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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 Tim Anderson, published on The American Herald Tribune, April 26. 2020 On 19 March two cruise ships with COVID19 infected passengers and crew were evacuated, one in Havana and the other in Sydney. The first evacuation, of the Braemar, was so successful and uneventful that it barely raised a ripple in the world media. The second, of the Ruby[…]
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By Peter Symonds , published on World Socialist Website, 23 April 2020 As it rapidly escalates its propaganda offensive against China, the Trump administration has provocatively sent US warships into the South China Sea. The US Navy announced on Tuesday that the amphibious assault ship USS America along with two guided-missile destroyers, USS Bunker Hill and USS Barry, were operating[…]
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by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, April 26, 2020 On Friday, May 1, an ongoing General Strike campaign begins. This campaign could become the most powerful movement in the United States and reset the national agenda. It comes when the failures of the US political system have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which triggered an[…]
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By Brian Terrell, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, April 17, 2020 “But what of the price of peace?” asked Jesuit priest and war resister Daniel Berrigan, writing from federal prison in 1969, doing time for his part in the destruction of draft records.. “I think of the good, decent, peace-loving people I have known by the thousands, and I[…]
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By Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 22, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has resuscitated the old “yellow peril” canard to its fullest extent, revealing deep xenophobia and racist intent against China. “U.S. accusations directed at others are always a projection of its own failures and wrong doing.” Black people must walk a fine line concerning any discussion of[…]
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by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, April 23, 2020 The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration. The only cure is socialism. “The duopoly parties’ refusal to establish a national health care system, beginning with Medicare for All, can only be understood in[…]
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*Featured Image: A stack of 3.8 billion dollar bills would reach the International Space Station. The new package to Israel will give Israel ten times that much money. An Israeli official gloated that the package was obtained “despite budget cuts, including defense cuts, in the U.S.” (Image by If Americans Knew) By If Americans Knew, April 12, 2013, Updated: December 22, 2019[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu, Du Xaiojun, published by the Independent Media Institute, April 7, 2020 Part 1: Growing Xenophobia Against China in the Midst of CoronaShock Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration. March 31, 2020 On March 25, the foreign ministers of the G7[…]
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by James Fortin, published by Socialist Action, March 31, 2020 Now that the COVID-19 contagion has spread to the 4 corners of the globe, the unpreparedness of the capitalist state, and the outright disregard by the ruling class for the fate of the working people of the United States, has come into full view. Underlying a perfect-storm scenario is the[…]
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by Max Blumenthal, published on The Grayzone, April 16, 2020 While the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill was authored in the spirit of beating back a pandemic, buried deep within its text is a stipend for the US State Department operations dedicated to carrying out foreign interventions that have contributed to the outbreak of preventable diseases like polio in Syria[…]
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