UNAC Editor

19 Years After the Coup D’état: Statement from Fanmi Lavalas Political Organization

March 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Collapsed States, Colonialism, Haiti, War on the Poor

by Paddy (as Editor), published on Workers World, March 24, 2023 This Feb. 28 statement from Fanmi Lavalas, a people’s party of Haiti, commemorates the February 29, 2004, coup d’état that overthrew Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Fanmi Lavalas honors those who fell during the coup and outlines its call for a Haitian solution to the crisis that[…]

Tick, tock: The Countdown to Washington’s Strategic Idiocy

March 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Uncategorized

by Helena Coban, published on Globalities, March 24, 2023 A review of disfunctional US – China relations with a brief history of US – China relations. [jb] First, a quick disclosure: As someone extremely fond of the young people in my family, I am deeply concerned about the effect of all social media apps on the lives and psyches of[…]

Capitalism’s Looming Crises: From Budget Debt Hyperbole to Banking Disaster

March 24, 2023 UNAC Editor Democrats and Republicans, Economic Collapse, Economics, U.S. Budget, US Politics

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 24, 2023 President Joseph Biden presented his third annual budget proposal at $6.8 trillion on Thursday, March 9. A day later Silicon Valley Bank (SVP), in Santa Clara, California, the nation’s 16th largest, declared bankruptcy, followed days later by New York City’s Signature Bank. A half dozen others faced similar and immediate[…]

20 Years After Iraq, Corporate Media Defends US War Crimes But Obsesses Over Trump Trivialities

March 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Political Circus, Political Corruption, US Hypocrisy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 22, 2023 Liberals and the media give great attention to Donald Trump’s legal problems that are related to his personal life, but they cover up for the war crimes he and other presidents committed. United States troops began the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003 under the direction of president George[…]

China and Progressive Latin America Share a Project of Solidarity

March 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Belt and Road, Bolivia, China, Latin America, Nicaragua, Venezuela

by Carlos Martinez, published on Friends of Socialist China, March 14, 2023 Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez was invited by the World Anti-imperialist Platform to speak on 4 March 2023 at Bolívar Hall, London, alongside the ambassadors of Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela, at an event marking the 10th anniversary of the death of comrade Hugo Chávez. Carlos addressed[…]

Protests denounce U.S.-NATO wars

March 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Protest

by Joe Piette, published on Workers World, March 22, 2023 Washington, DC Over 2,500 antiwar activists converged in front of the White House on March 18. The main demand of the action was to put an end to the U.S./NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Coalitions representing the most active antiwar and anti-imperialist movements cooperated to organize this countrywide[…]

China’s Prestigious Middle East Deal May Soon See Challenges

March 23, 2023 UNAC Editor China, Diplomacy, Iran, Saudi Arabia

by Bernhard, published on Moon of Alabama, March 13, 2023 What I like about this article is that it’s thesis is that a will to peace can create peace. The mediator need not be an enforcer if the achieved agreement is based on the legitimate interests of the negotiating parties. The role of the mediator is primarily to reveal these[…]

Renewed Peace Movement Lauded As Protesters Marched in Washington, D.C., on 20th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion of Iraq

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Featured, Human Rights, Protest

by Julie Varughese, published on Towards Freedom, March 21, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C.—An estimated couple of thousand of people to “several thousand” marched on March 18 in downtown Washington D.C., calling for an end to the U.S. imperialist project that they hold responsible for 20 years of a “War on Terror” on millions of people. The weekend marked the 20th anniversary[…]

Protesters to CNN: Don’t Be a Pentagon Stenographer!

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, Protest

by Marcy Winograd, published on the LA Progressive, March 20, 2023 CNN locked its front door during Saturday’s, March 18th, anti-war protest in front of the network’s towering Hollywood building, where hundreds of ethnically diverse demonstrators, young, old and in between, called on CNN to stop parroting Pentagon propaganda about an “unprovoked” war in Ukraine and to feature guests who[…]

China, COVID Origins and War Propaganda

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Asia Pivot, Bioweapons, China, Hybrid Warfare, Propaganda, Public Health, Weaponized Information

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 15, 2023 A human cause of covid-19 is possible, but anti-China rhetoric is war propaganda, not scientific evidence. “I was the first governor to take action to ban Tik Tok here in our state and we saw over two dozen different states take action and congress after that. So we’re thankful[…]