Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by C.J. Polychroniou, published on Truthout, October 25, 2024\ The recently concluded 2024 BRICS (an acronym for the combined economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kazan and attended by scores of Global South leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa[…]
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by Betsey Piette, published on Workers World, October 30, 2024 The potential power of a united Global South was on full display at the United Nations in March 2022. Representatives of many countries that had experienced imperialist aggression at the hands of the U.S., France, Britain and other NATO members collectively denounced U.S. sanctions as acts of war, calling NATO[…]
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by Misión Verdad Orinoco Tribune, published on Popular Resistance, October 24, 2024 Looks like Lula Inácio da Silva’s “Get Out of Jail Free” card was not free, after all. Too bad for Venezuela ….and Brazil. On Monday, it was reported that Brazil would oppose Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS group. The 16th Summit of the BRICS organization is taking place[…]
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by Maria Paez Victor, published on the Orinoco Tribune, August 1, 2024 “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” Elon Musk, 25 July 2020, Twitter Once again, as in 2002, Venezuela has been the victim of a combined media and diplomatic coup attempt, but this time with the added element of organized crime and a cyber-attack. Millions of[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, printed in TriContinental Institute Newsletter, June 20, 2024 Though the Dollar-Wall Street regime remains significantly powerful, de-dollarisation and possibilities of a shifting global order are being driven by US economic weakness, the aggressive use of illegal sanctions by the US and its Global North allies, and the growing political and economic strength of the Global South through[…]
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by Patrick Bond and Desmond D’Sa, published on Socialist Action, December 18, 2023 The most publicized sentence from the final COP28 [Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change] document – the first ‘Global Stocktake’ (GST), presided over by United Arab Emirates oil man Sultan Al-Jaber and co-managed by South Africa’s environment minister Barbara Creecy – is this[…]
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by Manuel Raposo, published on Workers World, September 8, 2023 (translation: John Catalinotto) Unable to stop the expansion of the BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa; Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are scheduled to become members on Jan. 1, 2024] and the growing prestige that the organization has gained in the dependent[…]
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by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, August 25, 2023 Meeting amid the gleaming glass towers of Johannesburg’s business district, the mostly billionaire heads of state had no clear agenda other than perhaps a major expansion of BRICS membership aimed at increasing its influence on the world capitalist marketplace. China’s President Xi Jinping mysteriously skipped the opening session, but[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, September 2, 2023 Note: The following article first appeared in the Global Times on Aug. 28. (tinyurl.com/2trh7mf2) Within days of each other, two very different meetings of world significance were held. The meetings sharply frame the choices. What kind of future these two meetings represent deserves to be analyzed and compared. At[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, April 7, 2023 In late February 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States had placed the nomination of Ajay Banga to be the next head of the World Bank, established in 1944. There will be no other official candidates for this job since—by convention—the U.S. nominee is automatically selected for the[…]
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