AGRA was started, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, to double yields and incomes for 30 million smallholder farm households while halving food insecurity by 2020.

The collapse of the attempt to form a ‘super league’ of top European soccer teams by the billionaire owners of the big clubs is only an interrupted chapter in the story of the commodification of sport into profitable capitalist enterprises, owned and controlled by capital. It is no accident that JP Morgan was the fund manager for the Super League plan – as the bank epitomises the role of global capital in controlling modern sport. And it is no accident that the main drivers for the new league were the owners of Real Madrid, a football club controlled in the past by the corrupt Spanish monarchy and Francoism, the fascist wing of Spanish capital.

Again, the threats supposedly presented by China and Russia – inevitably coupled – to Africa (and to the world in Africa) are inseparable from the alleged threat the duo poses to the U.S. and its allies and partners in every other part of the world. Referred to as “malign actors,” China and Russia were accused of “coercive and exploitative activities” which “undermine and threaten” the stability of African nations.

Two sources with knowledge of the deal say Rafat General Contractor Inc. won the lucrative contract to clean streets across the city as well as the Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway. Documents show the company bid $339,000 in total, winning the right to clean up all four lots of the city by offering a rate nearly $100,000 less than rival companies.

As the US withdraws from Afghanistan and declares an end to its ‘longest’ war, omitted from this is its decades-long war on Cuba and Korea. From the CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion on 17 April 1961 to ongoing economic sanctions and information warfare, the Cuban people have resisted six decades of hybrid war against their sovereign revolutionary processes. Determined to grow the national economy and political project to meet the needs of their people and expanding international cooperation during the pandemic, defeat is not in their vocabulary. Hope comes from the warm sun of Cuba.

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