By Ed Pilkington The death rate in the US from Covid-19 among African Americans and Latinos is rising sharply, exacerbating the already staggering racial divide in the impact of the pandemic which has particularly devastated communities of color. New figures compiled by the Color of Coronavirus project shared with the Guardian show that both total …
Black First Land First (BLF) calls on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates foundation) to stop exploiting the poor through their sponsored Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa (SA). The Gates foundation is targeting poor black people through cash incentives with their vaccines. This is unethical! The poor are too desperate for financial relief to …
By Andile Mngxitama You say that your party is revolutionary but it has been silent on the urgent questions of today. It wants you to join book clubs so that you don’t focus on the massive sellout. You have been misled. Your parties are silent about the following pressing matters: 1. Madagascar‘s remedy for coronavirus …
Dr. Vandana Shiva. Image credit: Kiva Kumbhamela By Going Underground On this episode of Going Underground (EP.873), we speak to Dr. Vandana Shiva, the founder of Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy who was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’. She discusses why the war-like approach …
U.S. Black people are being disproportionately affected by coronavirus. | Photo: AFP On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its first breakdown of COVID-19 case data by race, showing that 30% of patients whose race was known were Black. As a clearer picture emerges of COVID-19’s decidedly deadly toll on Black people, …
Chinese scientists at the forefront for the search of a vaccine for the coronavirus. | Photo: EFE Authorities at a maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus outbreak emerged last December, rejected claims that they could be the source of the COVID-19 surge, following recent accusations by the President of the United States, …
12 March 2020: A staff member inside an empty classroom of a school in Kochi, after the Kerala state government ordered schools across the state to close because of coronavirus fears. (Photograph by Reuters/ Sivaram V) This overlooked region of India is a beacon to the world for taking on the coronavirus, with the leftist …
Image of paramedics working a laboratory that tests samples taken from people believed to be infected by COVID-19, in Ahvaz, Iran, on 10 March 2020. © 2020 AP By BO Staff Writer 25% of the globe’s population suffer from sanctions imposed by the USA, namely Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Iran, Syria, and Yemen. Iran is currently …
President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. Photo: Carolina Cabral/Getty Images By BO Staff Writer “In expressing my solidarity to you in this important historic challenge, as well as our consternation and grief for the consequences of the pandemic in the U.S., I also have the obligation to make you aware that as the world focuses on …
Bill Gates. Image Ladders Black First Land First (BLF) is appalled that Bill Gates, like the openly racist French doctors Camille Locht and Jean-Paul Mira, is planning to use blacks as his laboratory rats. BLF rejects any clinical trials of so called COVID-19 vaccines at the instance of Bill Gates. Bill Gates is too involved …