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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 Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News, August 21, 2020 Young children marvel at an obvious contradiction in capitalist societies: why do we have shops filled with food, and yet see hungry people on the streets? It is a question of enormous significance; but in time the question dissipates into the fog of moral ambivalence, as various explanations are used[…]
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by H.K. Suh, Washington D.C. Today marks the 75th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from the Japanese colonial rule, yet it was not true independence as Korea was denied independent, self-government (as promised by the Allies during the wartime summits, and suggested on the US postage stamp shown below), but rather was suddenly divided arbitrarily in half without Koreans’ knowledge. As[…]
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Statement by The International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS) On August 14, 2020, the world commemorates the end of World War II in 1945. During the Great Depression, an acute global crisis of capital, conflict in the Eastern hemisphere was stirred up when imperial Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931. It had already been occupying Korea. In the Western hemisphere, the[…]
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by Socorro Gomez, published on the US Peace Council Website, August 5, 2020 This August 6 and 9, humanity rememorates one of the greatest tragedies in History, which was even more nefarious because it was caused by human action, that of US imperialism. The inauguration of nuclear weapons by the United States against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,[…]
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by Barry Shephard, published on Socialist Action, August 15, 2020 Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border By John Carlos Frey Bold Type Books, 2019 This book presents a harrowing well-researched description of Washington’s war against immigrants on the Mexican border. The author is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. Frey was born in Tijuana, Mexico. His[…]
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by Prabir Purkayastha, published on Counterpunch, August 14, 2020 The U.S. tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its Five Eyes partners and NATO allies to follow suit. It is a market and a technology denial regime that seeks to win back manufacturing that the U.S. and European countries have lost to China. International[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 12, 2020 Every charge that Trump and his minions make against Chinese companies is true for US corporations, which have been spying on Americans and the rest of the world for decades. “Dedollarization is well underway and will only accelerate with every attack.” The seemingly strange Trump administration attack on the[…]
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By B.L.S. San Antonio, Texas, published on Workers World, August 11, 2020 “They told me not to tell my family where I was,” a Haitian asylum-seeker recounted. “I heard people being taken away in the hall [of the hotel] screaming, ‘I’m not going! I’m not going!’” In the month of July, Immigration and Customs Enforcement held nearly 200 immigrant children,[…]
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by Jeremy Salt, published on the American Herald Tribune, August 11, 2020 In the old days there was no more charming city in the eastern Mediterranean than Beirut. Set on a maritime plain with the mountains rising dramatically behind it, the scenery was magnificent, the culture charming, the people hospitable and the city rich in history. Unfortunately, however, Lebanon’s prime[…]
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Posted on Middle East Monitor, October 25, 2019 This is and older report which only now came to my attention. I think it is worth sharing. Recently, a Palestinian American friend who lives in a largely Arab immigrant community showed me what local teenagers (working at home due to COVID) are learning about Palestine and Israel in school. She was[…]
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