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“America’s Longest War” Is Not Over!

September 8, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Air Wars, Drones, Hybrid Warfare

by Brian Terrell, September 8, 2021 On August 31, President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. stepped up to the White House podium, squared his shoulders, looked the American public straight in the eye — and told them the biggest lie of his Presidency (so far). What he said was: “Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war[…]

Workers World Statement on The Texas Anti-Abortion Law

September 8, 2021 UNAC Editor Reproductive Sovereignty, Women

Editorial Staff, Workers World, September 4, 2021 Just a little additional comment: This is CAPITALISM! If you don’t like someone’s actions which are none of your business (assuming the law is second to the judgement of any righteous person or organization in the country that sees fit to judge those who don’t have the resources to fight them) and isn’t[…]

War is a Racist Enterprise

September 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Racism, War on the Poor

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, September 1, 2021 Racism is an unspoken rationale for U.S. imperialist actions. The U.S.’s failure to prevent the Taliban from retaking political power in Afghanistan sparked feelings of panic in the foreign policy establishment. Warmongers and their loyal servants made endless demands for the twenty-plus year occupation to continue indefinitely. Familiar faces from[…]

Fighting an End to Endless Wars

September 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Propaganda

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Consortium News, August 30, 2021 In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan influential promoters of Western militarism have been absolutely fuming about the popular idea of ending the forever wars, and their tantrums are not even trying to disguise it as something else. They’re literally using that phrase, “ending the forever wars,” and[…]

Yemeni FM Condemns IMF Decision to Disburse Millions in COVID $$ to Govt in Exile

September 6, 2021 UNAC Editor International Institutions, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Yemen

by NewsDesk, published in The Cradle, August 31, 2021 The Foreign Minister of Yemen’s National Salvation Government (NSG) condemned the decision by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 30 August to disburse $665 million worth of emergency reserves to the Saudi-backed parallel administration led by ousted President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. In a letter addressed to the IMF Managing Director,[…]

Insane U.S. Plan to Spend Billions on Weaponizing Space

September 5, 2021 UNAC Editor Space Weapons, Star Wars

by Karl Grossman, published on Covert Action, August 25, 2021 Imagine this scenario from the year 2045: The U.S. and China, after years of belligerence, go to war over control of the Taiwan straits; most of the battles are fought through cyber-attacks and space-based weapons systems that had been perfected over the previous decades. In a desperate maneuver, the U.S.[…]

Report from New Orleans: Government does nothing for the poor

September 4, 2021 UNAC Editor Poverty, The War at Home, War on the Poor

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, September 2, 2021 Sept. 1 — Gavrielle Gemma, union and political organizer since the 1970s and now working with the New Orleans-based Workers Voice Socialist Movement, called Workers World to report on the situation there, post-Hurricane Ida. Gemma is now living in a modest single-family home in the Florida neighborhood of New Orleans,[…]

Behind the forced resignation of Peru’s Foreign Minister Héctor Béjar

September 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Peru, Right Wing Extremism, Visions of a Future

By Carlos Aznárez, published on Workers World, August 27, 2021 Source: Resumen Latinoamericano, Aug. 19, translated by Resumen English and edited by Workers World. The government of Pedro Castillo has suffered its first defeat, by yielding to the pressures of the right-wing coup and the most reactionary sectors of the Armed Forces. The imposition of the resignation of Foreign Minister[…]

The Western Imperial Left’s Collaboration with the Western Bourgeoisie

September 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Identity Politics, Imperialism, Organizing, Propaganda, Racism, US Hypocrisy, Women

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 1, 2021 As the Western left has become more aligned with their imperialist bourgeoisie in the destabilization of the Global South, the radical Black tradition provides a clear approach to “turn imperialist wars into wars against imperialism.” Changes in historical conditions can elevate a secondary contradiction to a primary, and antagonistic[…]

Indigenous Resistance Disrupts Billions Of Tons Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Annually

September 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Environment, Native Americans, petroleum

by Collin Rees, published on Popular Resistance, September 2, 2021 A New Report Bemidji, Minnesota — The Indigenous Environmental Network and Oil Change International are releasing a new report titled Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon. The report analyzes the impact that Indigenous resistance to fossil fuel projects in the United States and Canada has had on greenhouse gas emissions over the past 10 years. From the struggle[…]