A UNAC Statement, July 20, 2026 A new McCarthyism is being designed in Washington that[…]
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SanctionsKill! Statement August 27, 2026 A State Department report of July 20 claims the US is upholding democracy and protecting humanity from Cuba, the alleged center of global terrorism. Subpoenas issued by the House Ways and Means Committee the next day directly target three peace and justice organizations and further put the democratic rights of all of us at risk.[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, published on the LA Progressive, August 24, 2026 The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in February of this year. For six months, US missiles and bombs have fallen upon civilian and military targets inside the country. Hospitals, schools, energy facilities, and neighbourhoods have been struck. The 168 schoolgirls killed in Minab[…]
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OpEd by Workers World, published August 25, 2026 In Workers World’s opinion, the task of progressive activists and organizations, especially those in the imperialist countries, is to promote, in both theory and in practice, united strategies to weaken and defeat imperialism. The enemy is the ruling class of the U.S. or the other imperialist countries in the Global North. That[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, August 256, 2026 A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism, which obscures the fact that one is a sovereign state under siege and the other is the world’s most powerful empire waging war. Several commentators have addressed the problem[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 24, 2026 How will Iran survive the latest round of what President Donald Trump calls “draconian sanctions” that promise to be the most extreme strangulation ever imposed? Iran has developed highly sophisticated, high tech, asymmetric, low-cost, well hidden weapons to defend their country against U.S.-Israeli bombing. Now even the U.S. corporate media[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, August 19, 2026 Global peace and justice communities lost a warrior queen on July 30, 2026, when Dr. Johanna Fernández, associate professor of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, joined the ancestors. She had been suffering from non-small cell lung cancer, which is particularly painful in[…]
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By Manuel Raposo, published on Workers World, August 15, 2026 (Translation: John Catalinotto) Lisbon, Portugal: The NATO summit held in July in Türkiye proved that fears of the Alliance’s imminent demise — taking Donald Trump’s bluster at face value — were frankly exaggerated. Instead, what actually happened was a redistribution of the burden among the member states, with a greater share[…]
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by The Grayzone, published on Popular Resistance, August 16 2026 As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway. A judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism. It is one of three such trials in which the government has muzzled defendants, blinded jurors and banned local media[…]
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by Drago Bosnic, published on Global Research, August 11, 2026 On August 7-8, the Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky visited Serbia for the very first time. His trip to Belgrade was quite controversial, as he’s deeply unpopular among the vast majority of Serbs. What’s more, Russian President Vladimir Putin is more popular in Serbia than any other leader, foreign or[…]
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by Becca Renk Foster, published on Kawsachun News, July 24, 2026 Meddling Through Mistranslation Using deliberate distortion of a speech by co-president Daniel Ortega, the U.S. has kicked off a campaign to meddle in Nicaragua’s elections by erroneously announcing that Nicaragua will no longer hold elections. In a novel turn, the U.S. has kicked off a campaign to meddle in[…]
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