UNAC Editor

Iranian Diplomats Suspect Trump Using Talks as Instrument of Sabotage

May 24, 2025 UNAC Editor Uncategorized

by Max Blumenthal, published on The Grayzone, May 21, 2025 In Tehran, bewildered diplomats told me they suspect the Trump administration is exploiting nuclear negotiations as a instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran’s economy and foment social strife [Max] With nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran’s Reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate, lengthy background[…]

Capitalism as Self Regenerating Wealth

May 24, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Democracy and Consent, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Wealth and Power

by Greg Godels, published on ZZ’s Blog, May 22, 2025 Gabriel Zucman is a French-born economist who teaches at California, Berkeley and the Paris School of Economics. Zucman’s academic specialization is in wealth inequality, using tax data to track the stratification in wealth in the US and the rest of the world. A student of famed inequality expert, Thomas Piketty,[…]

Khamenei Blasts ‘Absurd’ US Demands In Nuclear Talks

May 22, 2025 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Imperialism, Iran, U.S. Aggression, White Supremacy

News from the Cradle, published on Popular Resistance, May 21, 2025 The Islamic Republic has repeatedly rejected Washington’s calls for Tehran to halt uranium enrichment. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on 20 May that Tehran is “not waiting for anyone’s permission” to enrich uranium, stressing that he does not expect a positive outcome from ongoing nuclear talks with the[…]

Propaganda Watch: Kagame is Not Traoré

May 22, 2025 UNAC Editor Burkina, DRC, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Propaganda, Rwanda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 21, 2025 A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth. Anti-imperialists, socialists, and peace and justice communities across Africa and the world are inspired by the newly[…]

Project Esther: Targeting the Anti-Genocide Movement by Slandering it as Antisemitic

May 22, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Palestine, Student Activists, Violence Against Protesters, Zionism

by Viviana Weinstein, posted on Workers World, May 21, 2025 My father Max was an immigrant, a U.S. citizen, Jewish and veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought the fascists during the civil war in Spain in the 1930s. Like many Jews who suffered through the years of the Holocaust, he was anti-Zionist. My parents understood Zionism to be[…]

Biden’s Fate and Israel’s Sadistic Revenge

May 22, 2025 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 21, 2025 Israel is starving Gazans to death and continuing its bombing attacks on civilians. Israel also specializes in personal revenge, targeting men, women, and children who might be the subject of international press attention and remind the world of that state’s sadistic nature. There are many accomplices to these crimes, but[…]

Israel Launches Major Ground Assault on Starving Population

May 22, 2025 UNAC Editor Humanitarian Aid, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by IAK Staff, from If Americans Knew, May 19, 2025 NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them. Medical sources say Israeli forces killed 151 Palestinians in[…]

Yemeni Forces Escalate Resistance to U.S. Naval Presence in Red Sea

May 22, 2025 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Yemen

The following comes from statements on Resistance News Network and Al-Akhbar English issued on May 19 regarding an escalation of actions by resistance forces in Yemen in response to Israel’s escalation of its genocidal war in Gaza. The announced blockade of Haifa Port came in response to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s orders for additional aircraft carriers to redeploy[…]

IMEC Interrupted: The Resistance That’s Buying Beijing Time

May 21, 2025 UNAC Editor Uncategorized

by Abbas al-Zein, published on The Cradle, May 9, 2025 The war on Gaza has revealed a profound contradiction between China’s strategic interests in West Asia and the gains pursued by Israel, backed by the US. While Beijing works to safeguard its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Washington and Tel Aviv are actively reshaping the region to marginalize Chinese influence[…]

Remembering Palestine on Nakba Day

May 21, 2025 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine

By Nurah Tape – The Palestine Chronicle What does 77 years of Nakba mean for Palestinians today — and why does dispossession still continue? May 15 marks the 77th anniversary of the Nakba — the destruction of historic Palestine, the catastrophe of dispossession, and the mass ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population in 1948, which continues to this day. The[…]