UNAC Statement, February 20, 2023 Coinciding with the 20th anniversary weekend of the criminal U.S.-invasion[…]
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United National Antiwar Coalition
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.
U.S. Systemic Racism: From Slavery to George Floyd and Tyre Nichols
by Malik Miah, published on Socialist Action, March 9, 2023 Tyre Nichols, 29, was murdered by police in yet another modern-day lynching in Memphis, Tennessee on January 7. The city is nearly 70 percent African American, including a Black female police chief. What was unexpected and a surprise to many is that the five police officers were all African American.[…]
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Abulhawa, El-Kurd, Palestine & Ukraine: Zionists Attack Australian Free Speech
by Gideon Polya, published on Countercurrents, February 28, 2023 All of the issues discussed below are in play in the United States as well, and in fact, the U.S. has a leadership role in enabling the Zionist excesses in Palestine. [jb] The acclaimed Palestinian writers Susan Abulhawa and Mohammed El-Kurd were invited to the Adelaide Writers Festival but have encountered[…]
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Which Way Forward For The Antiwar Movement
by John Catalinotto and Sara Flounders, March 13, 2023 Workers World Managing Editor John Catalinotto held an interview March 13 with Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center (IAC), a member of the Administrative Committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and contributing editor to Workers World, to discuss the developments of the past year of the war[…]
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General National Strike March 16 in Greece
International PAME, Rail Issues, Solidarity, published on Labor Today, March 13, 2023 The victims of capitalism raise their voices in Greece. They are our victims and also a reflection of where we are headed unless we embrace major changes. It is time for the people to stand up and demand a change of direction. [jb] New Huge Demonstrations yesterday– Escalation[…]
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‘The Bank is Now Insolvent’
Workers World Editorial, March 13, 2023 It is often the case that, when the capitalist system is on the verge of a crisis, the period leading up to it is marked by buoyant explosions of optimism. On Oct. 25, 1929, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed that the U.S. economy was “on a sound and prosperous basis.” Four days later the stock[…]
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U.S. Military Out of the Philippines
by by Seiji Yamada, Arcelita Imasa, and Richard Rothschiller, Published on Counterpunch, March 7, 2023 In January, the Philippine and US governments announced plans to allow U.S. military access to four additional bases in the Philippines. This agreement to base more U.S. military assets in the Philippines poses a threat to peace. Signaled by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton writing[…]
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Dr. Strangelove is No Longer Satire
by Dee Knight, published on CovertAction Magazine, March 1, 2023 Expansion of U.S. weapons supplies to Ukraine makes nuclear war more conceivable “We are fighting a war against Russia,” German Foreign Minister Putin at Stalingrad Memorial on 80th anniversary. [Source: pbs.org] told the Council of Europe on January 24. The next day German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe[…]
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G20 Fails to Agree on Joint Statement
by Ahmen Adel, published on BRICSInfo, March 6, 2023 The meeting between the foreign ministers of G20 members in New Delhi on March 1-2 became a farce because Western countries wanted to focus on no other issue but the war in Ukraine. Western countries were not willing to discuss any other topics, such as the interaction between G20 member states,[…]
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How US Exceptionalism Has Spawned War in Ukraine and Syria
by Rick Sterling, published on Antiwar.com, February 25, 2023 The following is an adapted version of the presentation made at the webinar “Connecting Dots” on 2.25.2023. Other speakers were Dr. Marwa Osman and Dr. Atif Kubursi. Introduction Syria has been at war since 2011. The conflict is in a stalemate. US troops control nearly a third of the country. The[…]
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Atlanta Area Police Attack Music Festival, Stop Cop City Battles On
by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, March 7, 2023 Atlanta, March 7 —Workers World writer Dianne Mathiowetz stated: “I was just at a press conference called by various local and national clergy that denounced the police action again as proof that there is nothing about Cop City that suggests de-escalation and protection of people’s rights. There are a significant[…]
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