(2021-10-13). Heroes or Parasites: Europe's Self-serving Politics on Refugees. dissidentvoice.org 
Language is politics and politics is power. This is why the misuse of language is particularly disturbing, especially when the innocent and vulnerable pay the price. The wars in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern, Asian and African countries in recent years have resulted in one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes, arguably unseen since …
(2021-10-13). For the Sake of Global Health: USA, Stop Lying About Cuba! orinocotribune.com By Cheryl LaBash — Oct 11, 2021 | Today a People's Peace Prize was awarded to Cuba's Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade — not the Nobel Peace Prize, although more than 100 organizations and 40,000 individuals from the U.S. alone supported the Henry Reeve Brigade's nomination. | As the global community stumbled under the coronavirus assault, Cuba's army of whitecoats rushed to hot spots when called, not shirking the danger. It's nothing new for them. In 2014, 10,000 Cuban medical professionals volunteered to go to Liberia and Sierra Leone to fight terrifyingly deadly ebola in West Africa. | In 20…
(2021-10-13). United States: Vaccines, public safety and workers' rights. greenleft.org.au How should the working class respond to a pandemic and protect workers' interests at the same time? Malik Miah reports on the situation in the United States.
(2021-10-12). Building The Movement To Shut Down AFRICOM And End US Imperialism. popularresistance.org The US Out of Africa Network, which is coordinated by the Black Alliance for Peace, launched a month of action on October 1, the 13th anniversary of the launch of AFRICOM (the US' Africa command) to educate the public about what AFRICOM is doing and to build the movement against US imperialism on the African continent. Clearing the FOG speaks with Tunde Osazua, who organizes the network, about the harm the US is doing on the continent such as the increase in violence and terrorist acts against the people as well as supporting coups and an economic war. What the US is doing in Africa is largely in violation of int…
(2021-10-12). The Return of Coups in Africa: Is this a Footprint of Neo-Colonialism in the Continent? orinocotribune.com By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza — Oct 7, 2021 | For African democracy (and the perceived lack thereof), coups d'état have constituted perennial notoriety that has not portended an organic molding of contextual African democracy in…
(2021-10-12). Walter Rodney's Lost Book: One Hundred Years of Development in Africa. mronline.org 
One of the most astonishing books that Walter Rodney—the Guyanese revolutionary and historian—ever wrote was published several years after he was assassinated on 13 June 1980.
(2021-10-12). Demonstrators Call on Biden to Show Leadership on Vaccine Patent Waivers. truthout.org 
Public health campaigners rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in South Africa on Tuesday to criticize the Biden administration's passivity in ongoing negotiations over a patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines, a proposal that remains deadlocked at the World Trade Organization more than five months after the White House "The U.S. made a big, bold de…
(2021-10-12). Reliving Terror and Fascist Violence in Italy: Assault on the Headquarters of the Workers' Union CGIL and the Umberto I Polyclinic in Rome. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara This weekend in Rome, moments of violence and terror were experienced when numerous demonstrators against the "health passport or green pass (vaccination card against Covid-19)" attacked emblematic sites of the Italian capital, in an operation coordinated by the openly fascist Forza Nuova movement. On Saturday, October 9, a group of the "no vac"…
(2021-10-12). Anti-Government Strike by Far-Right in Bolivia Diminished by Counter-Mobilizations by Working Class. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch On October 12, Bolivian Indigenous organizations, social movements and trade unions will hold nationwide mobilizations in defense of democracy, the socialist government of president Luis Arce and the Indigenous Wiphala flag. Photo: Archives In response to the anti-government strike called for by the far-right sectors in Bolivia, hundreds of citizens took to the…
(2021-10-12). The Pandemic Is a Consequence of the War Against Life. libya360.wordpress.com Vandana Shiva ITT Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from Vandana Shiva's book %: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom (Chelsea Green Publishing, August 2020) and was originally published by Independent Science News. The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, biodiversity loss and climate change In March 2015, Bill Gates…
(2021-10-12). The Emerging Totalitarian Dystopia. libya360.wordpress.com Editorial Comment: In addition to the following interview, I recommend a more recent interview conducted by Max Blumenthal, "Covid and Mass Hypnosis with Dr. Mattias Desmet". — A.V. Patrick Dewals Totalitarianism and mass formation have one main characteristic: that it is always self-destructive… the masses and the totalitarian systems are only capable of destruction, never…