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, August 10, 2022 White supremacist arrogance was the order of the day when Nancy Pelosi ignored a red line set by the Chinese government and visited Taiwan. The Speaker of the House showed stereotypical and racist attitudes towards that country and began a chain of events that won’t go well for the[…]
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by Orinoco Tribune Staff, published on the Orinoco Tribune, August 3, 2022 On Tuesday, August 2, the US Department of Justice requested that Argentine authorities seize the Boeing 747—property of Venezuelan state-owned EMTRASUR and grounded by Argentinian authorities on June 6 at the Buenos Aires international airport at Ezeiza—on the basis of an alleged breach of the unilateral coercive measures[…]
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by Richie Merino, published on Workers World, August 10, 2022 The following remarks were prepared by International Action Center member Richie Merino for the “Denuclearization and Peace on the Korean Peninsula” event at the United Nations Aug. 4, co-organized by Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK) and People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD). The key actors in Korea’s[…]
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by Becca Renk, published on Casa Benjamin Linder, August 10, 2022 DENGUE FEVER We’re settling in to our daughter Orla’s sixth night in the hospital. Visiting hours are over and only ten of the beds in our 32-bed pediatric ward are occupied tonight, down from 20 a few nights ago. The patients – mostly young teens in our room[…]
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by Owen Schalk, published on CovertAction Magazine, August 3, 2022 The United States does the heavy lifting, but Canada provides consistent behind-the-scenes support to enable the plunder of Congo and other nations in the Global South. On October 14, 2004, a group of ten armed men took control of the city of Kilwa in the eastern Katanga province of the[…]
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by Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan and Medea Benjamin, published on Resumen-English, August 10, 2022 By now, the images of the oil explosion that erupted in the Cuban province of Matanzas on Friday, August 5 that has just been extinguished has been seen around the world. When lightning struck an oil tank in Cuba’s largest oil storage facility, it quickly exploded and[…]
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by Isaac Saney and Cheryl LaBash, published on Socialist Action, August 11, 2022 While various countries such as Mexico and Venezuela were concretely assisting Cuba in overcoming the unprecedented disastrous fire consuming the Mantanzas oil storage facility, the United States cynically sat on its hands, instead asking Havana to call them. As Mexico, for example, sent 16 flights with over[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 9, 2022 Why has there been almost no coverage of what was taking place at the same time multi-millionaire Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was visiting Taiwan? Consider what is being said, as well as what is totally omitted, in the U.S. coverage of China’s naval action around Taiwan. The U.S.[…]
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by Andre Damon, published on World Socialist Website (WSWS), August 10, 2022 Amid the military standoff in the Taiwan Strait triggered by the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan last week, the US is planning to send warships through the Taiwan Strait “in the coming days,” the publication of the United States Naval Institute reported Tuesday. On[…]
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Statement from the U.S. Peace Council, August 4, 2022 The U.S. Peace Council condemns in strongest terms the latest U.S. government provocation against the People’s Republic of China and against peace in the world. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi imposed herself into the Taiwan Province of China without an invitation from the Chinese government. We have to[…]
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