(2023-01-19). BRICS May Decide on Whether to Admit New Members This Year. infobrics.org The BRICS group of nations is formulating criteria for joining the bloc and may decide by the end of this year on whether to admit new nations and who those nations will be, Naledi Pandor, South Africa's foreign minister, said…
(2023-01-18). Black NFL coaches face increased injustice. workers.org 
At the beginning of the 2022 season, there were only three Black head coaches in the NFL, whose players are an estimated 60% African American. Following the end of the regular season Jan. 9, now the number is down to just two. That's because the Houston Texans fired Lovie Smith, . . . |
(2023-01-18). California, 4th largest economy on earth, poised to engage with the Pan African Diaspora. indybay.org The Great State of California is poised to align bipartisan support with the new U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa, which outlines foreign policy objectives to bolster relations with African nations, listening to diverse local voices, and widen the circle of engagement to advance strategic objectives for the benefit of both Africans and Americans.
(2023-01-18). Funcionarios de Salud exigen mejoras laborales en Chile. telesurtv.net Los afiliados de Confusam alertan que de no ser escuchados, irán a la huelga general en los próximos 15 y 16 de marzo.
(2023-01-18). Una madre y dos hijos mueren congelados en un parque de Michigan EE.UU. cubadebate.cu Una madre de Michigan y dos niños fueron encontrados muertos congelados durante el fin de semana, según policía. Una tercera niña sobrevivió gracias a la ayuda de un extraño. Mónica Cannady, de 35 años, y sus hijos Kyle Milton, de 9, y Malik Milton, de 3, fueron encontrados el domingo en la tarde en un parque cerca de Pontiac, Michigan, según la oficina del sheriff del condado de Oakland.
(2023-01-18). Religiosos denuncian agravamiento de la situación en Nigeria. telesurtv.net Hombre armados asaltaron una iglesia y quemaron vivo a uno de los curas presentes en el inmueble el domingo pasado.
(2023-01-17). SF Reparations Committee proposal demonstrates the greed and unreality behind demands for slavery reparations. americanthinker.com I am grateful to San Francisco's official African American Reparations Advisory Committee for the damage it has done to the notion that the current populace of the United States, none of whom were alive during slavery, owe some kind of debt to African Americans.
(2023-01-17). Mass migrant grave in Malawi shows the ongoing violence of colonial travel restrictions for Africans. therealnews.com 
Near the end of October, Malawi police The unfathomable uncovering of a mass grave in my home district of Mzimba, Malawi, is a morbid indictment of the deadly global travel inequalities that we have been conditioned t…
(2023-01-17). Direct from Western Sahara: learn about the struggle of the last colony in Africa. peoplesdispatch.org 
In the middle of the Sahara desert, half a million people resist and fight for their liberation. Under the slogan "intensify the armed struggle to expel the invader and build sovereignty," the Polisario Front, the political organization that leads the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), is holding its 16th Congress in Dajla one of five Sahrawi refugee camps in the town of Tindouf, Algeria. After 30 years of ceasefire, this is the first Congress to be held again in the context of armed confrontation with Morocco. | "All the human, financial, and material resources are sent to support the combat on the a…
(2023-01-17). U.S. interceptor missile warship docks in Estonian capital. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, like Ticonderoga-class cruisers, of which the Pentagon has 87 (70 of the first, 17 of the second), are equipped to fire Standard Missile 2 IIAs recently tested to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). See videos below. RR ==== U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa/U.S. Sixth FleetJanuary 17, 2023 USS Roosevelt (DDG …
(2023-01-17). Canciller chino y jefe de la Liga àÅrabe se reúnen en Egipto. telesurtv.net El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Qin Gang realizó su primera gira a varios países africanos tras asumir el cargo en los primeros días de enero.
(2023-01-17). The framework convention on climate is dead. Now what? mronline.org The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change went into effect in March 1994. Yet, of the twenty-seven meetings that the UNFCCC has held to date, the most recent one, in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt, was the most inconsequential.
(2023-01-17). Egyptian court sentences 82, including 22 children, for participating in 2019 anti-government protests. peoplesdispatch.org 38 people, including businessman Mohammad Ali whose videos sparked the protests, were given life sentences. 44 others were given prison terms of between 5 and 15 years…
(2023-01-17). Egyptian court hands down 38 life sentences for 2019 anti-government protests. wsws.org The trial's aim was to ensure no one else challenges the brutal dictatorship of General Abdul Fattah el-Sisi, who overthrew the elected government of President Mohammed Morsi in a bloody military coup in July 2013.
(2023-01-17). Headlines for January 17, 2023. democracynow.org Ukraine Blames Russia After Strike on Dnipro Apartment Building Kills at Least 44, U.S. Expands Training for Ukrainian Soldiers at Military Base in Germany, German Defense Minister Resigns as Allies Press for More Arms to Ukraine, Former Afghan MP Mursal Nabizada Assassinated in Her Kabul Home, More Than Women Abducted by Insurgents in Burkina Faso, Death Toll from Unrelenting California Storms Rises to 20, Meteorologists Forecast Global Heating Will Accelerate in 2024, German Police Use Tear Gas to Clear Climate Activists from Site of Coal Mine, Activists Blockade Private Jet Airport Used by World Economic For…
(2023-01-17). Final de la Liga Élite: Agricultores reacciona en otro partido de batazos. cubadebate.cu En otro partido de marcador abierto, los discípulos del director técnico Carlos Manuel Martí Santos conectaron 17 indiscutibles, esenciales para su primer triunfo en esta final ante los Portuarios, al igual que la labor del cerrador Yoel Mogena Machado, ganador del encuentro. Ahora, la final se encuentra 2-1 a favor de Portuarios, quien mañana volverá a jugar en su terreno.
(2023-01-17). Pfizer Has a Long History of Fraud, Corruption and Using Children as Human Guinea Pigs. globalresearch.ca
(2023-01-17). U.S. Spy Chief Gives His Support to Libya PM As Part of a DEAL OVER LOCKERBIE? strategic-culture.org The greatest cover up since JKF — The Lockerbie bombing — might be coming apart at the seams, Martin Jay writes. | America seems to be getting skittish about its dirty work in Libya and how the greatest cover up since JKF — The Lockerbie bombing — might be coming apart at the seams. | Like Afghanistan, Libya, a country rich in oil wealth and underpopulated, is heading towards being branded another major NATO f***-up as analysts worry that delayed elections, the hilarious farce of now having two rival prime ministers in office and an economy in freefall, could all point to rival factions re…
(2023-01-17). CIA Arrives in Libya to Manipulate Elections. libya360.wordpress.com Steven Sahiounie William Burns, CIA director, arrived in Libya on January 12 and met with Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibe in Tripoli, and others. The meeting marked the highest-ranked US official to visit Libya since President Joe Biden took office. Dbeibe's government began in February 2021 and was tasked with holding elections under the auspices of the…
(2023-01-17). Europe's Gas Emergency: A Continent Hostage to Seller Prices. libya360.wordpress.com Mohamad Hasan Sweidan Europe's reliance on Russian gas imports has been upended by sanctions against Moscow. With few options for practical alternatives, the continent will remain energy-dependent and financially-vulnerable regardless of who it imports from. The 2022 outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine revealed the importance of energy security in bolstering Moscow's geopolitical power in…
(2023-01-17). Peruvian Movements Organize Caravan to Lima to Intensify Protests. libya360.wordpress.com Tanya Wadhwa A march against the Dina Boluarte government and Congress in Lima on Saturday. Photo: OjoPúblico / Renato Pajuelo Indigenous and peasant leaders have called for a 'March from the Four Corners' to Lima to intensify ongoing protests against the coup and the de facto government of Dina Boluarte Thousands of people from Peru's…
(2023-01-17). Protests in Somaliland Call for Reunification with Somalia. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni A protest in Taleex on January 15. Photo: Khaatumo Media Office Even as the US and UK are increasingly legitimizing secessionist rule in Somaliland, whose sovereignty has no international recognition, a unionist movement seeking a united Somalia threatens to unravel the self-declared republic Protests against secessionist rule are spreading across the Sool region…
(2023-01-17). US and NATO Do Not Want Peace in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Viktor Medvedchuk Listening to many Western politicians, it seems completely impossible to understand the essence of the current conflict in Ukraine, and the mechanisms which led us here. Take US President Biden: He denies that American troops are directly involved in the conflict but at the same time he consistently emphasizes his country's multi-billion dollar weapons supplies….
(2023-01-17). Venezuela's Seed Law Should Be a Global Model. libya360.wordpress.com Owen Schalk A farm worker holds bell peppers during a harvest in Cubiro, Venezuela. For peasant farmers, the battle over seed rights is critical to their livelihoods Seeds are an often-overlooked political battleground in industrialized countries like those of North America and Europe, but for peasant farmers in the Global South, the battle over seed…
(2023-01-17). Military Situation In Syria On January 17, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On January 17, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 2 times: 1 in Idlib province, 1 in Latakia province; | On January 17, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara; | On January 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed in a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the normalization of Turkish-Syrian relations and other issue…
(2023-01-17). Protests in breakaway Somaliland call for reunification with Somalia. peoplesdispatch.org Even as the US and UK are increasingly legitimizing secessionist rule in Somaliland, whose sovereignty has no international recognition, a unionist movement seeking a united Somalia threatens to unravel the self-declared republic…
(2023-01-17). Daily Round-Up | Protests continue in Peru and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of the ongoing protests in Peru, the Oxfam report on inequality, the continuing Israeli atrocities in Palestine, and protests in Tunisia…
