Daily Archives: 2023-02-03

2023-02-03: News Headlines

infobrics (2023-02-03). India ready to partner with South Africa in space exploration. infobrics.org The newly-appointed Consul General Mahesh Kumar at a Republic Day reception in Johannesburg said India is ready to welcome more investment from South Africa into the country…

ecns.cn (2023-02-03). Biden faces pressure on policing. ecns.cn When U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris was called to the pulpit at the funeral for Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old African American whose fatal beating by police shocked the nation and triggered urgent calls for reform, she said the White House would settle for nothing less than ambitious federal legislation to crack down on police brutality.

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Dallas demands justice for Tyre Nichols. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On January 28, over 50 people gathered in Civic Garden Park in Downtown Dallas to protest the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by police in Memphis, Tennessee. The rally was organized by the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression-Dallas. | Local activist Olinka Green led a chant of the names of victims, including Tyre Nichols, Sandra Bland, Atatiana Jefferson, Santos Rodriguez and DeeDee Hall, an African American trans woman who was killed by police in Dallas in 2022. | Sydney Loving, co-chair of NAARPR Dallas, demanded justice for Tyre Nichols and emphasized the importance and need…

Staff (2023-02-03). Condecoran en Angola a primer embajador cubano en ese país. cubadebate.cu El primer embajador de Cuba en Angola en 1975, Oscar Oramas, recibió la Orden Sagrada Esperanza, de la Fundación Dr. António Agostinho Neto, promotora del legado histórico del estadista africano. Oramas, mereció el reconocimiento por su "relevante dedicación" al apoyo internacionalista que Cuba prestó a la defensa de la soberanía de Angola.

Staff (2023-02-03). Cuba ratifica su compromiso de cooperación entre àÅfrica-Caribe-Pacífico. cubadebate.cu Yaira Jiménez, embajadora cubana en Bélgica y ante la Unión Europea (UE), depositó el instrumento de ratificación en el cual el país caribeño subraya su apego a los principios de la organización, que apuntan al desarrollo sostenible, a la participación de sus miembros en la economía global y a la erradicación de la pobreza.

Editor (2023-02-03). New Advanced Placement African American Studies Course is Watered Down Version of Itself. scheerpost.com By Suneal Kolluri, University of California, Riverside / The Conversation On February 1, 2023— the first day of Black History Month — the College Board released the framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has criticized the pilot version of the African American studies course as lacking educational …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2023-02-02). African Americans and the United States Civil War. globalresearch.ca

Fight Back (2023-02-02). New Orleans: Students United at UNO affiliates with Students for a Democratic Society. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – Students United, a group of student organizers at the University of New Orleans, voted unanimously to affiliate with the New Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in January 2023. With their affiliation, SDS has come to New Orleans' largest public university. This group waged a successful campaign against a UNO fee hike in 2022, and will continue to build the student movement on campus. | For its next campaign, Students United will take on the issue of Black enrollment. Despite New Orleans being a 60% African American city, only 22% of UNO students in 2022 were Black. The activists are inspire…

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-02-02). Morning Commute 2/2/2023: Housing, Genocide in North America, Police violence and more! anchor.fm This morning on my way to work we discuss the recent murder of Tyre Nichols and the ongoing genocide of African peoples, Indigenous people, Asian, Latino, Chicano, and other folks on Turtle Island. We also discuss housing struggles and the intimate relations created through meeting someone in their home, and the organizing/assistance opportunities to come of it!

infobrics (2023-02-02). Parliament Approves Agreement Allows Egypt to Join BRICS Group's New Development Bank. infobrics.org Egyptian MPs approved an agreement that allows Egypt to officially join the new Development Bank to be set up by the BRICS economic group which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa…

Move to Amend (2023-02-02). Black/African American History includes Corporate Exploitation. globalresearch.ca Black/African American History observances this month will acknowledge people and events deserving to be remembered in the past and supported in the present in the quest for justice, and peace for all African Americans. | Observances should include how corporations and …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-02). Consumer Health: Cervical cancer and HPV — what's the connection? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org January is Cervical Health Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the connection between HPV and cervical cancer. Approximately 13,000 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed each year in the U.S., and 4,000 women die of the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hispanic women have the highest rates of developing cervical cancer, while African American women are at greatest risk of dying from this cancer. Early-stage cervical cancer generally produces…

WSWS (2023-02-02). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Striking Scottish teachers join rail workers, civil servants, university lecturers and fellow educators in coordinated national strike across UK, as further NHS strikes planned; teachers' strikes continue in Hungary and Portugal over pay, staff shortages and minimum service levels; strikes and protests continue against massacre of Palestinians by Israeli army, house demolitions in Jerusalem and government authoritarian measures, with school students demonstrating in Tel Aviv; thousands of retail workers at Makro in South Africa strike over pay and conditions in year-long battle including police violence against p…

unitedEditor (2023-02-02). Italy and Tàºrkiye: Cooperation for a New Mediterranean Order. uwidata.com The Mediterranean is a geographical area of great geopolitical importance due to its strategic location between Europe, Asia and Africa. The region is rich in natural resources and has a long history of trade and navigation. In the past, European powers have struggled for control of Mediterranean trade routes, and even today, the region is …

Eric A. Gordon (2023-02-02). 'Let It Be Morning,' a stunningly powerful almost all-Palestinian Israeli film. peoplesworld.org You have to hand it to people like Eran Kolirin. He's the film director who in 2007 gave us The Band's Visit, about an Egyptian military band that by some fluke managed to find itself in a sad, godforsaken Jewish desert town in Israel, whose residents unexpectedly were able to find some tentative connections with …

Staff (2023-02-02). Morocco's army forced return to armed struggle, says Sahrawi minister. peoplesdispatch.org Fatma Mehdi walked across the Sahara desert to the Fadel family's tent home, where we spoke for about 30 minutes about the political resolutions recently approved at the 16th Congress of the Polisario Front, held January 13 through 20 in the Dajla refugee camp in the city of Tindouf, Algeria. Fatma is the cooperation minister …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-02). Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's Interview with RT Arabic, Moscow, February 1, 2023. libya360.wordpress.com Question: In 2022, you met several times with your Algerian counterpart. He visited Moscow several times. You were on a working visit to Algeria on May 10, 2022. The energy, defence and agriculture agencies from both countries maintain extensive contact as well. What is the current level of cooperation? Is it safe to assume that…

Staff (2023-02-03). Goicoechea Confesses Total Money Kidnapped by Washington Via Local Puppets. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, February 2, during an interview conducted by Carla Angola in Miami, far-right politician Yon Goicoechea revealed that there is $40 billion being consciously withheld by the opposition, in a new edition of the corruption confessions by the far-right sector of the Venezuelan opposition. | This money was referred to in relation with what the United States keeps blocked with the unilateral coercive measures that continue to affect all the Venezuelan people. Unlike most opposition parties and their representatives, Goicoechea noted that eliminating the so-called interim government was a mistake because…

Vijay Prashad (2023-02-02). Burkina Faso ejects French troops. greenleft.org.au Burkina Faso's government decided on January 18 to ask French military forces to leave the country within a month, reports Vijay Prashad.

Derrick Broze (2023-02-02). Who is the Better Identity Coalition? thelastamericanvagabond.com The Better Identity Coalition has issued two reports aimed at guiding state and federal lawmakers in the United States. Who is guiding the hand of the BIC? In December 2022, the Better Identity Coalition released a set of policy recommendations for all U.S. state government officials focused on "ways governments can improve the privacy

Robert Inlakesh (2023-02-02). Israel Illegally Attacks Iran And Iraq With Drone Strikes. thelastamericanvagabond.com At least three separate aerial bombardments in Iran and Syria/Iraq were attributed to Israel between Sunday and Monday, the most notable being a drone attack against targets in the Iranian city of Isfahan on Sunday morning. The attacks have now sparked fear of a retaliation by Tehran, causing Israel to position its air defenses in

John Rachel (2023-02-03). Ukraine: The Latest Neocon Con. dissidentvoice.org Think about this … The neocons lied to us about Bosnia, Serbia, and Kosovo. They lied to us about Afghanistan. They lied to us about Iraq. They lied to us about Libya. They lied to us about Syria. They're currently lying to us about Yemen, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Colombia, and China. So … …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-02). British Psychological Warfare Threatens Balkan Conflict. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg NATO soldiers patrol a roadblock set up by ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, on Aug. 1, 2022 Image: Sratfor Ever since the war in Ukraine began, speculation has swirled about a "second front" opening in the Balkans in particular, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the country's internal Republika Srpska at the centre of these concerns….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-02). Solidarity with the Haitian People's Struggle: We Reject the CELAC Declaration on Haiti. No to Military Intervention. libya360.wordpress.com Continental Communiqué in Solidarity with the Haitian People The consensus reached by the governments of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) with respect to Haiti, at the conclusion of their recent Summit in Buenos Aires, provokes deep indignation among the patriots of Haiti and of all of Our America. We reject it…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-02). Black Alliance for Peace: Bulletin on U.S. Domestic Militarization. libya360.wordpress.com The "Bulletin on U.S. Domestic Militarization" replaces "The 1033 Monthly." This iteration aims to provide a broader look at militarization in the United States, of which the U.S. Department of Defense's 1033 program plays a role. The internal war in the United States continues on the working class and on people outside the point of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-02). Black Alliance for Peace Opposes CELAC Support for Military Intervention in Haiti. libya360.wordpress.com Black Alliance for Peace's Haiti/Americas Team Opposes the Apparent Support of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) for Foreign Military Intervention Into Haiti Peace and Solidarity In the Region Cannot Be Achieved at the Expense of Haitian Sovereignty For Immediate Release Media Contact communications@blackallianceforpeace.com (202) 643-1136 FEBRUARY 1, 2023—The Haiti/Americas Team…

Pacifica's CRD (2023-02-02). On Pacifica's CRD: Hands Off Uhuru; Unionists Call for Freedom for Mumia; Florida New Coll. indybay.org On Pacifica's CRD: Hands Off Uhuru; Unionists Call for Freedom for Mumia; Florida New College under Attack; Somali Democracy…

Olivia Rosane (2023-02-03). Nearly 14,000 Nigerian farmers and fishers sue Shell for destroying their livelihoods with oil pollution. nationofchange.org Individuals and institutions from two communities have filed claims against Shell, calling on the company to clean up the devastating pollution and compensate them for its effects.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-02-03). Papa Francisco inicia visita pastoral a Sudán del Sur. telesurtv.net Cumple última etapa de este viaje apostólico internacional, el número 40 desde que Jorge Bergoglio está al frente del Vaticano.

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