Toward Freedom

Toward Freedom has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in May 2021. Resources towardfreedom has populated their site with include: • ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION: "Breaking the Colonial Grip on African Journalism" • Read all Toward Freedom articles • Africa News Wrap for February 2023 • 'All We Got Was More Debt': Lumpy Skin Disease Kills Cattle, Adding to Financial Struggles of India's Poor • Buhari Warns About Foreign Meddling As Nigeria Heads to Polls to Decide on Next President • Indigenous-Led Occupation in United States Demands City of Minneapolis Call Off Demolition • Israel’s Pattern of Violating Palestinian Right to Education, As Bedouin Village Khan al-Ahmar Up for Demolition • State Construction Projects on Nile River Have Long Displaced Nubians In Egypt and Sudan • Canada Props Up Peru’s Coup Government and Helps Canadian Mining Companies Exploit Crisis • U.S. Workers Blame Ohio Train Derailment on Corporate Cost Cutting • Fresh Protests Break Out In Congo Against UN and East African Forces; Anger Grows Over M23 Advance • U.S./Western Sanctions On Syria Hamper Relief-and-Rescue Work After Earthquake • After Losing Babies to Traffickers, Refugees in Cameroon Are Fighting Back • City of Atlanta and DeKalb County Announce ‘Agreement’ Amid Growing Opposition to Cop City • Palestinians File Objection to U.S. Plan to Build New Embassy on Stolen Land in Jerusalem • Lula Returns to Power, Welcoming an Indigenous Vision of Governance in Brazil • Atlanta Fights $90M 'Urban Warfare,' Corporate-Backed Cop City Police Training Facility • Burkina Faso Gives France 1 Month to Leave • Book Review: 'Cigarettes and Soviets' Examines Social and Political Impact of Cigarettes in Former USSR • Activists Say Police Are Lying About Shooting a Cop City Protester in Atlanta • Protests in Breakaway Somaliland Call for Reunification with Somalia • Photo Essay: How the Right-Wing Attack in Brazil Looked on the Ground • 'Coup Regime Won't Last Without Southern Provinces,' Says Observer of Unrest in Peru • Another Assassination Attempt Against Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez • Mass Rallies Across Yemen Denounce Saudi-Led War and Blockade - Toward Freedom • SWAT Teams Attack Atlanta Forest Encampments, Activists Charged with ‘Terrorism’ in Movement to Stop Cop City Police Training Facility • Human Rights Organizations Warn About the Looming Danger of Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing in the Dominican Republic • Peru Coup, Argentina Arrest and Attacks on “Pink Tide” Highlight Importance of People’s Movements: Q&A with James Early • Film Review: Netflix's 'Descendant' Shows Capitalism Continues to Oppress African Descendants • Hundreds More Injured in Anti-Coup Protests in Sudan As December Revolution Enters Fifth Year • As India Becomes a Top Sugar Producer, Sugarcane Workers Fall Further Into Debt As a Changing Climate Destabilizes Farming • Genocide Orphans Evicted As U.K.-Rwanda Asylum Treaty Goes Into Effect • Role Media Plays in U.S.-Africa Relations: Third Panel of African Peoples' Forum • Why One Organization Dubbed the U.S.-Africa Summit the 'Meeting of Uncle Tom and Uncle Sam' - Toward Freedom • 'U.S.-Africa: How the Peoples’ Struggles Connect': Second Panel of African People's Forum • 'Economic Development As a Human Right': First Panel of African Peoples' Forum • U.S.-Based Africans Organize Events to Counter Biden Administration's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit • How Sicily Is Tackling Wildfires Amid a Global Climate Crisis • Israel's Blockade Leaves Gaza’s Firefighters Badly Equipped • ‘The Ax Always Falls on the Most Vulnerable’: Pakistan Demands Debt Cancellation and Climate Justice • Kenyan Women Speak Out About Kafala Exploitation in Gulf States • Book Review: 'Before Crips' Dismantles Dominant Narrative on Gangs • Mali Bans French NGOs, Rejecting 'Conditional Aid' • An African View On Ukraine: Q&A with Dr. Fred M'Membe of Socialist Party of Zambia • Egypt’s Repressive Regime Is Enabled by United States and Allies • After Bolsonaro, Can Brazil Move Beyond Neoliberalism and Toward Greater Global Cooperation? • Sinking Cities Project: 'Alexandria: Layers of History, Levels of Threat' • The Sahel Is Jubilant As Macron Announces Berkane Occupation Ends in Burkina Faso, Mali & Niger • COP 27: Weighty Presence of Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Raises Alarm • Travel Bans, Intimidation and Detentions: Journalists in India Under Attack • Sinking Cities Project: 'Lagos: Profits Over Protection' • With Israel’s Help, Settlers Lead Building Projects in Flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah • What to Expect from COP27 in Egypt’s Police State: An Interview with Journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous • 'Golden Rule' Boat Sails 'Great Loop' in U.S. & Canada to Raise Awareness About Global Nuclear Disaster • Czech Protesters Rail Against Inflation, Sanctions and the Ukraine Proxy War • Book Review: 'From Here to Equality' Counts How Much In Reparations Are Owed to Black People • 'I Don't Want to Live Anymore': Suicides Rise 17% Since India's Lockdown Began • Bolsonaro and Lula Head to Second-Round Election Amid Brazil's Contradictions • Imperialist Militarism and the African Crisis • 'End War in Ukraine' Say 66 Nations At UN General Assembly • Zelensky and NATO Plan to Transform Post-War Ukraine Into ‘a Big Israel’ - Toward Freedom • The 'Leftism' of the Americas Collapse at the Door of Haitian Sovereignty • Brazilians Head to Polls with Fear of Bolsonaro Coup and Possibility of Lula Win Bolstering Left-Wing Latin American Politics • What Health Care in Colombia Could Look Like Under the Petro Government • ‘Only Way Out Is Emancipation’: Mapuche Ponder Future As Chile Rejects Constitution • Morocco Fails to Get Kenyan Endorsement for Occupation of Western Sahara • The Roar of a U.S. Warplane Over a Civilian Irish Airport • Hiding in Plain Sight: The Capture of South African 'Independent' Media by the U.S. State and Big Capital • U.S. Launched 251 Military Interventions Since 1991, and 469 Since 1798 • Kenya's Deadly Land Tussles Make Forest Safer Than Houses • Toward Freedom Seeks an Africa Editorial Consultant • Joint U.S.-South Korea Military Exercises Conclude, With Eye on North Korea & China • Ethiopian Diaspora Groups Gear Up for Protests Against West’s Support for TPLF • U.S.-Backed TPLF Breaks 5-Month Truce By Resuming War in Northern Ethiopia • From Mainstream Media to Alternative Press: Q&A with Eric Agnero, New Toward Freedom Board Member • Water Crisis in Iraq’s Kurdish Region Strains Food Security • Colombian Government Launches Initiative for Protection of Social Leaders • NATO Wades Into License Plate Dispute Between Serbia and Kosovo • 'West Wants to Change Regimes for Itself': Africans Strategize In Washington Against Western-Backed Leaders • The United States Has Many Political Prisoners. Here’s a List. • Africa Remains at the Center of a 21st Century Cold War • ‘Turning Israelis Into Settlers After Death’: Israel to Build Cemetery In Ecological ‘Hotspot’ in Palestine • West Prepares to Plunder Post-war Ukraine with Neoliberal Shock Therapy • 'Tools of Russia': FBI Raid on Black Political Party Seen As Part of 'Black Scare/Red Scare' in United States • Filipinos Call Out Marcos-Duterte Government in War-Torn Philippines • Book Review: The Late Glen Ford's 'The Black Agenda' Lays Out Blueprint for Honest Journalism • Haitians Looked to China & Russia to End UN Mandate, Renewed for 1 More Year • Meet Toward Freedom's Summer 2022 Claudia Jones Editorial Intern • The Story of the Little-Known 1917 East Saint Louis Massacre—Can Reparations Restore Justice? • Yazidis In Limbo As Iraqi Forces & Armed Militants Fight in Northern Iraq • ‘If India Can Do It, Why Not Europe?’: Researchers Lay Out Case for Re-wilding European Landscape • 'I Regret' Being a Mercenary in Ukraine: Conversation with U.S. POW Detained in Donbass • EU Mediates Conflict in South Caucasus, Long Part of Russia’s Geopolitical Orbit • Displacement Looms for 1,000+ Palestinians After Israel’s Supreme Court Sides with Army • Celebrations in Colombia's Streets: Gustavo Petro to Be First Left-Wing President and Francia Márquez the First Afro-Descendant Woman VP • Ahead of Rev. Barber's 'Moral March', U.S. Groups Call Out Hypocrisy of $54B Ukraine War Funding • What Petro & Hernández Offer Colombia’s Urban Poor As They Head Off in the Second-Round Presidential Election • 3 Counter Summits Called on Public to Stand Against 'Failed' Summit of the Americas • 2 Years Since Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab Was Abducted for Defying U.S. Sanctions • OAS Secretary-General Denounced As 'Assassin' and 'Puppet' At Summit of the Americas • Photo Essay: Diseases Spike for Indian Farm Workers As Climate Changes • Threats and Voter Intimidation Hush Colombians In Run-Up to Second-Round Presidential Election Season • 'You Can't Combat Corruption with Phrases on TikTok': Gustavo Petro Denounces Flashy Competitor As Colombian Presidential Election Heads to Second Round • Polls Put Left-Wing Candidates Facing Death Threats In the Lead to Win Colombia's First-Round In Historic Presidential Election • 'God Will Sort Them Out': Ukrainians of Donbass Beg NATO to End War • War In Ukraine Threatens Russia’s Standing Among Asian Allies • 'Picnics Alongside Graves': Jerusalem to Build Biblical Park Over Palestinian Graves • Maasai In Tanzania Face Eviction As Government Makes Room for Trophy Hunting - Toward Freedom • Book Review: 'The Afghanistan Papers' Leaves a Critical Question Unanswered - Toward Freedom • 'Only Complete Military Defeat of Ukraine Is Resolution': Q&A with Russian Communist Leader on Ukraine, Russia, China & More • Photo Essay: India's Rural Health Workers Fell Ill As Workload Spiked During Pandemic • Apply for the Claudia Jones Editorial Internship! • Book Review: “Coup” Recounts How the Bolivian People Foiled Another U.S.-Backed Attempt At Recolonization • Exclusive: Ukrainian Refuseniks On Why Many Won't Fight for Ukraine • Ukrainian Leftist Criticizes Western War Drive with Russia: United States Using Ukraine As ‘Cannon Fodder’ • Interview: Latin America in the New Global Economy Amid Ukraine Conflict • Sanctions Pressure Sticks Serbia Between Western Hammer and Russian Anvil • South Africa's Mineworkers Who Have Paid the Price • 200 Million Strike in India Against Right-Wing Narendra Modi Government’s Policies • Bringing Together Activism and Journalism: Q&A with Jacqueline Luqman, New Toward Freedom Board Member • Hundreds of Palestinian Homes May Be Demolished to Expand Highway Connecting Israeli Settler Colonies • Wealthy Countries 'Disappoint' on Climate Funding, Seek to Change Criteria for Financial Support • Exclusive: Ukrainian Refugees Spare No Words on Zelensky Gov't, Moldova Local Calls 1st Wave of Refugees 'Oligarchs' • 'We Used to Have Everything': Western Conservation Models Threaten Indigenous Rights, Says New Report • Gas-Rich Azerbaijan Unable to Meet EU's Energy Needs As Russia-Ukraine Conflict Turns 3 Weeks Old • Colombian Presidential Candidate Gustavo Petro May Clinch a Win for the Left—But Will He Seek the Support of Afro-Descendant Francia Márquez? • How Ukraine’s Jewish President, Volodymyr Zelensky, Made Peace with Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries on Front Lines of War with Russia • ‘We Are Not Slaves!’: Haitian Garment Workers Strike for a Fair Wage • In Puerto Rico, Paradise for a Few and Austerity for the Masses • Ukraine: A Conflict Soaked in Contradictions and New Patterns in War and Media • U.S. Sanctions on Russia Over Ukraine Also Target Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba • Film Review: 'Ferguson Rises' Examines Legacy of Black Lives Matter Movement • Looming EU Energy Crisis As U.S. Uses Ukraine As Proxy Battleground Against Russia • 8 Million Yemenis At Risk of Starvation Due to Funding Shortage, Escalation in Violence, Say UN Officials • The Western Allied Nations Bully the World While Warning of Threats From China and Russia • Pipeline Politics Hits Multipolar Realities: Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine Crisis • Ukraine: The Tip of the Spear for the Imperialist Project • Why Protests Erupted in Mali, With People Demanding France Out and Thanking Russia for Support • United States Outruns Regional States in Race for Kabul • Photo Essay: India's Lockdown Happened Two Years Ago, But the Poor Still Suffer • Book Review: 'Cancel This Book' Asks for a Return to Revolutionary Class Analysis • Can Israel Stop the World from Saying ‘Apartheid’? Concealing the Suffering in Palestine • Left-Right White Solidarity Basis of Support for U.S./EU/NATO Wars on Global Humanity • Israel’s Hasbara in Sheikh Jarrah: On Gilad Erdan’s ‘Terrorist’ Rock and Faulty Logic • The Geopolitics Behind Spiraling Gas and Electricity Prices in Europe • Developing Countries Keep Their Eyes on Ensuring Wealthy Countries Cover Climate Losses and Damages • Morocco Drives a War in Western Sahara for Its Phosphates • Biden Appears to Leave Door Open for Russia to Move Into Ukraine • Long-Running Mismanagement Behind Waste Disaster in Tunisia’s Sfax Region • Biden Lies (Again) As He Covertly Continues the U.S. Forever War Against the Afghan People • Conversations with Sudanese Activists on the Sudan Coup • Book Review: ‘On the Ho Chi Minh Trail’ Leaves U.S. War Propaganda Intact • The U.S. Makes a Mockery of Treaties and International Law • Understanding the Who and the Why of the Sudan Coup • Book Review: 'Striking from the Margins' Avoids Trying to 'Fix' West Asia—or What Is Known As the 'Middle East' • The Long History of Anti-Haitianism in the Dominican Republic • Film Review: ‘Don’t Look Up’ Uses Satire to Condemn U.S. Government on Climate Inaction • The Exploiter Harms—But Look At What Happens to the Exploiter, Too • How the Left Can Get Ethiopia Right: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with #NoMore • China and Nicaragua: 'Two Revolutions Working Together' • Why It's Unlikely Russia Will Deploy Troops Into Ukraine • WEBINAR: On Nicaragua, Venezuela, Haiti + Black Liberation | Why Does Independent Media Matter? • Busting Myths That Aid U.S. Aggression on Nicaragua • Book Review: Is Russia Fascist? Fails to Debunk Western Misinformation • Linking Climate Change Agenda to Sustainable Livelihoods for Small Farmers & Workers Is the Way Forward In the Global South • After Daniel Ortega's Victory in Nicaragua, Biden Signs RENACER Act and OAS Votes to Condemn • Behind the Scenes at COP26: Developing Countries Fume Over U.S. Pressure to Alter Climate Finance Terms • Ahead of COP26, African Countries Reject EU Trying to Back Out of Climate Finance Talks • 11 Months Later, Indian Farmers Still Resist Laws That Help Big Business • Peace in Ukraine Depends on U.S.-Russia Deals • UK’s Red List Ahead of COP26 Exposes Long-Running Inequity • 38 Years After a Triple Assassination, Grenada’s Short-Lived Revolution Still Inspires • Film Review: Radical Alternatives Left Out of 'The Prison Within' • What Climate Finance Means for the Global South in the Run-up to COP26 • Ugandan President Takes In Afghan Refugees as the CIA’s Enforcer • What Does India Get Out of Being Part of ‘The Quad’? • Book Review: ‘Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power’ • Afghan Women’s Frontline Resistance Against 20 Years of ‘Humanitarian Intervention • Western Powers Strangle Ordinary Afghans with Economic Blockade • Chileans Demand Answers on Australia’s Role in 1973 Coup • Is Sudan Trying to Blackmail Russia As It Gains a New Partner in the United States? • The Myth of American Exceptionalism: From the Beginning • Rwanda’s Military Is the French Proxy on African Soil • The United States’ Recent Failures in War and Fighting Racism Should Serve As a Warning to Its Allies • Film Review: ‘Finding Kendrick Johnson’ Reveals FBI’s Complicity in Coverup of Black Child’s Murder • Chip War: Can the United States Really Gain From China’s Pain? • Film Review: ‘Candyman’ Raises Questions About Real-Life Impact of White Supremacy • On Propaganda and Failed Narratives: New Understanding of Afghanistan Is a Must • How the United States Lost Nothing Afghanistan • Palestine’s Africa Dichotomy: Is Israel Really ‘Winning’ Africa? • Book Review: ‘Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games’ • Corporations & Governments Team Up to Save Tropical Forests, Leaving Out Indigenous Voices • How the Taliban Chased the West Out of Afghanistan • Why Regionalism is Important for Afghanistan • Film Review: ‘Unapologetic’ Examines Black Women’s and Black Queer People’s Activism • Create Two, Three, Many Saigons. That Is the Watchword. • A Day in the Death of British Justice • A Viable—and Perhaps the Only—Path to Lasting Peace in Afghanistan • Book Review: ‘The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements’ • Jordan’s Shrinking Role in Palestine’s Liberation Effort • Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities • Nukes on the Screen: Seven Decades of Atomic Danger • Open Balkans Initiative: Continuity of Western Neocolonialism? • As the U.S. Withdraws From Afghanistan, China Forges Ties With the Taliban • The Significance of Latin America’s Pink Tide • Pegasus and the Threat of Cyberweapons in the Age of Smartphones • Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison ‘For Exposing U.S. War Crimes’ • Music Review: Afro Yaqui Music Collective’s ‘Maroon Futures’ • What’s Next for the Haitian Liberation Movement After the Moïse Assassination? • If You Grew Up With the U.S. Blockade as a Cuban, You Might Understand the Recent Protests Differently • Rwanda’s Economic Success Keeps Western Scrutiny About Human Rights Abuses at Bay • First Indigenous Woman to Preside Over Chilean Constitutional Assembly Rocks Political Establishment • The United States Tries to Take Advantage of the Price Cubans Are Paying for the Blockade and the Pandemic • Destabilizing Haiti: Why It Keeps Happening • ‘Neither Asian Nor Clean’: Civil Society Demands Asian Development Bank Take Action to Address Climate Change and Debt • How One Cuban Is Leading the Charge to Transform U.S.-Cuba Policy • Biden Acknowledges 'Over the Horizon' Air Attacks Planned Against Taliban • CEO Found Guilty in Berta Cáceres Case: ‘No Justice Until the Mastermind Is Brought to Justice’ • ‘Against Left-Wing White Nationalism’: Gerald Horne’s Response to ‘The White Republic and the Struggle for Racial Justice’ • U.S. and U.K. Green New Deals Skirt Around Systemic Transformation • China Pulls Itself Out of Poverty 100 Years Into Its Revolution • Armenia, Hostage of Russia and Turkey Amid Power Play • Civil War in Afghanistan Will Threaten Afghanistan, China and Pakistan • How Biden Helped Hardliner Raisi Win the Iran Election • On the Politics of Victory and Defeat: How Gaza Dethroned the King of Israel • The Case of Alex Saab: U.S. Abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat a Global Challenge • Meet the Communists Who Now Govern Chile • ‘Keystone XL Is Dead!’: After 10-Year Battle, a Climate Movement Victory • Pedro Castillo’s Humble Roots Inspire Perú’s Masses, Could Upend U.S.-Perú Relations • AFRICOM Military’s Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating U.S. Interests • U.S. Trying to Extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for ‘Crime’ of Importing Food: The Case of Alex Saab vs. the Empire • Media Coverage of Belarusian Airplane Arrest Fits Pattern of New Cold War • Cyber Censorship Hits Colombia, India and Palestine • How Neoliberal Austerity Stripped India’s Healthcare Infrastructure • Book Review: “The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed" • After Decades of Oppression, Colombian Women Lead Front Lines of National Strike • Crushing Dissent During India's Lockdown • African Liberation Day & Q&A with Kwame Nkrumah’s Son, Gamal • Q&A: Filmmaker Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez on “Nicaragua Against Empire” & Getting the Story Right • Book Review: ‘Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture’ • Unity at Last: The Palestinian People Have Risen • From Palestine to Colombia: The End of the White World Colonial-Capitalist Project? • Why One State in India Is Showing Promising Signs of Democracy as the World Goes More Authoritarian