Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
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[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, September 19, 2024 In a blasting news interview on Israel’s Channel 12 on Sept. 15, Major General Israel Ziv, the army’s former head of operations in Gaza, asserted that the Zionist military is stuck in Gaza and has suffered significant losses during its 11-month offensive in the besieged Strip. Ziv stated that Israel[…]
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by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, September 13, 2024 Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Sept. 5 and 6, the first visit by a high level U.S. official in nearly 10 years. That means Blinken made a special visit to Haiti, a country that is the most exploited and poorest in the[…]
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TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing is a beautifully written book about poor and homeless people choosing to live and refusing to die. by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 11, 2024 I can’t recommend TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing, by Cheri Honkala and the Poor People’s Army, enough. Most people don’t like to think[…]
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By Adam Wetzstein, posted on Workers World, January 26, 2024 I see this as a warning to us. [jb] After decades of rapid inflation and economic crisis, Argentine voters last November elected economics professor Javier Milei as president. However, many consider Milei an Argentine variant of his pro-fascist Brazilian neighbor, former President João Bolsonaro, or even of Donald Trump. His[…]
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by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, June 18, 2023 Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on June 16. One of the items on their agenda was Lebanon, which has close historical and language ties to France. The tiny Mediterranean country has been in financial collapse for several years, and[…]
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by Natylie Baldwin, published on CovertAction Magazine, May 5, 2023 Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist. Throughout the 1990s he reported from Moscow for Green Left Weekly of Sydney. This past year, he published The Catastrophe of Ukrainian Capitalism: How Privatisation Dispossessed & Impoverished the Ukrainian People with Resistance Books. In April, I had an email exchange with Clarke. Below is[…]
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by Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, May 6, 2023 U.S. imperialism and its U.N. proxies have not yet decided who would take part in the third imperialist occupation of Haiti but the answer may come soon. An intervention will surely be pitched as a “humanitarian” multi-national mission to curb Haiti’s rampant gang violence, mass hunger and a re-emerging cholera[…]
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by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 24, 2023 President Joseph Biden presented his third annual budget proposal at $6.8 trillion on Thursday, March 9. A day later Silicon Valley Bank (SVP), in Santa Clara, California, the nation’s 16th largest, declared bankruptcy, followed days later by New York City’s Signature Bank. A half dozen others faced similar and immediate[…]
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Workers World Editorial, March 13, 2023 It is often the case that, when the capitalist system is on the verge of a crisis, the period leading up to it is marked by buoyant explosions of optimism. On Oct. 25, 1929, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed that the U.S. economy was “on a sound and prosperous basis.” Four days later the stock[…]
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