Author Archives: aidarends

Family Demands Access to Investigation After Private Autopsy Reveals Police Shot Environmental Activist Over 13 Times – Southern Center for Human Rights — Read on http://www.schr.org/family-demands-access-to-investigation-after-private-autopsy-reveals-police-shot-environmental-activist-shot-over-13-times/

Jamaica would be willing to take part in an international military deployment to Haiti, Prime Minister Andrew Holness told lawmakers on Tuesday, saying the Caribbean island country could also support its neighbor on electoral reforms. — Read on http://www.reuters.com/world/africa/jamaica-willing-take-part-military-intervention-haiti-pm-says-2023-02-01/

The two Sahel neighbors are also battling international sanctions after military coups toppled civilian governments — Read on http://www.africanews.com/2023/02/02/burkina-faso-mali-eye-federation-after-expelling-french-soldiers/

For those who have studied the history of colonial Africa through its fiscal and monetary dimensions, the similarities between colonial macroeconomics and neoliberal macroeconomics are striking. One might be tempted to see the neoliberal era as an avatar of colonialism. Actually, the main principles underlying the fiscal and monetary paradigm of… — Read on moneyontheleft.org/2021/06/14/neoliberalisms-colonial-origins/

In the 1970s, violent state repression resulted in dozens of murders and assaults against Indigenous people (primarily but not exclusively Lakota … Chronology of Oppression at Pine Ridge (1977)

Documents show how Georgia police are invoking a 2017 terrorism law against activists accused of little more than trespassing. — Read on grist.org/protest/atlanta-cop-city-terrorism/