US Foreign Policy

BAP Afghanistan News Update, April 11th, 2024

April 13, 2024 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Anti-War, Austerity, Poverty and Sanctions, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by the Black Alliance for Peace Afghanistan News Update, April 11, 2024 Although most westerners have forgotten about Afghanistan, the US war on the Afghan people continues. [jb] Though the start of 2024 may have signaled the beginning of a new year, Afghanistan continues to endure the decades-long denial of its sovereignty by the United States. U.S.-led regime change to[…]

The Legal Case Against Joe Biden for Enabling Israel’s Genocide Against Gaza

February 1, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Imperialism, Interview, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Government Action

Murtaza Hussain interviews Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights, for Intercepted, January 17, 2024 Editor’s Note: This is an important case. The fact that the judge is allowing it to go forward is a significant step in US jurisprudence. The hearing began on January 26, and can be seen HERE. A panel of judges at the International Court[…]

Genocide, Sex Extortion, and a Peoples Movement

January 30, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Colonialism, Democracy and Consent, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, New World Visions, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, South Africa, United Nations, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, Zionism

by Mazin Qusiyeh, writing in Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine, published on Popular Resistance, January 26, 2024 What is the story with UNRWA? If Israel succeeds in liquidating the Palestinian cause, will the whole globe be at risk of a global war that ends humanity? And what does sex extortion and people movement have to do with it? Read on for this serious[…]

Rejecting the Bantustan ‘Two-state Solution’, Mandla Mandela Calls for a Single Democratic State in Palestine

January 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Rights of Opressed Peoples, South Africa, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Tim Anderson, published on One Democratic State of Palestine , January 29, 2024 Washington and the Israelis understand that the fig leaf of ‘two states’ hides apartheid and prevents the construction of a broad anti-apartheid movement. The popular but fallacious touchstone of a political resolution in Palestine has been a ‘two-state solution’. Washington constantly reverts to this and, more[…]

Houthi Red Sea Crisis Rages On as US Admits Its Impotence and Asks China to Help

January 28, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, China, Global Economics, Middle East Wars, Trade Wars, US Foreign Policy, Yemen

by Uriel Araujo, published on InfoBRICS, January 26, 2024 The Financial Times reported that, over the last three months, Washington has repeatedly asked Beijing to pressure Iran into curbing the Houthi rebels. Both the White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly talked about the matter with their Chinese counterparts. Sullivan is even flying[…]

US Congressional Resolution Calls for Annulling the Monroe Doctrine and Ending Sanctions

January 27, 2024 UNAC Editor Corporatism, Latin America, Monroe Doctrine, US Foreign Policy

by Roger D. Harris, published on Popular Resistance, January 18, 2024 Now, 200 years after President James Monroe first promulgated his dictate giving the Yankees dominion of the rest of the hemisphere, a congressional resolution calls for annulling the Monroe Doctrine and replacing it with a “new good neighbor” policy. The intent is to “foster improved relations and deeper, more effective cooperation”[…]

Dismantling Western Hypocrisy on Xinjiang and Gaza

January 19, 2024 UNAC Editor China, Colonialism, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Terrorism, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, January 16, 2024 The movement in the U.S. supporting Palestinian national liberation has drawn truly massive numbers of people in action. On Jan. 13, for example, a reported 400,000 people marched on the White House, marking the largest pro-Palestine demonstration in U.S. history. To counter this growing outpouring of support for Palestine in[…]

Israel on Trial: Historic days in The Hague

January 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Occupation, Political Analysis, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, Zionism

by Mahmoud Elenani, published on Peoples Dispatch, January 17, 2024 Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Elenani was in The Hague when South Africa presented its case against Israel to the ICJ, this is his account of those days when history was made With legal precision, South African legal team presented the grounds and evidence for their accusation that Israel is committing genocide[…]

Did Israel Kill Iranian Commander to Provoke a Wider War?

December 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Iran, Israel, Middle East Wars, US Foreign Policy

by Trita Parsi, published on Responsible Statecraft, December 26, 2023 Iran’s top commander in Syria, Seyed Razi Mousavi, was assassinated Sunday by an Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood, according to Iran’s official news agency IRNA and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. This has led Tehran to call for reprisals, ratcheting up fears that this[…]

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[…]