Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, by Vijay Prashad, Sep 2020, 162 pp.
While vaunting itself as an oasis of democracy, the United States, in reality, has become a superpower by infiltrating foreign governments, obliterating entire cultures, and carrying out murderous military interventions in developing countries all over the world.
Washington Bullets is about U.S. imperialism—the bullets sent by various Washington, DC administrations to crush revolutions, assassinate democratically elected leaders—to destroy hope.
STOCKHOLM/CAMBRIDGE (US), Sep 23 2020 (IPS)* – As COVID-19 threatens farming communities across Africa already struggling with climate change, the continent is at a crossroads.
Million Belay
Will its people and their governments continue trying to replicate industrial farming models promoted by developed countries?
Or will they move boldly into the uncertain future, embracing ecological agriculture?.
It is time to choose. Africa is projected to overtake South Asia by 2030 as the region with the greatest number of hungry people.
An alarming 250 million people in Africa now suffer from “undernourishment,” the U.N. term for chronic hunger. If policies do not change, experts project that number to soar to 433 million in 2030.
Today, scientists sounded another alarm on the impacts of the climate breakdown: the Arctic sea ice minimum has reached its 2nd lowest level since measurements began.
22 September 2020 (WMO)* — Arctic sea ice – a key climate change indicator – has reached its annual minimum extent after the summer melt season. It was the second lowest extent only after the record low observed in 2012.
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The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced that on 15 September, sea ice extent was 3.74 million square kilometers (1.44 million square miles).
22 September 2020 (FAO)* — When we go about our daily routines, most of us are unaware that beneath our feet lies an outstandingly diverse community of plants, animals and microbes that makes up our soils.
(UN News)* — The assaults by security forces in Myanmar on villages in Rakhine state “need to stop”, and a ceasefire should be declared immediately, said the UN independent rights expert on the situation across the country on Tuesday [22 September 2020].
Thomas Andrews decried the mounting toll of child casualties: “Serious questions have been raised about whether these children, and growing numbers of others, are being caught in the crossfire of war, or are being deliberately targeted,” he said.
22 September 2020 (UN News)* — Worsening conflict, combined with a precarious humanitarian situation, has forced more than 300,000 people to flee their homes and villages in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, leaving them completely reliant on humanitarian assistance, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Affected communities receive WFP food relief in Nacate village, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique.
Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, by Vijay Prashad, Sep 2020, 162 pp.
