Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
Statement by U.S. Peace Council, January 2, 2022 For weeks, the U.S. corporate media have been shrill in declaring that Russia, having positioned tens of thousands of Russian troops on the border, may be about to invade Ukraine. U.S. State Department spokesmen have been threatening Russia with punishing economic sanctions if there were an invasion. Daily, if not hourly, TV[…]
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by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, December 28, 2021 Israel repeatedly strikes civilian targets in Syria, but it doesn’t even make the news over here. Israel murders and imprisons hundreds of Palestinians every year, but it is business as usual. Israel illegally sabotages Iranian electrical plants and nuclear facilities, murders Iranian diplomats, scientists and others, and we applaud their[…]
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by Andy Worthington, published on Close Guantanamo, December 22, 2021 Yes, Guantanamo is still open with a number of prisoners never accused of a crime. In the long litany of torture and abuse inflicted by the U.S. government on prisoners in the brutal “war on terror” that the Bush administration declared after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, few[…]
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By Itzamná Ollantay, published on Resumen, December 28, 2021 Leave us not forget the ‘other’ Central America. A Guatemalan co-worker told me it was like a paradise, in response to an inquiry re whether he misses his home country. He didn’t say why he had to go. [jb] In the Christmas atmosphere, and the day after the feast of[…]
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Mahmood Karimi Hakak, sent this Afghan song to his list this new year. It is too beautiful to hoard, so I’m posting here as a New Years greeting and a reminder of the indomitable spirit of the Afghan people. Many thanks to Mahmood for sending along this beautiful bit of Afghan folklore. [jb] Listen to the song: Translation: “I am[…]
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by Abyome Azikiwe, published on Pan African News Wire, December 31, 2021 Since 2020, the number of military interventions in African politics has accelerated. However, what is often overlooked is the role of western governments and their military institutions in the deliberate undermining of national and regional stability. The North African state of Libya is a prime example of the[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, published on Tricontinental, December 30, 2021 Bittersweet is the passage of this year. There have been some immense victories and some catastrophic defeats, the most terrible being the failure of the Global North countries to adopt a democratic attitude towards confronting the COVID-19 pandemic and creating equitable access to key resources, from life-saving medical equipment to vaccines.[…]
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by Michael Brenner, published in Consortium News, August 9, 2021 This article was originally published last summer, but the story gets new legs now that Biden’s Infrastructure bill has collapsed under the weight of a republican stalemate and the supposed power of a couple of senators who are playing way above their game. The focus is, what exactly do we[…]
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by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, December 22, 2021 Washington has threatened economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia over the conflict with Ukraine and has raised the possibility of military action. In an interview with Fox News Dec. 7, Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker even discussed U.S. troop intervention and a nuclear first strike! Moscow countered with a series[…]
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by Jeff Warner, published in Mondoweiss, December 28, 2021 An interesting analysis that illuminates Desmond TuTu’s statement that Israeli ‘apartheid’ is worse than South African ‘Apartheid’. And it ends with some practical advice. [jb] With the December 26, 2021, death of Bishop Desmond Tutu, six weeks after the November 11, 2021, death of Frederik Willem de Klerk, and seven years[…]
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