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The Importance of Neighborhood Banks

March 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Corporatism, Economics

Ellen Brown Interviews Economist Michael Hudson on Its Our Money, Show #124, March 12, 2020 Michael Hudson: [00:00:00] There’s recognition that commercial banking has become dysfunctional and that most loans by commercial banks are either against assets – in which case the lending inflates the prices of real estate, stocks and bonds – or for corporate takeover loans. The economy’s[…]

Statement of Socialist Action National Committee: Coronavirus Threatens the Lives of Billions

March 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Poverty, Socio-Economic Struggles, The War at Home

By James Fortin and Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 21, 2019 As the devastating novel coronavirus (COVID-19) literally threatens the lives of billions of the earth’s people, two truths about the contagion remain unchallenged: All nations are ill-prepared for the arrival of the virus, and once it lands, despite herculean efforts in some cases, little can be done[…]

Why Sanctions During a Pandemic are Cruel and Mean Spirited

March 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Economics, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Vijay Prashad and Paulo Estrada, published on MROnline, March 16, 2020 Swiftly moves the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing across continents, skipping over oceans, terrifying populations in every country. The numbers of those infected rises, as do the numbers of those who have died. Hands are being washed, tests are being done, and social distance has become a new phrase.[…]

Coronavirus and the Antiwar Movement

March 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Economics, Featured, Healthcare, Public Health, Resistance, Statement

UNAC Administrative Committee, 3/18/20 The coronavirus is serious, and our movement needs to take it seriously. We must protect ourselves and each other. These are the sentiments that brought us to the movement in the first place. For a coalition like UNAC, which has always supported street demonstrations, face-to-face meetings and mass actions, we need to rethink our activity during[…]

Lift Syrian Sanctions Before Coronavirus Creates a Perfect Storm

March 21, 2020 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, War on the Poor

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Middle East Discourse, March 16, 2020 The US and EU sanctions on Syria have taken a toll on the health and welfare of the Syrian people for many years. They were designed to ‘hurt’ the Syrian government, but have only hurt the innocent unarmed Syrian civilians caught in the middle of a US-NATO-EU attack on[…]

Pandemics and War Games, Solidarity As an Antidote

March 21, 2020 UNAC Editor Biological Weapons, War and Weapons

By Stella Calloni on Resumen, March 15, 2020 The coronavirus, a new strain of the already existing one, whose mutation is being investigated has put the world between the solidarity and the misery of a dying system, capable of using the effects of a pandemic to impose a state of terror at a global level and to justify a stock[…]

COVID-19 Covers Up War and Financial Collapse

March 21, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Imperialism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 18. 2020 COVID-19 is not just a health emergency. It has exposed the causes of inequality and suffering in this country. “Thousands of symptomatic people go untested in a supposedly “advanced” country.” The COVID-19 corona virus is a newly discovered disease which killed thousands of people in China, its country of[…]

Why the Virus May Win in the Long Run

March 21, 2020 UNAC Editor China, Healthcare, Hybrid Warfare

by Coleen Rowley, published in Consortium News, March 18, 2020 Friends who are smarter than I am noticed that Breitbart et. al. is now afire with anti-China rhetoric. Donald Trump’s designation of the Covid-19 virus as the “Chinese virus” has opened the floodgates. For example, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said the U.S. should begin forcing China to “pay the burden[…]

End Sanctions on Iran Petition

March 21, 2020 UNAC Editor Iran, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Iran is suffering terribly from the the combination of a serious outbreak of the novel coronavirus and US sanctions which make it difficult if not impossible for the Iranian state to acquire the resources necessary to fight the virus. The result is a high death toll. Meanwhile, just this week, the US (Congress and the Trump Administration) increased the severity[…]

China Locked in Hybrid War with US

March 21, 2020 UNAC Editor China, Hybrid Warfare

by Pepe Escobar, published on Global Research, March 18, 2020 Among the myriad, earth-shattering geopolitical effects of coronavirus, one is already graphically evident. China has re-positioned itself. For the first time since the start of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978, Beijing openly regards the US as a threat, as stated a month ago by Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the[…]