(2021-08-09). PEACH Provides Palliative Care For Homeless And Vulnerably Housed. popularresistance.org A child of refugees who fled war-torn Uganda in the 1970s, a young Naheed Dosani grew up having conversations about social injustice, inequity and poverty at the family's Scarborough home. "I have always pondered what a life is worth," he says, "and why our health and social systems are designed to value some lives over those of others." | This was especially the case after the challenges of the last year. A palliative care physician who works with some of the city's most vulnerable, Dosani said that "COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted people who experience structural vulnerabilities. Pandemics are like gui…
(2021-08-09). Video: Riots in South Africa: Causes, Interests and Consequences. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-09). U.S. prepares Ghana for NATO partnership. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Air Force, Ghanaian Armed Forces strengthen ties through education and training Twenty members of the Ghanaian Armed Forces completed a two-week, professional military education course hosted by the Inter-European Air Forces Academy July 19-30, 2021, in Accra, Ghana. **** While this was the academy's first-ever engagement on the African continent, it won't be the …
(2021-08-09). Tigray: Intensified fighting across borders 'disastrous' for children. news.un.org UN agencies continue to sound the alarm over the growing "humanitarian catastrophe" in northern Ethiopia, sparked by the conflict in the Tigray region, now in its ninth month.
(2021-08-08). Riots In South Africa: Causes, Interests And Consequences. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by Daniel Deiss and Edwin Watson. | In July 2021, South Africa was swept by the largest wave of violence seen since the fall of apartheid in 1994. The protests that began on July 8 have quickly turned into pogroms that involved thousands of people. | The nominal cause for the outbreak of riots was the arrest of a former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma on charges of corruption. Mr. Zuma's controversial activities have long raised questions. | After the fall of apartheid he acquired seni…
(2021-08-08). Social Banditry For The 21st Century. popularresistance.org At least as early as the first century A.D., shiftas of the Horn of Africa renounced their allegiance to emperors, government and law, and took to the wild where — through their disruptions of the usual business and trade — they would manage to survive as outlaws. For centuries, the Balkan haiduks roamed their lands, stealing from their Ottoman occupiers. Yi brigands and others from across the Chinese frontier sustained their economies in large part through raiding during the early 20th century. From 1917-1937, Peruvian women led bands of sharpshooters by horseback to rob the rich and give to the poor…
(2021-08-08). African Faith Leaders to Gates Foundation: Drop African 'Green Revolution'. commondreams.org "What he did to me was a crime," said Brittany Commisso, Cuomo's executive assistant. "The governor needs to be held accountable."
(2021-08-08). U.S. Army reverses course, to keep six bases in Europe, transfer seventh to Air Force. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com US Army to Keep 6 Sites in Europe, Nixing Transfer Plan The U.S. Army in Europe and Africa said Friday it will retain six sites that were previously scheduled to be returned to Germany and Belgium amid growing demand for facilities on the continent. A seventh site, in Germany, will be transferred to the Air …
(2021-08-08). 'We are in Nobody's Backyard': Rejecting Geopolitical and Historical Fatalism. orinocotribune.com By Gerald A. Perreira — Jul 29, 2021 | Except for the hum of US helicopters flying overhead, there was a deafening silence throughout the Caribbean region, during the recent Operation Tradewinds, Progressive and Pan-African forces did not utter a word, as soldiers from Guyana, Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago participated in this region-wide military exercise with army personnel from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and the Netherlands. | We were told that Operation Tradewinds was "a US Southern Command sponsored…
(2021-08-08). Animal and Climate Justice Coalition Calls for Carbon Pricing on Meat, Dairy Products. commondreams.org "When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach."
(2021-08-08). Mayi Cumare, Life Partner of Carlos Lanz, Discusses His Disappearance and Lack of Progress on His Case. libya360.wordpress.com The disappearance of Carlos Lanz was a political kidnapping because of his investigations, says his partner Mayi Cumare, life companion of the researcher, revolutionary and veteran guerrilla fighter, is direct: Although they will not allow the case to be used to attack the Bolivarian Revolution, the truth is that the State institutions have shown negligence…
(2021-08-08). "We Are Telling People, Vote for Yourselves!": Rehoboth Kafwabulula of Socialist Party of Zambia. libya360.wordpress.com Zoe Alexandra SP Candidate for Lusaka Mayor Rabecca Musonda (centre) and SP candidate for Kamwala Ward Councillor Ezekiel Ngisi with SP members in Kamwala Ward in Lusaka, Kabwata Constituency. The spokesperson of the Socialist Party of Zambia, Rehoboth Kafwabulula spoke to Peoples Dispatch about the upcoming elections in Zambia and the key messages they are…
(2021-08-08). Argentina To Ease COVID-19 Restrictions. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez announced new measures to soften COVID-19 restrictions and normalize social and economic life. | RELATED: | Noting further regulations on the matter, National Director of Migrations Florencia Carignan increased from 1.000 to 1.700 the daily amount of Argentinians and permanent residents who can enter the country. | Nevertheless, incoming citizens must show a COVID-…
(2021-08-08). Salvatore Mancuso's Confession Reveals How Paramilitarism Emerged in Colombia. libya360.wordpress.com Mison VerdadSalvatore Mancuso was one of the "political commissars" of the AUC (Photo: Archive). The war that has been raging in Colombia for the last seven decades has gone through various stages of violence, with different actors that often intertwine in terms of their interests and procedures, with the State playing a leading role —…