Abuses of Empire

Children Bear Brunt of Israel’s Savagery in Gaza

August 8, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-War, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Tamara Nasser, published on Electronic Intifada, August 7, 2022 A ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad resistance group took effect before midnight Sunday, ending a deadly Israeli assault on Gaza. In the hours before the Egyptian-mediated truce took hold, Israel ramped up its killing and assassination spree for the third consecutive day. By late evening on Sunday, the[…]

Nicaragua… “Still, it moves…”

August 1, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Diplomacy, Hybrid Warfare, New Pink Tide, Nicaragua, Resistance

by Stephen Sefton, published on Tortilla Con Sal, July 18, 2022 Galileo may or may not truly have said “Still, it moves…” on escaping condemnation by the Holy Inquisition for asserting that the Earth moves around the Sun. But the saying certainly applies in the case of Nicaragua’s persecution by the sadistic neoliberal Inquisition of Western countries whose oligarchs, corporate[…]

Indirect Colonialism: US Role in Pakistan’s Political Crisis

July 27, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, Pakistan, US Foreign Bases, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Abdul Jabbar, published on Multipolarista, April 25, 2022 In 2012 I joined a peace delegation to Pakistan to meet with Drone victims. The delegation was sponsored by Imran Khan and his PTI party. We were warmly welcomed at a party event, where we met some of the people. I remember there were elections within the party for various positions[…]

Biden Redeploys Troops To Somalia While Humanitarian Crisis Looms

May 28, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Africa, Somalia

by Abyome Azikiwe, published on Popular Resistance, May 20, 2022 Military options by Washington are primary in the Horn of Africa and Eastern Europe. President Joe Biden of the United States has announced through the Department of Defense the redeployment of Pentagon troops to the Horn of Africa state of Somalia. This is not the first time that U.S. troops[…]

Peter Scott Interviews Michael Hudson on the Devastating Affects of U.S. Economic Warfare on U.S. Hegemony

May 23, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Economics, Europe, Russia, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Peter Scott and Michael Hudson, published on The Saker of the Vinyard, May 21, 2022 Peter Scott, RT anchor: Joining us now is Michael Hudson, economist and author of “Super-Imperialism” and the recently-published “Destiny of Civilization”. Welcome to the programme, Michael. Michael Hudson: It’s good to be back. PS: Let’s say all these European programmes like the REPOWER Programme[…]

Sanctions – Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

May 23, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Featured, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, May 23, 2022 U.S. government strategists are using sanctions as a wrecking ball to demolish the globalized economy. It is a desperate struggle to preserve their global hegemony and a unipolar world. The policy of consciously demolishing supply chains of essential products amounts to a reckless war on defenseless civilian populations. Sanctions disrupt[…]

NY Times Shifts Pro-War Narrative, Documents Failure of US in Ukraine

May 15, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Cost of War, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, US Government Action, US Meddling in Europe

by John V. Walsh, published on Antiwar.com, May 13, 2022 Seeing the most prolific liar acknowledge the truth gives me a headache. Cognitive dissonance, has my ears ringing. I don’t know what to make of it. But, if they will never acknowledge the cause, at least it is good to see them note the increasingly apparent and deadly consequences. […]

Leaking Massive Red Hill Jet Fuel Tanks Will Not Be Closed Anytime Soon

April 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Militarism, Poisoning the Environment, Toxic Chemicals

by Ann Wright, published on Popular Resistance, April 15, 2022 Don’t Get Your Hopes Up! On March 7, 2022 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the defueling and closure of the 80-year-old leaking 250 million gallon jet fuel tanks at Red Hill on the island of O’ahu, Hawai’i. The order came 95 days after a catastrophic 19,000-gallon leak of jet fuel into[…]

The War in Ukraine Is Really About U.S. Pursuing Regime Change in Russia

April 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, False Flags, Hybrid Warfare, Interview, NATO, Propaganda, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

Finian Cunningham interviews Bruce Gagnon, published on Strategic Culture, April 14, 2022 The corporate-dominated media (that lied us into the 2003 “shock and awe” attack on Iraq over non-existent WMD) is trotting out the same strategy again to sell war and deceive the public American peace activist, documentary filmmaker and author Bruce Gagnon analyses the current war in Ukraine with[…]

Where We Stand

April 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Lies and Liars, Nuclear War, Russia, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, War and Peace

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, April 11, 2022 Ukraine: No to the U.S.-orchestrated fascist coup! Editor: The statement below was approved by the April 9, 2022 meeting of Socialist Action’s National Committee. Serious political analysis on the left always begins with the facts. Substituting abstract theory not based on facts is always a dead end for the socialist[…]