Imperialism

Leonard Peltier Denied Parole

July 8, 2024 UNAC Editor Imperialism, Native Americans, Political Prisoners

by People’s Dispatch, July 2, 2024 Longest-held political prisoner in United States and Indigenous freedom fighter continues to maintain innocence. The federal Parole Commission has denied Leonard Peltier’s request for parole, Peltier’s legal team announced on Tuesday, July 2. This marks a major setback for the longest-held political prisoner in the United States, who had his first parole hearing in over[…]

In Waging War on the UN Refugee Agency, the West is Openly Siding with Israeli Genocide

February 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Imperialism, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Political Analysis, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Jonathan Cook, published on Substack, January 30, 2024 There is an important background to the decision by the United States and other leading western states, the UK among them, to freeze funding to the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main channel by which the UN disseminates food and welfare services to the most desperate and destitute[…]

Rebuttals to NYTimes and Tom Friedman’s Racism and Ignorance

February 4, 2024 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Censorship and Propaganda, Cold War, Imperial Lies and Liars, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Propaganda

Rebuttal #1 (Racism): Tweet from Ahmed Eldin, a response to “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom” by Thomas L. Friedman, February 2, 2024, New York Times pic.twitter.com/iPi5IwaETP — AHMED | أحمد (@ASE) February 4, 2024 Rebuttal #2 (Ignorance): by Richard Rubenstein, published on Counterpunch, February 2, 2024, in Response to “A Titanic Geopolitical Struggle Is Underway” by Thomas[…]

The Legal Case Against Joe Biden for Enabling Israel’s Genocide Against Gaza

February 1, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Imperialism, Interview, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Government Action

Murtaza Hussain interviews Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights, for Intercepted, January 17, 2024 Editor’s Note: This is an important case. The fact that the judge is allowing it to go forward is a significant step in US jurisprudence. The hearing began on January 26, and can be seen HERE. A panel of judges at the International Court[…]

Israel: the Genocidal Thrust of Imperialism Today

January 27, 2024 UNAC Editor Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Portugal, Resistance

by Manuel Raposo, published on Workers World, January 22, 2024 What we have seen since October in Gaza and the West Bank is the execution of the long-standing plan nurtured by Zionist ideology to liquidate or expel the entire Arab population and take over all of Palestine as Israel’s territory. These aims have been exposed to the light of day[…]

Red Sea Politics: Ethiopia, Somalia & US/EU/NATO

January 23, 2024 UNAC Editor Africa, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Imperial Wars, Imperialism, Neocolonialism, Somalia

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 17, 2024 An MOU pairing Ethiopia’s Red Sea ambitions with Somaliland’s secessionist aspirations heightens tensions in the Horn of Africa. The world’s eyes are now on the geostrategic Red Sea waterways where Yemen’s Ansar Allah fighters have stopped Israeli and Israel-bound ships from passing. Other regional tensions have come into play[…]

Organized Labour In an Imperial Warzone

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Fascism, Imperialism, Labor, Ukraine

Speech given by Ken Stone at a Rally outside the Ontario Federation of Labour Conference, November 22, 2023 Brothers and Sisters, I wish to thank the Toronto Coalition Against NATO for inviting me to speak on this occasion. Organized labour has an important role to play in the political discourse in Ontario and Canada and we wish the Ontario Federation[…]

The United Arab Emirates is Destroying the Biodiversity of a Yemeni Archipelago.

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Environment, Imperialism, Israel, Somalia, Yemen

by Mouna Hashem and Martha Mundy, Published on Counterpunch, December 1, 2023 Environmental destruction entails two intertwined processes: climate change and the destruction of biodiversity, which mutually reinforce each other. Both are human-caused. Climate change is not the lead driver of biodiversity loss; it is human overexploitation of natural resources and habitat destruction. Protecting biodiversity protects against climate change. Nowhere is the[…]

New Mood In The World Will Put An End To The Global Monroe Doctrine

November 29, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Imperialism, Latin America, Monroe Doctrine, Organizing, Palestine, Resistance, Revolution

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Tricontinental, November 24, 2023 Every day since 7 October has felt like an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, with hundreds of thousands gathering in Istanbul, a million in Jakarta, and then yet another million across Africa and Latin America to demand an end to the brutal attack being carried out by Israel (with the collusion of the[…]

Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests By Talking

November 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Fascism, Genocide, Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Palestine

by Caitlin Johnstone, published in Caitlin Johnstone’s Newsletter, November 13, 2023 One problem Israel keeps running into is how the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians which keeps the apartheid state operational also causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking, which hurts Israel’s PR interests. We saw this illustrated in a recent New Yorker interview with Daniella Weiss,[…]