US Foreign Policy

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[…]

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[…]