Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio’s Diplomatic Attack on South Africa is Punishment for Standing Up to Israel

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, International Institutions, International Law, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Ziad Motala, published on Mondoweiss, Marh 15, 2025 The Trump administration’s extraordinary and unprecedented move to effectively expel South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was done for one reason: South Africa had the audacity to hold Israel accountable for the Gaza genocide. In an extraordinary and unprecedented move, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declared South African Ambassador[…]

Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

March 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Diplomacy, Global South, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism, US Hypocrisy, US Intervention

by Helen Yaffe, published on Jacobin Magazine, March 8, 2024 The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s[…]

Venezuela Fiercely Rejects US Senate’s Passing of BOLIVAR Act

December 30, 2022 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

Published on the Orinoco Tribune,December 19, 2022 Caracas, December 18, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—This Friday, December 16, the US Senate unanimously approved the Law to Prohibit Operations and Leasing with the Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime of Venezuela (BOLIVAR Act), presented by the ultra-conservative Floridian senator, Rick Scott. The discussion of the interventionist act in the lower house of the US Congress is still[…]

Nicaragua… “Still, it moves…”

August 1, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Diplomacy, Hybrid Warfare, New Pink Tide, Nicaragua, Resistance

by Stephen Sefton, published on Tortilla Con Sal, July 18, 2022 Galileo may or may not truly have said “Still, it moves…” on escaping condemnation by the Holy Inquisition for asserting that the Earth moves around the Sun. But the saying certainly applies in the case of Nicaragua’s persecution by the sadistic neoliberal Inquisition of Western countries whose oligarchs, corporate[…]

US Doing its Best to Lock China Out of Latin America

November 6, 2020 UNAC Editor China, El Salvador, Imperialism

by Vijay Prashad, published on Asia Times, November 4, 2020 On August 20, 2018, El Salvador’s leftist president Salvador Sánchez Cerén announced on national television that his country would break its ties with Taiwan and recognize the People’s Republic of China. This was in accord with international law, said Sánchez Cerén, and it would bring “great benefits for our country.”[…]

Connecting the Dots on the Assault of the Cuban Embassy

May 20, 2020 UNAC Editor Cuba, Hybrid Warfare, Political Corruption

by Rosa Miriam Elizalde, posted on Resumen, May 14, 2020 A few hours before the attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington, a woman wearing a red raincoat, dark glasses, mask and hood, was photographing the facade of the 16th Street mansion in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood. The security cameras recorded her in broad daylight and, despite her disguise, officials at[…]

“It’s Now or Never”: Bolivian Elite Destroying the Country

November 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Color Revolutions, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Latin America

by Edu Montesante, published in TeleSUR English, November 7, 2019 To the Bolivian upper classes, President Evo Morales has to resign even if forced by extreme violence, or through a civil war. “It’s now or never!“, said a family in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, gathered close to Christ the Redeemer statue where thousands of demonstrators and road blockers stay[…]

Hong Kong Protest Leaders Expose Themselves As US Tools

September 25, 2019 UNAC Editor China, Color Revolutions, Hong Kong

by Kevin Zeese, from Popular Resistance, September 10, 2019 The recent turn of events in Hong Kong has further exposed that the protesters have a close relationship with right-wing US politicians and they are being used as a tool in the Great Power Conflict against China, which is a primary focus of US foreign policy. While the people of Hong[…]

US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as ‘Watershed Event’

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions, Hybrid Warfare, Latin America, Venezuela

Photo: Guri Dam in Venezuela By Max Blumenthal, Published on the Consortium News, March 12, 2019 A September 2010 memo by a U.S.-funded soft power organization that helped train Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó and his allies identifies the potential collapse of the country’s electrical sector as “a watershed event” that “would likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a[…]

Venezuela Reveals America’s Sickness

March 2, 2019 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Government Corruption, Latin America, Venezuela

by Margaret Kimberley, Published on Black Agenda Report, Freedom Rider, February 27, 2019 The Democrats agree with Trump that Venezuelans have no rights that need be respected by the United States. “Like a pack of predators they have lined up to assist in the kill.” Does the United States have the right to decide who governs Venezuela? The answer is[…]