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2023-02-04: News Headlines

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-02-04). Violencia en Sudán del Sur deja al menos 27 muertos. telesurtv.net El ataque ocurrió en medio de la llegada al país africano del Papa Francisco procedente de la República Democrática del Congo.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-04). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-02-04). Biden Administration Ramps Up Drone Strikes in Somalia—To What End? covertactionmagazine.com Current government is rife with corruption and infiltrated by al-Shabab though it has curried the favor of the U.S. by signing oil exploration agreement with U.S. oil company. On January 21st, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported that it had carried out a drone strike near Galcad, about 260 kilometers northeast of the Somali capital of …

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 …

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…

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-02-04). Violencia en Sudán del Sur deja al menos 27 muertos. telesurtv.net El ataque ocurrió en medio de la llegada al país africano del Papa Francisco procedente de la República Democrática del Congo.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-04). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-02-04). Biden Administration Ramps Up Drone Strikes in Somalia—To What End? covertactionmagazine.com Current government is rife with corruption and infiltrated by al-Shabab though it has curried the favor of the U.S. by signing oil exploration agreement with U.S. oil company. On January 21st, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported that it had carried out a drone strike near Galcad, about 260 kilometers northeast of the Somali capital of …

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 …

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…

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…

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.

Amy Goodman (2023-02-03). "Florida Is a Laboratory of Fascism": Scholars Discuss Fight Over Black History. truthout.org We host a roundtable with three leading Black scholars about the College Board's decision to revise its curriculum for an Advanced Placement course in African American studies after criticism from Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The revised curriculum removes Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer theory as required topics, while it adds a section on Black conservatism. |

Ann Brown (2023-02-03). America's College Board Pulls Black Authors Michelle Alexander, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Others From Curriculum. moguldom.com Caving into the demands of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the College Board has pared back its Advance Placement (AP) African American Studies. The College Board on Feb. 1, ironically the first day of Black History Month, revised its high-school-level Advanced Placement African Americans Studies course. The decision seemed to be made after Florida officials …

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-02-03). Throwing All Black People Together In Identity Gumbo May Be Ending: OMB Considers New Classification. moguldom.com For years there's been an outcry from Black people across the African Diaspora to stop classifying them as a monolith. Depending on one's background and upbringing, many Black people have tried to explain they are a nuanced group with a variety of cultures, experiences, values and opinions. Now, the Office of Management & Budget is calling for …

Rick Rozoff (2023-02-03). U.S. nuclear carrier strike group arrives in eastern Mediterranean. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The four destroyers and the cruiser listed below are equipped to launch Standard Missile-3 IIA interceptors capable of destroying ICBMs. See video below. — RR ==== U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa/U.S. Sixth FleetFebruary 2, 2023 George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group arrives in Piraeus, GreeceBy Carrier Strike Group 10 Public Affairs The Nimitz-class aircraft …

Jason Oliver Evans, University of Virginia (2023-02-03). What Role Did The Black Church Play In American Political History? newsone.com Source: Heritage Images / Getty | With religious affiliation For instance, on April 20, 2010, an African American Studies professor at Princeton,

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…

Staff (2023-02-04). Un presidente norteamericano en La Habana. cubadebate.cu Solo dos presidentes norteamericanos en el ejercicio de su cargo han estado en La Habana. El más reciente fue Barack Obama. El otro, en enero de 1928, hace ahora 95 años, fue Calvin Coolidge, invitado por el general Gerardo Machado, presidente de la República de Cuba, a la Sexta Conferencia Panamericana, que tendría lugar aquí a partir del 26 de ese mes.

Rania Khalek (2023-02-03). The Bloody Reality of the DRC Cobalt Mines That Power Our Phones. thealtworld.com From smartphones to electric vehicles, all lithium-ion rechargeable batteries made today require cobalt, a unique mineral that is almost exclusively mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | Siddharth Kara, author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, joins the show to explain the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining and the numerous layers of multinational supply chains that serve to erode accountability for the absolute exploitation for absolute profit.

Ryan Cristián (2023-02-03). Did US Gov Work On A Myocarditis-Inducing Virus, Then Work To Aerosolize It? Let's Look At The Facts. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (2/3/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

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 ∞ (2023-02-03). Canada: One of the 'Biggest Gangsters in Haiti'. libya360.wordpress.com Catherine Hughes and Jackie McVicar Canadian Soldiers in Haiti. Photo courtesy Combat Camera/DND/Flickr. We have failed to respect the Haitian struggle for justice and self-determination The Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), founded in 1981, works in solidarity with people standing up for self-determination, social justice and for the Earth in the Americas. We have been following Canada's…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-03). Continuing Diplomacy by Other Means. libya360.wordpress.com Timofei Bordachev A year ago, a series of negotiations between Russia and the West on the international order in Europe, based on Moscow's December 2021 proposals for mutual security guarantees, ended without any results. Despite the fact that these proposals formally dealt only with the military and political sphere, their hypothetical consequence could be the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-03). Fatma Mehdi: "The Return to Armed Struggle Was Forced by the Moroccan Army" libya360.wordpress.com Michele de Mello Fatma Mehdi is responsible for coordinating the humanitarian aid that serves about 90% of the population of Western Sahara Michele de Mello / Brasil de Fato Fatma Mehdi, minister of cooperation of the Sahrawi Republic, spoke to Brasil de Fato about the struggle for sovereignty Fatma Mehdi walked across the Sahara…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-03). 'He Who Controls the Discourse Organises the World.' How China Resists the Information Hegemony of the West. libya360.wordpress.com Ivan Zuenko The current process of rapid transformation of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-03). Standing Against NATO and AUKUS a Key Issue for the Peace Movement. libya360.wordpress.com Dr Jenny Clegg On Saturday January 21, Britain's Stop the War Coalition organised its first-ever trade union conference. Speakers included former Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn MP; President of the RMT rail workers union Alex Gordon; Deputy President of the PCS civil service union Martin Cavanagh; Alex Kenny from the National Education Union;…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-04). Daily Round-up | Sudan, Israel to sign formal peace treaty & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of developments in the normalization of ties between Sudan and Israel, the condemnation of war-mongering by the US, a summit between Spain and Morocco, and the resettlement of a Guantanamo Bay detainee…

Victoria Torres (2023-02-04). Dominican Republic Congresspeople Advocate for Normalizing Relations With Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, February 1, the Senate of the Dominican Republic expressed the wish that bilateral relations with Venezuela be restored as soon as possible. Several deputies reiterated the deep ties of friendship and solidarity that have united the peoples of Simón Bolívar and Juan Pablo Duarte since their respective countries' struggle for independence. | According to a press release from the Dominican parliament, Deputies Ramón Ceballo of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), secretary of the Permanent Commission on Foreign Relations of the Chamber of Deputies in the Dominican Republic; Juan Dionisio Rodríguez, p…

Andrew Korybko (2023-02-03). Why'd The CIA Chief Unexpectedly Tell The Truth About Russian-Chinese Ties? thealtworld.com William Burns' surprisingly accurate assessment of Russian-Chinese ties coincides with Secretary of State Antony Blinken's upcoming trip to Beijing, which is aimed at advancing the incipient Sino-American New Détente. The CIA chief is thus tempering expectations about how far their discussions over far-reaching mutual compromises will go so that nobody gets the false expectation that China will dump Russia as a quid pro quo for comparatively "normalizing" ties with the US. | An Unexpected Narrative Development | The US is simultaneously waging information warfare campaigns against Russia and China, including thos…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-03). Sudan and Israel announce plans for a peace deal. peoplesdispatch.org Despite criticism from the ongoing pro-democracy movement in the country, Sudan is one of the four Arab countries that have "normalized" relations with Israel by signing the Abraham Accords…

Editor (2023-02-03). Palestine is my cause: Arabs reaffirm support for Palestinians, rejection of the occupation. mronline.org The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration, state institutions and democracy. With one single exception: Palestine.

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.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-02-04). Accidente vial en Tanzania deja 17 muertos en Tanzania. telesurtv.net La investigación policial preliminar mostró que el accidente fue causado por negligencia del conductor del camión que aceleró sin ninguna precaución.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-03). Tunisian elections are the third phase of President Kais Saied's coup project: Ali Jallouli. peoplesdispatch.org Ali Jallouli, a leader of left-wing Workers' Party of Tunisia, analyzes the recent second round of the parliamentary election, the resistance to President Kais Saied, and why the Tunisian revolution has not option but to succeed…

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