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The Imperative To Achieve National Improved Medicare For All

November 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Medicare for All, Public Health

By Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, November 15, 2020 Health care will be a major issue early in the new Biden/Harris administration. Unemployment is still high with over a million people applying for unemployment benefits last week and 42.6% of working age people without a job. In the United States, losing employment often means losing health insurance. On top[…]

Black Misleaders Back Susan Rice as Top Diplomat

November 19, 2020 UNAC Editor Africa, US Politics, Women

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, November 19, 2020 Friends, I want to say that Glen’s incessant criticism of what he calls the ‘Black Misleadership Class’ is not (in my opinion) misplaced, but those of us who are not Black need to see it in perspective. Glen’s issues with the Black Misleadership Class are are not isolated to[…]

Evo Morales returns to Bolivia in triumph

November 18, 2020 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Paths to Emancipation

By Marco Terrugi posted on Workers World, November 16, 2020 Chimoré airport, Bolivia First published Nov. 13 in revistacrisis.com.ar, Teruggi’s article describes Evo Morales’ triumphant return to Bolivia after a year in exile. Translation: John Catalinotto. [Former President] Evo Morales and [Vice President] Alvaro Garcia Linera stood before a crowd at the Chimoré airport in the heart of the Chapare.[…]

Glenn Greenwald On His Resignation From The Intercept

November 16, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Press Freedom, Resistance

By Matt Taibbi, published on TK News, October 29, 2020 This story is a little long, but the topic is important. It shows the way in which the press has been commandeered to the will of the powerful. The Intercept was formed as a kind of Trojan horse which was finally completely revealed when Glen left. But we have long[…]

Drug Decriminalization, It Works!

November 16, 2020 UNAC Editor Addiction, Prisoners, Public Health

by Princess Harmony, published on Workers World, November 12, 2020 In Portugal, the drug policy since 2001 has been focused on decriminalization and treatment. The country decriminalized small personal use amounts of drugs, which led to a fall in HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C rates, as well as overdose rates. People who had predicted that such a policy would[…]

Capital of California Seeks Medical Exchange with Cuba

November 16, 2020 UNAC Editor Cuba, Public Health, Resistance

Published on TeleSUR English, November 11, 2020 This little bit of news from TeleSUR shows that regardless of the US Government stance, the US people would like to open up to Cuba. These people, all members of local governments, are not fooled by federal government propaganda, and when their personal welfare is at issue, they will break with the state[…]

Challenges For Social Movements Now That Trump Has Been Defeated

November 16, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Resistance, Revolution

by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, November 9, 2020 Change doesn’t come from the top, especially within a manipulated ‘democracy’ as exists in the United States. When social transformation occurs, it follows years of educating, organizing and mobilizing at the grassroots. Elected leaders who represent that transformation ride on a wave created by social movements, not the other way[…]

Trump’s Great Barrington “Herd Immunity” Hoax

November 13, 2020 UNAC Editor Big Pharma, Capitalism, Public Health

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, November 3, 2020 The moron Trump, perhaps the crudest specimen of capitalist cruelty these days, takes the matter one insane step further with his ongoing public and personal opposition to mandated lockdowns, mask wearing and social distancing necessitated by the uncontrolled spread of COVID-19. Trump’s current pandemic science adviser, Stanford University’s Hoover Institute[…]

Freedom Rider: The Real Resistance Begins

November 13, 2020 UNAC Editor Racism, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, November 11, 2020 “Kamala Auntie” and Joe from Scranton will do as little as possible so that “nothing will fundamentally change” that would halt endless wars and the Race to the Bottom. “We have already lived through phony change and emotional theatrics instead of political action.” When Pennsylvania announced that Joe Biden[…]

Celebrate Armistice Day – Wage Peace With Renewed Energy!

November 12, 2020 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Nuclear Weapons, War and Weapons

by Gerry Condon, published on Popular Resistance, November 7, 2020 November 11 is Armistice Day, marking the 1918 armistice that ended the First World War, on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.” Horrified by the industrial slaughter of millions of soldiers and civilians, the people of the U.S. and the world initiated campaigns to outlaw[…]