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Solidarity with Venezuela Now! Protect the U.S. Embassy

April 26, 2019 UNAC Editor Featured, Hybrid Warfare, Resistance, Venezuela

Above: Activists gather in front of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC in March, 2019. by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, from Popular Resistance, April 21, 2019 We are writing to you from inside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC where we are taking action against a US coup of the independent and sovereign Bolivarian Republican of Venezuela. The Embassy[…]

Spanish Police Probe Extortion Scheme Involving Surveillance on Assange

April 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Government Corruption, Political Prisoners, Whistleblowers

UPDATED: Suspects are being investigated in Spain for having tried to extort €3 million from WikiLeaks in exchange for a huge cache of documents and surveillance videos of Assange inside Ecuador’s London embassy, including with his doctors and lawyers. By Joe Lauria, Special to Consortium News, April 10, 2019 A Spanish judge is investigating an alleged extortion scheme in which[…]

In Court, Assange Flashes Thumbs Up, Faces Extradition To US

April 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Political Prisoners, Whistleblowers

Above: Assange shows a victory symbol from the police van after his arrest at Ecuadorian embassy on April 11, 2019. by Andy Wells, from Yahoo News, April 11, 2019 with comments by Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance Note: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London on computer hacking charges filed by US officials, stemming from the organizations’ release of classified government cables[…]

Requium for the Fourth Estate

April 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Journalism, Political Prisoners, Whistleblowers

by Ray McGovern, from Consortium News, April 11, 2019 It is a very sad day for the rule of law. Today’s broad-daylight manhandling and kidnapping of Julian Assange from political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London demonstrates in bas-relief that in today’s Anglo-America, the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights are now “quaint and obsolete,” to use the[…]

NATO Poisons the Earth

April 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Militarism, Military vs The Environment, Poisoning the Environment

by Pat Elder, from Civilian Exposure, April 5, 2019 A Photo Essay documenting Criminal Behavior Baby Lambs are Born with six legs at Capo Frasca NATO Base in Sardinia Italy Look into this baby lamb’s eyes. He’s been around for a million years and he never asked for this. This lamb was born with six legs in a field near[…]

Ilhan Omar: Anti-Zionist Comments Smeared as Anti-Semitic

April 9, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Political Corruption, Zionism

By Jeff Mackler and Bruce Lesnick, from Socialist Action, April 2, 2019 In a new campaign reminiscent of the McCarthy era witch-hunt, politicians and media pundits have taken to smearing pro-Palestinian, pro-BDS activists as anti-Semitic. Singled out for special attention are those, like Somali-born Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who happen to be people of color.[…]

Every War is a War Against Children

April 7, 2019 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Middle East Wars, Yemen

Photo: Yemeni children huddle in April 2015 during bombing of a residential neighborhood. by Kathy Kelly, from Voices for Creative Nonviolence, March 28, 2019 ( This article first appeared on the website of The Progressive Magazine.) At 9:30 in the morning of March 26, the entrance to a rural hospital in northwest Yemen, supported by Save the Children, was teeming[…]

SYRIA: U.S Clings to “Regime Change” Fantasy

April 7, 2019 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Poverty and Sanctions, Syria, U.S. Aggression

by Peter Ford, from 21st Century Wire, April 2, 2019 With the military situation largely frozen, the last two months have been marked mainly by developments involving the US – the ending of the ISIS caliphate in the US-controlled part of Syria, Trump’s U-turn over keeping US forces in Syria, and US recognition of Israel’s annexation of the Golan. US[…]

Democrats Fail Symbolic Vote on Green New Deal

April 6, 2019 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment, Labor, Legislation, Political Corruption

by Graham Rogers, from Socialist Action, April 3, 2019 The political theater of the U.S. Congress lurched through yet another performance on March 26, as the Senate decisively rejected a bill put forth by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell that copied Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s and Senator Ed Markey’s February non-binding resolution calling for a Green New Deal. Forty-three Democrats, including all[…]

The U.S.’ Refusal of Entry to Arnold August Is a Dangerous Precedent for All Activists

April 5, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Free Speech

by Alison Bodine, Published on Council on Hemispheric Affairs, March 29, 2019 On March 16, 2019, more than 1000 activists from across the U.S. gathered in Washington, DC for the “U.S Hands Off Venezuela!” demonstration. However, Canadian journalist Arnold August was not one of them – earlier in the day he was unjustly denied entry into the United States at[…]