Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Betsey Piette, published on Workers World, October 30, 2024 The potential power of a united Global South was on full display at the United Nations in March 2022. Representatives of many countries that had experienced imperialist aggression at the hands of the U.S., France, Britain and other NATO members collectively denounced U.S. sanctions as acts of war, calling NATO[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News, January 10, 2023 In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report. Nothing in the report came as a major surprise. The growth of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to decline with no sign of a rebound. Following a modest post-pandemic[…]
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The summit held in Havana was attended by more than 1,300 participants from 116 countries and 12 organizations and agencies of the United Nations system. Thirty-three nations from Latin America and the Caribbean, 46 from Africa, 34 from Asia and three from Europe were represented. Thirty-one heads of state and government, 12 vice presidents, dozens of ministers from multiple portfolios[…]
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by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, August 25, 2023 Meeting amid the gleaming glass towers of Johannesburg’s business district, the mostly billionaire heads of state had no clear agenda other than perhaps a major expansion of BRICS membership aimed at increasing its influence on the world capitalist marketplace. China’s President Xi Jinping mysteriously skipped the opening session, but[…]
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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 Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 28, 2022 “End Racism: Build Peace” was the theme of the 2022 International Day of Peace. That noble sentiment can’t be realized when powerful white supremacist structures are committed to practicing hegemony. It is not a cruel irony but imperial consistency that on September 21, 2022 the United Nations International Day[…]
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by Dee Knight, published on Covert Action Magazine, July 12, 2022 As the U.S. and its NATO allies met in Spain and Germany during the last week of June in the midst of four full months of war in Ukraine, they were confronted with frustration and hard choices. Russian and Donbas militia forces now control most of the Donbas region[…]
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by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, February 21, 2021 Some of the truths the COVID-19 pandemic is exposing about the United States are its racial disparities in health and access to health care. Black and Indigenous people are more likely to be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 than white people. They are two to three times more[…]
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