UNAC Editor

Canadian Woman Continues to Fight to Obtain a Passport

December 6, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Terrorism, Women

Editor’s note: Interesting story. Beyond from the abuse of Ms. Boudreau’s civil rights, the story raises an interesting question regarding the intentions of the Canadian government which facilitated the young man’s journey to join a terrorist organization in Syria, and now undermines his mother’s efforts to stop other young men from following the same path. This from a country that[…]

Misreporting Manafort: A Case Study in Journalistic Malpractice

December 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

Image: Screenshot, grabbed 12/5/18 from News Hollywood video on Youtube, posted 11/27/18 by Alan MacLeod, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, December 3, 2018 In what has been described as potentially the biggest story of the year, the Guardian’s Luke Harding (11/27/18) reported last week that Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, held a series of secret talks with[…]

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!

December 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Human Rights, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Barka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 5, 2018 The post-WW II promise of human rights was a compact meant for white people only, but a People-Centered Human Rights framework seeks global liberation and transformation. “If human rights are to have any incredibility, any “universal” applicability, any value, they must be seized from the barbaric grip of European and[…]

Governments’ Failures On Climate Spur New Actions

December 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Climate Change, Environment, Resistance

by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, from Popular Resistance, November 25, 2018 Notes from the UK: We are currently traveling in the United Kingdom, following our participation in the No US NATO Bases conference in Dublin, Ireland and delivery of a letter to the International Criminal Court in The Hague calling for a full investigation of Israel’s war crimes. We[…]

UNAC Statement on the CNN Firing of Marc Lamont Hill

December 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Featured, Palestine, Resistance

Temple University professor and CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill was fired from CNN after giving a powerful speech at the United Nations in support of Palestinian rights. The Nov. 29, 2018, U.N. meeting was to commemorate the 70th year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The meeting also fell on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when 700,000 Palestinians[…]

U.S. Government—Hands Off Iran!

November 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Iran, Middle East Wars

Statement by the Chicago Anti-War Coalition The world is in great danger because of the U.S. government’s threats and actions against many countries around the globe. These threats can too easily result in horrendous and unjustified bloodshed, and even to nuclear world war. The American people must hold the President and members of Congress accountable for planning, financing, and carrying[…]

Green Party Urges International Criminal Court To Prosecute Israel For Crimes Against Palestinians

November 30, 2018 UNAC Editor International Law, Israel-Palestine, Resistance

Above: Delegation at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands on November 19, 2018. From left to right Margaret Flowers, Green Party co-chair, member of the Green Party Peace Action Committee and Green Party of Maryland, Miko Peled, Green Party US member, Dirk Adriaensens of the Brussells Tribunal, Diane Moxley of Green Party International Committee and Green Party of New Jersey, Stephen[…]

U.S. Occupation in Syria Facilitates ISIS Massacre in Sweida

November 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Middle East Wars, Syria

Photo: Hundreds of refugees from the US-led coalition-controlled Rukban refugee camp bordering Jordan have traveled several hundred kilometers west to the Damascus suburbs seeking assistance from Syrian authorities. ~Sott.net By Talal el-Atrache from Syria Comment – 8 Nov 2018 Throughout the Syrian war, the Southern Province of Sweida, in coordination with the Syrian army, had succeeded in protecting itself against[…]

Russiagate McCarthyism Led to Internet Censorship of the Anti-War and Social Justice Movement

November 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

by Stansfield Smith, from Alliance for Global Justice, November 30, 2018 The anti-Trump movement is not simply a progressive movement against a rightwing president, but also carries within it a rightwing current. Progressive minded people fight against Trump’s racist actions against Blacks, Latinos, Muslims, his crude sexism, his pro-corporate policies, his rejection of action on global warming, his massive tax[…]

Liberal Fascism Rears Its Ugly Head In the #ProtectMueller Campaign

November 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Imperialism

Photo from Philadelphia Anti-Trump Protest ~Creative Commons by Danny Haiphong, from Black Agenda Report, November 20, 2018 Enemies of the people do not become heroes of the people just because Trump dislikes them and they dislike Trump. “Mueller is a pig agent of the ruling class.” Thousands of Democrats poured into the streets in cities across the United States to[…]