(2021-08-30). Palestine's Africa Dichotomy: Is Israel Really 'Winning' Africa? orinocotribune.com By Ramzy Baroud — Aug 24, 2021 | The To answer the above questions, one has to appreciate the new Great Game u…
(2021-08-30). Afghanistan today, Africa tomorrow: America's saga of failure. asiatimes.com 
As the recent heartbreaking images from Kabul prove, the Americans have lost a war. This, just a few short years after they lost Iraq. Like it did in Iraq in 2003, the US went after Islamist militants in Afghanistan, but it hung around for 20 years trying vainly to remake ancient Afghanistan into a protectorate …
(2021-08-30). How Amílcar Cabral Shaped Paulo Freire's Pedagogy. orinocotribune.com By Curry Malott — Aug 26, 2021 | Frantz Fanon's influence on Paulo Freire's thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau. | This is a lightly edited excerpt from an article originally published by Amílcar L Cabral was born 12 September 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, one of Portugal's African colonies. He was murdered on 20 January 1973 by fascist Portuguese ass…
(2021-08-30). Edgar Ramírez Blames Lack of Vaccines in Venezuela for Death of Relatives (Data). orinocotribune.com 
Edgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor residing in the United States, has reported that several of his relatives in Venezuela died of COVID-19. He has blamed the Venezuelan government for the deaths, reporting that his relatives did not have access to COVID-19 vaccines. However, he did not mention that Venezuela's access to vaccines has been blocked and hampered due to international pressure coming directly from the United States and Europe. | "After excruciating agony, my Aunt Lucy died on Saturday," wrote Ramírez on his
(2021-08-30). Public university professors in Kenya suspend strike, give last chance for dialogue. peoplesdispatch.org The Universities Academic Staff Union had threatened to launch a strike on Monday over employers' failure to provide the salary adjustment and clear arrears in payments as promised in the 2017-21 Collective Bargaining Agreement…
(2021-08-30). ConocoPhillips On the Hunt for PDVSA's Caribbean Assets. libya360.wordpress.com Mision Verdad U.S. transnational ConocoPhillips is once again litigating against Venezuela, this time in Jamaica (Photo: Thimo Rodríguez). In 2007, the international legal dispute between Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) and the U.S. oil transnationals, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil, began. (PDVSA) and the US oil transnationals, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil, when the latter refused to join the…
(2021-08-30). The New International Relations of Latin America: Interview with Bolivia's Foreign Minister, Rogelio Mayta. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News We spoke to Bolivia's Foreign Minister, Rogelio Mayta, who is leading the charge for a more democratic process of regional integration. The country is raising its voice against Luis Almagro, head of the Organization of American States, both for his role in the 2019 coup, and his wider political actions, on behalf of…
(2021-08-30). OFRANEH Communique: International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. libya360.wordpress.com August 30, 2021 La Ceiba, 30/08/2021 More than 13 months after the forced disappearance of the president of the Board of Trustees of the Garifuna community of Triunfo de la Cruz, Albert Snaider Centeno Thomas and with him three more young Garifuna from the same community (Milton Joel Martínez àÅlvarez, Suami Aparicio Mejía García and…
(2021-08-30). Peru: Provisional Victory for Pedro Castillo. libya360.wordpress.com Marcos Salgado LIMA, Aug. 26, 2021 Peruvian President Pedro Castillo (c-front), Council of Ministers President Guido Bellido (2-front) and members of his ministerial cabinet wave in the courtyard of the Government Palace, in Lima, PerÀô, Aug. 26, 2021. Bellido went to Congress on Thursday to ask for a vote of confidence for his cabinet, while…
(2021-08-30). Libyan Political Parties and Movements Condemn Efforts to Extend the December Presidential Election Schedule. libya360.wordpress.com Following allegations that surfaced yesterday in the media that the US was proposing a new schedule for Presidential elections that would extend it to Autumn 2022, a consortium of Libyan political parties and movements issued a joint communiqué this morning warning against "ongoing attempts to obstruct and disrupt the holding of the upcoming simultaneous direct…
(2021-08-30). This week in history: August 30-September 5. wsws.org 25 years ago: Zimbabwe strikers defy mass firings by MugabeOn September 4, 1996, more than 100,000 public service workers in Zimbabwe returned to work after successfully defying the threat of mass firings by President Robert Mugabe. The strike ended after a lengthy cabinet meeting voted to rescind the threat to fire 7,000 strikers and agreed that all those who participated in the walkout would be reinstated.
(2021-08-29). Contrasting US Withdrawal From Afghanistan With Trump's Abrupt Departure From Syria. commondreams.org Raj Patel's new film follows one Malawian activist's efforts to bring the immediacy of climate change to the U.S.
(2021-08-29). Forget Wars on Covid and Terror: War on Climate Collapse Is the Only War of Necessity for Human Survival. dissidentvoice.org 
Mythology of humans' natural impulse for empathy Warfare has been a plague haunting the human species ever since our evolution to become Homo Sapiens, finally, around 300,000 years ago in Africa. Etymologically, homo means human and sapiens means wise or knowledgeable. One can see that in this 18th century anthropocentric characterization of our species, the …
(2021-08-29). Europe Seeks Solutions As It Grapples With Catastrophic Wildfires. popularresistance.org As wildfires ravage the Mediterranean region, many have asked if such blazes are an inescapable part of global warming or whether steps can be taken to reverse the trend. | A colossal heatwave, with temperatures hitting a record 48.8 degrees Celsius in Italy last week, has stoked the wildfires that have devastated swaths of land and killed dozens of people across southern Europe and North Africa, from Turkey, Greece and Italy to Morocco and Algeria. | "What's clear is that climate change will lead us to see [more of] such events," French President Emmanuel Macron said this week after traveling to the Saint-Tropez…
(2021-08-29). Libya: 1951 Colonial Plan for Three Governing Divisions Moves Closer to Reality. libya360.wordpress.com Behind the declared aspirations for the establishment of the federal system is the agenda of parties, lobbies, warlords and individuals who see that their influence in their regional surroundings far exceeds their influence at the national level. December 24th will mark the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the United Kingdom of Libya. The situation…
(2021-08-29). Peru: Defending Vladimir Cerron against Fascism. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Aznarez His name is Vladimir Cerrón and he is the target of a fierce attack by the narco-fujimorist right wing in Peru. No wonder, Cerrón, as head of the Peru Libre Party, the same party that made it possible for Pedro Castillo to become President, is a fundamental figure when it comes to ideological…
(2021-08-29). Rwandan, SADC Troops Allied with Mozambique Armed Forces, Making Headway in Cabo Delgado. globalresearch.ca