Economics

Reason to Celebrate: Meng Wanzhou Released

September 30, 2021 UNAC Editor China, International Law, Lawfare, Trade Wars, US Government Action

Statement by Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, September 29, 2021 The Cross-Canada Campaign to FREE MENG WANZHOU is very pleased that Madame Meng has been released after nearly three years of unjust detention in Canada and has returned home safely to China, to her family, and to her duties as CFO of Huawei, which employs 1300 workers in Canada.[…]

The Money that Never Arrives in Cuba

September 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Rosa Miriam Elizalde, published on Resumen English, September 4, 2021 With the money she earns cleaning houses in the morning and an office at night, Virgen Elena Pupo, a 47-year-old Cuban migrant, has managed to raise her family in Washington, D.C., but has not been able to help her parents in Holguín, Cuba. She is separated from her parents[…]

Chip War: Can the U.S. Really Gain From China’s Pain?

September 19, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Economics, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade Wars

by Prabir Purkayastha, published on Counterpunch, September 7, 2021 With the U.S. imposing technology sanctions on China, the world’s electronics industry is facing turbulent times. After the sanctions, Huawei has slipped from its number one slot as a mobile phone supplier—which the company held during the second quarter of 2020—to number seven currently. Commenting on this slide, Huawei’s rotating chairman[…]

Evictions Threaten Millions of U.S. Workers

September 18, 2021 UNAC Editor Austerity, Labor, Public Health, War on the Poor

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, September 13, 2021 Between 2 and 4 million households, out of 80 million rental households, will lose their homes due to evictions in the next two months, according to a survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. This is four times as many as would typically occur nationwide throughout an entire calendar year. (Washington[…]

IAEA Feeds Hysteria Over Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Program

September 17, 2021 UNAC Editor Iran, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Jason Ditz, published on Antiwar.com, September 7, 2021 IAEA report complains about lack of a new monitoring agreement. The IAEA is continuing to offer misleading reports on Iran’s nuclear program, giving false impressions of rapid growth of the uranium stockpiles built around counting the rate of growth of trivially small segments. Tuesday’s report both centers on Iran’s 60% enriched[…]

The struggle to free Alex Saab continues

September 17, 2021 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, September 10, 2021 Despite delays, legal appeals, protests, formal delegations and petitions signed by many thousands, the United States has continued to demand the extradition of Alex Saab. He is being held imprisoned in the small nation of Cabo Verde. Saab was abducted by order of the U.S., when his plane stopped for[…]

Cuba Creates and Reinvents Itself

September 14, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Public Health, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Angel Guerra Cabrera, published on Resumen, September 2, 2021 The Cuban Revolution has emerged strengthened once again from another ferocious onslaught by the United States, which sought to provoke a social explosion and the overthrow of the revolutionary project by force. The media scoundrels have spoken of peaceful protests but many videos show scenes of violence and looting against[…]

Hands off Cuba!

September 14, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Statement from The U.S. Peace Council, July 14, 2021 The recent protests in Cuba over deteriorating conditions have a material basis that cannot be dismissed. No matter how heroic a people may be, socialism must provide for people’s material needs. The U.S. blockade of Cuba is designed precisely to thwart that and to discredit socialism in Cuba and anywhere else[…]

Yemeni FM Condemns IMF Decision to Disburse Millions in COVID $$ to Govt in Exile

September 6, 2021 UNAC Editor International Institutions, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Yemen

by NewsDesk, published in The Cradle, August 31, 2021 The Foreign Minister of Yemen’s National Salvation Government (NSG) condemned the decision by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 30 August to disburse $665 million worth of emergency reserves to the Saudi-backed parallel administration led by ousted President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. In a letter addressed to the IMF Managing Director,[…]

Afghan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty

September 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Imperial Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, published on Common Dreams, August 30, 2021 Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban’s return to power in their country—and then by an Islamic State suicide bombing and ensuing massacre by U.S. forces that together killed at least 170 people, including 13 U.S.[…]