Imperialism

Humanitarian Imperialism

March 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Human Rights, Imperialism

by Alan MacLeod, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, March 3, 2021 Aversion to military intervention has been the default position of the left for at least half a century—certainly since the huge protests against the Vietnam War. Washington planners lamented the development of the so-called “Vietnam Syndrome”—a widespread progressive hostility towards US interventions (invasions, bombings, coups or economic[…]

Joe Biden’s US Foreign Policy: Return to the Old Normal?

March 2, 2021 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Imperial Wars, Imperialism, U.S. Aggression

by Roger Harris, published on Counterpunch, February 26, 2021 US President Biden bellicosely proclaimed, “American is back,” in his major foreign policy priorities speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 19. Repeated twice for effect, Biden signaled the end of the Trump interregnum. No more assuring words could have been uttered for George W. Bush’s former Defense Secretary Colin[…]

Haiti in Urgent Need for Solidarity

February 18, 2021 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Haiti, Human Rights, Imperialism, Resistance, US Foreign Policy

by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, February 14, 2021 A long-brewing crisis in Haiti, created through intervention by the United States, United Nations and allied western imperialist countries, has now come to a head. The Biden administration is openly backing a violent, corrupt and fraudulent leader, Jovenel Moïse, and maintaining the policies of previous presidents, including Donald Trump, in[…]

Democratic Fascists Prepare to Drop the Hammer

February 1, 2021 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Imperialism

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, January 28, 2021 Democrats are determined to snuff out freedom of speech and assembly to protect the corporate ruling order – while pretending it’s to safeguard Black people. “The militants seeking social transformation and peace under the Black Lives Matter umbrella must weigh the full implications of the Black Democratic Misleaders’ deal[…]

Capital Riots Bring U.S. Foreign Policy Home

January 15, 2021 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Imperialism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 13, 2021 There needs to be soul searching and truth telling about invasions, interventions, coups and sanctions that are far more destructive than the Trump lovers could ever be. “The United States is not a ‘beacon of democracy’ or ‘shining city on a hill.’” The attack on the United States Capitol[…]

After Trump Blocked UN Inquiry of Racist Violence, NGOs Are Conducting Their Own

January 8, 2021 UNAC Editor Imperialism, Racism, Rights of Opressed Peoples, United Nations

by Marjorie Cohen, published on Truthout, December 28, 2020 Shortly after the public lynching of George Floyd, the U.S. Human Rights Network and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) organized an international coalition of more than 600 organizations and individuals to urge the United Nations Human Rights Council to convene a commission of inquiry to investigate systemic racism and police[…]

U.S. Chernobl, Why the US Failed and China Succeeded against COVID-19

November 28, 2020 UNAC Editor Capitalism, China, Healthcare, Immigrants, Imperialism, Public Health

By Lee Siu Hin, Published on IACenter.org, August 1, 2020 This is the second part of the introduction to Capitalism on a Ventilator, an anthology of articles on the US handling of the COVID-19 crisis and the Chinese response to the same, edited by IAC’s Sara Flounders and Lee Siu-Hin. Capitalism on a Ventilator, which includes articles by UNAC AC[…]

US Doing its Best to Lock China Out of Latin America

November 6, 2020 UNAC Editor China, El Salvador, Imperialism

by Vijay Prashad, published on Asia Times, November 4, 2020 On August 20, 2018, El Salvador’s leftist president Salvador Sánchez Cerén announced on national television that his country would break its ties with Taiwan and recognize the People’s Republic of China. This was in accord with international law, said Sánchez Cerén, and it would bring “great benefits for our country.”[…]

Reclaiming Africa’s Early Post-Independence History

November 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Africa, Austerity, Economics, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Neocolonialism

by By Adebayo Olukoshi, Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei, Aishu Balaji and Anita Nayar in Accra, Ghana, published on Consortium News, October 30, 2020 In 1965, Kwame Nkrumah described the paradox of neocolonialism in Africa, in which “the soil continue[s] to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.” He captured what continues to be an essential feature[…]

People of the World Say No to U.S. Imperialism

October 31, 2020 UNAC Editor Imperialism, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Bases

by Janine Solanki, published in FireThisTime Newsletter, Volume 14, June-August 2020 “I can’t breathe” were the dying words of George Floyd, repeated more than 20 times while a white police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. During this whole time, Floyd, a 46-year old black man, was already handcuffed and pinned facedown on the ground[…]