Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Mathias Tretschog, from Krieg im Yemen (War in Yemen), An international peace project from Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany) This is an interesting experiment. The original is in German, but the Google translation is pretty good. Its a great overview of whats up with the war in Yemen with ongoing coverage. Seems like we are always in the dark here in the[…]
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By the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Recently, there have been increased attacks on the peace movement from “progressives” for our consistent opposition to U.S. intervention in other countries. A recent sign-on letter was produced with hundreds of signatures attacking our opposition to outside intervention in Syria. UNAC answered that letter with our own sign-on letter explaining our position on[…]
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by Roger D. Harris, published on Black Agenda Report, June 9, 2021 The phony Left dabbles in R2P interventions and claims the world is plagued by a plethora of imperialisms, thus letting the superpower and its allies off the hook. “The true anti-imperialist stance is no intervention – humanitarian or otherwise.” Academic Gilbert Achcar, in an article originally in New Politics[…]
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by Roger. D. Harris, published on Resumen English, May 21, 2021 The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. This is according to Montréal-based international human rights lawyer John Philpot. He spoke on May 19 at a webinar sponsored by[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, February 24, 2021 Ann Garrison reports that a hero of the Rawandan Conflict, lauded in the west for his open mindedness and generosity during the war in the 90s, is now under arrest by the US backed Rawandan military dictator. She asks “Is there any limit to how far the West will[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, December 16, 2020 As head of USAID, Power will be in perfect position to wield foreign aid as a cudgel for beating foreign heads of state till they bow to US empire, writes Ann Garrison. “Having successfully advocated for US-led NATO wars in Libya and Syria, Power set her sights on the[…]
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by Lee Camp, published on Consortium News, October 12, 2020 Most Americans don’t know reality. They know their personal reality, but unfortunately their reality is thoroughly detached from real pure, uncut reality. For example, do they know that police across the country work with corporations to criminalize journalism? Do they know that large PR companies created a false reality to[…]
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By Brett Wilkins, published on Common Dreams, October 5, 2020 In a little-noticed development last week that drew ire after being reported Monday, the Trump administration’s EPA granted the state of Oklahoma wide-ranging environmental regulatory control on nearly all tribal lands in the state, stripping dozens of tribes of their sovereignty over critical environmental issues. The Young Turks which first reported[…]
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by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Medium.com, September 19, 2020 Stephen F Cohen, the renowned American scholar on Russia and leading authority on US-Russian relations, has died of lung cancer at the age of 81. As one of the precious few western voices of sanity on the subject of Russia while everyone else has been frantically flushing their brains down the toilet, this is a[…]
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by Jeremy Salt, published on the American Herald Tribune, August 11, 2020 In the old days there was no more charming city in the eastern Mediterranean than Beirut. Set on a maritime plain with the mountains rising dramatically behind it, the scenery was magnificent, the culture charming, the people hospitable and the city rich in history. Unfortunately, however, Lebanon’s prime[…]
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