UNAC Editor

Who Controls Afghanistan’s Sovereign Assets?

January 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Austerity, Global Economics, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Afghanistan Update by Black Alliance for Peace, Solidarity Network, November 18, 2024 Editor’s note: This is not only about Afghanistan’s “Sovereign” Assets. For the purposes of trade, international banks have to keep a slush fund in dollars in a western bank, since money doesn’t always travel at the same rate, moving money from bank to bank, business to business. In[…]

The West is Goading Georgia: Tbilisi Has Been Ensnared by Nato Hypocrisy

January 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions, Democracy and Consent, Global Trade, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, NGOs, Political Analysis, Russia, US Incited Protests

by Thomas Fazi, published on Defending Democracy, November 2, 2024 This is a little out of date but the story is pretty much, Ukraine redux. And, since this was written, the pressure has been rising. Looks like in Georgia, its pizza rather than cookies. ~jb Food. Churches. Chacha. This is what Georgia has long been known for. But now this[…]

What’s Left in Latin American and the Caribbean: Year 2024 in Review

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Latin America, Multipolar World, New Pink Tide, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, South America, US Foreign Policy, US Intervention, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Roger D. Harris and John Perry, published on Internationalist 360º, December 26, 2024 The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then, progressive alternatives had sailed into power[…]

White Settlers Bizarre Economic Strategy of Terrorizing Black People

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Human Rights, Racism, The War at Home, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2024 Jordan Neely’s killing and the subsequent acquittal of Daniel Penny can be seen as part of the reactionary existential panic felt by whites whenever the country experiences growing economic instability and hardship. That jurors on Monday exonerated an ex-Marine for strangling an African American panhandler who was in mental[…]

How the U.S. and Its Allies Destroyed a Sovereign State

December 31, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, coup, Featured, Imperial Lies and Liars, Imperial Wars, Israel, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, Syria, Turkey, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

by Bronx Antiwar Coalition, published on Workers World, December 30, 2024 The Bronx Anti-War Coalition posted the following article on its website on Dec. 27, 2024. A version of this article was presented on a webinar on Syria organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition. The fall of Syria as a sovereign state and the chaos engulfing the country are[…]

A Voice From Syria on Christmas Day: “All of Us Are Lost.”

December 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Counter Revolution, coup, Democracy and Consent, Occupation, Syria, Syria

by Rick Sterling, published on Syria Support Movement, December 27, 2024 Following are some key points from a discussion with my friend Qusay (not his real name) in Damascus. He is a translator and university professor. The situation in Syria continues to evolve. See the X account of Tim Anderson @TimAnd2037 for videos showing ongoing atrocities which contradict the western[…]

South Korea’s Problem: The United States

December 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Imperialism, Resistance, South Korea, US Foreign Policy

Editorial by Workers World, December 18, 2024 Since his Dec. 3 attempt to impose martial law, mass demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people involving the most important labor unions and popular organizations from around the country came out in the streets of Seoul demanding that South Korean President Yoon Seok-Yeol be deposed. After a popular rebellion repulsed Yoon’s Dec.[…]

From Gaza to the Trail of Tears to the Middle Passage, We Are All Connected

December 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Rights of Opressed Peoples, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, War Crimes

by David A. Love, published on LA Progressive, December 19, 2024 Oh, my children, they tried to bury you, but they didn’t know you were seeds. Remember that it’s all connected. We are gathered here today in these last days of the American Empire, and the beginning of the end of late-stage capitalism, to declare that none of this foolishness[…]

Will Anybody Stop Israel’s Invasion of Syria?

December 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Counter Revolution, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, Israel, LandGrabs, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Syria, U.S. Aggression, War Crimes

by Nicolas Davies, published on LA Progressive, December 25, 2024 The United States, Turkey, and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on Syria. Israel also attacked and destroyed most of the Syrian Navy in port at Latakia, and invaded Syria from the long-occupied Golan Heights, advancing to within 16 miles[…]

From Relative “Peace” to Chaos: The First Phase of a New War Returns to Syria

December 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Occupation, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 12, 2024 The fall of the Syrian government is being heralded by Western liberals and “leftists.” The collapse is not the liberation that is being presented by the US and its corporate media partners. Liberals and their Western allies, among the social-imperialist left in the U.S. and Europe, are celebrating the[…]