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Articles by members and friends of UNAC. The views, opinions and positions expressed on this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the positions of UNAC.
by Bernard, published on Moon of Alabama, January 9, 2025 In April last year the U.S. government, with the prominent help from the New York Times, opened a campaign against the World Anti Doping Agency WADA and against Chinese sports competition. Top Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive for Banned Drug, Then Won Olympic Gold – New York Times The positive testing,[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 15, 2025 The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for[…]
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by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, December 24, 2024 This article is an important counter to some of the horrific propaganda spewed by the Western press (and Al Jazeera) since the overthrow of the legitimate Syrian government in a coup perpetrated by the same entities that waged war on Syria for nearly a decade from 2011 to 2019,[…]
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by Jonathan Kuttab, published on FOSNA Website, January 17, 2025 We need to report this though it is not directly about Syria. I like this article because it focuses on the details of the present interaction and what it leaves open. [jb] It looks as if there will finally be a ceasefire and hostage deal, set to begin this Sunday.[…]
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by Ashjan Ajour, published on Truthout, January 9, 2024 Palestinian universities, powerful resistance sites, are forced to contend with settler violence and segregation walls. Israel’s long-standing assault on Palestine’s education sector is so severe that it has earned a label: scholasticide. In Gaza, the devastation has been catastrophic: Israel destroyed 80 percent of schools in the Strip and bombed all[…]
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by Rick Sterling, published on Dissident Voice, January 11, 2024 Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including being UK Ambassador to Bahrein (1999-2003) and then Syria (2003-2006). Following that, he was representative to the Arab world for the Commissioner General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency. He was interviewed by Rick Stering on Jan[…]
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by Pavan Kulkarni, published on People’s Dispatch, January 1, 2025 After capturing Gezira, a State in central Sudan that was producing half of its wheat and providing refuge to hundreds of thousands of IDPs, the RSF is set to battle the Sudanese Armed Forces for the neighboring states to consolidate control over the country’s agricultural heartland Agricultural production has come[…]
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by Aseel Saleh, published on People’s Dispatch, August 26, 2024 I have a current article which I will publish soon, but this article provides the context necessary to make sense of what is going on in Sudan. [jb] Sudanese activists from the front lines of the struggle for democracy participated in an online press conference organized by the International Peoples’[…]
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by W.T. Whitney, published on Labor Today International, January 7, 2025 Cubans numbering in the hundreds of thousands marched on December 20 along Havana’s emblematic Malecon roadway fronting the Florida Straits. President Miguel Díaz Canel and former President Raul Castro took the lead in a massive protest against stepped-up US efforts to immiserate Cubans and bring down their socialist government.[…]
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Black Alliance for Peace Statement, January 9, 2025 The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout that city and surrounding areas is fossil fuel production emblematic of runaway capitalism fueled by white “supremacy” ideology, patriarchy, and colonization. And while it’s easy to focus solely on the[…]
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