UNAC Editor

US And Puppet Guaido Implicated In Terrorism Plot

March 25, 2019 UNAC Editor Latin America, Venezuela

Above: Workers of state-run oil company PDVSA take part in a rally against US imperialism. The placard reads: “The Oil is Ours, Yankee Go Home”. Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins for Reuters. Memo from Kevin Zeese, March 23, 2019: More information is coming out about the reports of Guaido’s chief of staff and his bodyguard being arrested on terrorism charges. The US[…]

Huge Defeat for Imperialists: The U.S. Broke Its Teeth in Venezuela

March 24, 2019 UNAC Editor Economic Blockade, Latin America, Poverty and Sanctions, Venezuela, Venezuela

By Alison Bodine, Published on Volume 13, Issue 3 of Fire This Time newspaper The miserably failed “humanitarian aid” delivery into Venezuela on February 23 is another nail in the coffin of the U.S. government’s coup attempt against President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian revolutionary process in Venezuela. Before this day, the U.S. government and their allies, including Canada, thought[…]

Civilian-Military Union Blocks Trump-Trudeau Plan for Military Coup in Venezuela

March 21, 2019 UNAC Editor Canada, Latin America, Resistance, Venezuela

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with US President Donald Trump as they meet about the NAFTA trade agreement at the White House Oct. 2017. | Foto: Reuters Editor’s Note: Arnold August presents a reflection on Canada’s increasing compliance with U.S. warmongering. But what caught my attention is the way he describes the popular defense forces of Venezuela as[…]

Venezuela: US Imperialism Is Based On Lies And Threats

March 21, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Citizen Diplomacy, Featured, Latin America, Venezuela, Venezuela

by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Published on Popular Resistance, March 17, 2019 We are completing what became more than a week-long peace delegation to Venezuela organized by the US Peace Council and the Committee for International Solidarity in Venezuela (COSI). The trip was complicated by American Airlines cancelling all flights in and out of the country, leaving us scrambling[…]

U.S. Anti-War Movement Leaders Report from Embattled Venezuela

March 21, 2019 UNAC Editor Citizen Diplomacy, Economic Blockade, Latin America, Venezuela, Venezuela

by John Catalinotto, Published on Workers World, March 12, 2019 Reports from anti-war delegation members Sara Flounders and Joe Lombardo in Venezuela were used to prepare this article. Leaders of the anti-war movement in the United States arrived in Caracas on March 9 and 10 to find out firsthand the truth of how the government and population are responding to[…]

Chelsea Manning Meets Russiagate

March 18, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Whistleblowers

Collage: Caricature of Robert Mueller by Don Keyhotey (Flikr), Photos of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange from WikiMedia Commons by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, March 13, 2019 Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is jailed for refusing to testify against Julian Assange, whose confinement in Ecuador’s London embassy puts the lie to much of the Russiagate fantasy. “No journalist will[…]

Report from U.S. Peace Delegation to Iran

March 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Citizen Diplomacy, Iran

Photo by Lynda Howland At the Armenian Genocide Museum: The young girl spoke good English, and her non-English speaking parents just beamed with pride. The man on the left and the woman next to me (Lynda) are Delegation members. by Ann Wright, Published on Consortium News, March 14, 2019 (as “American and Iranian Hardliners Continue the Suffering“) We knew that[…]

The Black Stake in the Green New Deal

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Legislation, Paths to Emancipation, US Government Action

Photo: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez at Women’s March 2019 in NYC ~Dimitri Rodriguez by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, March 7, 2019 Black people should see the Green New Deal as an arena of struggle for self-determination, communal repair, and justice-creation. “In its broad outlines, the Green New Deal is a transformative program that calls for democratic reconstruction of U.S.[…]

How the ICC Intends to Violate a UN Security Council Decision and Try Bashar al-Assad

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor International Law, Middle East Wars, Syria

Everyone believed it to be impossible for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try the Syrians, since China and Russia exercised their vetos against a Western draft resolution to do so. But no! A piece of legal sleight of hand may make it possible to dodge the decision of the Security Council. The Court hopes to incriminate President Bachar el-Assad,[…]

US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as ‘Watershed Event’

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions, Hybrid Warfare, Latin America, Venezuela

Photo: Guri Dam in Venezuela By Max Blumenthal, Published on the Consortium News, March 12, 2019 A September 2010 memo by a U.S.-funded soft power organization that helped train Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó and his allies identifies the potential collapse of the country’s electrical sector as “a watershed event” that “would likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a[…]