Unilateral Coercive Measures

Solidarity With The People of Venezuela Amidst Disaster! Out With U.S. Imperialism!

July 3, 2026 UNAC Editor Humanitarian Aid, Natural Disaster, Natural Disaster, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, Venezuela

Statement by ILPS (International League of Peoples’ Struggles) The International League of Peoples’ Struggle stands in solidarity with the people of Venezuela affected by the back-to-back 7.2 and 7.5-magnitude earthquake, particularly in Caracas, Miranda, La Guaira, Aragua, Carabobo, and Falcón. Initial reports indicate at least 164 people have died with more than 1000 injured along with 14,000+ missing, but the[…]

Unilateral Coercive Measures And The War On Women

May 21, 2026 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Women

by Vijay Prashad, published on Popular Resistance, March 21, 2026 Despite being among the most impacted by economic war, women continue to foster a sense of solidarity, care, and hope in humanity. In 1945, when the United Nations Charter was drafted, its authors and those who first adopted it carefully crafted language on how to deal with armed conflict in[…]

China’s Special Envoy Reaffirms Unbreakable Brotherhood With Venezuela Against US Naval Blockade and Piracy

January 7, 2026 UNAC Editor China, Economics, Trade, Venezuela

by Staff at the Orinoco Tribune, January 3, 2026 Editor’s Note: An interesting aside. The day before the U.S. bombed Caracas and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he met with a group of Chinese diplomats regarding economic commitments. At the same time, U.S. President Trump pulled the trigger after meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodomyr Zelensky about our support for[…]

VSN Denounces Trump’s Targeting of Venezuelan Migrants

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor El Salvador, Imperialism, Migrants, Prisoners, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, US Government Action, Venezuela

Statement by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network, March 2025 The Venezuela Solidarity Network (VSN) denounces President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against alleged members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization as an outrageous and illegal action that seeks to criminalize Venezuelan migrants in the context of an ongoing effort to bring about regime change in Venezuela. The VSN[…]

The Criminality of Unilateral Sanctions

September 3, 2024 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Prabhat Patnaik, published on MR Online, September 1, 2024 DURING Modi’s visit to Ukraine (why he visited Ukraine at all at the present time remains a mystery), Zelensky asked India not to purchase fuel from Russia in violation of western sanctions, that is, to fall in line with the “unilateral” western sanctions. Let us for a moment forget the[…]

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[…]

Biden Calls Cuba “Terrorist” While The People Demand An End to U.S. Terrorism Against Cuba

June 10, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Global Trade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

By Calla Mairead Walsh, published on Socialist Action, May 29, 2023 When the Devil rules, no good work goes unpunished. [jb] Thousands of Cubans gather to celebrate the country’s National Rebellion Day, a yearly commemoration of the Cuban revolution. While Biden doubles down on Cuba’s designation as a so-called “State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the US people are increasingly calling for[…]

US Still Imposing Illegal, Unilateral Sanctions on Eritrea

April 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Eritrea, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 12 2023 Yemane Ghebreab, advisor to Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, explains how US economic sanctions impact the Eritrean people. The Ethiopian army decisively defeated the US-backed Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in November 2022, after a two-year war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced over five million people.[…]

Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

January 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Book Review, International Law, Lawfare, Nicaragua, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Ukraine, Venezuela

by John Perry of Masaya, Nicaragua, published on the website of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, COHA, January 10, 2023 A review of the report Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, edited by Sara Flounders for the Sanctions Kill campaign and published by World View Forum.(1) Sanctions imposed without United Nations endorsement are illegal. That is why they[…]

Venezuela Fiercely Rejects US Senate’s Passing of BOLIVAR Act

December 30, 2022 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

Published on the Orinoco Tribune,December 19, 2022 Caracas, December 18, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—This Friday, December 16, the US Senate unanimously approved the Law to Prohibit Operations and Leasing with the Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime of Venezuela (BOLIVAR Act), presented by the ultra-conservative Floridian senator, Rick Scott. The discussion of the interventionist act in the lower house of the US Congress is still[…]