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MADURO SHREDS WEST ON IRAN RETALIATION
The world is teetering on the edge of the abyss of a world war because Western powers have been unwilling to rein in Israel, said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
In this clip from a fiery address given during a 15 April event to commemorate the first anniversary of @nicolasmaduro’s TV programme, ‘With Maduro More’ (@conmaduromas_), he dragged the West for condemning Iran’s 13 April retaliatory attack on Israel.
The world is teetering on the edge of the abyss of a world war because Western powers have been unwilling to rein in Israel, said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
In this clip from a fiery address given during a 15 April event to commemorate the first anniversary of @nicolasmaduro’s TV programme, ‘With Maduro More’ (@conmaduromas_), he dragged the West for condemning Iran’s 13 April retaliatory attack on Israel.
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Continued….. What the West does not mention is Israel bombed the Iranian consulate in Syria on 1 April, killing 16 people, including high-ranking Iranian military figures. The Geneva Conventions lay out the right of countries to host diplomatic buildings abroad as sovereign territory. Further, international law stipulates the right to proportionate responses to attacks. What would a Western country have done if a state attacked its diplomatic buildings?
This is hardly the first time the West has provided Israel with cover as it flagrantly violates international law. After the 7 October escalation in the 75-year Israeli occupation of Palestine, the US vetoed three resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In the meantime, the United States has shipped and flown hundreds of containers of arms to Israel, which has killed more than 33,000 people. The UK has conducted 50 spy mission flights over Gaza, and Germany has sent more than 10,000 tank shells to the Israeli occupation.
However, the West’s days of dictating global affairs look to end soon, and this head-in-the-sand attitude carries a real risk of ending human civilisation.
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This is hardly the first time the West has provided Israel with cover as it flagrantly violates international law. After the 7 October escalation in the 75-year Israeli occupation of Palestine, the US vetoed three resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In the meantime, the United States has shipped and flown hundreds of containers of arms to Israel, which has killed more than 33,000 people. The UK has conducted 50 spy mission flights over Gaza, and Germany has sent more than 10,000 tank shells to the Israeli occupation.
However, the West’s days of dictating global affairs look to end soon, and this head-in-the-sand attitude carries a real risk of ending human civilisation.
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CLARE DALY: E.U. PRESIDENT A COMPLACENT PSYCHOPATH
Clare Daly, Irish member of the European Parliament, has long shown support for the Palestinian people. Since Israel’s bombardments and escalated siege of the Gaza Strip began on 7 October, Daly has criticised the United States and the European Union for their diplomatic, financial and military support for Israel.
A few days after European Union President Ursula von der Leyen condemned Iran for its retaliatory attack on Israel, Daly called von der Leyen a ‘gen*cidal psychopath’ in an 18 April address to the EU Parliament. The EU has provided Israel with aid while it has killed nearly 34,000 Palestinians.
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Clare Daly, Irish member of the European Parliament, has long shown support for the Palestinian people. Since Israel’s bombardments and escalated siege of the Gaza Strip began on 7 October, Daly has criticised the United States and the European Union for their diplomatic, financial and military support for Israel.
A few days after European Union President Ursula von der Leyen condemned Iran for its retaliatory attack on Israel, Daly called von der Leyen a ‘gen*cidal psychopath’ in an 18 April address to the EU Parliament. The EU has provided Israel with aid while it has killed nearly 34,000 Palestinians.
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TRUMP NOT SORRY FOR WANTING INNOCENT BLACK TEENS DEAD
Five Black and Latino teenagers spent years behind bars for a rape and brutal assault that happened on this day in Central Park, 35 years ago.
They were all innocent.
During their trial, Donald Trump - then a New York businessman - took out full-page ads in a number of newspapers, calling for the death penalty to be applied.
That didn’t happen, but the Central Park Five, as they became known, each served between five and 13 years - before being exonerated in 2002, when the real attacker confessed.
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Five Black and Latino teenagers spent years behind bars for a rape and brutal assault that happened on this day in Central Park, 35 years ago.
They were all innocent.
During their trial, Donald Trump - then a New York businessman - took out full-page ads in a number of newspapers, calling for the death penalty to be applied.
That didn’t happen, but the Central Park Five, as they became known, each served between five and 13 years - before being exonerated in 2002, when the real attacker confessed.
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US VETOES UN RESOLUTION ON PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD
The US has used its Security Council veto to override - singly - the will of Algeria, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and other Security Council members to let the Palestinians have full UN membership. In all, 12 out of 15 voted for what would have amounted to recognising a Palestinian state. (Currently, the Palestinians have observer status.) The UK and Switzerland abstained.
Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, the US used a person of Colour as their envoy to defend White supremacy. It previously used African-American Linda Greenfield-Thomas to veto a ceasefire resolution on Gaza. In the lead-up to the Iraq war, Colin Powell was used to present fabricated evidence to justify war.
The US has used its Security Council veto to override - singly - the will of Algeria, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and other Security Council members to let the Palestinians have full UN membership. In all, 12 out of 15 voted for what would have amounted to recognising a Palestinian state. (Currently, the Palestinians have observer status.) The UK and Switzerland abstained.
Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, the US used a person of Colour as their envoy to defend White supremacy. It previously used African-American Linda Greenfield-Thomas to veto a ceasefire resolution on Gaza. In the lead-up to the Iraq war, Colin Powell was used to present fabricated evidence to justify war.
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Continued…. Many have long questioned the veto right held by the five permanent members of the UNSC (China, France, Russia, UK, US) - pointing out that it can be abused, un-democratically, to oppose the will of the majority (something particularly ironic - or hypocritical - in the case of the self-styled world champion of democracy!).
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BALDWIN: ENSLAVED AFRICAN LABOUR BUILT U.S.
Reparations to Africans have long been a contentious issue. In this clip from a 1965 debate between author James Baldwin and US conservative writer William F Buckley at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, Baldwin paints a picture of how, through forced labour, Africans played a crucial role in building US wealth. The economic prosperity of the United States during its early years was inextricably tied to the institution of slavery, as the labour of enslaved people contributed to building industries such as agriculture, finance, textiles, and mining.
Reparations to Africans have long been a contentious issue. In this clip from a 1965 debate between author James Baldwin and US conservative writer William F Buckley at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, Baldwin paints a picture of how, through forced labour, Africans played a crucial role in building US wealth. The economic prosperity of the United States during its early years was inextricably tied to the institution of slavery, as the labour of enslaved people contributed to building industries such as agriculture, finance, textiles, and mining.
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Continued…. The wealth generated through centuries of free labour laid the groundwork for the economic development and industrialisation that characterise the United States today.
The legacy of slavery—compounded by subsequent discriminatory practices, such as Jim Crow laws and ‘redlining’ neighbourhoods to mark areas meant for Africans—has prevented equal access to education, employment, and housing opportunities. That is why many say reparations are a means to acknowledge and address the systemic injustices that have hindered Africans’ economic and social progress in the United States. The consequences of these policies manifest today in higher incarceration rates for Africans, as well as a household wealth ratio of 20 to 1 between white people and Africans.
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The legacy of slavery—compounded by subsequent discriminatory practices, such as Jim Crow laws and ‘redlining’ neighbourhoods to mark areas meant for Africans—has prevented equal access to education, employment, and housing opportunities. That is why many say reparations are a means to acknowledge and address the systemic injustices that have hindered Africans’ economic and social progress in the United States. The consequences of these policies manifest today in higher incarceration rates for Africans, as well as a household wealth ratio of 20 to 1 between white people and Africans.
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AFRICOM GENERAL REVEALS REAL REASON U.S. IS IN AFRICA
Western media paints US imperialism as an altruistic initiative to bring democracy to savages too simple-minded to know who their enemies are. But, sometimes, the truth slips out, such as when US Africa Command (AFRICOM)’s General Michael Langley admitted why the United States holds a vast footprint on the continent. Apart from access to African resources, the presence of non-Western powers seems to be a problem for Washington.
However, history shows the West broke African society through slavery, colonisation and ongoing neo-colonisation for the past five centuries. Russia and China, on the other hand, do not have such a history.
What’s more puzzling is the West’s insistence on this strategy despite the messaging not attracting many adherents on the continent, not even from far more Western-leaning countries like Ghana.
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Western media paints US imperialism as an altruistic initiative to bring democracy to savages too simple-minded to know who their enemies are. But, sometimes, the truth slips out, such as when US Africa Command (AFRICOM)’s General Michael Langley admitted why the United States holds a vast footprint on the continent. Apart from access to African resources, the presence of non-Western powers seems to be a problem for Washington.
However, history shows the West broke African society through slavery, colonisation and ongoing neo-colonisation for the past five centuries. Russia and China, on the other hand, do not have such a history.
What’s more puzzling is the West’s insistence on this strategy despite the messaging not attracting many adherents on the continent, not even from far more Western-leaning countries like Ghana.
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SA BANS BREEDING LIONS FOR TROPHY HUNTING
High-paying trophy hunters will no longer have South African lions on their kill lists after Pretoria banned the lucrative trade. Environment Minister Barbara Treecy announced on April 3rd that breeders of captive lions have two years to phase out their businesses before the ban takes effect.
South Africa has more lions in breeding farms (7,838) than in the wild (3,500). The big cats are bred for hunting, and as a substitute for tigers in traditional medicine. A study conducted by Tourism Research in Economic Environs and Society (TREES) in collaboration with the Professional Hunters Association of South Africa (PHASA) revealed that foreign trophy hunters spend an average of $10,300 per hunting trip, excluding travel costs.
High-paying trophy hunters will no longer have South African lions on their kill lists after Pretoria banned the lucrative trade. Environment Minister Barbara Treecy announced on April 3rd that breeders of captive lions have two years to phase out their businesses before the ban takes effect.
South Africa has more lions in breeding farms (7,838) than in the wild (3,500). The big cats are bred for hunting, and as a substitute for tigers in traditional medicine. A study conducted by Tourism Research in Economic Environs and Society (TREES) in collaboration with the Professional Hunters Association of South Africa (PHASA) revealed that foreign trophy hunters spend an average of $10,300 per hunting trip, excluding travel costs.
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Continued….. The total economic contribution of trophy hunting to the South African economy is more than $130 million a year.
The 2015 killing of the famous Zimbabwean lion ‘Cecil’ by a hunter from the US led to global awareness of Africa’s ‘canned’ hunting problem, where animals are bred solely to be shot by wealthy foreign hunters. Critics say little has been done to curb the trade, and the impact on conservation efforts has been detrimental.
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The 2015 killing of the famous Zimbabwean lion ‘Cecil’ by a hunter from the US led to global awareness of Africa’s ‘canned’ hunting problem, where animals are bred solely to be shot by wealthy foreign hunters. Critics say little has been done to curb the trade, and the impact on conservation efforts has been detrimental.
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TONI MORRISON: YOUR QUESTION IS POWERFULLY RACIST!
If you’ve never read any Toni Morrison, this short clip might just inspire you to. The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist is known for her unmatched poise, authority and articulacy - qualities on display here, as she halts the interviewer in her tracks to call out the implicit racism of her question (essentially: why doesn’t Morrison write about White characters?). The interviewer is left shell-shocked.
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If you’ve never read any Toni Morrison, this short clip might just inspire you to. The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist is known for her unmatched poise, authority and articulacy - qualities on display here, as she halts the interviewer in her tracks to call out the implicit racism of her question (essentially: why doesn’t Morrison write about White characters?). The interviewer is left shell-shocked.
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From demos against American soldiers in Niger to striking Kenyan doctors and a visit by the Italian PM to the continent. Here's our selection of images from events that shaped the week in Africa.
1. Niamey, Niger – Thousands demonstrate in Niger’s capital, demanding the immediate departure of American soldiers from their country. Niamey’s revolutionary military leaders recently axed a 2012 security deal with Washington.
2. Alberton, South Africa – Songezo Zibi, the leader of the political party Rise Mzanzi, addresses supporters at a community meeting in Eden Park.
3. Nairobi, Kenya – Hundreds of Kenyan doctors chant as they march towards the health ministry demanding better pay and working conditions. A nationwide strike by medics enters its fourth week.
4. Abuja, Nigeria – Families and relatives of abducted girls commemorate ten years since Boko Haram kidnapped dozens in northeastern Nigeria.
1. Niamey, Niger – Thousands demonstrate in Niger’s capital, demanding the immediate departure of American soldiers from their country. Niamey’s revolutionary military leaders recently axed a 2012 security deal with Washington.
2. Alberton, South Africa – Songezo Zibi, the leader of the political party Rise Mzanzi, addresses supporters at a community meeting in Eden Park.
3. Nairobi, Kenya – Hundreds of Kenyan doctors chant as they march towards the health ministry demanding better pay and working conditions. A nationwide strike by medics enters its fourth week.
4. Abuja, Nigeria – Families and relatives of abducted girls commemorate ten years since Boko Haram kidnapped dozens in northeastern Nigeria.
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5. Foumban, Cameroon – Mouhammad-Nabil Mfonrifoum Mbombo Njoya is the Sultan King of the Bamouns. Here, he greets people on his way to his palace after the inauguration of the Bamoun Kings Museum. The kingdom of the Bamouns, founded in 1384, is one of the oldest in sub-Saharan Africa. The new museum covers 5,000 square meters over three floors and houses nearly 12,500 items.
6. Tunis, Tunisia – Tunisian President, Kais Saied, meets Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, to discuss illegal immigration and economic cooperation. In other words, the giving of money to keep Africans out of Europe.
6. Tunis, Tunisia – Tunisian President, Kais Saied, meets Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, to discuss illegal immigration and economic cooperation. In other words, the giving of money to keep Africans out of Europe.
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7. Kinshasa, DRC – A street vendor sells Congolese flags in the capital ahead of the Belgian foreign minister's two-day visit. Hadja Lahbib met with the ‘Metis Project’ for people born from a Belgian father and a Congolese mother during Belgium colonial rule. During the 1940s and 1950s in modern-day Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, children were taken away from their mothers and put in orphanages.
8. Gaborone, Botswana – Botswana Congress Party supporters dance and chant while holding posters in support of their leader, Dumelang Saleshando, ahead of this year’s general election.
8. Gaborone, Botswana – Botswana Congress Party supporters dance and chant while holding posters in support of their leader, Dumelang Saleshando, ahead of this year’s general election.
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TRINIDAD’S LEGENDARY CLAUDIA JONES
With roots in Trinidad and a political consciousness forged as an immigrant in the US witnessing racial injustice, Claudia Cumberbatch Jones was a leading feminist-Marxist intellectual - whose activism saw her jailed, and then deported to the UK. There, in response to London’s Notting Hill race riots, she launched what is now one of the world’s most famous and vibrant carnivals. She was already a legend whilst alive, and her works and legacy remain an inspiration. African Stream’s Wambura Mwai brings us the story of this amazing woman. Have you read her work?
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With roots in Trinidad and a political consciousness forged as an immigrant in the US witnessing racial injustice, Claudia Cumberbatch Jones was a leading feminist-Marxist intellectual - whose activism saw her jailed, and then deported to the UK. There, in response to London’s Notting Hill race riots, she launched what is now one of the world’s most famous and vibrant carnivals. She was already a legend whilst alive, and her works and legacy remain an inspiration. African Stream’s Wambura Mwai brings us the story of this amazing woman. Have you read her work?
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