teleSUR (2022-02-28). Russia-Ukraine War Threatens Import-Depending African Economies. telesurenglish.net Last week, the Renaissance Capital Investment Bank Economist Director Charlie Robertson warned that the Ukraine-Russian war will severely impact African countries that depend on food imports from Europe. | RELATED: | "Africa keeps centuries-old ties with Western countries," Robertson said, stressing that this continent imported US$6.9 billion in agricultural products from Russia and Ukraine in 2020. | He considered that the g…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-28). The ICJ and the Issue of Lawful Representation in The Gambia v Myanmar. transcend.org 18 Feb 2022 – Ahead of the scheduled public hearings in The Gambia v Myanmar (the Rohingya genocide case) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Canada, the Genocide Watch of USA and FORSEA release a comprehensive legal analysis. It focuses on the crucial question of who should lawfully speak for Myanmar before the ICJ as Myanmar's coup resulted in an unprecedented situation with no recognized government or even regime with effective control of the state.

Charlie Jane Anders (2022-02-28). Saturday 3/12: Writers With Drinks featuring Malinda Lo. indybay.org The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street…

Editor2 (2022-02-27). Barack Obama's Father Identified as CIA Asset in US Drive to 'Recolonize' Africa During Early Days of the Cold War. orinocotribune.com By Gerald Horne — Feb 10, 2022 | Over the last decade, the U.S. has been quietly expanding its covert intelligence empire in Africa as part of a growing geopolitical rivalry with China. | A new book published by Susan Williams, entitled

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-27). In Defense of Russia and the People's Republics of Donbas. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Fonseca Terán In the context of the unification of Germany, the Western powers agreed with the Soviet Union (to which Russia belonged) that NATO would not incorporate countries within its borders. For those who do not know, NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, formed by the West to provide a military counterweight to…

_____ (2022-02-27). On Contact: Race And America's Long War. popularresistance.org The internal violence in the United States, militarized police, and the largest prison system in the world, along with America's endemic racism, are mirrored in the foreign wars that have been fought almost continuously by the United States since the end of the 19th century. These inner and outer wars, argues historian Nikhil Pal Singh, are intimately connected. The gunning down of unarmed black people in American cities is expressed outside our borders in the gunning down of unarmed Muslims in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, often by militarized drones. The prison-industrial-complex at home…

teleSUR (2022-02-27). LIVE: Russia – Ukraine Negotiations Have Started in Belarus. telesurenglish.net Russian Central Bank announces easing on loans to borrowers due to sanctions – Biden to discuss common response to Russian military operation in Ukraine with allies – European Union formalizes closure of its airspace to Russian airlines – Ukraine-Russia Talks To Begin on Monday Morning | Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia have begun in Belarus…

_____ (2022-02-27). 'Mothers And Fathers March' Stands Behind Youth Resisting Coup. popularresistance.org On Saturday, February 26, thousands of elderly people in Sudan took part in the 'Mothers and Fathers march' to voice their support for the youth who, organized under the neighborhood Resistance Committees (RCs), continue resisting the military junta daily on the streets. The security forces attacked this demonstration, injuring at least 34 people, said the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD). | At least 83 pro-democracy protesters have been killed by security forces, and more than 3,000 have been injured in the four months since the coup by army chief Abdel Fattah al Burhan on October 25, 2021. | Over 45…

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-02-27). 'Mothers and Fathers March' stands firmly behind Sudanese youth resisting coup leaders. peoplesdispatch.org Elderly people across Sudan took to the streets in a show of support for the youth who are resisting the military junta. Meanwhile, the neighborhood Resistance Committees are set to announce a united political vision for the country…

_____ (2022-02-27). Assange Affirms The Existence Of Another Kind Of Human Nature. popularresistance.org We know what Julian did. We know the great public service he provided. We know that he and WikiLeaks, aided by courageous figures such as Chelsea Manning, gave us the most important journalist coup of our generation, ripping back the veil erected by the ruling political, military, and financial elites to expose their mendacity, their corruption, and their crimes. We know that populations around the world, from Haiti to Tunisia, were empowered by this information to hold these elites accountable. | But today I want us to reflect on Julian himself. For Julian, endowed with precocious skills, could easily have been…

Editor2 (2022-02-27). Barack Obama's Father Identified as CIA Asset in US Drive to 'Recolonize' Africa During Early Days of the Cold War. orinocotribune.com By Gerald Horne — Feb 10, 2022 | Over the last decade, the U.S. has been quietly expanding its covert intelligence empire in Africa as part of a growing geopolitical rivalry with China. | A new book published by Susan Williams, entitled

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-02-27). 'Mothers and Fathers March' stands firmly behind Sudanese youth resisting coup leaders. peoplesdispatch.org Elderly people across Sudan took to the streets in a show of support for the youth who are resisting the military junta. Meanwhile, the neighborhood Resistance Committees are set to announce a united political vision for the country…

JANET (2022-02-26). France agrees to withdraw troops from Mali. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel February 25, 2022 President Emmanuel Macron of France announced that French troops will be pulling out of their bases in Gossi, Menaka and Gao, which are all in eastern Mali, near the three-border area with Niger and Burkina Faso. Local communities sent support and trucks to help move people and their belongings out of the beleaguered Tessit region. He made this announcement before a summit between the European Union and the African Union, Feb. 17 in Brussels. "We cannot remain militarily engaged alongside de facto authorities, whose strategy and hidden aims we do not share," Macron said, referring t…

Seth Galinsky (2022-02-26). As Islamist attacks batter West Africa, Mali government orders French out. themilitant.com President Emmanuel Macron announced the withdrawal of French troops from Mali Feb. 17 after a nine-year failed effort to crush Islamist terrorist groups operating there and in other former French colonies. This comes on top of growing political instability, including coups in Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso amid worsening conditions for millions of working people. | The troops were sent to Mali in 2013 with the aim of stabilizing its capitalist government and French influence. They took the lead in combating armed rebels based among the Tuaregs — an oppressed ethnic minority of semi-nomadic herders and trader…

Staff (2022-02-26). US strikes 'terrorists'. rt.com A drone attack targeting al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia is the latest in a 15-year bombing campaign | The US Africa Command has claimed a Tuesday airstrike in Somalia, declaring the drone attack had targeted "al-Shabaab terrorists," accusing them of "attacking partner forces in a remote location near Duduble," around 64 kilometers (40 miles) northwest of the capital, Mogadishu. | Further details were not given in the statement, which added that AFRICOM "take[s] great measures to prevent civilian casualties," unlike the "indiscriminate attacks that al-Shabaab regularly conducts against the civilian population…

teleSUR (2022-02-26). Biden Nominates African-American Judge for US Supreme Court. telesurenglish.net With the election of the current federal appellate judge in Washington, D.C., Biden fulfills his 2020 campaign promise to make history by nominating the first African American to that position. | President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. She is eminently qualified to serve our nation on our highest court. Feb. 26, 2022.

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-26). Morning Commute 2-26-2022: Global Imperialism, Revolutionary Defeatism, and Capitalist Domination. anchor.fm In this episode I go through the statement given by Kenyan you an ambassador about the Ukrainian crisis, I also speak about Israel's recent bombing of Syria and their ongoing genocidal campaign within the region, and I also speak to the issues facing do you many people as the Saudi Arabian and UAE forces continue to bomb, kill, and pillage using US made or US sent arms ammunition and weaponry.

Armin Groh (2022-02-26). Wars hardly achieve their intended goal anymore. indybay.org The third Gulf War ended Saddam Hussein's rule but resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, the emergence of IS, and a dramatic crash in living standards. Intervention in Libya succeeded in toppling Gaddafi, but turned Libya into a failed state.

Editor (2022-02-26). Hedges: Assange Affirms the Existence of Another Kind of Human Nature. scheerpost.com Original illustration by Mr. Fish | By Chris Hedges / A Statement made at the We know what Julian did. We know the great public service he provided. We know that he and WikiLeaks, aided by courageous figures such as Chelsea Manning, gave us the most important journalist coup of our generation, ripping back the veil erected by the ruling political, military, and financial elites to expose their mendacity, their corruption, and their crimes. We know that populations around the world, from Haiti to Tunisia, w…