UNAC Editor

DR Congo, an Interview with Maurice Carney

July 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo, Interview

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 20, 2019 This is old news but it also reflects the current dilemma of the people of the DRC. Their democracy faces a complex process with multiple agendas and manipulators as does ours. Western intervention in Africa is consistently disastrous. [jb] The Congolese people succeeded in forcing President Kabila to allow[…]

Building On Victories For A Stronger Climate Justice Movement

July 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, Organizing

by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, published on Popular Resistance, July 19, 2020 While the climate justice movement has been winning important victories, stopping and slowing pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure, and putting the future of fossil fuels in doubt, the political system, long connected to the fossil fuel industry, is still fighting the urgently needed transition to clean[…]

Outrage Over Trump attack: Portland Movement Fights Back

July 25, 2020 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Featured, Resistance, The War at Home

by Joshua Hanks, published on Workers World, July 21, 2020 Federal officers were deployed to “quell” Portland’s protests beginning the weekend of July 10 and continuing the following week. Camouflaged unidentified agents arrested and detained demonstrators without even a pretext. The Trump administration has escalated the confrontation between the people and the state apparatus, bringing a whiff of fascism to[…]

Who is the Most Dangerous Fascist

July 25, 2020 UNAC Editor Political Analysis, Resistance

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, July 23, 2020 Most American leftists are incoherent on the term fascism, and Democrats have utterly destroyed the word’s meaning. “In their cartoon politics, fascist simply means “Trump.” After seizing an initial beachhead around federal buildings in Portland, Oregon, Donald Trump is threatening to send his Homeland Security über alles storm troopers into[…]

The Aftermath Of 2019 Bolivian Coup

July 25, 2020 UNAC Editor Bolivia

by Yanis Iqbal, published on Countercurrents, June 10, 2020 Ever since the racist right-wing government of Jeanine Anez has assumed power, Bolivia is continuously experiencing politico-economic tumult. Recently, seven legislators of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) filed a complaint against the Ministers of Government and Defense, Arturo Murillo and Luis Fernando López, for misconduct in the purchase of riot gear equipments. As[…]

Post-Coup Covid-19 Report from Bolivia

July 25, 2020 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Counter Revolution, Indigenous peoples

from Resumen English, by Primera Linea, published July 21, 2020 Bolivia has surpassed the 61,000 person barrier of Covid-19 with more than 2,200 deaths in four distressing months of the pandemic. However, the official data only shows a small part of the reality, that which is used for inscrutable purposes. In the midst of this spiral of contagion that attacks[…]

The NYPD’s Big Lie

July 25, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Police Brutality, Police Corruption

by Workers World Editor, posted to Workers World on July 22, 2020 To put the Police Department’s spasm of slander directed at the Black Lives Matter movement in New York City in perspective, it’s useful to recall an experience from nearly three decades ago. Anti-war forces in 1991 established a popular tribunal to protest the criminal war against Iraq unleashed[…]

Media Conceal—or Celebrate—Depriving Syrians of Food and Medicine

July 24, 2020 UNAC Editor Propaganda, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Gregory Shupak, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Media, July 14, 2020 Late last month, the latest round of United States sanctions, known as the Caesar Act, took effect against Syria, a country already in a dire situation after nine years of war and sanctions. Covid-19 and an economic crisis in Lebanon, a financial lifeline for Syrian civilians that[…]

Hypocrisy of US, Allies in the UNSC and AI Regarding Aid to ‘The Syrian People’

July 21, 2020 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, Syria, United Nations, US Hypocrisy

Statement from Syria Solidarity Movement On July 11, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution presented by Germany and Belgium that would permit one border crossing from Turkey into Syria’s Idlib province for a US- backed UNSC aid program. The United States has been battling with China and Russia for a resolution increasing the number of gateways for cross-border[…]

Propaganda Won’t Get Rid of Trump

July 21, 2020 UNAC Editor Political Corruption, Racism, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 15, 2020 The biggest threat to Biden’s chances is the continuing suppression of black votes and the refusal of the Democrats to do anything about it.. “The Democrats’ effort to sell the lackluster and problematic Joe Biden involves telling some outright lies.” “Biden will win in a landslide.” “Trump will quit[…]