Abuses of Empire

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[…]

Yemen is Under Attack!

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Imperial Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, Yemen

from Independent Activist on Substack, March 16, 2025 Yemen under imperialist attack Yemen once again faces the wrath of American and British racism. The bombs falling on Yemen from both the USA and Britain exposes once again the white anglo saxon imprimatur of using force to pursue its hegemonic designs in West Asia. A country that has been ravaged by[…]

Plundering Africa – Income Deflation and Unequal Ecological Exchange Under Structural Adjustment Programmes

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Africa, Colonialism, Commodity Markets, Economics, International Aid and Debt, Neocolonial Economic Dominance

by Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel, published on Black Agenda Report, March 12, 2025 Originally published in ROAPE . During the 1980s and 1990s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank forced governments across Africa to implement neoliberal structural adjustment programmes (SAPs). SAPs compelled post-colonial governments to cut public services and public-sector production, remove labour market regulations and wage[…]

Making the Bloom a Desert

March 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Occupation, Palestine

by Sara el-Sohl, published on Mondoweiss, March 9, 2025 Israel has been starving the Palestinians and killing the land for more than 75 years. At the moment they are ending the agreed upon “Ceasefire” by once again blocking water and electricity along with everything else from being transported into Gaza. [jb] In 1969, 21 years after Western powers redrew[…]

The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’

March 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Democracy and Consent, Immigrants, Racism, Resistance, US Government Action, US Politics, War on the Poor

by Cristóbal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 8, 2024 The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary as it has been necessary. It could be summed up in one phrase: Respect our Existence[…]

HTS Offensive in Syria: A Proxy for Imperialist Domination

March 14, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Africa, Imperial Wars, Middle East Wars, Neocolonialism, Statement, Syria

Statement from Black Alliance for Peace, March 12, 2025 The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns the recent announcement by Colonel Hassan Abdul Ghani, spokesman for the HTS-led Syrian Ministry of Defense, regarding the “second phase“ of military operations against so-called “remnants” of the former Assad government. This escalation of violence is not merely a local or regional conflict[…]