(2022-05-27). State Department Approves $2.6 Billion Helicopter Deal for Egypt. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, the Pentagon said the State Department approved a potential sale of CH-47F Chinook helicopters and related equipment to Egypt worth about $2.6 billion. The Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said the sale is for 56 Chinooks, which come with installed M-240 machine guns. The principal contractor for the deal is Boeing. The Chinook …
(2022-05-27). What will happen to pandemic response after WHO and WTO meetings? peoplesdispatch.org Lauren Paremoer from the People's Health Movement South Africa talks about how the recent World Health Assembly and the Ministerial Conference of the WTO will have a major role in deciding the course of the response in case of new health emergencies and pandemics.
(2022-05-27). Turkey seeks to normalize relations with Israel, says will work for two-state solution for Palestine. peoplesdispatch.org Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu became the first high level diplomat to visit Israel in the last 15 years since relations between both the countries deteriorated over the Israeli attack on Gaza in 2008 that killed over 1,400 Palestinians…
(2022-05-26). China Proposes Deal to Increase Economic and Security Cooperation With Pacific Island Nations. news.antiwar.com China has Beijing has submitted a draft deal, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will discuss the proposal during a tour of the Pacific over the next week. He will visit seven countries China hopes will endorse the deal: Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, which recently signed a security pact with Beijing…
(2022-05-26). Notes from Ethiopia, Part 4: The TPLF Destruction of Afar. orinocotribune.com By Ann Garrison May 18, 2022 | It's 110 degrees in Ethiopia's desert Afar Region, one of the hottest areas humans inhabit, and I'm thinking about how much damage the U.S. empire does with its proxy wars in even the most remote corners of the planet—like this one—which most Americans have of course never even heard of. | There's a USAID meeting going on in the next room, here at the Hotel Dini in the city of Semara, Afar Region, and this illustrates the typical US modus operandi in Africa. Send in proxy warriors who destroy and cause immeasurable suffering, then send in USAID and the rest of the…