Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
By Farooq Tariq, published on Socialist Action, August 31, 2022 Summary on Pakistan’s flood situation Incessant monsoon rains and flash floods have devastated Pakistan, affecting millions of people and incurring huge economic losses. The scale of devastation According to the official figure of National Disaster Management Authority, floods have so far claimed the lives of 1350 people. 1 million houses[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 31, 2022 Capitalist rule dictates that millions of Americans live in debt peonage. It was inevitable that Biden’s student loan debt relief would be a farcical half measure. The Biden administration announcement of so-called student loan debt relief does little to alleviate the problem it claims to solve. Forgiving $20,000 for Pell[…]
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by Michael Hudson, published on Naked Capitalism, February 7, 2022 I feel like I’m in a time warp today. I keep finding good articles, timely in the sense that they talk about the forces that govern our current situation, but they aren’t technically ‘current’. So, take a chance and read on. [jb] The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s[…]
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By Hank Stone, August 31, 2022 A friend recently circulated this summary in email. It is a clear and focused summary of Smith’s article so, you can see the point and if you want to read the detailed article that inspired this piece it was published on Truthout a few years ago and is linked in the first paragraph. [jb][…]
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by Lars Drake, published on World Beyond War, August 30, 2022 During the year we have seen several major changes in Swedish politics, especially those related to foreign and defence policy. Some of them are news in other cases things that have been going on for a long time have come to light. Sweden has as suddenly as dramatically sought[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 26, 2022 The western corporate media described the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s launch of two missiles Aug. 17 as threatening, aggressive and paranoid. What most media failed to report was the prior U.S. military exercises with Japan and South Korea off Hawai’i, in preparation for extensive war exercises off Korea, that[…]
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Caitlin Johnstone: Numerous Syrian and foreign militants have reportedly been killed and several US troops injured in an escalating exchange of attacks between the American invaders and the people in the country whose territory they are illegally occupying.
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Danny Haiphong: U.S. forces left Afghanistan just as murderously as they came in. Joe Biden’s administration oversaw numerous war crimes during its haphazard “withdrawal” on August 15th 2021. This included a drone strike that killed ten civilians and at least seven children.
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By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, August 24, 2022 Of the estimated 1.4 million top security clearance U.S. personnel employed by one or another of the government’s 18 branches of its $81 billion annually budgeted “U.S. Intelligence Community,” perhaps one or two individuals each year are designated as “whistleblowers” and persecuted to the high heavens. Today WikiLeaks founder and[…]
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by Maha Hilal, published on Workers World, August 19, 2022 Originally published on MiddleEast Eye, August 4, 2022 FYI: The Taliban are now saying that they have been unable to locate Al Zawahiri’s body among the caualties of this strike. You never know with these politically motivated assassinations whether the target is real or not. [jb] Those prosecuting this[…]
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