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Targeting Iraq, Iran/ U.S. Threatens Wider War

January 9, 2020 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Breaking News, Featured, Iran, Iraq, Middle East Wars, US Foreign Bases

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, January 7, 2019 Jan 7–Enormous demonstrations in Iran, Iraq and region-wide are expressing anti-imperialist rage, and signaling a new day, a rebirth of mass movements that will drive the U.S. out of the region. A criminal U.S. act has kindled this firestorm. On Jan. 2, U.S. imperialism pushed its aggressive war against Iran[…]

Venezuela: The End of the Year That was Unforeseen

January 6, 2020 UNAC Editor Latin America, Venezuela

by Marco Teruggio, published in the Orinoco Tribune, December 31, 2019 Caracas lives a quieter December than in previous years You breathe a certain calm. There are big lines in the streets, this time not due to shortages, but to spend the Petro cryptocurrency bonus, in a context of economic crisis. By Marco Teruggi From Caracas No one knew in[…]

Reckless US Actions Fire Up the Antiwar Movement

January 6, 2020 UNAC Editor Iran, Iraq, Middle East Wars, Propaganda, Protest

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance,January 5, 2020 The reckless and dangerous act of war committed by Donald Trump and the Pentagon in killing Major General Qasem Soleimani of Iran and the Iraqi leader of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, has brought the conflict in the Middle East (aka West Asia) to a new[…]

Baghdad Delivers a New Year’s Message, U.S. Escalates Aggression

January 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Featured, Iran, Iraq

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, January 4, 2020 The arrogance of U.S. imperialism knows no bounds. And nowhere has it been more destructive in recent decades than in the countries of the area dubbed the Middle East. A humiliating message to the U.S. imperialists was delivered in Baghdad, Iraq – on the very last day of 2019. On[…]

Propaganda and the Defeat of Jeremy Corbyn

January 3, 2020 UNAC Editor Propaganda

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, December 18, 2019 Corbyn can be defeated with a libel it can work just as well on Sanders. “Corporate in both countries behave in similar fashion and make a mockery of any claims of a free press.” One year ago this columnist wrote about the Integrity Initiative, an arm of British intelligence[…]

U.S. war on the defenseless / Sanctions harm one-third of world’s people

January 3, 2020 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Sara Flounders, published on International Action Center, December 3, 2019 The most insidious and pervasive form of modern warfare by Wall Street and the Pentagon, acting in coordination, is passing largely unnoticed and unchallenged. This calculated attack is rolling back decades of progress in health care, sanitation, housing, essential infrastructure and industrial development all around the world. Almost every[…]

We Are The Majority; We Must Turn That Into Power

January 2, 2020 UNAC Editor Featured, Resistance, Revolution

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, December 29, 2019 Over the last decade, a national consensus has developed for a progressive left agenda on the economy, social services, the climate crisis and ending wars but the movement has not yet built the power to make that a reality. The next decade will be ripe with opportunities[…]

WaPo’s Afghan Papers Propagate Colonial Narrative of Noble Intentions Gone Awry

December 30, 2019 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Imperialism

by Joshua Cho, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, December 26, 2019 Yes. Another perspective on this article. It is rare that an article in the Mainstream media gets this much attention and I think we should consider what is happening here. [UNAC Ed] In an earlier article (FAIR.org, 12/18/19) regarding the Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers (12/9/19), I discussed[…]

Media’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal

December 29, 2019 UNAC Editor Featured, Press Freedom, Propaganda, Syria

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Medium.com, December 28, 2019 WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year which resulted in airstrikes upon[…]

Technocracy Now! The US Is Working to Turn Lebanon’s Anti-Corruption Protests Against Hezbollah

December 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions, Hybrid Warfare, Lebanon

by Rania Khalek, published on The Grayzone, December 1, 2019 Lebanon erupted in massive protests this October. The demonstrations transcended sect and class, and quickly spread across the country. The movement was spurred by the levying of regressive taxes and the persistence of a corrupt neoliberal order that has mismanaged the economy and hollowed out the public sector while enriching[…]