Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Jay Tharappel, published on The Cradle (of Civilization), August 2, 2021 From a new blog edited by Sharmine Narwani with information US people might not see otherwise by reporters who can follow Arabic News. If this is TMI re the Yemen War for you then scroll down to the section on US withdrawal. On the one hand, I didn’t[…]
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Translated by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews and edited by Workers World, August 13, 2021 Former president Evo Morales, leader of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party, denounced, this Aug. 4, the Bolivian political right for promoting destabilizing maneuvers disguised as political activism. “Once again, the coup plotters announce antidemocratic mobilizations against the legitimate, legal and constitutional government of our brother[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 10, 2021 In a stunning announcement Aug. 5, China’s President Xi Jinping informed the First International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation of the country’s donation of 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to developing and poor countries within the next four months. This urgent step builds solidarity and makes vaccines accessible in[…]
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by Alison Weir, published on Israel/Palestine News, August 1, 2021 While US Citizens go homeless and hungry, Israel receives billions from our government. This bill passed while the eviction moratorium was dropped and then only partially resuscitated the day before members of congress went on vacation. US citizens can fend for themselves while Israelis are well supported. [jb] A[…]
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by Kathy Kelly, published on Covert Action, August 2, 2021 In mid-July, 100 Afghan families from Bamiyan, a rural province of central Afghanistan mainly populated by the Hazara ethnic minority, fled to Kabul. They feared Taliban militants would attack them in Bamiyan. Over the past decade, I have gotten to know a grandmother who recalls fleeing Talib fighters in the[…]
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by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies, August 11, 2021 Nine provincial capitals in Afghanistan have fallen to the Taliban in six days – Zaranj, Sheberghan, Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz, Taloqan, Aybak, Farah, Pul-e-Khumri and Faizabad – while fighting continues in four more – Lashkargah, Kandahar, Herat & Mazar-i-Sharif. U.S. military officials now believe Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, could fall in one[…]
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by Marshall Aurback, published on The Scrum, August 9, 2021 “China Manufactures Things and Social Cohesion while the US Manufactures Financial Instruments and Decay” What has been described in the American press as a Chinese crackdown on private enterprise is more in the nature of an existential choice for Beijing. The government has decided to live by producing stuff instead[…]
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by Staff, published on Fightback News! August 8, 2021 Maracay City, Venezuela – In the worker-controlled Venezuelan Kellogg factory, you see the workers working diligently to make corn flake and sugary cereals in a new package displaying the Venezuelan flag and the words “Together for Venezuela.” They are wearing black caps with red letters that say, “Kellogg made in socialism.”[…]
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by Carlos Fonseca Terán, published on LA Progressive, July 25, 2021 Nicaragua is in the news again. But not for being one of the countries with the greatest reduction in poverty and social inequality worldwide since 2007 (poverty by half, extreme poverty by a third, and going from being the fourth most unequal country to being the fourth least unequal[…]
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by Austin Dewey, published on Fightback News!, August 3, 2021 Biden has been portraying the drawdown of U.S. troops as a sign of victory in Afghanistan, but the truth is that resistance forces are winning. In describing the motivations behind the drawdown, Biden stated, “We went to war with clear goals. We achieved those objectives. Bin Laden is dead, and[…]
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