2021-09-21: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-09-21). US Border Patrol agents whip and corral Haitian migrants. wsws.org Photos showing border agents herding migrants like cattle produced political shock waves in the United States and around the world.

ecns.cn (2021-09-21). Ties with China necessary, essential for Latin America, says Cuban academic. ecns.cn For Latin America, ties with China are necessary and essential, a Cuban academic said following Chinese President Xi Jinping's message to the recently concluded 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

Editor2 (2021-09-21). CELAC to Choose Between Dignity or OAS' Monroe Doctrine. orinocotribune.com After five years without meeting, Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will convene on Saturday for the VI Summit in Mexico City. | Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose late Friday

Staff (2021-09-21). Social Movements in Mexico Reiterate Support for Venezuela (CELAC). orinocotribune.com Held on Saturday, September 18, the successful Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), at which Venezuela was the main promoter of a new stage in the regional cooperation of free peoples, will have a great impact for the future sovereignty of participating nations. | The sixth such highest-level CELAC summit strengthened Venezuela, and elicited the support from various Mexican social movements, who confirmed the importance of the union between Mexico and Venezuela. | In this sense, following the CELAC summit, the Meeting for Latin American and Carib…

teleSUR, JDO (2021-09-21). Agentes de EE.UU. dan trato humillante a migrantes haitianos. telesurtv.net Autoridades de EE.UU. reiteran que deportarán a los migrantes a Puerto Príncipe o los llevarán a centros de detención.

Richa Chintan (2021-09-21). Can poor countries succeed in vaccinating their population? peoplesdispatch.org Public outcry in South Africa helped force Johnson & Johnson to retain the vaccines produced in the country for domestic use instead of being shipped to Europe. The Indian civil society has initiated a similar effort as the Global South looks for alternatives…

Staff (2021-09-21). SOUTHCOM's Admiral Faller Returns to Colombia. orinocotribune.com In the midst of tensions with Venezuela generated by the Duque administration, Admiral Craig Faller, head of the United States Southern Command, announced that he is once again in Colombia—"a vital and reliable ally in security"—to meet with its military leadership. |

Staff (2021-09-20). Biden Vows Mass Deportations as Thousands of Haitian Refugees Shelter in Del Rio. truthout.org Thousands of asylum seekers, primarily from Haiti, have sheltered in a makeshift camp at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Del Rio International Bridge, as the Biden administration has vowed to carry out mass deportations. On Sunday alone, the Biden administration said it sent three deportation flights to Haiti, with several more flights expected in the coming days. "For them to be deporting young children into Haiti right now, … it is unacceptable," says Guerline Jozef, co-founder and exec…

Staff (2021-09-20). "People Are Desperate": Biden Vows Mass Deportations as Thousands of Haitian Refugees Shelter in Del Rio. democracynow.org Thousands of asylum seekers, primarily from Haiti, have sheltered in a makeshift camp at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Del Rio International Bridge, as the Biden administration has vowed to carry out mass deportations. On Sunday alone, the Biden administration said it sent three deportation flights to Haiti, with several more flights expected in the coming days. "For them to be deporting young children into Haiti right now, … it is unacceptable," says Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. We also speak with Jacqueline Charles, Haiti and Caribbean correspondent for the…

WSWS (2021-09-20). Biden administration begins mass deportation flights from Texas to Haiti. wsws.org Hundreds of Haitian refugees were flown back to Port-au-Prince Sunday in the first step of what officials said would be the removal of all 12,000 refugees sheltering under an underpass in Del Rio, Texas, on the US-Mexico border.

_____ (2021-09-20). Border Patrol Accused of 'Unfathomable Cruelty' for Cracking Whips on Haitians. commondreams.org The best thing about this? It is laser-focused on the super-rich. Anyone earning below $2 million a year will not pay a dime.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-20). Declaration of the VI Summit of Heads of State and Government of CELAC. libya360.wordpress.com The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), aware of the importance of this mechanism for consultation, unity and political dialogue that includes the thirty-three countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, based on historical ties, the shared principles and values of our peoples, mutual trust between our governments, respect for differences, the need…

The Associated Press (2021-09-20). US Officials Defend Expulsion of Haitians From Texas Town. latinorebels.com

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-20). The Lesson Nicolás Maduro Gave to His Counterparts at CELAC. libya360.wordpress.com Laila Tejaldine The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, emerged stronger from his participation in the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Despite the more than 400 sanctions against Venezuela, despite the 2 assassination attempts against President Nicolás Maduro, despite the formation of the Lima Group to overthrow the Constitutional…

Staff (2021-09-20). New Revelations on Haiti Assassination: Grenade-Dropping Drones, Paranoid President & Guards Who Ran. democracynow.org Miami Herald Haiti and Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles discusses new revelations about the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse. In her piece, "Grenade-dropping drones, a paranoid president, guards who ran: Latest on Haiti assassination," she reports the night President Jovenel MoàØse was shot "was actually the second time in a span of weeks that his life was in danger, according to testimony from one of the Colombians in custody, and one of the Haitian Americans."

Editor2 (2021-09-20). The European Left Rejects The European Parliament's Proposed Resolution Against Cuba. orinocotribune.com In view of the new resolution against Cuba proposed in the European Parliament today, 16 September 2021, the European Left considers that this resolution constitutes an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of a country. This is intolerable and therefore the European Parliament needs to vote against it. | This motion for a resolution violates the Political Dialo…

Staff (2021-09-20). Cuba and the US: A tale of two prison systems. therealnews.com In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer and former Black Panther Eddie Conway discusses the differences between prisons in Cuba and in the United States. Of the two, only one incarcerates children, only one deliberately isolates prisoners from their families and communities, and only one uses long-term solitary confinement as a routine punishment—and it's not Cuba. "In Cuba you don't have solitary confinement," Conway says. "Because that's inhumane."

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-20). Activistas marcharon en Dominicana contra contaminación ambiental. telesurtv.net Los manifestantes exigen la salida del país de la multinacional minera Barrick Gold y reclaman una baja de precios en combustibles.

G. Dunkel (2021-09-20). Despite dire conditions, U.S. deports Haitians. workers.org An Aug. 14 earthquake completely devastated southwestern Haiti, the country's breadbasket. At least 2,200 people were killed, and tens of thousands of homes destroyed, along with roads, bridges, schools, churches and crop fields. A few days later Tropical Depression Grace dropped 5 to 15 inches of rain on the area . . . |

Ann Brown (2021-09-20). As Afghanistan Refugees Are Welcomed, Biden Administration To Send Thousands Of Haitians Back Home. moguldom.com Some find it odd that while the U.S. government is welcoming Afghan refugees, it is deporting Haitians. The U.S. is seeing a flood of refugees making their way to its borders. During the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan after a 20-year occupation, the U.S. decided to evacuate Afghans who had worked with the U.S. in …

Titlethe Simple, Effective Wealthy Surtax We Need (2021-09-20). The Simple, Effective Wealthy Surtax We Need. commondreams.org "When thousands of Afghans have been forced to flee their home to find safety, and Haitians are seeking safety on the southern border, the very least the United States can do is set a resettlement goal that meets the moment."

teleSUR, SH (2021-09-20). Haití acusa a EE.UU. de humillar a migrantes haitianos. telesurtv.net El primer ministro Ariel Henry llamó a la unión de todos los sectores del país para darles una oportunidad a los migrantes deportados…

_____ (2021-09-20). Haiti Official Demands 'Humanitarian Moratorium' as US Ramps Up Deportations. commondreams.org "Poorer countries shouldn't have to wait until our doses are about to expire to vaccinate their populations."

The Associated Press (2021-09-20). US Launches Mass Expulsion of Haitian Migrants From Texas. latinorebels.com

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-20). US begins mass deportations of thousands of Haitian migrants in Texas and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the deportation of thousands of Haitian migrants in the US, protests in Gaza as Israeli forces recapture all Gilboa escapees, and more…

Staff (2021-09-20). Headlines for September 20, 2021. democracynow.org Pentagon Admits Drone Strike Killed Afghan Civilians as Victims' Families Demand Probe, Women and Girls Increasingly Left Out of Education, Public Life in Afghanistan After Taliban Takeover, Biden Admin Starts Deporting Haitian Asylum Seekers Without Due Process as Humanitarian Crisis Mounts, Senate Parliamentarian Says Dems Cannot Use Spending Bill to Create Pathway to Citizenship, FDA Panel Says Booster Shots Should Be Offered to People 65+ and High-Risk Patients, CA Firefighters Protect Trees with Foil Blankets as Wildfire Threatens Sequoia National Park, U.N. Warns Planet Headed Toward Catastrophic 2.7 &infin…

Stephen Joseph Scott (2021-09-20). The Myth of American Exceptionalism: From the Beginning. towardfreedom.org Within U.S. social movements, American Exceptionalism increasingly has been used to explain the ideology that guides U.S. interventions around the world and against domestic colonized populations, such as African and Indigenous peoples. This essay seeks to examine the roots of this ideological framework.

ecns.cn (2021-09-20). China-donated vaccines arrive in Kenya amid intensified pandemic fight in Africa. ecns.cn Senior Kenyan government officials on Saturday received a batch of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses from China as the East African nation ramps up inoculations for high-risk populations against the virus, saying they would reinvigorate the pandemic fight in the country.

Rainer Shea (2021-09-20). The "United States" isn't a Nation, it's a Terrorist Organization. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Sep 16, 2021 | The idea that the United States represents an actual nation is a myth designed to comfort us in the face of the horrifying reality we on this continent are living out. This is a reality where an entire landmass has been illegally annexed, and put under an occupation which continues throughout the vast majority of Native territory. A reality where this occupation is used to perpetuate a matrix of inhumane detention centers and militarized police state subjugation of this continent's African population, as well as against the brown indigenous peoples from south of the arbitraril…

WSWS (2021-09-20). COVID-19 vaccine inequality: 75 percent of doses administered in just 10 countries. wsws.org Vaccination rates are by far the lowest in Africa, where around 39 million or 3 percent of the continent's 1.3 billion population have been fully vaccinated.

Staff (2021-09-20). Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez Demands President Mario Abdo Honor Paraguay's Debt to Venezuela. orinocotribune.com In her role as acting finance minister, the Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, demanded that the President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, pay the debt that Paraguay owes Venezuela, which his country has refused to pay. The debt amounts to more than $360 million. | In a post on her Twitter account @delcyrodriguezv, the Venezuelan vice president said that "as head of the Ministry of Finance, I call on @MaritoAbdo to honor the debt that Paraguay owes Venezuela." She then expressed her support for the public challenge of President Nicolás Maduro Moros to his counterparts from Uruguay and Paragu…

Paul Dobson (2021-09-20). Venezuela Takes Centre Stage at Heated CELAC Summit in Mexico. venezuelanalysis.com The organization voiced its "rejection" of US-led sanctions and promised greater action against climate change and for better Covid-19 vaccine access.

Editor (2021-09-20). UN Expert Releases Full Report on Impact of U.S.-led Sanctions Against Venezuela. mronline.org Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan reiterated her call for sanctions relief, stating they undermine Venezuelans' human rights.

Ariela Ruiz Caro (2021-09-20). The Mexico Dialogue on Venezuela and the End of the Lima Group. counterpunch.org The conversations in Mexico between the opposition Unitary Platform of Venezuela and the Maduro government, with the intermediation of Norway, represent the failure of the US interventionist strategy and the end of the Lima Group. On August 13, a new stage of negotiations officially began to reestablish the institutional framework and democratic coexistence in Venezuela

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2021-09-20: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2021-09-20). Ties with China necessary, essential for Latin America, says Cuban academic. ecns.cn For Latin America, ties with China are necessary and essential, a Cuban academic said following Chinese President Xi Jinping's message to the recently concluded 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

Staff (2021-09-20). "People Are Desperate": Biden Vows Mass Deportations as Thousands of Haitian Refugees Shelter in Del Rio. democracynow.org Thousands of asylum seekers, primarily from Haiti, have sheltered in a makeshift camp at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Del Rio International Bridge, as the Biden administration has vowed to carry out mass deportations. On Sunday alone, the Biden administration said it sent three deportation flights to Haiti, with several more flights expected in the coming days. "For them to be deporting young children into Haiti right now, … it is unacceptable," says Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. We also speak with Jacqueline Charles, Haiti and Caribbean correspondent for the…

Staff (2021-09-20). New Revelations on Haiti Assassination: Grenade-Dropping Drones, Paranoid President & Guards Who Ran. democracynow.org Miami Herald Haiti and Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles discusses new revelations about the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse. In her piece, "Grenade-dropping drones, a paranoid president, guards who ran: Latest on Haiti assassination," she reports the night President Jovenel MoàØse was shot "was actually the second time in a span of weeks that his life was in danger, according to testimony from one of the Colombians in custody, and one of the Haitian Americans."

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-20). Activistas marcharon en Dominicana contra contaminación ambiental. telesurtv.net Los manifestantes exigen la salida del país de la multinacional minera Barrick Gold y reclaman una baja de precios en combustibles.

WSWS (2021-09-20). Biden administration begins mass deportation flights from Texas to Haiti. wsws.org Hundreds of Haitian refugees were flown back to Port-au-Prince Sunday in the first step of what officials said would be the removal of all 12,000 refugees sheltering under an underpass in Del Rio, Texas, on the US-Mexico border.

Staff (2021-09-20). Headlines for September 20, 2021. democracynow.org Pentagon Admits Drone Strike Killed Afghan Civilians as Victims' Families Demand Probe, Women and Girls Increasingly Left Out of Education, Public Life in Afghanistan After Taliban Takeover, Biden Admin Starts Deporting Haitian Asylum Seekers Without Due Process as Humanitarian Crisis Mounts, Senate Parliamentarian Says Dems Cannot Use Spending Bill to Create Pathway to Citizenship, FDA Panel Says Booster Shots Should Be Offered to People 65+ and High-Risk Patients, CA Firefighters Protect Trees with Foil Blankets as Wildfire Threatens Sequoia National Park, U.N. Warns Planet Headed Toward Catastrophic 2.7 &infin…

teleSUR, SH (2021-09-20). Haití acusa a EE.UU. de humillar a migrantes haitianos. telesurtv.net El primer ministro Ariel Henry llamó a la unión de todos los sectores del país para darles una oportunidad a los migrantes deportados…

WSWS (2021-09-20). COVID-19 vaccine inequality: 75 percent of doses administered in just 10 countries. wsws.org Vaccination rates are by far the lowest in Africa, where around 39 million or 3 percent of the continent's 1.3 billion population have been fully vaccinated.

ecns.cn (2021-09-20). China-donated vaccines arrive in Kenya amid intensified pandemic fight in Africa. ecns.cn Senior Kenyan government officials on Saturday received a batch of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses from China as the East African nation ramps up inoculations for high-risk populations against the virus, saying they would reinvigorate the pandemic fight in the country.

Rainer Shea (2021-09-20). The "United States" isn't a Nation, it's a Terrorist Organization. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Sep 16, 2021 | The idea that the United States represents an actual nation is a myth designed to comfort us in the face of the horrifying reality we on this continent are living out. This is a reality where an entire landmass has been illegally annexed, and put under an occupation which continues throughout the vast majority of Native territory. A reality where this occupation is used to perpetuate a matrix of inhumane detention centers and militarized police state subjugation of this continent's African population, as well as against the brown indigenous peoples from south of the arbitraril…

Ariela Ruiz Caro (2021-09-20). The Mexico Dialogue on Venezuela and the End of the Lima Group. counterpunch.org The conversations in Mexico between the opposition Unitary Platform of Venezuela and the Maduro government, with the intermediation of Norway, represent the failure of the US interventionist strategy and the end of the Lima Group. On August 13, a new stage of negotiations officially began to reestablish the institutional framework and democratic coexistence in Venezuela

Ana Perdigón (2021-09-19). VI CELAC Summit: Latin America and the Caribbean to Expand Relations with China. orinocotribune.com The Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), held this Saturday, September 18, in Mexico city, opens the doors to broader relations with China and the European Union (EU). | During the VI Summit of Heads of State and Government of CELAC, several nations called for the dismantling of the Organization of American States (OAS ), and on the contrary, to consolidate Latin American integration and inter-relation, far from the interests of the United States and Canada. | Comparto la foto oficial de la VI Cumbre de Jefas y Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de la CELAC. Un encuentro de grandes p…

Ana Perdigón (2021-09-19). President Maduro Proposes New Institutional Framework for CELAC (Lacalle and Abdo). orinocotribune.com On Saturday, September 18, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, proposed to create a new institutional framework of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to resume the path of regional intergration that had already begun to be built during the 2000s. | During his speech at the VI CELAC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Mexico City, the Venezuelan president stressed that the former councils of ministers had made proposals, and there was also a very valuable interregional dialogue that must be restarted. | President Maduro, without any previous announcement, arrived in Mexico…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-19). Latin American and Caribbean Leaders Approve Historic Agreement at CELAC Summit. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch The VI Summit of the Heads of State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was held in Mexico City on Saturday, September 18 and concluded with the approval of a 44-point declaration. The historic summit saw the participation of 31 countries and the presence of several important leaders, such…

Laila Tajeldine (2021-09-19). The Lesson Nicolás Maduro Gave to Counterparts at CELAC Summit. orinocotribune.com By Laila Tajeldine — Sep 19, 2021 | The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, came out stronger from his participation in the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). | Despite over 400 sanctions that are suffocating Venezuela, despite two assassination attempts against President Nicolás Maduro, despite the formation of the Lima Group to overthrow the Constitutional government of Venezuela, despite multiple attempts of coup d'état, destabilization and violence, and despite the predictions of the planners of all of the above, there in Mexico, at the CELAC summit, the Presid…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-19). Colombia Further Isolated After CELAC Summit. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Ivan Duque's increasingly isolated narco-regime has expressed contempt for the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) following today's 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government. Colombia, notably absent from Saturday's meeting, had blocked the Summit's declaration in the latest sign of discord with the rest of the region. A press…

Staff (2021-09-19). AMLO Condemns US Blockade of Cuba. orinocotribune.com As part of the commemoration of the 211 years of the Independence of Mexico, the annual military parade, held in Mexico City, had Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel as this year's guest of honor. In a speech given before the parade, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), President of Mexico, highlighted the injustice suffered by the Cuban people due to the ongoing US blockade, and urged US President Joe Biden to lift the blockade against Cuba. | "The government that I represent respectfully calls on the US government to lift the blockade imposed on Cuba, because no state has the right to subdue another nation, anothe…

teleSUR, yart, NG (2021-09-19). Vietnam aprueba uso de vacuna cubana Abdala. telesurtv.net La aprobación del fármaco coincide con la visita del presidente vietnamita a Cuba para tratar ese tema.

_____ (2021-09-19). A Network Of Military-Related Programs Is Spreading In Schools. popularresistance.org Seventy-six years after the U.S. dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I am reminded of my own mindset during the Cuban missile crisis when American President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev were threatening a nuclear confrontation. I remember feeling that my life would soon end, clearly embracing a comprehensible existential threat even at the age of 7. | I now understand the weapons of mass destruction deployed against the Japanese in 1945 as the two most horrible "singular event war crimes" ever committed by a state actor. | Coming from and living in the most militarized cultur…

C.J. Atkins (2021-09-19). Cuba está más cerca de la igualdad en el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. peoplesworld.org La igualdad fue un gran triunfo en Cuba el miércoles cuando se publicó un nuevo borrador del código de familia del país que propone otorgar a las parejas del mismo sexo el derecho a casarse y adoptar hijos. Ese cambio es uno entre muchos en un documento de 480 artículos que se presenta a la …

_____ (2021-09-19). Understanding The Basics Of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, And Capitalism. popularresistance.org Democracy exists if and when a community organizes its self-governance around the full participation, on an equal basis, of all the members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a community organizes (or allows) its governance by an individual or subgroup of that community, a ruler. Universal suffrage is clearly a step toward at least formal democracy because voters elect leaders. How real this formal democracy is depends on the inclusivity of the population voting and the concrete reality of voters' equal influence on the election's outcome. | Residential communities in many parts of the modern wor…

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2021-09-19). The "Secret Agenda" of the So-called Elite and the COVID mRNA Vaccine. "Reducing World Population"? globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc. Important and timely article, first published on April 10, 2020 | "The International" is …

Staff (2021-09-19). China Firmly Rejects Illegal Detention of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com On Friday, September 17, the People's Republic of China firmly rejected the illegal detention of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab and urged the United States to respect the norms that govern international law. | Zhao Lijian, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry, stated at a press conference that the US "has been playing a shameful role in regard to Venezuela. The US has constantly abused political and judicial maneuvers, including sanctions and extraditions; with the purpose of meddling in the internal affairs of Venezuela." | Lijian went on to point out that the US harassment policy "affects the…

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-19). China señala de vergonzoso el papel de EE.UU. contra Venezuela. telesurtv.net Desde China destacan que EE.UU. afecta los intercambios regulares de personal internacional y pone en peligro la cooperación entre países.

Maria Paez Victor (2021-09-19). Hush, Hush (Venezuela is Winning!). orinocotribune.com By María Páez Victor — Sep 17, 2021 | By now it is obvious that the mainstream media does not cover any good news whatsoever about Venezuela. Even non-political issues are always accompanied by a poisoned cliché sentence or two about "dictator," "authoritarian regime," "collapsed economy," "humanitarian crisis," etc. etc. | So, the game-changing news that there are peace talks being held in Mexico City between the Venezuelan government and opposition parties is ignored. Mexico is acting as host and facilitator, with the kingdoms of Norway and Netherlands, and the Russian Federation as mediators. This seminal…

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