Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Rick Sterling, published on La Progressive, January 2021 In early December I traveled to Venezuela to be an election observer at their national assembly election. I was part of a group of eight persons from Canada and US organized by CodePink. There were about two hundred international observers in total, including the Latin American Council of Electoral Experts. I[…]
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by Garikai Chengu, published on CounterPunch, September 10, 2019 Originally, I had published an older article by the same author in this location as part of a pre-New-Years retrospective. However, I did not have an accurate date for the original publication. This is a more current article, and even more instructive. Sorry about the switch but I think you will[…]
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by Joe Lombardo, published December 13, 2020 In the recent Venezuelan election, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the party of Nicolas Maduro won a stunning victory. However, there has been a lot of discussion on why the turnout was low, around 31% of the eligible voters. We should be clear that the election process would have been attacked by[…]
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by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, December 6, 2020 A member of UNAC AC, Margaret traveled to Venezuela to participate as an election observer. She was a member of the Embassy Protection Collective last summer. [jb] On December 2, the Embassy Protection Collective (EPC) members, who were arrested in May 2019 when the United States illegally invaded the Venezuelan[…]
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by Greg Godels, published on ZZ’sBlog, October 5, 2020 The idea of the US as a citadel of democracy is based on an enduring myth. The frequent references, even on the left, to “saving our democracy” or “protecting our democracy” from Trump, the Russians, the Chinese, Islam, or any other forces lurking in the cabinet of popular demonology, is sheer[…]
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by S. Brian Willson, published on The Internationalist, August 3, 2020 The USA failed State continues to seek destruction of NICARAGUA (among other nations such as Venezuela, Cuba, Syria and Iran, who refuse to obey US demands for neoliberal privatization that enrich the already rich. George Washington, who waged scorched Earth warfare Against the Iroquois Indigenous in the 1770s, 1780s,[…]
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by the Nicaraguan Government, published on TeleSUR English, May 29, 2020 In the entire history of Nicaragua, it is only with the two governments of the Sandinista Front, that the popular interests of the great majority, that are poor, have been prioritized. The strength of the Sandinista Model is based on characteristics and results. The characteristics are that the FSLN[…]
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By Marco Teruggi, translation published on Resumen, North America Bureau, March 11, 2020 Yesterday Caracas witnessed a mobilization called by Juan Guaido and another by Chavismo. What should have been an overwhelming opposition action failed to make an impact and clearly showed the division in the ranks of the opposition, an element that has forced the strategy of the United[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, Published on Black Agenda Report, September 25, 2019 The co-founder of Black Lives Matter has struck a cynical deal with corporate Democrats to boost Elizabeth Warren by attacking Bernie Sanders forces as racist. “The Working Families Party is a perfect partner for the fraud because it exists only as a cover for the Democrats.” The black misleadership[…]
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Image from North Carolina campaign against voter suppression in 2016. By NY Disabilities Bureau of Workers World Party posted on Workers World, September 10, 2018 A proposal by the Randolph County, Georgia, Board of Elections to close seven out of nine polling places in one stroke before the November election has been defeated. The board’s rationale for its vote-suppressing plan[…]
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