US Foreign Policy

What Is Trump Really Up To With His Foreign Policy?

February 19, 2025 UNAC Editor China, Color Revolutions, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, War and Peace

by Joe Lombardo, published on Facebook, February 18, 2025 Many people are happy to see that Trump is talking to the Russians and seems to be moving in the direction of ending the war in Ukraine. I think he is, but why? Well, for one thing, it is a lost war. Biden’s proclamations that we will destroy Russia with sanctions[…]

Whether Biden Or Trump, US’ Latin American Policy Will Be Contemptible

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Deportation, Latin America, Neocolonialism, U.S. Hegemony, US Foreign Policy, US Intervention

by John Perry and Roger D. Harris, published on Popular Resistance, January 30 2025 Migration, Drugs, and Tariffs. With Donald Trump as the new US president, pundits are speculating about how US policy towards Latin America might change. In this article, we look at some of the speculation, then address three specific instances of how the US’s policy priorities may[…]

Why Hasn’t the UNSC Sanctioned Rwanda or Referred Its President to the ICC

January 30, 2025 UNAC Editor DRC, Imperial Wars, Legal Struggles, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Political Analysis, Rwanda, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 29, 2024 The UN Security Council (UNSC) has never sanctioned Rwanda or referred its president to the International Criminal Court (ICC), despite decades of UN documentation of their international crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On December 27, Rwanda’s M23 militia claimed to have seized Goma, the capital[…]

Taxpayers Suing Congress members For Funding Genocide Speak Out

January 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Genocide, Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Peoples' Movements, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, US Law

by Marjorie Cohen, published on Popular Resistance , January 4, 2025 (originally published on Truthout) Editor’s Note: Our elected officials ignore our concerns, and dismiss our demands. Time to up the ante! The issue of genocide is too big to let them off. “We Have to Act.” Plaintiff Tarik Kanaana says the lawsuit “has given people something to rally[…]

Here’s Why Trump’s Talk of Annexing Canada and Greenland Should Not be Dismissed

January 9, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Canada, Europe, Hybrid Warfare, Neocolonialism, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy

by Tarak Cyril Amar, published January 7, 2025 I put a fascinating in-depth discussion of this subject with the author on Kevork Almassian’s Syrianna Analysis at the end of this article. The US president-elect’s “shopping cart” of other countries’ properties should worry all American vassals. Trump and his team of America’s bluntest and briskest can look funny. Their demands are[…]

What’s Left in Latin American and the Caribbean: Year 2024 in Review

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Latin America, Multipolar World, New Pink Tide, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, South America, US Foreign Policy, US Intervention, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Roger D. Harris and John Perry, published on Internationalist 360º, December 26, 2024 The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then, progressive alternatives had sailed into power[…]

South Korea’s Problem: The United States

December 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Imperialism, Resistance, South Korea, US Foreign Policy

Editorial by Workers World, December 18, 2024 Since his Dec. 3 attempt to impose martial law, mass demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people involving the most important labor unions and popular organizations from around the country came out in the streets of Seoul demanding that South Korean President Yoon Seok-Yeol be deposed. After a popular rebellion repulsed Yoon’s Dec.[…]

The Economic War Against Syria

December 4, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Economic Collapse, Humanitarian Aid, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, US Foreign Policy

by Roberta Rivolta, published on Counter-Hegemonic Studies, December 4, 2024 As ancient as economic wars may be, the use of embargoes as means of coercion experienced a significant acceleration only at the end of the Cold War. While the collapse of the USSR reduced the risk that a targeted nation could fall into the Soviet Union sphere of influence, the[…]

Dozens Killed by Israeli Air Strikes and Ground Assaults Across Gaza and Lebanon

November 12, 2024 UNAC Editor Fascism, Genocide, Imperial Lies and Liars, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, US Foreign Policy, US Politics

by Kevin Reed, published on World Socialist Website, November 12, 2024 Israeli air strikes across Gaza and Lebanon killed dozens of people on Sunday, including at least 20 children, as the Israeli regime intensified its genocide of Palestinians and expanded its wider war in the Middle East. Health officials reported at least 30 people were killed in northern and central[…]

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[…]