UNAC Editor

With Its Doomsday Clock Set at 100 Seconds to Midnight, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Calls for Escalating U.S. Aggression Against Russia

February 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Nuclear Weapons, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

By Roger D. Harris, Published on Black Agenda Report, February 16, 2022 The venerated Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is not a formation that peace advocates can support. Its recent statements on the US manufactured Ukraine crisis are supportive of US/NATO imperialism. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists emerged after World War II as a voice for peace by some of[…]

US War Hysteria Over Ukraine Won’t Gel

February 15, 2022 UNAC Editor China, Imperialism, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, February 12, 2022 The two takeaways out of the French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Moscow and his six-hour long talks with President Vladimir Putin have been the assurance held out by the latter that Russian forces would not ramp up the crisis near Ukraine’s borders — “there would be no deterioration[…]

Starbucks Fires Entire Organizing Committee in Memphis, Union Spreads to NYC

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, February 11, 2022 Seven Starbucks workers at the Poplar and Highland Starbucks in Memphis, Tennessee, were fired Feb. 8 in the most vicious and blatant act of union busting by the company so far. These firings accounted for approximately 35% of the total workforce in the store, according to the press statement released[…]

New US Strategy in Syria For Regime Change

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, U.S. Aggression

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, February 14, 2022 Syria seems forgotten in the U.S. but the Caesar Sanctions, U.S. proxy occupation of the oil wells and wheat fields, and Turkish support for Salafists (including ISIS and many foreigners) in Northern Syria leave the country unable to rebuild or to meet the needs of the people. If our attention[…]

U.S.-EU Hide Their Role in Afghan Hunger Crisis

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Zach Kerns, published on International Action Center, February 7, 2022 On Jan. 24, U.S. and European Union representatives met with representatives of the Taliban in Oslo to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. The meeting’s purpose, according to the U.S. State Department, was the “urgency in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan” and the need to “help alleviate the suffering[…]

China Holds First-Ever Carbon-Neutral Olympics

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor China, Environment

by Lyn Neeley, published on Workers World, February 14, 2022 This year’s Beijing Winter Olympics is the first in history to be carbon-neutral. This includes renewable energy in all game venues, introducing new low-carbon technologies and using transportation fueled by hydrogen, natural gas and electricity. China completed the Zhangbei power grid station in time for the Olympics. That’s the world’s[…]

RAND Corporation Study Calls for Regime Change in Moscow

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Russia, U.S. Aggression

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, February 13, 2022 Imagine how Moscow felt when they first read this RAND Corporation study. When we look at current events can we notice the direct connection to the points from this study listed below? Whether it is US-NATO military expansion right up to Russian borders or efforts by Washington to kill the[…]

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the “America COMPETES Act”

February 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Asia, China, Trade Wars

Black Alliance for Peace Press Release February 7, 2022 — On Friday evening February 4th, the US House of Representatives passed the “America COMPETES Act of 2022 (H.R. 4521).” The stated intent of the legislation is to strengthen “America’s national and economic security and the financial security of families, and advance our leadership in the world.” While this claim, found in[…]

‘Death Sentence for Untold Numbers of Civilians’: Biden to Permanently Seize Afghan Assets

February 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, American Exceptionalism, Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by John Queally, published on CommonDreams, February 11, 2022 Humanitarians—including those who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks of 2001—responded with condemnation Friday after it was reported that President Joe Biden has decided to permanently seize $7 billion of currently frozen Afghan assets even as the people of the war-torn and poverty-stricken nation suffer a broken economy, a collapsed[…]

As the Military War Ends, Afghan People Face Starvation Under U.S. Sanctions

February 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Economic Collapse, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action

by Vijay Prashad, from Globetrotter, February 11, 2022 On February 8, 2022, UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets. One of the tweets, which included a photograph of a child lying in a hospital bed with her mother seated beside her, said: “Having recently recovered from acute watery diarrhea, two years old Soria[…]