Colonialism

The Red Nation Stands with Palestinians in Their Struggle for Decolonization and Land Back

October 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Racism

Statement for The Red Nation, 10/13/2023 As we write this, Palestinians face unrelenting and unprecedented settler violence. The Israeli army has warned 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza to relocate south within the next twenty-four hours as Israel prepares to level Gaza with bombs.The Israeli apartheid regime has already cut off all food, water, and electricity to Gaza while carpet bombing[…]

The facts of the Ahli/Baptist Hospital Bombing

October 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Colonialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

from Good Shephard Collective Newsletter, October 17, 2023 View web version (The website is currently down due to an attack, but we shall see) Some basic facts: Today marks the twelfth day since the beginning of Al Aqsa Flood and the subsequent Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. Since October 7, Israeli colonial forces have murdered thousands of Palestinians in[…]

With All Eyes on Gaza, Israeli Soldiers and Settlers Kill Dozens of West Bank Palestinians

October 17, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Counter Revolution, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Brett Wilkins, published on Common Dreams, October 13, 2023 While the world watches Israel’s military pulverize Gaza amid anticipation of an imminent ground invasion of the besieged strip, Israeli soldiers and settlers—who are receiving thousands of assault rifles from the government—have killed dozens of Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past week, officials[…]

Netanyahu is an Albatross Around India’s Neck

October 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Colonialism, India, Iran, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Palestine, Racism, U.S. Aggression

. . . . and maybe some other countries neck’s as well! Operation Al Aqsa Flood in an international context. by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, October 14, 2023 One week has passed since an explosive situation erupted in West Asia around Israel. India’s famously loquacious External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is maintaining deafening silence. That is not[…]

A Political History of Zionism and Palestine

October 10, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Nazis, Palestine

by Charles Pierce, published on Dissident Voice, October 10, 2023 1. Doctrine. Zionism was devised by some middle-class Jewish Europeans (most prominently Lev Pinsker and Theodore Herzl) as one response to horrendous late 19th century anti-Jewish persecutions in Europe. Like many of their contemporaries among nationalistic privileged-class European intellectuals and like the Nazis who came later, the Zionists conceived of[…]

The Neocons’ Frankenstein Syndrome in Niger

September 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Anti-Imperialism, Capitalism, Colonialism, France, Imperialism, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Niger

by Julia Wright, published on Workers World, September 14, 2023 Mary Shelley, who wrote “Frankenstein,” published in 1819, was an English abolitionist born to radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and anarchist political philosopher William Godwin. Not only did she advocate the end of slavery, but in her father’s drawing room she overheard discussions about the beginning and the ending of biological[…]

People Of Niger Want To Shatter Resignation

September 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Colonialism, coup, Democracy and Consent, Global Alliances, Imperialism, Niger

By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, August 25, 2023 In 1958, the poet and trade union leader Abdoulaye Mamani of Zinder (Niger) won an election in his home region against Hamani Diori, one of the founders of the Nigerien Progressive Party. This election result posed a problem for French colonial authorities, who wanted Diori to lead the new[…]

Haiti: U.N. Sanctioned Occupation is a Done Deal

August 20, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Collapsed States, Colonialism, Democracy and Consent, Haiti, Hybrid Warfare, Kenya, Poverty and Sanctions, United Nations, US Foreign Policy

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[…]

War in Africa and War in the Americas: Accelerating the End of White World Supremacy

August 7, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Europe, Racism, U.S. Aggression, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, August 2, 2023 “The structural crisis of capitalism in its neoliberal form has created a legitimacy crisis for the capitalist rulers, making the use of force a permanent strategy for maintaining their dominance.” (from the Black Alliance for Peace Website) The U.S. recently deployed troops to Peru to shore-up the coup in[…]

The Terrible Origins of July 4th

July 5, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 4, 2023 The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would end slavery. The “patriots” motives were anything but noble. This article was originally published in Black Agenda Report in 2021. “He[…]