Economics

U.S. Plans – Sanctions and Famine for Afghanistan

August 26, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Collapsed States, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 24, 2021 Aug. 23 — U.S. politicians and journalists are all feigning deep concern about leaving behind tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for them. Meanwhile, U.S. financial institutions are busy planning a horrendous crisis for all Afghans, including their loyal collaborators. The cynical decision to seize all of Afghanistan’s assets[…]

Why Hezbollah is Bringing Iranian Fuel to Lebanon

August 24, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Lebanon, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Saudi Arabia, Shortages of Supplies, Syria, US Hypocrisy

by Radwan Mortada, published on The Cradle, August 23, 2021 With the war in Afghanistan winding down, US abuses of power and the incompetence of their puppets are bared for all to see. Lebanon’s economy is collapsing from similarly incompetent Saudi controlled and western manipulated politicians and financial officers, the Caesar sanctions on Syria, its primary trading partner, and a[…]

Let the Cuban People Live! End the Blockade and Sanctions!

August 16, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Barry Shepphard, published on Socialist Action, July 24, 2021 President Biden has not only kept all of Trump’s sanctions designed to severely harm the Cuban people, he has added two more. His response to the July 11 protests in Cuba was to call for the overthrow of the socialist Cuban Revolution. The July 11 protests of the Cuban government[…]

“China Manufactures Things and Social Cohesion.”

August 10, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Economics

by Marshall Aurback, published on The Scrum, August 9, 2021 “China Manufactures Things and Social Cohesion while the US Manufactures Financial Instruments and Decay” What has been described in the American press as a Chinese crackdown on private enterprise is more in the nature of an existential choice for Beijing. The government has decided to live by producing stuff instead[…]

People Working a Minimum Wage Job Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere in the US

August 7, 2021 UNAC Editor Austerity, Poverty, US Government Action

by Sarah Ruiz Grossman, published on Black Agenda Report, July 22, 2021 Over 40% of Black and Latinx households pay more than 30% of their income on rent, compared with 25% of white households. “’One full-time job should be enough,’ the report says.” A full-time, minimum-wage worker can’t afford even a modest one-bedroom apartment in 93% of U.S. counties, according[…]

The Hidden Hand of the US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests

July 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Austerity, Censorship and Propaganda, Cuba, Economic Blockade, Hybrid Warfare, Migrants, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores, published on CommonDreams, July 13, 2021 Protests erupted in various Cuban cities the weekend of July 11 over dire economic conditions and a surge in Covid-19 cases. They are the biggest protests to hit Cuba in three decades, and they may well continue in the coming weeks. They come on the heels of artists’[…]

A Tale of Two Countries

July 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Haiti, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Greg Godels, published on ZZ’s Blog, July 19, 2021 Two countries have made the front pages and lead stories in our lemming-like capitalist media: Haiti and Cuba. One country– Haiti– has earned the ire of the self-styled Western democracies by overthrowing its colonial slave masters and establishing a free state in 1803, the first country in history to liberate[…]

Hands off Cuba! End the Blockade!

July 16, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Economic Blockade, Featured, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, US Incited Protests

Statement by the United National Antiwar Coalition The United National Antiwar Coalition stands firmly with the Cuban people and their revolutionary government against any US intervention in Cuba’s affairs. We continue our calls to lift the punitive US blockade of Cuba that has caused humanitarian shortages [and been tightened] during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The recent disruptions inside Cuba have[…]

Let Cuba live! End the Blockade Now!

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

by Workers World Editor, published July 12, 2021 Today the capitalist media have turned their focus on anti-government demonstrators in Cuba, which the New York Times claimed to number in the “thousands,” in a country of 11 million people. How many thousands, if there were really that many, isn’t stated (nor were there any videos of such-sized crowds), but in[…]

The US War to Destroy China’s Crown Jewel and Secure US Cyber Supremacy

July 14, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Trade Wars, TradeWars

by Stephen Gowans, published on What’s Left, July 6, 2021 When then US president Donald Trump said he would call off US efforts to extradite from Canada Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to face bank fraud-related sanctions-evasion charges in exchange for trade concessions from China, he effectively admitted to a political kidnapping. The reality that normal US practice is to fine[…]