Economics

The Ghost of Jimmy Carter

January 11, 2025 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Austerity, Haiti, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Syria

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 8, 2025 Hagiography is inevitable when presidents and other prominent people die. The unwillingness to ‘speak ill of the dead’ and the propaganda that would have us believe in American exceptionalism must be rejected. Jimmy Carter was always devoted to protecting the interests of the U.S. state. “All US Presidents, Living[…]

How USAID Paved The Way For Syria’s Jihadist Takeover

January 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Color Revolutions, Humanitarian Aid, Hybrid Warfare, International Charities, Political Corruption, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, Syria, US Hypocrisy, US Intervention

by Alexander Rubenstein, published on PopularResistance, December 26 2024 (Originally published on MintPress News) Black Money, Black Flags. As the designated terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) establishes its proto-government in Idlib, notoriously corrupt NGOs are stepping in to fill the gaps in public services, with some even defecting to work alongside the group. The United States, which spent two[…]

Who Controls Afghanistan’s Sovereign Assets?

January 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Austerity, Global Economics, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Afghanistan Update by Black Alliance for Peace, Solidarity Network, November 18, 2024 Editor’s note: This is not only about Afghanistan’s “Sovereign” Assets. For the purposes of trade, international banks have to keep a slush fund in dollars in a western bank, since money doesn’t always travel at the same rate, moving money from bank to bank, business to business. In[…]

The West is Goading Georgia: Tbilisi Has Been Ensnared by Nato Hypocrisy

January 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions, Democracy and Consent, Global Trade, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, NGOs, Political Analysis, Russia, US Incited Protests

by Thomas Fazi, published on Defending Democracy, November 2, 2024 This is a little out of date but the story is pretty much, Ukraine redux. And, since this was written, the pressure has been rising. Looks like in Georgia, its pizza rather than cookies. ~jb Food. Churches. Chacha. This is what Georgia has long been known for. But now this[…]

What’s Left in Latin American and the Caribbean: Year 2024 in Review

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Latin America, Multipolar World, New Pink Tide, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, South America, US Foreign Policy, US Intervention, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Roger D. Harris and John Perry, published on Internationalist 360º, December 26, 2024 The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then, progressive alternatives had sailed into power[…]

How the U.S. and Its Allies Destroyed a Sovereign State

December 31, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, coup, Featured, Imperial Lies and Liars, Imperial Wars, Israel, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, Syria, Turkey, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

by Bronx Antiwar Coalition, published on Workers World, December 30, 2024 The Bronx Anti-War Coalition posted the following article on its website on Dec. 27, 2024. A version of this article was presented on a webinar on Syria organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition. The fall of Syria as a sovereign state and the chaos engulfing the country are[…]

From Relative “Peace” to Chaos: The First Phase of a New War Returns to Syria

December 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Occupation, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 12, 2024 The fall of the Syrian government is being heralded by Western liberals and “leftists.” The collapse is not the liberation that is being presented by the US and its corporate media partners. Liberals and their Western allies, among the social-imperialist left in the U.S. and Europe, are celebrating the[…]

‘New Chapter in Cooperation’: Iran, Venezuela Sign New MoUs

December 25, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Diplomacy, Iran, Trade, Venezuela

News From PressTV, November 22, 2024 Iran and Venezuela have signed a series of cooperation documents in Caracas where Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh is visiting at the helm of a high-ranking delegation. Nasirzadeh, who traveled to Caracas on Tuesday to participate at the 10th meeting of the Iran-Venezuela joint economic cooperation commission, met President Nicolas Maduro who[…]

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[…]