UNAC Editor

Yemeni FM Condemns IMF Decision to Disburse Millions in COVID $$ to Govt in Exile

September 6, 2021 UNAC Editor International Institutions, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Yemen

by NewsDesk, published in The Cradle, August 31, 2021 The Foreign Minister of Yemen’s National Salvation Government (NSG) condemned the decision by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 30 August to disburse $665 million worth of emergency reserves to the Saudi-backed parallel administration led by ousted President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. In a letter addressed to the IMF Managing Director,[…]

Insane U.S. Plan to Spend Billions on Weaponizing Space

September 5, 2021 UNAC Editor Space Weapons, Star Wars

by Karl Grossman, published on Covert Action, August 25, 2021 Imagine this scenario from the year 2045: The U.S. and China, after years of belligerence, go to war over control of the Taiwan straits; most of the battles are fought through cyber-attacks and space-based weapons systems that had been perfected over the previous decades. In a desperate maneuver, the U.S.[…]

Report from New Orleans: Government does nothing for the poor

September 4, 2021 UNAC Editor Poverty, The War at Home, War on the Poor

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, September 2, 2021 Sept. 1 — Gavrielle Gemma, union and political organizer since the 1970s and now working with the New Orleans-based Workers Voice Socialist Movement, called Workers World to report on the situation there, post-Hurricane Ida. Gemma is now living in a modest single-family home in the Florida neighborhood of New Orleans,[…]

Behind the forced resignation of Peru’s Foreign Minister Héctor Béjar

September 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Peru, Right Wing Extremism, Visions of a Future

By Carlos Aznárez, published on Workers World, August 27, 2021 Source: Resumen Latinoamericano, Aug. 19, translated by Resumen English and edited by Workers World. The government of Pedro Castillo has suffered its first defeat, by yielding to the pressures of the right-wing coup and the most reactionary sectors of the Armed Forces. The imposition of the resignation of Foreign Minister[…]

The Western Imperial Left’s Collaboration with the Western Bourgeoisie

September 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Identity Politics, Imperialism, Organizing, Propaganda, Racism, US Hypocrisy, Women

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 1, 2021 As the Western left has become more aligned with their imperialist bourgeoisie in the destabilization of the Global South, the radical Black tradition provides a clear approach to “turn imperialist wars into wars against imperialism.” Changes in historical conditions can elevate a secondary contradiction to a primary, and antagonistic[…]

Indigenous Resistance Disrupts Billions Of Tons Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Annually

September 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Environment, Native Americans, petroleum

by Collin Rees, published on Popular Resistance, September 2, 2021 A New Report Bemidji, Minnesota — The Indigenous Environmental Network and Oil Change International are releasing a new report titled Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon. The report analyzes the impact that Indigenous resistance to fossil fuel projects in the United States and Canada has had on greenhouse gas emissions over the past 10 years. From the struggle[…]

Afghan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty

September 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Imperial Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, published on Common Dreams, August 30, 2021 Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban’s return to power in their country—and then by an Islamic State suicide bombing and ensuing massacre by U.S. forces that together killed at least 170 people, including 13 U.S.[…]

Why the U.S. Still Suffers from COVID

September 1, 2021 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Human Rights, Medicare for All, Public Health

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, September 1, 2021 Donald Trump was the convenient scapegoat for the first year of the Covid-19 crisis. Austerity, low wage work, housing insecurity, and the profit driven health care system were problematic issues before anyone heard the word Covid-19 or indeed before Trump’s presidency. Every failing of the United States already in[…]

Afghanistan: The Defeat of U.S. Imperialism and the Road Ahead

September 1, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Imperialism

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, August 26, 2021 After 20 years of untold U.S. government-inflicted barbaric horrors on the people of Afghanistan the world’s greatest military power, along with its NATO allies, stands humiliated, demoralized and defeated, forced to abandon their claimed nation-building project in the face of irreversible Taliban victories over the past year and longer. With[…]

What the War of Terror Has Cost Us So Far

August 31, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Cost of War, Drone Warfare, War on the Poor

by David Swanson, published on Let’s Try Democracy, August 30, 2021 The war on Afghanistan and the war on Iraq that it was a means of helping start, and all the other spin-off wars leave (if you count only bombing from above as leaving) millions dead, millions injured, millions traumatized, millions homeless, the rule of law eroded, the natural environment[…]