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Sign the Petition: Support GE Workers to Build Ventilators Not Bombers!

April 2, 2020 Judith Bello Featured, Labor Struggles, Petition

(Signatures listed at the bottom of the page) More information: General Electric is laying off workers due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. However, they might have a better option. According to a report on AdWeek.com At General Electric, some plant workers walked off the job Monday because they want the company to shift factories to produce the much-needed ventilators increasingly sought[…]

COVID-19 and Revolutionary Change

March 30, 2020 UNAC Editor Revolution, War on the Poor

by Margaret Kimberley, published in Black Agenda Report, Freedom Rider, March 25, 2020 The genie has escaped from the bottle, revealing the deep injustices and cruelties that are embedded in US capitalism and its warped relationship to the peoples it rules, and the world. “COVID-19 is an opportunity to demand change while the people are paying attention to the crisis.”[…]

Israel Confiscates Materials for Clinic in the West Bank

March 30, 2020 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Human Rights, Israel-Palestine, Public Health, Racism

From B’tselem Website, March 26, 2020 This morning, Thursday, 26 March 2020, at around 7:30 am, officials from Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank arrived with a military jeep escort, a bulldozer and two flatbed trucks with cranes at the Palestinian community of Khirbet Ibziq in the northern Jordan Valley. They confiscated poles and sheeting that were meant to[…]

The U.S. is a Failed State and COVID-19 Proves it

March 30, 2020 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Collapsed States, Human Rights, Public Health, Racism

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, March 25, 2020 The United States’ capitalist and imperialist economy cannot provide a modicum of social welfare to its people and has been in perpetual war with Black Americans and Indigenous Peoples since its formation. “COVID-19 proves that the United States’ war on the world is a drag on humanity.” U.S. imperialism[…]

Coronavirus and Militarism, The End of an Illusion

March 30, 2020 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Human Rights, Nigeria, Political Corruption, Public Health, Statement, War on the Poor

Statement from the Black Alliance for Peace The nation that considers itself to be the apex of capitalist achievement on planet Earth turns out to have no health care system worthy of the name – a testament to the sucking moral vacuum at America’s imperial, white settler colony core. A lowly virus – a form of being that exists at[…]

The Senate’s Coronavirus Relief Package Robs the People to Pay the Rich!

March 30, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economic Collapse, Economics, The War at Home, US Politics

by Rich Whitney, published on Global Research, March 27, 2019 The Senate’s $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package is not fiscal stimulus and it’s not a lifeline for the tens of millions of working people who have suddenly lost their jobs. It’s a fundamental restructuring of the US economy designed to strengthen the grip of the corrupt corporate-banking oligarchy while creating[…]

Cuba on the front lines of fighting COVID-19

March 30, 2020 UNAC Editor Cuba, Human Rights, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Public Health

By Mirinda Crissman posted Workers World, March 24, 2020 Cuba continues to illustrate international health care solidarity in its response to the COVID-19 crisis. The island nation has sent brigades of doctors and supplies to Italy, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Suriname and Grenada. (telesurenglish.net) Meanwhile, the United States has been criminally negligent in stopping the spread of COVID-19 and in testing[…]

Trump’s Narcoterrorism Indictment of Maduro Already Backfires

March 29, 2020 UNAC Editor Latin America, US Government Action, Venezuela

by Leonardo Flores, published by CodePink, March 27, 2020 For twenty years, right wing extremists in Miami and Washington have been slandering the Venezuelan government, accusing it of drug trafficking and harboring terrorists without ever offering even a shred of evidence. They finally got their wish on Thursday, when the U.S. Department of Justice unveiled indictments against President Nicolás Maduro[…]

US Imperialism Pulls Desperate Move in Venezuela

March 29, 2020 UNAC Editor Featured, Statement, Venezuela

United National Antiwar Coalition Statement For years, the criminal government of the United States has attempted to remove the democratically elected president of Venezuela and discredit the peoples’ movement in that country that has been so successful in lifting millions of Venezuelans out of extreme poverty. Under the corrupt Trump administration alone, the United States has conducted multiple illegal attacks[…]

On the Shore Facing a Tidal Wave: Reflections of a Physician

March 28, 2020 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Poverty, Public Health, The War at Home

By George Duncan, MD, published on ML Today, March 24, 2020 This week I joined the first multi-specialty team in our hospital specifically dedicated to patients with COVID-19 infection. The “tidal wave” analogy has now many echoes in the mainstream media. I was saying this too. It will be a “tidal wave.” We can see the “tidal wave” coming in[…]