Abuses of Empire

Regarding Iran: Trump Differs from Obama Only in His Method of Hostility

October 22, 2017 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire

By Phil Wilayto* What are we to make of U.S. President Donald Trump’s extremely hostile attack on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, usually referred to in the West as the “Iran nuclear deal”? The president is required by Congress to certify every 90 days that the Islamic Republic of Iran is in compliance with the agreement and that the[…]

In this Sept. 18, 2013 photo, Muslim children learn the Quran by rote at Rohingya Village Madrassa in The Chaung Village on the outskirts of Sittwe in Rakhine state, Myanmar. A year after Buddhist mobs forced almost all members of the minority Rohingya Muslim community from Sittwe, creating a state-sanctioned sectarian divide, thousands of children while away their long, empty days in dusty displacement camps. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Why U.S. and Saudi Arabia back Rohingya in Myanmar

October 12, 2017 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire

By Sara Flounders posted on October 10, 2017 on Workers World Demonstrations, protests and online petitions have appeared worldwide to defend the struggle of the Rohingya people who have been driven from Myanmar into exile. What is of concern is that political forces with no history of or interest in defending the rights of these oppressed people, including the U.S. and Saudi regimes,[…]

Puerto Rico Shock and Awe Exposing Capitalism’s Criminality

October 4, 2017 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire

by Raymond Nat Turner, Poet in Residence at Black Agenda Report Water is life…and Saliva’s even in short supply… for drum-tight mouths, sandpaper throats. Yodeling bellies cave in on spines, as evil scents of sewage and death float in, Remaking an island into a spreadsheet. Cell towers, power lines tumbled like legos—electricity’s a distant memory—[…]