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Articles by members and friends of UNAC. The views, opinions and positions expressed on this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the positions of UNAC.
by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 25, 2024 US efforts to control information in Africa will ultimately backfire, says African journalist, author, and filmmaker David Hundeyin. On September 13, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a press conference in which he accused the Russian media outlet RT of covertly disseminating Kremlin-produced content and messaging, not only in[…]
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by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 28, 2024 With the polls deadlocked at 48-48 less than two weeks before the US presidential elections, the billionaire ruling rich frantically maneuver to capture a few more votes to swing the result in favor of their chosen warmongering, capitalist, anti-working class, environmentally catastrophic corporate-kept candidates. The electoral choice presented to an[…]
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by Misión Verdad Orinoco Tribune, published on Popular Resistance, October 24, 2024 Looks like Lula Inácio da Silva’s “Get Out of Jail Free” card was not free, after all. Too bad for Venezuela ….and Brazil. On Monday, it was reported that Brazil would oppose Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS group. The 16th Summit of the BRICS organization is taking place[…]
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by Workers World Party, posted on Workers World, October 15, 2024 Editor’s note: The header image is from a later date at which time Brown University suspended the pro-Palestine group that continued to protest. At about eight weeks into the new semester on U.S. campuses, the following has become clear: Students who started political activity and struggle last year opposing[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, October 31, 2024 On October 24th, a U.S. presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu that the war is over, because it’s basically our proxy war. We control the armaments, the funding, the diplomatic cover, the intelligence, etc., so we can end[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, published on People’s Dispatch, September 27, 2024 Editor’s note: This is late, but it is important to understand the true face of the revolution now taking place in West Asia. Israel assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (1960-2024) because he refused to stop the attacks on northern Israel until the Israelis ended the genocide against the Palestinians. During the[…]
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by Joe Piette, published on Workers World, October 25, 2024 Philadelphia – Students, faculty and community activists came out for a Palestine Solidarity Vigil, with signs, banners, chants, speakers and musical instruments, on Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct 14. The vigil took place at the University of Pennsylvania campus, which sits on occupied Lenape territory, known as Lenapehoking. Highlights included a[…]
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Statement by the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, October 14, 2024 The Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti Needs to End OCTOBER 14, 2024— The Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace strongly denounces the UN Security Council’s vote to extend the U.S. funded, Kenya-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti. We assert that any U.S./UN-led armed intervention[…]
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by Paul Larudee, October 26, 2024 It is apparently not much of an exaggeration to say that Israel’s attack on Iran fizzled. Some targets were hit and at least two Iranian soldiers were killed, but the ineffectiveness of the operation was probably due to several factors: Israel just doesn’t have the weaponry. Most of its missiles don’t have the distance,[…]
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By La Jornada editorial on October 21, 2024 Cuba is going through its greatest energy crisis, with practically the entire island and 10 out of 11 million inhabitants deprived of electricity. The blackouts that have been occurring with increasing frequency and duration for some time now, turned into a total collapse of the electrical system as a result of the[…]
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