UNAC Editor

US Climbs Escalation Ladder in Ukraine

January 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, January 6, 2023 In all probability, the message conveyed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov from his American counterpart Antony Blinken via Israel’s new foreign minister Eli Cohen concerned the Ukrainian missile attack on Makeyevka (Donetsk) on New Year Day at 12.02 am killing 89 Russian conscripts. Kiev claimed that upto 400[…]

Unprovoked!

January 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, American Exceptionalism, NATO, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Hypocrisy

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Consortium News, January 8, 2023 In an interview with the Useful Idiots podcast not too long ago, Noam Chomsky repeated his argument that the only reason we hear the word “unprovoked” every time anyone mentions Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the mainstream news media is because it absolutely was provoked, and they know it. “Right now, if you’re[…]

US ‘Justice’ System Trashes Diplomatic Immunity In Alex Saab Case

January 5, 2023 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Venezuela

published on The Orinoco Tribune, December 24, 2022 Caracas, December 24, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—On Friday, December 23, US Federal Judge Robert Scola of the Southern District of Florida ruled that the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab does not have the right to diplomatic immunity, as the US government does not recognize the government of President Nicolás Maduro. “The Maduro regime has been[…]

How the War Machine ‘Recruits’ Poor, Oppressed Youth

January 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Militarism, Recruitment, War on the Poor

by Richie Merino, published on International Action Center, December 20, 2022 A Dec. 11 New York Times report highlighted how thousands of public high school students in majority poor, Black and Brown districts are funneled into the U.S. military’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program. Students are automatically enrolled and forced to participate as an explicit requirement without parental consent.[…]

In 2022 the U.S. Led Unipolar Order is More Unstable Than Ever

January 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Multipolar World, Ukraine

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, January 4, 2023 This article was originally published in CGTN . Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin via video link on December 30, which drew alarm from certain Western media outlets. The New York Times, for example, concluded that the call came amid a “weak moment” for both leaders.[…]

White Lives Matter More in Ukraine

January 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Political Analysis, Russia, U.S. Budget, Ukraine, White Supremacy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 4, 2023 The open white supremacy and fascism exhibited in Ukraine are conveniently swept under the rug. Nazis are bad, unless they serve the interests of the U.S. state. The accuracy of this commentary’s title is borne out by statements made and actions taken by the Ukrainians themselves. In 2020 millions of people around[…]

U.S. Spreads Misery Across the Globe Imposing Sanctions on a Third of Humanity

January 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Review, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, Soft Power Imperialism, Trade

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action Magazine, January 2, 2023 …Yet There is Almost No Opposition or Outcry—Even When Sanctions are Increasingly Having a Boomerang Effect The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a ‘response to foreign tyranny,’ but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations. On[…]

Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany

December 31, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Germany, NATO, Organizing, Resistance

by Phil Wilayto, December 31, 2022 June 22, 2022, was the 81st anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and a prominent German antiwar activist took the occasion to publicly question why the German government is now supporting neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine. As a result, that activist is now facing the possibility of up to three years in[…]

From Reproductive Rights to the Hijab, Our Bodies, Our Choice

December 31, 2022 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Reproductive Sovereignty, Women

by Alison Bodine and Janine Solanki, published in Fire This Time, Vol 16, Issue 10-11, November 2022 The Rise and Fall of Roe v. Wade On January 22, 1973, in the midst of the women’s liberation movement, the U.S. Supreme Court made the historic ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade to grant women the constitutional right to have[…]

Ukraine War Tolls Death Knell for NATO

December 30, 2022 UNAC Editor Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Meddling in Europe, Weapons Sales

by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on The People’s Dispatch, December 26, 2022 Ho Ho Ho and A Merry Christmas to You Too [jb] The defining moment in US President Joe Biden’s press conference at the White House last Wednesday, December 21, during President Zelensky’s visit, was his virtual admission that he is constrained in the proxy war in Ukraine, as European[…]