Colonialism

Podcasting Star Mario Nawfal Talks to Rawandan President Paul Kagame

March 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Civil War, Colonialism, Congo, DRC, Political Analysis, Rwanda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, March 12, 2025 High-profile X podcaster and Elon Musk protégé Mario Nawfal recently produced some slick propaganda with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. His team repeatedly asked me to record a six-minute response but then neither played it nor explained why. Mario Nawfal recently traveled to Rwanda to interview Rwandan President Paul Kagame,[…]

Plundering Africa – Income Deflation and Unequal Ecological Exchange Under Structural Adjustment Programmes

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Africa, Colonialism, Commodity Markets, Economics, International Aid and Debt, Neocolonial Economic Dominance

by Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel, published on Black Agenda Report, March 12, 2025 Originally published in ROAPE . During the 1980s and 1990s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank forced governments across Africa to implement neoliberal structural adjustment programmes (SAPs). SAPs compelled post-colonial governments to cut public services and public-sector production, remove labour market regulations and wage[…]

Making the Bloom a Desert

March 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Occupation, Palestine

by Sara el-Sohl, published on Mondoweiss, March 9, 2025 Israel has been starving the Palestinians and killing the land for more than 75 years. At the moment they are ending the agreed upon “Ceasefire” by once again blocking water and electricity along with everything else from being transported into Gaza. [jb] In 1969, 21 years after Western powers redrew[…]

“Scars on the land.”

March 4, 2025 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Conflict Over Water, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, War on the Earth, Zionism

by Cara Marianna, published on The Floutist’s Substack, February 25, 2025 25 FEBRUARY—Israeli tanks rolled on Sunday into jenin, the northernmost West Bank governorate, marking an escalation in the Zionist regime’s war of annexation against the West Bank. Mainstream media would have you believe this was the first time in 20 years tanks have deployed against Palestinian communities. In fact,[…]

The Black Alliance for Peace Welcomes the Release of Leonard Peltier and Demands Unrestricted Release of all U.S. Political Prisoners

January 31, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Colonialism, Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home, White Supremacy

Statement by the Black Alliance for Peace, January 28, 2025 The immoral life sentence of American Indian Movement freedom fighter, political prisoner and prisoner of war, Leonard Peltier was commuted by the U.S. President Joe Biden, only moments before Biden’s term in office ended. Now 80 years old, Peltier languished for over 50 years in prison after being unjustly convicted[…]

From Arrests to Invasions, Israel Targets West Bank Universities

January 15, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Colonialism, Education, Genocide, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation

by Ashjan Ajour, published on Truthout, January 9, 2024 Palestinian universities, powerful resistance sites, are forced to contend with settler violence and segregation walls. Israel’s long-standing assault on Palestine’s education sector is so severe that it has earned a label: scholasticide. In Gaza, the devastation has been catastrophic: Israel destroyed 80 percent of schools in the Strip and bombed all[…]

White Settlers Bizarre Economic Strategy of Terrorizing Black People

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Human Rights, Racism, The War at Home, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2024 Jordan Neely’s killing and the subsequent acquittal of Daniel Penny can be seen as part of the reactionary existential panic felt by whites whenever the country experiences growing economic instability and hardship. That jurors on Monday exonerated an ex-Marine for strangling an African American panhandler who was in mental[…]

Will Anybody Stop Israel’s Invasion of Syria?

December 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Counter Revolution, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, Israel, LandGrabs, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Syria, U.S. Aggression, War Crimes

by Nicolas Davies, published on LA Progressive, December 25, 2024 The United States, Turkey, and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on Syria. Israel also attacked and destroyed most of the Syrian Navy in port at Latakia, and invaded Syria from the long-occupied Golan Heights, advancing to within 16 miles[…]

Ukraine’s Leaders Discuss Continued War Against Russia, Plans to Transform Country into Western Colony

December 12, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Corruption, Imperial Wars, Imperialism, International Law, Military Budget, NATO, Russia

by Dmitri Kovalevich, published on Defend Democracy Press, November 25, 2024 Dissenting evaluation of the Ukrainian war by a member of the Ukrainian opposition. After Donald Trump’s election victory on November 5, the Ukrainian authorities and media are visibly concerned about a possible change of policy in Washington. During the recent presidential and Congress elections, US media close to the[…]

U.S. Schemes to Control Haiti are Failing

December 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Haiti, Kenya, United Nations, US Intervention

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, November 20, 2024 Misery and hunger are afflicting millions of Haitians. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), 5.41 million Haitians are “food insecure,” which means they regularly don’t get enough to eat. Most Haitians, according to the IPC report, spend 70% of their income on food. The IPC report and[…]