Corporatism

US Congressional Resolution Calls for Annulling the Monroe Doctrine and Ending Sanctions

January 27, 2024 UNAC Editor Corporatism, Latin America, Monroe Doctrine, US Foreign Policy

by Roger D. Harris, published on Popular Resistance, January 18, 2024 Now, 200 years after President James Monroe first promulgated his dictate giving the Yankees dominion of the rest of the hemisphere, a congressional resolution calls for annulling the Monroe Doctrine and replacing it with a “new good neighbor” policy. The intent is to “foster improved relations and deeper, more effective cooperation”[…]

Corporate War Profiteers Finally Put on Trial

November 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Capitalism, Corporatism, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Protest, Resistance, Weapons Sales

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, November 20, 2023 The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal began on November 12, 2023 and has weekly sessions on Zoom and later available on their Rumble channel. If you are interested in viewing the Tribunal or learning more about it, please visit their website at https://merchantsofdeath.org. There, you can register for[…]

New Strategy Launched to Fight Cop City

June 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Corporatism, Police Brutality, Police Corruption

by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, June 12, 2023 Atlanta Within a day of the massive community turnout at the June 5 Atlanta City Council meeting — where, despite 16 1/2 hours of public comment opposing the over $67 million of taxpayer money to build the militarized police training center in the Weelaunee Forest, the Council approved the expenditure[…]

East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy

March 1, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Austerity, Corporatism, Socio-Economic Struggles, Toxic Chemicals, War on the Earth, War on the Poor

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 1, 2023 A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the ruling class. The U.S. is an oligarchy. Stating this fact explains events that may seem mysterious if this[…]

Black Market in Broad Daylight

December 27, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Corporatism, Corruption, Prisons and Prisoners, War on the Poor

by Lauren Smith, published on Covert Action Magazine, December 6, 2022 [This article is the second part of a series on human rights abuse by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Miami Federal Detention Center (Miami FDC). Part One was on its deadly lack of health care services. Part Two is about its torturous and corrupt food[…]

Behind Sam Bankman-Fried’s Cryptocurrency Crash

December 5, 2022 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Corporatism, Corruption, Economic Collapse, US Government Action, US Politics

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, December 4, 2022 “What is the robbing of a bank to the founding of a bank?” —Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera Thirty-year-old “wonder boy” Sam Bankman-Fried (often called SBF) was, at $21 billion, among the richest men on earth. Until a month ago, he was CEO of the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the[…]

Sanctions and the New Cold War on China

September 30, 2022 UNAC Editor China, Corporatism, Imperialism, Legislation, Political Analysis, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade Wars, US Foreign Policy

by Carlos Martinez, August 2022 Background The instinctive attitude of the United States towards the Chinese Revolution was of course one of hostility. In a protracted war between progress and reaction, between the future and the past, the governments of the US and the People’s Republic of China were, and are, are on opposite sides of the barricades. Hence shortly[…]

The Cries of Pakistan

September 6, 2022 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Corporatism, Corruption, Natural Disaster, Pakistan

by Pippa Bartolotti, September 6, 2022 As the water levels in Pakistan continue to rise, the exhausted people of that land run out of ground to live on. In this case it is not the sea level rise which has concerned us for so long, but the ever-faster rate of glacier melt. It is astounding that Pakistan has 7000 glaciers[…]

From Bill Gates to the Great Refusal – Farmers on the Frontline

August 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Agriculture, Corporatism, India

by Colin Todhunter, published on Countercurrents, July 27, 2022 Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most humans were engaged in agriculture. Our relationship with nature was immediate. Within just a few generations, however, for many people across the world, their link with the land has been severed. Food now arrives pre-packaged (often precooked), preserved with chemicals and contains harmful pesticides, micro-plastics,[…]

Humanity Subsidizing ‘Our Own Extinction,’ Warns Study

February 20, 2022 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Corporatism, Environment, Uncategorized

by Julia Conley, published on Common Dreams, February 17, 2022 Releasing a new study showing that world governments spend at least $1.8 trillion annually to subsidize activities which worsen the climate crisis, global subsidies experts on Thursday said leaders must eliminate or redirect the financial supports as part of an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework at an upcoming summit in China.[…]