US Government Action

The Black Stake in the Green New Deal

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Legislation, Paths to Emancipation, US Government Action

Photo: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez at Women’s March 2019 in NYC ~Dimitri Rodriguez by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, March 7, 2019 Black people should see the Green New Deal as an arena of struggle for self-determination, communal repair, and justice-creation. “In its broad outlines, the Green New Deal is a transformative program that calls for democratic reconstruction of U.S.[…]

Veterans For Peace Statement on Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Syria

December 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Middle East Wars, Statement, Syria, US Government Action

VfP December 22 – Veterans For Peace is pleased to hear that President Trump has ordered a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, where they had no legal right to be in the first place. Whatever the reasoning, withdrawing U.S. troops is the right thing to do. It is incorrect to characterize the U.S. military intervention in Syria as[…]

Ending the War in Yemen- Congressional Resolution is Not Enough!

November 16, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Drone Warfare, US Government Action

Image: A man walks past a graffiti, denouncing strikes by U.S. drones in Yemen, painted on a wall in Sanaa November 13, 2014. Yemeni authorities have paid out tens of thousands of dollars to victims of drone strikes using U.S.-supplied funds, a source close to Yemen’s presidency said, echoing accounts by legal sources and a family that lost two members[…]