2021-10-24: News Headlines

Gideon Polya (2021-10-24). Racist Western Monopoly Media Ignore Colin Powell's Horrendous War Crimes. dissidentvoice.org The pro-Apartheid Israel former African-American military commander, mass murderer and genocidal liar, Colin Powell, has just died. Mendacious, racist and pro-war Western Monopoly media and politicians have been fulsome in their praise for the first Black US Secretary of State, white-washing his deadly lies over non-existent Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), and ignoring the …

scorinoco (2021-10-24). Israeli Delegation Forced to Change Seats After Algerian Opposition at European Conference. orinocotribune.com An Israeli diplomatic delegation participating in a recent European conference of parliament speakers in Greece was forced to change its location at the event, after Algerian envoys strongly protested to the organizers against the order and refused to sit behind representatives of the Tel Aviv regime. | According to a report published by the independent Algerian daily newspaper Ennahar, Israeli delegates were initially supposed to sit in front of the Algerians, but had no option but to change their seats in the face of the latter's vehement opposition and threats to withdraw from the event. | Parliament speakers…

sputniknews (2021-10-24). Top UK Army Bosses Accused of 'Covering Up' Killing of Kenyan Woman by British Soldier. sputniknews.com 21-year-old Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru disappeared in March 2012; her body was later discovered in a septic tank of the Lions Court Inn in Nanyuki, close to a UK army camp, two months later, with a post-mortem revealing she'd died as a result of stab wounds to her chest and abdomen.

_____ (2021-10-24). Police Increasingly Cite Climate Disasters When Seeking Military Gear. popularresistance.org When locals learned that the Johnson County, Iowa, sheriff's office had gotten hold of a massive, mine-resistant vehicle, Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek reassured a skeptical public that officers would primarily use it during extreme weather events in order to save residents from the state's extraordinary blizzards or floods. | "Essentially it's really a rescue, recovery and transport vehicle," Pulkrabek said in 2014. | But in the seven years since, the vehicle — which comes from the Pentagon's much-maligned 1033 Program that arms local law enforcement with weapons, gear and vehicles leftover from the country's fo…

UFCLP, FSP, Si Cobus, (2021-10-24). Wednesday 10/27: Solidarity Rally For Fired Namibian Rossing Miners. indybay.org San Francisco Chinese Consulate | 1450 Laguna St/Geary St. | San Francisco…

Staff (2021-10-24). Twitter's Dorsey warns of surging inflation after his platform 'mistakenly' censors GOP lawmaker's video about… inflation. rt.com Jack Dorsey may have to censor himself after the Twitter CEO tweeted that hyperinflation will soon grip the US and global economies. The observation, which does not align with the mainstream media narrative, drew pushback online. | Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It's happening.— jack‚ö°Ô∏è (@jack) "Hyperinflation is going to change everything," Dorsey said on Friday night. "It's happening." When Nigerian businessman Tayo Oviosu — who, like Dorsey, i…

Staff (2021-10-23). US 'Justice' Now After Former Minister of Foreign Trade José Vielma Mora — the Goal is to Starve Venezuelans. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, October 21, the Department of Justice of the United States government reported about a formal accusation issued at a US court against five persons allegedly linked to a corruption plot through the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP) program of Venezuela. One of those five is Venezuela's National Assembly deputy, José Vielma Mora. | A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida issued a formal indictment, which was filed on October 7, nine days before the kidnapping of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab from Cape Verde, against three Colombian citizens and two Venezuelans, for their alleged…

teleSUR (2021-10-23). Solidarity Committees With Venezuela Support Alex Saab's Cause. telesurenglish.net Friends of Venezuela Solidarity Committees called on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to condemn the extradition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab to the U.S. | RELATED: | The Committees recalled that Saab's extradition represents a dangerous precedent as it violates the international treaties on diplomatic relations. | The activists also warned that The United Nations Human Rights Committee, the West African (…

Munyaradzi Makoni (2021-10-23). [World Report] African Medicines Agency to be established. thelancet.com Experts are hopeful that a new continent-wide agency will strengthen regulation, improve access to medicines, and boost manufacturing. Munyaradzi Makoni reports.

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-23). Bayraktar TB2s in ten countries: Turkey to provide combat drones to Kyrgyzstan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The deadly combat weapons, already tested by Turkey in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh and Ukraine, have been and will be provided to Albania, Angola, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Poland, Qatar and Ukraine with no doubt more to come. ==== Kyrgyzstan becomes latest buyer of Turkish combat drones Kyrgyzstan is becoming the latest buyer of renowned …

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-23). Indígenas colombianos rechazan desalojo y exigen ser escuchados. telesurtv.net Los integrantes de la comunidad embera aseguran que no se van a ir del Parque Nacional, en Bogotá, pues no se dieron garantías para un diálogo.

_____ (2021-10-23). Biden Demands Ethiopia's Unconditional Surrender. popularresistance.org Under his leadership, the US has been at war with Ethiopia since last November, when its former puppet, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, attacked a federal Ethiopian army base in Mekelle, the capital of the country's Tigray Region. Tigrayans are only 6% of Ethiopia's population, but the TPLF ruled the whole nation with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when popular uprisings forced them from power. | This is hybrid warfare, which may include official censure, mass media disinformation campaigns, sanctions, financial strangulation by the IMF and World Bank, proxy war, special military operations, covert operati…

Joachim Guilliard (2021-10-23). Humanitarian cost of post-9/11/01 U.S. and NATO wars tops 4 million dead. workers.org U.S. post-9/11 wars left Libya in ruins, and killed millions worldwide. The author is an anti-imperialist German analyst of the U.S./NATO wars in Central and West Asia. Translation: by John Catalinotto. According to the latest report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University in Rhode Island, the wars . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-23). Towards Technofascism: Vaccine Passports and the Inequality Virus in the Debate. libya360.wordpress.com Eder Peña As part of the normality that, like a promised land, they have repeatedly offered during the pandemic, some governments of the Global North have created mechanisms to control mobility based on the inoculation of vaccines against covid-19. The so-called vaccine passport has raised a debate that goes beyond vaccines and calls into question…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-23). Zelensky: Russia waging "gas war" against Europe. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Zelensky: We are witnessing artificial crisis created by Russia against Europe "Ukraine has something to offer its European partners. Existing capacities for pumping gas through Ukraine are enough not only to normalize the situation now but also to protect Europe from such price shocks in the future," Zelensky said. He recalled that Russia had repeatedly …

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-23). Kosovo expels Russian diplomats for threatening "Kosovo, the United States, NATO, and the European Union" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kosovo expels two Russian diplomats Kosovo has ordered the expulsion of two Russian diplomats, accusing Moscow of "destabilizing" activities…. According to Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, two diplomats at Russia's liaison office to Kosovo were declared personae non gratae and ordered to leave the country. Osmani said that her country was committed to countering the malign …

_____ (2021-10-23). 'March Of Millions' In Sudan Revives Spirit Of December Revolution. popularresistance.org Demanding a full transfer of state power from military to civilian authority, millions of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets in a show of force in cities and towns across Sudan on Thursday, October 21. | "The rallies and marches went on for kilometers long," said Osman Saeed Abu Kumbal, a member of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) who took part in the protest in Omdurman, the twin city of capital Khartoum. | Some protesters in Omdurman were injured when the riot police intermittently fired rubber bullets and even live ammunition as the rally marched towards the parliament building, which has remained…

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2021-10-23: News Headlines

Joachim Guilliard (2021-10-23). Humanitarian cost of post-9/11/01 U.S. and NATO wars tops 4 million dead. workers.org U.S. post-9/11 wars left Libya in ruins, and killed millions worldwide. The author is an anti-imperialist German analyst of the U.S./NATO wars in Central and West Asia. Translation: by John Catalinotto. According to the latest report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University in Rhode Island, the wars . . . |

Staff (2021-10-23). US 'Justice' Now After Former Minister of Foreign Trade José Vielma Mora — the Goal is to Starve Venezuelans. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, October 21, the Department of Justice of the United States government reported about a formal accusation issued at a US court against five persons allegedly linked to a corruption plot through the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP) program of Venezuela. One of those five is Venezuela's National Assembly deputy, José Vielma Mora. | A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida issued a formal indictment, which was filed on October 7, nine days before the kidnapping of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab from Cape Verde, against three Colombian citizens and two Venezuelans, for their alleged…

Munyaradzi Makoni (2021-10-23). [World Report] African Medicines Agency to be established. thelancet.com Experts are hopeful that a new continent-wide agency will strengthen regulation, improve access to medicines, and boost manufacturing. Munyaradzi Makoni reports.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-23). Indígenas colombianos rechazan desalojo y exigen ser escuchados. telesurtv.net Los integrantes de la comunidad embera aseguran que no se van a ir del Parque Nacional, en Bogotá, pues no se dieron garantías para un diálogo.

UFCLP, FSP, Si Cobus, (2021-10-23). Wednesday 10/27: Solidarity Rally For Fired Namibian Rossing Miners. indybay.org San Francisco Chinese Consulate | 1450 Laguna St/Geary St. | San Francisco…

Jeff Cohen (2021-10-22). The Big Lie in Rahm Emanuel's Senate Testimony. counterpunch.org At Rahm Emanuel's confirmation hearing as potential ambassador to Japan before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) deserves credit for questioning Emanuel about what he knew as Chicago's mayor about the police murder of 17-year-old African American Laquan McDonald — and when he knew it. Wednesday's Senate hearing was held on the 7th anniversary of the 2014 killing, to the day.

imperial.ac.uk (2021-10-22). Imperial celebrates Nigerian ties as VP Yemi Osinbajo visits. imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London celebrated its longstanding links and collaborations with Nigeria during a visit from Professor Oluyemi Osinbajo.

Editor2 (2021-10-22). Biden kidnaps Venezuelan Diplomat: #FreeAlexSaab now! orinocotribune.com By Greg Butterfield — Oct 19, 2021 | The Biden administration on Oct. 16 kidnapped Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab from the West African country of Cape Verde, in blatant violation of international law. Under U.S. pressure, Saab had already been imprisoned and tortured in Cape Verde for 16 months. | "On a flight chartered by the [U.S.] Department of Justice, in which the Cape Verdean authorities had no control that could guarantee the safety of the Venezuelan diplomat, because they do not have a bilateral extradition treaty with the North American nation, Alex Saab arrived Saturday night and was transferred to…

WSWS (2021-10-22). South Africa union calls off metalworkers' strike. wsws.org Amid a cloud of pseudo-revolutionary rhetoric, NUMSA leader Irvin Jim accepted the "final" employer offer the union had rejected only a week ago.

Nadda Osman (2021-10-22). Mandla Mandela calls for boycott of Miss Universe competition in Israel. middleeasteye.net Mandla Mandela calls for boycott of Miss Universe competition in Israel | 'Apartheid Israel's occupation is no less despicable than apartheid South Africa,' says Nelson Mandela's grandson | Fri, 10/22/2021 – 13: 55 | Lalela Mswane, the winner of Miss South Africa 2021, has been urged to boycott the event (Screengrab/Instagram) | Mandla Mandela, the grandson of the former President of South Africa, has ur…

Anand Naidoo (2021-10-22). The Heat: Africa's challenges. america.cgtn.com African economies are growing this year, but they still lag compared to developed countries. How can Sub-Saharan Africa close the inequality gap?

Editor2 (2021-10-22). The Killing of Gaddafi 10 Years ago has Resulted in the Death of the Nation of Libya and the Destruction of its People. orinocotribune.com By Richard Medhurst — Oct 20, 2021 | Muammar Gaddafi led his nation to become the wealthiest in all of Africa. A decade after his demise, it is riven by tribalism, terrorism and slavery, all because the West could not allow an Arab leader to succeed. | There was never really an 'Arab Spring' in Libya the way there was in Egypt or Tunisia. Protests were much smaller, and as time went on to show, the biggest players turned out to be extremist groups and foreign actors, each trying to get a slice of the country. | NATO's bombing of Libya and support for rebels seeking to overthrow Gaddafi had little to do with…

Mohammad Ayesh (2021-10-22). Arabic press review: Billions of dollars for military in Morocco and Algeria. middleeasteye.net Arabic press review: Billions of dollars for military in Morocco and Algeria | Meanwhile, several Iraqi MPs defeated in this month's election leave the country over prosecution fears and UK minister confident of Gulf trade deal | Fri, 10/22/2021 – 14: 06 | Algeria has the largest defence budget in Africa and will increase its military budget by $700m next year (AFP) | Algeria and Morocco boo…

Kenya Elliott (2021-10-22). Right wing Democrats aim to gut social program budget — Will Biden capitulate? liberationnews.org Right-wing Democrats in Congress remain determined to kill some of the most important measures included in the Biden administration's social program budget as the self-imposed deadline of October 31st to reach an agreement approaches.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-22). Systemic Crisis Further Exposes Inequalities: Poor Women's Global Struggle Against Hunger and Pandemic. libya360.wordpress.com Mision_VerdadWomen have borne the brunt of hunger and inequality during the pandemic (Photo: Marek Studzinski / Pixabay) Without a doubt, the global pandemic of covid-19 has had a devastating impact on the economy and, consequently, on the population. Its appearance has accelerated a systemic crisis that was already underway, and has brought to light the…

Staff (2021-10-22). Venezuelan National Assembly Authorizes New Committee to Normalize Relations with Colombia. orinocotribune.com During the special session of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) called for this Thursday, October 21, the deputies approved the creation of a Similarly, a Parliamentary Friendship Group was approved "which must begin to take action to improve relations between the two n…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-22). Accompanied by DM and FM, Turkey's Erdogan signs military, energy deals with Nigeria. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkey, Nigeria Sign Energy, Defense Deals Turkey and Nigeria have signed multiple bilateral agreements, extending from energy to defense. Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari welcomed Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday at an official ceremony at the Presidential Palace in the capital Abuja. Erdogan's trip marks the first official visit by a Turkish president to …

Pavan Kulkarni (2021-10-22). 'March of Millions' in Sudan revives spirit of December Revolution. peoplesdispatch.org While declaring their readiness to confront the military, the revolutionary forces which mobilized for the protests also made it clear that they no longer trust the centrist and right-wing civilian political parties sharing power with the military to mediate this confrontation.

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