Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
By Calla Mairead Walsh, published on Socialist Action, May 29, 2023 When the Devil rules, no good work goes unpunished. [jb] Thousands of Cubans gather to celebrate the country’s National Rebellion Day, a yearly commemoration of the Cuban revolution. While Biden doubles down on Cuba’s designation as a so-called “State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the US people are increasingly calling for[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, March 8, 2023 In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire. The US can’t seem to understand that the rest of the world, including Africa, doesn’t like to be pushed around. African nations’ refusal[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black agenda Report, February 15, 2023 A respected investigative journalist explains how the U.S. sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines. But corporate media working in service to the state ignore the story and endanger the world. “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” The idea[…]
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by Richard Medhurst, published on Richard’s Substack, May 11, 2022 This article gives a useful elaboration of the way that sanctions work to undermine the economy of a targeted country and the welfare of the people who live there. Denial of fuel undermines all social services, not just personal consumption. This issue affects numerous other countries in the region,[…]
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by Uriel Araujo, published on InfoBRICS, December 5, 2022 Once settled in the US, TSMC will have to pay higher wages and deal with U.S. constraints. It will once and for all lose it’s previous main buyer, Huawei. So yes, Taiwan will lose, but the US may not win. This imperial initiative to control critical resources may well result in[…]
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by Marc Vandepitte and Jan Jonckheere, published on Workers World, November 2, 2022 Technology is the key to the future. It is the basis for military might, on the one hand, and economic productivity and a competitive position in the world market, on the other. Until recently, the U.S. had an unassailable, dominant position on both fronts. The White House[…]
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by Pepe Escobar, published on The Cradle, October 6, 2022 Recent discussions question how to frame the coming changes, will there be relief for those suffering austerity and sanctions, is the suffocating grasp of dollar hegemony coming to an end, and if so, what are the significant global changes that will enable this transformation of the global economy? Is there[…]
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by M.K. Bhadrakrumar, published on the Indian Punchline, October 8, 2022 The Biden Administration is swiftly establishing a narrative that the recent OPEC decision to cut oil production by two million tonnes is a geopolitical “aligning” by Saudi Arabia and Russia. It taps into the Russophobia in the Beltway and deflects attention from the humiliating defeat of President Biden’s personal[…]
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By Eric Toussaint and Omar Aziki, published on Socialist Action, September 6, 2022 This excellent piece speaks clearly about the ways in which the neoliberal global economy impoverishes freeholder farmers and the poor in the resource wealthy global south. [jb] [Editor’s note: We reprint below the recent article by leaders of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM).[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, published by the TriContinental Institute Newsletter, July 6, 2022 If you like the featured image click the link above to view the original publication where there are many more. [jb] Over the course of the past fifteen years, European countries have found themselves with both great opportunities to seize and complex choices to make. Unsustainable reliance on[…]
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