Month: October 2020

Click:block production machine Under the “smokescreen” of giving aid or charity, western governments and multinational corporations are pillaging states in sub-Sahara Africa with losses nearing $60 billion each year, according to research published on Tuesday by a coalition of 10 Africa and UK-based NGOs. The report, Honest accounts? The true story of Africa’s billion dollar…

One day after the U.S. government accused Russia of betraying a signature treaty by test-firing a medium-range ballistic missile, questions are mounting on Tuesday over whether the Ukrainian Army has actually fired short-range ballistic missiles at rebel-held areas in the east of the country. [A U.S.  official] said it is not clear if the United…

Update: Israel has followed Hamas in agreeing to the Egypt-brokered 72 hour ceasefire, which comes into affect at 2100 GMT on Sunday evening. Earlier: The Palestinian delegate on Sunday accepted a second 72-hour ceasefire proposal brokered by Egypt, despite the news that airstrikes continued to hammer the closed-off territory. According to reports, attacks by Israeli…

Scientists are racing to confirm if an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which officials confirmed on Sunday, is a different strain than that which has killed nearly 1,500 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, potentially raising the specter of the crisis to two deadly outbreaks. At a Sunday press…

Michael Chertoff, the former head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under the Bush administration, has been paid a “modest sum” by a Virginia-based company trying to retain a profitable government contract for routing millions of phone calls and texts in and out of the country, the New York Times reports on Monday. According…

Raymond Buckley’s frustration with Democrats in Washington runs all the way to the White House. Buckley, New Hampshire’s Democratic chairman and one of five candidates vying to be the next Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman, is laying into the DNC and Washington Democrats for the party’s 2016 electoral losses, caused by what he calls a…

A federal judge on Friday approved New York City’s $41 million settlement with the five black and Latino men who in 1989 were wrongfully convicted of the brutal rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park. “It’s unbelievable the injustice that we suffered throughout all these years and that we continue to suffer till…

Launching a new wave in the fight for “true democracy,” thousands of Hong Kong university students kicked off a week-long boycott of classes on Monday with a mass sit-in and rally protesting what they say is the further colonization of the city by the country’s elites. “How can a few people decide Hong Kong’s future?…

In a challenge to post-Cold War de-escalation agreements, the new secretary-general of NATO declared on Sunday that the alliance can deploy its troops “wherever we want to” in Eastern Europe. The statement came just a month after the alliance pledged to develop “rapid response” military forces aimed at countering Moscow. Jens Stoltenberg, the former Prime…

Journalist and columnist Glenn Greenwald appeared on MSNBC’s Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday night to address recent violence that took place in Canada, in which soldiers of that nation’s armed forces were targeted, and reiterated his position that understanding and challenging the way the word “terrorism” is employed in such cases is critically…