Abuses of Empire

Syria: A Case Study in the Devastating Effects of Economic Coercive Measures on a Population

June 6, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, coup, Featured, Statement, Syria, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

Statement by SanctionsKill and Syria Support Movement International SanctionsKill and the Syria Support Movement welcome the statement by US president Donald Trump ordering the lifting of economic sanctions on Syria.1 As stated in the Verdict of the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism, economic coercive measures are: “inherently violent, designed to maintain economic inequality, continue the theft of wealth from[…]

The Camouflaged U.S. Invasion of Panama

May 13, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Imperialism, Panama, U.S. Hegemony

by Gary Wilson, published on Resumen English, April 13, 2025 Panama’s opposition parties accused the U.S. of launching a “camouflaged invasion” amid escalating tensions over the U.S. military presence in the country. Following U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent visit, President Donald Trump confirmed troop deployments, stating, “We’ve moved a lot of troops to Panama.” Hegseth cited the need to[…]

The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for International Mobilizations To Stop Israel’s Genocidal Campaign to Starve Palestinians to Death!

May 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Featured, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Legal Struggles, Occupation, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, War Crimes, Zionism

The Israeli state’s starvation campaign in Gaza—backed by the U.S. and Europe—is a livestreamed genocide. As malnutrition ravages children and the West vetoes ceasefires, the ‘rules-based order’ reveals its truth: Palestinian lives are expendable. Liberation demands more than appeals to hollow institutions. It requires global anti-imperialist resistance to stop the siege before Israel’s ‘final solution’ is complete. The North-South Project[…]

The Real Outrage in Yemen

April 21, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Yemen

by Kathy Kelly, published on The Progressive, March 28, 2025 The war on Yemen began in 2014. If you wonder why Yemen, gives unconditional support to Gaza, think about what you read here. [jb] As Democrats decry the Trump Administration’s national security lapse, the United States is engaged in an actual killing campaign. (In fact, Trump brushed off complaints of[…]

Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress

April 21, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Genocide, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Protest, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, US Law

by Marjorie Cohn, published on TruthOut, April 14, 2025 Desperate initiatives by people in the United States to get justice from the system that they have been indoctrinated to believe in have consistently been dismissed by courts under seemingly sympathetic and clearly hostile judges as threats to political power. New approaches to activism will have to circumvent “the system”, which[…]

Millions tell Trump, Musk: ‘Hands off!’

April 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Capitalism, Imperialism, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, The War at Home, War on the Poor

By Martha Grevatt, posted on Workers World, April 7, 2025 Nearly everyone in the U.S. has been negatively affected by the Trump/Musk team’s cuts to federal jobs, veterans’ care, schools, libraries, science programs, Medicaid, the Women, Infants and Children program, heating aid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and more. There are looming threats to Social Security and disability benefits. The[…]

Say No to Trump’s Tariffs and Anti-China Policy

April 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Blowback, China, Global Trade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade Wars, U.S. Hegemony, US Government Action

by Mick Kelly, published on Workers World, March 20, 2025 The following statement has been issued by the Friends of Socialist China U.S. Committee in response to the Trump administration’s announcement of new tariffs on Chinese imports. The statement was posted on socialistchina.org on March 14, 2025. The [Donald] Trump administration’s decision to slap additional tariffs on the People’s Republic[…]

No war on China!

March 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-War, Imperial Wars, Propaganda, U.S. Aggression, War and Peace

Editorial from Workers World, March 25, 2025 The New York Times broke the news on March 20, purportedly based on information leaked by two officials, that Elon Musk had been invited to attend a meeting at the Pentagon. At this meeting, a slide show would be presented detailing U.S. military plans “for any war that might break out with China.”[…]

Yale Purges Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, Another Targeted Palestine Activist

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Immigrants, Oppression of Women, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Student Activists, The War at Home, US Law, US Politics, Women

by Sue Harris, published on Workers World, March 19, 2025 Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale Law School, was suspended, cut off from her information technology accounts and banned from campus in March of this year. She was accused of terrorism for allegedly belonging to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, by[…]

Marco Rubio’s Diplomatic Attack on South Africa is Punishment for Standing Up to Israel

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, International Institutions, International Law, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Ziad Motala, published on Mondoweiss, Marh 15, 2025 The Trump administration’s extraordinary and unprecedented move to effectively expel South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was done for one reason: South Africa had the audacity to hold Israel accountable for the Gaza genocide. In an extraordinary and unprecedented move, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declared South African Ambassador[…]