(2021-08-16). Opening And Closing US Embassies-From Sierra Leone To Afghanistan. popularresistance.org While the people of Afghanistan are in a state of fear of the Taliban who now control Afghanistan, its capital, major cities and countryside after the U.S. and NATO occupation of twenty years, please pardon my personal observances of some of my experiences during sixteen years in the U.S. diplomatic corps and opening and closing U.S. Embassies in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan and the effects on the civilian populations of the countries involved. | In December 2001, I was a part of a very small team from the U.S. Department of State that was sent to Kabul, Afghanistan to reopen the U.S. Embassy. The Embassy had bee…
(2021-08-16). US-Africa Relations: Corporate Council on Africa Hosted the 13th U.S.-Africa Business Summit. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-16). Africa's Ever-Deepening Imperialist Hell, and the Revolutionary Movement that Can End It. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea Somalia (left) and South Africa (right) Africa, with its growing instability, is a later-stage version of what other exploited regions like Latin America or Oceania are going to become like as capitalist collapse continues to unfold. Following NATO's turning Libya into a failed state a decade ago, and the ongoing precariousness within the…
(2021-08-16). Economic Update: Chile's Feminist Social Revolution. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the election of a socialist, African-American woman as new mayor in Buffalo, NY; US unemployment insurance's meager support for jobless; Teamsters target Amazon workers for union drive; veterans' suicides and the costs of US wars. | On the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Rodrigo Roa Fernandez, Chilean revolutionary activist on his country's new feminist movement, the Constituent Assembly and the new constitution. | You can support this show on
(2021-08-16). Biden's America Is Back — To Somalia. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size imageWhile Biden keeps pushing his human rights narrative, his latest airstrikes are part of a great power competition. | Written Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts. | On July 20, the US carried out an airstrike in Somalia against al Shabaab militants — the first one in Somalia under President Joe Biden. It struck again on July 23 and August 1. Last week, it was reported Biden seeks to host a "Summit for Democracy". | According to a…
(2021-08-16). Zambia election: Hakainde Hichilema is the president-elect, incumbent Edgar Lungu defeated. peoplesdispatch.org Hakainde Hichilema is likely to take the country further down the neoliberal path by wooing the IMF. Fred M'membe, the candidate of the newly formed Socialist Party, who came fifth, has called for a continuation of the struggle for a just and humane society…
(2021-08-15). Earthquake Devastates Haiti: Canada Shouldn't Make it Worse. libya360.wordpress.com Yves Engler With "friends" like Canada, Haiti is in deep trouble. Justin Trudeau's statement that this country was "standing ready" to assist after a massive earthquake rocked the western part of Haiti yesterday is not reassuring. Over the past two decades Canada has done too much to undermine Haitian sovereignty, democracy and living standards to…
(2021-08-15). Proposed FM able to expand relations with neighbors, region. en.mehrnews.com Saying that Raeisi's proposed Foreign Minister enjoys executive background in regional issues, an Iranian veteran diplomat stressed that Amir-Abdollahian will expand relations with neighbors and Asian and African powers.
(2021-08-15). Journalist sentenced for covering protests by marginalized Berber community in Algeria. peoplesdispatch.org Rabah Kareche of the Liberte daily was arrested on April 19 and kept in pre-trial detention following his articles on the Berber Tuareg tribe community's demonstrations against land grab…
(2021-08-15). The Anatomy of US Interventionism in Bolivia & Latin America. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun NewsKawsachun News spoke exclusively to Juan Ramon Quintana, former Minister of the Presidency under Evo Morales, which is Bolivia's equivalent to the role of a Prime Minister under a President. This is a role of strategic importance for the state, so to hold this role, Juan Ramon Quintana was and remains one of Evo's…
(2021-08-15). In Somalia, The US Is Bombing The Very 'Terrorists' It Created. popularresistance.org This July, the Biden administration picked up where Trump left off and began bombing Somalia, a country with a gross domestic product of less than $6 billion and a poverty rate of 70 percent. But why? | The official reason provided by the Pentagon was that the Somali National Army needed air support in its operations to counter al-Shabaab. But the actual reason was that Somalia is geo-strategically important to US empire. | Successive US administrations have cycled through a myriad of excuses to either bomb the country or to arm its dictators: Cold War politics, "humanitarian intervention," anti-piracy, and more…