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The Pink Tide Surges in Latin America

July 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Latin America, Regional Solutions, Socialism, South America

by Roger D. Harris, published on Resumen English, July 13, 2022 While the political balance between progressive and reactionary states south of the Rio Grande continues to tip to the left, even the corporate press pronounced Biden’s June Summit of the Americas meeting in Los Angeles a flop. Most recently, Colombia elected its first left-leaning president, following similar victories in[…]

The United States Wants to Prevent a Historical Fact: Eurasian Integration

July 8, 2022 UNAC Editor Belt and Road, China, Europe, Global Trade, Russia

by Vijay Prashad, published by the TriContinental Institute Newsletter, July 6, 2022 If you like the featured image click the link above to view the original publication where there are many more. [jb] Over the course of the past fifteen years, European countries have found themselves with both great opportunities to seize and complex choices to make. Unsustainable reliance on[…]

Taiwan and the Making of an Asian NATO

July 8, 2022 UNAC Editor Australia, China

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, July 6, 2022 These are amended remarks given by the author at an event held by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute titled “NATO and Global Empire.” The event can be watched in full here . This year’s NATO Summit took place amid a geopolitical seismic wave crashing upon Eurasia: Russia’s special military[…]

Capitalism’s World Economic, Political and Social Crises and the Road to Fight Back

June 28, 2022 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Economics, Imperial greed, Resistance

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, June 21, 2022 Today, world capitalism’s neo-liberal globalization is best characterized as a new form of organization where global value chains have become the dominant form of production, employing workers for one out of every five jobs on the planet. From low to high tech commodities, basic consumer goods to heavy capital equipment,[…]

Demanding China’s exclusion: U.S. blocks world access to vaccines

June 2, 2022 UNAC Editor China, Global Economics

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, May 31, 2022 Just how far is the U.S. government determined to go in the protection of corporate profits? For the past two years the Biden administration and earlier the Trump administration have blocked every effort to make medicines for the COVID-19 virus widely available. U.S. control of the patents has been ruthlessly[…]

For Biden’s Summit of the Americas, Obama’s Handshake With Raúl Castro Shows the Way

May 18, 2022 UNAC Editor Latin America, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade Wars, US Foreign Policy, Visions of a Future

by Medea Benjamin, May 18, 2022 On May 16, the Biden administration announced new measures to “increase support for the Cuban people.” They included easing travel restrictions and helping Cuban-Americans support and connect with their families. They mark a step forward but a baby step, given that most U.S. sanctions on Cuba remain in place. Also in place is a[…]

No To A New Monroe Doctrine In The Pacific

May 9, 2022 UNAC Editor Asia, China, New Cold War, Solomon Islands

by Carlos Martinez, published on Popular Resistance, May 8, 2022 The Anglo ruling classes have gone into a state of frenzy over a recently-signed security agreement between the People’s Republic of China and the Solomon Islands. Various people who had barely heard of the Solomon Islands just a few weeks ago are now expressing grave concern that this small sovereign[…]

U.S. Aims to Push China into War Over Taiwan

April 29, 2022 UNAC Editor China, Imperial Wars

by Jorge Cadima, published on Workers World, April 29, 2022 It is evident that the U.S./European Union wants to prolong the war in Ukraine as long as possible. But warmongering is also evident at the other end of the planet: The U.S. is repeating the Ukraine script in Taiwan. Contrary to the words of respect for China’s territorial integrity uttered[…]

US, Australia Alarmed Over China-Solomon Islands Security Deal

April 26, 2022 UNAC Editor Asia Pivot, Australia, China

by Uriel Araujo, published on InfoBRICS, April 22, 2022 A new security agreement has been signed between China and the Solomon Islands: it could allow Beijing to send military and police personnel, and open the door to a Chinese naval base in the South Pacific the US, Australia and New Zealand claim. The Solomon Islands, who take their name from[…]

Washington Watches as China and Latin America Deepen Their Ties

April 8, 2022 UNAC Editor Caribbean, China, Latin America

by Marco Fernandes, produced by Globetrotter, April 6, 2022 Less than a week after the start of Russia’s military intervention, Juan Sebastian Gonzalez, senior director of Western Hemisphere affairs at the U.S. National Security Council, in an interview with Voice of America (a State Department asset), stated that “the sanctions against Russia are so robust that they will have an[…]