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UK to face ‘astonishing’ slavery reparation claims—media.
Caribbean governments are planning to raise the issue of compensation for the slave trade at the upcoming Commonwealth summit, the Daily Mail reports A group of Caribbean countries will demand reparations amounting to “an astonishing £200 billion” ($261 billion) from King Charles III and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade at the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting,...
Nicaragua severs diplomatic relations with Israel over ongoing atrocities in Gaza
The government of Nicaragua has stated that it is breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel over the ongoing genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has killed over 42,000 people, more than half of them women and children. Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo announced the move to state media on October 11. The Central American nation’s Congress had, earlier...
Western powers use debt to hold sway over their former colonial empire
The tragic history of being saddled with debt repayments has meant African nations are encouraged and are often forced to “prioritize debt repayments over important investments, affecting their progress toward achieving sustainable development goals.” This is according to the October 8 edition of Business Insider Africa. Achim Steiner is head of the United Nations Development Program. He recently spoke at...
U.S. spends record $22B on military aid to Israel since October 2023 but ‘real number much higher’: Report
The U.S. has spent more than $22B on military aid to Israel and on funding Israeli aggressions across the region over the past year, a new report says. According to a report published by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the U.S. has given Israel $17.9 billion in military aid since the onset of the genocidal war...
Cuba wants to be part of BRICS: Foreign Minister
Cuba has officially applied to join BRICS as a partner state, senior Foreign Ministry official Carlos Pereira has revealed. The Russian envoy in Havana, Viktor Coronelli, stated last month that President Vladimir Putin had extended an invitation to his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Diaz-Canel, to attend an upcoming BRICS summit in Kazan. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Oct....
Solar power companies are growing fast in Africa as 600 million still lack electricity
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone—Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world’s worst infrastructure and the complications of climate change. The often African-owned companies operate in areas where the vast majority of...
Representatives of Latin nations speak to end Israel’s genocide of Palestinians
by Yaminah Muhammad, Contributing Writer HARLEM—In comradery with Palestinian victims of genocide in the Middle East, powerful chants to free oppressed people of the world reverberated through the walls of Harlem, New York’s historic Apollo Theater on Saturday, Sept. 28, as The People’s Forum, hosted the “Latin America Speaks: Solidarity Vs. Empire” event. The solidarity event served as an opportunity to...
UK admits colony deal was about U.S. military base
Ceding Chagos Islands to Mauritius is meant to keep the Diego Garcia military base, London has said Britain ceded its last African colony as the only way to retain control over a key Indian Ocean military base, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said. The Labour government had announced it would hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending a decades-long dispute...
The dangers of Western plans to extract Africa’s raw mineral reserves
In a piece in the November/December 2024 edition of Foreign Affairs, headlined, “America’s Strategy of Renewal: Rebuilding Leadership for a New World,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken defines what he considers “a new age in international affairs.” True to American foreign policy form, he takes Russia, Iran, North Korea and China to task. While claiming that “their forms of...
In first speech since release, Assange says imprisonment set ‘dangerous precedent’
by Julia Conley, CommonDreams.org In his first public statement since being released from prison in June, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged European lawmakers to take action to protect journalists from being prosecuted for their reporting work, warning that his yearslong case is directly tied to self-censorship and the chilling of press freedom. Assange spoke to the Committee on Legal Affairs and...