Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 6. 2022 The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is not the demand all protest is for naught. Jayland Walker was killed by police in Akron, Ohio when he was shot more[…]
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by Ann Wright, published on Popular Resistance, July 6, 2022 NATO’S Summit in Madrid and Lessons of War at the City’s Museums. I was one of hundreds who attended the NO to NATO peace summit June 26-27, 2022 and one of tens of thousands who marched for NO to NATO in Madrid, Spain a few days before the leaders of the[…]
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by Kit Klarenberg, published on Substack, July 5, 2022 Anatomy of a coup Obvious examples of Central Intelligence Agency covert action abroad are difficult to identify today, save for occasional acknowledged calamities, such as the long-running $1 billion effort to overthrow the government of Syria, via funding, training and arming barbarous jihadist groups. In part, this stems from many of the CIA’s[…]
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by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, July 6, 2022 These are amended remarks given by the author at an event held by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute titled “NATO and Global Empire.” The event can be watched in full here . This year’s NATO Summit took place amid a geopolitical seismic wave crashing upon Eurasia: Russia’s special military[…]
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While in Venezuela as an international observer during the regional elections in November 2021, Fire This Time Editorial Board member Alison Bodine had the opportunity to interview Professor Luis Acuña, the Charge d’Affaires of the Venezuela Embassy in Canada. Professor Acuña is the former Minister of Higher Education in Venezuela under President Comandante Hugo Chavez. From 2012-2017 Luis Acuña was[…]
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Published on Resumen English, July 5, 2022 The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, made an interesting comment on July 4, calling for the Statue of Liberty to be taken down if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is not acquitted of all charges by the United States. “If they take him to the US, they will give him a maximum[…]
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by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Consortium News, June 24, 2022 A John Mearsheimer video clip from 2016 is going viral on Twitter right now, as old John Mearsheimer clips tend to do in the year 2022 when his predictions that Western actions would lead to the destruction of Ukraine are coming horrifyingly true. In response to a question about what the worst U.S. foreign policy[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, July 1, 2022 At the G7 Summit in Germany, on June 26, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden made a pledge to raise $200 billion within the United States for global infrastructure spending. It was made clear that this new G7 project—the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII)—was intended to counter the Chinese Belt[…]
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by Scott Ritter, published on Consortium News, June 25, 2022 The overwhelming hypocrisy of NATO laid bare. [jb] For a moment in time, it looked as if reality had managed to finally carve its way through the dense fog of propaganda-driven misinformation that had dominated Western media coverage of Russia’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine. In a stunning admission, Oleksandr[…]
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by Djibo Sobukwe, published on Black Agenda Report, February 27, 2022 Considering the public media attention and concern about possible expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it is worth reminding people about NATO’s bloody history in Africa. NATO was founded in 1949 after WWII at a time when African countries were still under the yoke of colonialism. In[…]
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