Starvation

Starvation Begins to Bite in Rafah

December 29, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine

by Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman, published on Electronic Intifada, December 19, 2023 It was 6:00 am on 15 December, when my mother woke me to take our turn in the line at a nearby bakery, 15 minutes away on foot. There are two lines, one for women and one for men. My mother was number 29, I number 30. We had[…]

No to U.S./U.N. Military Occupation in Haiti! No U.S. Aid to Haiti Dictatorship

May 8, 2023 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Colonialism, Economic Collapse, Government Corruption, Haiti, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, May 6, 2023 U.S. imperialism and its U.N. proxies have not yet decided who would take part in the third imperialist occupation of Haiti but the answer may come soon. An intervention will surely be pitched as a “humanitarian” multi-national mission to curb Haiti’s rampant gang violence, mass hunger and a re-emerging cholera[…]

U.S.-EU Hide Their Role in Afghan Hunger Crisis

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Zach Kerns, published on International Action Center, February 7, 2022 On Jan. 24, U.S. and European Union representatives met with representatives of the Taliban in Oslo to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. The meeting’s purpose, according to the U.S. State Department, was the “urgency in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan” and the need to “help alleviate the suffering[…]

The U.S. Is Destroying the Lives of the People of Afghanistan

November 27, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Economic Collapse, Imperial Wars, Indigenous peoples, Migrants and Refugees, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Barry Sheppard, published on Socialist Action, November 22, 2021 When the U.S. left Afghanistan in August it also froze almost all foreign aid to the country. It has now come to light that the major part of the economy under the U.S. military and its puppet government was completely dependent on that foreign aid. In other words, the U.S.[…]

The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East

December 10, 2018 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Imperial greed, Yemen

Photo: Yemen’s starving mothers — Ahmed Rashid Mokbel, a severely malnourished 7-month-old Yemeni boy, is given formula by his mother at the Al-Sadaqa Hospital in Aden, Yemen, in this Feb. 13, 2018. The boy weighed only 3.3 kg (7 pounds). The Al-Sadaqa Hospital treats malnourishment cases from across southern Yemen _ those that are lucky enough to get there. ~[…]

Yemen – Holding Hodeidah Is The Houthi’s Last Chance

November 13, 2018 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Yemen

* Featured Image: Photo of Hodeida grain silo by Yemeni journalist, Ahmed Abdulkareem, illustrates his article, “UN Food Storage Facility Targeted as Saudi Coalition Closes in on Hodeida“, published in MIntPress News. 11/09/18 by Bernhard of Moon of Alabama, November 10, 2018 From last weeks MoA review: October 31 – Yemen – After 200,000 Died An Embarrassed U.S. Finally Calls[…]

Todays Wars Have Roots in Tragic 1993 US Intervention in Somalia

October 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Militarism, Somalia

By Ann Wright, previously published on CodePink.org and WorldBeyondWar.org Several days ago, a journalist contacted me about a memorandum titled “Legal and human rights aspects of UNOSOM military operations” I had written in 1993, twenty-five years ago. At the time, I was the chief of the Justice Division of the United Nations Operations in Somalia (UNOSOM). I had been seconded[…]

The Ongoing Agony of the Obama-Trump War on the People of Yemen

January 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Yemen

“We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation.” (M.L. King, “Beyond Vietnam”) by Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace Yemen, the poorest Arab nation on Earth, is the victim of a savage, illegal war waged by the Saudi Arabian monarchy. Armed to the teeth with the most sophisticated weapons[…]