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Oslo is Long Dead. Time for a New PLO.

November 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Palestine

by Kareem Youssef and Mishlin Mekleh, published on Fightback News, November 12, 2022 The Oslo accords were signed 29 years ago, on 13 September 1993. The Palestinian Authority, its main manifestation, has attempted and failed for nearly three decades to contain the Palestinian people’s resistance and struggle for national liberation. Palestine’s enemy today is not only Israel and its US[…]

Italians Protest Against Arms Shipment to Ukraine

November 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, Protest, Resistance, Ukraine, War and Peace

from TeleSUR English, November 7, 2022 Protesters held banners, placards, and rainbow flags, demanding diplomatic efforts to solve the crisis in Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Italians gathered in Rome yesterday to protest against PM Giorgia Meloni’s decision to send weapons to Ukraine. Italians are fed up with Italian Prime Ministers kowtowing to Brussels and NATO. Take a look: pic.twitter.com/cCfhebO6Bs[…]

Glaring Western Hypocrisy on Human Rights in Africa

November 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, US Hypocrisy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 2, 2022 The US and EU are complicit in the continued Rwandan and Ugandan incursions into the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as in their support of their TPLF proxies against Ethiopia. On October 31st, thousands of Congolese in Goma, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu[…]

Koreans Oppose U.S. Military Aggression

November 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Korea, U.S. Aggression

by Lyn Neeley, published on Workers World, November 11, 2022 The U.S. media repeatedly reported that “Operation Vigilant Storm” was in retaliation to four missiles fired by North Korea. These joint military drills were the largest in the history of such operations, with a display of about 240 warplanes including F-35B fighters, which conducted some 1,600 sorties. But more transparent[…]

UTIER, Independent Puerto Rican Electrical Trade Union Fighting US Neoliberal Privatization

November 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Colonialism, Labor Struggles, Lawfare, Puerto Rico

Statement by Jeanette Graulau, published on Labor Today, November 2022 While some Western countries are planning to re-nationalize their energy industries, the U.S. imposes upon its colony of Puerto Rico a privatization plan to ‘unbundle’ the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), one of the oldest and fully operational electric power corporations of Latin America. Since 2020, LUMA Energy, a[…]

‘Subpoenas’ Served on US Weapons Manufacturers

November 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Drones, Nuclear Weapons, War and Weapons, Weapons Sales

by Brad Wolf, published on Common Dreams, November 11, 2022 What is it like to be so ashamed of the company for whom you work that you cannot bring yourself to admit you work there? Ashamed of the products they manufacture, the innocent people those products kill, the hundreds of billions of dollars of public taxpayer money squandered in a[…]

Congressional Amendment Opens Floodgates for War Profiteers and a Major Ground War on Russia

November 13, 2022 UNAC Editor U.S. Budget, Ukraine, US Military, War and Weapons

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, November 13, 2022 If the powerful leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senators Jack Reed (D) and Jim Inhofe (R), have their way, Congress will soon invoke wartime emergency powers to build up even greater stockpiles of Pentagon weapons. The amendment is supposedly designed to facilitate replenishing the weapons the United[…]

For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War Repression and Capitalist Misery

November 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Democracy and Consent, Labor, Racism, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 9, 2022 The 50-year old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an improvement in the lives of the Black working class. The agenda was set with the Lewis Powell Memorandum[…]

The Other Side of the Berlin Wall

November 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Cold War, Germany, Imperialism

by William Blum, published on Consortium News, November 9, 2022 Original publication date July 28, 2011 Why was the Berlin Wall built? The Berlin Wall became the iconic symbol of the Cold War, supposedly proving the superiority of capitalism over communism. However, there is another, little understood side to the story regarding why the wall was erected a half century[…]

Workers in France Conduct One-Day General Strike

November 10, 2022 UNAC Editor France, Political Analysis, Resistance

by Otis Grotewhol, published on Workers World, October 28, 2022 If they can do it, why can’t we? [jb] Protesters clashed with the police in numerous cities, as 300,000 workers participated in a partial general strike in France Oct. 18 and courageously took to the streets throughout the country. Most of the striking workers were from the transportation, education and[…]