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Syria Calls Refugees Home While US Imperialism Punishes the Refugees it Creates

July 20, 2018 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Refugees, Syria

In a photo taken during a guided government tour, Syrian soldiers raise their weapons while holding a picture of President Bashar Assad as they leave the eastern city of Deir al-Zour on Aug. 16, following a 10-day military operation. by Danny Haiphong, first Published on Black Agenda Report “Our focus should be on stopping the wars that create refugees, including[…]

No to NATO; Yes to the NHS

July 17, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, NATO, Protest, UNAC on the Road

by Phil Wilayto, Friday, July 15, 2018 No. 4: Reports From My Peace Travels Around Europe LONDON, ENGLAND, Sunday, July 15 — Friday morning I could have looked out my window and seen a huge blimp designed to look like a baby Donald Trump, in diapers, hovering near the Parliament building. The blimp had blond hair, orange skin and small[…]

From Belgium: The Lands the Congolese Made Rich

July 17, 2018 UNAC Editor Resistance, UNAC on the Road

by Phil Wilayto, Friday, July 6, 2018 No. 3: Reports From My Peace Travels Around Europe Tonight Belgium beat Brazil in the World Cup soccer semi-finals, and the streets of Brussels, the capital city, are exploding with people celebrating. Really exploding. I don’t think I’m going to get much sleep. Belgium is one of the most impressive cities I’ve ever[…]

Yemen: The War That Isn’t Happening Even As It’s Happening

July 17, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Yemen

by Luciana Bohne, originally published on CounterPunch The manipulation of news and the distortion of reality are the most powerful weapons in the hands of power. They can make a whole reality disappear. Yemen’s, for example. A child dies in Yemen every ten minutes from preventable causes, UNICEF reported in June. These deaths are only part of a humanitarian catastrophe,[…]

On Purpose, in Kabul

July 14, 2018 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Militarism, Resistance

Photo: Girls and mothers, waiting for their duvets, in Kabul. Credit Dr. Hakim. by Kathy Kelly, originally published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, June 26, 2018 Writing this week for the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman called a U.S. Government report on the war in Afghanistan “a chronicle of futility.” “The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction” report says the U.S.[…]

Nicaragua: Breaking Out of ‘Soft Coup’ Psychosis

July 14, 2018 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Nicaragua

Riot police officers travel past a burning car during clashes with the anti-government protesters in Managua, Nicaragua May 28, 2018. | Photo: Reuters by Tortilla con Sal, originally published on TeleSUR In his 2005 Nobel address, British playwright Harold Pinter wrote of U.S. foreign policy that the U.S. rarely invades its target countries, preferring to infect the country with “a[…]

On July Fourth, American Exceptionalism and Ruling Class Fear of Trump

July 14, 2018 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism

“With each passing day under Trump, the mythology of US exceptionalism becomes more fragile.” By Danny Haiphong, originally published on Black Agenda Report, July 11, 2018 The ascendency of Donald Trump to the commanding heights of US imperialism has been a chaotic experience for the ruling class. Trump’s lives in the trash-heap of the ruling class and has been deemed[…]

Police Attack on ICE Encampment Condemned

July 14, 2018 UNAC Editor Refugees, Resistance

Activists speak out. Photos: Joseph Piette by Betsey Piette, originally published on Workers World, July 12, 2018 Police raided an encampment outside the Philadelphia Immigration Customs and Enforcement facility for the second time on July 5. It was the fourth day of the people’s protest. Ten minutes before the early afternoon attack, police told protesters they had to move water[…]

Capitalist Formula Kills Babies

July 13, 2018 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Corporatism

by Workers World Editor In the course of one week in July, baby formula monopolies exposed that the drive for capitalist profits kills infants, and the Trump gang showed how an imperialist regime serves these monopolies — or tries to — whatever ruthless means it takes. Good that they failed. Capitalist monopolies strive for profits above all other goals. The[…]

Correcting The Record: What Is Really Happening In Nicaragua?

July 13, 2018 UNAC Editor Nicaragua

By Kevin Zeese and Nils McCune, Popular Resistance ,July 10, 2018 Above: A massive peace march was held on July 8, 2018, in Managua showing support for the Nicaraguan government. Source UK Morning Star. There is a great deal of false and inaccurate information about Nicaragua in the media. Even on the left, some have simply repeated the dubious claims of[…]