State Terrorism

Strangers Behind the Trees: On the Death of Rayan Suliman and His Fear of Monsters

October 13, 2022 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, published on Countercurrents, October 13, 2022 Day in and day out you read about Palestinian children (usually teenagers) killed by IDF guns, and you stop reacting to the news. But sometimes something happens that breaks through the wall of repetition, like the story of this 7 year old Palestinian boy who died while running from these[…]

Israel kills 4 teens in rampage across West Bank

October 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine

by Tamera Nassar, published on Electronic Intifada, October 9, 2022 If you let this article sit open for a bit, all kinds of images and videos appear in the tweets. [jb] A Palestinian resistance operation in occupied East Jerusalem killed an Israeli soldier and injured several others on Saturday evening. The person who carried out the shooting at a military[…]

10 Reasons Why Defunding the Police Should Lead to Defunding War

July 16, 2020 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Police Brutality, Racism

by Medea Benjamin & Zoltán Grossman, published on Consortium News, July 15, 2020 Since George Floyd was murdered, we have seen an increasing convergence of the “war at home” against black and brown people with the “wars abroad” that the U.S. has waged against people in other countries. Army and National Guard troops have been deployed in U.S. cities, as[…]

Cuba and its Two Pandemics: the Coronavirus and the Blockade

May 30, 2020 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

By Gustavo Veiga, published on Resumen, May 26, 2020 The government of Donald Trump found an ideal partner in the coronavirus to try to prostrate Cuba by all possible means. From the combo of economic and legal sanctions that the United States has been applying for 60 years, the consequences of the pandemic have been added. Not so much the[…]