Daily Archives: 2021-06-11

2021-06-11: News Headlines

Staff (2021-06-11). Headlines for June 11, 2021. democracynow.org G7 to Donate 1 Billion Vaccine Doses to Poorer Nations, But Billions More Needed, Biden Says "No Strings Attached" to Vaccine Donations, But Venezuela Is Blocked from Getting Any, Trump Administration Secretly Seized Private Data from Two Democratic Lawmakers, Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Slammed for Failing to Address Climate Crisis, U.N.: Tigray Region of Ethiopia Facing World's Worst Famine in a Decade, Socialist Teacher Pedro Castillo Closing In on Becoming Peruvian President, Undercover Israeli Forces Kill Three Palestinians in West Bank Raid, Shocking Video Shows Israeli Guards Brutally Assaulting Palesti…

Carlos Noriega (2021-06-11). Elecciones en Perú: Nace un gobierno acechado por las corporaciones. globalizacion.ca El triunfo electoral del izquierdista Pedro Castillo, no confirmado oficialmente, pero a estas alturas prácticamente un hecho con un conteo de votos al 99 por ciento, es la victoria del Perú marginado, de los más pobres, del interior del país…

Fight Back (2021-06-11). President Biden continues 'legal kidnapping' of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – One year ago on June 12, when President Trump was still in office, the vicious talons of the U.S. government reached into the West African country of Cape Verde to snatch its prey: Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. The Colombian-born businessman was on a special mission as an envoy for the Venezuelan government. He was heading to Iran to secure trade arrangements for a vitally important food program called CLAP that delivers food to more than 85% of Venezuelan homes. | As the plane needed to refuel on its long flight, it touched down in Cape Verde, off the coast of West Africa. Cape Verde is a country k…

WSWS (2021-06-11). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Greek workers' 24-hour strikes against draconian labour laws; stoppages in hospitals across France over pay and staff shortages; trade unions betray Spanish bank workers' dispute, accept 2,700 job losses; Lesotho garment workers enter third week of pay strike.

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-11). US Flies Nuclear-Capable B-52 Over Gulf of Guinea, All of West Africa. news.antiwar.com U.S. Air Force revealed on June 10 that a B-52H Stratofortress, Cold War nuclear mainstay and the bomber used for almost a thousand missions over North and South Vietnam in the 1960s and early 1970s, flew over parts of Africa as part of the Bomber Task Force Europe mission. On May 31, U.S. Memorial Day, …

Staff (2021-06-11). Why Germany's Apology for Its 1904-1908 Genocide in Namibia Does Not Go Far Enough. democracynow.org Germany has apologized for its role in the first genocide of the 20th century, which took place in Namibia, a former colony then known as German South West Africa. Between 1904 and 1908, German colonizers killed tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people in Namibia. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas officially described the massacre as genocide and outlined an offer of more than $1.34 billion in development aid to the Namibian government. The offer was not negotiated with survivors of the genocide, and critics have described it as a pittance. We speak with Nyoko Muvangua, born of the Ovaherero people who wer…

WSWS (2021-06-11). 600,000 dead in the US from COVID-19: American capitalism "normalizes" mass death. wsws.org As the United States passes the milestone of 600,000 deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic, the ruling class is abandoning all efforts to contain the disease.

WSWS repost (2021-06-11). 600,000 dead in the US from COVID-19: American capitalism "normalizes" mass death. indybay.org As the United States passes the milestone of 600,000 deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic, the ruling class is abandoning all efforts to contain the disease.

Anonymous669 (2021-06-11). ISIS Released Photos Of Its Cells In Southern Libya. southfront.org Click to see full-size image. | On June 10, ISIS news agency Amaq released several photos of the terrorist group's fighters in an unidentified part of Libya. | The photos show a group of ISIS terrorists preaching, guarding their hideouts and going around their daily chores in a rough desert area. | The photos were most likely taken in Libya's southern region, which is slowly turning into a stronghold for the terrorist group just like the al-Anbar desert in western Iraq, the Homs desert in Syria and the Sinai Peninsula in Egyp…

WSWS (2021-06-11). Turkish mobster Peker extends accusations to NATO's Syria, Libya wars. wsws.org Peker, who has boasted of his ties to US officials, is posting videos with detailed allegations of ties between the mafia and the Turkish political establishment.

_____ (2021-06-10). Social Movements And Protestors Intensify Struggle In Colombia. popularresistance.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we look at the ongoing national strike in Colombia and the establishment of the National People's Assembly by various social movements, the ongoing vote count in Peru as the presidential runoff elections draw to a close, a countrywide strike for better wages and safe working conditions by health workers in New Zealand, the ongoing strike to demand a renewal of wages by garment and textile workers in Lesotho, and 6 years of the #NiUnaMenos movement against femicide and other forms of gender-based violence.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-10). Pedro Castillo Wins Presidential Elections in Peru, Keiko Fujimori Rejects the Results. libya360.wordpress.com Tanya Wadhwa Pedro Castillo of the left-wing Free Pery party won the second round of presidential elections held in Peru on June 6. Photo: José Cristobal / La Republica With 99.998% of the ballots counted, left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo has secured 50.204% of the votes, while far-right Keiko Fujimori has obtained 49.796% of the votes….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-10). Colombian Paramilitary Regime Orders Youth Genocide to Demobilize National Strike. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos De Urabá Economic bankruptcy and recession have taken their toll on the most vulnerable population. It was not necessary to be clairvoyant to predict exactly what was going to happen in May 2021. How can we forget the murder of Dilan Cruz-transmitted live and direct- by the police in the protests in Bogota in…

Abayomi Azikiwe (2021-06-10). Minneapolis Erupts Again After Another African American Is Killed by a Federal Task Force. globalresearch.ca Demonstrations have taken …

Mondialisation (2021-06-10). Leà£o Africano à Caàßa de Novas Presas. globalresearch.ca Comeàßou ontem, o Leà£o Africano, o maior exercício militar do continente, planeado e liderado pelo Exército dos EUA. Compreende manobras terrestres, aéreas e navais em Marrocos, na Tunísia, no Senegal e nos mares adjacentes — do Norte de àÅfrica até …

Fight Back (2021-06-10). Eyewitness Syria: Interview with delegation members. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviewed two activists who recently traveled to Syria to provide an eyewitness account of the U.S. war there. Kobi Guillory is a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and a co-chair of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Wyatt Miller is an activist with the Minnesota-based Anti-War Committee. | Fight Back!: Who did you travel to Syria with? | Kobi Guillory: We were a part of an international delegation with members from the U.S., South Africa, Palestine, France and Canada. It was organized by the Syria Solidarity Movement and contained journalists, writers and…

Editor2 (2021-06-10). Two Former Israeli Ambassadors to South Africa Join Tsunami of 'Apartheid' Accusations Against Israel. orinocotribune.com "It is time for the world to recognize that what we saw in South Africa decades ago is happening in Palestine… time for the world to take decisive diplomatic action… towards building a future of equality." | The news today is that two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa have accused their country of practicing apartheid by creating bantustans for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. "It's apartheid, say Israeli ambassadors to South Africa," Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel write a This is yet an…

news.un (2021-06-10). Nine in 10 African nations set to miss urgent COVID vaccination goal. news.un.org Nine in 10 African nations look set to miss the September target of vaccinating 10 per cent of their populations against COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO), said on Thursday.

Staff (2021-06-10). Biden to Buy 500 Million Vaccine Doses for Other Countries, But Billions More Needed to End Pandemic. democracynow.org President Biden's plan to buy 500 million doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine and donate them to 92 countries comes as health experts warn vaccination inequity could prolong the pandemic for everyone if the coronavirus continues to mutate, possibly making it more infectious and resistant to vaccines. Africa CDC Director John Nkengasong has said people on the continent are watching in "amazement" as Americans turn down vaccines, many of which are now expiring instead of being sent elsewhere. "Right now the game plan should be providing the surplus vaccines to countries around the world, because the pandemic is h…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-10). Ethiopia: How to Wreck a Black Nation in the Age of "Black Lives Matter" libya360.wordpress.com Ready for Revolution Folks, having spent much time navigating my way through the twilight zone that is American Foreign Policy, I feel compelled to share with you all how the cynical (but very real) game of sabotaging and undermining a large African country is played while loudly proclaiming that Black Lives Matter. Here is the…

Staff (2021-06-10). Díaz-Canel receives Kenyan Minister of Health. en.cubadebate.cu President of the Republic of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez yesterday afternoon received Minister of Health of the Republic of Kenya His Excellency Mutahi Kagwe, who is conducting a working visit in our country. During the cordial meeting, both leaders highlighted the positive state of relations shared by the two countries and welcomed the recent signing of agreements for the provision of health care services, as well as the training of doctors from that African nation in Cuba.

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-10). U.S. flies nuclear-capable B-52 over Gulf of Guinea, all of West Africa. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. flies nuclear-capable B-52 over Gulf of Guinea, all of West AfricaRick Rozoff U.S. Air Force revealed on June 10 that a B-52H Stratofortress, Cold War nuclear mainstay and the bomber used for almost a thousand missions over North and South Vietnam in the 1960s and early 1970s, flew over parts of Africa as part …

Veronica Maria Brown-Comegys (2021-06-10). Puerto Rican Social Justice Leader Links the Activism of Latinas and African American Women. latinorebels.com Denise Collazo, senior advisor for external affairs of Faith in Action, urges Latinas to "follow African American women because they have operated successfully on the frontlines for ages."

teleSUR (2021-06-10). Sudan and Egypt Reject Filling of Ethiopia's Nile Dam. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Sudan and Egypt reiterated the rejection of the unilateral filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). | RELATED: | The two countries held closed-door talks in Sudan's Khartoum to review the latest developments regarding the GERD with the participation of the two countries' foreign and irrigation ministers. After the talks, the two sides issued a joint communique in which they stressed the ris…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-06-10). Denmark Offshores the Right to Asylum. counterpunch.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

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2021-06-10). 350,000 people in famine conditions in Ethiopia's Tigray. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA) — A high-level UN-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimated about 350,000 people in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are facing famine conditions.

Staff (2021-06-10). UN Human Rights Committee Calls for Suspension of Alex Saab's Extradition. orinocotribune.com On June 8, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee asked the Government of Cape Verde to suspend the extradition of Venezuelan diplomat and businessman Alex Saab while the international body is analyzing the case. | The committee's resolution includes a series of measures requested to Cape Verde to guarantee Saab's human rights, including access to independent medical professionals chosen by him to assess his health condition that, according to his legal team and relatives, has been deteriorating over the course of his detention. The Venezuelan diplomat is suffering from stomach cancer and has been denied…

Anonymous669 (2021-06-10). ISIS Released Video Of Deadly Suicide Attack In Southwestern Libya. southfront.org Screen grab from Amaq video. | On June 10, ISIS news agency Amaq released footage of the terrorist group's recent The suicide attack, which took place on June 6, targeted a checkpoint of the Libyan National Army (LNA) to the north of the city of Sabha. Four people, including Cpt. Ibrahim Abdel Nabi Director of Criminal Investigations in Sebha, were kill…

Staff (2021-06-10). For Trump, Cruelty Was the Point. Now It's a Major GOP Fundraising Strategy. truthout.org Do you remember the first year of the Trump administration? A daunting question; among Trump's many grim accomplishments was the way he made time elastic. So much has happened since, so it's a bit like asking if you remember the first year of the Boxer Rebellion. | The mind deals with trauma in part by deleting or obscuring traumatic memories — the oft-maligned "memory hole," which may help us more than we appreciate — and there have been so many shocks to our mental and spiritual…

Israel Shahak (2021-06-10). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-10). Brahim Basiri and El Uali, Eternal Heroes of the Saharawi People's Struggle. libya360.wordpress.com Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein El Uali Mustafa Sayed was the first president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Photo: ACAPS). This month of June commemorates two crucial dates in the long struggle of the Saharawi people for independence and self-determination, first against Spanish colonialism and then against Moroccan expansionism, which has lasted more than 50 years….

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