(2022-07-12). María Corina Machado Now Wants to Compete in Elections. orinocotribune.com The head of the Come Venezuela (Vente Venezuela in Spanish) political movement, María Corina Machado, apparently changed her mind again, and now wants to compete for the upcoming 2024 presidential elections, according to an announcement she made in a video posted on her Twitter account. | "We are willing to measure ourselves," said the far-right politician, "because Venezuela needs a political leadership, and a leadership that does not give in and does not give up, and that keeps its word and its commitment." | She said that this announcement resulted from the seventh federal meeting of her political organization…
(2022-07-12). July 2022 – Existing California Juneteenth "Optional" Holiday Observance. indybay.org Restoring the Past: California Pioneers of African Descent both free and enslaved throughout California deserve an official paid holiday through and amended AB 1655 in alignment with our Juneteenth Federal Holiday established June 2021, nearly 20 years after AB 1749 became law.
(2022-07-12). Cuba y Zimbabue: Una hermandad hecha de respeto y cooperación. cubadebate.cu El presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, recibió este lunes en La Habana a Simbarashe S. Mumbengegwi, miembro del Buró Político de la Unión Nacional Africana de Zimbabwe-Frente Patriótico.
(2022-07-12). 2022 California Admission Day – Reclaiming the Past California Pioneers of African Descent. indybay.org Reclaiming the Past: California Pioneers of African Descent along the American River Parkway (1840-1875) remains a very contentious "need for popular culture" to discredit, destroy and disparage the salient contributions by people of African Descent throughout one of America's most endangered historical preservation sites, the Gold Mining District of Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar, Gold Rush California (1840-1875.)…
(2022-07-12). Palestinians are Uniting, caught between Alliance of Authoritarian States and Western Indifference. juancole.com By Tareq Baconi | ( Al-Shabaka ) Over the course of the past decade, a new regional architecture has come into focus in the Middle East and North Africa. The US has shown greater signs of withdrawal and retrenchment from the region. Tensions have arisen and subsided between regional powers, proxy wars continue …
(2022-07-12). 18 killed, 14 kidnapped in armed attacks in Nigeria. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) — Following armed attacks in Zamfara state in Nigeria, 18 people were killed and 14 were kidnapped.
(2022-07-11). UN Agencies Warn Of 'Looming Catastrophe' As Global Hunger Rises. popularresistance.org A staggering 2.3 billion (30 percent) of the world's population were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021, with nearly 12 percent facing severe food insecurity. Millions across the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, Yemen and Syria already experiencing severe levels of hunger and poverty face the prospect of mass starvation. | This is set to worsen due to the US/NATO provoked war in Ukraine, with executive director of the UN's World Food Program (WPF) David Beasley warning that the food crisis caused by the war would push countries into famine, causing "global destabilization, starvation and mass migration on an…
(2022-07-11). UN agencies warn of "looming catastrophe" as global hunger rises. popularresistance.org United Nations agencies reported last week that global hunger and the chronic inability to access food soared in 2021. | A staggering 2.3 billion (30 percent) of the world's population were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021, with nearly 12 percent facing severe food insecurity. Millions across the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, Yemen and Syria already experiencing severe levels of hunger and poverty face the prospect of mass starvation. | This is set to worsen due to the US/NATO provoked war in Ukraine, with executive director of the UN's World Food Program (WPF) David Beasley warning that the food crisis…
(2022-07-11). NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance On The Planet. popularresistance.org The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive and dangerous military alliance on the planet. Created in 1949 to thwart Soviet expansion into Eastern and Central Europe, it has evolved into a global war machine in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia. | NATO expanded its footprint, violating promises to Moscow, once the Cold War ended, to incorporate 14 countries in Eastern and Central Europe into the alliance.
(2022-07-11). China Opens Its First Political Party School in Africa. orinocotribune.com By Kester Kenn Klomegah , 2022 | China has completed its first Political Party School in Tanzania, East Africa. It has taken in its first batch of students from six African countries. All of the political entities taking part have ruled their countries without interruption since independence. According to news agencies, 120 cadres from African ruling parties are attending the workshop at the US$40 million facility in Tanzania funded by the Chinese Communist Party. | The construction of the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School in Kibaha, 40km outside Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, was financed by the si…
(2022-07-11). 5 killed, 8 wounded in armed attack in northern Burkina Faso. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 11 (MNA) — A military headquarters in the northern part of Burkina Faso was targeted by a terrorist group, during which 5 civilians were killed and 8 soldiers were wounded.
(2022-07-11). Estados Unidos y las protestas del 11 de julio en Cuba. cubadebate.cu No fue una, sino disímiles las causas que provocaron las protestas ocurridas en diferentes localidades de Cuba el domingo 11 de julio, las cuales en su conjunto, fueron añadiendo más presión a la atmósfera social, situación aprovechada y manipulada de forma perversa por los enemigos de la Revolución. Sin embargo, en el núcleo central de todo lo ocurrido estuvo la implementación de una operación de guerra de cuarta generación que se venía preparando minuciosamente desde mucho antes, cuyas estructuras y articulaciones heredó el nuevo gobierno estadounidense de su antecesor en la Casa Blanca.
(2022-07-11). Angola Mourns Ex-President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. transcend.org 9 022 – Angolans eulogized former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos who died yesterday in Spain. He was 79 and ruled Angola for 38 years. Born 28 Aug. 1942 to immigrant parents from the archipelago of Sà£o Tome, dos Santos was raised in the poor Luanda neighborhood of Sambizanga. His father was a builder, his mother a maid.
(2022-07-11). Iran, Mali to expand coop. in fields of science, technology. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) — Iran's Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari and Minister of Higher Education and Research of Republic of Mali Amadou Keita reached agreements to develop cooperation in technological and scientific fields.