(2023-04-13). Efforts to Reduce Israeli Influence in Africa Continues. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-13). Global population: Fertility rates decline as population hits 8 billion. america.cgtn.com 
The world's population reached 8 billion people in 2022, but fertility rates are seeing a decline in most of the world, outside of sub-Saharan Africa. China recently saw its biggest population drop in more than six decades.
(2023-04-13). A review of "White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa" by Susan Williams. mronline.org 
Africa has long been looked at by outsiders as a continent that is hopelessly mired in corruption and incapable of social and economic development.
(2023-04-13). Saturday 4/22: Art Of The African Diaspora Satellite Exhibit: Closing Reception. indybay.org Rhythmix Cultural Works | 2513 Blanding Ave, Alameda CA, 94501…
(2023-04-13). NATO identifies next members in month-long combat exercise in Germany. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Army Europe and AfricaApril 13, 2023 U.S. Army Europe and Africa to hold Combined Resolve Exercise The U.S. Army, along with Allies and Partners, will conduct Combined Resolve 18 from April 21 to May 23, 2023, at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany. Combined Resolve is a recurring exercise designed to prepare …
(2023-04-13). Author Carol Anderson on How Anti-Blackness Drives U.S. Gun Culture & Right-Wing Assault on Democracy. democracynow.org 
We discuss the debate over gun control, as well as Republican attacks on democracy, with author and academic Carol Anderson, who says U.S. gun culture has always been connected to "the inherent, fundamental fear of Black people." She notes the expulsion of two Black Democratic state lawmakers in Tennessee for leading a gun control protest at the Capitol highlights how gerrymandered state governments uphold white supremacy in the face of "youth that are pushing forward for a different vision of America." Anderson is professor of African American studies at Emory University and author of The…
(2023-04-13). Efforts to Reduce Israeli Influence in Africa Continues. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-13). Global population: Fertility rates decline as population hits 8 billion. america.cgtn.com The world's population reached 8 billion people in 2022, but fertility rates are seeing a decline in most of the world, outside of sub-Saharan Africa. China recently saw its biggest population drop in more than six decades.
(2023-04-13). A review of "White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa" by Susan Williams. mronline.org Africa has long been looked at by outsiders as a continent that is hopelessly mired in corruption and incapable of social and economic development.
(2023-04-13). Saturday 4/22: Art Of The African Diaspora Satellite Exhibit: Closing Reception. indybay.org Rhythmix Cultural Works | 2513 Blanding Ave, Alameda CA, 94501…
(2023-04-13). NATO identifies next members in month-long combat exercise in Germany. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Army Europe and AfricaApril 13, 2023 U.S. Army Europe and Africa to hold Combined Resolve Exercise The U.S. Army, along with Allies and Partners, will conduct Combined Resolve 18 from April 21 to May 23, 2023, at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany. Combined Resolve is a recurring exercise designed to prepare …
(2023-04-13). Author Carol Anderson on How Anti-Blackness Drives U.S. Gun Culture & Right-Wing Assault on Democracy. democracynow.org We discuss the debate over gun control, as well as Republican attacks on democracy, with author and academic Carol Anderson, who says U.S. gun culture has always been connected to "the inherent, fundamental fear of Black people." She notes the expulsion of two Black Democratic state lawmakers in Tennessee for leading a gun control protest at the Capitol highlights how gerrymandered state governments uphold white supremacy in the face of "youth that are pushing forward for a different vision of America." Anderson is professor of African American studies at Emory University and author of The…
(2023-04-13). Tori and Lokita: The new film by the Dardenne brothers. wsws.org Lokita and Tori feign being siblings, but in fact they have become that close since they met on a boat as refugees, traveling from Africa to Sicily. She looks out for him, and he is devoted to her.
(2023-04-13). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org One-day national rail strike in Italy over work conditions deteriorating since the pandemic; ongoing protests in Iran by oil workers, nurses, Haft Tappeh sugar cane workers and retirees over pay and social conditions; auto workers at Tenneco South Africa Inc. strike over 50 percent pay cuts and 100 redundancies…
(2023-04-13). Registran seis muertos tras tiroteo en Ciudad del Cabo, Sudáfrica. telesurtv.net La policía local a través de su cuenta oficial en Twitter aseveró que sospechan que se trata del accionar de pandillas.
(2023-04-13). Guinea Ecuatorial reporta 11 fallecidos por fiebre de Marburgo. telesurtv.net La cartera de Salud del país africano indicó que existen 15 casos positivos de la enfermedad.
(2023-04-12). Pan-African approach needed to tackle food insecurity arising from conflict and climate. indybay.org California Pan African Food and Ag Pavilion will explore the challenges and opportunities. External factors — the disruption of food systems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent reduced purchasing power, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which led to an increase in world food, fuel and fertiliser prices — coupled with drastic weather changes, and continuation or intensification of conflict and insecurity have compromised an already fragile food chain.
(2023-04-12). Gulf States, Egypt, Iraq & Jordan To Discuss Syria's Return To Arab League In Upcoming Meeting. southfront.org 
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which includes Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait, has called for a meeting…
(2023-04-12). China to ship out aid materials for climate change projects. ecns.cn China's aid materials for the three climate change projects in Kiribati, Botswana, and Costa Rica, as part of South-South cooperation, have finished production and will be shipped out soon, according to the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment on Wednesday.
(2023-04-12). Hundreds of schools have been hoaxed by "Ethiopian" caller for 1 year but FBI no comment. indybay.org The FBI and Justice Department has no comment about more than a year worth of hoax phone calls, numbering in the high hundreds or thousands of schools all over the nation. The calls have all been coming from a single source, traced to Ethiopia. The caller has a thick foreign accent. But also, there is a robotic version of the same caller that also has a thick foreign accent. VERY strange and nobody, including local police are being briefed about this, so schools are taken by surprise. Kids are scared to death. And no comment whatsoever by any politicans. The scale of this is unreal…
(2023-04-13). Fire "Could Burn For Days" At Richmond Plastic Waste Plant — This Could Be Worse Than Ohio #Dioxins. 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 (4/13/23). 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
(2023-04-12). Second Phase of Fluoride Lawsuit Set to Begin in January 2024. thelastamericanvagabond.com The U.S. government and plaintiffs have agreed to begin a second phase of the long-delayed fluoride lawsuit in January 2024. On Tuesday Judge Edward Chen, the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set a date of January 29, 2024 for the second phase of the ongoing fluoride lawsuit. The second phase
(2023-04-12). Is The US-Israel Relationship Really Falling Apart? thelastamericanvagabond.com After the mysterious leaking of Pentagon documents and months of instability for Tel Aviv, the Israel-US relationship is being called into question in a significant way. What seems to be a clash between the extremist Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Biden White House, has sparked interest in where the special relationship is headed.
(2023-04-12). Freddie Ponton Interview — What Is Happening In France & Is The US Government Involved? thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today is Freddie Ponton, here to discuss the major protests — and the subsequent tyrannical police violence — taking place in France, and what may be truly driving it. The narrative on the surface, which no doubt plays a factor, is that this began due to President Macron's proposed pension reforms. However, when
(2023-04-12). The Pirate Stream: Dialectical Dissidents — Episode 12. 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
(2023-04-12). Albanese condemns refugees detained offshore to no future. greenleft.org.au Labor voted against a Green's motion to bring around 130 refugees from Papua New Guinea and Nauru to safety in Australia. Paul Gregoire reports.
(2023-04-12). Crónicas de Eldoret: Día 1. cubadebate.cu El White, El Pica (Dairan), La Yumi (Yumisleidys Mestre) y el Profe (Angel) se hacen esta foto con el primer amigo que han hecho en Kenya; en Eldoret. Los fondistas de aquí tienen sobrenombres, ni siquiera sé la razón, pero es una suerte de tradición que todos ellos mantienen. Eldoret es ese lugar bautizado como Hogar de los campeones.
(2023-04-12). Arsonist Ex-Ukrainian Government Minister Assisted Canadian Government-Funded Nazi Propaganda Bus Tour. libya360.wordpress.com Christian Shingiro and Aidan Jonah The Trade Unions Building in Odessa burning in 2014, after neo-Nazis and other right-wing forces, counting Stepan Kubiv among them, set it on fire. 42 Ukrainians opposed to the Maidan coup were killed in the fire. (Source) ATIP requests and an interview with Ukrainian economist Roman Gubriienko have revealed that…
(2023-04-12). Class Struggle in France: How to Escape the Counterrevolution. libya360.wordpress.com Maurizio Lazzarato What links exist between the strikes in France and the war? An overview from the perspective of class struggle and an urgent call to reconstitute strategic thinking. Let's get straight to the point: after the huge demonstrations against pension "reform", the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, decided to "pass it by force" (passer…
(2023-04-12). Cuba and the New International Economic Order. libya360.wordpress.com Dr. C José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez Fidel Castro at the United Nations Fidel Castro comes from the future to tell us once again: "Let the philosophy of dispossession disappear and the philosophy of war will have disappeared! Let the colonies disappear, let the exploitation of countries by monopolies disappear, and then humanity will have reached…
(2023-04-12). Mexico: Is AMLO's Resource Nationalism Raising the Odds of a Coup? libya360.wordpress.com Owen Schalk Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Photo courtesy Presidencia de la República Washington and Ottawa are not only attempting to weaken AMLO's government—they are attempting to weaken Mexican democracy One of the key tenets of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's "fourth transformation" government is state sovereignty over Mexico's energy resources. This transformation…
(2023-04-12). The U.S. Pushes Kiev into a Suicidal Military Counter Offensive as the Country Scrambles to Launch its Vital Grain Growing Season. libya360.wordpress.com Dmitriy Kovalevich Artemovsk Ukraine 'Counterattack at All Costs,' Urge Western Countries March marks the end of the 13th month of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. Hostilities in Ukraine have slowed because March in Ukraine is a month when the roads are muddy and heavy equipment cannot pass over them. Military trenches are flooded with…
(2023-04-12). Ukrainian Air Defenses Dwindling, West Scours World for Arms on Eve of "Spring Offensive" libya360.wordpress.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for April 12, 2023: — Russian forces continue taking territory around the fortified cities of Avdeevka and Bakhmut; — Russian forces now control much of the west bank of the Bakhmutka River; — A Ukrainian missile fired deep into Crimea (and intercepted by Russian air defenses) may have…
(2023-04-12). War, the Separation of the World, or the End of an Empire? libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Meyssan All empires are mortal. So is the "American Empire .Painting by Alexandre Granger Many are those who predict a World War. Indeed, some groups are preparing for it. But the States are reasonable and, in fact, consider rather an amicable separation, a division of the world into two different worlds, one unipolar and…
(2023-04-13). Headlines for April 13, 2023. democracynow.org U.S. Appeals Court Partially Restores Access to Abortion Medication Mifepristone, Expelled Lawmaker Justin Pearson to Be Reinstated to Tennessee House of Representatives, U.N. Says Somalia Faces Catastrophic Hunger as Climate Crisis Fuels Drought, Zelensky Condemns Video Appearing to Show Russian Soldier Beheading Ukrainian POW, Brazil's Lula Will Ask China's Xi to Help Broker Peace in Ukraine; U.S. Sees No Peace Talks in 2023, At Least 10 Migrants Drown Off Tunisia's Coast as U.N. Warns of Soaring Deaths in Mediterranean, Mexico Charges Immigration Chief over Ciudad Juárez Fire That Killed 40 P…
(2023-04-12). Military Situation In Yemen On April 12, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see the full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 51 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah in the past 24 hours | UAE servicemen and military advisors evacuated their positions in Marah and Belhaf bases in Shabwah province and retreated to Al-Mukalla city in Hadhramout province | Al-Amaliqa militants took control of the Bayhan district in the west of Shabwa province from the Shabwa Defense Forces | A UAE cargo ship carrying weapons and military eq…
(2023-04-12). Syrian Foreign Minister Arrives In Saudi Arabia On First Visit In Over Decade. southfront.org 
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad with Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed Abdulkarim El Khereiji. | On April 12, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad arrived in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah on a breakthrough visit to push forward the normalization process between the two Arab countries. | The official Saudi Press Agency said that Mekdad will discuss efforts that aim to reach a political solution to Syria's crisis during the visit. | Discussions will tackle means to reach a solution that maintains…
(2023-04-12). Geopolitical Game Changer: China's Iran-Saudi Peace Deal Is Big Blow to Petrodollar and US Economic Hegemony. orinocotribune.com 
By Ben Norton — Mar 17, 2023 | China's peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran is a big blow to the petrodollar that undergirds US economic hegemony. Both countries are top oil producers that are discussing selling energy in other currencies. They also applied to join BRICS, and are members of the Belt and Road Initiative. | China surprised the world on March 10, announcing that it had successfully sponsored peace talks between rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran. | Four days of secret negotiations in Beijing led to a historic agreement in which the two West Asian nations normalized relations, following seven tens…
(2023-04-12). Syrian Foreign Minister Arrives in Saudi Arabia for the First Time Since 2011. news.antiwar.com Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as Riyadh and Damascus are working toward normalization. Mekdad's trip marks the first time a Syrian foreign minister visited Saudi Arabia since 2011, when Riyadh cut ties with Damascus and threw support behind the failed regime change effort against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The …
(2023-04-12). Trump falls hard when his fixated, unforgiving base turns tail. nationofchange.org Trump's a tedious, malign vampire,/ But MAGA fuels the fiery liar.
(2023-04-12). ONU solicita apoyo internacional masivo para Somalia. telesurtv.net António Guterres realizó la solicitud debido a las situaciones humanitarias, de seguridad y desarrollo que vive la población.
(2023-04-12). Moroccan journalist Hanane Bakour on trial over social media post. peoplesdispatch.org Moroccan journalist Hanane Bakour was back in court in Sale for the eighth time on Monday April 10 over a social media post she made on Facebook in 2021 criticizing the ruling party. The case against her has provoked widespread condemnation, with major international organizations such as Amnesty International calling it "absurd". | In a statement published April 10, Amnesty wrote, "It is shocking, heavy-handed and absurd that a journalist faces criminal charges over a Facebook post that was critical of Morocco's main political party. Hanane Bakour has a right to her opinions, even if politicians object to them."