2023-09-18: News Headlines

infobrics (2023-09-18). The Urge for Brics Membership Reflects an Indicator of Worldwide Disorder. infobrics.org The annual summits of the Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (Brics) alliance have often gone unnoticed outside of their own countries. However, the recent conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, marks a significant turning point in global history…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). Despite Widespread Abuses, Canada Maintains Support for Rwandan Government. libya360.wordpress.com Owen Schalk Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame on the margins of the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France, August 2019. Photo courtesy the Prime Minister's Office. Rwandan President Paul Kagame is notorious for being one of Africa's most repressive and blood-stained dictators For three decades, Rwanda has been ruled by Paul Kagame…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-09-18). What the Media Not Telling Us About West Africa. mintpressnews.com Little attention has been paid to the possibility that perhaps African countries are fed up with the old apparatus, that of Western-supported wealthy and violent dictators – and supposed 'democrats' – who squander their country's wealth to remain in power.

Shane Quinn (2023-09-18). History: Britain's Colonial Policies in Africa. globalresearch.ca

Vicky Peláez (2023-09-18). The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery? globalresearch.ca This incisive and carefully researched article was first published by Global Research 15 years ago in March 2008. | *** | Things have got worse since 2008. African-Americans and Latinos are routinely the victims of arbitrary arrest, incarceration and inhumane exploitation in …

Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. (2023-09-17). The Pyramid Scheme That Is Racial Capitalism. popularresistance.org On August 26, a lone white gunman, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, fired 11 rounds from his semi-automatic weapon into the windshield of a car parked outside a Jacksonville Dollar General, killing the African American driver. Then he walked into the discount store, and fatally shot two other African Americans before turning the gun on himself. | Palmeter left behind a manifesto indicating his displeasure with African Americans, reminiscent of another 21-year-old white gunman, Dylan Roof, who eight years earlier sat outside the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. Finishing off a bottle of Smir…


Staff (2023-09-17). Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Sign Military Alliance. orinocotribune.com The military governments of three African states, which all deposed their Western-backed leaders in recent years, have agreed to assist each other, individually or collectively, in case of external aggression or internal threats to their sovereignty. | Mali's interim president, Assimi Goita, said on Saturday night that he signed the Liptako-Gourma Charter with the leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger, "with the aim of establishing a collective defense and mutual assistance framework."

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2023-09-17). Reparations Organizers Targeted by FBI to Speak in Oakland. indybay.org The Uhuru Solidarity Movement presents "The Uhuru 3" on U.S.- wide speaking tour to expose the FBI's violent, pre-dawn raids and the U.S. Department of Justice baseless charges against African People's Socialist Party leader Chairman Omali Yeshitela and two reparations activists working under his leadership. Learn about the struggle for reparations and black economic development!

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-17). AU activates incident management mechanism to support Libya. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Sep 17 (Prensa Latina) The chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, confirmed the activation of a mechanism for the management of incidents and the deployment of a multi-sectorial team to support Libya, it was known today.

Robert Inlakesh (2023-09-17). Black Lives Don't Matter To Israel And The West Turns A Blind Eye. thelastamericanvagabond.com In what has been almost completely ignored in Western corporate media, and by the US government, following a confrontation in Tel Aviv between Eritrean immigrant protesters and the police, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly called for the expulsion of African refugees. Despite a long history of racist abuse against black people and refugees

Ramzy Baroud (2023-09-18). Epidemic or Revolution: The Other Side of the West Africa Upheaval. counterpunch.org What if the "epidemic of coups" in West and Central Africa is not that at all, but a direct outcome of outright revolutionary movements, similar to the anti-colonial movements that liberated most African nations from the yoke of Western colonialism throughout the 20th century? Whether this is the case or not, we are unlikely to

teleSUR, lfb (2023-09-18). Mueren 24 mineros en accidente de tránsito en Sudáfrica. telesurtv.net Videos e imágenes en redes sociales indican que el autobús y el camión chocaron de manera frontal, y luego del choque el transporte de trabajadores estalló en llamas.


Editor (2023-09-17). US to Shift Some Military Aid from Egypt to Taiwan. scheerpost.com

Ariadna Eljuri (2023-09-18). President Maduro: Venezuela a Beacon in the Fight for Equality and Social Justice. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, spoke about his historic official visit to the People's Republic of China, to Algeria, and the results of the G77+China Summit that recently concluded in Cuba. | He made the statements on Sunday, September 17, at the Maiquetía International Airport in La Guaira, upon his return to Venezuela following the tour, which concluded with agreements for the development and benefit of Venezuela. | President Maduro stated that during the G77+China meeting, held in Havana, Cuba during September 15-16, he felt "the admiration and love of the world for the Venezuelan people." | "All…

Candice Norwood, Scheer Post. (2023-09-17). Teenagers' Detention At Angola Exposes Fractured Juvenile System. popularresistance.org This week the state of Louisiana was expected to transfer a group of mostly Black boys out of the former death row unit of Louisiana State Penitentiary — a maximum-security adult prison also known as Angola. But a federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily paused a judge's order requiring the state to move the children out of Angola by Friday. | The American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and several law firms, pushed for a year to stop the state from detaining children at the prison, which is located on a former slave plantation. The legal advocates praised a federal judge's man…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-17). Angola plans to eliminate refrigerant gases by 2030. plenglish.com Since 2012 the country began to apply the schedule for the gradual elimination of these gases, which are harmful to the ozone layer and cause global warming, in compliance with the Montreal Protocol, Ivone Pascoal, the person in charge of the issue in the aforementioned ministry, explained to the Angolan Press Agency. | It is expected that the application of the measure of not importing these gases and their exclusion from consumption will be completed by 2025, leaving a margin until 2030 for their total disappearance. | Reaching this point, required intense awareness-raising work on good refrigeration practices…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-17). MPLA urges to follow ideas of Angolan National Hero. plenglish.com Luanda, Sep 17 (Prensa Latina) The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Angolan People's Liberation Movement (MPLA) urged today to continue the materialization of Agostinho Neto's ideas, whose focus was the improvement of the people's life.

Connor Freeman (2023-09-18). Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso Establish Military Alliance, Vowing to Collectively Defend Against External Aggression. news.antiwar.com

Editor (2023-09-17). US to Shift Some Military Aid from Egypt to Taiwan. scheerpost.com

Ariadna Eljuri (2023-09-18). President Maduro: Venezuela a Beacon in the Fight for Equality and Social Justice. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, spoke about his historic official visit to the People's Republic of China, to Algeria, and the results of the G77+China Summit that recently concluded in Cuba. | He made the statements on Sunday, September 17, at the Maiquetía International Airport in La Guaira, upon his return to Venezuela following the tour, which concluded with agreements for the development and benefit of Venezuela. | President Maduro stated that during the G77+China meeting, held in Havana, Cuba during September 15-16, he felt "the admiration and love of the world for the Venezuelan people." | "All…

Candice Norwood, Scheer Post. (2023-09-17). Teenagers' Detention At Angola Exposes Fractured Juvenile System. popularresistance.org This week the state of Louisiana was expected to transfer a group of mostly Black boys out of the former death row unit of Louisiana State Penitentiary — a maximum-security adult prison also known as Angola. But a federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily paused a judge's order requiring the state to move the children out of Angola by Friday. | The American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and several law firms, pushed for a year to stop the state from detaining children at the prison, which is located on a former slave plantation. The legal advocates praised a federal judge's man…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-17). Angola plans to eliminate refrigerant gases by 2030. plenglish.com Since 2012 the country began to apply the schedule for the gradual elimination of these gases, which are harmful to the ozone layer and cause global warming, in compliance with the Montreal Protocol, Ivone Pascoal, the person in charge of the issue in the aforementioned ministry, explained to the Angolan Press Agency. | It is expected that the application of the measure of not importing these gases and their exclusion from consumption will be completed by 2025, leaving a margin until 2030 for their total disappearance. | Reaching this point, required intense awareness-raising work on good refrigeration practices…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-17). MPLA urges to follow ideas of Angolan National Hero. plenglish.com Luanda, Sep 17 (Prensa Latina) The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Angolan People's Liberation Movement (MPLA) urged today to continue the materialization of Agostinho Neto's ideas, whose focus was the improvement of the people's life.

Connor Freeman (2023-09-18). Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso Establish Military Alliance, Vowing to Collectively Defend Against External Aggression. news.antiwar.com

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Form Alliance of Sahel States to Advance Collective Defense. libya360.wordpress.com Tanupriya Singh (Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali) As an ECOWAS military threat looms over Niger, the three countries have formally declared that any act of aggression against one will be considered an aggression against all. The leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have come to power in popularly-backed coups…

Staff (2023-09-18). Headlines for September 18, 2023. democracynow.org U.N. Revises Death Toll from Libya Floods as Recovery Efforts Continue, 75,000 March to End Fossil Fuels in NYC as Hundreds of Thousands Worldwide Demand Climate Justice, Striking Workers Warn U.S. Automakers They May Expand Work Stoppage, Zelensky to Visit D.C. as Congress Debates Billions of Additional Dollars for Ukraine, Military Juntas in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso Sign Mutual Defense Pact, Office High-Rise Burns in Sudan's Capital Amid Fierce Fighting by Rival Factions, Iran and U.S. Finalize Prisoner Swap, Father of Mahsa Amini Arrested on First Anniversary of Her Death in Police Custody, Rights Gr…

Tanupriya Singh (2023-09-18). Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger form Alliance of Sahel States to advance collective defense. peoplesdispatch.org As an ECOWAS military threat looms over Niger, the three countries have formally declared that any act of aggression against one will be considered an aggression against all. The leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have come to power in popularly-backed coups amid mass anti-French anger and rising insecurity in the Sahel…

teleSUR, SH (2023-09-17). Níger, Mali y Burkina Faso crean alianza militar defensiva. telesurtv.net Los gobiernos de los tres países se comprometieron a combatir el terrorismo y la delincuencia organizada en el espacio común de la Alianza.

Ryan Cristián (2023-09-18). The Pirate Stream: Dialectical Dissidents — Episode 18. thelastamericanvagabond.com Join us on today's episode of The Pirate Stream — Dialectical Dissidents. Pirate Stream Media is a new platform of dedicated content creators focused on circumventing the tightly controlled, manipulated, and outright censored media space of today (both corporate and independent media) with a commitment to objectivity, integrity, and a stark awareness of the two

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-09-18). Cuban PM to meet with Guinea Bissau counterpart Geraldo Joà£o Martins. plenglish.com Havana, Sep 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero praised the solid friendship that unites both nations during a meeting held on Monday with his Guinea Bissau counterpart Geraldo Joà£o Martins.

Chris Hedges (2023-09-18). Chris Hedges: Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare. mintpressnews.com NATO's military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.

Editor (2023-09-18). Chris Hedges: Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare. scheerpost.com

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). 'Biden's Phase' of Ukraine War is Beginning. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. Bhadrakumar Long-range cruise missiles supplied by UK and France, hit Russia's Black Sea fleet at its home port of Sevastopol, Sept 13, 2023 The ground war in Ukraine has run its course, a new phase is beginning. Even diehard supporters of Ukraine in the western media and think tanks are admitting that a…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism. libya360.wordpress.com Bryce Greene It has been clear for some time that US corporate news media have explicitly taken a side on the Ukraine War. This role includes suppressing relevant history of the lead-up to the war (FAIR.org, 3/4/22), attacking people who bring up that history as "conspiracy theorists" (FAIR.org, 5/18/22), accepting official government pronouncements at face value (FAIR.org, 12/2/22)…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). Libya, Devastated by U.S./NATO Bombing, Unprepared for Extreme Storm Floods. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Scheffer Blame for the horrible flooding that has killed nearly 20,000 people in the city of Derna, with many thousands still unaccounted for in northeastern Libya, belongs squarely on the doorstep of Western capitalism and the U.S. imperialist military menace. The 2011 U.S.-led NATO war on Libya left the country in a weakened, vulnerable state. This…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). Libya Floods: Decoding the Causes and Consequences of the Deadly Disaster. libya360.wordpress.com Libya Floods: who is to be blamed for the high death toll?>

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). The US Has Blood on its Hands in the Libyan Flood. libya360.wordpress.com Steven Sahiounie A Libyan official has said they will investigate to find those responsible for the dead in the recent flooding at Derna, Libya which may be more than 11,000. They don't need an investigation to know the responsible party is US President Barack Obama, who devised and engineered a US-NATO attack on Libya in 2011 for regime…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). Thessalia Tragedy: Greece in the Crosshairs of NATO and Israel. libya360.wordpress.com The Thessalia plains floods are a catastrophe of biblical proportions — deliberate or 'climate change'? Thessalia floods in Greece. Barely reported by legacy media. Why? We have covered the fires in Greece that serve NATO expansion and the installation of wind farms to provide energy for the EU. Now, we have the devastating floods in…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-18). Ukraine's Worst Enemies Are Those Who Demand Russia's Strategic Defeat. libya360.wordpress.com Dimitri Lascaris Ukrainian soldiers ride on the back of an armoured vehicle in the Luhansk region. Photo courtesy the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine/Facebook. By insisting upon Russia's strategic defeat and excluding any possibility of meaningful compromise with Russia, we doom Ukraine to destruction. *** There is certainly a moral component to…

Steven Sahiounie (2023-09-18). The US Has Blood on Its Hands in the Libyan Flood. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-09-17). Sep 17, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Can't You See — The Marshall Tucker Band We Must Never Let Ourselves Become Desensitized To This, by Caitlin Johnstone Joe Biden: An 'End of History' Cheerleader Living in a Delusional Future, by Matthew Ehret Rebooting America, by Simplicius The Thinker Home again, home again … by CJ Hopkins Jimmy Dore Show: "The Democrats Are Rigging The Primary!" — RFK Jr. Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare, by Chris Hedges China Is Going to Collapse! Not really. Here's why it cannot happen — Jeff Brown Video, Transcript New Atlas: China's Technological Edge, Ukraine's…

mforinoco (2023-09-17). Most Deaths in Libya Floods Could Have Been Avoided — UN. orinocotribune.com A warning could have been issued if the divided nation had a "normally" operating meteorological service, the global body said | The majority of the fatalities and property damage caused by disastrous floods in Libya could have been prevented if adequate early warning and emergency management systems had been in place, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday. | "The emergency management authorities would have been able to carry out evacuation of the people. And we could have avoided most of the human casualties," Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the WMO, told reporters in G…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-17). Storm Daniel damaged or destroyed 1,500 buildings in Libyan city. plenglish.com Tripoli, Sep 17 (Prensa Latina) Some 1,500 buildings were damaged or destroyed in the eastern Libyan city of Derna during the passage of Hurricane Daniel, which caused thousands of dead and missing, an official source reported today.

_____ (2023-09-18). Climate Collapse — The Grim Silence of Our Leaders. transcend.org 14 Sep 2023 – None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of worldwide extreme weather like in this summer. Canadian wildfires, a Hawaiian town incinerated, a Greek island devastated by rainfall, a Libyan town washed into the sea leaving 20,000 dead, killer hurricanes fueled by climate change, heatwaves, floods…

_____ (2023-09-18). Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare. transcend.org 16 Sep 2023 – NATO's military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.

_____ (2023-09-18). Libya Climate Crisis Linked to Pentagon-NATO Intervention of 2011. transcend.org 13 Sep 2023 – Western foreign policy has destroyed the capacity of Libya and the Kingdom of Morocco to coordinate relief efforts amid the worsening effects of climate change.

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Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-09-18). Palestine Writes fights censorship calls. electronicintifada.net Festival organizers urge UPenn to reject malicious claims by pro-Israel lobby.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-09-18). Stress test abnormalities reveal more than just cardiovascular risks, Mayo Clinic study finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — The treadmill exercise test with electrocardiogram (ECG), also known as an exercise stress test, is one of the most familiar tests in medicine. While exercise testing typically is focused on diagnosing coronary artery disease, a recent study from Mayo Clinic finds that exercise test abnormalities, such as low functional aerobic capacity, predicted non-cardiovascular causes of death such as cancer in addition to cardiovascular-related deaths. These new findings are published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings….

Staff (2023-09-18). "We Will Not Give Up": AOC, Vanessa Nakate Lead Calls at Massive NY Climate Rally to End Fossil Fuels. democracynow.org We continue our coverage of the March to End Fossil Fuels, where protesters noted the United States is projected to account for more than one-third of planned global oil and gas expansion from today through 2050. It is the top oil and gas producer in the world, one of just 20 countries that will be responsible for 90% of new fossil fuel production over the next few decades. We feature speeches from Sunday's rally by Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate and Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They were among more than 75,000 attendees of what was the largest climate mobilization in the world since 20…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-09-18). President Díaz-Canel to extend bilateral agenda at UN. plenglish.com United Nations, Sep 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Monday extended his bilateral agenda at the UN by exchanging with the President of the 78th General Assembly Dennis Francis and Uganda ¥s Vice-President Jessica Alupo.

ecns.cn (2023-09-17). China, Zambia upgrade relations. ecns.cn China and Zambia on Friday underscored the two nations' goal of achieving sustainable, common prosperity via powerful tools such as the Belt and Road Initiative and the green economy.

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