Global South

Is China’s Foreign Policy ‘Good Enough’?

January 15, 2026 UNAC Editor Anti-War, Belt and Road, Book Review, China, Global South, Global Trade, Propaganda, Socialism, Trade

by Danny Haiphong, published on Workers World, December 17, 2025 The question in the title may seem hyperbolic, but it is one that comes up in one form or another across the U.S. political spectrum. U.S. elites slam China’s foreign policy as riddled with “debt traps” for poorer countries in the Global South. The Western corporate media asserts that China[…]

Venezuela, Palestine, And The End Of International Law

January 9, 2026 UNAC Editor Genocide, Global South, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, International Law, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Political Analysis, Racism, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

by Craig Mokhiber, published on Popular Resistance, January 8, 2026 Ushering In The Age Of Impunity. On January 3, 2026, without provocation, cause, or legal justification, the U.S. bombed Venezuela, invaded its capital, killed dozens of people, and violently abducted the President and First Lady of the country, binding, blindfolding, and spiriting them off to the United States. Surely, such[…]

Veterans For Peace Says: NO WAR on VENEZUELA!

November 7, 2025 UNAC Editor Genocide, Global South, Imperialism, Protest, Statement, U.S. Aggression, U.S. Hegemony, Venezuela, Veterans

Statement by Veterans For Peace, November 1, 2025 Veterans For Peace is appalled by the U.S. military’s extrajudicial killing of fishermen from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Trinidad and Tobago—whom the Trump administration labeled as drug traffickers without evidence, due process, or accountability to Congress. We condemn President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for their open threats to attack and overthrow[…]

Trump and Rubio Tighten the Noose on Cuba

June 6, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Cuba, Global South, Imperial Wars, Paths to Emancipation, Poverty and Sanctions, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Manolo De Los Santos, produced by Globetrotter, June 6, 2025 The impacts of a tightened US blockade, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the return of Trump with a vindictive Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, have deepened the crisis in Cuba, making international solidarity with the island more important than ever. Cuba is once again facing a severe, multi-faceted crisis,[…]

Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

March 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Diplomacy, Global South, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism, US Hypocrisy, US Intervention

by Helen Yaffe, published on Jacobin Magazine, March 8, 2024 The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s[…]

Biden Declares Another “National Emergency” Because of the Threat Posed by Tiny Nicaragua

December 7, 2024 UNAC Editor China, Diplomacy, Global South, Latin America, Nicaragua

by John Perry, published on Counterpunch, November 27, 2024 Why is it that everything the US does in Latin America is so surreal? ~jb In the dying days of his administration, President Biden must have needed a reminder by his officials on November 22. He had to decide whether Nicaragua still poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national[…]

Cuba’s Economic Crisis: US Sanctions and the Problem of ‘Overcompliance’ 

November 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Collapsed States, Cuba, Global South, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Joy Gordon, published on LaMonde Diplomatique, October 7, 2024 Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US imposed severe new economic measures against the island nation. In the[…]

A Conversation With Venezuelan Ambassador in Damascus – Latin America and Palestine

November 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Global South, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Political Analysis, Poverty and Sanctions, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Vanessa Beeley, published on Substack, October 28, 2924 Two days ago I had the privilege to have a conversation with the Venezuelan Ambassador at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Syrian Arab Republic – Dr. Jose Gregorio Biomorgi. You can watch a previous interview with Dr. Biomorgi that I did in 2019 when Venezuela was[…]

Sanctions Kill Campaign Calls for a More Just U.S. Foreign Policy at UN Panel on the Impact of Economic Coercive Measures on the Right to Development

November 6, 2024 UNAC Editor Global South, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy

Representing the SanctionsKill Campaign, UNAC AC Member, Sara Flounders speaks at UN Press Conference on Unilateral Economic Coercive Measures. These measures, usually referred to as “Sanctions” are a form of siege warfare that cause as much harm as bombs and bullets to targeted nations. Nations of the Global South want to emphasize that Economic Coercive Measures not only oppress[…]

The Global South, the BRICS+ Summit and Palestine

October 31, 2024 UNAC Editor BRICS, Economics, Global Alliances, Global Economics, Global South

by Betsey Piette, published on Workers World, October 30, 2024 The potential power of a united Global South was on full display at the United Nations in March 2022. Representatives of many countries that had experienced imperialist aggression at the hands of the U.S., France, Britain and other NATO members collectively denounced U.S. sanctions as acts of war, calling NATO[…]