Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez

Jobs, the Environment, and a Planet in Crisis

August 22, 2019 UNAC Editor Environment, Labor, Political Analysis

by Aviva Chomsky, Published on Consortium News, August 22, 2019 (from TomDispatch, August 6, 2019) When it comes to heat, extreme weather, wildfires, and melting glaciers, the planet is now in what the media increasingly refers to as “record” territory, as climate change’s momentum outpaces predictions. In such a situation, in a country whose president and administration seem hell-bent on doing everything[…]

The Black Stake in the Green New Deal

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Legislation, Paths to Emancipation, US Government Action

Photo: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez at Women’s March 2019 in NYC ~Dimitri Rodriguez by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, March 7, 2019 Black people should see the Green New Deal as an arena of struggle for self-determination, communal repair, and justice-creation. “In its broad outlines, the Green New Deal is a transformative program that calls for democratic reconstruction of U.S.[…]

The Words and Deeds of Social Imperialists

March 2, 2019 UNAC Editor Latin America, Political Corruption, Socialism, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela

by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, February 28, 2019 The US left makes celebrities of self-styled “socialists” that have no solidarity with real strugglers against imperialism in the world. “Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez make weak noises against military action while accepting the rationale of the aggression.” The best evidence of the profound weakness of the “left” in the United[…]

Venezuela Reveals America’s Sickness

March 2, 2019 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Government Corruption, Latin America, Venezuela

by Margaret Kimberley, Published on Black Agenda Report, Freedom Rider, February 27, 2019 The Democrats agree with Trump that Venezuelans have no rights that need be respected by the United States. “Like a pack of predators they have lined up to assist in the kill.” Does the United States have the right to decide who governs Venezuela? The answer is[…]

Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders praise McCain: An object lesson in the politics of the pseudo-left

August 31, 2018 UNAC Editor Political Analysis, Socialism

by Joseph Kishore, originally published on World Socialist Website, August 28, 2018 Amidst the outpouring of praise from all sections of the political establishment for Republican Senator John McCain, who died on Saturday, two statements stand out. The first was from Vermont senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who tweeted: “John McCain was an American hero, a man of[…]