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Why is the Nicaraguan Government Demonized by both Liberals and Conservatives When Nicaragua Has Seen Great Progress Under the Sandinistas?

April 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Socialism

by Stansfield Smith, published on Covert Action Magazine, March 28, 2022 Women Have Made Particularly Significant Gains Under the Second Sandinista Government Since 2006 Women, particularly those in the Third World, often find themselves with limited ability to participate in community organizations and political life because of the poverty and their traditional sex role imposes on them. On them falls[…]

Will the U.S. Send Reaper Drones Into the Ukraine Whirlwind?

April 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Drones, New Cold War, Ukraine, US Meddling in Europe

by Nick Mottern, published on Common Dreams, April 7, 2022 This article by Nick Mottern, who has spent over a decade studying and opposing drone warfare, presents a very worrisome direction that the US is taking with regard to Ukraine. I don’t think that they will act on it immediately because drones need to be based somewhere, and wherever they[…]

Lizelle Herrera & Texas Repression – Arrest Exposes Anti-Abortion Laws

April 13, 2022 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Reproductive Sovereignty, Women

by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 12, 2022 There was joy and a sigh of relief when Ketanji Brown Jackson was finally confirmed as the first Black woman justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, based on a 53-47 Senate vote April 7. Then another legal development of a totally different kind occurred in Starr County, Texas,[…]

From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, Killing Civilians is a Crime

April 13, 2022 UNAC Editor Iraq, Syria, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, War and Peace

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, April 13, 2022 Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, filling our screens with bombed buildings and dead bodies lying in the street. But the United States and its allies have waged war in country after country for decades, carving swathes of destruction through cities,[…]

Liberal Russophobia and War Propaganda

April 13, 2022 UNAC Editor Propaganda, Russia

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 13, 2022 U.S. liberals are the worst perpetrators of Russophobic behavior. They are most likely to follow the dictates of corporate media and the democratic party and proudly take part in discriminatory acts. But foolish bans of anything Russian are just the most visible indication that war propaganda is at the root[…]

Cuba Prepares for Disaster

April 13, 2022 UNAC Editor Cuba, Public Health, Socialism

by Don Fitz, published on MLToday, March 24, 2022 The September 2021 Scientific American included a description by the editors of the deplorable state of disaster relief in the US. They traced the root cause of problems with relief programs as their “focus on restoring private property,” which results in little attention to those “with the least capacity to deal[…]

Ukraine and the Global Economic War: Is This Barbarism or Civilization?

April 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Global Economics, Imperial Wars, Russia, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Prabir Purkayastha, produced by Globetrotter, April 1, 2022 Do the Ukraine war and the action of the United States, the EU and the UK spell the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency? Even with the peace talks recently held in Turkey or the proposed 15-point peace plan, as the Financial Times had reported earlier, the fallout[…]

Why Can’t Venezuela Vote at the UN?

April 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, United Nations, Venezuela

from (Misión Verdad), translation by Orinoco Tribune, April 9, 2022 Many may be wondering why Venezuela, despite being a strategic ally of the Russian Federation, did not vote on April 7 in favor of Russia when the United Nations decided to suspend it from the Human Rights Council. The truth is that Venezuela was not allowed to vote. Sures, a[…]

Imprisoned Venezuelan Diplomat Contests Extraterritorial Judicial Abuse

April 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Economic Blockade, Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Uncategorized, Venezuela

by Roger D. Harris, published on Dissident Voice, April 11, 2022 Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab’s case took a dramatic turn as his legal defense team denounced the US government’s flagrant failure to respect long-standing diplomatic immunity conventions. Saab’s lawyer, David Rivkin, called the US government’s arguments before the 11th Circuit Court in Miami “utterly dangerous.” “The implication,” he added is[…]

Former NATO Military Analyst Blows the Whistle on West’s Ukraine Invasion Narrative

April 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, NATO, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy

by Jacques Baud, published on Scheerpost, April 9, 2022 (Initially published on the French Intelligence Research Center in French) PART ONE: ON THE ROAD TO WAR For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying the war, but of understanding what led us to it. I[…]