Abuses of Empire

Venezuela’s Revolution Still Stands: Debunking Trump’s Psyop

January 10, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Democracy and Consent, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, LandGrabs, Political Analysis, Propaganda, Resistance, Socialism, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela

by Manolo De Los Santos, published on People’s Dispatch, January 5, 2026 In the aftermath of the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate misinformation campaign has been waged to sow doubt about the survival of the country’s revolution. The events of the past 72 hours represent a qualitative escalation in the 25 years of regime change operations by the[…]

Venezuela, Even More Than Palestine, Is the Linchpin of a Consistent Radical Left in the Era of Global Neofascism Led by the U.S.

January 10, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Fascism, Genocide, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Political Analysis, Socialism, Venezuela

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 7, 2026 Solidarity with Palestine tests morality, but solidarity with Venezuela tests politics. The recent U.S. intervention demands a radical left moving from moral outrage to a material confrontation with its own state. Palestine is the moral heart of global anti-colonial politics. It exposes the brutality of settler colonialism in its[…]

The United States’ War Against Venezuela began in 2001

January 8, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Democracy, Economic Blockade, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Monroe Doctrine, Neocolonial Economic Dominance

by Vijay Prashad, published on Socialist Action, December 31, 1025 The United States had no problem with Venezuela itself, nor with the country or its former oligarchy. The problem the U.S. government and its business class have is with the process initiated by President Hugo Chávez’s first administration. In 2001, Chávez’s Bolivarian process passed a law called the Organic Hydrocarbons Law,[…]

Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse

December 30, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Economic Collapse, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, International Law, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Social Impact, Venezuela

by Michelle Ellner, published on Common Dreams, December 25 2025 The loudest question in Washington right now is whether Donald Trump is going to invade Venezuela. The quieter, and far more dangerous, reality is this: he probably won’t. Not because he cares about Venezuelan lives, but because he has found a strategy that is cheaper, less politically risky at home,[…]

Trump Continues Disinformation Campaign Against South Africa

December 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Genocide, Global Alliances, International Institutions, South Africa, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, White Supremacy

by Abiyome Azikiwe, published on Global Research, December 2, 2025 Donald Trump continues to punish South Africa for bringing the case against the Israeli genocide to the International Court of Justice. [JB] After boycotting the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, the United States administration is saying that President Cyril Ramaphosa is not welcome in Miami for next gathering of the economic[…]

Western Powers Fostered a Theocratic, Sectarian Regime that Now Reigns over Syria

December 22, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Collapsed States, Counter Revolution, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, Terrorism

by Ben Arthur Thomason, published on Covert Action Magazine, December 11, 2025 [This is the fourth part of a series on Syria and the effects of CIA intervention there, tied for the one year anniversary of the Syrian “revolution.” See Part I, Part II, and Part III.—Editors] This is a modern day revisit of the Brits bringing the al-Saud family[…]

United States Secures Its National Security Interests in the Congo “Peace Deal”

December 21, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Africa, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War

by Maurice Carney, published on Socialist Action, December 10, 2025 SA Editors note: We reprint here Maurice Carney’s recent insightful article from Black Agenda Report describing President Trump’s December 4 meeting with the warring presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. To date 700,000 Congolese people have been displaced and thousands more murdered by the ongoing[…]

Lifting the Veil of International Human Rights Day

December 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Africa, Capitalism, Fascism, Genocide, Racism, United Nations, US Hypocrisy

Lifting the Veil of International Human Rights Day: How Gaza Exposed the Oxymoron of Western Values and Human Rights by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2025 The genocide in Gaza has torn off the West’s human rights mask. This naked colonial violence demands a new path where rights are won through people’s struggle, not granted by[…]

Occupation, Boycott, Death: The Month That Changed D.C.

December 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Authoritarianism, Militarized Police, Protest, Systemic Racism, The War at Home, War and Peace

by Jerome Paige, published on Popular Resistance, December 12, 2025 I didn’t expect to begin this article on a sidewalk. But on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, around noon, I mentally finalized what I thought would be a clean two-week account of Washington’s slow tightening. I got off the Metrorail at 14th and Irving to join the #WeAintBuyingIt rally in front of Target’s[…]

Anti-Genocide Activists Picket Largest Civilian Weapons Warehouse for the Israeli Military in the US, Demand Arms Embargo

December 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Protest, War and Weapons, Weapons Sales

Press Release, published on Socialist Action, December 10, 2025 Demonstration Follows Release of November Report Documenting 1000 Tons of Military Cargo Shipped Weekly from Jersey City Site For Immediate Release 12/10/25 Contacts: Fatima Patel (609) 285-3768 Naji Al-Ali Signal: alqorithm.01 Email: promethean@tuta.com Photos, Video, and Additional Information JERSEY CITY, NJ – On Friday, December 5 at 5:30 AM over[…]