Toward Freedom

Toward Freedom has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in May 2021. Besides social media accounts, towardfreedom has populated their site with 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.