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A Strong Antidote to Western Propaganda on Korea

May 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Korea, Review

A review of Stephen Gowans’ book, Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom by Gregory Elich, originally published on Zoom in Korea, May 7, 2018 The release of Stephen Gowans’s superb new book could not be better timed. With the Korean Peninsula on the potential brink of major change, looking to Western mainstream media for reasoned[…]

Lynching, Racial Terror, and Black Liberation Theology

May 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Racism

Photo: Women protest lynching in 1946 by Peggy Rosenthal, originally published on Image Journal, May 14, 2018 The Reverend Dr. James H. Cone, known as the originator of black liberation theology, died of cancer on April 28 at the age of seventy-nine, just two days after the grand opening of The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy[…]

Black Support for the Police State

May 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Racism

by Margaret Kimberley, originally published on Black Agenda Report, May 18, 2018 “If having black faces in high and not so high places doesn’t save our lives why should we support them at all?” The worst hate group in the United States is not the Ku Klux Klan or any self-proclaimed alt-right group. The most racist, vicious, and deadly menace[…]

How Durham, NC became the first U.S. city to ban police exchanges with Israel

May 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples

Manal Sidawi of the Muslim American Public Affairs Council reads a prayer during a rally in support of Demilitarize Durham2Palestine’s proposed resolution banning police exchanges between Durham Police and Israel outside Durham City Hall on April 16. The resolution later passed 6-0, making Durham the first city in the country to ban the practice. (Photo: Sammy Hanf) by Zaina Alsous[…]

Google, drone murder and the military-intelligence-censorship complex

May 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Corporatism

by Andre Damon, originally published on the World Socialist Website, May 19, 2018 The publication of this week’s open letter by leading academics protesting Google’s role in the military’s drone assassination program exposes the close partnership between the major technology giants and the US military/intelligence complex. The letter, now signed by nearly 1,000 academics, declares that “Google has moved into[…]

Scourging Yemen

May 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Yemen

Base image by Abduljabbar Zeyad, Reuters by Kathy Kelly, originally published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, May 21, 2018 On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Saudi Air Defenses intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles launched from inside Yemeni territory targeting densely populated civilian areas in Riyadh, the[…]

Clashing Visions Of Denuclearization Pose Risk To U.S.-North Korea Summit

May 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Korea

by Gregory Elich, originally published on Zoom In Korea, May 17, 2018 The soaring hopes generated by the recent Inter-Korean Summit are now supplanted by uncertainty, due to North Korea’s suspension of a planned meeting with the South. In the weeks following the summit’s Panmunjom Declaration, North Korea took actions to demonstrate its goodwill and desire for peaceful resolution of[…]

My Contra Parents Are Marching For a New ‘Old’ Nicaragua: Are We, Too?

May 22, 2018 UNAC Editor Nicaragua

by Melissa Castillo, originally posted on Latino Rebels, April 29, 2018 grew up in Miami, Florida in the 1990s, surrounded by Cubans and Nicaraguans who had much of their material wealth and social status appropriated by popular revolutions. My family, here and abroad, resented the Sandinistas for “taking their country away.” To their dismay, I chose to study law in[…]

Venezuela Heart of America: Maduro YES Trump NO

May 22, 2018 UNAC Editor Resistance, Venezuela

Previously published in ALBA Movimientos / The Dawn News / May 8, 2018 and TeleSUR Next May 20 the presidential elections will be held in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in a context of a multi-dimensional war organized by the empire. The Venezuelan people are suffering from a terrible economic embargo, diplomatic isolation, with paramilitary deployments in their territory as[…]

500 Years of Nakbas

May 18, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Racism

by Glen Ford, originally published on Black Agenda Report “The Palestinians face the last bastion of legalized racial rule on the planet.” The great nakba, or “catastrophe,”began in 1492, when Christopher Columbus proclaimed the lands of the “Indies” for Spain. Within half a century of his voyage, 95 percent of the inhabitants of the America’s had been killed by European-borne[…]