(2021-08-04). Report: 14 Countries to Form Block Against Israel's Membership of African Union. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-04). 2021 California Admission Day, Equity and Inclusion Conversation. indybay.org The origin of the State of California and transition to US Statehood through the eyes of Indigenous, Pan African, Latino, European, Asian and Pacific Islanders poised this 2021 Admission Day…
(2021-08-04). If a Vaccine Resistant Strain Develops in Africa, Will Dr. Fauci Lose His Job? cepr.net This is a very serious question, even if I'm using a bit of clickbait here. I'm not out to get Dr. Fauci, who deserves some sort of Nobel Prize for trying to give straight information to the public, even as Donald Trump was doing everything he could to minimize the pandemic. But there is an …
(2021-08-04). Friday 8/13: Soldiarity Action With Namibian MUN Rossing Mine Fired Union Leadership & Lawyer Beukes. indybay.org San Francisco Chinese Consulate | 1450 Laguna St, San Francisco, CA 94115…
(2021-08-04). Chinese Investors Wage Union Busting War On Namibian MUN Mine Workers. indybay.org Chinese investors both state and private in Namibia are engaging in a massive union busting campaign against the Mineworkers Union Of Namibia breaking strikes with the use of Chinese nationals and also firing union leaders including the 9 MUN union executive members of the Rossing Mine which is owned by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation CNNC.
(2021-08-04). 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…
(2021-08-03). Political Incongruities in the Olympic Games. Apartheid South Africa, Fragmented Palestine. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-03). Fact Check: Black Americans Are More Likely To Be Vegan Than Other Groups. moguldom.com African American adults are more likely to identify as vegan than any other group in the U.S. A 2016 Pew Research Center survey showed that 8 percent of Black American adults were strict vegans or vegetarians, compared to 3 percent of the general population. The trend toward ditching meat affects everyone including top athletes and music …
(2021-08-03). Money, Threats, And Military Power. strategic-culture.org Top military brass demand more and more funding without any real improvements in our armed forces' fighting power. | By Douglas MACGREGOR | If Americans pause to listen to the nation's four star generals and admirals testify on the Hill or speak in public, it sounds as though the senior military leaders are asking for a fight with China, Russia, Iran, and any number of countries in Africa, the Near East, or Latin America. But that's not actually the case. | America's senior military leaders are really just asking for more money. They know that big defense budgets channel defense dollars to campaign donors, con…
(2021-08-03). Resident doctors in Nigeria go on indefinite strike over salary delays and poor work conditions. peoplesdispatch.org The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors also claimed that only one out of 19 families of doctors who died during COVID-19 work have been paid compensation, so far…
(2021-08-03). Canada is Waging an All-Front Legal War against Indigenous People. libya360.wordpress.com Justin Podur Canada is developing a new image: one of burning churches, toppling statues, and mass graves. There are thousands more unmarked graves, thousands more Indigenous children killed at residential schools, remaining to be unearthed. There can be no denying that this is Canada, and it has to change. But can Canada transform itself for the better? If the revelation…
(2021-08-03). RUNASUR: For a Plurinational America. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Evo Morales sets out the guiding principles of RUNASUR, a nascent alliance that will be launched for the plurinational integration of indigenous peoples, afro-descendant peoples, worker's unions, territorial organizations, and social movements in the region. RUNASUR, created by movements, aims to resolve the historical debt that the people are owed in the face…
(2021-08-03). First National Congress of Socialist Movement of Ghana charts a new course for the region. peoplesdispatch.org The First National Congress of the Socialist Movement of Ghana (SMG) — previously the Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) — was held from July 30 to August 1 in Winneba…
(2021-08-03). Immigrant Detention in Louisiana Is Just Next Chapter of State's Prison Culture. latinorebels.com Louisiana has a long history of being the world's prison capital. This one U.S. southern state once surpassed entire countries with the number of prisons they host. Yes, Louisiana has more prisons than countries like Iran, China, and Germany, to just name a few. For example, one of Louisiana's notorious prisons —Angola State Prison— was …
(2021-08-03). Three Dead In Djibouti As Ethnic Violence Spills From Its Neighbors. southfront.org 
At least three people died in intercommunal violence in Djibouti. | Police intervened when fighting broke out on August 1st, in several parts of the capital Djibouti, between the ethnic Afar group, which straddles Djibouti's borders with Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the Issa, Djibouti's other main ethnic group."There were several extremely serious criminal acts. Houses were intentionally set on fire," Lamisse Mohamed Said told public television on August 2nd, without giving any possible reason for the violence. | "Innocent people were gratuitously attacked," she said. | Three people had died, she added, without s…
(2021-08-03). Counter-Revolution Strikes Tunisia. strategic-culture.org 
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S. just don't want democracy in the Arab world, writes As'ad AbuKhalil. | By As'ad ABUKHALIL | The monarchical-sounding declaration by KaàØs SaàØed eight days ago was stunning: the president who was freely elected in 2019 (for only the second time in Tunisian history) was basically proclaiming a coup d'etat by dismissing the prime minister and suspending parliament. | SaàØed was elected nine years after the overthrow of President Zine Ben Ali, who in 1987 as the security chief launched a coup against Habib Bourguiba, the founding president of Tunisia. T…
(2021-08-03). The Fall of Tunisia, Last of the Arab Spring Nations. counterpunch.org "Do you remember the tomorrow that never came?" asked a sad piece of street graffiti in Cairo, referring to the fate of the Arab Spring that once promised to overthrow the brutal autocracies that rule the Middle East. That tomorrow moved even further into the future this week when a coup displaced the last surviving
(2021-08-03). Peru,: A Country Where the Peasant Presence is Uncomfortable. libya360.wordpress.com Ollantay Itzamná Pedro Castillo Terrones. President of Peru The political and cultural system of the gamonal creole state is facing a historical possibility of being transformed by a peasant government, both symbolically and materially, to respond to the multicultural reality of the country. In 1821, the territorial jurisdiction of the former Viceroyalty of Lima was…