Mireille Fanon Mendès France In December 2014, the UN General Assembly proclaimed in its Resolution 68/237 the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024). This Decade should have aimed at encouraging states to eradicate the social injustices produced by history and to combat racism and racial prejudice and discrimination that people of African descent…
Category: WORLD
Venezuela: Reasons for the Unavoidable End of Guaidó and Opposition Extremism
Jesus Inojosa The parliamentary elections have posed a dilemma for the Venezuelan right that is committed to a reshaping based on its participation in this process, which will give life to the new National Assembly for the period 2021-2025. Along the way of this commitment to the democratic path, they find themselves with the diatribe…
When the Arsonist Returns to the Scene of the Crime Dressed as a Firefighter
A.T. Freeman Photo caption: Protests erupt in Guyana in response to racist killings Photo credit: Newsroom Guyana On 9 September, Irfaan Ali, the president of Guyana issued a statement that he would be making a request to Britain and the US-organised Regional Security System (RSS) to support the Guyana Police Force, establishing an international Commission…
Libya: Militias, Multiple Tracks, Foreign Meddling, Prevent Progress in Dialogues
The United States and Russia entered the Libyan-Libyan dialogue by opening parallel paths to the Moroccan Bouznika path, in an effort to break through the political blockage deepened by dissonant regional and international agendas, and the complexity of the proliferation of arms, militias, mercenaries, and the direct Turkish military presence in western Libya. The multiplicity…
Sudan’s Roadmap to Peace
Peoples Dispatch Representatives of the Sudanese transitional government and rebel groups in the coalition Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) sign their initials on the roadmap agreed for the implementation of the peace agreement. (Photo: Radio Dabanga/social media) The roadmap for the peace agreement between Sudan’s transitional government and rebel groups was signed on September 7. However,…
Trump’s Stunning Admission: As Pandemic Spread, He Lied to the World
Walter Smolarek In a series of recorded interviews with Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, Donald Trump made a shocking admission: He repeatedly lied to the public about the severity of the Coronavirus pandemic, saying that all was well as the disease spread virtually unchecked throughout the country. “I wanted to always play it down. I…
Venezuela Launches Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples
On Sunday, September 6, 205 years since the publication of the Jamaica Letter, the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples was inaugurated as a new space for the research, dissemination, debate, solidarity and strengthening of international relations. The inauguration took place via YouTube on the Institute’s Spanish and English channels. “Our institute…
Israel and the UAE Hope to Turn Yemen’s Remote Islands into an Intel Gathering Hub
Ahmed Abdulkareem In the wake of the recent normalization of ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in August, it is becoming increasingly clear that Tel Aviv is set to take on an increasingly active role in the war on Yemen, a war that the UAE – together with Saudi Arabia – launched over six…
Colombia: Outrage and Misgovernment
Pedro Santana Rodríguez Photo: Ivan Valencia In Colombia, September 9 has now been designated as the day of human rights in homage to San Pedro Claver, a Jesuit priest who dedicated his life to the defense of black Africans kidnapped from their land and brought and sold into slavery in Cartagena. On that day and…
The Hidden History of Canada’s Influence and Interference in Guyana
Yves Engler Components of a wheel excavator used to move sand onto conveyor belts at one of Alcan’s bauxite mines near MacKenzie, British Guyana. Photo by Henry Hamilton/Flickr. Reflecting an extreme imbalance in power, people in Guyana are well informed about Canadian activity in their country, but our media seldom mentions the small nation on…
Venezuelan Women are the Hardest Hit by the Blockade: Overburdened, Exploited and Carrying the Emotional Cost
María Mercedes Cobo In patriarchal worlds, and in times of need, deprivation and challenge, women are the most affected, the most held back and the most likely to be sacrificed. They are also the most overburdened, seeking solutions and taking on survival challenges stemming from the inequality of macho culture. US imperialist and colonial policies…
It’s Time to Acknowledge Hutu Genocide and Rwandan Occupation of DR Congo
Ann Garrison Photo: In April 1995, Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Army massacred 8,000 Hutus sheltering in an internal refugee camp in Kibeho, Rwanda. Photograph by Paul Lowe. “Global power elites are silent about Hutu genocide and Rwanda’s ongoing occupation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),” writes Ann Garrison, “because it has served their interests…
