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Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Reverse Globalization or Resurrect America’s Dying Industrial Base

April 5, 2025 UNAC Editor Global Trade, Racism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Soft Power Imperialism, Trade Wars, US Foreign Policy

by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, April 2, 2025 Throughout history, trade restrictions have reshaped economies for good or for ill. As Trump increases tariffs across industries, it is clear that this move will not revitalize the economy as he claims. Rather, it stands to create further hardship for Black and working class people. While it was not[…]

US Scrapping of INF Treaty Heightens Threat of Nuclear War

August 7, 2019 UNAC Editor International Law, Nuclear Agendas

By Bill Van Auken, published on World Socialist Website, August 3, 2019 Washington formally scrapped the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty Friday, bringing the world a major step closer to nuclear war. The treaty, signed over 30 years ago by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, banned a whole class of weapons that had placed the world[…]

How US Policy in Honduras Set the Stage for Today’s Mass Migration

June 26, 2018 UNAC Editor Honduras, Immigration

By Joseph Nevin, published on Consortium News, June 21, 2018 Central American migrants – particularly unaccompanied minors – are again crossing the U.S.-Mexico boundary in large numbers. Under the Obama administration In 2014, more than 68,000 unaccompanied Central American children were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico boundary. There were more than 60,000 in 2016. The mainstream narrative often reduces the causes of migration to[…]

America’s Indefensible Alliance With The Philippines

February 24, 2018 UNAC Editor Philippines, US Foreign Bases

by Rhonda Ramiro of Bayan USA and Azadeh Shahshahani, originally published in the Huffington Post The burgeoning alliance between President Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appears destined to become the 21st century version of the Ronald Reagan-Ferdinand Marcos alliance. That union in the 1980s allowed the Marcos dictatorship to last 14 years, despite Marcos’ notoriety for murdering over[…]