(2021-07-09). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Spanish unions sell out bank workers' strike, agree 6,452 job losses at CaixaBank; warning selective strikes continue in German retail and mail order sector; driver and vehicle registration staff at UK centre in Wales continue stoppages ongoing since April over Covid safety; strike by 25,000 Tunisian finance workers over pay and conditions…
(2021-07-08). Haitian Movements Caution against Foreign Intervention Following MoàØse's Assassination. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Haiti's de-facto president, Jovenel MoàØse, was assassinated in his house on July 7. Photo: Jovenel MoàØse/Twitter Civil society organizations and progressive sectors in Haiti and globally have warned that Jovenel MoàØse's assassination could be used as pretext to increase foreign interference and further deepen the socio-political crisis in the country In the early…
(2021-07-08). Colombian Mercenaries Behind President's Assassination. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Authorities in Haiti say that two of the subjects arrested for the assassination of President Jovenel MoàØse are Haitian-Americans and 26 are Colombian, for a total of 28 arrested mercenaries. Colombia's Defense Minister Diego Molano Aponte has also declared that the captured mercenaries are retired members of the Colombian Army. Molano Aponte said…
(2021-07-08). PDF of July 8 issue. workers.org 
Download the PDF. Student-athletes win historic ruling Release Alex Saab! Labor strikes back HIV/AIDS: Legacy of resistance Say her name: Sandra Bland COVID devastation Buffalo: Historic mayoral primary vote Editorial: Class war over voting rights Global: N. Korea defiant; China—Africa cooperation; China defeats malaria; Afghanistan. Tear down the walls: Free . . . |
(2021-07-08). Extradition of Alex Saab: U.S. takes effort to starve Venezuelans to new lows. mronline.org Venezuelan official Alex Saab was arrested over a year ago in Cape Verde and in March 2021 the country's Supreme Court approved his extradition to the United States. | July 8, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-07-08). South Africa: Ex President Zuma Hands Himself Over to Police. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, South Africa's ex-President Jacob Zuma (2009-2018) handed himself in to police to serve a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court. He was admitted to Estcourt Correctional Center in KwaZulu-Natal province. | RELATED: | On June 29, Zuma was sentenced for defying an instruction to give evidence at an inquiry into corruption during his administration. The 79-year-old politician considers this inves…
(2021-07-08). Kwame Nkrumah and imperialist finance in Africa today. mronline.org More than half a century after Kwame Nkrumah first articulated his magisterial critique of neocolonialism, Scott Timcke argues his critique remains just as relevant in the analysis of present-day developments of capitalism in Africa. | July 8, 2021…
(2021-07-08). Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. indybay.org The institution of slavery is inextricably woven into the establishment, history, and prosperity of the United States. Constitutionally and statutorily sanctioned from 1619 to 1865, slavery deprived more than four million Africans and their descendants of life, liberty, citizenship, cultural heritage, and economic opportunity…
(2021-07-08). China and Africa: Mutual cooperation, not neocolonialism ‚àí a WW commentary. workers.org 
By Ernie Hamer Based on a talk given at a Workers World Party meeting in Buffalo, N.Y., Workers World Party on April 27, 2021. With the People's Republic of China on the rise, the forces of U.S. imperialism are beginning to panic as the global tides gradually shift against them. . . . |
(2021-07-08). WHO Says COVID-19 Vaccine Supplies to Africa Picking Momentum. telesurenglish.net The delivery of COVID-19 vaccine to Africa through COVAX facility, donations and direct purchases from manufacturers has accelerated, hence injecting vitality in the continent's fight against the pandemic, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said Thursday. | RELATED: | Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa, said that significant progress in vaccine deliveries after a prolonged crunch will boost efforts to suppress a third wave sweepi…
(2021-07-08). UN ready to promote 'win-win solution' for Blue Nile dam project. news.un.org The United Nations stands ready to support Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in efforts to resolve their decade-long disagreement over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), senior officials told the Security Council on Thursday.
(2021-07-08). Baltimore To Stop Prosecuting "Nonviolent" Crimes. Activists Say More Is Needed. popularresistance.org Most of these prosecutors have strictly tied their commitments to the duration of the pandemic. However, in March 2021, the Baltimore City State Attorney's Office (SAO) announced that it will permanently instate its COVID-19 policy. Moving forward, the office said it will decline to prosecute crimes categorized as nonviolent, including Controlled Dangerous Substance (CDS, or drug) possession, attempted distribution of CDS, paraphernalia possession, sex work, trespassing, minor traffic offenses, open container, rogue and vagabond, and urinating/defecating in public.
(2021-07-08). Estados Unidos refina su plan contra Venezuela. globalizacion.ca Los gobiernos de Estados Unidos y Canada junto a la Unión Europea formalizaron hace algunos días un nuevo momento de la disputa con la Venezuela de Nicolás Maduro. El comunicado común entre los dos países entierra la estrategia Trump, conducida…
(2021-07-08). Was 'the War on Drugs' always a White Nationalist Project? juancole.com 
( Tomdispatch.com ) — Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon stood before the White House press corps, staffers at his side, to announce "a new, all-out offensive" against drug abuse, which he denounced as "America's public enemy number one." He called on Congress to contribute $350 million for a worldwide attack …
(2021-07-08). Ethiopian Conflict and International Law. libya360.wordpress.com Ann GarrisonLegal scholar Francis A. Boyle told Ann Garrison that a "Responsibility-to-Protect" intervention in Ethiopia would be illegal and catastrophic. "The NATO nations, and especially the US are hostile to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the government of Ethiopia." Ann Garrison: Francis Boyle, you're an expert in international law, including subsets, international human rights law, and international…
(2021-07-08). Colombia: Between Biden's Anxiety and Uribe's Disruption. libya360.wordpress.com Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Joe Biden with Colombian President Iván Duque (Photo: Presidency of Colombia). The U.S. State Department is observing with great uneasiness that movements have begun to take place in Latin America that are beyond its control and that could affect its system of regional domination. In some of the main bastions where anti-democracy…
(2021-07-08). Three Seas Initiative: Latest Phase of Intermariam Project to Cordon Off Russia from Europe. libya360.wordpress.com Rick Rozoff Three Seas Initiative Zbigniew Brzezinski in his last two books, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997) and Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power (2012), promoted the concept of a Weimar Triangle — France, Germany and Poland — becoming the major power in a united post-Cold War…
(2021-07-08). Another 43 refugees drowned off the coast of Tunisia as a result of the EU's fortress Europe policy. wsws.org The criminal character of the European Union is nowhere more clearly revealed than in its brutal treatment of people seeking refuge.
(2021-07-08). Criminal banks and criminal capitalism. indybay.org Since the 1970s, the real economy and the financial economy have been increasingly diverging. Gigantic assets vagabond around the globe, desperately looking for profitable investment opportunities and, in the absence of such opportunities, forming ever larger financial bubbles that burst every few years with a mighty bang, leaving behind legions of crying and feeling cheated investors.
(2021-07-07). De facto President of Haiti Jovenel MoàØse Assassinated. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Jovenel MoàØse was assassinated by unidentified armed men early on July 7. The assassination came amid a growing political and social crisis in the country due to increased in violence by illegal groups and MoàØse's attacks on state institutions Jovenel MoàØse, the de facto president of Haiti, was assassinated at 1am on July…
(2021-07-07). On Assassination of Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse: Black Alliance for Peace Smells a Rat. libya360.wordpress.com Black Alliance for Peace For Immediate Release Media Contact: (202) 643-1136 communications@blackallianceforpeace.com JULY 7, 2021—Unknown assailants overnight assassinating Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse was a horrific act that should be condemned in no uncertain terms. Unfortunately, such violence is unsurprising. As the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) noted in its July 6 press release, MoàØse's actions…
(2021-07-07). Don't Allow Another US-NATO Libya In The Horn Of Africa. popularresistance.org Africa is not underdeveloped and fraught with militarized instability because there is not enough involvement by Western Europe and its evil settler-colonial spawn, the USA. Anyone who believes that must also believe Africans are inferior savages. The fact is Africa is underdeveloped and destabilized precisely because of centuries of European colonialism and decades of U.S. and Western European neocolonialism. Any disposition held by Africans that lends legitimacy to intervention, sanctions, or the fake moral or altruistic dominion of Pan-European, white supremacist capitalist interests in Africa are based either…
(2021-07-07). Group in Defense of UN Charter Officially Formed by 18 Countries (Anti-Sanctions Club). libya360.wordpress.com Through a joint statement read out by the Ambassador of Venezuela to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, the Group of Friends in the Defense of the Charter of the United Nations was officially created on Tuesday, July 6. Eighteen member countries of the United Nations subscribed to the group and ratified the statement. The event…
(2021-07-07). Cape Verdean Authorities Prevent Alex Saab from Receiving Medical Attention. orinocotribune.com On Tuesday, June 6, Cape Verdean authorities prevented Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab's doctor from visiting him, which is a flagrant violation of the diplomat's human rights and a risk to his life, given his health condition. | This was informed by the Saab's legal defense team, explaining that Cape Verdean police had prevented medical personnel from entering the building where the Venezuelan diplomat is under house arrest, although the medics had complied with all the requirements necessary for permits to visit Saab, as demanded by the authorities of the African country. | It should be noted that on January 21,…
(2021-07-07). Extradition of Alex Saab: US takes effort to starve Venezuelans to new lows. peoplesdispatch.org Venezuelan official Alex Saab was arrested over a year ago in Cape Verde and in March 2021 the country's Supreme Court approved his extradition to the United States…
(2021-07-07). Rally: Free Mumia and all political prisoners. workers.org 
A 16-foot puppet of Mumia Abu-Jamal greeted participants and passersby July 3 at a rally: "In the spirit of Consuewella Africa! We must all MOVE to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal & All Political Prisoners." On July 3, 1982, political prisoner Abu-Jamal was given a death sentence by Judge Albert Sabo. Annual . . . |
(2021-07-07). Pentagon Undercounts And Ignores Military Sexual Assault In Africa. popularresistance.org All of these incidents, whether the alleged victim was a civilian or a member of the military, are supposed to be included in the Pentagon's Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database and listed in the annual SAPRO reports to Congress. But it's not clear whether they are. The annual reports do not tell the whole story.
(2021-07-07). G7/OTAN: Diplomacia entre ladrones. workers.org 
Para comprender la esencia de las reuniones en Europa, en las que Joe Biden ha estado hablando amablemente con los aliados imperialistas depredadores de Washington, debemos examinar su precedente histórico: la Conferencia de Berlín de 1884-1885 para dividir y saquear el continente africano. Reclamaciones europeas en àÅfrica, 1913. Se muestran . . . |
(2021-07-07). Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. indybay.org The institution of slavery is inextricably woven into the establishment, history, and prosperity of the United States. Constitutionally and statutorily sanctioned from 1619 to 1865, slavery deprived more than four million Africans and their descendants of life, liberty, citizenship, cultural heritage, and economic opportunity…
(2021-07-07). UNICEF calls for action to reverse 'spiraling protection crisis' for children in West and Central Africa. news.un.org Action must be taken now to halt alarming attacks against children and abductions – including of students – in parts of West and Central Africa, the head of the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, said in a statement on Wednesday.
(2021-07-07). Africa faces a third more deadly COVID-19 surge as vaccination drive stalls. wsws.org At least 21 countries have so far experienced a third wave of infections, with 10 of those experiencing a more severe wave than before. The Delta variant has been reported in 16 African countries, with three of the five countries reporting the highest number of new cases confirming the presence of the variant.
(2021-07-07). Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Unity. libya360.wordpress.com Tricontinental Some of AFRICOM's known permanent and semi-permanent military bases on the African continent, 2019. How do you visualise the footprint of Empire? The images in this dossier map some of AFRICOM's military bases on the African continent — both 'enduring' and 'non-enduring', as they are officially called. The satellite photos were gathered by data…
(2021-07-07). Activists Demand Assange's Freedom as Journalist and Whistleblower Turns 50 in Belmarsh Prison. orinocotribune.com 
July 6, 2021 (special for OrinocoTribune.com)—On Saturday, July 3, Julian Assange, the most decorated journalist of the present times, who is being persecuted by the United States for exposing its war crimes, turned 50 in Belmarsh Prison in London, United Kingdom, facing possible extradition to the US. Despite an almost complete blackout by mainstream media, which has maligned and smeared Assange over the past ten years, protests and demands for his freedom have never stopped. On his birthday this year, activists and supporters in the US and the UK as well as in his home country Australia and across countri…
(2021-07-07). ALBA: Towards A People's Climate Conference. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News ALBA-TCP Ministers and High-level Authorities on Environment met to coordinate joint actions in the fight against Climate Change. July 7, 2021. Today, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) held a meeting of Environment Ministers of its member states to plan for a people's climate summit that will draw up proposals for…
(2021-07-07). Extreme Rain and Snow Storms are being caused by Humans burning Coal, Oil: Global Evidence. juancole.com 
By Gavin D. Madakumbura, Alex Hall, Chad Thackeray and Jesse Norris | — The big idea ( The Conversation ) — Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels for transportation and electricity, have worsened the intensity of extreme rainfall and snowfall over land in recent decades, not just in a few areas but on a …
(2021-07-07). The Heat: Ethiopia crisis — UN calls for a negotiated ceasefire to end the conflict. america.cgtn.com 
Celebration in the streets of Tigray's capital in Ethiopia as rebel forces take over the city. But after eight months of fighting can the two sides agree on a ceasefire?>
(2021-07-07). The looming famine in Tigray is an avoidable catastrophe. zcomm.org The ruination of a once-thriving area of Ethiopia is the result of war and its associated crimes. The world needs to wake up…
(2021-07-07). Biden Admits that U.S. Will Continue to Bomb Afghanistan. libya360.wordpress.com Nick Mottern U.S. jets bombing Afghanistan. These attacks will not end despite the formal U.S. withdrawal by September 11th. [Source: wired.com] After 20 Years, America's "Longest War" Is Not Really Ending On July 2nd, fleeing questions from reporters about U.S. plans in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden sought refuge behind the July 4th Independence Day holiday….