UNAC Editor

Vaccine Passports in a Failed State

April 26, 2021 UNAC Editor Public Health, Surveillance

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 15, 2021 The non-vaccinated can be smeared and equated with MAGA hat wearing Trumpers, regardless of their religious or political affiliations. “The U.S. medical community should ask Cuba, China, Vietnam and other countries with low rates of infection for help in addressing the ongoing health emergency.” The COVID-19 pandemic fully exposed how[…]

Modi Govt’s Vaccine Diplomacy Unravels- Within India and Abroad

April 25, 2021 UNAC Editor China, India, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by M.K Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, April 24, 2021 Read down a ways and you find that not only is Modi a monster – as I always say – but the U.S. “point blank refusal to lift the ban on supply of ingredients necessary to manufacture of vaccines” played a critical role. Another thing I learned elsewhere is that[…]

Root Causes

April 25, 2021 UNAC Editor Guatamala, Honduras, Indigenous peoples, Migrants

by David Brooks, published on Resumen English, April 19, 2021 Ever since the issue of migration flows at the U.S.-Mexico border intensified, the Biden administration has made addressing the “root causes” of migration from Central America and Mexico at the centerpiece of its response. Biden, his vice president, Kamala Harris, and America’s foreign policymakers have held talks, made trips and[…]

China and Africa: Black Alliance for Peace’s AFRICOM Watch Bulletin

April 25, 2021 UNAC Editor Africa, China

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, April 21, 2021 Those that call China a colonizer of Africa don’t understand colonization. “US corporate media have called China a ‘new colonizer’ in Africa so many times it has been digested as truth.” The following interview was published on April 8th as part of Black Alliance for Peace’s AFRICOM Watch Bulletin[…]

Stop line 3: Women Water Protectors and their Battle Against the Pipeline in Minnesota

April 25, 2021 UNAC Editor Environment, Indigenous peoples, Resistance, Tar Sands Pipleline

by Bronwen AE, published on Socialist Action, April 19, 2021 The Biden Administration announced in early April that it will NOT force the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to shutdown despite an order by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg to complete his court-ordered Environmental Impact Statement. In Standing Rock Sioux Tribe et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers et[…]

Slaughter Central

April 24, 2021 UNAC Editor Gun Violence, Mass Shootings, Militarism, U.S. Aggression

by Tom Engelhardt, published on TomDispatch, April 13, 2021 By the time you read this piece, it will already be out of date. The reason’s simple enough. No matter what mayhem I describe, with so much all-American weaponry in this world of ours, there’s no way to keep up. Often, despite the headlines that go with mass killings here, there’s[…]

The Rising Threat Of Nuclear War

April 24, 2021 UNAC Editor Nuclear Agendas, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, War on the Earth

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Popular Resistance, April 19, 2021 US Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for America’s nuclear arsenal, tweeted the following on Tuesday: “The spectrum of conflict today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as[…]

People-to-People Projects Build Israeli Impunity

April 23, 2021 UNAC Editor International Law, Israel-Palestine, Legislation, Palestine

by Yara Hawari, published on Consortium News, April 8, 2021 The People-to-People (P2P) framework, which refers to projects that bring Palestinian and Israeli civil society actors together in so-called cooperation and dialogue, has been revived among donor-funded initiatives in Palestine. Emphasizing notions of cooperation, understanding, and peace building, P2P is promoted as a positive framework at a time when the[…]

Gun Violence Starts at the Top

April 23, 2021 UNAC Editor Gun Violence, Militarism, U.S. Aggression

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 21, 2021 If the state reserves the right to commit mass murder no one should be surprised that the people follow suit. “No one should be surprised when a well-armed population makes use of their personal arsenals.” Mass shootings happen with appalling regularity in the United States. It is bad enough[…]

Biden’s Appeasement of Hawks and Neocons Is Crippling His Diplomacy

April 23, 2021 UNAC Editor U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Politics

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, April, 23, 2021 President Biden took office promising a new era of American international leadership and diplomacy. But with a few exceptions, he has so far allowed self-serving foreign allies, hawkish U.S. interest groups and his own imperial delusions to undermine diplomacy and stoke the fires of war. Biden’s failure to quickly[…]