by Bronx Antiwar Coalition, published on Workers World, December 30, 2024 The Bronx Anti-War Coalition[…]
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Articles by members and friends of UNAC. The views, opinions and positions expressed on this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the positions of UNAC.
From Arrests to Invasions, Israel Targets West Bank Universities
by Ashjan Ajour, published on Truthout, January 9, 2024 Palestinian universities, powerful resistance sites, are forced to contend with settler violence and segregation walls. Israel’s long-standing assault on Palestine’s education sector is so severe that it has earned a label: scholasticide. In Gaza, the devastation has been catastrophic: Israel destroyed 80 percent of schools in the Strip and bombed all[…]
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How the West Destroyed Syria
by Rick Sterling, published on Dissident Voice, January 11, 2024 Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including being UK Ambassador to Bahrein (1999-2003) and then Syria (2003-2006). Following that, he was representative to the Arab world for the Commissioner General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency. He was interviewed by Rick Stering on Jan[…]
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War in Sudan Engulfs Agricultural Heartland Amid Record Levels of Hunger
by Pavan Kulkarni, published on People’s Dispatch, January 1, 2025 After capturing Gezira, a State in central Sudan that was producing half of its wheat and providing refuge to hundreds of thousands of IDPs, the RSF is set to battle the Sudanese Armed Forces for the neighboring states to consolidate control over the country’s agricultural heartland Agricultural production has come[…]
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The War in Sudan From a Left Perspective
by Aseel Saleh, published on People’s Dispatch, August 26, 2024 I have a current article which I will publish soon, but this article provides the context necessary to make sense of what is going on in Sudan. [jb] Sudanese activists from the front lines of the struggle for democracy participated in an online press conference organized by the International Peoples’[…]
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Cubans End 2024 with Massive March Against US Blockade
by W.T. Whitney, published on Labor Today International, January 7, 2025 Cubans numbering in the hundreds of thousands marched on December 20 along Havana’s emblematic Malecon roadway fronting the Florida Straits. President Miguel Díaz Canel and former President Raul Castro took the lead in a massive protest against stepped-up US efforts to immiserate Cubans and bring down their socialist government.[…]
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Los Angeles Fires: The Santa Ana Blowback of Capitalist Climate Change Neglect
Black Alliance for Peace Statement, January 9, 2025 The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout that city and surrounding areas is fossil fuel production emblematic of runaway capitalism fueled by white “supremacy” ideology, patriarchy, and colonization. And while it’s easy to focus solely on the[…]
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No Popular Revolution is Launched with Imperialism’s Backing
by Bahman Azad, published on Workers World, January 10, 2025 The message below, from U.S. Peace Council President Bahman Azad, was read by Saher Al Khamash of the Bronx Anti-War Coalition at a webinar on the U.S. role in Syria, organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition, on Dec. 28, 2024. Please forgive me for not being personally present at[…]
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Mexican President Sheinbaum Steps Up
src: Resumen LatinoAmericano, published on Resumen English, January 8, 2028 Mexico’s president has recalled that the name of the Gulf of Mexico dates back to the 17th century, branding the elected US president as “misinformed”. Trump proposed to rename the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America”, to which Mexico, through the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has responded Wednesday[…]
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Taxpayers Suing Congress members For Funding Genocide Speak Out
by Marjorie Cohen, published on Popular Resistance , January 4, 2025 (originally published on Truthout) Editor’s Note: Our elected officials ignore our concerns, and dismiss our demands. Time to up the ante! The issue of genocide is too big to let them off. “We Have to Act.” Plaintiff Tarik Kanaana says the lawsuit “has given people something to rally[…]
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Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters
by Gerry Condon, published on Workers World, January 10, 2025 Gerry Condon, who was a leading activist among exiled military deserters in Canada, places the role of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in perspective, while presenting a survey of how repulsion against the U.S. occupation of Vietnam drove varied forms of war and draft resistance among U.S. youths. These forms included[…]
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