Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 9, 2023 Eritrea is an example of an independent and self-determining African state. Its people are rightly proud of their history. I was honored to speak at the 49th annual National Council of Eritrean Americans conference and festival recently held in Tacoma, Washington. Black Agenda Report has always been a staunch defender[…]
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by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, August 18, 2023 The U.S. government has finally found a country in the Global South willing to lead a U.N.-approved intervention “to assist Haitian police in restoring security.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed Aug. 1 on X (formerly Twitter): “We commend the government of Kenya for responding to Haiti’s call.” Since Kenyan[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, August 14, 2023 On July 26, 2023, Niger’s presidential guard moved against the sitting president—Mohamed Bazoum—and conducted a coup d’état. A brief contest among the various armed forces in the country ended with all the branches agreeing to the removal of Bazoum and the creation of a military junta led by Presidential Guard Commander[…]
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by Stephen Sefton, published on Tortilla con Sal, August 6, 2023 The patterns of neocolonial intervention in the majority world by the United States and its allies since their victories over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945 are very clear. Almost immediately the Western countries started a cycle of bloody aggression against peoples resisting colonialism, followed later by the[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, August 9, 2023 Last week I attended the Eritrean American Festival in the Seattle/Tacoma area, at the Tacoma Convention Center, as did Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Margaret Kimberley and Breakthrough News Host and Producer Eugene Puryear. I arrived after they had spoken, on the day I was scheduled to speak at[…]
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by Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, published on The Black Alliance for Peace, August 09, 2023 AUGUST 3, 2023—The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) condemns in the strongest possible terms Kenya’s proposal to lead what amounts to a foreign armed intervention in Haiti. Kenya has offered to deploy a contingent of 1,000 police officers to help train and assist[…]
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by Chandra Muzzafar, published on International Action Center, August 10, 2023 Not mentioned here is the fact that the US/AFRICOM largest drone base is located in Niger, a convenient location for managing drones over most The situation in Niger is still in flux. On 26 July 2023 a military coup took place in that West African state that led to[…]
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by Editor, published on Workers World, August 6, 2023 “When Africa becomes economically free and politically united, the monopolists will come face to face with their own working class in their own countries, and a new struggle will arise within which the liquidation and collapse of imperialism will be complete.” – Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism Today,[…]
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by Vijay Prashad and Kambali Musavuli, produced by Globetrotter, August 1, 2023 At 3 a.m. on July 26, 2023, the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Troops, led by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani closed the country’s borders and declared a curfew. The coup d’état was immediately condemned by the Economic Community of West African[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, July 19 2023 The header image gives a little perspective. It says that Ukraine is not in the same class as Russia in terms of the amount of grain it exports. In fact The U.S., Canada, Australia and France all export larger quantities of wheat than Ukraine, but significantlu less than Russia. [jb] On[…]
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