Poverty and Sanctions

Briefing: The Effects of the Economic Blockade of Venezuela

from the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, The blockade in context The U.S. has been pursuing a strategy of ‘regime change’ through destabilising Venezuela dating back to the early years of Hugo Chávez’s presidency. This led George W. Bush’s administration to support the failed coup d’état against Chávez in 2002 and also the right-wing management lock-out in the oil industry. The lock-out,[…]

How the Coup in Venezuela and the US Housing Crisis are Inextricably Connected

June 25, 2019 UNAC Editor Poverty and Sanctions, US Government Action, Venezuela, War on the Poor

by by Ajoke Williams and Kei Pritsker, Published on Mint Press News, June 18, 2019 The United States economy is organized such that all commodities, including both weapons and housing, drive the lion’s share of profits upward, into the pockets of a wealthy elite class, at the expense of the masses of working people who generate those profits through their[…]

SYRIA: U.S Clings to “Regime Change” Fantasy

April 7, 2019 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Poverty and Sanctions, Syria, U.S. Aggression

by Peter Ford, from 21st Century Wire, April 2, 2019 With the military situation largely frozen, the last two months have been marked mainly by developments involving the US – the ending of the ISIS caliphate in the US-controlled part of Syria, Trump’s U-turn over keeping US forces in Syria, and US recognition of Israel’s annexation of the Golan. US[…]

Huge Defeat for Imperialists: The U.S. Broke Its Teeth in Venezuela

March 24, 2019 UNAC Editor Economic Blockade, Latin America, Poverty and Sanctions, Venezuela, Venezuela

By Alison Bodine, Published on Volume 13, Issue 3 of Fire This Time newspaper The miserably failed “humanitarian aid” delivery into Venezuela on February 23 is another nail in the coffin of the U.S. government’s coup attempt against President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian revolutionary process in Venezuela. Before this day, the U.S. government and their allies, including Canada, thought[…]

Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All but Corporate Media Pretend Not To Notice

February 14, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Journalism, Legislation, Medicare for All, Political Corruption, Poverty and Sanctions

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, February 14, 2019 When the top Democrat secretly plots to subvert a proposal supported by the vast majority of her party, that’s supposed to be news — unless the corporate media decide otherwise. “The plutocrat-owned press is protecting Pelosi from the extreme embarrassment.” Thanks to Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid in 2016, his[…]

Imperial U.S. Hardens Sanctions Against the Revolutionary Government of Venezuela

October 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Poverty and Sanctions, Resistance, Venezuela

by Alison Bodine, Published on Fire This Time, September, 2018 On August 6, 2018, thousands of people in Venezuela just marched in the streets of the capital city Caracas in support of President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian revolutionary government of Venezuela. They marched despite the violence and terror that had been inflicted on their country with the August 4[…]