unitedEditor (2023-07-07). Multipolar system opens a "chance for self-determination" uwidata.com Starting in the 20th century, the African continent has largely concluded the process of de-colonization. Almost all countries achieved independence and national sovereignty, and have today advanced to deepening economic sovereignty also by increasingly making use of the emerging multipolar world order. An exception of this trend is the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. In 1975, …

A Guest Author (2023-07-07). African organizations work for peaceful solutions. workers.org By Carlos Lopes Pereira The author, a former member of the Secretariat of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), writes of African events for Avante!, the newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party. Translation: John Catalinotto. A meeting of the leaders of four African organizations . . . |

Editor (2023-07-07). Affirmative Action Is Upheld in Military Academies. Why Might 'Diversity' Matter to the US Military? scheerpost.com The US Supreme Court struck down race-based admissions in civilian universities but left military academies alone. The military's relentless recruitment of the poor and dispossessed could be to blame.

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-07-07). Presidente Putin participará en cumbre Rusia-àÅfrica. telesurtv.net "Esperamos una cumbre altamente representativa con una agenda bastante ocupada y numerosos eventos ", señaló Peskov.

teleSUR, nama, DRL (2023-07-07). Fuga de gas deja al menos 17 muertos en norte de Sudáfrica. telesurtv.net Al llegar al lugar, los servicios de emergencia detectaron que era una fuga de nitrato de óxido, un gas muy venenoso.

Amy Goodman (2023-07-07). How Obama Greenlighted Egyptian Coup 10 Years Ago, Killing the Arab Spring. truthout.org On the 10th anniversary of the 2013 coup in Egypt when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed the country's first democratically elected president from power, we speak with author Shadi Hamid about "Lessons for the Next Arab Spring," in which he details how the Obama administration helped to kill the democratic uprising across the Middle East. "Washington, and Obama in particular… |

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-07). Egypt's foreign direct investment increased in 2022. plenglish.com Cairo, Jul 7 (Prensa Latina) Egypt received a total of 11.4 billion dollars in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2022, the highest amount since 2017, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reported on Friday.

Staff (2023-07-07). "Directly Complicit": Shadi Hamid on How Obama Greenlighted 2013 Egypt Coup, Killing the Arab Spring. democracynow.org On the 10th anniversary of the 2013 coup in Egypt when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed the country's first democratically elected president from power, we speak with author Shadi Hamid about "Lessons for the Next Arab Spring," in which he details how the Obama administration helped to kill the democratic uprising across the Middle East. "Washington, and Obama in particular, gave what amounted to a green light to the Egyptian military to proceed with the coup," says Hamid. The U.S. then refused to call it a coup or to impose any consequences, while continuing to send billions in…

Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report. (2023-07-07). Police Brutality, Racism And Poverty Underlie Youth Rebellion In France. popularresistance.org A 17-year-old youth of Moroccan and Algerian descent named Nahel M was gunned down by the French police on June 27 sparking a nationwide series of mass demonstrations and rebellions throughout the country. | Several videos released on the shooting show clearly that Nahel, who was driving a vehicle, was posing no threat to the police. | There were two other people in the vehicle with Nahel, one of whom has given evidence to the authorities while the third person is being sought by prosecutors. The policeman has been indicted for voluntary homicide. In addition, reports suggest he has apologized for the fatal shoot…

guest author (2023-07-07). Nahel's murder: France's continuum of post-colonial denial. workers.org Nahel M., a 17-year-old poor French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan origin, died of a single bullet fired by a French police officer at almost point-blank range on June 27 . When I heard the news about the murder of young Nahel in the ghetto-ized suburb of Nanterre, shot at . . . |

Derrick Broze (2023-07-07). US and European Commission Call for "International Framework" to Advance Geoengineering Research. thelastamericanvagabond.com The pronouncements delivered last week by the US government and the European Union represent one more step towards a singular, centralized governing body managing individual nations. Late on Friday, the White House released a report outlining the Biden Administration's openness to studying geoengineering as part of an effort to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching

Robert Inlakesh (2023-07-07). Street Protests In France Do Not Represent "An Invasion", It Is The Other Way Around. thelastamericanvagabond.com The riots and widespread street protests across France, following the murder of an unarmed 17-year-old, Nahel Merzouk, at a traffic stop, has sent shockwaves throughout a nation that has already been struck by instability. However, the way that the unrest is being reported in many media outlets is misleading and refuses to give proper context

Norman Solomon (2023-07-07). Making Madness Normal in Wartime. indybay.org Normalized baselines, basically insane…

Basav Sen (2023-07-07). Why I Crashed the White House's Garden Party for Narendra Modi. fpif.org The White House's embrace of the Indian leader is normalizing fascism in the world's most populous country — and in the U.S. as well.

Editor (2023-07-07). How U.S. Department of Homeland Security became global 'thought police'. mronline.org CISA's "disinformation" busting activities served to systematically malign independent journalists and alternative media platforms, while reinforcing established news outlets as monopolies of truth.

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-07-07). The Conspiracy Against Normality. thealtworld.com Do your country a favor and ask yourself why the US corporate and financial world have organized to force straight Americans to celebrate sexual perversity for ONE MONTH? Why do corporate executives and boards think we should be proud of sexual perversity? Who organized this campaign against normality? Why did corporate executives and boards put the self-serving interest of sexual perverts ahead of the interests of their stockholders and their own performance bonuses? Why aren't we instead celebrating normality? | Here is a report on the enormous harm the executives and board of Anheuser-Busch did to its sharehol…

ecns.cn (2023-07-06). Xi congratulates Sierra Leone leader on reelection. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message on Tuesday to Julius Maada Bio on his reelection as president of Sierra Leone.

teleSUR, nama, DRL (2023-07-07). Alertan sobre más de 60.000 refugiados del conflicto en Sudán. telesurtv.net La OIM destaca la barrera del idioma como el desafío clave para proporcionar servicios necesarios a los desplazados.

infobrics (2023-07-06). BRICS Health and Pharmaceutical Association of Africa Launches. infobrics.org BRICS Health and Pharmaceutical Association of Africa has been launched in South Africa to help the African continent improve its health systems and be prepared for future pandemics…

Vijay Prashad (2023-07-06). A brutal colonial legacy is tinder for the fires that are sweeping across France. peoplesdispatch.org Racism against people of Arab and African descent in France has become almost banal, something that takes place and no longer raises an eyebrow. The killing of Nael was absolutely explicable — the result of a general social toxicity towards minorities and one that is given expression through the police…

Ann Garrison (2023-07-06). Human suffering worsens in DRC, the heart of Africa. mronline.org A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.

Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. (2023-07-06). What To The Exploited Working Class And Poor In A Capitalist Dictatorship Is The Fourth Of July? popularresistance.org Here's a little Fourth of July Critical Race and Labor History for you: On July 2, 1777 , Vermont became the first colony to abolish slavery when it ratified its first constitution and became a sovereign country, a status it maintained until its admittance to the union in 1791 as the 14th state in the United States. However, Harvey Amani Whitfield , author of The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810, writes that slavery in Vermont was gradually phased out over a period of multiple decades. Additionally, the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) staff write in "Vermont 1777: Ea…

Staff (2023-07-06). Nitrate Gas Inhalation Leaves 16 Dead in South Africa. telesurenglish.net At least 16 people were confirmed dead on Wednesday evening following suspected gas inhalation at an informal settlement in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. | Related: | Initial investigation indicates that it could be linked to illegal gold mining in the area, local media quoted emergency authorities as saying. | Nitrate oxide gas is often used by illegal gold miners to extract gold from soil stolen from abandoned mine shafts. | One of the gas cylin…

teleSUR, nama, DRL (2023-07-06). Fuga de gas deja al menos 17 muertos en norte de Sudáfrica. telesurtv.net Al llegar al lugar, los servicios de emergencia detectaron que era una fuga de nitrato de óxido, un gas muy venenoso.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-07-06). Doce países africanos recibirán vacuna contra la malaria. telesurtv.net Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Camerún, República Democrática del Congo, Liberia, Níger, Sierra Leona y Uganda figuran entre los beneficiados.

Zane McNeill (2023-07-06). Lawsuit Uses SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling to Go After Legacy Admissions. truthout.org A Boston nonprofit, Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR), filed a lawsuit on behalf of multiple Black and Latinx community groups on Monday, alleging that legacy admissions at Harvard University violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The parties being represented in the lawsuit — the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England, and the Greater Boston Latino… |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-05). BRICS Summit Will Go On As Planned, Confirms Host South Africa. towardfreedom.org The International Criminal Court's arrest warrant issued against Russian President Vladimir Putin had led to speculation about the BRICS summit being shifted to China or another country to avoid his arrest. Peoples Dispatch reports.

Staff (2023-07-05). "Inflection Point": Uprising over French Teen's Killing in Traffic Stop & Pattern of Racist Policing. democracynow.org In France, more than 3,000 people have been arrested after a week of nationwide protests following the police killing of Nahel Merzouk, a teenager of North African descent, captured on video. Nahel's family and friends held his funeral Saturday at a mosque in Nanterre. We speak with Rokhaya Diallo, a French journalist in Paris, who explains this killing is part of a long pattern of racist policing that has divided the country. "I wish there was a real and profound discussion about police brutality, about racialized policing," says Diallo.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-06). Egyptian, German FMs discuss Sudan and Palestine. plenglish.com Cairo, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock reportedly discussed several issues of common interest, especially the crisis in Sudan and Palestine.

Staff (2023-07-06). Headlines for July 6, 2023. democracynow.org IAEA Sees No Evidence of Explosives Planted at Russian-Held Nuclear Plant in Ukraine, Belarus President Says Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin Is in Russia, Biden Welcomes Swedish PM to White House, Pressing NATO Membership for Sweden, U.S. Judge Restricts Biden Administration's Ability to Stem Misinformation on Social Media, Meta Launches Twitter Competitor "Threads"; Canada Blocks Facebook and Instagram Ads, Biden Nominates Elliott Abrams, Death Squad Backer Convicted of Lying to Congress, to Gov't Commission, Hunger and Malnutrition Surge in Ethiopia's War-Torn Tigray After U.S. and…

teleSUR (2023-07-06). Over 60,000 People Cross Into Ethiopia From Sudan. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that some 60,046 people have fled the conflict in Sudan into neighboring Ethiopia. | RELATED: | The UN migration agency said that over 60,000 people have arrived in Ethiopia through multiple border crossing points in Amhara, Benishangul Gumz and Gambella Regions. | It said the armed conflict in Sudan has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to neighbo…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-06). Tunisia deports hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants across the border to Libya. peoplesdispatch.org Human rights group have expressed concern over the migrants' safety and health in the border areas where they face multiple risks including physical and sexual violence…

scorinoco (2023-07-05). Gaddafi's Son Jailed in Lebanon Without Trial Hospitalized Due to Hunger Strike. orinocotribune.com Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been hospitalized in critical condition due to his hunger strike at the prison of the Lebanese internal security forces, Al-Hadath TV reported citing informed sources. | Last month, Gaddafi's son Hannibal went on a hunger strike to protest his incarceration without trial in Lebanon since 2015, his lawyer said. | Al-Hadath TV reported on Sunday, July 2, that Hannibal Gaddafi suffered a sharp dro…

Norman Solomon (2023-07-06). Making Madness Normal in Wartime. indybay.org Normalized baselines, basically insane…

Staff (2023-07-06). How Syria Profits from Trafficking Captagon, Highly Addictive Amphetamine Propping Up Assad Regime. democracynow.org We speak with BBC Arabic correspondent Rasha Qandeel, whose new documentary investigates Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's role in producing the highly addictive amphetamine known as Captagon and how this is impacting his relations with other states in the region. "This is going to be a main factor in a lot of changes in the Middle East," says Qandeel, who notes that curbing the drug trade has already played a role in recent moves by Arab states to normalize relations with Syria.

teleSUR (2023-07-06). UN: 43 Mln USD To Mitigate Drought Impact in Somalia. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, United Nations (UN) humanitarians said that 43 million U.S. dollars have been allocated to aid Somalia in fighting the effects of drought, mainly food insecurity. | Related: | The UN has said that the allocations support the 2023 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for Somalia. | According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) put 25 million…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-07-06). Rwanda willing to support multilateral force requested by Haiti. plenglish.com Port-au-Prince, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, assured that he is willing to support the multilateral force requested by Haiti to combat the gangs in the face of the upsurge in violence.

teleSUR, nama, DRL (2023-07-06). Alertan sobre más de 60.000 refugiados del conflicto en Sudán. telesurtv.net La OIM destaca la barrera del idioma como el desafío clave para proporcionar servicios necesarios a los desplazados.

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2023-07-06). Más de 20 muertos tras otra jornada de combates en Sudán. telesurtv.net Varios barrios capitalinos recibieron ataques terrestres y aéreos, lo que provocó grandes pérdidas humanas y materiales.