UNAC Editor

A Failed War, Bully Diplomacy and the Next War

March 10, 2025 UNAC Editor BRICS, China, Diplomacy, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, March 6, 2025 Donald Trump is facing a crisis. How to get out of a war that is already totally lost in order to prepare for the next war, to prepare for a confrontation with China. Trump blamed everyone else but the U.S. policy for the failure: the Kiev regime in Ukraine itself;[…]

What is Happening With the Gaza Ceasefire?

March 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Sue Harris, published on Workers World, March 6, 2024 Will it be possible to proceed with the second phase of the ceasefire as agreed to and signed by Israel and Hamas in February? While exchanges of dozens of Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza and hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned for years by Israel took place under phase one, Israel[…]

Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

March 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Diplomacy, Global South, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism, US Hypocrisy, US Intervention

by Helen Yaffe, published on Jacobin Magazine, March 8, 2024 The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s[…]

Sectarian Violence Sweeps Syria

March 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Fascism, Genocide, Syria, Terrorism

from Popular Resistance, March 9, 2023 Editor’s Note: Please don’t be fooled by the word “clashes”. Indeed there have been initiatives to retaliate against the terrorist government forces, but the overwhelming preponderance of violence has been perpetrated by Jolani’s forces against unarmed civilians. The current death toll is over 1000. [b] Western-backed security forces rampage in Alawite towns. Social media[…]

Liberals Want War in Ukraine, Trump Wants Peace in Ukraine, But All Agree on Death in Gaza

March 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Democrats and Republicans, Genocide, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Political Analysis, Russia, Ukraine, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 5, 2025 Donald Trump’s efforts to normalize relations with Russia, and to end the fighting in the Ukraine proxy war are logical and sensible. But years of whipped up anti-Russia hatred make logical solutions difficult to achieve, with democrats trying to fight his change of course. While Russia is a hot[…]

US Lawmaker Revives PAGER Act Demanding Lebanon ‘ End Any Recognition of Hezbollah’

March 7, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Imperialism, Israel, Lebanon, United Nations

from the News Desk at The Cradle, March 5, 2025 On 5 March, US Representative Greg Steube reintroduced to Congress the Preventing Armed Groups from Engaging in Radicalism (PAGER) Act, which seeks to condition US financial aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) until Beirut ends “any official recognition of Hezbollah and its allies.” According to the text of the[…]

“Scars on the land.”

March 4, 2025 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Conflict Over Water, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, War on the Earth, Zionism

by Cara Marianna, published on The Floutist’s Substack, February 25, 2025 25 FEBRUARY—Israeli tanks rolled on Sunday into jenin, the northernmost West Bank governorate, marking an escalation in the Zionist regime’s war of annexation against the West Bank. Mainstream media would have you believe this was the first time in 20 years tanks have deployed against Palestinian communities. In fact,[…]

Where Does the Money Go? A Look at USAID Spending in Haiti

March 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Economic Collapse, Food Sovereignty, Haiti, Humanitarian Aid, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, U.S. Hegemony, US Hypocrisy

by Jake Johnston, published on Counterpunch, February 10, 2025 When you read this, keep in mind that the people of Haiti do not have a democratically elected government and have not had one since the US flew Aristide to Africa. Also remember that they don’t have jobs, medical services and reliable resources for ordinary living. [jb] “We’re shutting it[…]

Who Protects the People From the Human Rights Protectors?

March 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Black Liberation Movement, Europe, Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Racism, Rights of Opressed Peoples, US Hypocrisy, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report,February 26, 2025 Can Palestinians get a little Humanitarian Intervention? Of all the ideological mystifications created by the white West to rationalize and justify its brutal exploitation and colonization of the world the last five hundred years, the cruelest hoax ever perpetrated on the colonized and the entire world is the idea that[…]

Trump’s Policies Intensify Haiti’s Catastrophes

March 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Haiti, Human Rights, Immigration, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Neocolonialism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, February 28m 2025 Half of the population of Haiti — 5.4 million workers — don’t get enough to eat every day. According to the United Nations World Food Program, 2 million Haitians — the Internally Displaced People (IDP) driven from their homes by political violence — are facing extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition[…]