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People Of Niger Want To Shatter Resignation

September 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Colonialism, coup, Democracy and Consent, Global Alliances, Imperialism, Niger

By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, August 25, 2023 In 1958, the poet and trade union leader Abdoulaye Mamani of Zinder (Niger) won an election in his home region against Hamani Diori, one of the founders of the Nigerien Progressive Party. This election result posed a problem for French colonial authorities, who wanted Diori to lead the new[…]

The World Bank and the BRICS Bank Have New Leaders and Different Outlooks

April 9, 2023 UNAC Editor BRICS, Capitalism, Economics, International Aid and Debt, Socialism, Socio-Economic Struggles

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, April 7, 2023 In late February 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States had placed the nomination of Ajay Banga to be the next head of the World Bank, established in 1944. There will be no other official candidates for this job since—by convention—the U.S. nominee is automatically selected for the[…]

Are Western Wealthy Countries Determined to Starve the People of Afghanistan?

January 15, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Economic Collapse, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Vijay Prashad, published on Countercurrents, January 15, 2022 On January 11, 2022, the United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths appealed to the international community to help raise $4.4 billion for Afghanistan in humanitarian aid, calling this effort, “the largest ever appeal for a single country for humanitarian assistance.” This amount is required “in the hope of shoring up collapsing[…]

Off the Rails: How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China

June 9, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Economics, Technology

Document by Corporate-Funded Think-Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China by Danny Haiphong, published on Covert Action, June 5, 2021 The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world A new report published in Railway Age magazine and written by the Information[…]

Living and Dying in the Streets of Buenos Aires

July 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Argentina, Latin America

By Matias Pacheco, Published by Resumen, on July 8, 2019 Winter is here.We are not talking about the last season of Game of Thrones. We are talking about Argentina, and more specifically about Argentina under the presidency of Mauricio Macri. In the country of the south of the continent this time winter came with death. And we reiterate that we[…]

NICA-Act-I: Nicaragua Reminds the US of its Debts

January 16, 2019 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Latin America, Nicaragua

by Chuck Kaufman, from NicaNotes, August 22, 2017 Passage by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee of the ridiculous NICA Act brought a rebuff by the Sandinista government of President Daniel Ortega and a reminder of the US’s own unpaid debt to Nicaragua. The NICA Act (Nicaragua Investment Conditionality Act of 2017), if it became law, would require US representatives in multilateral lending institutions[…]

Mugabe resigns after military takeover in Zimbabwe

December 3, 2017 UNAC Editor Africa

By Wayne Delucca, originally printed on Socialist Action On Nov. 14, the Zimbabwe Defense Forces took control of the capital city, Harare. A week later, Robert Mugabe—the only leader Zimbabwe has had since independence in 1980—resigned. On the 24th, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe’s former right-hand man and until Nov. 6 the vice president, became the new president. The coup was brewing[…]