Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
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 Tatti Ribeiro and Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, published on Frank News, July 5, 2022 Charisse makes some very good points here that you don’t see very often. It is always good to have a review of the historical through a different lens. Many of these points come clear when you follow so call ‘women’s liberation’ as well. [jb] My name[…]
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by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Consortium News, June 24, 2022 A John Mearsheimer video clip from 2016 is going viral on Twitter right now, as old John Mearsheimer clips tend to do in the year 2022 when his predictions that Western actions would lead to the destruction of Ukraine are coming horrifyingly true. In response to a question about what the worst U.S. foreign policy[…]
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by Alan MacLeod, published on MintPress News, June 21, 2022 This is pretty overwhelming. It seems like Elon Musk should not waste his money on purchasing Twitter, if he really wants to devote his resources to an open platform. Better to just start a new one that has not already been corrupted. [jb] Twitter has been on a recruitment drive[…]
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by Stansfield Smith, published on the Orinoco Tribune, June 24, 2022 The US rulers use many tools to disrupt and disorganize the anti-war and anti-imperialist left. Three discussed here include: one, corporate control of the news media gives them free reign to spread disinformation and fake news against foreign and domestic targets. Two, they use government and corporate foundation resources[…]
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by Diana Block, published on CounterPunch, June 3, 2022 I set off for Havana at the end of April to participate in the 15th International May Day Brigade organized by ICAP (The Institute for Friendship with the Cuban People). Having achieved one of the lowest COVID mortality rates and highest vaccination rates in the world, Cuba had reopened the country[…]
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by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Substack, June 7, 2022 With regard to Danny Haiphong’s statement, there is a huge amount of verification available that his stance is accurate and the massacre narrative, a lie. Twitter has imposed a weeklong suspension on the account of writer and political activist Danny Haiphong for a thread he made on the platform disputing the[…]
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By Richard Falk, published on Counterpunch, May 20, 2022 Interesting analysis of the realities of international politics. Interests, boundaries and relative strength are highly relevant to international negotiations. The structure of the United Nations is as significant as the rules. Westphalian refers to a treaty from 1649 that secured the peace through recognition of national boundaries. Interestingly, I found a[…]
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by Richard Ochs, published on Covert Action Magazine, May 18, 2022 In any war, the first casualty is truth. Here are the biggest lies: 1. “Ukraine is a democracy” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky banned all opposition parties and banned the use of Russian as a second state language. Why did he violate his 2019 campaign promise to stop the genocidal[…]
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by Maureen Clare Murphy, published on Electronic Intifada, May 20, 2022 Israel announced that it was not going to launch a criminal investigation into the death of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, despite all but admitting that a soldier shot and killed her. On Thursday, the Israeli military said it had “identified a soldier’s rifle that may have killed” the iconic[…]
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