Sanctions

US Government Exploits Animosity Towards Migrants to Demonize Socialist Countries

July 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Cuba, Global South, Imperialism, Monroe Doctrine, Nicaragua, Peoples' Movements, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, US Hypocrisy

by Jill Clark Gollub, published on the Orinoco Tribune, July 9, 2024 The Republican party has been waging a blatantly racist campaign to criminalize migrants. Instead of pushing back on that narrative, the party that purports to be for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Democrats) is exploiting this racist anger to discredit a country it has targeted for regime change—Nicaragua—apparently for[…]

The Biggest Obstacle to Free and Fair Elections in Venezuela is the US

June 2, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Democracy and Consent, Economic Blockade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

by Roger Harris, published on Counterpunch, May 22, 2024 For all the hullabaloo about “free and fair elections” in Venezuela by the US government, its sycophantic corporate press deliberately ignores the elephant in the room – namely, the so-called sanctions designed to make life so miserable that the people will acquiesce to Washington’s plan for regime change. As Foreign Policy[…]

BAP Afghanistan News Update, April 11th, 2024

April 13, 2024 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Anti-War, Austerity, Poverty and Sanctions, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by the Black Alliance for Peace Afghanistan News Update, April 11, 2024 Although most westerners have forgotten about Afghanistan, the US war on the Afghan people continues. [jb] Though the start of 2024 may have signaled the beginning of a new year, Afghanistan continues to endure the decades-long denial of its sovereignty by the United States. U.S.-led regime change to[…]

Alex Saab is Free: A victory Over US Imperialist Sanctions

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Venezuela

by staff, published on Fight Back! News, December 20, 2023 Miami, FL – Alex Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat, is now free after long negotiations between Venezuela’s government and the U.S. State Department. Saab flew back to Venezuela on Wednesday, December 20 into the waiting arms of his wife, Camilla Fabri Saab. He will be able to hug his children after[…]

Yemeni Movement’s Solidarity With Palestine

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Global Economics, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Yemen

Statement published on Workers World, December 20, 2023 Below is a statement by Ansarallah (called the Houthi movement in the imperialist media) spokesperson, Mohammed Abdul Salam, which was posted on Resistance News Network on Dec. 16. The accompanying news is that the largest shipping company in the world, the Swiss-Italian MSC, has decided to cease all shipments in the Red[…]

Predicting Pestilence

December 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action, War on the Earth, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Kathy Kelly, published on LA Progressive, December 4, 2023 World Health Organization now says disease could be even deadlier than airstrikes in Gaza. Speaking from a hospital ward about fifty meters from where a bomb had just exploded, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder raised his voice over the sound of children screaming. In a video posted on X (formerly known[…]

Struggling to Break the Gaza Blockade

November 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda, Citizen Diplomacy, Collapsed States, Colonialism, Egypt, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 22, 2023 Miles of semi-trailer trucks are lined up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing, waiting to deliver water, food, medicine and other essentials to Gaza. Longtime peace and justice activist Sarah Flounders recently traveled to Egypt with a delegation to push for opening the Rafah Crossing to let[…]

Denounce the Molotov Cocktail Bombing Of Cuba’s Washington, D.C. Embassy!

October 1, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Terrorism

Statement by Socialist Action’s National Committee, published on Socialist Action, September 27, 2023 Statement by Socialist Action’s National Committee Terrorists attacked the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. in the late evening of Sunday, September 24, deploying two Molotov cocktails. Fortunately no one was hurt. The responsibility for this horror resides solely with the U.S. government that has conducted, encouraged, and[…]

Where is the Outrage?

September 24, 2023 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, War on the Poor

by Maria Paez Victor, published on Counterpunch, September 22, 2023 “How about we’re buying oil from Venezuela? When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would’ve taken it over; we would have gotten all that oil; it would’ve been right next door. But now we’re buying oil from Venezuela, we’re making a dictator very rich. Can you believe this?[…]

The Criminal War on SYRIA Continues

September 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, Syria, U.S. Aggression, US Incited Protests

A couple of things that may have been left unsaid: HIghly publicized protests in Southern Syria are small and instigated by imams affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and other U.S. backed Islamist Organizations. Currently, a bill passed in the U.S. Congress, likely to be confirmed in the Senate this year, to extend the so-called Caesar Civilian Protection Sanctions, which are[…]