(2021-08-03). Political Incongruities in the Olympic Games. Apartheid South Africa, Fragmented Palestine. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-03). Fact Check: Black Americans Are More Likely To Be Vegan Than Other Groups. moguldom.com African American adults are more likely to identify as vegan than any other group in the U.S. A 2016 Pew Research Center survey showed that 8 percent of Black American adults were strict vegans or vegetarians, compared to 3 percent of the general population. The trend toward ditching meat affects everyone including top athletes and music …
(2021-08-03). Money, Threats, And Military Power. strategic-culture.org Top military brass demand more and more funding without any real improvements in our armed forces' fighting power. | By Douglas MACGREGOR | If Americans pause to listen to the nation's four star generals and admirals testify on the Hill or speak in public, it sounds as though the senior military leaders are asking for a fight with China, Russia, Iran, and any number of countries in Africa, the Near East, or Latin America. But that's not actually the case. | America's senior military leaders are really just asking for more money. They know that big defense budgets channel defense dollars to campaign donors, con…
(2021-08-03). Canada is Waging an All-Front Legal War against Indigenous People. libya360.wordpress.com Justin Podur Canada is developing a new image: one of burning churches, toppling statues, and mass graves. There are thousands more unmarked graves, thousands more Indigenous children killed at residential schools, remaining to be unearthed. There can be no denying that this is Canada, and it has to change. But can Canada transform itself for the better? If the revelation…
(2021-08-03). The Fall of Tunisia, Last of the Arab Spring Nations. counterpunch.org "Do you remember the tomorrow that never came?" asked a sad piece of street graffiti in Cairo, referring to the fate of the Arab Spring that once promised to overthrow the brutal autocracies that rule the Middle East. That tomorrow moved even further into the future this week when a coup displaced the last surviving
(2021-08-03). Three Dead In Djibouti As Ethnic Violence Spills From Its Neighbors. southfront.org 
At least three people died in intercommunal violence in Djibouti. | Police intervened when fighting broke out on August 1st, in several parts of the capital Djibouti, between the ethnic Afar group, which straddles Djibouti's borders with Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the Issa, Djibouti's other main ethnic group."There were several extremely serious criminal acts. Houses were intentionally set on fire," Lamisse Mohamed Said told public television on August 2nd, without giving any possible reason for the violence. | "Innocent people were gratuitously attacked," she said. | Three people had died, she added, without s…
(2021-08-03). Counter-Revolution Strikes Tunisia. strategic-culture.org 
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S. just don't want democracy in the Arab world, writes As'ad AbuKhalil. | By As'ad ABUKHALIL | The monarchical-sounding declaration by KaàØs SaàØed eight days ago was stunning: the president who was freely elected in 2019 (for only the second time in Tunisian history) was basically proclaiming a coup d'etat by dismissing the prime minister and suspending parliament. | SaàØed was elected nine years after the overthrow of President Zine Ben Ali, who in 1987 as the security chief launched a coup against Habib Bourguiba, the founding president of Tunisia. T…
(2021-08-03). First National Congress of Socialist Movement of Ghana charts a new course for the region. peoplesdispatch.org The First National Congress of the Socialist Movement of Ghana (SMG) — previously the Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) — was held from July 30 to August 1 in Winneba…
(2021-08-03). Immigrant Detention in Louisiana Is Just Next Chapter of State's Prison Culture. latinorebels.com Louisiana has a long history of being the world's prison capital. This one U.S. southern state once surpassed entire countries with the number of prisons they host. Yes, Louisiana has more prisons than countries like Iran, China, and Germany, to just name a few. For example, one of Louisiana's notorious prisons —Angola State Prison— was …
(2021-08-03). Chinese Investors Wage Union Busting War On Namibian MUN Mine Workers. indybay.org Chinese investors both state and private in Namibia are engaging in a massive union busting campaign against the Mineworkers Union Of Namibia breaking strikes with the use of Chinese nationals and also firing union leaders including the 9 MUN union executive members of the Rossing Mine which is owned by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation CNNC.
(2021-08-03). Friday 8/13: Soldiarity Action With Namibian MUN Rossing Mine Fired Union Leadership & Lawyer Beukes. indybay.org San Francisco Chinese Consulate | 1450 Laguna St, San Francisco, CA 94115…
(2021-08-03). Science Saturday: How geologic rock formations inform novel treatments for kidney stones. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Human kidney stones are at least as old as the Giza pyramids. The oldest known kidney stone was found in Egyptian burial satin from 4400 B.C. In 2020, Mayo Clinic processed and analyzed some 90,000 kidney stones from all over the world. That number increases each year, reflecting a global uptick in kidney stone disease. But new research has unlocked how kidney stones actually form, which could be the key to treating or even eliminating…
(2021-08-02). US suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost. thegrayzone.com Cuba's anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that's one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today. Cuba's anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that's one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today. Cuba's anti-imperialist foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa …
(2021-08-02). Russia and China: Geopolitical Rivals and Competitors in Africa. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-02). Relations Between Three African States Reached a Breaking Point due to Water Disputes. libya360.wordpress.com Viktor Mikhin Ethiopia announced that it had completed the second phase of filling its controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) nearly two weeks after it began the process. This second filling was accomplished despite the lack of a legally binding agreement with Egypt and Sudan's underlying countries and the sharp disputes between the three countries….
(2021-08-02). General Assembly creates new Permanent Forum of People of African Descent. news.un.org Capping years of deliberations, the UN General Assembly on Monday established a new platform to improve the lives of Afro-descendants, who have for centuries suffered the ills of racism, racial discrimination and the legacy of enslavement around the globe.
(2021-08-02). The Laura Flanders Show: Black Candidates, BIPOC Media. roarmag.org Black Candidates, BIPOC Media: Making Coverage Complex—and Better | New York City will likely elect Eric Adams as its second African American mayor in November. Adams, currently the Brooklyn Borough President, was declared the winner of the Democratic primary in July. A former police officer who was himself beaten by the cops as a teenager, Adams campaigned against police brutality while positioning himself as a law and order candidate. | Though much of the mainstream media has attempted to simplify Adams' story, he's a complex candidate who isn't easily boxed in. What are the national implications of all t…
(2021-08-02). Can Saudis/US Use Water Crisis to Bring Yemenis to Their Knees? libya360.wordpress.com Ahmed Abdulkareem SANA'A, YEMEN — When the well ran dry, Abu Yahya al-Hamdani, who provides water to many residents of the Saruf neighborhood in northeastern Sana'a, had no warning. Last week, the water table dipped lower in his water well and the pump began to suck air. For the families in the neighborhood, to whom…
(2021-08-02). "The Ants and the Grasshopper": Raj Patel's New Film Aims to "Decolonize" Climate & Health Solutions. democracynow.org 
We look at a groundbreaking new documentary on the climate crisis and the global food system, "The Ants and the Grasshopper," which follows the journey of a Malawian farmer as she tries to end hunger and gender inequality in her village, and tackle climate change in the United States. "In this film, what we're trying to do is decolonize the view of how it is that we fix the climate crisis and the health crisis by foregrounding the wisdom of peasants from around the world, whether they're in the United States or from Malawi," says co-director Raj Patel.
(2021-08-02). U.S. Carries Out Third Airstrike On Somalia's Al-Shabaab Militants In Two Weeks. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The United States military has confirmed that it carried out another airstrike against al-Shabab militants, its third in less than two weeks. | The strike was in support of Somali government forces in the vicinity of Qeycad, in the central Galmudug state, according to the U.S. military. | Both the U.S. and Somali government said there were no civilian casualties. | The Somali government earlier reported the strike was in an area where federal and U.S.-trained forces were fighting the milita…
(2021-08-02). 15 soldiers killed in Niger ambush, ministry says. en.mehrnews.com Fifteen soldiers were killed as a result of an ambush in southwestern Niger on Saturday, the country's defence ministry said, blaming the attack on "armed terrorist groups."
(2021-08-02). Somalia: U.S. conducts third airstrike in two weeks. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com An American government account. US Military Targets Al-Shabab in Somalia With More Airstrikes The United States military has confirmed that it carried out another airstrike against al-Shabab militants, its third in less than two weeks. The Somali government earlier reported the strike was in an area where federal and U.S.-trained forces were fighting the militants….