(2021-06-07). Pedro Castillo Calls On Supporters to Defend Vote. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Supporters of Peru Libre march to Plaza San Martín in Lima demanding a clean and fair electoral process. Leftist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo has called on his supporters to be vigilant and defend each vote from possible foul play as an IPSOS exit poll has indicated a technical tie. "From Tacabamba I ask…
(2021-06-07). Mexico: Voters Hand Lopez Obrador's Party a Majority in Congress. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Photo: Twitter / @mario_delgado The preliminary count (PREP) conducted by Mexico's electoral authority gave President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's party MORENA, together with its coalition parties, control of the lower house of Congress but fell short of securing a supermajority. The estimate by the National Electoral Institute (INE) gave the coalition of MORENA,…
(2021-06-07). AFRICOM Military's Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests. orinocotribune.com 
By Pavan Kulkarni — June 1, 2021 | Phoenix Express 2021, the AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise involving 13 countries in the Mediterranean Sea region, concluded last week. While its stated aim was to combat "irregular migration" and trafficking, the US record in the region indicates more nefarious interests. | Phoenix Express 2021 (PE21), a 12-day US-Africa Command (AFRICOM)-sponsored military exercise involving 13 states in the Mediterranean Sea, concluded on Friday, May 28. It had kicked off from the naval base in Tunis, Tunisia, on May 16. The drills in this exercise covered naval maneuvers across the s…
(2021-06-07). African financial independence is a threat to imperialism. mronline.org 
African leaders had come to recognize the various factors that hinder the continent's development and seriously jeopardize the future of its peoples. The Abuja Treaty was put in place to increase economic self-reliance, promote self-sustained development, and raise the living standard of African peoples. | June 7, 2021…
(2021-06-07). Denmark Offshores the Right to Asylum. southfront.org 
Illustrative image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | This has been a fantasy of Danish governments for some time. There have been gazes of admiration towards countries like Australia, where processing refugees and asylum-seekers is a task offloaded, with cash incentives, to third countries (Papua New Guinea and Nauru come to mind). Danish politicians, notably a good number among the Social Democrats, have dreamed about doing the same to countries in Africa, returning to that cus…
(2021-06-07). 160 killed in massacre at Solhan in northern Burkina Faso. wsws.org The wave of massacres spreading in the Sahel is the product of France's eight-year war in Mali and similar imperialist interventions across the region.
(2021-06-07). Tragic death of young Sri Lankan woman exposes horrific conditions in Japanese detention centres. wsws.org Ridma Ratnayake, Sandamali's younger sister, spoke to the spoke to the World Socialist Web Site from Tokyo last week.
(2021-06-07). Denmark Offshores the Right to Asylum. dissidentvoice.org This has been a fantasy of Danish governments for some time. There have been gazes of admiration towards countries like Australia, where processing refugees and asylum-seekers is a task offloaded, with cash incentives, to third countries (Papua New Guinea and Nauru come to mind). Danish politicians, notably a good number among the Social Democrats, have …
(2021-06-07). "Lethal Disregard:" UN report on Deaths of Migrants in Mediterranean goes too Light on Libyan, Italian Navies. juancole.com Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) — The diplomatic language used in official human rights reports often fails to express the horrors that they reference. So it is with the May 2021 report issued by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet: "Lethal Disregard: Search and Rescue and the Protection of Migrants …
(2021-06-07). Spain's Anticapitalistas back anti-migrant press campaign targeting Morocco. wsws.org This petty bourgeois party is joining in the campaign of the PSOE-Podemos government to denounce Morocco for allowing migrants to cross into Spain's enclave at Ceuta.
(2021-06-07). Book Review: 'Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture'. mronline.org 
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. Author Sudhir Hazareesingh is a native of the Indian Ocean island and former French colony of Mauritius, once known as Ile de France. Drawing upon a lifetime of research in the French, British and U.S. archives, the […] | June 7, 2021…
(2021-06-07). Dozens Of Syrian Mercenaries Returned From Libya For First Time In Weeks: Monitoring Group. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. Syrian mercenaries in one of their camps in Libya. | Dozens of Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries had returned from Libya for the first time in ten weeks, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on June 7. | "Nearly 95 fighters of the al-Hamzah Division, al-Majd Brigade, Sultan Murad Division, al-Muetasim Division returned in the last 48 hours," the London-based monitoring group said in a report. | A Source informed on the matter told the SOHR that the return of the mercenaries did not represent th…
(2021-06-07). The Importance of Whistleblowers and Autonomous Killer Drones Used in Libya. globalresearch.ca On today's episode …
(2021-06-06). Colombia: The Regime of Terror in Cali. libya360.wordpress.com Luis Alfonso Mena S. In a failed attempt to crush the National Strike and the youth resistance, Ivan Duque established a regime of terror in Cali and on Friday, June 4, 2021, unleashed a campaign of horror in the north of the city, which left more dead, wounded, disappeared and detained. According to the Union…
(2021-06-06). Save Alex Saab. popularresistance.org U.S. authorities ordered his arrest, and Alex Saab was pulled off a plane on June 12, 2020, during a refuelling stop in the Republic of Cabo Verde, an island nation off Africa's West Coast. | Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat to the African Union, was on a humanitarian mission to Iran at the time of his seizure to arrange emergency shipments of food, medicine, and essential supplies for Venezuela. Detained and imprisoned in total isolation and darkness in Cabo Verde for the past year, Saab has also been tortured. | Saab is battling cancer and urgently needs to be cared for by his doctors in Venezuela. | The U.S. sancti…
(2021-06-06). Chile Continues With Summary Deportations of Venezuelans. telesurenglish.net In Chile, the Jesuit Service to Migrants (SJM) Director Waleska Ureta denounced President Sebastian Piñera's government for illegally deporting a group of 30 migrants with no criminal record to Venezuela. | RELATED: | On Saturday morning, the Investigation Police (PDI) took them out from their homes and jobs and carry them to its headquarters, where they are gathered for deportation. | "Let us not normalize this undignif…
(2021-06-06). Syrian Military Intelligence Forces Storm Daraa Town After Assassination Of Pro-Government Mayor. southfront.org 
FILE IMAGE: Sputnik/ Iliya Pitalev | Syrian intelligence agents carried out a limited operation in Athman in Daraa following the assassination of the town's pro-government mayor. | The mayor, Faisal Ismali Alloah, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen inside Athman late on June 5. He was reportedly a staunch supporter of the government. | In the early hours of June 6, a large, heavily armed force of the Syrian Military Intelligence Directorate stormed Athman. According to local sources, the forces arrested at least nine…
(2021-06-06). Nicaragua's Green Revolution. libya360.wordpress.com Rohan Rice Nicaragua's green revolution has not only seen investment in renewable sources of energy but it has also brought electrical power to areas that did not have access before. Photo: ENATREL While large polluting countries have refused to take necessary measures to slow the climate crisis, Nicaragua, one of the most vulnerable countries to…
(2021-06-06). America's Nazi Problem and the End of Policing. libya360.wordpress.com >Henry Giroux The conditions that produce authoritarian societies are with us once again. The ghost of fascism haunts the present, appearing in a relentless number of assaults on the principles and institutions central to a democracy. America's Nazi problem is evident not only in the 73 million people who voted for a white supremacist presidential…
(2021-06-06). New Report by Corporate-Funded Think-Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China. libya360.wordpress.com Danny Haiphong High-speed bullet train in China. [Source: railwayage.com] A new report published in Railway Age magazine and written by the Information Technology Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has sounded the alarm about China's growing high-speed rail sector. The report comes amid escalations in the U.S.'s New Cold War against China, of which technology is a key…