Pacifica's Covid, Race & Democracy (2022-01-06). CRD Workers' Struggles in Southern Africa Pacifica's Covid Race & Democracy. indybay.org Pacifica's Covid, Race and Democracy covers the growing working class struggles in South Africa from Namibia to South Africa.

Plus News (2022-01-06). In solidarity with Ethiopia and its people. plusnews.ug By Moses Khisa There is no doubt Ethiopia is in a made place. War is bad business. I am filing this column from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. I first arrived here eight years ago as a young PhD candidate trying to research and write a comparative doctoral project. Soon, I became deeply attached to this …

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-01-06). South African dairy worker strike continues as inquiry looms over Clover Industries. peoplesdispatch.org Unions have intensified their struggle, filing an official complaint against Clover's retrenchment plans to the Competition Commission and calling for the company to be nationalized…

sputniknews (2022-01-06). UK MPs Slam Verdict in Colston Statue Case as 'Woke', Argue it Legitimises Vandalism. sputniknews.com The statue of the English merchant, who was involved in the enslavement of over 80,000 people in Africa, including children, was toppled and dumped in a harbour by demonstrators on 7 June 2020 during global protests against racial inequality. The incident sparked a debate on which statues should remain standing across the UK.

_____ (2022-01-06). Libya: Tough Elections During Tough Times. journal-neo.org Presidential elections should have been held in Libya on December 24, but now, in a country torn apart by war, acrid feud, and institutional divisions, few believe that the vote will take place at all. The High National Electoral Commission (HNEC), the body overseeing the vote, stated with great regret that it was unable to …

Juan Torres López (2022-01-06). La economía en 2022, más nubes que claros. globalizacion.ca La mayoría de los economistas y organismos internacionales creyeron que 2022 sería el año de la definitiva normalización de la economía internacional tras la pandemia, después de una recuperación que se presumía potente y sin grandes obstáculos en el que…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-05). Neocolonialism Haunts the Horn of Africa. libya360.wordpress.com M.K. Bhadrakumar Ethiopian troops vanquish US-backed Tigray rebels (File photo) Chinese foreign ministers have traditionally marked the new year by visiting the African continent. Wang Yi's 2022 African tour begins with Eritrea against the backdrop of the US strategy in the Horn of Africa to gain control of the strategically vital Red Sea that connects Indian Ocean…

_____ (2022-01-05). The US Transformed A Tiny African State Into A Hub Of Imperial Aggression. popularresistance.org In a blatant threat to China's presence, Djibouti recently hosted the US-led "Allied Appreciation Day," in which Britain, France, and Japan showcased "a variety of equipment that is part of their military operations in the Horn of Africa" (HOA). The Pentagon's Combined Joint Task Force-HOA reported that the events fused Armistice, Remembrance, and Veterans' Days. Attendees participated in "demonstrations featuring a variety of allied military capabilities to include a military flyover." | Successive Djiboutian regimes have clung to power by promoting their small country in the Horn of Africa as a vital tool in th…

WSWS (2022-01-05). World leaders mourn Archbishop Desmond Tutu in acknowledgement of services rendered to imperialism. wsws.org Post-apartheid, Tutu's greatest service by far to South African capitalism and world imperialism was as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

sputniknews (2022-01-05). Chinese FM Wang Tells Eritrea Beijing Opposes 'External Interference' in Africa Amid US Meddling. sputniknews.com Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi kicked off 2022 with a visit to three African nations, starting with Eritrea, a country declared a pariah by the United States, but which has recently joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Staff (2022-01-05). Belgium complicit in killing of popular African leader, book claims. rt.com New evidence shows Belgium turned a blind eye as its officials plotted the assassination of Burundian PM Prince Louis Rwagasore in 1961 | Belgium has "overwhelming responsibility" for the killing of Prince Louis Rwagasore, the popular Burundian leader who sought to unite the country's ethnic groups as it gained freedom from the colonial power, new evidence shows. | Weeks after being elected prime minister in a landslide, Rwagasore, the 29-year-old son of a former king, was assassinated in October 1961. The governing Belgian elite masterminded the shooting while Brussels turned a blind eye, according to archive…

WSWS (2022-01-05). Eric Adams takes office as Mayor of New York City, pledging to keep schools open amidst record COVID-19 infections. wsws.org New York's second African American mayor is continuing the ruling class policy of herd immunity, while preparing repression against the working class.

teleSUR (2022-01-05). Five Countries Join the UNSC as Non-Permanent Members. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began to assume responsibilities as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). | RELATED: | Their two-year term officially started on Jan. 1. But Tuesday is the first working day of the council for 2022 after the Christmas and New Year break. A flag installation ceremony was held to mark the start of their responsibilities. | K…

Jeremy Menchik (2022-01-05). I'm resigning from Moderna vaccine trials. zcomm.org Confessions of a 'human guinea pig'

Staff (2022-01-05). 'Wonder Woman' addresses infamous 'Imagine' Covid video. rt.com The Israeli-born actress says the much-maligned video was 'premature' | Actor Gal Gadot has addressed her highly-mocked 'Imagine' cover video, featuring numerous celebrities and released at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. She says she had "pure intentions" but that the effort was in "poor taste." | The video was posted in March of 2020, just as government shutdowns and mandates were first taking effect in places like the US in response to coronavirus. The footage featured Gadot and numerous other celebrities singing lines from Beatle John Lennon's 'Imagine.' Gadot and others were heavily criticized and moc…

Staff (2022-01-05). Protestas violentas en Kazajistán: Moscú aboga por la normalización de la situación mediante el diálogo, informa cancillería rusa. cubadebate.cu Moscú aboga por la normalización mediante el diálogo de la situación en Kazajistán, sumido esta semana en violentas protestas, informaron este miércoles desde el Ministerio ruso de Exteriores. Aunque el Gobierno kazajo ha dimitido este miércoles, las protestas no cesan y en tres regiones del país se ha decretado el estado de emergencia.

Sameena Rahman (2022-01-05). Sudan Prime Minister resigns as revolutionaries push to end military rule. liberationnews.org Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned on Sunday amid widespread protests demanding an end to military rule that have faced deadly repression.

Sameena Rahman (2022-01-05). Sudan Prime Minister resigns as revolutionaries push to end military rule. liberationnews.org Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned on Sunday amid widespread protests demanding an end to military rule that have faced deadly repression.

teleSUR- jaa, JL (2022-01-05). Naciones Unidas rechaza violencia en Sudán. telesurtv.net Guterres instó al diálogo como la vía para lograr una paz y estabilidad duradera en el país.

WSWS (2022-01-05). Eric Adams takes office as Mayor of New York City, pledging to keep schools open amidst record COVID-19 infections. wsws.org New York's second African American mayor is continuing the ruling class policy of herd immunity, while preparing repression against the working class.

teleSUR (2022-01-05). Five Countries Join the UNSC as Non-Permanent Members. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began to assume responsibilities as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). | RELATED: | Their two-year term officially started on Jan. 1. But Tuesday is the first working day of the council for 2022 after the Christmas and New Year break. A flag installation ceremony was held to mark the start of their responsibilities. | K…

Jeremy Menchik (2022-01-05). I'm resigning from Moderna vaccine trials. zcomm.org Confessions of a 'human guinea pig'

Sameena Rahman (2022-01-05). Sudan Prime Minister resigns as revolutionaries push to end military rule. liberationnews.org Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned on Sunday amid widespread protests demanding an end to military rule that have faced deadly repression.

Staff (2022-01-04). 'We'd be shot for this': Husband of Russian high jump queen cites Kenya & Ukraine in doping double standards. rt.com The husband of Olympic high jump champion Mariya Lasitskene has suggested Russia has faced double standards when it comes to doping sanctions | Russia has been hit with severe doping sanctions while countries such as Kenya and Ukraine have got off lightly, the sports journalist husband of Tokyo Olympic high jump champion Mariya Lasitskene has suggested. | Russia remains suspended by World Athletics, meaning stars such as three-time world champion Lasitskene can only compete as neutrals. | The sanctions were first imposed back in 2015 in the wake of allegations of a state-sponsored doping program run by Russia.

Susan Abulhawa (2022-01-04). A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a friend of Palestine — WW commentary. workers.org Our beloved global elder, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, became an ancestor on December 26, passing peacefully amongst his family the day after Christmas at the age of 90. A Nobel Laureate, moral giant and practitioner of radical love, Tutu was integral to the liberation of South Africa from the racist clutches . . . |

_____ (2022-01-04). Cuba Remembers First Tricontinental Anti-Imperialist Conference. popularresistance.org On Monday, progressive organizations celebrate the 56th anniversary of the First Tricontinental Conference, which gathered 500 delegates from Africa, Asia, and Latin America in Havana to adopt policies to strengthen the fight against imperialism and neo-colonialism. | "This event was an exercise in diplomatic cooperation between anti-hegemonic forces of different origins that advocated peace and the self-determination of peoples," German intellectual Jennifer Hosek stressed. | Besides discussing the imperialism's smear campaigns against social revolutions, delegates founded the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin…

_____ (2022-01-04). The War On Terror Is A Success — For Terror. popularresistance.org It began more than two decades ago. On September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush declared a "war on terror" and told a joint session of Congress (and the American people) that "the course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain." If he meant a 20-year slide to defeat in Afghanistan, a proliferation of militant groups across the Greater Middle East and Africa, and a never-ending, world-spanning war that, at a minimum, has killed about 300 times the number of people murdered in America on 9/11, then give him credit. He was absolutely right. | Days earlier, Congress had authorized Bush "to use a…

WorkWeek (2022-01-04). WorkWeek:Homeless/Journalist Attacked, South Africa Clover Strike & UAW Columbia Grads. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the attack on Sausalito Homeless & Journalist Jeremy Porje, Next we cover the South African GIWUSA Clover Workers Strike & UAW Columbia Graduate Students Strike. We also program the SF Mime Troupe's "Red Carol"

Éric Toussaint (2022-01-04). Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan until today. mronline.org In North America, the European colonization started during the 17th century, mainly led by England and France, before undergoing a rapid expansion during the 18thcentury, an era also marked by massive importation of African slaves…

teleSUR (2022-01-04). South Africa's Parliament Fire Flares Up Again. telesurenglish.net On Monday afternoon, the fire service of Cape Town said that the parliament fire, which started on early Sunday, has flared up again. The void beneath the roof sheeting of the building of the Lower House is on fire and about 34 firefighters are busy battling with the fire. | RELATED: | The fire service has scaled down resources from 9 p.m. last night, and the fire in the building is under control except on the fourth f…

Pacifica's Covid, Race & Democracy (2022-01-04). CRD Workers' Struggles in Southern Africa Pacifica's Covid Race & Democracy. indybay.org Pacifica's Covid, Race and Democracy covers the growing working class struggles in South Africa from Namibia to South Africa.

sputniknews (2022-01-04). Moscow Views Africa as Arena for Cooperation, Not Confrontation, Russian Foreign Ministry Says. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia does not view Africa as an arena of confrontation with other countries and is open to cooperation with African countries, China and the European Union, Vsevolod Tkachenko, director of the Africa Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2022-01-04). Egypt's Suez Canal revenues hit record 6.3 bln USD in 2021. ecns.cn The revenues of Egypt's Suez Canal reached 6.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, the highest in the canal's history, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie said on Sunday.

Staff (2022-01-04). New highly mutated Covid strain discovered. rt.com A coronavirus variant with 46 mutations has been detected in southern France | The new variant of Covid-19 was first discovered in a patient who returned to France from Cameroon. Researchers said it's too early to assess the variant's features. | The new strain, B.1.640.2, was detected in 12 patients living in the same geographical area in southeastern France, a team of scientists said in a preprint published online on medRxiv last week. | The strain is related to the B.1.640 lineage, which was classified as a variant under monitoring (VUM) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in November. | The first known…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-04). Blowback from Afghanistan. libya360.wordpress.com M.K. Bhadrakumar Fence along Durand Line separating Pakistan & Afghanistan Reports of the recent period are indicative of tensions between the Taliban forces and the Pakistani military deployed on their border. On December 22, the Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Enayatullah Khwarazmi disclosed that the Taliban forces had stopped the Pakistani military from erecting an "illegal"…

ecns.cn (2022-01-04). Chinese, Tajik presidents exchange congratulations on 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Tajik counterpart, Emomali Rahmon, on Tuesday exchanged congratulations on the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

teleSUR (2022-01-04). Sudanese Don't Give Up in Their Fight Against The Dictatorship. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, new demonstrations demanding civilian rule started in Sudan's capital Khartoum and other cities. Protesters gathered in Khartoum's busiest bus station Sharwani, prior to the march to the Republican Palace. | RELATED: | "Thousands took part in Tuesday marches in Khartoum and its twin city of Omdurman, condemning the coup. Pictures posted online show young protesters singing, beating drums and waving Sudanese flags. T…