AFRICOM Commander Michael Langley
AFRICOM is growing more bold in its attempts to maintain dominance over the African continent. Now is the time for Pan-African and Black Nationalist forces to organize to sabotage those efforts and support the masses struggling to free themselves from the yoke of imperialism.
On June 25, 2024, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) convened the African Chiefs of Defense (ACHOD) Conference in Botswana. The conference, purportedly to “strategize on counter terrorism, collaborate on crisis response and the importance of civilian and military relations,” has been held annually since 2017. This latest ACHOD was the first to convene in Africa. The earlier conferences were convened primarily in Europe.
By José Goulão
The Western power system undoubtedly knows how to choose the right people to defend “our civilizational values” throughout the world.
The National Electoral Council of Venezuela (CNE), the only institution with the power to announce the results of the electoral consultations that take place in the country, as it happens in any state of law, released the practically final figures of the presidential elections held on July 28. With 96.87% of the votes counted, despite the continuous and violent cyber war launched from abroad against the computer system on which the Venezuelan electoral structure is based, the incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, won with 6,408,884 votes, corresponding to 51.8%; in second place was the fascist candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, proposed by the Democratic Unity Table (MUD), a movement led from Washington and chaired by the coup militant Maria Corina Machado, with 5,326,104 votes, or 43.18%.
Bangladeshi Hindus fleeing to India for safety gather at the international border, Sitalkuchi, Cooch Behar, August 9, 2024
The exclusive report in today’s Economic Times carrying Sheikh Hasina’s first remarks after her ouster from power will come as a slap on the face of the nincompoops in our country who are waxing eloquently about developments in that country as a stand-alone democracy moment in regional politics.
Shocking even by Israeli standards, the horrifying truth of the occupation’s systematic torture, rape, and degradation of Palestinian detainees reveals a brutality buried in silence.
While the world witnesses the atrocities and massacres committed by Israel’s military assault on Gaza every day, the thousands of Palestinians detained by occupation forces – before and after the events of 7 October 2023 – face torture and death behind closed doors, alone.
The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.
By Scott Ritter
Special to Consortium New
On June 18, 1945, President Harry Truman, who had taken over the presidency in April 1945 following the death of Franklin Roosevelt, convened a meeting in the White House cabinet room of his top military and diplomatic advisers to discuss the endgame strategy for defeating Japan.
Many say that Maduro is not Chávez, but now he has the opportunity to honor his legacy and do something that Chávez himself was never able to do.
Most of the 25 years of Chavista government have been successive coup attempts, destabilization, boycotts, sabotage, economic blockades, lockouts, riots, violence, chaos and terror on the part of the opposition.
Is there a migration crisis in England? Yes, there is, says John Wight. And it’s not the fault of the migrants.
By John Wight*
The series of race and anti-migrant riots that have been sweeping across England’s vast deindustrialised regions in the North West, North East, Midlands and Yorkshire have been ineffably ugly to behold.
Hello, I apologize if the translation is not accurate. But I wanted to translate this piece of art from Resident for the Anglo-Saxon community. And so you can understand the importance of the Latino movement in America, of the struggle for the years of torture, mistreatment, and freedom. It also explains why it bothers us that they think that America is a country, and not a continent. I hope you enjoy it, a hug from Mexico.
Anger is a pyromaniac. Under its influence, we tend to provoke a reaction from our adversary, which serves as fuel to fan the flames, thus increasing the legitimacy of the angry inferno. The method is convenient for practicing accusatory inversion and making the one reacting to aggression the instigator of hell.
On 5 July 2024 the leading medical journal The Lancet published an expertly argued estimate of over 186,000 deaths from violence and imposed deprivation in the Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Massacre and Gaza Genocide. However while over 100 Alternative media have reported this, Zionist-perverted Western Mainstream media have overwhelmingly ignored this carnage. The Gaza Genocide is being enabled by massive Zionist and Western lying by omissions and lying by commission.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends NATO Summit. Source: Simon Dawson – No 10 Downing Street – Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0NATO’s expansionary military targets are deeply at odds with the need to scale down global emissions to avoid deepening the climate crisis. Nato’s goal of dedicating 2% of GDP to military spending is set to exacerbate climate breakdown by diverting billions of dollars away from essential climate investment and significantly increasing CO2 emissions.
by Adam Hanieh
Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM)
In early November 2023, shortly before the COP28 summit opened in Dubai, a hitherto obscure UAE firm attracted significant media attention around news of their prospective land deals in Africa.
Reports suggested that Blue Carbon—a company privately owned by Sheikh Ahmed al-Maktoum, a member of Dubai’s ruling family—had signed deals promising the firm control over vast tracts of land across the African continent. These deals included an astonishing 10 percent of the landmass in Liberia, Zambia and Tanzania, and 20 percent in Zimbabwe. Altogether, the area equaled the size of Britain.
Violent regime change in the South Asian country of Bangladesh unfolded rapidly and mostly by stealth as the rest of the world focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, growing tensions in the Middle East and a simmering confrontation between the US and China in the Asia-Pacific region.
Well, the site is running under a new theme! I’ve just started tweaking it, so it’ll be awhile before it’s fully functional. Basically a WordPress ‘Happiness Engineer’ rebuilt the whole site, at least I think so, at least installed a new, functioning theme, instead a mess I was left with when WordPress broke the old theme. I’d all but given up on it really but the world is in a real mess, I just couldn’t stand by and do nothing!
ALBA, Granada, North Africa Editorial Comment: We receive and send to you this important appeal from Lebanon following the redeployment of three US warships and 2,500 Marines to the Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon for imperialism to protect its colony in occupied Palestine and destabilize the Lebanese-Palestinian resistance and the Yemeni offensive. Iran, the Lebanese resistance and Yemen should launch a joint military operation targeting the colonial entity after the vile assassination of one of the greatest Palestinian resistance fighters, the martyr Ismail Haniye, by the AngloZionist counter-revolution. Maximum distribution is requested.
Yoselina Guevara L.
Behind the apparent fragility of Edmundo González Urrutia, former candidate to the presidency of Venezuela for the extreme right in the elections of July 28, 2024, hides his past as an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States and operator in the execution of the Condor Plan, a security strategy of the U.S. government during the Cold War, which was aimed at assassinating and repressing democratic, popular, leftist or nationalist political sectors, as well as youth, union, religious, neighborhood and peasant organizations that sought to dismantle the power of the state in the economy and to take benefits away from privileged national and transnational sectors.
A proposed green hydrogen project in Tunisia prioritizes European energy needs over local sovereignty.
In recent months, discussions about green hydrogen in Tunisia have dominated the media, particularly concerning the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on May 28, 2024, between TotalEnergies (a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company), Eren Groupe (a French company specializing in renewable energy and resource efficiency), Verbund (Austria’s leading electricity company), and the Tunisian government. This MoU aims to explore the implementation of a large green hydrogen project named “H2 Notos.” The project is intended for export to Central Europe via the “SoutH2 Corridor” pipelines, which run from the Northern African coast in Tunisia through Italy, Austria, and Germany; it aims to produce 200,000 tons of green hydrogen annually during its initial phase, with the potential to scale up production to one million tons per year in South Tunisia. This infrastructure enables the supply of low-cost renewable hydrogen produced in the South to key European demand clusters and is expected to be fully operational as early as 2030.
🎙 Excerpts from Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov’s interview with “Rossiya 1” TV channel:
📍 August 4, 2024
📝 In accordance with the Gorbachev-Reagan agreement, the USSR and the US destroyed all their ground-based intermediate and shorter-range ballistic and cruise missiles, also committing to not produce, test, or deploy such missiles in the future. By 1991, the USSR had destroyed 1,846 missiles, while the US destroyed 846, meaning that the Soviet Union got rid of twice as many of its missiles.
The New Dark Age 