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Texas and Syria Suffer Freezing Temperatures and Electricity Outages

February 28, 2021 UNAC Editor Connecting the Dots, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Syria Solidarity Movement, February 26, 2021 Yes, one more on Syria, a look at the Texas/Damascus freeze from the other side. Indeed, Sanctions Kill. [jb] Americans in Texas and several other states have been badly hit by a severe snowstorm and accompanying electricity outages, with water shortages due to frozen and burst water pipes. As the global[…]

Stop Biden’s Bombing in Syria, Emergency Aid to Arctic Storm Victims

February 27, 2021 UNAC Editor Connecting the Dots, Statement, Syria, The War at Home, US Government Action

Statement by the Workers Voice Socialist Movement in New Orleans, La I saw this statement on the UNAC Discussion list. Great statement by workers in New Orleans. [jb] Millions go cold in Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Damascus, Syria What does the working class in these places have in common? Through military force, the U.S. government has seized oil and[…]

US Bombs Syria & Ridiculously Claims Self Defense

February 27, 2021 UNAC Editor Political Analysis, Syria, U.S. Aggression

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Consortium News, February 26, 2021 On orders of President Biden, the United States has launched an airstrike on a facility in Syria. As of this writing the exact number of killed and injured is unknown, with early reports claiming “a handful” of people were killed. Rather than doing anything remotely resembling journalism, the western mass[…]

New US Military Base in Northeast Syria Latest of Biden’s Warlike Moves

February 27, 2021 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Syria

by Alan MacLeod, published on MintPress News, February 10, 2021 he U.S.-government funded outlet Voice of America has confirmed rumors that a new military base is being built in northeastern Syria. A convoy of 40 troop carriers and other vehicles arrived and began setting up shop in the city of Hasakah near the Turkish and Iraqi borders over the weekend.[…]

UNAC Statement on Biden Bombing Syria

February 27, 2021 UNAC Editor Featured, Statement, Syria, Terrorism

UNAC condemns the US bombing of Syria authorized by President Biden. The Biden administration has been in office for only 36 days and has already launched its first military attack against Syria. Biden’s justification is that the US was attacked in Iraq. The US has no right to be in Iraq, Syria or any other country. More than 1 million people were killed in[…]

Capitalists Consolidate Control Over U.S. Farmland

February 27, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Corporatism

We’ve been following the uprising against the new neoliberal farm laws in India, but perhaps we aren’t aware that it reflects a similar process here. The context is very different here because, at least since the depression in the 30s, there has been a lot less small farms and subsistence level farming. [jb] by Ted Kelly, published on Workers World,[…]

The Unbearable Levity of Digital Monopolies

February 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Cuba

by Rosa Miriam Elizalde, published on Resumen English, February 17, 2021 The closure of Trump’s accounts comes too late and does not have the smell of carnations, but of another discretionary practice of private Internet monopolies, which act according to the winds blowing in Washington. Trump’s expulsion from the paradise of social media platforms, as a result of the assault[…]

COVID Vaccines are Big Business and a Political Weapon

February 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Corporatism, Public Health

By Manuel Raposo, published on Workers World, February 18, 2021 It has often been said that so-called “natural” disasters, including unforeseeable catastrophes, lay bare the weaknesses of the societies they strike. The health, social and economic crisis the coronavirus triggered is an example of this. An aggravating factor is that it has long been predicted that the spread of a[…]

US sanctions on Venezuela

February 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, United Nations, Venezuela

by Daniel Kovalik, published on RT, February 17, 2020 You can read the full preliminary report on Venezuelanalysis. [jb] In its regime-change effort in Venezuela, the US has imposed devastating sanctions that have caused tens of thousands of deaths among the most vulnerable – without ever coming close to toppling the president. Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral[…]

Indian Farmers’ Rise Against Modi Regime

February 21, 2021 UNAC Editor India, Organizing, Peoples' Movements, Resistance

by Umar Shahid, published on Socialist Action, February 20,2021 The article below by Umar Shahid is an update on the historic January 26 mobilizations in India against the neoliberal policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The previous strike/protest of November 26, 2020, the “Bharat Bandh” meaning the 24-hour closure of, included a monumental 250 million participants! [Socialist Action Editor] I have repeatedly[…]