Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Jake Johnson, published on CommonDreams, April 13, 2023 Austerity is the flip side of sanctions. For the global south, economic interactions with western financial institutions are “austerity” vs “sanctions” which amounts to “Damned if you do; Damned if you don’t” The entire western economic structure is geared to extraction, and its prescriptions permeate the global south like poison. [jb][…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, April 7, 2023 In late February 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States had placed the nomination of Ajay Banga to be the next head of the World Bank, established in 1944. There will be no other official candidates for this job since—by convention—the U.S. nominee is automatically selected for the[…]
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International PAME, Rail Issues, Solidarity, published on Labor Today, March 13, 2023 The victims of capitalism raise their voices in Greece. They are our victims and also a reflection of where we are headed unless we embrace major changes. It is time for the people to stand up and demand a change of direction. [jb] New Huge Demonstrations yesterday– Escalation[…]
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by Pepe Escobar, published on The Cradle, October 6, 2022 Recent discussions question how to frame the coming changes, will there be relief for those suffering austerity and sanctions, is the suffocating grasp of dollar hegemony coming to an end, and if so, what are the significant global changes that will enable this transformation of the global economy? Is there[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 31, 2022 Capitalist rule dictates that millions of Americans live in debt peonage. It was inevitable that Biden’s student loan debt relief would be a farcical half measure. The Biden administration announcement of so-called student loan debt relief does little to alleviate the problem it claims to solve. Forgiving $20,000 for Pell[…]
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by Ellen Brown, published on Scheerpost, May 4, 2022 In ancient Mesopotamia, it was called a Jubilee. When debts at interest grew too high to be repaid, the slate was wiped clean. Debts were forgiven, the debtors’ prisons were opened, and the serfs returned to work their plots of land. This could be done because the king was the representative[…]
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by Bahman Azad, published on ML Today, October 23, 2020 Remarks to the World Peace Council Regional Meeting, Cuba, October 14, 2020 Fraternal greetings to all of our comrades and friends. Thanks to MOVPAZ [Cuban Movement for Peace and Solidarity of the Peoples] and especially to Comrade Silvio Platero for organizing this Regional Meeting of the WPC. I am deeply[…]
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by Vijay Prashad and Richard Pithouse, published on Consortium News, May 19, 2020 Produced by the TriContinental Institute What the International Monetary Fund calls the Great Lockdown sent 2.7 billion people into either full unemployment or near unemployment, with many people one or two days away from desperate poverty and hunger, according to the International Labour Organization. Starvation is already evident in many regions[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 15, 2020 Black women in Oakland confronted the austerity regime head-on, by seizing the housing their families need. “Hopefully this tactic will spread and others will take the same action.” The four women in Oakland, California known as Moms 4 Housing have been evicted from the home they seized from unscrupulous speculators.[…]
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By Wilma Salgado, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. October 13, 2019 Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno has been cutting government spending since signing an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in February of this year. This policy has benefited multinational corporations, the banks, and in general, powerful economic groups at the expense of the middle and working classes,[…]
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