Imperialism

The Biden Harris Administration is a Political Expression of the Empire’s Crisis of Legitimacy

January 27, 2022 UNAC Editor Capitalism, The War at Home, U.S. Aggression, US Politics

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, January 19, 2022 COVID-19 continues to spread with rapid ferocity across the United States. On January 14th, the U.S. surpassed 850,000 COVID-19 deaths. More deaths from the pandemic have accumulated under President Joe Biden than his predecessor, Donald Trump. Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s lack of competence in addressing the[…]

Why Democracies in G7 & NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership

June 18, 2021 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Political Analysis

by Nicolas J.S. Davies and Medea Benjamin, June 15, 2021 The world has been treated to successive spectacles of national leaders gathering at a G7 Summit in Cornwall and a NATO Summit in Brussels. The U.S. corporate media have portrayed these summits as chances for President Biden to rally the leaders of the world’s democratic nations in a coordinated response[…]

Empire and the Palestine Carnage: Immediate Actions

June 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Imperialism, Israel-Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, United Kingdom

by Dan Freeman-Maloy, published on Mondoweiss, May 23, 2021 The racial-justice pretenses of empire have been burned alongside bodies in Gaza. These are days of horror and grief – but also, and necessarily, of anti-racist rage. Anti-fascists and anti-racists have thus far been unable to block the murderers from killing and bring them to justice. This is a wrenching fact,[…]

COVID-19: A Polygraph for These Times

June 24, 2020 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Economics

by Pasqualina Curcio, published on Resumen English, June 15, 2020 Like a lie detector, COVID-19 has made obvious at least two phenomena that have been taking place already over the past few years: the decline of the U.S. empire and the failure of capitalism. Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has portrayed itself and sold itself as[…]

American Exceptionalism and The American Left’s China Double Standard

May 24, 2020 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, China, Imperialism

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, May 20, 2020 The threat that the American Left sees in China aligns with the white supremacist underpinnings of American exceptionalism. “The American Left adopted a worldview that positions China as an existential threat to their goal of a better world.” The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the contradictions of U.S. imperialism,[…]

How to answer the question, ‘Do you recognize Israel’s right to exist?’

December 18, 2019 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine

Steven Salaita is one of the academics who had his career destroyed by the Zionist cabal in the United States. He continues to write occasional pieces for publication in the alternative, media. In his latest article he addresses a pivotal subject. [ed] by Steven Salaita, published on Mondoweiss, December 10, 2019 When anti-Zionists discuss the Middle East, the topic of[…]

Dialectics of Change in Hong Kong: The contradiction of two antagonistic systems

September 23, 2019 UNAC Editor China, Hong Kong, Hybrid Warfare

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, September 10, 2019 What is the biggest problem that months of increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong have exposed? Many people, especially younger people, are trying to understand the turmoil in Hong Kong. A Sept. 4 Workers World article traced some roots of the current uprising to reactionary connections with imperialist agencies and[…]

SYRIA: U.S Clings to “Regime Change” Fantasy

April 7, 2019 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Poverty and Sanctions, Syria, U.S. Aggression

by Peter Ford, from 21st Century Wire, April 2, 2019 With the military situation largely frozen, the last two months have been marked mainly by developments involving the US – the ending of the ISIS caliphate in the US-controlled part of Syria, Trump’s U-turn over keeping US forces in Syria, and US recognition of Israel’s annexation of the Golan. US[…]

The Words and Deeds of Social Imperialists

March 2, 2019 UNAC Editor Latin America, Political Corruption, Socialism, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela

by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, February 28, 2019 The US left makes celebrities of self-styled “socialists” that have no solidarity with real strugglers against imperialism in the world. “Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez make weak noises against military action while accepting the rationale of the aggression.” The best evidence of the profound weakness of the “left” in the United[…]

The Racist Imperial War on Venezuela

February 12, 2019 UNAC Editor Racism, U.S. Aggression

by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, January 31, 2019 Donald Trump is simply exercising an imperial mandate handed down to him by Obama, who put “humanitarian” lipstick on the white supremacist pig of American exceptionalism. “The darker peoples of the world understand clearly that what is at stake is the sovereignty of nations and people’s right to self-determination.”[…]