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, October 6, 2021 Police killings of Black people are a feature of American law enforcement and they are deliberately under counted. The New York Times and other outlets report that most police killings in this country are “mislabeled .” The sanitized language is worse than an understatement because it implies that these[…]
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by Roger Harris, published on Counterpunch, October 6, 2021 I think this is a win-win for the U.S. Whether they manage to extradite him and pump him for information or not, as long as Cape Verde continues to hold him, his life is increasingly threatened by cancer. If he dies in custody, the Venezuelan government will permanently lose his services[…]
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Statement by Workers World Party, published on Workers World, October 7, 2021 The U.S. is accusing Alex Saab of a crime related violating the U.S. Unilateral Coercive Economic Measures. Even if these measures were legal, which they are not, Saab is not a U.S. citizen and not subject to U.S. Law. What he was actually doing is arranging to purchase[…]
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by Cliff Conner, published on Socialist Action, October 5, 2021 The arrogance and open spite of the judge in this case is profoundly disturbing. [jb] ON OCTOBER 1, 2021, the sun rose in the east and Steven Donziger was sentenced to prison. Both events were equally predictable, but only the latter was a consequence of the systematic corruption of what[…]
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by Salome Ayuak, published on Black Agenda Report, October 6, 2021 This is a condensed speech by Salome Ayuak given at the International Month of Action Against AFRICOM launch event – “AFRICOM at 13: Building the popular movement towards demilitarization and anti-imperialism in Africa.” Horn of Africa Pan Africans for Liberation and Solidary (HOA PALS) understands the Horn as Ethiopia, Sudan,[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, October 6, 2021 The fiscal priorities of Congress are way out of sync with the needs and interests of the people. We need to make our needs and wishes known to Congress in a way that they cannot ignore them. With Biden’s ‘green’ infrastructure bill already whittled down to business as usual[…]
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by Kelly Kunzel, published on Electronic Intifada, September 14, 2021 Caution tape still adorns the ruins of what was once a butcher shop owned by Nidal al-Rajabi in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. On 29 June, with one pass or sweep of a bulldozer, Israeli forces razed al-Rajabi’s shop, which provided the sole income to support 14 people.[…]
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from the News Desk at The Cradle Middle Eastern News, October 5, 2021 The people of Silwan are loosing their homes due to The Absentee Property Law, an Israeli court decision to allow the government to confiscate all properties owned by absentee Arab landlords. This includes the majority of the Arab homes in Jerusalem where the original owner was likely[…]
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by Paddy Colligan, published on Workers World, September 22, 2021 This article is an interview with Workers World contributor, archaeologist Paddy Colligan, from a series on the Arctic, from The Worker, Danish Workers Party publication, Sept. 6, 2021, translated by Workers World. I say to Washington: “Hands off the area!” Any conflict over resources in the Arctic has a serious[…]
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Statement by Sanctions Kill, published on Popular Resistance, September 14, 2021 NOTE: Sanctions Kill also created a toolkit that you can use to educate yourself and others about what sanctions are, why they are illegal and how they impact people within sanctioned countries and the United States. In recent decades, the US has increasingly used sanctions as an instrument of[…]
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