Carlos Martinez (2022-02-13). Along the Belt and Road: Breaking the Cycle of Underdevelopment in Latin America. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Martinez — Feb 10, 2022 | The last few months have seen a significant expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although this region of the world is not the most obvious fit for an undertaking that was originally modelled on the Silk Road — a network of trade routes linking East Asia with the Middle East, Africa and Europe — the reality is that the countries of South America, Central America and the Caribbean share many of the same needs as their counterparts in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. | Most Latin American countries…

Martha Grevatt (2022-02-12). Tamir Rice denied justice once again. workers.org Cleveland The family of Tamir Rice recently received another piece of infuriating news. The U.S. Department of Justice refused to reopen the case against two Cleveland police officers who murdered the 12-year-old African American youth Nov. 22, 2014. Demonstration to demand the Department of Justice reopen the Tamir Rice case, . . . |

Irvin Jim (2022-02-12). Solidarity is the road to liberation. peoplesdispatch.org This is a lightly edited version of a speech given to an international meeting held on 1 February under the banner: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Anti-Imperialist Freedom Fighters! Speakers included Abu-Jamal (via a recorded statement), Angela Davis and a number of trade unionists. | Around the world, imperialism — with its dehumanization and brute violence — has allowed for a small minority to permanently accumulate wealth at the expense of the masses of our people. In recent years, women and men have been killed — from Afghanistan and Iraq to South Africa and the prison archipelago of the US.

_____ (2022-02-12). Africa Is Bringing Vaccine Manufacturing Home. popularresistance.org African countries continually find themselves at the back of the vaccine queue, but two developments could begin to change this narrative. Last week, researchers at a company in South Africa said that they have nearly completed the process of reproducing Moderna's mRNA vaccine against COVID-19. Working with the WHO's technology-transfer hub, the researchers at Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines in Cape Town made very small quantities of vaccine, based on Moderna's data, but without the company's involvement. The WHO advised them to copy Moderna's vaccine in part because the company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts,…

Munyaradzi Makoni (2022-02-12). [World Report] Burkina Faso crisis hits health care. thelancet.com A coup on Jan 24, 2022, further risks health and health-care provision. Munyaradzi Makoni reports.

Staff (2022-02-12). øCómo le va al país en desarrollo mejor vacunado del mundo? cubadebate.cu La experiencia de Cuba ha sido verdaderamente notable. El país se destacó en términos de desarrollo y producción de sus propias vacunas. Gracias a eso, pudo aumentar la cobertura de vacunas muy rápidamente, una ventaja local de la que se han aprovechado otras naciones que fabrican vacunas. El éxito en el lado de la vacunación parece haber resultado en muy buenos resultados pandémicos, especialmente en el lado de la mortalidad. Por supuesto, hay otros factores en juego, pero los resultados son impresionantes.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-12). From U.S. to Honduras: Socialism is Vital to Black Liberation. libya360.wordpress.com John Parker On Jan. 27, I was fortunate to be one of a handful of delegates from the U.S. to attend the historic inauguration of President Xiomara Castro in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Representing the Socialist Unity Party, I was part of an international delegation invited by President Castro and her Libre Party, founded by the National…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-12). Covid-19 and Democracy — Nicaragua v Canada. libya360.wordpress.com Stephen Sefton Nicaragua 2018 — police officer Gabriel de Jesús Vado Ruiz, tortured, murdered and set on fire by opposition thugs in Masaya in 2018 (Photo from opposition social media video) From 2018 onwards, Canada's government has denounced Nicaragua in international forums as a repressive dictatorship and followed the US authorities in imposing illegal unilateral…

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2022-02-12). Suman 120 los fallecidos por ciclón Batsirai en Madagascar. telesurtv.net Cuando aún no se había recuperado la isla por las afectaciones de la tormenta Ana, Batsirai agravó las afectaciones.

Staff (2022-02-12). Apple admits unwanted tracking. rt.com The Big Tech company has announced a new policy on the malicious usage of its AirTags | Apple has come to admit that at least one of its products, the AirTag tracking device, is being misused for "malicious or criminal purposes." The company said it will change its policies in an effort to curb criminality and violations of privacy. |

Martha Grevatt (2022-02-12). Tamir Rice denied justice once again. workers.org Cleveland The family of Tamir Rice recently received another piece of infuriating news. The U.S. Department of Justice refused to reopen the case against two Cleveland police officers who murdered the 12-year-old African American youth Nov. 22, 2014. Demonstration to demand the Department of Justice reopen the Tamir Rice case, . . . |

Irvin Jim (2022-02-12). Solidarity is the road to liberation. peoplesdispatch.org This is a lightly edited version of a speech given to an international meeting held on 1 February under the banner: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Anti-Imperialist Freedom Fighters! Speakers included Abu-Jamal (via a recorded statement), Angela Davis and a number of trade unionists. | Around the world, imperialism — with its dehumanization and brute violence — has allowed for a small minority to permanently accumulate wealth at the expense of the masses of our people. In recent years, women and men have been killed — from Afghanistan and Iraq to South Africa and the prison archipelago of the US.

Munyaradzi Makoni (2022-02-12). [World Report] Burkina Faso crisis hits health care. thelancet.com A coup on Jan 24, 2022, further risks health and health-care provision. Munyaradzi Makoni reports.

_____ (2022-02-11). Libya: the Hard Road to Stability and Reconciliation. journal-neo.org The so-called political transition in Libya appears to have no end in sight. The political or interim phase seems to have completely diverged from the UN-sponsored roadmap, which was to culminate in parliamentary and presidential elections on December 24, 2021. But they failed because of sharp contradictions over the eligibility of several major candidates. In …

WSWS (2022-02-11). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org French healthcare workers continue stoppages against low pay, workload and staff shortages; Greek dockers strike in port of Piraeus over collective agreement, face riot police; striking South African Clover food workers' indefinite strike continues into week 12 despite violent attacks on pickets, hospitalising three…

David Giesen (2022-02-11). Saturday 2/12: Out of Africa, the walking tour. indybay.org American Youth Hostel | 312 Mason Street | San Francisco | (meet in the lobby)…

Workers World Party (2022-02-11). 'The prisons are the crime!' — Honor the Angola 3. workers.org The following slightly edited WW editorial first appeared on workers.org Feb. 24, 2016, with the headline "Tear down the walls!" A main focus of the editorial was the release of Albert Woodfox from Louisiana State Penitentiary, aka Angola Prison. Woodfox along with Robert King and Herman Wallace were known as . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-11). Cuba Battles COVID, Defying 60-Year U.S. Blockade. libya360.wordpress.com Struggle — La Lucha Presentation by Sharon Black, writer for Struggle-La Lucha and national spokesperson of the Socialist Unity Party, at the Europe for Cuba online forum Feb. 9, 2022. End the U.S. blockade of Cuba It has been 60 years this month since U.S. President John Kennedy first proclaimed Executive Order 3447, prohibiting "the importation into…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-11). Cuban Music Duo Buena Fe Postpones Concert in Canada in Defense of Cuban Vaccines. libya360.wordpress.com With the government of Canada üá®üᶠrefusing to recognize Cuba's vaccines, Cuban music duo Buena Fe was asked to be vaccinated with shots recognized by Canada in order to play their concerts. Here was their response. Revolutionary Medicine: Cuba's Vaccine Journey Why are Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela Managing So Well in the Fight Against Covid-19?…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-11). Libyan parliament elects Fathi Bashagha as new prime minister, Dbeibah refuses to resign. peoplesdispatch.org The election of the new prime minister may widen the political rift in Libya and prove detrimental to the UN-led peace process designed to end the decade-long war in country which started with the NATO-led invasion of 2011…

Anjeanette Damon (2022-02-11). This Man Donated His Kidney — and Received a $13,064 Bill in Return. truthout.org This story was originally published by The email arrived in Elliot Malin's inbox from his cousin's mom. | "Scott needs a kidney," the subject line read.

_____ (2022-02-11). They Don't Just Lie to Us About Wars. They Lie to Us About Everything. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | The lion's share of propaganda goes not toward convincing us to accept new agendas of the powerful, but toward keeping us entranced in the status quo dream world which enables the powerful to have power in the first place. Toward normalizing status quo systems and training us to shape ourselves to fit into them like neat little cogs in a well-oiled machine. | And it's not even a grand, monolithic conspiracy in most cases. The giant corporations who indoctrinate us with their advertisements, their Hollywood movies and shows, their apps, their websites and their news media are all naturally i…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-11). Tunisian govt says judicial body to be reformed, not dissolved. peoplesdispatch.org The government took back the decision to terminate the Supreme Judicial Council following a two-day strike by judges across Tunisia and widespread international condemnation against the controversial move…