(2021-09-24). EU/NATO deploy Georgian troops to Central Africa. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com National Guard squad traveled to Central Africa The platoon of the 8th rotation team of the Georgian National Guard has left for the European Union-led military training mission (EUTM RCA) in the Central African Republic . Georgian peacekeepers Deputy Commander of the Georgian Defense Forces, Brigadier General Irakli Chichinadze, Commander of the National Guard, Brigadier …
(2021-09-24). Ex-Police Officer Convicted of George Floyd's Murder Appeals Verdict, Reports Suggest. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, sentenced to 22 years in prison for the murder of African American George Floyd, has filed an intent of appeal to the court regarding his verdict, the media reported on 24 September.
(2021-09-24). Tuesday 9/28: Community Resilience: COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Black Community (MOAD). indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2021-09-24). African Leaders Condemn Vaccine Apartheid as an 'Indictment on Humanity'. commondreams.org
(2021-09-24). As Ethiopian War Set To Intensify, 'International Community' Remains Divided And Impotent. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by Daniel Edgar exclusively for SouthFront. | As the war grinds on in northern Ethiopia, the respective sides are preparing for an escalation in the fighting as the dry season approaches. Although international efforts to persuade the belligerent parties to call an immediate ceasefire have intensified, the irreconcilable differences between the permanent members of the Security Council means that nothing positive can be expected from that quarter in the foreseeable future. In the absence of determined international action aimed at increasing the pressure on the leadership of the main…
(2021-09-24). US Judge Orders Facebook to Turn Over Deleted Posts That Promoted Hate Toward Rohingya People. sputniknews.com A District of Columbia judge has ruled that Facebook must turn over deleted posts made by Myanmar officials encouraging hate towards the Rohingya people to the Gambian government.
(2021-09-24). Hunter Biden Asked for $2 Mln From Democratic Donors to Help Unfreeze Libyan Assets: Report. sputniknews.com The newly revealed emails are reportedly unrelated to those on Hunter Biden's purported laptop found at a repair shop in Delaware in 2019 and which indicated that Joe Biden was apparently engaged in his son's business dealings overseas during his tenure as US vice president.
(2021-09-24). American capitalism normalizes mass death. wsws.org The daily death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 2,000 people dying in the United States every day, is being treated as the "new normal."
(2021-09-24). Sharing Mayo Clinic: Genetics connects family members at the hip. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Before they went through testing at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Barbara Domaille, Deborah Neville, Pamela Neville, and Rylie Ronnenberg thought there could be a genetic connection to the hip problems they shared. After the testing, they knew for sure. ___________________________________ As family members, Barbara Domaille, Deborah Neville, Pamela Neville, and Rylie Ronnenberg share many things in common that they treasure, and only one they wish they didn't: a hip abnormality called femoroacetabular impingement. After undergoing genetic…
(2021-09-23). Declaration Issued in NYC by 18 Countries of UN Anti-Sanctions Group. libya360.wordpress.com Misión Verdad The First Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends in Defense of the United Nations Charter, also know as the UN Anti-Sanctions Group, was held this Thursday, September 23, in New York, USA, at the Venezuelan Diplomatic Mission to the United Nations. The meeting was attended by representatives of 18 countries that promote…
(2021-09-23). Angola President's Emotional Response After Touring Smithsonian African American History Museum. moguldom.com Angola President Joà£o Lourenàßo toured the Smithsonian African American History Museum on Monday in Washington, D.C., and described his experience seeing the exhibits on slavery and the middle passage as "profoundly emotional". Accompanied by his wife Anas Dias Lourenàßo, he visited the premiere U.S. museum of African American history for the first time as president. …
(2021-09-23). Lessons From 50 Years Covering Foreign Policy. popularresistance.org For over 50 years I have been writing about foreign policy — mostly America's, but those of other nations as well. I think I have a pretty good grasp of places like Turkey, China, India, Russia, and the European Union. I regret that I am less than sure-footed in Africa and Latin America. | During this time I have also learned a fair amount about military matters and various weapons systems, because they cost enormous amounts of money that could be put to much better use than killing and maiming people. But also because it's hard to resist the absurd: the high performance US F-35 fighter jet — at $1.7…
(2021-09-23). Inside The Beef Between Marcus Garvey And WEB Dubois: 5 Things To Know About Their Differences. moguldom.com Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois were two of the great civil rights leaders and leading pan-Africanists of the 1920s. They each fought in their own way for freedom and justice for Black America but their ways often collided, resulting in a war of words and worse. Some say Du Bois was in part responsible …
(2021-09-23). Prosecutors to probe illegal practices in Mexico's Ayotzinapa 43 case and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at new evidence in the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in Mexico, the strike announced by NUMSA in South Africa's engineering sector, and more…
(2021-09-23). Russian PMC Wagner Refused To Support Notorious African Dictator. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Equatorial Guinea's authorities have apparently believed all the rumors and reports about Russian mercenaries active in various locations around Africa and has decided it needed some PMCs for itself. | Reportedly, the country's Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mange made a secret visit to Moscow. There, the VP, who is also the President's son, tried to conclude agreements for PMCs' help in ensuring security in the country. It turned out that cooperation would imply the p…
(2021-09-23). The Globalized, Corporate-Led Food System Is Failing Us: Boycott Grows of U.N. Food Summit. democracynow.org 
More than 500 civil society groups boycotted the United Nations Food Systems Summit in New York for giving corporations an outsized role in framing the agenda. We speak with leading food advocates in Ethiopia, India and the United States, who lay out their concerns: Million Belay, general coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa; Raj Patel, journalist and research professor at the University of Texas at Austin; and Shalmali Guttal, executive director of Focus on the Global South. "There is growing hunger in the world, and there is growing inequality and…
(2021-09-23). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Danish nurses continue wildcat stoppages in defiance of unions over pay and lack of staff, joined by sympathy strike of Silkeborg social workers; teachers across France walk out for 24 hours to demand more staff, better pay and conditions; Sunday pay strikes at ScotRail continue for over six months, 24-hour safety strikes continue at East Midlands Rail; Nigerian resident doctors on strike for nearly two months over pay arrears, while other health unions prevaricate about calling members out over same issues…
(2021-09-23). Presidents Call for End of US Blockade on Cuba at UNGA. libya360.wordpress.com The Presidents of Guyana, South Africa, Vietnam and Suriname demand a complete end to the unilateral U.S. blockade on Cuba at #UNGA76 The Presidents of Guyana, South Africa, Vietnam and Suriname demand a complete end to the unilateral U.S. blockade on Cuba üá®üá∫ at #UNGA76 pic.twitter.com/2Jtj00Arvu — Kawsachun News (@KawsachunNews) September 23, 2021…
(2021-09-23). Next Turkish intervention? Algeria, Morocco clash over Western Sahara. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== Turkish combat drones to be used in Western Sahara after Karabakh, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Donbass ==== Algeria closes airspace to all Moroccan planes Algeria's presidency has announced the closure of the country's airspace to all Moroccan planes, according to the presidency, in the latest dispute between the two neighbours at odds mainly over Western …
(2021-09-23). Russian Warplanes Continue To Hammer Greater Idlib As Tensions Rise With Turkey (Video, Photos). southfront.org 
FILE PHOTO: Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft before departing for its permanent base in Russia from Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. © Vadim Grishankin / Sputnik | Russian warplanes continue to hammer the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib where Turkey maintains a large force. | Late on September 22, four Russian airstrikes hit the outskirts of the town of Benin in the southern countryside of Idlib. The airstrikes targeted frontline positions of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of Greate…
(2021-09-23). Gaza: Palestinian fishermen disappeared at sea found detained in Egypt. middleeasteye.net 
Gaza: Palestinian fishermen disappeared at sea found detained in Egypt | The two men had gone missing off the coast of Gaza three weeks earlier | Thu, 09/23/2021 – 14: 00 | Palestinian fishermen pull a boat along a beach in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis on 22 September 2021 (AFP) | Two
(2021-09-23). Haiti and the US "Responsibility to Protect" libya360.wordpress.com Erica Caines "If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or just rose up 300 feet, it wouldn't matter a whole lot to our interests." sitting us president, Joe Biden On August 14th, the southern third of Haiti was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, resulting in a death count of up to 2,200 people…
(2021-09-23). People Who Produce Most of the World's Food Continue to Fight against Agribusiness-led UN Food Summit. libya360.wordpress.com La Via Campesina Following the counter-mobilizations to oppose the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in July, which gathered more than 9,000 participants from all over the world, civil society and Indigenous Peoples' groups continue to mobilize this week against the Summit itself, happening on 23 September in New York. The People's Autonomous Response to the UN Food Systems Summit (UN…
(2021-09-23). Libya: Haftar steps down from military role to run for president. middleeasteye.net 
Libya: Haftar steps down from military role to run for president | Eastern commander has assigned his chief of staff to assume his duties until 24 December presidential election | Thu, 09/23/2021 – 10: 30 | Haftar heads the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army and waged war on western factions after the country split in 2014 (AFP) | Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar paved the way to…
(2021-09-23). Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel at UNGA. libya360.wordpress.com Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel addresses the 76th UN General Assembly during the September 23, 2021 morning session. [Full address with simultaneous English interpretation from source] Watch President Miguel Diaz-Canel's full address on our Facebook and YouTube pages: t.co/O6XAUA2hgN — Kawsachun News (@KawsachunNews) September 23, 2021…
(2021-09-23). India: Farmers Aim to Topple Modi at State Level. libya360.wordpress.com Haris Zargar 5 September 2021: Indian farmers and their supporters march to Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh state in protest against the government's agricultural reforms. (Photograph by Pankaj Nangia/ Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The ongoing farmers' agitation has unified farmers of all castes and religions, creating a new political challenge to Narenda Modi's party in…
(2021-09-23). Conversation with Felix Plasencia, Foreign Minister of Venezuela. libya360.wordpress.com This roundtable will allow for in depth conversation on the current context in Venezuela, upcoming elections, as well prospects for the future of US-Venezuela relations. During this prolonged period of global crisis, the US has continued to escalate programs of hybrid warfare across the world. Venezuela has also continued to resist, and the US has…
(2021-09-23). Under the Shadow of Duterte, Filipinos Remember the Crimes of Ferdinand Marcos. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch A scene from the protests in the Philippines on Tuesday. Photo: Karapatan/Facebook Protests were held across the Philippines to mark the declaration of martial law by dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. The protests were especially significant ahead of the presidential elections scheduled for next year Thousands participated in demonstrations across the Philippines to…
(2021-09-23). Southern Command and its "Maximum Pressure Plan" against Venezuela. libya360.wordpress.com Hernan Cano Craig Faller's second visit to Colombia in less than three months is interpreted in Caracas as a new step towards destabilization in Venezuela. Two analysts consulted by Sputnik agree that the presence of the head of the US Southern Command seeks to generate greater pressure on the government of Nicolas Maduro. "He is…
(2021-09-23). Bolivia: President Addresses United Nations General Debate, 76th Session. libya360.wordpress.com Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, Constitutional President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, addresses the general debate of the 76th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 21-27 September 2021).
(2021-09-23). United States: Police, paramedics charged over Elijah McClain's death. greenleft.org.au A mother's determination, combined with the campaign for racial justice, scored an important victory on September 1, when three police officers and two paramedics were charged over the death of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019, reports Malik Miah.
(2021-09-23). Moroccan Liberal Parties Form Coalition Government, Ousting Islamists After Decade of Rule. sputniknews.com After Morocco's ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) was dealt a stinging defeat in elections earlier this month, several liberal parties have come together to form a coalition government with billionaire Aziz Akhannouch at the helm.
(2021-09-23). Tunisia: MP jailed for branding Saied's power grab a 'coup' released. middleeasteye.net 
Tunisia: MP jailed for branding Saied's power grab a 'coup' released | Yassine Ayari was freed after spending two months in prison following Kais Saied's power grab and sacking of top officials | Thu, 09/23/2021 – 15: 51 | Yassine Ayari, pictured here in 2015, had previously been prosecuted for 'defaming the army' and 'offending the president of the republic' over Facebook posts denouncing…
(2021-09-23). Tunisia coup: Four parties and UGTT condemn Saied's seizure of power. middleeasteye.net 
Tunisia coup: Four parties and UGTT condemn Saied's seizure of power | Country's major union, as well as Attayar, Al Jouhmouri, Akef and Ettakatol parties, say president lost legitimacy after taking steps to rule by decree | Thu, 09/23/2021 – 15: 45 | Tunisian demonstrators shout slogans against President Kais Saied during a protest in Tunis on 18 September 2021 (AFP) | Four parties and