(2021-08-17). Afghan-Australian: 'Democracy and safety not a priority for West'. greenleft.org.au The West was never in Afghanistan to bring democracy or assure safety for ordinary Afghans. Riz Wakil said the warmongers orchestrated not only the occupation of Afghanistan but many parts of the Middle East: Iraq, Syria and also Libya.
(2021-08-17). Headlines for August 17, 2021. democracynow.org Biden Defends U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan After Taliban Capture Kabul , Advocates Demand U.S. and Other Nations Open Doors to Afghan Refugees, Tropical Storm Adds to Haiti's Misery Two Days After Massive Earthquake Kills Over 1,400, Immigrant Advocates Denounce Biden Administration for Deporting Haitian Refugees, U.S. Will Recommend COVID Booster Shots After 8 Months, Despite Global Vaccine Inequity, Johnson & Johnson Ships Millions of Vaccine Doses from South Africa to Europe, U.S. Coronavirus Hospitalizations Soar, with Record Infection Levels in Five States, Republican Governors Erect New Barriers to COVI…
(2021-08-17). Afghanistan: Taliban victory the product of US-NATO intervention. greenleft.org.au If any proof was needed that the Afghani government was a puppet of Washington, it was shown by its quick collapse, writes Malik Miah.
(2021-08-17). Deutsche Welle: EU and NATO in state of shock. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Shock is what the people of the former Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan felt over the past 22 years when NATO bombs and missiles landed at their workplaces and in their neighborhoods. EU and NATO in state of shock Chaotic scenes at Kabul airport…show that only military evacuation is still an option; civilian air traffic has …
(2021-08-17). Latin American Socialists Unite with the West Asian Axis of Resistance. libya360.wordpress.com Ben Norton The leftist governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Bolivia have found a key strategic ally in Iran, the heart of the Axis of Resistance. Revolutionary socialist movements in Latin America are developing closer relations with anti-imperialist resistance forces in West Asia, building a united front against Western aggression and exploitation. This budding alliance…
(2021-08-17). Proportions of Faculty Self-Identifying as Black or African American at US Medical Schools, 1990-2020. jamanetwork.com This study examines differences in proportions of US medical school faculty who self-identified as Black or African American between 1990 and 2020 based on data from the Association of American Medical Colleges Faculty Roster.
(2021-08-17). African American Women More Likely to Die of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. jamanetwork.com African American women with nonmetastatic triple-negative breast cancer were more likely to die of their disease than their White counterparts, according to a recent analysis. African American patients also were less likely to receive standard treatments, which partially explained their increased mortality risk.
(2021-08-17). Scraping the Bottom of the Sea: the Movement to Stop Deep Sea Mining. counterpunch.org On July 29, the two-day Wokisok Shark Calling Festival will begin at Kono village, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. It's not a new gimmick to capitalize on Shark Week or Sharknado movies—although foreign visitors are welcome. Nor do people stand on the beach and yell, Shark! Instead it's a seasonal rite where fishers paddle out
(2021-08-17). A Simple Approach to Relieve Teens' Anxiety and Depression. jamanetwork.com An intervention known as Shamiri helped relieve Kenyan adolescents' depression and anxiety symptoms more effectively than a program aimed at improving their secondary school study skills, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.
(2021-08-17). Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI-Bolivia) Release 300-Page Report on Human Rights Violations in Bolivia. libya360.wordpress.com Today, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI-Bolivia) will be releasing a 300-page report on the human rights violations in Bolivia in late 2019. Victims of the brutal coup regime see these findings as important in the pursuit of justice. @PrensaCamila pic.twitter.com/werR5dZTia — Kawsachun News (@KawsachunNews) August 17, 2021 Arriving here now are some of…
(2021-08-17). Rehire Namibian Mine Union Leaders & Hands Off Lawyer Beukes! Rally At SF China Consulate. indybay.org A rally was held on 8/13/21 at the San Francisco Chinese consulate to demand the rehiring of the 9 dismissed leaders of the Miners Union of Namibia Rossing Branch. Their employers is the state owned Chinese National Nuclear Corporation.
(2021-08-16). Opening And Closing US Embassies-From Sierra Leone To Afghanistan. popularresistance.org While the people of Afghanistan are in a state of fear of the Taliban who now control Afghanistan, its capital, major cities and countryside after the U.S. and NATO occupation of twenty years, please pardon my personal observances of some of my experiences during sixteen years in the U.S. diplomatic corps and opening and closing U.S. Embassies in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan and the effects on the civilian populations of the countries involved. | In December 2001, I was a part of a very small team from the U.S. Department of State that was sent to Kabul, Afghanistan to reopen the U.S. Embassy. The Embassy had bee…
(2021-08-16). Opening and Closing US Embassies—From Sierra Leone to Afghanistan. commondreams.org "The only thing that we 'accomplished' by going into… Afghanistan was to put trillions of taxpayer dollars into the military-industrial complex and destroy millions of lives."
(2021-08-16). One Year On: the Abraham Accords and Palestinians' Political Exclusion. strategic-culture.org The "deal of the century" may no longer be part of mainstream narratives on Palestine, given the Biden Administration's faàßade of favouring the two-state politics over annexation, Ramona Wadi writes. | A year since former US President Donald Trump announced the brokering of the Abraham Accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, there is no longer any pretence that the normalisation agreements were signed with any Palestinian interests in mind. The narrative of preventing Israel's annexation of Palestinian territory was, of course, a mere vague premise upon which the international community could…
(2021-08-16). Notwithstanding Western snubs, Turkey remains faithful NATO ally. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From an article in today's Anadolu News Agency which bemoans Ankara's NATO allies not sufficiently supporting its invasions of Iraq and Syria to hunt down and murder alleged terrorists — though NATO has surely not done anything to thwart Turkey's numerous wars from North Africa to the South Caucasus and several spots between. Turkey seeks …
(2021-08-16). US Will Never Be Majority Minority Because Immigrants Assimilate Into Anti-Blackness. moguldom.com One complaint in Black America is that it seems it is always under attack — even from other Black people or people of color. Even immigrants feed into and adopt anti-Blackness, according to Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley. Black Americans are sometimes looked down upon by African and Caribbean immigrants, and Latino immigrants often latch …
(2021-08-16). US-Africa Relations: Corporate Council on Africa Hosted the 13th U.S.-Africa Business Summit. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-16). Economic Update: Chile's Feminist Social Revolution. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the election of a socialist, African-American woman as new mayor in Buffalo, NY; US unemployment insurance's meager support for jobless; Teamsters target Amazon workers for union drive; veterans' suicides and the costs of US wars. | On the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Rodrigo Roa Fernandez, Chilean revolutionary activist on his country's new feminist movement, the Constituent Assembly and the new constitution. | You can support this show on
(2021-08-16). Africa's Ever-Deepening Imperialist Hell, and the Revolutionary Movement that Can End It. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea Somalia (left) and South Africa (right) Africa, with its growing instability, is a later-stage version of what other exploited regions like Latin America or Oceania are going to become like as capitalist collapse continues to unfold. Following NATO's turning Libya into a failed state a decade ago, and the ongoing precariousness within the…
(2021-08-16). Highlights from President Maduro's International Press Conference. libya360.wordpress.com Unilateral coercive measures are a silent bombardment against the Venezuelan people "The policy of imperialist sanctions is as genocidal as bombarding a country. It is a silent bombardment against an innocent, humble, working and noble population like the people of Venezuela," said President Nicolás Maduro when referring to the coercive measures applied by Washington that…
(2021-08-16). Biden's America Is Back — To Somalia. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size imageWhile Biden keeps pushing his human rights narrative, his latest airstrikes are part of a great power competition. | Written Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts. | On July 20, the US carried out an airstrike in Somalia against al Shabaab militants — the first one in Somalia under President Joe Biden. It struck again on July 23 and August 1. Last week, it was reported Biden seeks to host a "Summit for Democracy". | According to a…
(2021-08-16). Zambia election: Hakainde Hichilema is the president-elect, incumbent Edgar Lungu defeated. peoplesdispatch.org Hakainde Hichilema is likely to take the country further down the neoliberal path by wooing the IMF. Fred M'membe, the candidate of the newly formed Socialist Party, who came fifth, has called for a continuation of the struggle for a just and humane society…