(2022-07-04). Iraqi State of Law Taps Maliki as New PM Candidate. news.antiwar.com All but inevitable since the resignation of Moqtada al-Sadr's coalition from parliament, the State of Law has announced its own candidate for Iraqi PM. As expected, Holding the position from 2006 to 2014, Maliki is the longest-seated premier of the US occupation of Iraq. A former Dawa Party figure popular with Iran, Maliki was a controversial leader throughout his last tenure. | Navigating through constant political division, Maliki was positioned as a compromise candidate protecting a status quo which, by 2014, fewer and fewer voters wer…
(2022-07-04). Protests after Akron police murder Jayland Walker. fightbacknews.org Akron, OH — On July 3, hundreds of people took to the streets and participated in marches demanding justice for Jayland Walker, an African American man who was murdered by Akron police on June 27. Shot over 60 times and then handcuffed after his body was full of holes and bleeding wounds, Jayland Walker was unarmed while murdered by police. The organized protests follow days of sporadic unrest throughout the city. After the seventh day, the Akron Police Department finally held a press conference which released body-cam footage detailing the incident to the public. | After a press conference, protesters imm…
(2022-07-04). Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation. scheerpost.com 
According to the National Priorities Project, about 25% of our tax dollars go to the Pentagon to finance the men, women, and weaponry that enables the United States military to fight its wars in Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and elsewhere. An additional 13.2% goes to pay the national debt much of which was borrowed to pay for war.
(2022-07-04). CEDEAO retira sanciones impuestas a Malí por golpes de Estado. telesurtv.net El presidente de la Comisión de la CEDEAO comunicó que "La decisión tiene efecto inmediato a partir de hoy".
(2022-07-04). BRICS countries can make significant contribution to 2030 SDGs: senior Brazilian official. ecns.cn A senior Brazilian official has spoken highly of the role BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has played during the past 16 years and the importance of the 14th BRICS Summit hosted by China during an interview with China News Service.
(2022-07-04). Key Takeaways from BRICS Summit. transcend.org 29 Jun 2022 – Last week the 14th BRICS Summit took place virtually, chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The BRICS bloc (Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) represents a key political, economic, and scientific force in the international arena. These nations represent half of the world's population and their collective GDP is greater that $20 trillion.
(2022-07-04). Police release body-camera footage of African American man fatally shot by officers in Ohio, U.S. ecns.cn Police of Akron in the U.S. state of Ohio released on Sunday body-camera footage of the fatal shooting of African American Jayland Walker by multiple officers last week.
(2022-07-04). Arms stretched out to Durban, to RETUSA, to dockers internationally… indybay.org South African dockers from Durban gave solidarity greetings to ILWU Local 10 longshore workers and the community against the privatization and destruction of the Howard Terminal in the Port Of Oakland. In response ILWU Local 10 past president Trent Willis and ILWU Local 10 member Aaron Wright thanked Duban dockers.
(2022-07-04). Friday 7/29: Stolen Legacy: California Pioneers of African Descent. indybay.org Leidesdorff Street | Financial District…
(2022-07-03). Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid, Celebrity Activists, BDS, and the One-State Solution. commondreams.org "The brazenness of Israeli actions is pretty striking. They do what they want, knowing the United States will support them. Well, this is much worse than what happened in South Africa; it's not an effort to somehow accommodate the Palestinian population as a suppressed workforce, it's just to get rid of them."
(2022-07-03). Climate activists across the Global South and North unite to stop the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline. popularresistance.org On last month's annual celebration known as Africa Day, activists in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and elsewhere held demonstrations targeting French oil giant TotalEnergies' involvement in African fossil fuel extraction projects. A main focus of the protests was Total's proposed East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, or EACOP, which would transport 200,000 barrels of oil per day from western Uganda to export terminals 1,445 kilometers away on the Tanzanian coast. | Grassroots organizers in Uganda and Tanzania have been speaking out against EACOP for years, sometimes at great risk to their own safety. But in a testament…
(2022-07-03). Global South And North Unite To Stop East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline. popularresistance.org On last month's annual celebration known as Africa Day, activists in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and elsewhere held demonstrations targeting French oil giant TotalEnergies' involvement in African fossil fuel extraction projects. A main focus of the protests was Total's proposed East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, or EACOP, which would transport 200,000 barrels of oil per day from western Uganda to export terminals 1,445 kilometers away on the Tanzanian coast. | Grassroots organizers in Uganda and Tanzania have been speaking out against EACOP for years, sometimes at great risk to their own safety.
(2022-07-03). WHO: Monkeypox cases triple in Europe, Africa concerned. ecns.cn The World Health Organization (WHO) Europe chief warned Friday that monkeypox cases in the region have tripled in the last two weeks and urged countries to do more to ensure the previously rare disease does not become entrenched on the continent.
(2022-07-03). Is There a Price in Blood for British Foreign Policy? scheerpost.com 
Sept. 15, 2011: From left: French President Nicholas Sarkozy, National Transition Council Chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron in Benghazi, Libya, after addressing a crowd in Liberty Square. (No. 10 Downing) | By Peter Oborne / Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 a number of people — including then MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller — warned it would make the streets of Britain more dangerous. | These warnings were ignored by Prime Minister Tony Blair.
(2022-07-03). Efforts underway to normalize ties with Egypt: Iran FM. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) — Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that so far there have been no direct negotiations between Tehran and Cairo, but efforts are underway to normalize relations with the Arab country.
(2022-07-03). Sudan's military junta launches brutal crackdown on protests. wsws.org The deadliest violence since near weekly mass protests began last October over the military's ouster of the interim government of Dr Abdulla Hamdok brings the total number killed since the coup to 114, including 18 children.
(2022-07-03). Developing Tehran-Cairo ties in interest of both nations. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) — Saying that Iran has had no direct negotiations with the Egyptian side so far, the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stated that expanding the two countries' ties is in the interest of both nations.
(2022-07-02). Daily Round-up | Sudanese security forces kill 9 protesters during anti-coup protests & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories from the protests in Sudan, the end of the national strike in Ecuador, the extension of the eviction moratorium in Brazil, and verdicts on abortion two US states…
(2022-07-02). [Correspondence] The monkeypox outbreak is amplifying hidden voices in the global discourse. thelancet.com Tulio d Oliveira's Comment1 on the global inattention to infectious disease science done in Africa is timely, as the largest outbreak of monkeypox outside of Africa continues.2 As of June 15, 2022, 2103 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported to WHO from 42 countries. The unexpected, unprecedented, and unusual nature of this outbreak in Europe and the Americas has spurred scientific, political, and media attention. Importantly, monkeypox has been known to cause human disease for over 50 years and is endemic in at least ten countries in west and central Africa with over a thousand incidences rep…