UNAC Editor

As US Reels From COVID-19, Trump Turns to Sanctions, War Making and Threats

May 17, 2020 UNAC Editor Economic Collapse, Hybrid Warfare, Propaganda, War on the Poor

by Alan MacLeod, published on Mintpress News, May 15, 2020 Presiding over by far the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the world, the Trump administration is making it a key priority to escalate hostilities with its perceived international enemies. Last night President Trump suggested that he might “cut off” all trade with the People’s Republic of China. “Now, if you did,[…]

Reality Check Of US Allegations Against China On COVID-19

May 17, 2020 UNAC Editor China, Propaganda

From Xinhuanet.com, May 10, 2020 This article is long, and it’s a rehash …. but …. there are facts in here that I didn’t know. If you are questioning the allegations or building your private analysis, then you should read it. [jb] Beijing – Recently, some US politicians and media outlets have been fabricating preposterous allegations and lies of one[…]

Democratic COBRA Plan Denounced as Costly Taxpayer Gift to For-Profit Industry

May 17, 2020 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Capitalism, Featured, Healthcare, Medicare for All

by Jake Johnson, published on Common Dreams, May 13, 2020 For weeks, progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups pressed the House Democratic leadership to support an emergency expansion of Medicare coverage to the tens of millions of people who have lost their jobs and their employer-provided health insurance during the coronavirus pandemic. But in their newly introduced 1,815-page coronavirus relief bill,[…]

Andrea Circle Bear And Six Centuries Of Genocide

May 16, 2020 UNAC Editor Native American Genocide, Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners

by Mirinda Crissman, published on Workers World, May 14, 2020 Andrea Circle Bear, of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation near Eagle Butte, S.D., was the 29th federal inmate to die due to the coronavirus in Bureau of Prisons custody. She was sentenced to serve 26 months. Circle Bear was being held at Tripp County Jail in South Dakota up until[…]

Covid-10 and America: The Fire This Time

May 15, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economics, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Hypocrisy

by Wilmer, J. Leon III, published on Black Agenda Report, May 6, 2020 It is immoral if not criminal for the US to increase sanctions through its “maximum pressure campaigns” against Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and Palestine. “Weaponizing disease for political purposes to bring about regime change is the same as germ warfare and should be considered a crime against humanity.” Time[…]

Mass Unemployment is a Failure of Capitalism

May 15, 2020 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Socialism

by Richard D. Wolff, published on NewsClick, May 10, 2020 The difficulties caused to workers by record unemployment during the pandemic are a product of capitalism. Most of the time, employers decide to hire or fire workers depending on which choice maximizes employers’ profits. Profit, not the full employment of workers nor of means of production, is “the bottom line”[…]

Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: The Fed’s Generous New Rules

May 15, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economics, US Politics

by Ellen Brown, published on Common Dreams, May 3, 2020 Congress seems to be at war with the states. Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package – a mere 5% – has been allocated to the 50 states; and they are not allowed to use it where they need it most, to plug the holes in[…]

The “New Normal” and the Shock Doctrine

May 13, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economic Collapse, Economics

By Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, May 11, 2020 Today only 51.3% of American adults have jobs – the lowest number on record, lower than the Great Depression. We have passed 80,000 coronavirus deaths. But, even human suffering can make a billionaire’s eyeballs bulge when they look at the financial fallout. Why? For those at the top able to[…]

The US Military is Hell-Bent on Trying to Overpower China

May 13, 2020 UNAC Editor China, Militarism

by Vijay Prashad, published on People’s Dispatch, May 12, 2020 On April 1, Admiral Philip Davidson—the head of the US Indo-Pacific Command—told the US Congress that he would like $20 billion to create a robust military cordon that runs from California to Japan and down the Pacific Rim of Asia. His proposal—titled “Regain the Advantage”—pointed to the “renewed threat we[…]

A 21st Century Lynching: Justice for Ahmaud Arbery!

May 13, 2020 UNAC Editor Racism

by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, May 12, 2020 In the early afternoon of Feb. 23, shots rang out on the tree-lined streets of Satilla Shores, a predominantly white neighborhood bordering the port city of Brunswick on Georgia’s Atlantic coast, some 40 miles north of Jacksonville, Fla. Afterward, a 25-year-old Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, lay dead on the pavement.[…]