Exploitation

Understanding the Connections Between the Congo and Palestine Genocides

August 11, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Capitalism, Colonialism, Congo, Racism, Rawanda, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Wall Street, Zionism

by Nylah Iqbal Muhammad, published on Mondoweiss, August 3, 2024 Friends of the Congo Executive Director Maurice Carney and Professor Eman Abdelhadi discuss the intersections between the genocides in the Congo and Palestine. Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo is an old friend of UNAC, helping to keep us in touch with an African perspective. To understand this is[…]

The U.S role in fomenting violence in Haiti

May 8, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Austerity, Deportation, Economic Blockade, Gun Violence, Haiti, Identity Politics, International Aid and Debt, Public Health

by G. Dunkel, posted on Workers World, May 5, 2023 María Isabel Salvador, the author of the April 25 report from the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) to the U.N. Security Council on the current situation in Haiti emphasized “the urgent need for the deployment, authorized by the Security Council, of an international specialized force.” Based on the last[…]

U.S. Hegemony and It’s Perils

March 6, 2023 UNAC Editor China, Imperialism

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China spells out what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy. While administrations may change, the imperative to dominate doesn’t. U.S. desperate decisions create great dangers around the world. US Hegemony and Its Perils February 2023 Contents Introduction I. Political Hegemony—Throwing Its Weight Around II. Military Hegemony—Wanton Use of Force III. Economic Hegemony—Looting[…]

The Puppets and the Puppet Masters

October 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda, Lawfare, Political Analysis, Political Prisoners

by Chris Hedges, published on The Chris Hedges Report, October 8, 2022 This is the talk given by Chris Hedges outside the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on Saturday October 8 at a rally that called on the U.S. to revoke its extradition request for Julian Assange. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department[…]

Haiti Under the Gun

August 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Haiti, Imperialism, Reparations

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, July 25, 2022 In the current situation in Haiti, organized groups — invariably called gangs by the bourgeois media — often have more and heavier weapons than the Haitian cops. Some of these “gangs” were created to profit from extortion and kidnapping, like the “400 Mawozo” who grabbed 17 missionaries in December 2021[…]

Why Nonalignment Is an Urgent Imperative for the Global South

May 5, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Asia, Economics, Global Economics, Latin America, Multipolar World, Paths to Emancipation

by Nontobeko Hlela, distributed by Globetrotter, May 2, 2022 South Africa and other countries that have abstained from voting against Russia at the United Nations General Assembly in response to the war in Ukraine face intense international criticism. In South Africa, the domestic criticism has been extraordinarily shrill, and often clearly racialized. It is frequently assumed that abstention means that[…]

The Military Occupation of US Black Communities & The Age of AFRICOM

September 4, 2018 UNAC Editor Militarism, Racism

Local and National Activists Gather to Address Problem of Police Militarization and Violence in Baltimore “Impunity is defined as “exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action,” and is precisely what defines the war on poor black and brown people being waged by the frontline troops in that war – the police forces – from Baltimore[…]