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The Wall, The Endless War, and the Troops Who Pay

January 19, 2019 UNAC Editor Militarism, Refugees, Veterans

An image grab taken from a video obtained by AFPTV on January 16, 2019, shows U.S. armoured vehicles at the scene of a suicide attack in the northern Syrian town of Manbij. (Photo: Getty) by Gerry Condon, from Common Dreams, January 18 Note: While all eyes are focused on the dastardly ‘wall’ Trump wants to build along the Mexican border[…]

Uniting for a Green New Deal

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, Labor

Hundreds gathered in San Francisco with the youth-led Sunrise Movement on Dec. 11. Peg Hunter / Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, from Popular Resistance, January 13, 2019 A real Green New Deal requires pushing issues Democrats don’t want to discuss, such as nationalization of industries, more democracy, and cuts to the military. “We need a[…]

Challenges Posed by the Green New Deal

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Environment, Human Rights, Socialism

In November, members of the Sunrise Movement, joined by newly elected Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, sat in at Rep. Pelosi’s office to demand a Green New Deal (Photo: Sunrise Movement) By Kamran Nayeri, from Socialist Action, January 16, 2019 The fanfare about the UN Conference of Parties (COP) 24 in Katowice, located in a coal-mining region in Poland, that the diplomats from[…]

Dakota Men, Women and Youth Ride to Honor Executed Warriors and For Healing

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Native American Genocide, Paths to Emancipation

Photo: Some participants in the Dakota 38 + 2 Wokiksuye Sunk Akan Yankapi — the Dakota Prayer Ride and Water Walk — ride into Mankato, Minn., near the end of their 17-day journey from South Dakota. ~Mankato Free Press By Stephanie Tromblay posted on Workers World, January 15, 2019 Dakota men, women and youth rode into Mankato, Minn., on horseback[…]

As Support Grows to Extend Los Angeles Teacher Strike, Unions Colluding With Democrats to End Walkout

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Political Corruption

by Jerry White, from the World Socialist Website, January 16, 2019 Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers and their supporters manned picket lines and marched downtown yesterday on the second day of the strike by 33,000 educators in America’s second largest school district. The walkout has generated widespread public support and growing calls for the spreading of the strike[…]

Shut-out federal employees say: Stop the war on workers!

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Political Corruption, Racism, Refugees, Women

Photo: National Treasury Employees Union members rally in Washington, D.C., Jan. 10. by Kathy Durkin, from Workers World, January 15, 2019 “Stop the war on workers!” and “We want work, not walls!” read signs held by furloughed federal employees at the White House and in cities around the U.S. on Jan. 10. They were protesting the Trump administration’s shutdown of[…]

Venezuela Fights Back! The Bolivarian Revolution Continues!

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Latin America, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

Photo: A Venezuelan supporter of President Nicolas Maduro gold a sign that reads: “Going forward with Maduro.” ~TeleSUR Gallery, January 2019 by Alison Bodine, Fire This Time, January, 2019 A summary of the words most commonly appearing in mainstream news headlines about Venezuela in 2018 would include “humanitarian crisis,” “chaos,” “dictatorship,” and “failed state,” among other alarming buzzwords. Far reflecting[…]

Bases, Bases, Everywhere … Except in the Pentagon’s Report

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Militarism

Map: If this surprises, please understand that it is a significant underestimate. At least in Africa, major US bases have been constructed since then, along with up to a dozen smaller U.S. outposts in Syria. Politico Magazine, July/August 2015. by Nick Turse, from TomDispatch, January 8, 2019 The U.S. military is finally withdrawing (or not) from its base at al-Tanf.[…]

NICA-Act-2: US NICA Act Aims to Cut Nicaragua Access to Capital While Nicaragua Targets US Funding Pipeline to the Opposition

January 16, 2019 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, Latin America, Nicaragua, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Chuck Kaufman, from NicaNotes, December 19, 2018 The Nicaraguan government removed the legal standing last week of nine non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that supported the attempted coup that disrupted much of the country for three months last spring and summer. It should also be remembered that Violeta Chamorro removed the legal standing of nine NGOs when she was president from[…]

NICA-Act-I: Nicaragua Reminds the US of its Debts

January 16, 2019 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Latin America, Nicaragua

by Chuck Kaufman, from NicaNotes, August 22, 2017 Passage by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee of the ridiculous NICA Act brought a rebuff by the Sandinista government of President Daniel Ortega and a reminder of the US’s own unpaid debt to Nicaragua. The NICA Act (Nicaragua Investment Conditionality Act of 2017), if it became law, would require US representatives in multilateral lending institutions[…]