War by Starvation and Disease

U.S. Effort To Hurt Russia Undermines Itself and The World

June 8, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Political Analysis, Russia, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 8, 2022 The U.S. drive to dominate creates self-inflicted wounds and self-imposed crises. It also creates suffering around the world with only the most servile vassal states willing to do what Washington wants. The United States continues to shoot itself in the foot in its futile effort to damage the Russian economy.[…]

Imperialist Victim Afghanistan After the Spotlight Has Passed

March 25, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, American Exceptionalism, Collapsed States, Statement, United Nations, US Hypocrisy, War and Peace

Statement from Black Alliance for Peace, March 24, 2022 Afghanistan has joined the ever growing ranks of countries forcibly thrown into desperate humanitarian crises following U.S./NATO wars now relegated to the sidelines as the latest crisis instigated by the West’s imperial aggression takes the spotlight. The blatant imperial theft of Afghan wealth, like what occurred with Iraq, Libya, and others[…]

‘Death Sentence for Untold Numbers of Civilians’: Biden to Permanently Seize Afghan Assets

February 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, American Exceptionalism, Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by John Queally, published on CommonDreams, February 11, 2022 Humanitarians—including those who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks of 2001—responded with condemnation Friday after it was reported that President Joe Biden has decided to permanently seize $7 billion of currently frozen Afghan assets even as the people of the war-torn and poverty-stricken nation suffer a broken economy, a collapsed[…]

As the Military War Ends, Afghan People Face Starvation Under U.S. Sanctions

February 12, 2022 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Economic Collapse, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action

by Vijay Prashad, from Globetrotter, February 11, 2022 On February 8, 2022, UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets. One of the tweets, which included a photograph of a child lying in a hospital bed with her mother seated beside her, said: “Having recently recovered from acute watery diarrhea, two years old Soria[…]

The Imperialist War in Yemen

May 3, 2021 UNAC Editor Yemen

by Yanis Iqbal, published on Countercurrents, April 24, 2021 Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of the basics underlying a situation as they get lost in the ongoing reporting. [JB] During a House hearing held on April 21, 2021, US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking grossly misrepresented the imperialist war in the country. He remarked: “With regard to the[…]