Democracy

Yemen’s Houthi Movement Unveils “National Vision” to Heal, Rebuild, and Modernize their War-torn Nation

May 13, 2019 UNAC Editor Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Yemen

Feature photo | A Yemeni man cleans in front of his house during a national cleanup campaign in Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 12, 2018. Hani Mohammed | AP by Ahmed AbdulKareem , published on MintPress News, May 7, 2019 Note: A perspective on Yemen that you probably haven’t seen before. While MBS and MBZ focus on bombing infrastructure and taking territory[…]

The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies

February 27, 2019 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Racism, Revolution, Venezuela

2016 protests against removal of Chávez and Bolivar images from National Assembly. (Wikimedia) by John Pilger, Published on Consortium News, February 25, 2019 Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela. At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humor in the heat. Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was[…]

Call for A Palestine Liberation Movement

February 9, 2019 Judith Bello Israel-Palestine, Palestine

Call initiated by the One State Assembly, February 9, 2019 We are calling for signatures on the statement which is an attempt to create national and global public opinion specially among Palestinians, Arabs and international supporters about the genuine, just and long lasting solution to the seven decades of the ethnic cleansing war and catastrophe of 1948. The One Democratic[…]

Stop the US-Led Coup Against Venezuela!

February 8, 2019 UNAC Editor Latin America, Venezuela

Petitions and Condemnations Are Not Enough The US Peace Movement Must Act Decisively! U.S. Peace Council — January 26, 2019 Once again, the bloody hand of US imperialism is reaching out into Venezuela to complete the failed job of regime change that it started in 2002 against President Hugo Chavez. There is no doubt that another US-led coup is underway[…]

Venezuela gov’t beats back attempted coup

January 25, 2019 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Latin America, Venezuela

Photo: Maduro was sworn in by Supreme Court President Maikel Moreno. (Presidential Press) By John Catalinotto, Published on Workers World, January 22, 2019 Bulletin, Jan. 22 — The Venezuelan Ministry of Defense announced today that the Bolivarian Armed Forces had repelled an attempted attack on their facilities in Caracas. At 2:50 a.m. local time, “A small group of assailants assigned[…]

Code Talking: UN Security Council on War and Peace in DR Congo

January 25, 2019 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo

Photo: Martin Fayulu and Félix Tshisekedi by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 16, 2019 Congolese President Kabila wants to shut out the apparent winner of last month’s elections in favor the of the second place finisher, who appears to have accepted the deal. “Congo’s elections commissioner threatened that the Kabila regime will remain in power if Congolese[…]

The War Consensus and Media Censorship

November 13, 2018 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Featured, Revolution

Ajamu Baraka Interviewed by Lee Camp on Redacted Tonight Ajamu speaks with great clarity, about the need for social change, where the energy is coming from and how we can make it happen. * Featured Image: Screenshot from Redacted Tonight, October 26, 2018 Ajamu Baraka is the national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and was the 2016 candidate[…]

What to do the day after America’s elections?

November 10, 2018 UNAC Editor Corporatism, Militarism

** Header Image by Dan Burgevin by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, November 7, 2018 The Washington Post reports this morning: The deep divisions that have defined American politics in the era of President Trump played out across the country in Tuesday’s midterm elections, as Democrats scored victories in key races in Republican-held suburban House districts but ran into[…]

Was Patrice Lumumba’s Assassination the Most Important of the Last Century?

August 16, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo

by Maurice Carney, first published on TRTWorld, August 6, 2018 The assassination was a disaster not only for the Democratic Republic of Congo, but for the entire African continent. More than half a century later, its shockwaves still reverberate. The assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Emery Lumumba on January 17, 1961 has been famously termed “the[…]

The West & Gulf Couldn’t Sway These Lebanese Elections

June 12, 2018 UNAC Editor Democracy, Lebanon, US Hypocrisy

by As’ad AbuKhalil, written for Consortium News, May 31, 2018 The recent Lebanese parliamentary election generated a lot of publicity in Western media. To be sure, free elections are rare in the Middle East, and Western media get excited over the prospects of success for what they dub as “pro-Western” candidates or coalitions anywhere. Also because foes of Israel and[…]