Imperial Intervention

Background to the present Russia – Ukraine crisis

December 7, 2018 UNAC Editor Russia, Ukraine

Image: Screenshot from video of Russian ship as it runs into the side of Ukrainian tug. If you watch the entire video you can see that the Ukrainian tug veers into the path of the Russian ship at the last minute. (Video from the bow of the Russian ship. ~Duran) by Phil Wilayto of the Virginia Defenders Tensions between Russia[…]

Was Patrice Lumumba’s Assassination the Most Important of the Last Century?

August 16, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo

by Maurice Carney, first published on TRTWorld, August 6, 2018 The assassination was a disaster not only for the Democratic Republic of Congo, but for the entire African continent. More than half a century later, its shockwaves still reverberate. The assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Emery Lumumba on January 17, 1961 has been famously termed “the[…]