Donald Trump

Demagogue Trump’s “Restraint” at Republican Party Convention: Biden Drops Out

July 24, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Imperialism, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 22, 2024 As with France’s newly moderated and re-imaged proto-fascist Marine Le Pen a few weeks earlier, Donald J. Trump took the floor of the Republican National Convention for a 93-minute “unifying” nomination acceptance speech. Friendly, relaxed, complementary, “family-oriented,” thanking God for saving his life five days earlier from an assassin’s near[…]

The Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump and Political Violence Waged by the United States

July 17, 2024 UNAC Editor U.S. Aggression, War and Peace

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 17, 2024 The words “political violence” are the latest hackneyed and dishonest phrase emanating from the political class. The assassination attempt on Donald Trump was a minor affair compared to the treatment that the U.S. state doles out around the world and even to its own people. On January 3, 2020,[…]

Black People to Attack Revolutionary Governments

April 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Caribbean, Censorship and Propaganda, Counter Revolution, coup, Cuba, Latin America, Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s Troubles: A View From the Caribbean Coast Mike Phipps reviews: To Defend the Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua, by Courtney Desiree Morris, Published by Rutgers University Press by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 12, 2023 The question of how Black people fare in a particular country can be a legitimate issue[…]

Is the Democratic Party the Alternative to Fascism, or its Enabler?

February 17, 2023 UNAC Editor Democrats and Republicans, Fascism

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, February 9, 2023 The Jan. 6, 2021, failed attack on the U.S. Capitol exposed an attempt to overturn the presidential election results and made it undeniably clear that the Donald Trump-led MAGA movement represents a critically dangerous and growing threat of fascism in the U.S. But it left this question open: Can the[…]

Why Rage Against the War Machine is So #AntiwarSoWhite

February 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Protest, Resistance, The War at Home, Trumpism, US Politics

by Jacqueline Luqman, published on Black Agenda Report, February 8, 2023 I’m looking at this Rage Against The War Machine rally that is being organized by the Libertarian Party and I am genuinely confused about how folks on the left are involved in this at all. Oh, I understand the need to revive and mobilize a strong not just anti-war[…]

The January 6th Scam

June 22, 2022 UNAC Editor US Hypocrisy, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 22, 2022 Democrats are using the hearings investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol as one long campaign commercial. They believe that saying the name Trump often enough will inspire disappointed and angry people to vote for them despite their lies and failures. The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th[…]

People’s Movement is Faced With A Serious Threat

January 14, 2021 UNAC Editor The War at Home

U.S. Peace Council Statement on the January 6, 2020 Events in Washington DC January 10, 2020 The deep political and social contradictions of the U.S. capitalist system, which were becoming increasingly visible to the people during the past few decades, and had come to the surface with the election of Donald Trump in 2016, found their most glaring manifestation in[…]

Ruling class installs Biden over Trump

December 29, 2020 UNAC Editor US Politics

President de-elect and wannabe but failed soft coup plotter Donald Trump suffered under the delusion that he ran the country, that he could effectively rescue it from the “Washington, D.C. swamp dweller-insiders” who he repeatedly dubbed the “dark state.” Trump never defined this enterprise but repeatedly argued that it was responsible for dastardly deeds, like rigging elections, offshoring jobs, coddling[…]

Troops Out of Germany and Down a Rabbit Hole

October 31, 2020 UNAC Editor NATO, US Foreign Bases

by David Swanson, published on Lets Try Democracy, October 26, 2020 I read this nightmare fantasy in the Financial Times: “Of course, a second term for Mr Trump would have a wholly different impact on US-German relations than would a Joe Biden presidency. It is conceivable that a victorious Mr Trump would push hard to end US wars in Afghanistan[…]

US: Crimes against Humanity at Home and Abroad

August 14, 2020 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Indigenous peoples

by Bill Hackwell and Alicia Jrapko, published on Resumen on August 9, 2020 This month marks the second year since former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced to the world a campaign promoted by a group of Latin American writers and academics to declare August 9 as International Day of US Crimes against Humanity. Appropriately the day is to[…]