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U.S.-EU Hide Their Role in Afghan Hunger Crisis

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Zach Kerns, published on International Action Center, February 7, 2022 On Jan. 24, U.S. and European Union representatives met with representatives of the Taliban in Oslo to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. The meeting’s purpose, according to the U.S. State Department, was the “urgency in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan” and the need to “help alleviate the suffering[…]

China Holds First-Ever Carbon-Neutral Olympics

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor China, Environment

by Lyn Neeley, published on Workers World, February 14, 2022 This year’s Beijing Winter Olympics is the first in history to be carbon-neutral. This includes renewable energy in all game venues, introducing new low-carbon technologies and using transportation fueled by hydrogen, natural gas and electricity. China completed the Zhangbei power grid station in time for the Olympics. That’s the world’s[…]

RAND Corporation Study Calls for Regime Change in Moscow

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Russia, U.S. Aggression

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, February 13, 2022 Imagine how Moscow felt when they first read this RAND Corporation study. When we look at current events can we notice the direct connection to the points from this study listed below? Whether it is US-NATO military expansion right up to Russian borders or efforts by Washington to kill the[…]

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the “America COMPETES Act”

February 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Asia, China, Trade Wars

Black Alliance for Peace Press Release February 7, 2022 — On Friday evening February 4th, the US House of Representatives passed the “America COMPETES Act of 2022 (H.R. 4521).” The stated intent of the legislation is to strengthen “America’s national and economic security and the financial security of families, and advance our leadership in the world.” While this claim, found in[…]

‘Death Sentence for Untold Numbers of Civilians’: Biden to Permanently Seize Afghan Assets

February 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, American Exceptionalism, Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by John Queally, published on CommonDreams, February 11, 2022 Humanitarians—including those who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks of 2001—responded with condemnation Friday after it was reported that President Joe Biden has decided to permanently seize $7 billion of currently frozen Afghan assets even as the people of the war-torn and poverty-stricken nation suffer a broken economy, a collapsed[…]

As the Military War Ends, Afghan People Face Starvation Under U.S. Sanctions

February 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Economic Collapse, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action

by Vijay Prashad, from Globetrotter, February 11, 2022 On February 8, 2022, UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets. One of the tweets, which included a photograph of a child lying in a hospital bed with her mother seated beside her, said: “Having recently recovered from acute watery diarrhea, two years old Soria[…]

No War With Russia: UNAC Spearheads Actions Across the Country

February 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Featured

In response to UNAC’s Call for protests on February 5, against U.S. and NATO warmongering against Russia and Ukraine, there were protests across the country with about 100 people coming out for lively rallies in Oakland and in Times Square NYC. More in Brooklyn and Berkeley. Hundreds more, young and old, rallied and held vigils across the country. Here are[…]

Landback: Indigenous Peoples Regain Redwoods Forest Lands

February 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Reparations, Resistance

by Minnie Bruce Pratt, published on Workers World, February 9, 2022 Indigenous peoples regain redwoods forest lands on unceded land of the Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The growing LandBack movement by Indigenous nations won another significant victory Feb. 1, when more than 500 acres of the “Lost Coast” in California was transferred to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. (sinkyone.org) The[…]

Biden Warns of “World War” While Truss Says Rostov and Voronezh are not Russian

February 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, US Meddling in Europe, War and Peace

by Paul Antinopoulos, published on InfoBRICS, February 11, 2022 Normally I might not publish something like this but I think we all should consider just how incompetent our leaders and their ‘diplomats’ really are. [jb] President Joe Biden called for American citizens in Ukraine to leave the country as soon as possible after revealing the potential for a “world war”[…]

Eric Adams’ Black on Black Crime

February 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Police Corruption, Political Analysis, Racism, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, February 9, 2022 The mass incarceration state was built to lock up as many Black people as possible and discussion of even modest reforms is shut down. Such was the case in New York where the mayor and police commissioner smeared Manhattan’s district attorney, forcing him to backtrack on his campaign promise[…]