Lawfare

Panama’s President Sticks to His Denial of Economic Lawfare While China Retaliates

May 10, 2026 UNAC Editor Belt and Road, China, Economics, Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Panama, TradeWars, US Intervention

by Miguel Santos Garcia, published on Global Research, April 20, 2026 After a series of calibrated Chinese retaliatory actions including tightened shipping inspections, frozen infrastructure projects, international arbitration and disrupted agricultural exports, Panama’s economy began feeling real pain from its decision to exit the Belt and Road Initiative and seize the Hong Kong operated port concessions through lawfare. Facing mounting[…]

Free Yousof Azizi

April 19, 2026 UNAC Editor ICE, Immigrants, Lawfare

Yousof Azizi, a final-year PhD student in public policy at the University of Virginia, was arrested on the morning of Tuesday, April 14, in front of his home by ICE forces. ICE officials have informed him that he will soon be transferred to a detention camp for undocumented immigrants. Azizi is a well-known media figure in the Persian-language sphere who[…]

Judge Questions Denying Maduros Defense Due to Sanctions on Venezuela

March 30, 2026 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Monroe Doctrine, Political Prisoners, Venezuela

by Marjorie Cohn, published on Popular Resistance, March 28, 2026 (originally from Truthout) U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused to dismiss drug trafficking charges against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on March 26, even though the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is blocking funds for their legal defense, in violation of the Sixth[…]

Celebrating the Revolutionary Contributions of Michael Parenti

March 2, 2026 UNAC Editor Action!!, Color Revolutions, History, Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Resistance, U.S. Aggression, Yugoslavia

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, February 26, 2026 Sara Flounders — a Workers World contributing editor, who helps coordinate the International Action Center and the United National Antiwar Coalition — gave the following presentation at the International Manifesto Group webinar on Feb. 21, celebrating the revolutionary contributions of Michael Parenti. Thank you, International Manifesto Group and Carlos Martinez.[…]

Turtle Island Liberation Front Warning for Activists

December 22, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Lawfare, Terrorism, Zionism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, December 17, 2025 Arrests of members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front are the latest in a decades-long effort to criminalize the left and to make examples of anyone who might fit the profile of being a “designated terrorist.” The United States has a long history of using informants and entrapment as[…]

End the abuse! Free Dr. Aafia Siddiqui!

December 22, 2025 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Lawfare, Pakistan, Political Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, Propaganda

by Tania Siddiqi, published on Workers World, December 19, 2025 This is a sad story that only gets sadder and more gruesome. You can read about her case and how she came to be wrongly convicted and incarcerated at Bagram, and then at Carswell on this blog HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. For over two decades, political prisoner Dr. Aafia[…]

The Department of Injustice

May 14, 2025 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Political Analysis, Poverty, Prisons and Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home, US Law

by David D’Amato, published on Counterpunch, May 14, 2025 Today, it would be nearly impossible to overstate the extent to which justice for the criminal defendant in the U.S. has been compromised by prosecutorial misconduct of the most serious kinds. A growing body of evidence from journalistic investigations, scholarly studies, and reports from civil liberties groups reveals a startling pattern[…]

I Am In Malta With The Gaza Flotilla Ship ‘Conscience’ Bombed By Israel

May 6, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Economic Blockade, Genocide, Humanitarian Aid, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Lawfare, Palestine

by Ann Wright, published on Popular Resistance, May 3, 2025 I am in Malta with the group ready to board the Gaza flotilla ship “Conscience” which was bombed by Israel yesterday. As one of the organizers of the US Boats to Gaza and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition, we have been working for months to bring activists from 22 countries[…]

The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’

April 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Immigrants, Immigration, Lawfare, Legislation, Migrants and Refugees, The War at Home, US Borders, US Hypocrisy, War on the Poor

by Cristóbal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 8, 2025 The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary as it has been necessary. It could be summed up in one phrase: Respect our Existence[…]

Momodou Taal’s First Amendment Case Against the Trump Administration Heard in Court

March 30, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Free Speech, Genocide, Lawfare, Palestine, Protest, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Avery Wang and Benjamin Leynse, published by the Cornell Daily Sun, March 26, 2025 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The legal fight of Momodou Taal, a pro-Palestinian activist and international graduate student, began in court on Tuesday as a federal judge heard the first arguments of Taal’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. At the heart of the hearing was Taal’s possible[…]