The Global South
- US Trade Head Urges Brazil to Consider Risks of China Belt and Road Initiativewww.bloomberg.com US Trade Head Urges Brazil to Consider Risks of China Belt and Road Initiative
President Joe Biden’s top trade negotiator suggested Brazil should consider the risks of joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative before making any final decision regarding the Asian country’s massive infrastructure program.
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- O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Townbsnorrell.blogspot.com O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town
Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
> O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town > > By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024 > > "In the #GilaRiver Indian Community today, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to #NativeAmerican children who were victims of U.S. #BoardingSchools. His glory campaign was short-lived. > > "As Biden spoke, an O'odham woman held up this sign: 'There Are Still Babies in Mass Graves. Your Apology Means Nothing!! #LandBack!' > > "Calling out to Biden, she said, 'What about the people in #Gaza! What about the people in #Palestine?' > > "'How can you apologize for a #genocide while actively committing a genocide in Palestine! #FreePalestine.' > > "Security removed her."
- Facing war in the Middle East and Ukraine, the US looks feeble. But is it just an act?www.theguardian.com Facing war in the Middle East and Ukraine, the US looks feeble. But is it just an act? | Adam Tooze
The idea that all Biden is doing to trying to avoid a third world war isn’t convincing. Look closely and his foreign policy has been as radical as Trump’s, says history professor Adam Tooze
- Lula criticizes the UN for its inability to make Israel negotiatewww.brasildefato.com.br Lula criticizes the UN for its inability to make Israel negotiate
On Wednesday (2), a flight of the Brazilian Air Force will bring to the country Brazilians trapped in Lebanon
- The Iraqi pedophilia law
So this amendment to the personal issues law is very important to be discussed and understood This post will be containing discussion of child sexual abuse though I will leave it to the 10th point so you could read the other things that this law will affectively do without having to read it if you are triggered by it, I do to a small extent respect this community so I tried as much as possible not to use the most vulgar language which is my mainstream.
- This law is basically changing the personal status law of 1959 in a complete way that we will discuss here
- First thing that this law does is that it takes the authority of dealing with personal issues from the courts and give it to the clergy killing the secular state,
- This law requires the main religious institutions to get a paper done where each one of the religious sects will have their own personal issues law increasing the Divide and sectarianism within the society
- This law effectively kills equal inheritance for men and women so in the Sunni sect a woman will take half of what a men takes, and in the Shia sect a woman cannot inherent land
- According to the old law custody would be given to the person who is more likely to give better care of the child, this amendment would make it that a child would be with his mother for the first two years and spent the rest with his father no matter the circumstances
- In the old law a man should give his wife spousal support even after divorce if the wife does not work or incapable of having a job do to a disability or social issues, this amendment makes it so that the wife cannot get spousal support unless she sleeps with her husband even after divorce 7 this amendment effectively kills any type of civil marriage meaning that if you want to get married outside of religion you need to go to Cyprus
- This amendment will legalize temporary marriages, which basically means that it's legal prostitution but the women will come out of it as a divorcee which is socially unacceptable
- This amendment was a proposed by the Shia plurality which means that they cannot pass it on their own so they are working with the Sunni minority on getting an amnesty law passed which will lead to at least a thousand confirmed Isis members to be freed from prison
- And now let's talk about the child sexual abuse of it all, first of all in Islam there is no age of consent in marriage, that was because the old days you marry your daughter for Political alliances, but if you had an age of consent that would effectively mean that you should hold your alliance, the effects of this passing today means that you can go to the court or to a clergyman and Mary a child and nobody could tell you anything, a child which does not have a specific age that could mean a two-year-old or 2-day or could get married in this law and they will say but you cannot penetrate that child because they are a child you can only penetrate them when they are old enough as in nine year old, which Falls flat because of two reasons the first of which is that nine-year-old is still a child and the second one is that you could still sexually enjoy the two-year-old that you have married without penetration, another really important to issue that it's gives a child the ability to consent which means a seven-year-old girl could consent to a marriage without her parents even known that, another thing is that we have discussed in this post before the issue of temporary marriage so combine it with this issue and I don't need to explain.
This law is going to effectively ensure the total dismantlement of the last threads that this society hangs on.
- Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global communitywww.aljazeera.com Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community
The chaotic face-off between Trump and Harris added to concerns over the state of US democracy.
- Sorry Mr. Sullivan, But You Just Got China So Wrongthechinaacademy.org Sorry Mr. Sullivan, But You Just Got China So Wrong
Sullivan arrived without a red carpet, just clear red lines on the ground. But he came anyway.
- AI-Fakes Detection Is Failing Voters in the Global South | WIREDwww.wired.com AI-Fakes Detection Is Failing Voters in the Global South
With generative AI affecting politics worldwide, researchers face a “detection gap,” as the biases built into systems mean tools for identifying fake content often work poorly or not at all in the Global South.
- China Is Winning. Now What? - American Affairs Journalamericanaffairsjournal.org China Is Winning. Now What? - American Affairs Journal
If we lost a trade war, how long would it take us to find out? The vitality and flexibility of our financial system has obscured the degree to which we are living in the aftermath of a Chinese trade war victory—one in which the PRC not merely succeeded in subjecting the developed countries to trade…
- Pepe Escobar : Will China Help the Palestinians?www.youtube.com Pepe Escobar : Will China Help the Palestinians?
Pepe Escobar : Will China Help the Palestinians?
- From the editor: Proposed BRICS grain exchange worth monitoringwww.world-grain.com From the editor: Proposed BRICS grain exchange worth monitoring
BRICS alliance considering starting an inter-bloc exchange
- Russia discusses integration of payment infrastructures with BRICS
> 159 foreign participants from 20 countries have already joined the Russian system.
- ‘Words like Slaughter:’ A comparative study of The New York Times reporting in Ukraine and Gazamondoweiss.net ‘Words like Slaughter:’ A comparative study of The New York Times reporting in Ukraine and Gaza
An in-depth comparison of The New York Times coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine vs. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza shows how the Times dutifully launders the news to fit the U.S. government’s agenda.
- Gen Z Filipinos, the loneliest youths in Southeast Asia, are struggling. This is how and why - CNAwww.channelnewsasia.com Gen Z Filipinos, the loneliest youths in Southeast Asia, are struggling. This is how and why
The pandemic and heavy use of social media are just two of the contributing factors to the social isolation faced by the country’s youth. The programme Insight delves deeper and finds out what is being done to help them.
- Russian ally Niger cuts ties with Ukraine as rivalry spills over into Africawww.bbc.com Russian ally Niger cuts ties with Ukraine as rivalry spills over into Africa
Niger follows Mali's lead, signalling a burgeoning rift with Kyiv.
- 20 groups slam HRW report on 7 October as 'propagandistic' and 'genocide-enabling'www.thecanary.co 20 groups slam HRW report on 7 October as 'propagandistic' and 'genocide-enabling'
Pro-Palestine groups have called out a HRW report that whitewashes Israel's genocide in Gaza and cherry-picks the facts on October 7
- South Korea: Man gets 14-month jail term for praising North in poemwww.bbc.com South Korea: Man gets 14-month jail term for praising North in poem
In the piece titled Means of Unification, the man hailed Pyongyang's socialist system.
- Palestine Talks | Professor David Miller reveals how Zionist lobbies fuel Islamophobia which has led to riots in the UK
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Palestine is the heart of global issues, the people of Bangladesh know that and are waving Palestine flags as world is starting to see the entire world is oppressed by the same group of countries.
- During the Obama Years the Executive Branch had a Drone Strike Quota - Just One of Many War Crimes Committed
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- Turkey to submit bid to join South Africa ICJ genocide case against Israelwww.aljazeera.com Turkey to submit bid to join South Africa ICJ genocide case against Israel
Foreign minister says Turkey will formally submit its declaration of intervention on Wednesday at The Hague.
- Mali cuts diplomatic ties with Ukraine over Wagner attack controversywww.aljazeera.com Mali cuts diplomatic ties with Ukraine over Wagner attack controversy
Move follows Kyiv’s official’s comments on attacks last month targeting Malian soldiers and Russia’s Wagner group.
> Mali said it had learned “with deep shock” of the remarks and that Yusov had “admitted Ukraine’s involvement in a cowardly, treacherous and barbaric attack by armed terrorist groups that resulted in the death of members of the Malian Defence and Security Forces”. > > Mali also cited comments by Ukraine’s Ambassador to Senegal Yurii Pyvovarov, who was summoned by Senegal on Saturday over a video published on Facebook in which Pyvovarov provided “unequivocal and unqualified support for the terrorist attack” in Mali. > > Ukraine’s actions violated Malian sovereignty and constituted unacceptable foreign interference and support for international terrorism, according to Maiga.
- International Law Strikes Backwww.thenation.com International Law Strikes Back
The World Court’s ruling that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal rewards growing judicial activism by states of the Global South.
> As the US invasion of Iraq, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate onslaught on Gaza demonstrate, however, it is also often the most powerful nations that violate the most important principles of international law.
- US gov’t cites groups it funds to allege electoral ‘fraud’ in Venezuelageopoliticaleconomy.com US gov’t cites groups it funds to allege electoral ‘fraud’ in Venezuela
The US State Department, which has backed several coup attempts in Venezuela, claimed opposition candidate Edmundo González won the July 28 presidential election. But as supposed
- Why has America risked it all in Gaza?www.aljazeera.com Why has America risked it all in Gaza?
American ‘ironclad’ support for Israel has much to do with the insecurity of a declining superpower.
- ‘Blood minerals’: EU accused of fueling conflict with Rwanda dealwww.politico.eu ‘Blood minerals’: EU accused of fueling conflict with Rwanda deal
Facing criticism it is stoking a humanitarian crisis, Brussels seeks to clarify the aims behind its minerals pact with Kigali.