Colonialism

The Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance Met in Tehran to Honor the Achievements of the Martyr Qasem Soleimani

January 27, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Imperial Wars, Iran, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Syria, Yemen

by Judith Bello, published on Syria Support Movement, January 22, 2024 I traveled to Tehran to meet with the Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance the first week in January this year. The Gathering is an international organization based in Lebanon, but our meeting in Tehran at this time was an opportunity to attend memorial events for Qasem[…]

Dismantling Western Hypocrisy on Xinjiang and Gaza

January 19, 2024 UNAC Editor China, Colonialism, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Terrorism, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, January 16, 2024 The movement in the U.S. supporting Palestinian national liberation has drawn truly massive numbers of people in action. On Jan. 13, for example, a reported 400,000 people marched on the White House, marking the largest pro-Palestine demonstration in U.S. history. To counter this growing outpouring of support for Palestine in[…]

South Africa’s Case at the ICJ Exposes the U.S. and the West

January 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Imperial Wars, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, South Africa, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January17, 2023 South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel proves that this very serious word should be used more often instead of being treated as a rarity. The U.S. and the nations of the west have committed countless genocides and their actions must be labeled as such. On January 11, 2024, the[…]

The Marriage Between Zionism and Imperialism

January 13, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Europe, Fascism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

by Mark Vandepitte, published on Workers World, January 11, 2023 The genocide the Israeli army is perpetrating today in Gaza is not a slip-up but the logical offshoot of an imperialist and colonial project established at the end of the 19th century: Zionism. To properly understand what is happening today, it is necessary to understand the origins and stakes of[…]

ExxonMobil And a Possible War in South America

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Fascism, Guyana, Venezuela

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, December 5, 2023 News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Mon. Dec. 4, 2023: On December 3, 2023, a large number of registered voters in Venezuela voted in a referendum over the Essequibo region that is disputed with neighboring Guyana. Nearly all those who voted answered yes to the five questions. These questions asked the Venezuelan people to affirm[…]

Scott Ritter Debunks Israeli Lies About the Hamas Military Raid on October 7

December 5, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Propaganda, War and Weapons

by Scott Ritter, published on Socialist Action, December 4, 2023 There is a truism that I often cite when discussing the various analytical approaches to assessing the wide variety of geopolitical problems facing the world today—you can’t solve a problem unless you first properly define it. The gist of the argument is quite simple—any solution which has nothing to do[…]

Baltimore & Israel: A Global Gang of Colonizers

November 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Militarism, Militarized Police, Occupation, Palestine, Political Analysis, Poverty, Rights of Opressed Peoples, U.S. Aggression

by Netfa Freeman, published on Black Alliance for Peace, November 17, 2023 From Haiti to Puerto Rico and from the Congo to Baltimore, African (Black) people suffer from colonialism. Current atrocities happening to the people of Gaza and the West Bank clearly show the colonial reality of life and death in Palestine. What we see daily in Palestine is a[…]

Can US Threats Prevent a Wider War in the Middle East?

November 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Political Analysis

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, November 29, 2023 While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli coflict in Gaza from exploding into a regional war, the United States has also sent two aircraft carrier strike groups, a Marine Expeditionary Unit and 1,200 extra troops to the Middle[…]

Time for Israel to Pay: This is How to Prevent a New Nakba in Palestine

November 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Racism, US Foreign Policy

by Ramzy Baroud, published on Palestine Chronicle, November 22, 2023 The ‘Gaza Nakba’ must be rejected, not just by words, but through solid Arab and international action, to prevent Israel from taking advantage of the war to expel Palestinians out of their homeland, again. It is simply inaccurate to claim that the ongoing Israeli attempt to displace all, or many[…]

Struggling to Break the Gaza Blockade

November 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda, Citizen Diplomacy, Collapsed States, Colonialism, Egypt, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 22, 2023 Miles of semi-trailer trucks are lined up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing, waiting to deliver water, food, medicine and other essentials to Gaza. Longtime peace and justice activist Sarah Flounders recently traveled to Egypt with a delegation to push for opening the Rafah Crossing to let[…]