Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, March 6, 2025 Donald Trump is facing a crisis. How to get out of a war that is already totally lost in order to prepare for the next war, to prepare for a confrontation with China. Trump blamed everyone else but the U.S. policy for the failure: the Kiev regime in Ukraine itself;[…]
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by Helen Yaffe, published on Jacobin Magazine, March 8, 2024 The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s[…]
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by Sputnik, published on Defend Democracy, February 20, 2025 We don’t often get to read/hear what Putin has to say directly. It is particularly important when we don’t entirely trust our own leaders that we are familiar with the story from both sides. [ jb] ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he had[…]
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News From PressTV, November 22, 2024 Iran and Venezuela have signed a series of cooperation documents in Caracas where Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh is visiting at the helm of a high-ranking delegation. Nasirzadeh, who traveled to Caracas on Tuesday to participate at the 10th meeting of the Iran-Venezuela joint economic cooperation commission, met President Nicolas Maduro who[…]
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by John Perry, published on Counterpunch, November 27, 2024 Why is it that everything the US does in Latin America is so surreal? ~jb In the dying days of his administration, President Biden must have needed a reminder by his officials on November 22. He had to decide whether Nicaragua still poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, July 27, 2024 Two major security alliances held summits in July. Each summit consisted of a bloc of major powers and nearby countries. Both alliances hold military exercises. Each summit meeting included guest and observer countries. The two summits could not have been more different in tone and in purpose. The Shanghai Cooperation[…]
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by Sam Husseini, published on the Institute for Public Accuracy, May 24, 2023 UN whistleblower Craig Mokhiber just posted on X: “BREAKING: The #ICJ has just ruled in favor of additional provisional measures in the Genocide case against Israel, ordering Israel to immediately halt its military offensive and other activities in Rafah and to allow aid and genocide investigators in.”[…]
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by John Wojcik, Mark Gruenberg and Ben Chacko, published on People’s World, May 16, 2024, The U.S. has dismissed Chinese calls for a no-first-use treaty between nuclear weapons states, saying it has questions about China’s “sincerity.” The outright dismissal of China’s proposal followed a major speech in which Biden announced radical tariffs of up to 100 percent, on steel imports[…]
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by John Perry, published on AFGJ:NicaNotes, April 25, 2024 Nicaragua’s complaint at the ICJ against Germany for complicity in Genocide is a constructive follow-on to the earlier case brought by South Africa against Israel for committing Genocide in Palestine. Neither will have a final resolution any time soon, but when the time comes, Germany will be on the docket with[…]
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by Roger D. Harris, published on Dissident Voice, December 21, 2023 Alex Saab was freed from US captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.” The diplomat had been imprisoned for trying to bring humanitarian supplies to Venezuela in legal international trade but in circumvention of Washington’s illegal economic coercive measures, also known[…]
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