Government Corruption

Haiti on the Precipice

April 3, 2020 UNAC Editor Haiti, Poverty, Public Health

Haiti on the precipice as coronavirus and US-imposed leadership take their toll By Jeb Sprague and Nazaire St. Fort, published on The Grayzone, March 30, 2020 Haitian President Jovenel Moïse announced on March 19 that two citizens in Haiti had tested positive for Covid-19, known popularly simply as the coronavirus. The government has closed Haiti’s border, ports, and airports to[…]

Protests Against Unemployment and Corruption in Iraq

November 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Iraq, Middle East Wars, Protest

Death toll crosses 100 and wounded 6,000 by Countercurrents Staff, published October 7, 2010 Protests against unemployment, poor public services and corruption in Iraq have seen blood over the last few days. The death toll from anti-government protests in Iraq is at least 104. A total of 540 protesters have been arrested, of whom nearly 200 remain in custody, the[…]

Beirut is Burning

November 1, 2019 UNAC Editor Lebanon, Protest

by Andre Vltchek, published on Countercurrents, October 30, 2019 Tires are burning, smoke is rising towards the sky. It is October, the 18th day of the month, the capital city of Lebanon, in the past known as the “Paris of the East”, is covered in smoke. For years I was warning that the country governed by corrupt, indifferent elites, could[…]

How the Passive Voice Allowed Flint’s Water Crisis to Persist

June 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Poverty, Racism, The War at Home

by Kitanya Harrison, Published on Zora, June Flint still doesn’t have clean water. This statement has become a rallying cry, from city streets to social media. Yet it’s bothered me ever since I first heard it. Yes, it’s true that Flint’s water remains tainted and unsafe after five years. But the fact that we use the passive tense to talk[…]

Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All but Corporate Media Pretend Not To Notice

February 14, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Journalism, Legislation, Medicare for All, Political Corruption, Poverty and Sanctions

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, February 14, 2019 When the top Democrat secretly plots to subvert a proposal supported by the vast majority of her party, that’s supposed to be news — unless the corporate media decide otherwise. “The plutocrat-owned press is protecting Pelosi from the extreme embarrassment.” Thanks to Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid in 2016, his[…]

Shut-out federal employees say: Stop the war on workers!

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Political Corruption, Racism, Refugees, Women

Photo: National Treasury Employees Union members rally in Washington, D.C., Jan. 10. by Kathy Durkin, from Workers World, January 15, 2019 “Stop the war on workers!” and “We want work, not walls!” read signs held by furloughed federal employees at the White House and in cities around the U.S. on Jan. 10. They were protesting the Trump administration’s shutdown of[…]

John Bolton And U.S. Policy Towards Latin America

December 11, 2018 UNAC Editor Brazil, Latin America

Photo: Bolsonaro (left) and Bolton meet in Brazil, ~ US Embassy in Brazil By Jesús Arboleya, Progresoweekly.us, December 11, 2018 HAVANA – John Bolton, national security adviser to President Donald Trump, made a brief stop on his way to the G-20 Summit in Argentina to meet with the elected president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro, accompanied by a retinue of generals, received[…]