Connecting the Dots – Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

‘People With a Lot of Money Are Really Determining What Culture Is’

June 3, 2019 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Connecting the Dots, Resistance, White Supremacy

CounterSpin interview with Amin Husain on decolonizing museums by Janine Jackson, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, May 26, 2019 MP3 Link Janine Jackson: Last month, the American Museum of Natural History decided it would not allow its Hall of Ocean Life to host a gala for fascist Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—the institution evidently persuaded that the guy who’s[…]

Social Justice: What We Need to Do and Why It Matters

April 29, 2019 UNAC Editor Connecting the Dots, Resistance, War on the Poor

A brief talk by Cassia Laham from the March 30th Mobilization in Washington DC, Published by Freedom Road Socialist Organization No to NATO *** Yes to Venezuelan Sovereignty

US Doubles Down As Empire Declines

March 19, 2018 UNAC Editor Connecting the Dots, Resistance

drawing by Dan Burgevin, 12/17 by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, originally published in the Popular Resistance Newsletter, March 17, 2018 US empire is in decline. Reports of the end of the US being the unitary power in world affairs are common, as are predictions of the end of US empire. China surpassed the United States as the world economic[…]

The Wars Abroad Meet the War at Home

December 14, 2017 UNAC Editor Connecting the Dots

By Felton Davis of NYC Catholic Worker Below is the announcement sent out by Isaac at Action Corps NYC, and a couple of the photo sets from Monday’s demonstration across from the United Nations. It was a long twenty hours “in the system,” as the process from the precinct through the labyrinth of basement holding cells, to the courtroom at[…]

Commonality of Oppression, Solidarity in Struggle, Liberation for a Better World: Freedom

November 14, 2017 UNAC Editor Connecting the Dots

Khury Petersen-Smith explores the commonalities of the struggle of Black Americans with that of the Palestinian people. This is a wonderful talk on an important subject. I recorded the event on my iPhone which, unfortunately, was low on minutes. Not wishing to have the entire 2 hours in a single recording, (and being low on minutes) I rather awkwardly broke[…]

Socialism or Amazonism

October 27, 2017 Glen Ford Connecting the Dots

Originally posted on Black Agenda Report. Two unfolding developments show the stark choices faces humanity. In China, president Xi Jinping laid out the Communist Party’s 30-year grand plan to become “a moderately prosperous country” by 2020 and “a modern prosperous society” by 2049. The roadmap was both detailed and realistic, based on the world’s most populous nation’s steady — but[…]

US Provides Military Assistance to 73 Percent of World’s Dictatorships

October 2, 2017 UNAC Editor Connecting the Dots

By Rich Whitney, Truthout, Saturday, September 23, 2017 For decades, the American people have been repeatedly told by their government and corporate-run media that acts of war ordered by their president have been largely motivated by the need to counter acts of aggression or oppression by “evil dictators.” We were told we had to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein was an[…]

The Story of Charlottesville was Written in Blood in the Ukraine

August 17, 2017 Ajamu Baraka Connecting the Dots

by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka “While I recognize the danger of the violent right-wing movement, I am more concerned with the right-wing policies that are being enacted into law and policy by both Democrats and Republicans.” https://blackagendareport.com/story-charlottesville-was-written-blood-ukraine What is the character of racist right-wing politics today? Is it the crazed white supremacist who plows into an anti-fascist demonstration[…]