Economics

Dismantling Western Hypocrisy on Xinjiang and Gaza

January 19, 2024 UNAC Editor China, Colonialism, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Terrorism, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, January 16, 2024 The movement in the U.S. supporting Palestinian national liberation has drawn truly massive numbers of people in action. On Jan. 13, for example, a reported 400,000 people marched on the White House, marking the largest pro-Palestine demonstration in U.S. history. To counter this growing outpouring of support for Palestine in[…]

Despite Growth, Only Social Movements Will Bring Progress

January 13, 2024 UNAC Editor China, Economics, Europe, Global South

by Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News, January 10, 2023 In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report. Nothing in the report came as a major surprise. The growth of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to decline with no sign of a rebound. Following a modest post-pandemic[…]

A Peoples’ Victory — Alex Saab is Free and Home in Venezuela!

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Organizing, Political Prisoners, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action, Venezuela, War on the Poor

bu Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 21, 2023 Alex Saab is free and home in Venezuela. For three and a half years (1,280 days), Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat, had been held in torturous conditions by the U.S. government. (The author traveled to Cabo Verde in June 2021 in a delegation with Roger Harris and Bishop Felipe Teixeira in[…]

How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Political Prisoners, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy, Venezuela

by Roger D. Harris, published on Dissident Voice, December 21, 2023 Alex Saab was freed from US captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.” The diplomat had been imprisoned for trying to bring humanitarian supplies to Venezuela in legal international trade but in circumvention of Washington’s illegal economic coercive measures, also known[…]

Yemeni Movement’s Solidarity With Palestine

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Global Economics, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Yemen

Statement published on Workers World, December 20, 2023 Below is a statement by Ansarallah (called the Houthi movement in the imperialist media) spokesperson, Mohammed Abdul Salam, which was posted on Resistance News Network on Dec. 16. The accompanying news is that the largest shipping company in the world, the Swiss-Italian MSC, has decided to cease all shipments in the Red[…]

US Imperialism Inflicts Untold Horrors On Niger, Among the World’s Poorest Nations

December 16, 2023 UNAC Editor International Aid and Debt, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Niger, Paths to Emancipation, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by John Pottinger, published on Socialist Action, December 11, 2023 Even before the popular July 26, 2022 coup d’état that removed the US-backed and pro-French government, Niger was the seventh poorest country in the world. With a 37 percent literacy rate, only 20 percent of the population has access to electricity in a country with some of the largest uranium[…]

Predicting Pestilence

December 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action, War on the Earth, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Kathy Kelly, published on LA Progressive, December 4, 2023 World Health Organization now says disease could be even deadlier than airstrikes in Gaza. Speaking from a hospital ward about fifty meters from where a bomb had just exploded, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder raised his voice over the sound of children screaming. In a video posted on X (formerly known[…]

Struggling to Break the Gaza Blockade

November 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda, Citizen Diplomacy, Collapsed States, Colonialism, Egypt, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 22, 2023 Miles of semi-trailer trucks are lined up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing, waiting to deliver water, food, medicine and other essentials to Gaza. Longtime peace and justice activist Sarah Flounders recently traveled to Egypt with a delegation to push for opening the Rafah Crossing to let[…]

Black Agenda Report Joins in Gaza Relief Effort

November 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Egypt, Humanitarian Aid, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, November 15, 2023 Corporate media excel at misdirection and telling outright lies. Independent media must have a seat at the table when opportunities arise to cover events such as relief efforts for the people of Gaza. “We’ve come to Egypt to speak to the world directly from the border of Gaza, which we were not[…]

Gaza Faces Imminent Starvation Amid Israeli Bombing, Blockade

October 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Public Health, Racism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Alex Lantier, published on Countercurrents, October 17, 2023 This article is from nearly a week ago. Things are much worse now. This is not an issue of the ‘Netanyahu’ government, though they play their part. This is expectable outcome of settler colonialism. The latest “plan” is to drive the Palestinians from Gaza into the Sinai. This is ethnic cleansing.[…]