Economics

Sanctions, Syria and the Need for Solidarity

December 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, Latin America, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 16, 2024 The following article is based on a talk given at the “Americas Without Sanctions” hybrid meeting. This program was held in-person at the historic Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., on December 10, 2024 — Human Rights Day. In addition, more than 400 people registered for the Zoom. The program[…]

The Fall of the Keystone in the Axis of Resistance

December 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Austerity, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Palestine, Resistance, Syria, Uncategorized, Yemen, Zionism

by Paul Larudee, published on Dissident Voice, December 16, 2024 For most of the time since its 1946 independence from France, Syria has resisted all attempts to make it a vassal state. It has paid dearly, as a target of subversion, war, occupation and the most onerous economic sanctions in the world, for its anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism, its support for[…]

UNAC Response to the Overthrow of the Syrian Government

December 11, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Featured, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, Syria, Terrorism, Turkey, US Hypocrisy, US Intervention

UNAC Statement, December 10, 2024 This is a moment to salute and remember the martyrs and resistance fighters in Syria, who for decades and against all odds held firm against U.S. imperialist domination. Because imperialism has no solutions the struggle will regroup and break forth again and each time at a higher level. After the U.S. backed surge of mercenaries[…]

As Hunger Crisis Grows, 3 Palestinians Killed in Gaza Bread Stampede

December 8, 2024 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economic Blockade, Genocide, Palestine

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff We can’t forget Gaza despite the catastrophe in Syria. The Genocide continues. ~jb The Gaza civil defense on Friday said as many as 100 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks and massacres in northern Gaza in the past 24 hours. 75 of the victims were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two homes in Beit Lahia,[…]

The Economic War Against Syria

December 4, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Economic Collapse, Humanitarian Aid, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, US Foreign Policy

by Roberta Rivolta, published on Counter-Hegemonic Studies, December 4, 2024 As ancient as economic wars may be, the use of embargoes as means of coercion experienced a significant acceleration only at the end of the Cold War. While the collapse of the USSR reduced the risk that a targeted nation could fall into the Soviet Union sphere of influence, the[…]

They Lied About Gaza And They Are Lying About Syria

December 3, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Hybrid Warfare, Palestine, Racism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, U.S. Aggression

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Substack, November 30, 2024 Al-Qaeda affiliates with a history of receiving western funding have reactivated in Syria along with Turkish-backed fighters to recapture significant amounts of territory in the war-ravaged nation. It’s hard to say exactly what’s happening in the moment, but I will say it’s mighty convenient how Russia being tied up in Ukraine[…]

Peru’s Choices Between a New Deep-Water Port and Used Metro Cars

November 27, 2024 UNAC Editor Belt and Road, China, Global Trade, Peru

*Featured Image: “We are building inclusive economic growth,” Biden said. | Source: EFE/Presidency by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, November 25, 2024 The Imperial Center, once again, embarrasses itself with offers that are insulting to our friends in the Global South. Meanwhile, this is the conservative U.S. supported president who came to office by sidelining and jailing the popular left-leaning[…]

Trump Confronts a New World Order With Old Threats

November 21, 2024 UNAC Editor Africa, China, Economics, Imperialism, Russia

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, November 14, 2024 President-elect Donald Trump faces an entirely new problem confronting U.S. imperialism. It is unprecedented. A new world is emerging. It is globally recognized that U.S. economic and political power is in an unstoppable downward spiral, having failed in decades of war to turn its fortunes around. Now it is at[…]

Cuba’s Economic Crisis: US Sanctions and the Problem of ‘Overcompliance’ 

November 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Collapsed States, Cuba, Global South, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Joy Gordon, published on LaMonde Diplomatique, October 7, 2024 Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US imposed severe new economic measures against the island nation. In the[…]

A Conversation With Venezuelan Ambassador in Damascus – Latin America and Palestine

November 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Global South, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Political Analysis, Poverty and Sanctions, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Vanessa Beeley, published on Substack, October 28, 2924 Two days ago I had the privilege to have a conversation with the Venezuelan Ambassador at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Syrian Arab Republic – Dr. Jose Gregorio Biomorgi. You can watch a previous interview with Dr. Biomorgi that I did in 2019 when Venezuela was[…]