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Fifty First State? No Thanks!

February 17, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Canada, Socialism, U.S. Aggression

by Barry Weisleder, published on Socialist Action, January 31, 2025 The Canadian ruling elite is imperialist in its own right, commanding some of the biggest corporations in the world, particularly prominent in the fields of banking, mining, energy resources, forestry, retail and manufacturing. Unsurprisingly, American Capital covets that wealth as Washington’s share of global production and its military heft declines[…]

Washington’s Fantasy of a War Against China

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor China, Taiwan, U.S. Aggression, U.S. Hegemony

by Vijay Prashad, source: Globetrotter, February 4. 2025 The fragility of U.S. power was clear when a small Chinese startup released the DeepSeek machine learning program. The U.S. stock market Nasdaq shuddered, with technology stocks collapsing. This collapse is not a minor matter for the U.S. economy. During the post-COVID-19 inflation (2021), foreign investors began to slow down their purchase[…]

From Colonial Theft to Aarian Justice: South Africa’s Long Road to Land Reform

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Reparations, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, South Africa

by Jonis Ghedi Alasow. published on Peoples Dispatch, February 10, 2025 South Africa’s Expropriation Act has provoked debate within the country over the enduring racist land tenure model in the country, and has also sparked a diplomatic row with the United States. On January 23, 2025, South Africa enacted an Expropriation Act, updating the methods for land expropriation for the[…]

Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult But Essential. “186,000 or Even More Deaths.” The Lancet

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Immigrants, Labor, Migrants and Refugees, US Government Action, White Supremacy

by Joe Iosbaker, published on Fightback News, February 10, 2025 We also have to remember that many of the migrants and refugees who come into this country are fleeing disastrous situations in their own countries which are caused by the United States. [jb] Chicago, IL – The streets of Little Village in Chicago were filled with the sounds of drums[…]

US Remittances to Cuba Suspended; the Hard Side of an Irrational Policy

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

from Prensa Latina, translated and published by Resumen English, February 10, 2025 Economic brutality against Cuba. It is incomprehensible except in so far as some will destroy whatever they cannot own. [jb[ A Western Union statement, cited in digital media, has revealed that, “due to a change in U.S. sanctions regulations,” the financial services company is forced to indefinitely suspend[…]

Somaliland Pins Hopes of Recognition on Trump

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Africa, Genocide, Horn of Africa, Interview, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, Somalia, The Sahel, U.S. Hegemony, United Nations, US Hypocrisy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, February 12, 2025 Somaliland is pinning its hopes of recognition as an independent state on Donald Trump, and Trump has suggested that the breakaway state accept Palestinians exiled from Gaza. Somaliland declared its independence from Somalia in May 1991, and has unsuccessfully battled for recognition ever since. Now, almost 34 years later,[…]

Trump’s First 7 Days: The Framework for Presidential Dictatorship

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Fascism, Immigrants, Imperialism, Militarized Police, The War at Home, US Government Action

by the Socialist Equality Party, published on Defend Democracy Press, January 27, 2025 I don’t know anything about this organization, but the article makes many good points about the Trump administration. [jb] In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the[…]

The Power of Black Self-Defense in Lincoln Heights

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Nazis, Neo-Nazis, Racism, Resistance, The War at Home, White Supremacy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, February 12, 2025 When Nazis appear in public they must be quickly dispatched. The people of a Black town in Ohio did just that and then acted to arm and defend themselves. While there are endless think pieces written on the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s second ascendancy to the white house, working[…]

‘He’s Building a Concentration Camp’: Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Immigrants, Migrants, Political Prisoners

by John Queally, published on Common Dreams, February 9, 2025 “There’s no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don’t think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It’s easy to put tents in Florida. But they’re putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why.” Fears are growing that the offshore U.S. detention[…]

Whether Biden Or Trump, US’ Latin American Policy Will Be Contemptible

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Deportation, Latin America, Neocolonialism, U.S. Hegemony, US Foreign Policy, US Intervention

by John Perry and Roger D. Harris, published on Popular Resistance, January 30 2025 Migration, Drugs, and Tariffs. With Donald Trump as the new US president, pundits are speculating about how US policy towards Latin America might change. In this article, we look at some of the speculation, then address three specific instances of how the US’s policy priorities may[…]