UNAC Editor

Where Will 12 New Destroyers at BIW Be Sent?

September 1, 2023 UNAC Editor U.S. Aggression, U.S. Budget, War and Weapons

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, August 29, 2023 In an article in the mid-coast Maine publication called the Forecaster (August 18) it was reported that Bath Iron Works (BIW) had just reached agreement with the Machinists Union Local S6 on a new contract. The union represents 4,250 of the shipyard’s 6,500 workers. The article concluded by reporting that[…]

Citizens Rally Outside Artillery Factory in President Biden’s Hometown that Produces Parts of Cluster Bombs Destined To Kill Eastern Ukrainians and Russians

August 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Protest, Resistance, War and Weapons

by Jack Gilroy, published on CovertAction Magazine, August 26, 2023 Yes, this is a drop in the bucket. We need hundreds and thousands and millions of drops to reach our goal of ending war….. so please join the UNAC call for activities between September 30 and October 7. [jb] Cluster Bombs Have Killed at Least 67,000 Vietnamese Since the Vietnam[…]

The Climate Crisis Will End When Capitalism Ends

August 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Environment, petroleum

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 30, 2023 The climate emergency won’t end because of heartfelt pleas to the people and the interests who created the crisis. Ecocide will stop when capitalism ends. “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” Joe Biden February 9, 2020 The March to End Fossil Fuels will take place[…]

The Unconditional Right of Poor and Oppressed Nations to Self-Determination: Looking at the US War Against Syria

August 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Political Analysis, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism, Syria, Terrorism, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, August 28, 2023 Jeff gives a great overview of the drives and costs of war in Syria. Meanwhile, the U.S. occupies 1/3 of Syria’s territory including the largest oil wells and the wheat growing region to this day. Factories in the business district of Aleppo have been robbed of their machinery and destroyed[…]

Response to “Spinning Illusions: The Anti-American Left and the Ukraine war” – a New McCarthyism

August 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Featured, Imperial Wars, Paths to Emancipation, Statement, U.S. Aggression, U.S. Budget

by Joe Lombardo and Sara Flounders, published on UNACPeace.org, August 25, 2023 Recently, articles have appeared on the front page of the New York Times that smear Code Pink, The People’s Forum and TriContinental for allegedly taking money from an alleged Chinese agent. After the Times article was published, Senator Marco Rubio issued a statement calling for an investigation of[…]

How U.S. Sanctions Are a Tool of War: The Case of Venezuela

August 24, 2023 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela, War on the Poor

by Celina della Croce, published on MROnline, August 18, 2023 On March 26, 2022, Francisco lay in a public hospital bed in Bolívar, Venezuela, roughly eight hours inland from the capital of Caracas. He had been waiting for more than twenty-four hours to be seen by a doctor for fluids filling his stomach in a hot room with no fan[…]

President Maduro Demands the Return of Citgo

August 24, 2023 UNAC Editor Fascism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

News from TeleSURTV, August 15, 2023 The U.S. is in the process of ceding CITGO to the right wing opposition in Venezuela who do not hold power there and who are not responsible to the people of Venezuela. On Monday, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, demanded the return of the company Citgo, a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA),[…]

Africa and Latin America – Revolutionary Ties

August 24, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo, Nicaragua, Niger, South Africa, The Sahel, Zimbabwe

by Stephen Sefton, published on Tortilla con Sal, August 13, 2023 Latin America and Africa, unite in a history of resistance to colonialism and a passion for sovereignty and peaceful development. [jb] Historically, the United States and its allies only retreat from their aggressive policies and the imposition of their dominance when they suffer a strategic defeat. They never[…]

Anti-Imperialist Sentiment Spreads Across West Africa amid Threats against Niger

August 24, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, France, Niger, Nigeria, US Foreign Bases

by Abayomi Azakizwe, published on Ghana News, August 6, 2023 Nigerian Senate rebukes president’s effort to invade a neighboring state at the aegis of Paris and Washington Things are shifting after a few weeks, the new government in Niger must find a way to move forward while avoiding international threats generated by the Western Imperium. The U.S. has the largest[…]

The Taliban’s Opium Eradication

August 20, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Addiction, Afghanistan, The Drug War, US Hypocrisy

by Alan MacLeod, published on Consortium News, August 15, 2023 The Taliban government in Afghanistan – the nation that until recently produced 90 percent of the world’s heroin – has drastically reduced opium cultivation across the country. Western sources estimate an up to 99 percent reduction in some provinces. This raises serious questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication[…]