US Foreign Policy

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[…]

US Imperialism Inflicts Untold Horrors On Niger, Among the World’s Poorest Nations

December 16, 2023 UNAC Editor International Aid and Debt, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Niger, Paths to Emancipation, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by John Pottinger, published on Socialist Action, December 11, 2023 Even before the popular July 26, 2022 coup d’état that removed the US-backed and pro-French government, Niger was the seventh poorest country in the world. With a 37 percent literacy rate, only 20 percent of the population has access to electricity in a country with some of the largest uranium[…]

A Stunning Rebuke, U.N. Cease-fire Vote Humiliates U.S. Imperialism

December 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Resistance, United Nations, US Foreign Policy, US Government Action, Yemen

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 12, 2023 The United Nations Security Council vote on December 8, calling for an immediate cease-fire in Palestine, was a public humiliation of the United States. When explaining their vote, numerous countries denounced the U.S. — Israel’s number one supporter — as the accomplice, the enabler and the real force behind the[…]

Getting Serious About Halting Israeli Genocide

December 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, United Nations, US Foreign Policy

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, December 13, 2023 On Friday, December 8, the UN Security Council met under Article 99 for only the fourth time in the UN’s history. Article 99 is an emergency provision that allows the Secretary General to summon the Council to respond to a crisis that “threatens the maintenance of international peace and[…]

Kissinger And the Class He Served

December 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Cold War, Diplomacy, History, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by John Catalinoto, published on Workers World, December 5, 2023 When a leading political figure of U.S. imperialism, someone hated by hundreds of millions of people, if not billions, dies — as Henry Kissinger did last week — writing an analysis of their role presents a challenge. This challenge does not regard repeating the details of this individual’s life. It’s[…]

Rally for Peace: Shut Down General Dynamics – No More Weapons for Israel

December 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, LandGrabs, Palestine, Resistance, Resource Wars, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, Weapons Sales, Zionism

According to event organizer Jack Gilroy, a group of over 100 people protested outside General Dynamics in a cold rain in Scranton, PA, Joe Biden’s home town. This factory manufactures ammunition required by both Israel and Ukraine to keep the U.S. backed slaughterhouse in business. Sponsors for this action include: Ban Killer Drones, The Merchants of Death Tribunal, Broome County[…]

Israel and America’s Growing Zugzwang

December 1, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Regional Solutions, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, US Foreign Policy

by Simplicus the Thinker, published on Substack, November 18, 2023 This is just for fun, a rather long analysis that looks at the regional and global aspects of the war in Gaza. He has some interesting leaks and maps to back up his positions as he moves towards a final conclusion. It is only one opinion, but brings out a[…]

Time for Israel to Pay: This is How to Prevent a New Nakba in Palestine

November 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Racism, US Foreign Policy

by Ramzy Baroud, published on Palestine Chronicle, November 22, 2023 The ‘Gaza Nakba’ must be rejected, not just by words, but through solid Arab and international action, to prevent Israel from taking advantage of the war to expel Palestinians out of their homeland, again. It is simply inaccurate to claim that the ongoing Israeli attempt to displace all, or many[…]

Struggling to Break the Gaza Blockade

November 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda, Citizen Diplomacy, Collapsed States, Colonialism, Egypt, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 22, 2023 Miles of semi-trailer trucks are lined up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing, waiting to deliver water, food, medicine and other essentials to Gaza. Longtime peace and justice activist Sarah Flounders recently traveled to Egypt with a delegation to push for opening the Rafah Crossing to let[…]

Gaza Massacre Could Lead To Nuclear War

November 24, 2023 UNAC Editor Israel, Middle East Wars, Nuclear Weapons, Palestine, US Foreign Policy

Statement from Veterans for Peace, published on Popular Resistance, November 21, 2023 As military veterans who have experienced the deadly threat of nuclear weapons from the Cuban Missile Crisis onward, as well as being distraught and outraged by what is now going on in Gaza, we must warn against the potential of a wider war in the Middle East, one[…]