Political Prisoners

Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is Free, But Others Languish

November 1, 2021 UNAC Editor Political Prisoners, Prisoners, Racism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 27, 2021 Russell “Maroon” Shoatz has been granted compassionate release after 50 years in prison. The length of his sentence is outrageous but it is hardly unique. The United States not only has the dubious distinction of being the country with the largest population of incarcerated people, but it also has[…]

World Police: Washington Seeks to Imprison Foreign Businesspeople for Violating Illegal US Sanctions

May 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Global Economics, Imperialism, Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Stansfiield Smith, published on The Grayzone, April 27, 2021 In violation of international law, the US is seeking to extradite and imprison foreign business people for circumventing its unilateral sanctions. Washington’s targets include Venezuelan national Alex Saab, North Korean Mun Chol Myong, and Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. (Aquí se puede leer este artículo en español.) The United States[…]

Chelsea Manning’s Heroic Resistance

November 30, 2019 UNAC Editor Political Prisoners, Press Freedom, Resistance, Whistleblowers

by Supratim Barman, published on Countercurrents, November 28, 2019 Manning, is an incredible example of the American Working Class leading the way forward, (showing the way, if you will), for the rest of the World’s Workers, in their quest for Justice and Dignity. Her Affidavit (on the 5th of May, 2019, below), as to the reasons why she will not[…]

Requium for the Fourth Estate

April 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Journalism, Political Prisoners, Whistleblowers

by Ray McGovern, from Consortium News, April 11, 2019 It is a very sad day for the rule of law. Today’s broad-daylight manhandling and kidnapping of Julian Assange from political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London demonstrates in bas-relief that in today’s Anglo-America, the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights are now “quaint and obsolete,” to use the[…]

The War for Survival

November 27, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Indigenous peoples, Native American Genocide, Political Prisoners

by Leonard Peltier, from Counterpunch, November 22, 2018 Well here it is, sorry to say, another year, and I’m still writing to you from a prison cell. I am still in pain from my illnesses with no knowledge of whether I will ever get treatments for them. But I’m alive and still breathing hoping, wishing, praying for not just my[…]

Pilger Excoriates Media on Assange

August 11, 2018 Judith Bello Censorship and Propaganda, The War at Home, Whistleblowers

By Dennis J. Bernstein and Randy Credico, from Flashpoints radio show, originally in print on Consortium News DB: John, what is the latest we know about how Julian Assange is being treated and his current state? John Pilger: His state of health is just about the same, as I understand it. He needs medical attention, the kind of treatment you[…]