(2021-07-30). Tunisia: Anti-Constitutional Coup or Legal Last-Ditch Effort to Save the State? globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-30). US Empire: Get Out of Cuba's Way. libya360.wordpress.com Obi Egbuna Remarks by Obi Egbuna Jr External Relations Officer to the Zimbabwe Cuba Friendship Association/Organizer of the Get Out Of Cuba Way Movement/Campaign delivered at the Black Lives Matter Educational Webinar Monday July 26th 2021. On behalf of the Zimbabwe Cuba Friendship Association and the Get Out Of Cuba Way Movement, we are thrilled…
(2021-07-30). Canadian imperialism and the underdevelopment of Burkina Faso. mronline.org 
Canadian mining companies own $2.5 billion of Burkina Faso's gold, and the country is one of the most poverty-stricken in Africa.
(2021-07-30). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Strikes by oil workers in Iran joined by Haft Tappeh Sugarcane workers, nurses, water and sewage workers; warning pay strikes in Germany's retail and mail order sector as 280,000 workers demand pay rise; strikes over COVID safety by driver and vehicle registration staff in Wales expands to month-long stoppage; further rail strikes at ScotRail over pay as gateline staff join conductors, ticket examiners and cleaners…
(2021-07-30). Possible Union Between Boko Haram and ISIS Threatens Africa. globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-30). How the CIA Helped Ruin Liberia. covertactionmagazine.com In the 1980s, Samuel K. Doe was the CIA's boy. He was one of Africa's worst rulers, who provided bases used for subversion campaigns across Africa and upheld the interests of Firestone Rubber. | When Doe lost his utility, the CIA supported Charles Taylor who helped trigger Liberia's ruinous civil war in the 1990s.
(2021-07-30). Unreading Colonial Food Systems. libya360.wordpress.com Maya Burke Like many people who went through U.S. public school systems, I am intimately familiar with institutional food; canned vegetables, square cut pizza, frozen & highly processed mystery meats, syrupy fruit cups, all of that. Institutional food is low-cost, low in nutritional value, and arguably pretty gross. I remember asking our school superintendent why…
(2021-07-30). Somalia: Turkey's Other War. libya360.wordpress.com Rick Rozoff Turkey opened Camp TURKSOM, military base and academy, in Mogadishu, Somalia in 2017 with the Chief of the Turkish General Staff, General Hulusi Akar, present. It can accommodate 200 Turkish military personnel and is slated to graduate over 10,000 Somali soldiers. Lying as it does immediately across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen,…
(2021-07-30). Guatemala and the Challenge of a Plurinational Constituent Assembly Process. libya360.wordpress.com Ollantay Itzamná Citizen protester in Guatemala. Internet Urban and rural sectors of Guatemala, once again take to the streets to carry out a "national strike" demanding the resignation of the Attorney General and the President of the Republic for "acts of corruption". The accumulated social discontent was reactivated with the unjustified dismissal of an anti-corruption…
(2021-07-30). Turkey's other war: Somalia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkey's other war: Somalia Turkey opened Camp TURKSOM, military base and academy, in Mogadishu, Somalia in 2017 with the Chief of the Turkish General Staff, General Hulusi Akar, present. It can accommodate 200 Turkish military personnel and is slated to graduate over 10,000 Somali soldiers. Lying as it does immediately across the Gulf of Aden …
(2021-07-30). Tunisia Stands Against the Muslim Brotherhood. globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-30). Saturday 7/31: Africa, Namibian MUN Miners & Union Busting By Chinese National Nuclear Corporation CNNC. indybay.org Virtual Program Go To Website…
(2021-07-30). COVID-19 in Uganda: A Lockdown Foretold. libya360.wordpress.com Denis Bukenya, PHM UgandaThe pricing and availability of vaccines remains a huge issue in Uganda. A lagging vaccine program and shortages of vital medical equipment has contributed to the worsening of the COVID-19 situation in Uganda. Meanwhile, the private sector has been thriving According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have been 74,260 confirmed…
(2021-07-30). Science Saturday: How geologic rock formations inform novel treatments for kidney stones. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Human kidney stones are at least as old as the Giza pyramids. The oldest known kidney stone was found in Egyptian burial satin from 4400 B.C. In 2020, Mayo Clinic processed and analyzed some 90,000 kidney stones from all over the world. That number increases each year, reflecting a global uptick in kidney stone disease. But new research has unlocked how kidney stones actually form, which could be the key to treating or even eliminating…
(2021-07-30). As TPLF's offensive continues, Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia face increased threats. peoplesdispatch.org On July 29, hundreds protested outside the UNHCR office in Ethiopia's capital, demanding safe relocation of the 24,000 Eritrean refugees in Tigray's two remaining camps in Mai Tsebri town which fell to the TPLF's offensive in mid-July…
(2021-07-29). Russia rejects Dutch court ruling to hand $5 BILLION of taxpayers' cash to ex-oligarchs over collapse of Yukos oil & gas empire. rt.com 
Officials in Moscow have vowed to vigorously appeal a judicial ruling in an international arbitration court that would bind Russia to hand over billions of dollars to the former shareholders of the collapsed Yukos energy giant. | The office of the country's Prosecutor General said on Thursday that it does not acknowledge the validity of the decision, by the International Arbitration Court in The Hague. Authorities said that Russia would "appeal the decision without fail," questioning both the basis of the judges' jurisdiction and the claims themselves. | Earlier that day, representatives of the shareholders wh…
(2021-07-29). EU issues travel warning after Greece's south Aegean islands report spike in Covid infections. rt.com 
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned against travel to Greece's south Aegean islands, updating the area to dark red after a spike in coronavirus cases was reported by officials. | Greece has drawn visitors to the 13 islands, including Mykonos and Santorini, by promoting them as 'Covid-free' destinations but the updated The ECDC's travel map is a f…
(2021-07-29). 'Biggest destroyer of peace': China lashes out after US Navy warship sails through Taiwan Strait for SEVENTH time under Biden. rt.com 
A US Navy guided missile destroyer has crossed the Taiwan Strait in the South China Sea, making it the seventh such trip by an American warship this year, and prompting China to accuse the US of trying provoke its military. | The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Benfold sailed northwards through the strait on Wednesday, the US Navy said in a statement. The maneuver was confirmed by Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense on Thursday, with officials saying the military used joint intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance tools to monitor movements at sea and in the air around Taiwan, accordin…
(2021-07-29). Priest gagged for saying Canada residential-school victims lied about abuse for 'extra money' & joke about SHOOTING church vandals. rt.com 
A Catholic priest has been barred from speaking publicly by a Canadian archdiocese, after accusing residential-school survivors of lying about sexual abuse to get more money, and of speaking about wanting to shoot church vandals. | The inflammatory statements, made over a number of weeks by Father Rhéal Forest at St. Emile Roman Catholic Church in Winnipeg, were even shared on the church's Facebook page, but have since been taken down. | During a mass on July 10, Forest said the survivors lied about being sexually abused in a ploy to receive more money in the settlement process with the federal governme…
(2021-07-29). 'Struggling to survive': Wells dry up amid Oregon water woes. peoplesworld.org 
MALIN, Ore. (AP) — Judy and Jim Shanks know the exact date their home's well went dry — June 24. Since then, their life has been an endless cycle of imposing on relatives for showers and laundry, hauling water to feed a small herd of cattle, and desperately waiting for a local well-drilling company to …
(2021-07-28). UN envoy: 'Political manipulation' won't defeat pandemic. ecns.cn A Chinese envoy to the United Nations on Wednesday rejected "false information" from the United States on the coronavirus' origin, saying that "political manipulation is unpopular, cannot defeat the pandemic and is doomed to failure".
(2021-07-28). Geo-political rivalry blocks global coronavirus cooperation, says Bangladeshi official. ecns.cn A senior Bangladeshi official has said that labelling COVID-19 as a Chinese virus is "very unfortunate" and that geo-political rivalry is "engulfing" global efforts to fight the pandemic.
(2021-07-28). Columnist calls for depoliticizing COVID-19 origin-tracing. ecns.cn A Tanzanian columnist has called for depoliticizing COVID-19, saying politics should not in any way influence scientific inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus.
(2021-07-28). Science should prevail in origin-tracing of COVID-19, say Nepali experts. ecns.cn Efforts to probe the origin of COVID-19 could be hamstrung by the politicization of the issue, with a conspiracy theory about lab leaks taking precedence over a scientific conclusion.
(2021-07-29). Any form of U.S. military contact with China's Taiwan opposed. ecns.cn A State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson on Thursday voiced firm opposition to any form of military contact between the United States and China's Taiwan region.
(2021-07-28). Tiktok vows to strengthen data security. ecns.cn As part of efforts to strengthen its global data security, the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok has opened its first regional Fusion Centre in Dublin, Ireland, to detect and respond to critical incidents in real-time.
(2021-07-28). Comicomment: Is mute Fort Detrick 'innocent'?>. ecns.cn It is not up to the U.S. itself to decide whether the Fort Detrick laboratory is "clean."
(2021-07-29). The Two-State Compromise Normalizes Israeli Colonialism. palestinechronicle.com 
Following the signing of last year's Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration, the international community woke up to the normalisation of Israel's colonization of Palestine; nobody seemed to be particularly averse to this. It
(2021-07-29). The Great Contest of Our Time Is between Humanity and Imperialism. dissidentvoice.org 
Uttam Ghosh (India), Let Cuba Live, 2021. On 23 July 2021, a full-page appeal appeared in the New York Times calling on United States President Joe Biden to withdraw the vindictive US blockade against Cuba. As that appeal went to press, I spoke to Chinese journalist Lu Yuanzhi of Global Times (GT). The remainder of …
(2021-07-29). Mexico president blasts 'inhumane' US sanctions against Cuba. en.mehrnews.com Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has scoffed at the notion that Mexico should honor a US-imposed embargo on Cuba, as his country sends aid to the island in defiance of Washington's suffocating economic bans.
(2021-07-29). Fidel on the 'battle of ideas'. workers.org 
Amilcar Cabral, one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders, and Fidel Castro together at the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, which focused on common goals of resistance to colonialism and imperialism and the establishment of an alliance across colonial national boundaries. These slightly edited excerpts are from a speech given by . . . |
(2021-07-29). What U.S. imperialism is up to in Africa while no one's watching. peoplesworld.org 
It is almost impossible to find out any news of what is happening in Africa. It's as though the continent is completely off the media's radar, yet what is happening there will have consequences for the whole world. The reason why this region is subjected to so much political meddling needs to be understood. The …
(2021-07-28). Politicizing COVID-19 fight is perilous, says S. African official. ecns.cn As the rest of the world tries to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with science, some in the United States have chosen to politicize COVID-19, Anwar Adams, a councillor in the City of Cape Town has said.
(2021-07-28). China-U.S. relationship at 'new critical juncture': new Chinese ambassador. ecns.cn China's new Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang on Wednesday said the China-U.S. relationship "has once again come to a new critical juncture, facing not only many difficulties and challenges but also great opportunities and potentials."
(2021-07-29). Algerian olympian punished for refusing match with Israeli. electronicintifada.net The IOC used to boycott apartheid. Now it punishes those who resist it.
(2021-07-29). Glen Ford: From Elder to Ancestor. libya360.wordpress.com Ready for Revolution "I'm telling you these stories because that is what elders do, we remember things" Glen Ford It is not uncommon to hear that many Africans were introduced to Glen Ford the moment they became 'activated' to move away from the democratic party. That introduction often came by way of The Black Agenda Report where Ford…
(2021-07-29). Lebanon and Tunisia: Educated Populations, Troubled Economies. globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-29). 'We're proud Jews': Ben & Jerry's co-founders say there's nothing 'anti-Semitic' about ice cream embargo of Israeli settlements. rt.com 
Ben & Jerry's co-founders have pushed back against claims of anti-Semitism following the company's decision to stop offering its ice cream products in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, noting that they themselves are Jews. | Writing in the New York Times, Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield said they were "proud Jews" who view Israel's occupation of the West Bank as a barrier to peace. | "It's possible to support Israel and oppose some of its policies, just as we've opposed policies of the US government. As such, we unequivocally support the decision of the company to end business in the occupied territ…
(2021-07-29). Taking action for Palestine. thecanary.co
| Video transcript | What kind of democracy do we live in when 1 million people go out to oppose a war, and they still go and kill innocent civilians? Enough…
(2021-07-29). Cuba no está sola a pesar de la política genocida de los vecinos del norte, afirman cubanos residentes en el exterior. cubadebate.cu Los cubanos, pueblo noble, culto y valiente, llamamos a la Paz, siendo consecuentes con nuestros orígenes. Sólo corresponderá a sus ciudadanos dilucidar y resolver los problemas de la Nación, en un clima de armonía y libertad, de dignidad y justicia, de trabajo y creación, inclusivo y participativo, al que todos podemos contribuir con respeto y compromiso con el futuro.
(2021-07-29). The United States: Six Decades of Criminal Policies against Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com Hector Bernardo The invasion of Playa Girón, the bombing of the Barbados airliner, the brutal blockade that increased in the midst of the pandemic, the assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, the hotel bombings, Operation Peter Pan, the ZunZuneo project and the disappearance of Cuban diplomats in Argentina are just some of the events that comprise…
(2021-07-29). Eye-Witness Account of US Attempts to Destabilize Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com Kathryn Guerrera In response to US provocation, thousands of Cubans rallied across the island on July 11 in support of their Revolution and government As a Canadian with family members that live in Cuba, who was in Cuba during the anti-government protests that occurred on July 11, I found myself in a unique and disturbing…
(2021-07-29). Syria warns that Tunisia may be Turkey's next war front. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From the Syrian Arab News Agency. The Turkish press is full of "preparatory" reports laying the groundwork for military intervention in Tunisia: here and here and here. This is as Turkey grows more aggressive by the day in Cyprus, Syria, Libya, Iraq, the South Caucasus and the Black Sea/Ukraine. Syria strongly condemns Turkish regime's interference …
(2021-07-29). Worst Riots Since 90s: How Zuma's Arrest Divided South Africa. sputniknews.com Last week, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa claimed that the instigators of the violence which recently hit the country had been identified and that the government was "going after them".
(2021-07-29). South Africa: Looting Talk, "the Nonsense" and Queuing for COVID Jabs. counterpunch.org In the days after the looting, volunteers came out to clean up the damage, sweeping up the broken glass, the detritus, and the spent bullets and shotgun shells. Bodies were being pulled out of rivers, from ditches, and elsewhere as the death toll reached over 300. "We swept up so many bullets, in places the
(2021-07-29). In Nobody's Backyard: Rejecting Geo-Political and Historical Fatalism. libya360.wordpress.com Gerald A. Perreira Except for the hum of US helicopters flying overhead, there was a deafening silence throughout the Caribbean region, during the recent Operation Tradewinds, Progressive and Pan-African forces did not utter a word, as soldiers from Guyana, Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago participated in this region-wide…
(2021-07-29). Memo to France as Its Soldiers Leave Africa: "Get Out and Stay Out!" libya360.wordpress.com Mark P Fancher A French soldier talks to a crowd outside a church in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, on Thursday. France has thrown its military weight around in Africa for years, but recently, in the wake of troop casualties, and with the prospect of more soldier deaths, French imperialist punks have signaled…
(2021-07-29). Georgia awards French military attaché for assisting NATO integration. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The French officer first thanks Georgia for providing troops for European Union operations in Central Africa, then speaks of air defense cooperation and lastly of bringing the Georgian armed forces "closer to France and NATO standards." NATO members and partners: suppliers of troops for military deployments in conflict and war zones around the world. The …
(2021-07-29). COVID-19 vaccine shipments boost for Africa. news.un.org After a near-halt of COVID-19 vaccine shipments in Africa, delivers have ramped up in recent months, the UN health agency said on Thursday.
(2021-07-29). Israel to offer Covid booster shot for over-60s, PM Bennett says amid vaccine efficacy worries. rt.com 
Israel is set to roll out a scheme to give a third Covid jab to people aged over 60, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has announced, in a bid to increase protection amid fears vaccine efficacy diminishes over time. | The Health Ministry