(2021-09-02). NATO eyes world's sixth-largest nation: Brazil, U.S. in first joint Gulf of Guinea exercise. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Hershel "Woody" Williams Joins Brazilian Navy for Inaugural Operation Guinex The Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB 4) participated in the first iteration of the Brazilian-led, Gulf of Guinea exercise called Operation Guinex with the Brazilian Frigate Independencia, Aug. 23, 2021. Guinex is the first exercise off of Africa's Atlantic coast to have …
(2021-09-02). Expert Alert: 3 reasons why more organ donors from diverse backgrounds are needed. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Of the 106,000 people in the U.S. who are awaiting a lifesaving organ transplant, roughly 60% are minorities. As part of National Minority Donor Awareness Month, Mayo Clinic experts provide three reasons why getting more people from diverse backgrounds to be organ donors is vital to help save lives: 1. Some racial and ethnic populations are more likely to need a transplant. African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans have an…
(2021-09-02). U.S. leads NATO allies, partners in land forces exercise in Turkey. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Dynamic Front 21 Phase 2 to take place in Turkey U.S. Army Europe and Africa will conduct the second and final phase of Dynamic Front 21 with approximately 600 participants from 3 nations, Sept. 5 — 20, 2021 at Polatli Training Area, Turkey. The live-fire portion of the exercise will take place Sept. 14 — …
(2021-09-02). David Smolansky and Delsa Solórzano Reject Electoral Route Chosen by G4. orinocotribune.com 
David Smolansky issued a call from Washington—where he lives—through his Twitter account, asking his followers not to participate in the 21N regional elections. The opposition's divisions are so intense in every field that they do not even make an attempt to hide them. This fugitive from Venezuelan justice continues his political operations from the United States. | Not only Smolansky called for abstention: the political operator Carla Angola—a Venezuelan extreme-right journalist based in Miami—also attacked Guaidó and other opponents. They expressed their frustration that Guaidó and the G…
(2021-09-02). How Eritrea Elevates the Horn. libya360.wordpress.com Obi Egbuna Jr. It appears the Ethiopian Government is being punished for signing a historic peace agreement with Eritrea three years ago, while Eritrea is paying the price because they are in existence. For Colonialist and Imperialist culture, the blowing of the bugle represents a signal that symbolizes their commitment to military warfare and global…
(2021-09-02). The Long Shadow of Hunger in India. libya360.wordpress.com Newsclick From tribal communities in the forests to daily wage workers in the metros, hunger afflicted millions of Indians throughout the last year. Meanwhile, the central government had massive stocks of grain The COVID-19 pandemic and the government's ill-conceived and heartless response have left the people of India devastated. The unprecedented loss of jobs and…
(2021-09-02). 20 Years of US 'War on Terror' Have Caused Nearly a Million Deaths. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Photo: Wikimedia Commons The overall estimate of the monetary cost of the war goes beyond USD 8 trillion by the US alone. Its allies, including the UK, Australia, and Germany, would have spent a greater amount collectively The US-led war on terror has killed almost a million people and cost USD 8 trillion…
(2021-09-02). Chinese Not Welcome: Canada's Political Elite Rekindles Long History of China-Hating. libya360.wordpress.com Steve Lalla Photo: Fred Dufour/The Canadian Press/AP, Pool Photo In the runup to its federal election on September 20, Canada's leading parties have leaned heavily on anti-China rhetoric, as they have done since the creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Sadly, these unscrupulous attempts to appeal to Canadian voters' basest motives may find…
(2021-09-02). Liberation Theology: What Western Asian Christians Can Learn From Latin America. libya360.wordpress.com Myriam Charabaty The struggle of entities has been overcome, and a unifying factor emerged. This resulted in reframing the struggle from a local entity-based struggle for power to a full-blown war against a hundred years of imperialism. When we look at the current state of world politics, it is clear that we are witnessing changes…
(2021-09-02). Hakainde Hichilema, Zambia's Neoliberalism, More Inequalities, And No Revolutionary Change. orinocotribune.com By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza — Aug 30, 2021 | Avenues to appeal electoral outcomes through the Constitutional Court are available. | The swearing-in of Hakainde Hichilema, leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND), as Zambia's new president has ushered an unstoppable wave of renewed hope not only in Zambia but throughout the rest of the continent as the country is being hailed for a smooth 'democratic' transition of power. And this new hope has exculpated any iota of political and socio-economic inertia that may have been perceived to be prevalent among Zambians during the calamitous neolibe…
(2021-09-01). Haiti's Debt of Independence. libya360.wordpress.com Yves Engler In the vast history of imperialist exploitation few episodes match the depravity of Haiti's debt of independence. Military blackmail of a small country by a superpower, prioritizing "property rights" over human rights, racial capitalism, a sellout "light skinned" local bourgeoise and the way our past haunts the present are all part of the…
(2021-09-01). How Amilcar Cabral Shaped Paulo Freire's Pedagogy. popularresistance.org 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 assassins just months before the national liberation movement, in which he played a central role, won the independence of Guinea-Bissau. | Cabral and the other leaders of the movement understood that they were fighting in a larger anticolonial struggle and global class war and, as such, that their immediate enemies were not only the colonial governments of particular countries, but Portuguese colonialism in general. For 500 years, Portuguese colonialism…
(2021-09-01). EDITORIAL: Cuomo afuera, #TimesUp para todos los misóginos de la clase dominante. workers.org 
Finalmente, después de meses de negaciones, despidos y excusas débiles por múltiples incidentes de acoso sexual, el gobernador de Nueva York Andrew Cuomo ha renunciado a su cargo. Esta acción se produjo sólo después de que la fiscal general del estado, Letitia James, una mujer africana-americana, publicara el 3 de . . . |
(2021-09-01). Why the Discovery of Natural Gas in Mozambique Has Produced Tragedies, Not Economic Promise. libya360.wordpress.com Vijay Prashad US Special Operations forces and Mozambican marines look on as US Special Operations Command Africa Deputy Commander Colonel Richard Schmidt speaks during a ceremony to launch a joint military training program in Maputo, March 15, 2021, to help Mozambique counter the al-Shabaab insurgency in the Cabo Delgado region. Photo: US Embassy Maputo The…
(2021-09-01). U.S. Escalates Threats to Ethiopian and Eritrean Sovereignty. libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison Elias Amare enjoyed a long friendship with Glen Ford, who was Eritrea's only media ally for many years. U.S. Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman recently returned from a tour of Ethiopia, Djibouti, and the United Arab Emirates. On the following Monday, the U.S. State Department issued a statement that…
(2021-09-01). Russia-Egypt Relations: Nuclear Energy Plant Construction. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-01). 5 Years Since the 2016 Coup: An Interview with Dilma Rousseff. libya360.wordpress.com Olímpio Cruz Neto Five years after being removed from the Presidency of the Republic during an impeachment in which no crime of responsibility was established, economist Dilma Rousseff has a clear vision of the process that culminated in her downfall, that led to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's political imprisonment and the rise…
(2021-09-01). Latin America: In Search of Lost Sovereignty. libya360.wordpress.com Ariela Ruiz Caro Part of the Presencia de América Latina mural. Photograph Source: Fotografía tomada por Farisori; Autor del mural: Jorge González Camarena, mexicano; Propiedad de la Universidad de Concepción — CC BY-SA 3.0 Two recent events have activated the possibility of relaunching Latin American and Caribbean cooperation and coordination, so neglected during the last five…
(2021-09-01). Why the Pandemic Is Getting Worse in the United States. libya360.wordpress.com Margaret Kimberley A ventilator is pictured during a training in Hamburg, Germany, on March 25. The medical devices can be life-saving for patients with severe COVID-19 cases, but there aren't enough to meet the expected need in the United States. The Covid-19 crisis cannot be separated from the failed state. Donald Trump was the convenient scapegoat…
(2021-09-01). Remembering When Rwanda President Paul Kagame Closed 6,000 Churches And Mosques: Stop Making It a Business. moguldom.com In 2018, the Rwandan government shut down more than 6,000 churches and 100 mosques across the country including 714 in the capital city of Kigali in what was seen as a move by the state to assert more control on religious communities. Rwandan President Paul Kagame claimed the crackdown on the churches and mosques across …
(2021-09-01). How Paul Kagame Lies to the World — Rwanda's Neoliberalism and Pleasing Private Capital. orinocotribune.com By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza — Aug 30, 2021 | Rwanda is often touted as a "success story" in international media coverage, with the architect of such "success" being its president, Paul Kagame. But little is said about Kagame's ideological standpoint, one that has widened income inequalities in Rwanda. The country's political elite amass wealth unabatedly while the majority are mired in endless cycles of poverty. This is coupled with Kagame's insatiable appetite for power under the dictates of the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). | The almost miraculous transformation of Rwanda is laudable. Here is a co…