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Haiti: Black Despots and White Rulers

February 20, 2021 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Democracy, Haiti

by Jemima Pierre, published on Black Agenda Report, January 17, 2021 The horror story in Haiti since 2004 is not really about despotic Black government, but is the consequence and crime of global white rule. “Moïse is the product of a broader system blocking Haiti’s democratic path and sovereignty, a system that is built and maintained by the white rulers[…]

Never Again Can US Lecture Other Countries about Censorship

February 20, 2021 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Fascism

By Steve Lalla, published on the Orinoco Tribune, Feb 15, 2021 Following the past month’s events, the US can no longer imagine they’re in a position to lecture other nations about censorship. All and sundry see that the US doesn’t possess any moral high ground from which to dictate standards of free speech or free markets, either within their own[…]

Western Aid: Myth and Reality

February 18, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, International Aid and Debt

by Syed Ehtisham, published on Countercurrents, February 13, 2021 The West seeks to preserve present relations, which enable it to make immense profits by exploiting natural and manpower resources of the whole world. It also molds socioeconomic development of neo-colonial states to the purpose, by adopting development models, which will be based on foreign capital for finance, technology and know-how.[…]

Haiti in Urgent Need for Solidarity

February 18, 2021 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Haiti, Human Rights, Imperialism, Resistance, US Foreign Policy

by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, February 14, 2021 A long-brewing crisis in Haiti, created through intervention by the United States, United Nations and allied western imperialist countries, has now come to a head. The Biden administration is openly backing a violent, corrupt and fraudulent leader, Jovenel Moïse, and maintaining the policies of previous presidents, including Donald Trump, in[…]

Who Is Clare Grady and Why Should We Care that She is in Federal Prison?

February 18, 2021 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Civil Resistance, Nuclear Weapons

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action, February 15, 2021 On April 4, 2018—a date symbolically chosen because it is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination—Clare Grady and six other activists broke into the Kings Bay Submarine base in St. Mary’s, Georgia, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world. They carried hammers and baby bottles filled[…]

‘Progressive’ Prosecutors Put Thousands of Lives at Risk

February 15, 2021 UNAC Editor Prisons and Prisoners, War on the Poor

by Ted Kelly, published on Workers World, February 12, 2021 Philadelphia The novel coronavirus has claimed an unlikely victim in the United States: the Sixth Amendment. The right to a “speedy trial” is in critical condition. Philadelphia’s county jail population has risen to 4,500 and is growing steadily. Half of those behind bars have “detainers,” meaning they aren’t eligible for[…]

Syria’s Jolani Gets a Makeover

February 15, 2021 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Syria

by Steven Sahiounie, published on MidEast Discourse, February 9, 2021 The administration of President Joe Biden may use a new tactic to bring Damascus to its knees. The ‘regime-change’ policy of Obama, which spawned ‘forever-wars’ in Libya and Syria, has a new twist. Biden could choose to solve the Syrian conflict through diplomacy, but he may have tasked Secretary of[…]

Calls for a Mass Mobilization Against the Vaccine Market and Speculation in Place

February 15, 2021 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Public Health

Statement from Labor Today Nothing like a pandemic shows whether an economic and political system is working or is completely wrong. Nothing like a pandemic shows which interests are at the heart of that system, whether those of a few powerful people or those of the entire population. After a year, millions of deaths around the world and measures put[…]

U.S. Should Pay Iran Reparations

February 15, 2021 UNAC Editor Iran, US Foreign Policy

by David Swanson, published on Lets Try Democracy, February 4, 2021 This article is a great review of the history of US-Iranian relations over the last 100 years or so. The one thing that I find missing is a recognition of the accomplishments of the Islamic Republic of Iran including public health, public education and universal literacy including men and[…]

We Are Entering a Totalitarian Era

February 13, 2021 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Free Speech

Ann Garrison Interviews Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 27, 2021 In this interview for Pacifica Radio’s Covid, Race and Democracy, Ajamu Baraka warned of a new era of totalitarian neoliberalism. “Anybody who is in opposition to the hegemony of the neoliberal project is at some point over the next few years going to experience the heavy hand[…]