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Bolivia: Evo Morales Warns of Right-Wing Maneuvers

August 16, 2021 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Hybrid Warfare, Resistance

Translated by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews and edited by Workers World, August 13, 2021 Former president Evo Morales, leader of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party, denounced, this Aug. 4, the Bolivian political right for promoting destabilizing maneuvers disguised as political activism. “Once again, the coup plotters announce antidemocratic mobilizations against the legitimate, legal and constitutional government of our brother[…]

US and China Provide Vaccine Aid, Each In Their Own Mode

August 12, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Public Health, US Incited Protests

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 10, 2021 In a stunning announcement Aug. 5, China’s President Xi Jinping informed the First International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation of the country’s donation of 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to developing and poor countries within the next four months. This urgent step builds solidarity and makes vaccines accessible in[…]

Bill to Give Israel Billions of Dollars Passes House, Now on to Senate

August 12, 2021 UNAC Editor Israel, U.S. Budget

by Alison Weir, published on Israel/Palestine News, August 1, 2021 While US Citizens go homeless and hungry, Israel receives billions from our government. This bill passed while the eviction moratorium was dropped and then only partially resuscitated the day before members of congress went on vacation. US citizens can fend for themselves while Israelis are well supported. [jb] A[…]

U.S. Government Owes Afghan Civilians for Past 20 Years of War and Brutal Impoverishment

August 12, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Imperial Wars, Indigenous peoples

by Kathy Kelly, published on Covert Action, August 2, 2021 In mid-July, 100 Afghan families from Bamiyan, a rural province of central Afghanistan mainly populated by the Hazara ethnic minority, fled to Kabul. They feared Taliban militants would attack them in Bamiyan. Over the past decade, I have gotten to know a grandmother who recalls fleeing Talib fighters in the[…]

Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities

August 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy

by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies, August 11, 2021 Nine provincial capitals in Afghanistan have fallen to the Taliban in six days – Zaranj, Sheberghan, Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz, Taloqan, Aybak, Farah, Pul-e-Khumri and Faizabad – while fighting continues in four more – Lashkargah, Kandahar, Herat & Mazar-i-Sharif. U.S. military officials now believe Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, could fall in one[…]

“China Manufactures Things and Social Cohesion.”

August 10, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Economics

by Marshall Aurback, published on The Scrum, August 9, 2021 “China Manufactures Things and Social Cohesion while the US Manufactures Financial Instruments and Decay” What has been described in the American press as a Chinese crackdown on private enterprise is more in the nature of an existential choice for Beijing. The government has decided to live by producing stuff instead[…]

Workers Take Over a Kellogg Factory

August 10, 2021 UNAC Editor Paths to Emancipation, Venezuela

by Staff, published on Fightback News! August 8, 2021 Maracay City, Venezuela – In the worker-controlled Venezuelan Kellogg factory, you see the workers working diligently to make corn flake and sugary cereals in a new package displaying the Venezuelan flag and the words “Together for Venezuela.” They are wearing black caps with red letters that say, “Kellogg made in socialism.”[…]

Sandinista Nicaragua, More Dignified and Victorious Than Ever

August 9, 2021 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Revolution, Socialism

by Carlos Fonseca Terán, published on LA Progressive, July 25, 2021 Nicaragua is in the news again. But not for being one of the countries with the greatest reduction in poverty and social inequality worldwide since 2007 (poverty by half, extreme poverty by a third, and going from being the fourth most unequal country to being the fourth least unequal[…]

U.S. Faces Defeat in Afghanistan

August 8, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan

by Austin Dewey, published on Fightback News!, August 3, 2021 Biden has been portraying the drawdown of U.S. troops as a sign of victory in Afghanistan, but the truth is that resistance forces are winning. In describing the motivations behind the drawdown, Biden stated, “We went to war with clear goals. We achieved those objectives. Bin Laden is dead, and[…]

A Short History of Haiti

August 8, 2021 UNAC Editor Collapsed States, Haiti, Imperialism

by Yanis Iqbal, published on Countercurrents, July 10, 2021 A reminder of the roots of the current Haitian upheaval. The 1697 Treaty of Ryswick legalized French control over the western third of the island of Hispaniola – a Spanish asset – under the name of Saint-Domingue. The colony proved to be a valuable spigot of wealth. In 1789, Saint-Domingue supplied[…]