(2023-06-21). Eric Zuesse: Reshaping American Racism, Or REPLACING American Racism? southfront.org 
Written by America's racism is reducing its focus against Africans in order to increase its focus against Asians. | On June 20th, an editorial in China's Global Times newspaper headlined
(2023-06-21). African Peace Initiative Seeks to End War in Eastern Europe. globalresearch.ca
(2023-06-21). NUMSA leads Eskom workers to victory. peoplesdispatch.org The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has struck a deal with Eskom, the public electric company securing better wages, housing allowance and a lump sum payment for the workers…
(2023-06-21). African Union and WFP strengthen peace and security activities. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Jun 21 (Prensa Latina) An agreement between the Peace Fund Secretariat of the African Union (AU) and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) increased support for peace and security activities.
(2023-06-21). Mayo Clinic Minute: Preventing cancer for future generations of Black families. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The statistics are staggering. Black people are more likely to die from cancer than other racial and ethnic groups. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African Americans have the highest death rate from cancer overall. National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week is June 15—21. Dr. Kim Barbel Johnson, a Mayo Clinic family medicine physician with the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, says educating patients is essential to reducing and preventing cancer deaths…
(2023-06-20). Headlines for June 20, 2023. democracynow.org Blinken Meets with Xi Jinping in Beijing in Attempt to "Stabilize" U.S-China Relations, Israel Deploys U.S.-Made Apache Helicopter Gunships in Deadly Raid on Jenin Refugee Camp, Sudan Health Minister Says Death Toll Has Topped 3,000 Since Fighting Broke Out, 37 Students Among Dead in Deadly Attack on School in Uganda, African Leaders Go to Moscow & Kyiv to Urge End to War in Ukraine, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, 92, Dies, Justice Department Accuses Minneapolis Police of Unlawful Use of Force, Report: DOJ & FBI Waited a Year to Probe Trump for Role in Jan. 6 Insurrection, In Fox Inter…
(2023-06-20). The Great Debate: Should The Juneteenth Flag Be Red, Black, and Green or Red, White, And Blue? moguldom.com Ever since June 17, 2021, when President Joe Biden signed legislation making Juneteenth a U.S. federal holiday, there has been a debate over what colors should be included in the official Juneteenth flag. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of African American slaves. The name is derived from combining June and "nineteenth" and the event is celebrated …
(2023-06-20). African seed fund kick-starts innovative research partnerships. imperial.ac.uk The African seed fund supports a range of research projects with partners in Africa — strengthening ties between Imperial and the continent.
(2023-06-20). FRONTEX Responsible for Deaths in the Mediterranean. orinocotribune.com By Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path — Jun 20, 2023 | Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path, condemns the murder of more than 500 migrants in Greek waters and blames the European Union and its repressive and genocidal migration and border policies. | On Wednesday, June 14, 2023, some 80 kilometers from the Greek coast, the Greek Coast Guard, together with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX) murdered 78 people of various origins who were on board a boat that carried some 750 migrants (mainly Syrians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Afghans, and Sudanese…
(2023-06-20). Will Papua New Guinea Be a New Epicenter of Struggle Between China and the US? orinocotribune.com The Pacific region is currently an important pole of economic development. It is possible that this area, which includes emerging powers such as China and India—the most populous countries in the world—will become an epicenter of geopolitical disputes. | In recent years, China has projected its economic dynamism throughout the region through trade and cooperation alliances. While China continues to expand its influence through economic relations, the United States has sought a way to halt this advance through alliances such as the Quad, which includes Australia, Japan, and India. In the same way, the…
(2023-06-21). Bomb Blast Kills Three People in Police Vehicle in NE Kenya. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday afternoon, at least three people were killed by a bomb explosion in the vicinity of the town of Guba, located in Mandera county, near the border with Somalia. | Related: | Official reports state that the victims are two policemen and an engineer, but their identities have not yet been revealed; the primary suspect of the incident is the Somali group, Al Shabaab. | Amos Mariba, the Mandera County Commissioner, confirmed the inc…
(2023-06-21). Libya: 165 Nigerian Migrants Deported, 90 Are Women. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Libyan authorities announced that, in coordination with the International Organization for Migration as part of a voluntary return program, deported 165 Nigerian migrants, more than half of them women and children. | Related: | Colonel Haitham Belqasim, spokesman for the Libyan Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency, said in an official statement that Libyan authorities have "deported 165 illegal immigrants to N…
(2023-06-20). Argentina: Jujuy Rises Up Against Repression and Regressive Reforms. libya360.wordpress.com Zoe Alexandra The blockade of Route 9 in Purmamarca was heavily repressed on Saturday June 17. Photo: Edgardo Valera / TELAM The province led by conservative Governor Gerardo Morales has been rocked by mass protests against the reform of the constitution which undermines Indigenous rights and the right to protest In Jujuy, Argentina, communities and…
(2023-06-20). Building a Resistance Economy: Lessons from Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com Emanuel Pietrobon The Caribbean island country has been living under a US embargo since the early 1960s. With scarce natural resources, but a lot of creativity, the country not only managed to face economic isolation, but also developed some top-tier specialisations, writes Valdai Club expert Emanuel Pietrobon. The West-sponsored Ukraine-related sanctions-regime has converted Russia into the most-sanctioned…
(2023-06-20). Canadian Sanctions on Russia: Powerless Rage with a Boomerang Effect. libya360.wordpress.com Valeriy Krylko Russian President Vladimir Putin on the left, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the right. Image credit: Institute for Peace and Diplomacy. Canada has repeatedly imposed sanctions packages on Russia, both before and after the special military operation (SMO) began. Canada's recent seizure of a Russian an-124 cargo plane, which had been delivering COVID…
(2023-06-21). Bomb Blast Kills Three People in Police Vehicle in NE Kenya. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday afternoon, at least three people were killed by a bomb explosion in the vicinity of the town of Guba, located in Mandera county, near the border with Somalia. | Related: | Official reports state that the victims are two policemen and an engineer, but their identities have not yet been revealed; the primary suspect of the incident is the Somali group, Al Shabaab. | Amos Mariba, the Mandera County Commissioner, confirmed the inc…
(2023-06-21). Libya: 165 Nigerian Migrants Deported, 90 Are Women. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Libyan authorities announced that, in coordination with the International Organization for Migration as part of a voluntary return program, deported 165 Nigerian migrants, more than half of them women and children. | Related: | Colonel Haitham Belqasim, spokesman for the Libyan Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency, said in an official statement that Libyan authorities have "deported 165 illegal immigrants to N…
(2023-06-20). Argentina: Jujuy Rises Up Against Repression and Regressive Reforms. libya360.wordpress.com Zoe Alexandra The blockade of Route 9 in Purmamarca was heavily repressed on Saturday June 17. Photo: Edgardo Valera / TELAM The province led by conservative Governor Gerardo Morales has been rocked by mass protests against the reform of the constitution which undermines Indigenous rights and the right to protest In Jujuy, Argentina, communities and…
(2023-06-20). Building a Resistance Economy: Lessons from Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com Emanuel Pietrobon The Caribbean island country has been living under a US embargo since the early 1960s. With scarce natural resources, but a lot of creativity, the country not only managed to face economic isolation, but also developed some top-tier specialisations, writes Valdai Club expert Emanuel Pietrobon. The West-sponsored Ukraine-related sanctions-regime has converted Russia into the most-sanctioned…
(2023-06-20). Canadian Sanctions on Russia: Powerless Rage with a Boomerang Effect. libya360.wordpress.com Valeriy Krylko Russian President Vladimir Putin on the left, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the right. Image credit: Institute for Peace and Diplomacy. Canada has repeatedly imposed sanctions packages on Russia, both before and after the special military operation (SMO) began. Canada's recent seizure of a Russian an-124 cargo plane, which had been delivering COVID…
(2023-06-20). "Normal" Life Under Artillery Shells: "We Will Never Abandon Our Land" libya360.wordpress.com United World International We are in the Donetsk People's Republic. The Republic unilaterally declared independence from Ukraine in 2014. People are walking on the streets, taking their children to parks. However, at the same time, artillery shells or missiles are falling there. This is "normal" for them. We departed from Zaporizhia and took the road…
(2023-06-20). Interpreting a Negative Trial as a Negative Test for Efficacy. jamanetwork.com As noted in JAMA more than 30 years ago, randomized clinical trials are like diagnostic tests in several ways. Clinical trials are designed to detect hypothesized treatment effects in the same way diagnostic tests are designed to detect an abnormality or target illness. A trial's statistical power, namely the probability that it can detect the treatment effect given that the hypothesized effect exists, is analogous to a diagnostic test's sensitivity, namely the probability a positive test result is obtained when the target condition is present. Just as the sensitivity of a diagnostic test can be affected by the s…
(2023-06-21). UN: 20 Million USD for Urgent Food Aid Campaign in NE Nigeria. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres, said that the UN allocated 20 million U.S. dollars for an urgent food security and nutrition campaign for hunger-hit northeast Nigeria. | Related: | With $9 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund and $11 million from the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund, "we will support the government-led response efforts across B…
(2023-06-20). Sudanese left skeptical of US-Saudi led peace talks, "The resolution has to be found here in Sudan" peoplesdispatch.org The Sudanese Communist Party argues that the ceasefire mainly serves for the warring parties resupply their forces and resume fighting with greater intensity…
(2023-06-20). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Headlines in This News Package: Climate Change Is Intensifying Humanitarian Crisis in War-Affected Yemen One in Five Children in Pakistan Are Suffering From Wasting, Says UN Report Socialist Party of Zambia President Fred M'membe Faces Threat of Arrest Millions in the U.S. Ration Medicine as Big Pharma Fights to Keep Prices High [NEWS ITEM …