Economics

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.[…]

AMLO: US Blockade Against Cuba and Venezuela Behind Migration Crisis

October 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Humanitarian Aid, Imperialism, Mexico, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

from Orinoco Tribune, October 4, 2023 Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed the United States’ sanctions and blockade policy against Cuba and Venezuela as the cause of increased regional migration. During his daily press conference on Monday, October 2, López Obrador directly linked US imperialist foreign policy in Latin America to the 10,000 daily arrivals of migrants at the[…]

The US is De-industrializing Europe. Next on the Agenda, to Destroy European Agriculture

October 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Agriculture, Europe, France, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

by Gilbert Doctorow, published on GilbertDoctorow. substack, September 22, 2023 We can be thankful that domestic electoral contests sometimes lead to good outcomes on the foreign policy level, not only to the awful outcomes we see in Mr. Biden’s America. I have in mind the dramatic spat between Poland and Ukraine over that country’s grain exports which was brought before[…]

United States: End detention of Venezuelan Special Envoy, UN experts say

October 1, 2023 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

published on the Alliance for Global Justice website, September 27, 2023 GENEVA (27 September 2023) – UN experts* today urged the government of the United States of America to end the prolonged pre-trial detention of Alex Nain Saab Morán, a Venezuelan Special Envoy, arrested and extradited to the US on money laundering charges. Saab was appointed as a Special Envoy[…]