Archive for September 25th, 2021

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25/09/2021

Return to the Source: The US Military Swarms over Africa

Human Wrongs Watch

Editorial | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Grim predictions about the U.S. military occupation of Africa are realized.

African Lion. Exercise Cutlass Express. Exercise Phoenix Express. Obangame Express. Justified Accord. Flintlock.

These are the names of but a few of the military exercises carried out by the U.S. Africa Command forces (AFRICOM) on the African continent in recent years.

The exercises have occurred across the expanse of the continent – east, west, north, and south – as well as on the surrounding seas and oceans.

And the exercises have included participation from Europe, and from almost every African country.

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25/09/2021

Deepfakes and the Line between Live and Fiction

Human Wrongs Watch

By Fernando Velázquez*

Should eyes be believing?

Deepfake and photo manipulation
Deepfake and photo manipulation | Image from Wall Street International Magazine.

(Wall Street International)* — President Barack Obama sits in front of the American flag: “We are entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying anything at any point in time,” he warns.

Although he is using familiar expressions and hand gestures, there is something strange about the video. Obama’s face looks weird, and his voice sounds flat and forced.

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25/09/2021

Gorgon Stare, the Latest in Mass Surveillance

Human Wrongs Watch

By Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service*

U.S. wars in foreign nations always come home. The latest example is “Gorgon Stare,” wide angle surveillance planes, used in Iraq and Afghanistan, that have now been brought home to an urban area near you. “Gorgon Stare” is named for the three Gorgons in Greek mythology, snakeheaded sisters whose stare could turn a person to stone.

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Medusa – Black Star News

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25/09/2021

Deadly ‘Invisible Shipwrecks’ Plague Migrants Bound for Canary Islands, Spain

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — A sharp increase in the deaths and disappearances of migrants at sea heading to Spain’s Canary Islands, along the West African coast, is a cause for “extreme concern” the UN’s migration agency, IOM, said on Friday [24 September 2021].

Conflict and poverty continue to compel people to undertake extremely perilous journeys at sea.
IOM/Peter Schatzer | Conflict and poverty continue to compel people to undertake extremely perilous journeys at sea.
By the end of last month, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project recorded 785 people, including 177 women and 50 children, who had died or disappeared this year.
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Frank Laczko, Director of IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre noted that the actual numbers are likely much higher.

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