(2023-07-11). Popular YouTuber Issues Social Media Fatwa Against Twerk Culture: You've Been Dumbed Down, F'd Into Submission. moguldom.com The recent Essence Festival was full of powerful performances and female empowerment speeches, but hitmaking soul singer India.Arie spoke out about performances by Megan Thee Stallion and Janelle Monáe that were, some others also complained, unnecessarily risqué—and the twerk culture was in full effect. The "Video" singer-songwriter noted that Megan and Monáe lacked "discretion" and encouraged their audiences to …
(2023-07-11). BRICS Is Evolving from China-Russia Dream to Potential U.S. Nightmare. infobrics.org Global interest among nations seeking to join the BRICS economic bloc led by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is demonstrating its growing influence as a new geopolitical force with the potential to challenge the largely Western-led financial system…
(2023-07-11). U.S. Plans Naval Logistics Hubs in India to Counter China. globalresearch.ca
(2023-07-10). Indian origins do not guarantee love for India. journal-neo.org In November 2022, on the margins of the G20 Summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with his British counterpart Rishi Sunak. There was unprecedented interest in the meeting on the part of the media and the expert community. They singled out the Indian origin of the British prime minister, with whom the Indians associated […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ
(2023-07-10). Can Russia Mediate Between India and China?>. infobrics.org Given that India would prefer to deal with the disputes with its neighbours bilaterally, how can its partners help? Apart from direct mediation, friendly partners can assist through a variety of ways, depending on the willingness of the parties. These involve backchannel talks, support at international forums, and the facilitation of meetings between disputing parties, writes Valdai Club expert Nivedita Kapoor…
(2023-07-10). Brazil and China: Steady as a Rock and on Autopilot. infobrics.org Brazil may well continue to be under the geopolitical spotlight for the next few years. The rotating presidency of the G20 will move from India to Brazil in 2023, and Brazil will become the cynosure of all eyes as it hosts what Lula enthusiastically termed the 'diplomatic world cup.'
(2023-07-11). Solomon Islands opens embassy in China. ecns.cn The Solomon Islands opened its embassy in China on Tuesday. Its Prime Minister (PM) Manasseh Sogavare attended the ceremony in Beijing.
(2023-07-11). NPC to boost ties with Solomon Islands' Parliament. ecns.cn The National People's Congress of China hopes to strengthen friendly exchanges with the National Parliament of Solomon Islands, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the NPC Zhao Leji said, calling on legislatures of both countries to play their special roles in promoting bilateral ties.
(2023-07-11). Argentina ¥s claim on Malvinas remains unwavering the president said. plenglish.com During an event, the president reminded that 2023 marked the 190th anniversary of the usurpation of the islands by Great Britain and 41 of the war against the United Kingdom. | "Our territorial integrity will not be complete while there is a foreign power in the Malvinas making use of the resources that belong by right to each Argentine," he asserted.
(2023-07-11). Experts Criticize IAEA Report on Fukushima Nuclear Wastewater. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, a Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) expert panelist has criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for ignoring its own principle of justification in its report on Japan's planned dump of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. | RELATED: | The IAEA final report released last week claimed that the plan "is in conformity with the agreed international standards." However, the report was criticized by Arj…
(2023-07-11). Solomon Islands ties upgraded. ecns.cn China and the Solomon Islands agreed on Monday to officially establish a comprehensive strategic partnership of mutual respect and common development in the new era, vowing to deepen cooperation in all areas.
(2023-07-11). The road ahead and the battle for democracy. cpusa.org 
Address to the CPUSA National Committee presented by co-chair Joe Sims on June 24th. It's been edited to reflect the discussion. | This meeting marks the first time in many a year that the National Committee (NC) has met here in New York at Winston Unity Hall. Welcome home! We've missed you. | Over the years, a great and enduring legacy was forged within these walls. It was here that the collective led by Gus Hall and Henry Winston guided our party's path for nearly two decades. Indeed, these walls were witness to many stories, and if they could talk they might tell some powerful tales. Stories about how young…
(2023-07-11). Big turn out for NAIDOC march. greenleft.org.au Thousands took part in the annual National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee march for land rights and justice for First Nations. Chris Petersen reports.
(2023-07-11). Sullivan Says US to Move Forward With $20 Billion F-16 Sale to Turkey. news.antiwar.com National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that the Biden administration will move forward with a $20 billion sale of Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. Sullivan's comments came a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to back Sweden's NATO bid after over a year of negotiations. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said …
(2023-07-11). Janet Yellen, playing the "good cop" routine in China? indybay.org Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in Beijing this week meeting with Chinese officials. But Western corporate media is trying to spin her role as a "good cop" for the NeoLiberal policy of coercing China to follow the USA-made "rules-based" international order.
(2023-07-11). Insights | Bangladesh student: CPC lifts millions of people out of poverty,achieves noticeable accomplishment. ecns.cn "Foreign students in China have heard a lot about the achievements made by the Communist Party of China. I have seen by my own eyes," Sabbir Ahamed, an international student from Bangladesh, said in a recent interview with China News Network.
(2023-07-11). Open Letter to Cornel West. scheerpost.com 
By Elliot Sperber / CounterPunch Dear Dr. West, I was just sitting here thinking about your presidential campaign and started wondering whether you have any plans to launch a national university system. As you may know, John Quincy Adams had such an idea, two centuries ago, so it has that old pedigree (important to some …
(2023-07-11). BRICS Expansion Plan and Launching of BRICS Currency to Decrease Influence of US Dollar. infobrics.org The expansion of BRICS would be a major blow to the US dollar, which is currently the world's reserve currency. The US dollar is used in most international transactions, and it is also the currency of choice for many countries when they hold foreign reserves besides BRICS would enhance its global influence, creating a more balanced multipolar world order by including other emerging economies…
(2023-07-11). Big turn out for NAIDOC march. greenleft.org.au Thousands took part in the annual National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee march for land rights and justice for First Nations. Chris Petersen reports.
(2023-07-11). Sullivan Says US to Move Forward With $20 Billion F-16 Sale to Turkey. news.antiwar.com National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that the Biden administration will move forward with a $20 billion sale of Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. Sullivan's comments came a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to back Sweden's NATO bid after over a year of negotiations. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said …
(2023-07-11). Janet Yellen, playing the "good cop" routine in China? indybay.org Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in Beijing this week meeting with Chinese officials. But Western corporate media is trying to spin her role as a "good cop" for the NeoLiberal policy of coercing China to follow the USA-made "rules-based" international order.
(2023-07-11). Insights | Bangladesh student: CPC lifts millions of people out of poverty,achieves noticeable accomplishment. ecns.cn "Foreign students in China have heard a lot about the achievements made by the Communist Party of China. I have seen by my own eyes," Sabbir Ahamed, an international student from Bangladesh, said in a recent interview with China News Network.
(2023-07-11). Open Letter to Cornel West. scheerpost.com By Elliot Sperber / CounterPunch Dear Dr. West, I was just sitting here thinking about your presidential campaign and started wondering whether you have any plans to launch a national university system. As you may know, John Quincy Adams had such an idea, two centuries ago, so it has that old pedigree (important to some …
(2023-07-11). BRICS Expansion Plan and Launching of BRICS Currency to Decrease Influence of US Dollar. infobrics.org The expansion of BRICS would be a major blow to the US dollar, which is currently the world's reserve currency. The US dollar is used in most international transactions, and it is also the currency of choice for many countries when they hold foreign reserves besides BRICS would enhance its global influence, creating a more balanced multipolar world order by including other emerging economies…
(2023-07-11). Economist Discusses BRICS Currency's Prospect of Becoming Global Currency. infobrics.org Economist Alexis Habiyaremye from the University of Johannesburg says that a proposed common BRICS currency, if used effectively and systematically for all trade transactions between BRICS nations, would "alleviate the burden on these countries to finance" the "disproportionate advantage that the dollar enjoyed in the international monetary system."
(2023-07-11). Chile: Having a Good Constitution Doesn't Guarantee Social Change. libya360.wordpress.com Taroa Zúñiga Silva Graffiti in Chile, attributed to the Communist Youth, reads "For an free education #Iwantanewconstitution" (Photo via Marcelo Bernal on Twitter) Taroa Zúñiga Silva speaks to Bárbara Navarrete, secretary-general of the Communist Youth of Chile. "We are a generation totally interested in taking power," says Bárbara Navarrete, the new secretary-general of the Communist Youth of…
(2023-07-11). NATO Summit in Vilnius: Stairways Change Directions. libya360.wordpress.com Julia Melnikova NATO demonstrates consistency in creating ordered chaos by returning to Cold War practices. On the other hand, the conservatism of the approach is aimed at cementing the status quo and will exhaust itself as soon as external conditions change. A structure adapted to positional actions in Europe will have to be rebuilt or…
(2023-07-11). Canada: Thousands of dockworkers strike in British Columbia. greenleft.org.au 
About 7400 Canadian port workers, members of the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union), have been on strike at more than 30 ports across British Columbia since July 1, reports Jeff Shantz.
(2023-07-11). Colombia to Chair CELAC for the First Time in 2025. orinocotribune.com The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) unanimously elected Colombia to assume the association's pro tempore presidency for the first time in 2025. The decision was made by consensus of the 32 countries that make up CELAC during a meeting of foreign ministers on Friday. | "The designation of Colombia in the 'pro tempore' presidency of this mechanism implies that the country will more decisively lead integration processes of our region with the other regional blocs and powers of the world, positioning the interests of the national government and the consensus of the region," said the Colombian…
(2023-07-11). Dockworkers' union spouts "internationalist" rhetoric, while conniving to sell out strike at Canada's West Coast ports. wsws.org At a rally attended by hundreds of workers in Vancouver on Sunday, the ILWU downplayed the imminent danger of strike-breaking legislation. Above all, it issued no call to mobilize the working class across Canada and its 22,000 US West Coast members—themselves without a contract for over a year—to defeat such an attack.
(2023-07-11). International Group of Lawyers Join Forces to Oppose WHO's Power Grab. globalresearch.ca
(2023-07-11). Mayo Clinic Minute: Know your status — the importance of HIV testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It's not making major news headlines like in the '80s, but HIV remains a significant health concern. About 38 million people are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to the World Health Organization. June 27 is National HIV Testing Day, a reminder to get tested and know your HIV status. This year's theme is self-testing. Knowing your HIV status helps you choose options to stay healthy. Dr. Stacey Rizza, a Mayo Clinic…
(2023-07-11). AOC blocks funding for U.S. military intervention in Peru. peoplesworld.org 
According to a report appearing July 8 on a Peruvian website—and apparently not yet in any English-language internet news source—e Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act requiring that, until conditions are met, a hold be put on Defense Department funding for its activities in Peru during fiscal year …
(2023-07-11). Poles recall massacre by Ukrainian nationalists. plenglish.com Warsaw, Jun 11 (Prensa Latina) Ukrainian nationalists murdered tens of thousands of Polish civilians 80 years ago in an event went down in history as the Volhynia massacre and that was commemorated on Tuesday.
(2023-07-11). Panama launches program to detect kidnapped migrant children. plenglish.com Panama City, Jul 11 (Prensa Latina) A program called "Amber Alert" will allow Panamá to identify cases of migrant children kidnapped in their countries of origin, the National Migration Service (SNM) highlighted on Tuesday.
(2023-07-11). Cambodia visitors will soon scan UnionPay QR code for payments in China. ecns.cn The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Phnom Penh with UnionPay International, a subsidiary of China UnionPay, the country's largest bank card payment processor, on cross-border QR code payment.
(2023-07-11). Japan's persistent discharge plan selfish, irresponsible, unpopular: Chinese FM. ecns.cn Despite overwhelming domestic and international opposition, Japan seems bent on proceeding with its discharge plan, which is selfish, irresponsible, and unpopular, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Monday.
(2023-07-11). Dunhuang celebrates naming of asteroid after Chinese archaeologist. ecns.cn Asteroid 381323, discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was named "the Star of Fan Jinshi "on Monday with the approval of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group Small Bodies Nomenclature on May 14, 2021.
(2023-07-11). Eco Forum Global concludes with fruitful results. ecns.cn China's only national-level global forum themed on ecological civilization, Eco Forum Global Guiyang 2023, concluded on Sunday in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province.
(2023-07-11). Angola announces more investments in Navy. plenglish.com Likewise, it will be necessary to invest in shipyards for the maintenance of the growing number of ships and the formation of the embryonic nuclei of a future national naval industry, he said. | In his capacity as president and commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces, Lourenàßo reopened the Soyo Naval Base, in the northern province of Zaire, after important civil and technological investments. | During the years of the civil war (1975-2002), a good part of the military expenditures were dedicated to the army and the air force, recalled the head of State, who also praised the combative trajectory of…
(2023-07-11). Cuban media outlets denounce incitement to social unrest from the US. plenglish.com Havana, Jul 11 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban national television denounced that persons and entities in the United States continue inciting to carry out acts of violence and vandalism aimed at causing a social outbreak in Cuba, and have stepped up in that direction.
(2023-07-11). Angola announces more investments in Navy (+Photos). plenglish.com 
Likewise, it will be necessary to invest in shipyards for the maintenance of the growing number of ships and the formation of the embryonic nuclei of a future national naval industry, he said. | In his capacity as president and commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces, Lourenàßo reopened the Soyo Naval Base, in the northern province of Zaire, after important civil and technological investments. | During the years of the civil war (1975-2002), a good part of the military expenditures were dedicated to the army and the air force, recalled the head of State, who also praised the combative trajectory of…
(2023-07-11). In Numbers: Eco Forum Global concludes with fruitful results. ecns.cn China's only national-level global forum themed on ecological civilization, Eco Forum Global Guiyang 2023, concluded on Sunday in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province.
(2023-07-11). Asteroid named after Chinese archaeologist. ecns.cn Asteroid 381323, discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was named "the Star of Fan Jinshi "on Monday with the approval of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group Small Bodies Nomenclature.
(2023-07-10). Rep. Gaetz Says He Will Co-Sponsor Amendment to Block Cluster Bombs to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said Monday that he will be the Republican co-sponsor of an amendment to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that aims to block the provision of cluster bombs to Ukraine. The amendment was introduced by Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and is co-sponsored by Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), …
(2023-07-10). Turkey's Erdogan Agrees to Back Sweden's NATO Membership. news.antiwar.com Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to back Sweden's NATO membership on the eve of a two-day NATO summit in Lithuania. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that Erdogan has agreed to submit Sweden's accession protocols to Turkey's Parliament, the Grand National Assembly, which needs to ratify Stockholm's NATO membership. The announcement came after Erdogan …
(2023-07-10). President Maduro Highlights Civic-Military Union Key Role. orinocotribune.com On July 9, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, highlighted the indispensable role played by the civic-military union in the harmonious development of the country, which focuses on defending sovereignty and maintaining national peace. | The Venezuelan president further expressed on twitter that the combination of the people and the Bolivarian National Armed Forces has defended national…
(2023-07-10). NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, on June 26. (NATO) The unfulfilled goals and objectives from last year's meeting in Madrid loom over the Atlantic military alliance. When the membership meets in Vilnius this week, normalizing failure might best describe the most that can be accomplished. The leaders…
(2023-07-10). NATO Summit Convenes to Add Fuel to the Fire! libya360.wordpress.com Adnan Akfƒ±rat On Tuesday, July 11, a NATO summit will be place in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital. It is argued that holding the summit in Lithuania, a former Soviet republic, especially on Ukraine's NATO membership, is a message to Russia. The leaders of 31 NATO member countries, as well as the head of Sweden, which has…
(2023-07-10). Today Solidarity Aid to Cuba is Not Just a Symbolic Act to Challenge the Blockade. libya360.wordpress.com Bill Hackwell Medical aid for Cuba arrives in Miami. photos: Bill Hackwell I was part of a team of Cuban solidarity activists who just delivered several tons of medical aid here that was purchased and collected by IFCO Pastors for Peace. The duffel bags with needed pharmaceuticals will be taken to the island with their…