(2021-08-14). Pentagon plans Space Forces commands around the world. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Space Force planning for new component in the Middle East alongside AFCENT [Air Forces Central] That unit, tentatively known as Space Forces Central Command, could also serve as a blueprint for creating sister groups around the globe — for example, Pacific Space Forces, U.S. Space Forces in Europe and Space Forces Africa, Space Forces Northern …
(2021-08-14). News on China | No. 63. dissidentvoice.org China promotes health through sports, deals with environmental threat posed by algal bloom, and trades with Africa.
(2021-08-14). [Correspondence] Trends in population health and demography. thelancet.com Stein Vollset and colleagues forecasted that population increase in sub-Saharan Africa will continue until 2100. Consequently, three of the region's countries will join Nigeria among the ten most populous countries globally: DR Congo, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.1 Although we applaud the authors for including alternative scenarios based on change in educational attainment and access to contraception, the Article neglects safe childbirth as a co-driver of decreasing fertility rates.
(2021-08-13). What Fidel Castro means to us. peoplesdispatch.org I first saw Fidel Castro in person during the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in New Delhi in 1983. Castro had come to hand-over the chair of NAM from Cuba, which hosted the 1979 meeting, to India. He was greeted at the Delhi airport by India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, whom he called "sister." | At the meeting, Castro was the star. He held together the 101 countries that gathered under an entirely new leadership. India's Nehru, Egypt's Nasser, Indonesia's Sukarno, and Yugoslavia's Tito — the founders of NAM in 1961 — were no longer present; the new names were Gandhi and Castro with new revolut…
(2021-08-13). Has AU Declared War on Member States by Granting Israel 'Observer Status'? orinocotribune.com By Iqbal Jassat — Aug 9, 2021 | In the midst of a full-blown controversy sparked by a decision to allow Israel "observer status" at the African Union, it is crucial to note that the Zionist colonial settler regime hasn't halted its violent plunder of Palestinian rights while relentlessly pushing ahead with illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. | Strange as it sounds, the bizarre fact is that the unauthorized permission by the AU Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat has resulted in leaders of the African continent facing divisive consequences of a rash, unwise and problematic decision.
(2021-08-13). Lawmakers Aren't "Progressive" If They Ignore Palestinian Rights. orinocotribune.com By Souzan Naser & Hatem Abudayyeh — Aug 9, 2021 | Even after years of dedicated judo training, both Mohamed Abdalarasool from Sudan and Fethi Nourine from Algeria refused to compete in the Tokyo Olympics when they were slated to perform against an Israeli athlete. In an official statement, Nourine said to an Algerian TV station, "We worked a lot to reach the Olympics… but the Palestinian cause is bigger than all of this." This gesture of sacrifice and solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by Israel earned Abdalarasool and Nourine hero status in the Arab world and beyond. | In another refreshing move, corp…
(2021-08-13). A Last-Minute Reprieve for the Homeless…for Now. counterpunch.org Things looked bad for renters on July 31. The rent moratorium had expired, so millions faced eviction and homelessness. The number of vagabonds, already 500,000, was set to balloon. So what did our brave representatives in the House do? They went on summer vacation. Did the president demand they remain in the capital until they
(2021-08-13). Less than 2% vaccinated even as COVID-19 cases cross 7.1 million in Africa. peoplesdispatch.org Despite the recently increased supply, the continent suffers a severe shortage of vaccines due to stockpiling by wealthier countries and the credit rating agencies' practice of disproportionately downgrading developing countries during the pandemic…
(2021-08-13). AFRICOM held "cross-continent strategic engagement in Niger" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com North and West Africa Response Force conducts engagement in Niger U.S. service members assigned to U.S. Africa Command's North and West Africa Response Force (NARF) conducted a cross-continent strategic engagement in Niger, August 7-9. **** "The engagement across West Africa into Niger enabled the NARF to exercise its readiness by testing its operational reach throughout …
(2021-08-13). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org ScotRail's Sunday pay strikes continue into seventh month joined by other rail disputes; Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency strike in Wales over COVID safety ongoing since April; Firefighters in Gironde, France strike for more resources as they share vehicles with ambulance service; Nigerian doctors' pay stoppage continues with some owed 19 months' arrears…
(2021-08-13). Sixty nine dead in Algeria as forest fires devastate the Mediterranean region. wsws.org Dozens have died in Algeria as forest fires and record temperatures ravage the north of the country and the entire Mediterranean region.
(2021-08-13). LPDF resumes talks to end Libyan civil war with eye on December elections. peoplesdispatch.org Libya's warring parties have once again resumed talks to resolve their political differences and reach a settlement to end the war and civil strife in the country. The talks held on Wednesday, August 11 took place via video-conferencing under the supervision of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). The negotiations were held keeping in mind the scheduled December 2021 presidential and parliamentary elections in the country which has been ravaged by war, foreign military interventions and civil conflict. The meeting between the parties, referred to as the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), com…
(2021-08-13). Runasur: A Project of Cohesion in a Fragmented World. libya360.wordpress.com Javier Tolcachier "Let us live as brothers and congregated in a single body. Let us take care of the protection and preservation of the Spaniards, Creoles, mestizos, Zambos and Indians for being all compatriots, as born in these lands and of the same origin." — Tupac Amaru "There is nothing in the world more powerful…
(2021-08-13). Creative Associates International (CAI): It's Not Exactly the CIA, But Close Enough. libya360.wordpress.com Alan Macleod While mercenary armies like Blackwater have at least been subject to inquiry, making the company's name infamous around the world, Creative Associates International has largely flown under the radar — exactly where the organization's board wants it to be. You have likely not heard of them, but Creative Associates International (CAI) is one…
(2021-08-13). The Agenda for Venezuela's Peace Talks in Mexico. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by attorney Gerardo Blyde, head of the opposition negotiation team, Norway's Dag Nylander, head of the Facilitation Team, and Jorge Rodriguez on behalf of the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela. The Bolivarian government of Venezuela and representatives of the US-backed opposition have officially begun a new dialogue process…
(2021-08-13). The Specter of War Looms Over Libya. libya360.wordpress.com The Turkish regime still controls the political life in Tripoli, relying on the hordes of forces and mercenaries that it deploys in bases and camps. Analysts fear that the latest issuance of two arrest warrants against the commander of the Libyan army, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, is an attempt by the…
(2021-08-13). Cali: City of Explosion and Resistance. libya360.wordpress.com Marco Teruggi State repression was the response of the government of Iván Duque against the demonstrations. Neighborhoods and their poor youth, who confronted the police and military deployment, played a leading role. And the indigenous movement: the most organized actor. "Stop the genocide" reads a huge mural in downtown Cali, the city called "branch of…
(2021-08-13). In Somalia, the US is bombing the very 'terrorists' it created. thegrayzone.com US and British meddling transformed Somalia's al-Shabaab into an extremist group, inflaming the humanitarian crisis that persists throughout the country. This July, the Biden administration picked up where Trump left off and began bombing Somalia, a country with a gross domestic product of less than $6bn and a poverty rate of 70 percent. But why? The official reason provided by the Pentagon was that the Somali National Army needed air support in its operations to counter al-Shabaab. But the actual …
(2021-08-13). Combat Footage: ISIS Cells Ambushed Nigerian Army Convoy In Borno (18+). southfront.org 
Screen grab from the ambush video. | On August 11, ISIS news agency Amaq shared footage of a recent attack by the group on a convoy of the Nigerian Armed Forces (NAF) in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno. | ISIS terrorists ambushed the convoy as it was passing near the town of Kareto on the Gubio-Damasak highway on August 1. Heavy clashes broke out between the terrorists and Nigerian troops, who managed to escape with minimum losses. | NAF troops were heading to Gubio to pick up members of the All Progressives Congress…