(2022-08-13). Africa Taken for 'Neo-Colonial' Ride. orinocotribune.com 
Editorial note: Orinoco Tribune does not generally publish articles that are over 10 days old. However, in this case an exception is being made, as the subject matter of the following piece remains as significant today as at the time of its publication. | By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Jul 26, 2022 | SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 26 2022 (IPS) Like so many others, Africans have long been misled. Alleged progress under imperialism has long been used to legitimize exploitation. Meanwhile, Western colonial powers have been replaced by neo-colonial governments and international institutions serv…
(2022-08-12). The Crypto-Fascist Group That's Infiltrating the Online Communist Community. orinocotribune.com 
By Rainer Shea Aug 7, 2022 | Marxist Anti Imperialist Collective, a crypto-Strasserite group, has MAC runs several "communist" subreddits that are easy to mistake for being trustworthy, namely European Socialists, Americas Socialists, and Africas Socialis…
(2022-08-12). New Research Finds CIA Used Black Americans as Drugs Experiment Guinea Pigs. scheerpost.com By Kit Klarenberg / MintPress News By now, many will be familiar with Project MKULTRA. For decades, the CIA conducted highly unethical experiments on humans in order to perfect brainwashing, mind control and torture techniques. Perhaps the program's most notorious aspect was the administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs to targets, particularly LSD. These substances …
(2022-08-12). Expert Alert: What a formula change may mean for Black patients in need of a kidney transplant. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Experts are hoping a new requirement that all U.S. transplant centers use a race-neutral formula to determine eligibility for a kidney transplant will improve African American access to lifesaving transplants. "This is an essential step toward reducing racial inequity in access to kidney transplantation," says Naim Issa, M.D., a Mayo Clinic nephrologist. "The inclusion of race in the calculation of kidney function has been linked to disparities in care for African Americans,…
(2022-08-12). Video: Chairman Of Pan-Africanist Political Group Explains FBI Raid On Properties. moguldom.com The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently did a series of raids on several properties owned by the Pan-African political group the African People's Socialist Party. One of the FBI raids was on the home of the party's chairman, Omali Yeshitela. The African People's Socialist Party is Black liberation and is a vocal critic of U.S. …
(2022-08-12). Twenty years ago, Nigerian women took over ChevronTexaco and won concession. workers.org 
The following article first appeared on workers.org in two parts, dated Aug. 1 and 8, 2002. In honor of Black August founded in 1979, WW is reprinting slightly edited versions of both articles which can also be found in "Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle" on workers.org/book/marxism-reparations-and-the-black-freedom-struggle/. Nigerian women . . . |
(2022-08-12). Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway a booster to Kenya's socio-economic development. ecns.cn
(2022-08-11). The Migration Crisis is Tearing Europe Apart. journal-neo.org 
In the past decade, Europe has faced its biggest migration crisis since World War II. It escalated significantly in the autumn of 2015, when the flow of refugees and irregular migrants from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia into the European Union increased dramatically and the EU was unprepared to receive and distribute …
(2022-08-11). There Is No Arab Unity Without Palestine. popularresistance.org It seemed all but a done deal: Israel is finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine is becoming a marginal issue that no longer defines Israel's relations with Arab countries. Indeed, normalization with Israel is afoot, and the Arabs, so it seems, have been finally tamed. | Not so fast. Many events continue to demonstrate the opposite. Take, for example, the Arab League two-day meeting in Cairo on July 31 — August 1. The meeting was largely dominated by discussions on Palestine and concluded with statements that called on Arab countries to reactivate the Arab boycott of Israel until the l…