Abuses of Empire

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[…]

“The World Has Betrayed Palestine!” and Venezuela

December 11, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Colonialism, Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Latin America, Occupation, Palestine, Uncategorized, Venezuela

by Kening Zhang, published on Palestine Watch, December 4, 2025 On November 17, local time, thirteen green votes lit up in the United Nations Security Council chamber, pushing forward a text titled the “Gaza Peace Resolution.” The abstentions from China and Russia did not change the outcome: the resolution passed. Many Middle East analysts believe that this vote resembled a[…]

What do the Situations in Venezuela and Palestine Have in Common

December 11, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, LandGrabs, Latin America, Middle East Wars, Native American Genocide, Palestine, Resistance, Trumpism, U.S. Aggression, US Intervention, Venezuela, Zionism

by Judy Bello, November 2025 During last month’s call for protests and solidarity events around the U.S. threats towards Venezuela, I noticed that many people in our local Palestine protest group did not really see any relationship between the genocide in Gaza and the U.S. attacks on Latin America. It occurred to me that people deeply involved in supporting our[…]

First International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures

December 6, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Cuba, Nicaragua, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, War on the Poor

by Jill Clark Golub and Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, December 4, 2025 In June of 2025, the United Nations General Assembly designated December 4 as the annual International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures, urging States to stop using such measures (commonly called “sanctions”) because they violate international law and impose collective punishment. Last night, the SanctionsKill campaign and[…]

UNAC Calls for Hands Off Venezuela

December 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Paths to Emancipation, Resistance, Statement, Venezuela

UNAC Statement, 11/13/25 The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) expresses its solidarity with the people of Venezuela as they face down the threat by U.S. imperialism to invade their country. The U.S. billionaire class wants to control the Venezuelan oil and other resources and to replace its government with a puppet government beholden to Washington. This threat is also aimed[…]

Hands Off Venezuela!

December 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Monroe Doctrine, Venezuela

By Lyn Neeley, Martha Grevatt, WW Buffalo Bureau, Will Hodgkinson, Phebe Eckfeldt, Brenda Ryan, Dianne Mathiowetz and a guest author published on Workers World, November 25, 2025 In eleven countries and at more than 60 locations, opponents of the threatened U.S. attack on the Bolivarian government held more than 100 actions from Nov. 15-23 demanding no war on Venezuela, the[…]