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Let Cuba live! End the Blockade Now!

July 14, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Workers World Editor, published July 12, 2021 Today the capitalist media have turned their focus on anti-government demonstrators in Cuba, which the New York Times claimed to number in the “thousands,” in a country of 11 million people. How many thousands, if there were really that many, isn’t stated (nor were there any videos of such-sized crowds), but in[…]

The US War to Destroy China’s Crown Jewel and Secure US Cyber Supremacy

July 14, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Trade Wars, TradeWars

by Stephen Gowans, published on What’s Left, July 6, 2021 When then US president Donald Trump said he would call off US efforts to extradite from Canada Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to face bank fraud-related sanctions-evasion charges in exchange for trade concessions from China, he effectively admitted to a political kidnapping. The reality that normal US practice is to fine[…]

The US Must End Its Brutal Sanctions Against Cuba, Not Intervene There

July 14, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Ben Burgis, published on The Jacobin, July 13, 2021 We might also add that the day after protesters expressed anger at the government, even more people took to the streets to support the government. [jb] On Sunday, the largest anti-government protests in at least twenty-seven years broke out in Cuba. Thousands of people marched in the streets chanting slogans.[…]

Stop the $2 Billion Arms Sale to the Philippines

July 12, 2021 UNAC Editor Neocolonialism, Philippines, Weapons Sales

Statement from Chicago Anti-War Coalition, July 9, 2021 There is a sign-on statement you can sign asking Congress to Block the Billion Dollar Arms Sale to [the government of Philippine President] Duterte! They are primarily seeking organizational sign-ons but individuals can sign as well. [jb] Many Filipinos are very upset with President Duterte and the passage of an Anti-Terrorism law[…]

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Continued U.S./OAS/UN Support for Unconstitutional Actions by Haiti’s Illegitimate Government

July 12, 2021 UNAC Editor Haiti, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples

Black Alliance for Peace Press Release, July 6, 2021 Over eight days, from June 25-30, Haiti had been subjected to increasing state-sponsored, imperial and gang violence. Massacres killed almost 60 people in Port au Prince, including in Cité Soleil, Delmas and Pétionville, as well as on on Rue Magloire Ambroise. Prominent human-rights activist Antoinette (Netty) Duclaire and journalist Diego Charles[…]

How U.S. Destroyed Progressive Secular Forces in Afghanistan

July 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Socialism

by Deirdre Griswold, published on Workers World, July 5, 2021 A timely reminder, while the crocodile tears are flowing over the U.S. ‘abandoning’ Afghanistan (too soon?). [jb] First published in Workers World in October 1996, and then republished on Sept. 27, 2001, just before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, with the following introduction: The media are suddenly full of opinions[…]

How the Billionaires Rule

July 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Austerity, Labor, War on the Poor

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 8, 2021 Predatory Capitalism Has Driven Down Wages and Created a Dystopia for Workers. “Currently, 25 states out of 50 have rejected additional help for the unemployed.” President Calvin Coolidge said, “The business of America is business.” The expression is memorable because it always rang true. But nearly 100 years later[…]

The Ethiopian Conflict and International Law

July 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Ethiopia, International Law, Syria

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 8, 2021 “The NATO nations, and especially the US are hostile to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the government of Ethiopia.” Ann Garrison: Francis Boyle, you’re an expert in international law, including subsets, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. Could you explain what international humanitarian law is? Francis A. Boyle: There[…]

The Assassination of Jovenel Moïse

July 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Haiti, Neocolonialism, Political Corruption

by Yves Engler, published on Yves Engler’s Blog, July 9, 2021 Of course, everything he says about Canada goes double for the United States. [jb] Jovenel Moïse was a violent and corrupt tyrant. While his passing may not elicit much sympathy, the Haitian president’s assassination should not be celebrated. Backed by Washington and Ottawa, Moïse appears to have been killed[…]

America’s Impressive History of Bioweapons Attacks Against Its Own People

July 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Biological Weapons, Bioweapons, China, US Hypocrisy

by Lee Camp, published on ScheerPost, July 6, 2021 Lee’s intro: Forget China-bashing conspiracy theories, let’s look at the fogging of SF, the microbial attack on the NYC subway and other unpleasantries perpetrated by the CIA and US military in our not-so-distant past. Comment: Even if the current coronavirus was engineered in a lab, we do not have evidence of[…]