U.S. Aggression

Government Report Documents US Responsibility for Venezuela’s Humanitarian Dilemma

May 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

by Roger D. Harris, published on Resumen English, May 1, 2021 Venezuela was once one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America. The popular classes enjoyed major advances from the Bolivarian Revolution initiated by Hugo Chávez. Today Venezuela is experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis with severe humanitarian consequences. The US government blames the crisis on the mismanagement and corruption[…]

Slaughter Central

April 24, 2021 UNAC Editor Gun Violence, Mass Shootings, Militarism, U.S. Aggression

by Tom Engelhardt, published on TomDispatch, April 13, 2021 By the time you read this piece, it will already be out of date. The reason’s simple enough. No matter what mayhem I describe, with so much all-American weaponry in this world of ours, there’s no way to keep up. Often, despite the headlines that go with mass killings here, there’s[…]

Gun Violence Starts at the Top

April 23, 2021 UNAC Editor Gun Violence, Militarism, U.S. Aggression

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 21, 2021 If the state reserves the right to commit mass murder no one should be surprised that the people follow suit. “No one should be surprised when a well-armed population makes use of their personal arsenals.” Mass shootings happen with appalling regularity in the United States. It is bad enough[…]

Biden’s Appeasement of Hawks and Neocons Is Crippling His Diplomacy

April 23, 2021 UNAC Editor U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Politics

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, April, 23, 2021 President Biden took office promising a new era of American international leadership and diplomacy. But with a few exceptions, he has so far allowed self-serving foreign allies, hawkish U.S. interest groups and his own imperial delusions to undermine diplomacy and stoke the fires of war. Biden’s failure to quickly[…]

NATO Expanding its Theater With China in its Sights

April 16, 2021 UNAC Editor China, NATO, U.S. Aggression

by Ann Wright, published on Truthout.com, March 29, 2021 During the March 23-24 meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) council, Anthony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, encouraged NATO members to join the U.S. in viewing China as an economic and security threat to the U.S. as well as to NATO countries, thereby expanding NATO’s areas of focus[…]

Reject the Innocence and Siege Politics of the United States

April 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Imperialism, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, March 31, 2021 The U.S. was founded in the belief that Black and indigenous people were a threat to the existence of a “democratic” and “liberty”-loving colonial and capitalist society. “Any force that dares to stand up to the U.S.’s bullying is subject to villainization.” The GOP, what Black Agenda Report calls[…]

New Global Alliance Defends UN Charter In Clear Rebuke of US Imperialism

March 28, 2021 UNAC Editor U.S. Aggression, United Nations

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, March 24, 2021 The United States has long positioned its imperial ambitions as the definition of international law and rejected entirely the spirit and authority of the U.N. Charter. “Since the end of World War II, the United States and its allies have spearheaded an international regime of terror.” A new alliance called[…]

Blood for Oil: Forever Wars Against Iraq

March 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Iraq, U.S. Aggression

by Kathy Kelly, March 2, 2021 This is a tribute to the endless US war on Iraq. Operation Desert Storm formally ended with a ceasefire on March 4, 1991, following the devastating massacre of retreating Iraqi troops on Highway 80 by US air forces. Shock and Awe campaign of bombing Baghdad commenced 12 years later on March 20, 2003, and[…]

Joe Biden’s US Foreign Policy: Return to the Old Normal?

March 2, 2021 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Imperial Wars, Imperialism, U.S. Aggression

by Roger Harris, published on Counterpunch, February 26, 2021 US President Biden bellicosely proclaimed, “American is back,” in his major foreign policy priorities speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 19. Repeated twice for effect, Biden signaled the end of the Trump interregnum. No more assuring words could have been uttered for George W. Bush’s former Defense Secretary Colin[…]

US Peace Council Statement Condemns Biden Bombing Syria

February 28, 2021 UNAC Editor Statement, Syria, U.S. Aggression

U.S. Peace Council Strongly Condemns the Biden Administration’s Illegal Bombing of Syria! February 26, 2021 Only thirty-six days after taking office, President Biden took his first illegal foreign-policy action by ordering an air strike on the sovereign nation of Syria, killing more than a dozen Syrian citizens. This air strike, a blatant violation of international law and the United Nations[…]