Politics

Nicaragua: Next in Line for Regime Change?

May 7, 2018 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions

The pattern is similar to events in Libya, Syria and Venezuela, where extreme right-wing political minorities conspired with foreign elites to overthrow the national status quo. Events in Nicaragua over the past week are clearly modeled on the kind of U.S.-led, NATO-driven regime change that succeeded in Libya, Ivory Coast and Ukraine, but has so far failed in Thailand, Syria[…]

Women, Let’s Unite For Our Rights!

January 8, 2018 UNAC Editor Islamophobia

Women, Let’s Unite For Our Rights! Defend Muslim Women in Quebec against Islamophobic Bill 62! By Tamara Hansen, originally published on Fire This Time This fall the Quebec provincial government passed Bill 62, also known as the “religious neutrality law.” While it refers to “neutrality,” the law is anything but, specifically requiring that Muslim women who wear the Burqa or[…]

Blacks Should Not Become Uncle Sam’s Clean-Up Crew

August 24, 2017 UNAC Editor The War at Home

by Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report “If the historical crime is not linked to demands for the righting of present-day wrongs, there will be no lasting benefit to the people’s struggle.” The landscape of the United States is littered with physical testimony to the nation’s origins as a white settler colonial outpost of land pirates who exterminated[…]

The Story of Charlottesville was Written in Blood in the Ukraine

August 17, 2017 UNAC Editor Connecting the Dots

by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka “While I recognize the danger of the violent right-wing movement, I am more concerned with the right-wing policies that are being enacted into law and policy by both Democrats and Republicans.” https://blackagendareport.com/story-charlottesville-was-written-blood-ukraine What is the character of racist right-wing politics today? Is it the crazed white supremacist who plows into an anti-fascist demonstration[…]