Democracy and Consent

The Truth About Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis”

March 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, CIA, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Mass action, The War at Home, U.S. Hegemony, US Government Action, US Politics

By John Pottinger and Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, February 23, 2025 The Truth Abut Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis” A Marxist Assessment That President Trump has dismantled or significantly gutted some dozen or more government agencies, frozen the allocation of trillions of dollars in the federal budget allocated to run the country, fired multiple[…]

Ukraine, War Propaganda and the Return of Russiagate

March 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Cost of War, Democracy and Consent, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, US Meddling in Europe, US Politics, War and Peace

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, February 26, 2025 We must be able to acknowledge that Donald Trump has created a serious constitutional crisis while also recognizing that changing the U.S. relationship with Russia is groundbreaking and a necessity. “Mueller Finds No Trump Russia Conspiracy …” proclaimed a portion of a New York Times headline on March 24,[…]

Venezuelan President Criticized for Not Being a Proper Dictator

February 17, 2025 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Democracy and Consent, Immigrants, Imperial Lies and Liars, Latin America, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela, War on the Poor

by Roger D. Harris, published on Internationalist 360°, February 2, 2025 Hot off the newswires are shocking tales of democratic elections in Venezuela, grassroots organizations forming food cooperatives, and repatriation of migrants. What will one of the media establishment’s most demonized “authoritarian regimes” do next? Bloomberg approvingly quotes an opposition-supporting Venezuelan living in Chile that Venezuela’s scheduling of parliamentary and[…]

The Fightback Road to Counter Trump 2.0’s Shock and Awe, America First and White Supremacy

February 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Democracy and Consent, Fascism, Racism, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home

by Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard, published on Socialist Action, January 26, 2025 Donald J. Trump was sworn in for his second term as president at 12 Noon, January 20, in the Capital building in Washington, D.C. that was violently assaulted by his far-right supporters four years earlier, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election when he lost[…]

Trump Keeps His Promises While Democrats Must Be Abandoned

January 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Imperialism, Racism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report Trump begins his term delivering on promises, but compromised and colluding democrats have ready excuses for betraying their voters. “Yet, with the return of Trump, opportunists in our communities and beyond are telling us that the real culprits in our oppression and the targets for opposition are Trump and republicans.” Black Alliance[…]

Remembering Jamaica in the East/West Crossfire

January 20, 2025 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Jamaica, US Intervention

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 8, 2025 Jamaicans still remember their visionary leaders, Norman and Michael Manley, and the bloody general election of 1980. I’m writing this from Jamaica while visiting an expat friend. I was here many years ago, in the late 70s, when Democratic Socialist Michael Manley was in power, Bob Marley was alive,[…]

Washington’s (not so) Strong Man in Seoul is Defying Arrest

January 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Korea, North Korea

by In Jeong Kim, published on DropSite News, January 3, 2025 Editor’s Note: Actually, he was finally arrested yesterday, January 17. So, it took me two weeks to get to this but it’s still critical to understand the political morass in South Korea. On January 3, three days after a South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for suspended president[…]

Joe Biden’s Terrible Legacy

January 18, 2025 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Genocide, Racism, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 15, 2025 The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for[…]

Taxpayers Suing Congress members For Funding Genocide Speak Out

January 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Genocide, Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Peoples' Movements, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, US Law

by Marjorie Cohen, published on Popular Resistance , January 4, 2025 (originally published on Truthout) Editor’s Note: Our elected officials ignore our concerns, and dismiss our demands. Time to up the ante! The issue of genocide is too big to let them off. “We Have to Act.” Plaintiff Tarik Kanaana says the lawsuit “has given people something to rally[…]

The West is Goading Georgia: Tbilisi Has Been Ensnared by Nato Hypocrisy

January 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions, Democracy and Consent, Global Trade, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, NGOs, Political Analysis, Russia, US Incited Protests

by Thomas Fazi, published on Defending Democracy, November 2, 2024 This is a little out of date but the story is pretty much, Ukraine redux. And, since this was written, the pressure has been rising. Looks like in Georgia, its pizza rather than cookies. ~jb Food. Churches. Chacha. This is what Georgia has long been known for. But now this[…]