Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Sara Flounders, published on International Action Center, July 20, 2022 CNN sounded the alarm July 14: “Nearly two-and-a-half years since the coronavirus pandemic began, the most infectious and transmissible variant yet has arrived. . . . Now the virus is spreading again — evolving, escaping immunity and driving an uptick in cases and hospitalizations.” Major corporate media described how[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, July 26, 2022 A deal brokered by Turkey for the export of grain from both Ukraine and Russia presents a political problem for U.S. imperialism and its war aims. Washington’s response: ship more weapons. The landmark deal to move hundreds of tons of grain, if it moves forward, undermines U.S./NATO determination to continue[…]
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by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 24, 2022 We begin with some hard facts and context that are today tragically absent from the assessments of large sectors of the left and antiwar movements in the U.S. and worldwide. 2014 Maidan Square fascist rooftop snipers The Ukraine tragedy began in February 2014 when rooftop fascist snipers opened fire on[…]
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by Abdul Jabbar, published on Multipolarista, April 25, 2022 In 2012 I joined a peace delegation to Pakistan to meet with Drone victims. The delegation was sponsored by Imran Khan and his PTI party. We were warmly welcomed at a party event, where we met some of the people. I remember there were elections within the party for various positions[…]
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by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on The Cradle, July 18, 2022 It is an unsavoury proposition always, be it in India or Pakistan, when political power is usurped by fly-by-night operators who engineer defections from a ruling party, and an established government gets overthrown despite its mandate to govern. In India — so far, at least — such shenanigans leading to[…]
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by Days of Palestine, published on Popular Resistance, July 25, 2022 On Saturday night, Israeli military forces raided Nablus, armed with stun grenades and ammunition and killing two Palestinians and injuring 9 others. On Sunday, members of Palestine Action descended upon Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems’ factory in Shenstone, smashing and striking at the site exterior, throwing red paint, a[…]
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by Barry Shephard, published on Socialist Action, July 24, 2022 President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, with a short three-hour stop off with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas sandwiched in between, began in Israel. An article in the New York Times from Jerusalem said, “A year and a half after Donald J. Trump left the White House,[…]
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By Gregory Shupak, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, July 7, 2022 Article 1 of the UN Charter says that one of the purposes of the UN is “to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.” However, what “self-determination” means in specific international legal cases is far from[…]
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by Phil Wilayto, published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 23, 2022 A simple explanation. You should try it out on your local newspaper if they have a Speakout section or a place for a longer oped piece open to public submission. [jb] Back in 1949, the United States, Canada and 10 Western European countries formed a military alliance called the[…]
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by Philip Weiss, published on Mondoweiss, July 22, 2022 Apartheid in Israel, potentially, Genocide in Gaza, accepted in the Middle East and the West as just a fact of life that shouldn’t interfere with business as usual. I’ve just been reading that reports on what it cost Egypt to enter an alliance with Israel and the United States. It’s a[…]
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