Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Isaac Saney and Cheryl LaBash, published on Socialist Action, August 11, 2022 While various countries such as Mexico and Venezuela were concretely assisting Cuba in overcoming the unprecedented disastrous fire consuming the Mantanzas oil storage facility, the United States cynically sat on its hands, instead asking Havana to call them. As Mexico, for example, sent 16 flights with over[…]
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by Drago Bosnic, published on InfoBRICS, August, 2022 This is how the U.S. treats its friends; pretty much the same as it treats enemies. [jb] The destruction and plunder of Ukraine have been old news for quite some time now, unfortunately. However, the media and the public have only scratched the surface of the sheer scale of this process. With[…]
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by Drago Bosnic, published on InfoBRICS, July 25, 2022 The plunder of Ukraine has been going on for over 3 decades now. Since the unfortunate events of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the country has been the target of various entities from the political West. The economy, scientific potential, natural resources and the people of Ukraine themselves have been[…]
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by Steven Sahiounie, published on MidEast Discourse, July 12, 2022 The UN Security Council has agreed to extend a system for cross-border aid to Idlib, Syria until January 2023. The US and its allies had demanded a year-long extension, but Russia used its veto on Friday. UN and other NGO aid delivery trucks will cross from Turkey into Syria at[…]
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by Kiji Noh, published on Organizing Notes, July 28, 2022 Good big picture analysis by Andy Boreham [in the video above]. But the “debt trap diplomacy” trope here is not just information warfare to attack and delegitimate China. It is to ensure that any subsequent government Sri Lanka (SL) breaks or reduces ties with China. SL is very likely a[…]
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by Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad & Manolo De Los Santes, produced by Globetrotter, July 8, 2022 The United States maintains a list of countries that it considers as “state sponsors of terrorism.” There are currently four countries on that list: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. The basic idea behind this list is that the U.S. State Department determines that[…]
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by Aaron Mate, published on Substack, July 16, 2022 In 2015, one year after a US-backed coup ushered in a US-friendly, far-right-dominated government in Kiev, University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer issued a stark warning. “The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path,” he said. “And the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked.” Mearsheimer’s cause[…]
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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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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, July 1, 2022 At the G7 Summit in Germany, on June 26, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden made a pledge to raise $200 billion within the United States for global infrastructure spending. It was made clear that this new G7 project—the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII)—was intended to counter the Chinese Belt[…]
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by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, June 21, 2022 Today, world capitalism’s neo-liberal globalization is best characterized as a new form of organization where global value chains have become the dominant form of production, employing workers for one out of every five jobs on the planet. From low to high tech commodities, basic consumer goods to heavy capital equipment,[…]
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