I'm going to connect more with the guy from India. To discuss working with him to bring more #CulturalCrops from his native lands & start growing more of them here. I'm huge on increasing #FoodSecurity for all & we have a lot of #GlobalSouth #diaspora here so growing more cultural food crops is big in my books.
Also, with accelerated #ClimateChange - it's good to look at cultural food crops that can withstand not getting a lot of water.
He is part of a local Indian cricket team & they're interested in food security projects here 😀💚
He met me at community orchard.
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The Cameroonian government’s rice self-sufficiency policy has sparked enthusiasm among the country’s rice farmers. In the northwest, rice farmers combine courage with determination every day to fulfil these national promises.
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“The Saving Voices Project recently built a speech AI system for the Indigenous Soliga tribe in southern India. As younger members migrated to the cities for jobs, elders in the community feared losing their language. With a small number of speakers, no written script, and no internet access, commercial speech technology was not an option. The Saving Voices Project, along with the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Dharwad, custom-built cheap text-to-speech AI models that run on low-powered devices, and can operate offline for long periods.
The model is replicable for Indigenous language preservation globally, Sathiaseelan said.
“With just five hours of voice data, we were able to build a voice model for the Soliga by prioritizing community ownership, and with frugal, deployable technology,” he said.
Unlike the compute-heavy AI models developed by Silicon Valley, the smaller models being built in India, Indonesia, and elsewhere can run on low-end devices and low-bandwidth networks, and be deployed in sectors such as agriculture, health-care, and education. The models are not only cost-efficient, they also have a lower impact on the environment, Sathiaseelan said.
“This is perhaps the most important dimension of frugal AI,” he said. “It is about building leaner, more efficient systems from the ground up. By design, the systems use less compute, less memory, and less energy, which directly translates into a smaller carbon footprint.”“
Angola’s debt to Cuba is unfinished
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8137702 [https://hexbear.net/post/8137702] > cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/39728 [https://news.abolish.capital/post/39728] > > > In “Freedom Park” (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate South Africa from apartheid. Amongst these are the names of 2,070 Cuban soldiers who died in Angola between 1975 and 1988 for the liberation of southern Africa. It is said, however, that 2,289 Cubans died in that period in the region. In August 1975, the first group of Cuban military advisors arrived to assist the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against the Angolan forces (mainly UNITA) backed by the South African apartheid state. Their numbers swelled to 375,000 Cuban soldiers and pilots as well as civilians (including doctors and teachers). It was these Cubans, alongside the MPLA troops, that defeated the South African apartheid forces and their UNITA allies at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale in 1988. When he was released from prison, the first place outside South Africa that took Nelson Mandela was Cuba. In Havana, in 1991, Mandela said, “Without the defeat of Cuito Cuanavale, our organizations would not have been legalized. Cuito Cuanavale marks the divide in the struggle for the liberation of southern Africa.” > > > > The Cuban mission in Angola was named Operation Carlota, in homage of the enslaved woman who led a rebellion in Matanzas against slavery during the Year of the Lash (1843–44). When Africa needed help, Cuba answered the call. > > > > Today, Cuba needs solidarity [https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/24/humanity-owes-cuba-unilateral-coercive-measures-and-the-politics-of-punishment/]. It has been under an illegal blockade for nearly seventy years and now for several months has been under a genocidal oil blockade [https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/14/cuba-is-where-the-broader-aspirations-of-the-us-elite-as-a-whole-intersect-why-the-us-wants-to-destroy-cuba/]. The United States has prevented all energy lifelines from entering Cuba, blocking ships from Venezuela and Mexico and threatening to sanction freight and insurance companies that assist Cuba. Blackouts plague the island nation of ten million people, whose ability to live their bare life has been called into question. This is an emergency. There is no other way to describe it. > > > > Angola is one of the world’s largest producers of crude oil and – at its Luanda Refinery – it produces refined oil products. The oil in Angola is owned by the state company, Sonangol, which has contracts with a range of Western oil firms from TotalEnergies (France), Eni (Italy) and Chevron (United States) – all countries that defended its enemies during the war. Angola’s offshore reserves have made it a key player in global energy markets. Oil revenues have transformed Luanda into a city of obvious contrasts: gleaming skyscrapers alongside informal settlements, with the wealth of the oil unevenly distributed, and the development of the country hamstrung by structural inequalities. The MPLA has governed the country since 1975, although this is not the MPLA that fought alongside the Cubans till 1988. José Eduardo dos Santos, who led the country from 1979 to 2017, abandoned Marxism and shaped the oil industry and privatized lucrative state assets to benefit a small rentier elite (including his family). > > > > Despite the limitations of the situation in Angola, in 2015, the government of Angola erected a large bronze statue at Cuito Cuanavale that depicts an Angolan (MPLA) soldier and a Cuban soldier standing across from each other and together holding up a map of Angola. It is a powerful symbol of the reality of how Angola won its sovereignty – with Angolan and Cuban sacrifice and struggle. Without Cuba’s intervention, it is entirely plausible that Angola would have fallen under the control of forces aligned with apartheid South Africa and Western interests, its resources extracted under conditions far less favorable to its people. The oil that Angola now sells on the global market might never have been under Angolan control at all. In this context, the question of Angola providing oil to Cuba is not merely economic, but historical and moral. > > > > ### Read more: A continental call from Africa: standing with Cuba against imperialist aggression [https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/25/a-continental-call-from-africa-standing-with-cuba-against-imperialist-aggression/] > > > > Both the MPLA and Angola’s government have condemned the illegal US blockade against Cuba. In September 2025, Angola’s President João Lourenço said that the “unjust and prolonged” blockade which causes serious harm to the Cuban people must be “unconditionally lifted.” Since then, the US has only tightened its grip on the Cuban economy. > > > > A Russian oil tanker, the “Anatoly Kolodkin”, arrived in Matanzas (Cuba) on March 30 to break the siege [https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/30/russian-oil-tanker-reaches-cuba/]. That tanker is named after a famous Soviet jurist who was one of the men who drafted the UN treaty on the Laws of the Seas (1982) and who sat on the International Court of Justice. Perhaps the Russians wanted to send a message about international law when they selected that tanker to carry oil to Cuba against the illegal US blockade. Perhaps President Lourenço can provisionally rename one of the Angolan oil tankers “Carlota” in honor of the Cuban operation that helped in his country’s liberation. Sonangol would face legal challenges, but so be it: Cuba surmounted any number of threats and challenges to assist Angola, and then left without asking for anything. > > > > History does not move along neat moral lines. It is jagged, contradictory, and often indifferent to the sacrifices made in its name. Yet there are moments when the ledger of history becomes clear enough that we can speak, without hesitation, of obligation – of debts incurred not through coercion, but through solidarity. The relationship between Cuba and Angola is one such moment. It is a relationship forged not in trade agreements or diplomatic formalities, but in blood, in sacrifice, and in a shared commitment to the liberation of Africa from colonial and apartheid domination. > > > > We live in a time when the language of solidarity has been hollowed out, replaced by the technocratic vocabulary of “partnerships” and “investments”. Yet the history of Cuba and Angola reminds us that another kind of relationship is possible – one based not on extraction or profit, but on mutual commitment to human dignity. Cuba did not send its sons and daughters to Angola because it expected oil in return. It did so because it believed that the freedom of Angola was inseparable from its own revolutionary ideals. That belief, whatever one thinks of it, had real consequences. It changed the course of history in southern Africa. Today, Angola can respond – not out of obligation imposed from outside, but out of a recognition of shared history. To provide oil to Cuba would be to say that the sacrifices of the past are not forgotten, that internationalism is not a relic, and that the Global South can still act in ways that defy the narrow logic of profit. > > > > Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and How the International Monetary Fund Suffocates Africa, written with Grieve Chelwa. He is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research [http://thetricontinental.org/], the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, and the chief editor of LeftWord Books [https://leftword.com/](New Delhi). He also appeared in the films Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017). > > > > This article was produced by Globetrotter [https://globetrotter.media/]. > > > > The post Angola’s debt to Cuba is unfinished [https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/02/angolas-debt-to-cuba-is-unfinished/] appeared first on Peoples Dispatch [https://peoplesdispatch.org/]. > > > > — > > > > From Peoples Dispatch [https://peoplesdispatch.org/feed/] via This RSS Feed [https://peoplesdispatch.org/feed/].
US-Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure are a form of collective punishment, says Iran
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8129911 [https://hexbear.net/post/8129911] > cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/39393 [https://news.abolish.capital/post/39393] > > > Iran called the repeated US-Israeli attacks on its civilian infrastructure an attempt to cripple its economy, terrorize its people and a form of collective punishment prohibited in international and humanitarian law. > > > > Iran called on the UN and other international bodies to ensure accountability for such serious and criminal violations and make efforts to end the war on the Iranian people. > > > > In a letter to [https://www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/03/31/3553290/iran-condemns-strikes-on-steel-plants-urges-un-action-against-us-israeli-attacks] UN Secretary General António Guterres and President of the UN Security Council Michael G. Waltz on Monday, March 30, Iran registered strong opposition to US-Israeli attacks on its major steel production sites and other infrastructure in the country. > > > > It also reiterated its right to defend itself and retaliate under article 51 of the UN Charter. > > > > The US and Israel have increased the targeting of civilian infrastructure in Iran by indiscriminately bombing its residential areas, universities, schools, hospitals, factories, water supply systems, dairy plants, and historical and religious buildings. > > > > More than 300 health centers, 760 schools and over 90,000 residential units have been hit in US-Israeli attacks on Iran since February 28, the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said on Tuesday. > > > > In recent attacks on Tuesday, various locations in Tehran and Isfahan were targeted. Later, Israel claimed it had hit the Imam Hossein University in Tehran. Iran said that a US-Israeli strike targeted Rooya amusement park in Isfahan as well. > > > > US-Israeli strikes also targeted and destroyed [https://x.com/JZarif/status/2038904927188127937] a pharmaceutical company known to be producing cancer medicine in Tehran in early morning attacks on Tuesday, apart from targeting Hosseinieh Azam, a religious site in northwestern city of Zanjan. > > > > According to Press TV, at least three people were killed [https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/31/766115/Three-civilians-killed-US-Israeli-attack-grand-mosque-northwestern-Iran] and a dozen others sustained injuries in the attack in Zanjan. > > > > These “deliberate attacks against civilian infrastructure in Iran constitute a grave act of state terrorism, in violation of international law, including international humanitarian law, thereby underscoring a pattern of conduct aimed at undermining the basic living conditions of civilians,” Iran’s letter said. > > > > ### Iran will end the war after all its conditions are met > > > > Over 2,000 people have been killed and over 25,000 others have been injured in the US-Israeli strikes in Iran since February 28. Millions of Iranians have also been displaced due to indiscriminate US-Israeli bombings targeting residential areas in Tehran and in other major cities in the country. > > > > Scores of Israeli citizens, US soldiers, and residents in Persian Gulf countries have also been killed and thousands have been injured in Iranian retaliations. > > > > Meanwhile, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a cabinet meeting on Monday, reiterated that Iran will decide to end the war only after taking into account all its stated conditions and “within the framework of ensuring the dignity, security and interests of the great Iranian nation,” Tasnim News Agency reported. [https://www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/03/31/3553166/iran-to-end-war-only-on-its-own-terms-president] > > > > He was responding to US President Donald Trump’s repeated threats against Iran. > > > > ### Read more: The miscalculation of the century: Trump’s Iran adventure [https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/27/the-miscalculation-of-the-century-trumps-iran-adventure/] > > > > Trump, in his latest social media post on X on Monday, continued to issue threats claiming to destroy Iran’s Kharg Island, power plants, oil hubs, and other infrastructure if it fails to make a deal soon. > > > > However, Esmail Baghaei, spokesperson of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated [https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/30/766073/Iran-direct-talks-with-US-despite-Trump-claims] on Monday that there are no direct talks with the US. The 15-point US proposal received through Pakistan earlier is “excessive, unrealistic and irrational”, he claimed. > > > > ### Remove US bases from the region > > > > Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reiterated his demand for the removal of all US forces and military bases as their presence brings nothing but war and instability to the region. > > > > He reminded the governments in the Persian Gulf region that Iranian retaliations are not aimed at them but at Washington’s armed forces located in these countries. > > > > “Our operations are aimed at enemy aggressors who have no respect for Arabs or Iranians, nor can provide any security,” Araghchi said in a post on X [https://x.com/araghchi/status/2038714223979557225] on Monday, citing the recent Iranian attacks on Washington’s central Saudi Arabia military base, destroying one of its key aircrafts. > > > > The US has used its multiple military bases in Jordan and Persian Gulf countries such as Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait to launch attacks on Iran. In retaliation Iran has attacked these bases and other targets in these countries. > > > > Iranian retaliations have invited strong objections from governments in the region, which have failed to condemn the use of their territories by the US to attack Iran. > > > > The post US-Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure are a form of collective punishment, says Iran [https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/01/us-israeli-attacks-on-civilian-infrastructure-are-a-form-of-collective-punishment-says-iran/] appeared first on Peoples Dispatch [https://peoplesdispatch.org/]. > > > > — > > > > From Peoples Dispatch [https://peoplesdispatch.org/feed/] via This RSS Feed [https://peoplesdispatch.org/feed/].
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