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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 Haidar Eid, Published on Mondoweiss, April 8, 2019 With the first anniversary of the Great March of Return, some disturbing questions have risen. Similar questions were raised in 2009, 2012, and 2014; in fact, this has been happening since 1948. It is becoming even more disturbing now to hear the same arguments being made by some of us who[…]
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Photo Gaza, March 25, 2019 by Jean Shaoul, Published on WSWS, May 6, 2019 Just days after being sworn into Israel’s new parliament following the victory of his far-right bloc in last month’s elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorised a massive aerial assault on Gaza’s defenceless population, targeting at least 150 sites over the weekend. In addition, the Israel Defense[…]
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by Betsy Piette, from Workers World, April 17, 2019 April 17 — A major hurdle was cleared today for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal to win a new trial and freedom. The office of the Philadelphia District Attorney filed a notice that it was rescinding its appeal against Common Pleas Court Judge Leon Tucker’s decision granting Abu-Jamal new appellate rights. This[…]
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By Lazaro Monteverde, from Socialist Action, May 4, 2019 “The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup,” by Dana Frank. (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018). Activist and scholar Dana Frank has given us a useful book to help us understand the present events in Honduras, at the U.S.-Mexico border, and elsewhere in Latin[…]
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By Achille Lollo posted on Workers World, April 7, 2019 (Translated by John Catalinotto) Note: About Venezuela as an example of Hybrid Warfare. “Operation Constitution” [planned by the U.S. and the Venezuelan right wing] ended with [self-proclaimed presidential pretender] Juan Guaidó’s miserable and silent return to Caracas and the capture of the four commanders of the ragtag “Venezuelan Liberation Army”[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, from Black Agenda Report, April 24, 1019 “Pompeo is too stupid to keep his mouth shut.” “When I was a cadet — What’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It’s – it was like[…]
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Troy Labor Council voted on May 17 in favor of the following resolution to support Julian Assange and WikiLeaks: Whereas, Assange and Wikileaks have released a vast trove of primary source material unlike anything that journalists have ever had such ready access to, Whereas, Wikileaks releases have made evidence-based journalism more possible than ever before, Whereas, Julian Assange and WIkileaks[…]
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Photo above; Fascists marching in Odessa, May 2, 2019, in the evening following the memorial for those slain by a brutal fascist attack on May 2, 2014. ~from a video by Pippa Bartolotti by Joe Lombardo of the United National Antiwar Coalition After taking an overnight train from Kiev, we arrived in Odessa and were met by two anti-Maidan supporters[…]
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Photos from videos by Alex Rubenstein: opposition supporters partying outside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC in the middle of the night with music and drumming, noisemakers and sirens, and spotlights flashing. Editor’s note: The hoped for Venezuelan coup fell flat. The military refused to leave the Maduro government. The people of Venezuela are not ready for a civil war. […]
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Memorial service on 10 May 2014 in honour of those who died in the clashes on 2 May, outside the burnt Trade Unions House ~HOBOPOCC, Flikr by Joe Lombardo, UNAC I am in Kiev, Ukraine with Pippa Bartolotti, a UNAC supporter from Wales, on our way to Odessa where there will be a mobilization to remember the massacre of more[…]
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