, 2021 | I am writing this article with a bit of disgust, or rather, with a pain in my heart, because its content may be an accusatory libel against the State of Cape Verde, a country where I was born, grew up, and learned to love. This article is not an accusation, in particular, either against the government, or the President of the Republic, or the Parliament. Rather, this is an accusation against the State of Cape Verde, and consequently against all the bodies that make up the State that have directly intervened or have failed to intervene in this process, whose conduct w…
(2021-07-11). Facebook cracks down on propaganda campaign in Jordan. juancole.com 
( Al-Bab.com) — Facebook reported this week that it removed 2,784 accounts in June for "coordinated inauthentic behaviour". Among those, 947 related to countries in the Middle East and North Africa region: Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria and Sudan. Facebook treats online campaigns as "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" if they seek "to mislead people about who they …
(2021-07-11). South Africa Speeds Up Vaccination To Fight COVID-19 Resurges. telesurenglish.net South African health authorities on Sunday lunch a blitz vaccination campaign to slow down COVID-19 high infection rates in the country, which is now going through a fourth wave of the pandemic. | RELATED: | Atop a Johannesburg parking garage, a vaccination center is working since May, when it barely shoots 200 doses per day. Later, when in the first week of July, it reached 1,000 a day, and last week it was jabbing 2,000 daily, accordin…
(2021-07-11). Cuerno de àÅfrica: øLa próxima primavera árabe de Washington? globalizacion.ca 
El Departamento de Estado de Biden acaba de nombrar al diplomático de carrera Jeffrey Feltman enviado especial al Cuerno de àÅfrica. Dado el polvorín geopolítico en la región y dada la oscura historia de Feltman, especialmente en el Líbano y…
(2021-07-11). As UN discusses dam on the Nile, Ethiopia regrets bypassing of regional forums. peoplesdispatch.org The controversy over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has taken a fresh turn with the UN Security Council taking up the issue on the urging of Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia termed this step a dangerous precedent as it took the negotiation process away from the African Union…
(2021-07-11). 'We are with you': The South African care centres providing hope for survivors of sexual violence. news.un.org In South Africa, a sexual offence is committed every ten minutes, and the number is rising, according to official police statistics. The UN is working closely with the Government to ensure that care centres have the resources to help survivors of sexual violence across the country, including the most deprived regions.
(2021-07-11). As UN Discusses Dam on the Nile, Ethiopia Regrets Bypassing of Regional Forums. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni The Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in 2019. Photo: Reuters The controversy over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has taken a fresh turn with the UN Security Council taking up the issue on the urging of Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia termed this step a dangerous precedent as it took the negotiation process away from…
(2021-07-11). FROM THE FIELD: Desert artisans in Mali foster dialogue and tolerance. news.un.org Traditional arts and crafts are being used to build peace and dialogue in Mali thanks to the work of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MINUSMA.
(2021-07-11). Several mortar shells hit Somali presidential palace. en.mehrnews.com Somali sources reported that several mortar shells hit the presidential palace in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
(2021-07-11). Criminal banks and criminal capitalism. indybay.org Since the 1970s, the real economy and the financial economy have been increasingly diverging. Gigantic assets vagabond around the globe, desperately looking for profitable investment opportunities and, in the absence of such opportunities, forming ever larger financial bubbles that burst every few years with a mighty bang, leaving behind legions of crying and feeling cheated investors.
(2021-07-11). 150 Syrian Militants To Be Deployed In Libya: Monitoring Group. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | More than 150 Turkish-backed Syrian militants were preparing for deployment in Libya, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on July 10. | According to the London-based monitoring group, the militants will replace those who will return to Syria before July 15. The plane that will take the new batch from Turkey to Libya will carry other militants home on its return flight. | "The rotation of [Syrian] mercenaries is being done regularly, every 15 days … [Turkey] has been keeping the…
(2021-07-11). 150 Syrian Militants To Be Deployed In Libya: Monitoring Group. southfront.org Illustrative image. | More than 150 Turkish-backed Syrian militants are preparing for deployment in Libya, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on July 10. | According to the London-based monitoring group, the militants will replace others who will return to Syria before July 15. The plane that will take the new batch from Turkey to Libya will carry other militants home on its return flight. | "The rotation of [Syrian] mercenaries is being done regularly, every 15 days … [Turkey] has been keeping the…
(2021-07-11). Argentina Military Aid For Bolivia Coup Greater Than Initially Thought. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun NewsInvestigations carried out by Argentina's Security Ministry have revealed that the military aid sent from Mauricio Macri's government to the Añez regime was much larger than what had been published by Bolivia's Foreign Ministry. The neoliberal Macri government sent 40,000 bullets to the Añez dictatorship in the first days of the coup, just days…
(2021-07-11). Cuban President Warns of US-Backed Subversion Plot as New Wave of Protests Erupt. libya360.wordpress.com Counter-revolutionaries lending themselves to a U.S. strategy of ideological subversion don't want health for Cuba; their model is the neoliberal model. "The Revolution must be defended by all revolutionaries and on the front line, the communists." President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez addressed the nation this afternoon calling on all revolutionaries to defend Cuba in the streets….