Democrats and Republicans

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters

January 11, 2025 UNAC Editor Anti-War, Democrats and Republicans

by Gerry Condon, published on Workers World, January 10, 2025 Gerry Condon, who was a leading activist among exiled military deserters in Canada, places the role of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in perspective, while presenting a survey of how repulsion against the U.S. occupation of Vietnam drove varied forms of war and draft resistance among U.S. youths. These forms included[…]

Biden Leaves Office But Risks War With Russia

November 21, 2024 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Democrats and Republicans

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, November 20, 2024 Democrats are in a collective state of panic because Donald Trump is returning to the presidency. But Joe Biden is escalating conflict in the Ukraine proxy war against Russia and endangering the whole world in the process. If Trump is a fascist, then surely Biden is as well. While[…]

Liberal Arrogance and Hatred on Display After Trump Victory

November 14, 2024 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, The War at Home

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, November 13, 2024 While Donald Trump is frequently called a fascist and is even compared to Adolph Hitler, some angry democrats are engaging in their own racist and eliminationist rhetoric in the wake of his impending return to the presidency. Their reaction to Trump’s victory reveals that intolerance and bigotry are not unique[…]

Behind Trump’s Decisive Victory

November 12, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Corporatism, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, The War at Home, US Government Action, US Politics

by Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard, published on Socialist Action, November 11, 2024 Donald Trump swept the election for president, winning the popular vote by about 73,000,000 to Kamala Harris’s 68,000,000, the first time a Republican won the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2005. Trump also won the undemocratic but decisive Electoral College, 301 to 226, as of[…]

A No Win Dilemma for U.S. Peace Voters

October 31, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-War, Corporatism, Corruption, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, US Politics

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, October 31, 2024 On October 24th, a U.S. presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu that the war is over, because it’s basically our proxy war. We control the armaments, the funding, the diplomatic cover, the intelligence, etc., so we can end[…]

Fascism and War Cannot Be Voted Out

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Capitalism, Censorship and Propaganda, Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Imperial Lies and Liars, Protest, Racism, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

by Ellen Isaacs, published on Countercurrents, September 23, 2024 Editor’s Note: Another much needed perspective that has been in the queue for too long. [jb] Many progressive friends declare they will “hold their nose” and vote for Harris, if only to prevent Trump from instituting fascism. “Bad as she is” – intolerable on Palestine, flipflopping on the environment and health[…]

October 7, The Election and Capitalist Crisis, A Conversation With Ajamu Baraka

October 10, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Austerity, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Genocide, Resistance, The War at Home

by Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, October 8, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report is again in conversation with Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report Editor and Contributor. The US presidential election is just four weeks away, and momentous events are occurring, particularly in Western Asia, where Israel continues its onslaught with[…]