2021-09-07: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-07). Protestors launch Global Week of Action for Democracy in Swaziland and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at renewed protests in Swaziland with the launch of the Global Week of Action for Democracy; the members of a new 'caretaker' government appointed by the Taliban following the takeover of Panjshir; protests and counter-protests organized across Brazil as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro rallies his supporters to march to Brasilia; the partial agreements signed between the Venezuelan government and the right-wing opposition after another round of talks in Mexico; and the 'Kisan Panchayat' rally held by over 500,000 protesting farmers in India.

WSWS (2021-09-07). Reopening of French schools threatens students and workers with a resurgence of the pandemic. wsws.org With an average of over 13,000 daily cases, the reopening of schools in France that began last week is preparing a new wave of infections, illnesses and deaths among teachers, children and the population at large.

Bill Fletcher (2021-09-07). The GOP: Worker's Party or Party of the White Republic? zcomm.org The Republican Party is a "working class party" now, according to its nationalist wing. But a deeper look at its pro-worker rhetoric reveals a longstanding trope of the "white worker" against invader populations…

teleSUR- lvm, JL (2021-09-07). Protección Civil de Haití confirma 2.246 decesos tras terremoto. telesurtv.net Las autoridades contabilizan 12.763 heridos y 329 desaparecidos tras el terremoto suscitado el pasado mes de agosto.

Editor2 (2021-09-07). Should the Cuban Revolution Hold on to Power? Part 4: Lenin's New Economic Policy and the Cuban Situation. orinocotribune.com By Sam King — Sep 4, 2021 | The following article outlines some theoretical considerations to help place Cuba's contemporary situation into a Marxist framework. A relevant reference point seems to be another revolutionary country that also found itself in the situation of isolation — Russia. | In the broadest possible terms, the objective situation in Cuba today approximates aspects of the situation the Russian revolution faced in 1921 after its victory in the civil war. There are countless differences in detail and emphasis, however, in broadest terms, in both countries state power had/has been consol…

Hedelberto López Blanch (2021-09-07). Sobornos en medios de comunicación yanquis. globalizacion.ca En los últimos tiempos se ha incrementado contra Cuba una enorme campaña de descrédito, financiada con fondos federales de Estados Unidos, del gobierno de la Florida e impulsada por la derecha cubanoamericana asentada en Miami. | De forma desmesurada se utilizó,…

John O'Kane (2021-09-07). Ibram X. Kendi And Democratic Debate. counterpunch.org The vast majority were sympathetic with "anti-racism," believing that we're living in a time now when minorities are finally getting some respect and attention from government and corporations. But at the same time, they were confused about what racism really means because so many are being labeled racist, making the charge meaningless or at least less relevant. Several mentioned that Kamala Harris had called Joe Biden a racist during the primaries, but she became his choice for VP. The term that came up often was "diversity." Most commented that a more diverse population would ultimately get rid of racism becaus…

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2021-09-07). Venezuela Rejects Coup d'État in Guinea — International Reactions (AFRICOM). orinocotribune.com Caracas, September 6, 2021 (OrinocoTribune.com)—In the midst of tension and uncertainty, the inhabitants of the Republic of Guinea face a new political crisis following the coup that overthrew the president, Alpha Condé, who had ruled the African country democratically since 2010. | Since last Sunday, September 5, insurgent military forces under the direction of Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, stormed the presidential palace in Conakry and illegally detained President Condé. The justification of the military coup plotters was the president's alleged lack of democratic principles, financial mismanagement, and the…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-07). Venezuelan government and opposition reach partial agreements. peoplesdispatch.org Important advances were made during the second round of negotiations in Mexico. The dialogue process between the two sides is crucial as it could end years of political crisis and economic instability in Venezuela…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-09-07). Vacations Canceled! Governor of Anzoátegui State Returns to Venezuela. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, September 5, amid multiple complaints and ongoing investigations by the Public Ministry, the current governor of Anzoátegui state, opposition politician Antonio Barreto Sira, arrived in Venezuela from Miami, where he was on vacation, due to the flooding of the Neverí river. In addition, irregularities were revealed regarding his signing of official documents while he was in the state of Florida, in the United States. | The return of the Democratic Action politician was demonstrated by videos that circulated on social networks, in which the governor could be seen walking the hallways of the Simón Bolí…

César Torres (2021-09-07). Venezuela reaffirms commitment to strengthening bilateral relations with Mexico. mppre.gob.ve The Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Félix Plasencia, held a meeting on Monday with the Chargé d'Affaires of the United Mexican States to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mauricio Vizcaíno. At the meeting, Vizcaíno delivered a letter sent by Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, who reiterated the friendly, cooperation ties and expressed his […] | La entrada

teleSUR, JGN (2021-09-07). México celebra acuerdos entre gobierno y oposiciones de Venezuela. telesurtv.net El economista Andrés Arauz llamó al FMI a desbloquear 5.000.000.000 de dólares a los que Venezuela tiene derecho.

Gloria La Riva (2021-09-06). Cuba: primer país del mundo en vacunar a niños menores de 12 años. liberationnews.org Ahora, en un nuevo desarrollo importante, los bebés y niños de dos años en adelante serán vacunados masivamente a partir de 10 días.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-09-06). Silvio Rodríguez destaca logros de ciencia cubana ante Covid-19. telesurtv.net Subrayó la "decisión histórica" de Fidel Castro de incentivar la formación de profesionales de la salud e investigadores.

Behrouz Saba (2021-09-06). Afghanistan and the Dark Side of American Power. counterpunch.org Tarzan is a neighborhood mutt in Istanbul, his back bending under children who ride him, serving as their target for stone-throwing contests, surviving attempts by dogcatchers to kill him. His luck turns when an American family moves in, making him a coddled pet. Yet when the Americans prepare to leave along with the dog, neighbors

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-06). Nicaragua's Caribbean Autonomous Regions: Valdrack Jaentschke. libya360.wordpress.com We sat down for an informal conversation with Nicaragua's former Minister Advisor for International Affairs & the Caribbean, Valdrack Jaentschke, in Managua. Jaentschke discusses the relinquishing of rights under the Sandinista Revolution in the Caribbean coastal regions where Black/Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples have government recognized and supported autonomy. Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of the Caribbean…

_____ (2021-09-06). A Unified Story For A Divided World. popularresistance.org Wars of position rage between "race reductionists" who insist on the political primacy of race and their "class reductionist" counterparts. But some of us, especially those of us who make use of racial capitalism as a set of frameworks, insist that such debate is tired. In Golden Gulag, Ruth Wilson Gilmore offers an intricate definition of racism: "the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death." It follows that races are divisions of populations into hierarchies of vulnerability to premature death (the likely fate of the materially insecure…

_____ (2021-09-06). Decolonise The Green New Deal. popularresistance.org The median person in the US consumes 44 million calories per day. The human body requires intake of 2 thousand calories per day. Exo-somatic consumption of energy — for non-metabolic purposes, such as transport or appliances — of the average citizen of the North is several hundred times larger than that of a poor citizen of the South. But even endosomatic consumption of energy — bodily calorie intake — is substantially less in the South. Hunger and undernourishment are still a reality for one-seventh of the planet's human population. | But working households in the North are not to blame f…

Mickey Z. (2021-09-06). Remember the HPV vaccine scandal of 2018? (Of course, you don't). dissidentvoice.org Let's imagine a hypothetical scenario. What if there was a time when the general population was being relentlessly coerced into taking a particular drug? How would you know what to do? Where would you turn for the necessary context? Surely you wouldn't just take the shot without doing your homework… right? That would be irrational. …

Staff (2021-09-06). CNE: Political Parties Validate First Week of Audits on Voting Machines Software. orinocotribune.com The political representatives who attended the audit of the voting machine software in the pre-electoral phase of the regional and municipal elections scheduled for November 21, have validated with their signatures the revision of the set of modules, security codes, databases, applications and software planned for the first week of this activity of the electoral schedule. This was reported by Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) on its Twitter account this Saturday, September 4. | pic.twitter.com/r7PO6smDmG | — cneesvenezuela (@cneesvzla) Daniela Jimenez (2021-09-06). President Maduro Explains What Back to School Will be Like. orinocotribune.com On Sunday, September 5, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that school activities in the new academic year will be in person, within the 7 + 7 reopening scheme applied by the national government. This means that there will alternately be a week of in-person classes and a week of online classes. | During an interview on the TV show Aquí con Ernesto Villegas, the president stressed that the primary objective of return to classes is "to rescue sociability" among the students and between the students and the teachers, which was truncated by the COVID-19 pandemic that forced millions of students fro…

Staff (2021-09-06). President Maduro: Mexico Talks Resume Mutual Recognition of Political Forces of Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Sunday, September 5, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, emphasized that the Venezuelan National Dialogue process established in Mexico (Mexico Talks) resumes mutual recognition of Venezuela's political forces, highlighting the work of the new National Assembly in this process. "The people elected a new National Assembly that has known how to occupy the space of the country's Legislative Power as an eminently political, deliberative and legislative institution," said the head of state in an interview on the show Aquí con Ernesto Villegas, hosted by the Minister for Culture, Ernesto Villegas Poljak, and…

Daniela Jimenez (2021-09-06). Dilemma: Who is the Opposition Candidate for Governor in Miranda State? orinocotribune.com The electoral situation in the ranks of the Venezuelan opposition is becoming more striking every day. This Friday, September 3, Carlos Ocariz of Primero Justicia (PJ) and David Uzcátegui of Fuerza Vecinal, the two pre-candidates of the opposition for the governorship of Miranda state, offered opposing statements on the results of the mechanism agreed between Fuerza Vecinal and the so-called "Unidad" for selecting the unitary candidate to represent the opposition in the November 21 elections. | According to the news website Crónica Uno, Ocariz declared that he already had the results of two of the four surveys co…

Paul Dobson (2021-09-06). Venezuelan Government, Guaidó Opposition Resume Contentious Negotiations in Mexico. venezuelanalysis.com Two "partial agreements" were revealed on Monday night, with talks set to resume on September 24.

Anonymous007 (2021-09-06). Venezuela's Government And Opposition Work To Mend Fences, Without The U.S. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The United States has been focused elsewhere for a while and Venezuela appears en route to solve its problems on its own. | Two delegations — one representing President Nicholas Maduro's government and another the opposition under Juan Guaido met in Mexico in an attempt to mend fences."We have been working mainly on partial agreements, especially those related to serving the people of Venezuela," parliament speaker Jorge Rodriguez, who led the government delegation said. | Venezuel…

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