Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
from the News Desk at The Cradle, published on December 13, 2022 As the Saudi-instigated war in Yemen inches towards its eight year, investigative reports have come to show that billions of dollars in humanitarian aid managed by international organizations have done very little to alleviate the suffering of millions of Yemenis, who often receive as little as 20 percent[…]
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by Roger Harris and John Philpot, published on Pressenza New York, October 3, 2022 As Venezuela’s special envoy and a deputy ambassador to the African Union, Saab has diplomatic immunity from arrest and detention under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Although a party to the convention, the U.S. has flouted this principle of international law. Judicial overreach on[…]
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By Javier Gómez Sánchez, published on Resumen English, October 27, 2022 The announcement issued last October 18 that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), after the devastation of Hurricane Ian, will make a donation of humanitarian aid valued at two million dollars to Cuba through the International Red Cross, immediately generated a media hullabaloo and a flurry of[…]
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by John Perry, published on Popular Resistance, October 29, 2022 The Biden administration has announced new sanctions which are intended to hit the poorest Nicaraguans – both in their pockets and in the public services on which they depend. This latest attack on a small Central American country is, as usual, dressed up as promoting democracy: the sanctions will “deny[…]
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Statement from U.S. Peace Council, October 2, 2022 I visited Iran several times a decade ago. Women have it pretty good in Iran. They have about the same ratio of women to men in college as the US (just like us, women do a little better in college and men do a little better in the economy). Women are free[…]
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by Hamid Shahrabi, October 3, 2022 Rather than detailing crimes committed by illegitimate sanctions, the purpose of this modest contribution is to draw attention on lessons learnt, with emphasis on how to effectively confront such criminal policy. But before that, considering my Iranian nationality, let us have a look at the case of Iran. Iran Sanctions After the overthrow of[…]
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by Carlos Martinez, August 2022 Background The instinctive attitude of the United States towards the Chinese Revolution was of course one of hostility. In a protracted war between progress and reaction, between the future and the past, the governments of the US and the People’s Republic of China were, and are, are on opposite sides of the barricades. Hence shortly[…]
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by Erica Jung, September 30, 2022 Introduction North Koreans live under restrictions, embargoes, and scarcities imposed and enforced by a variety of sanctions from the United States and the United Nations.1 In fact, north Korea is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world, having been subject to sanctions since its foundation in 1950. US sanctions in particular serve[…]
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by Andrés Arauz, published on Counterpunch, September 19, 2022 A deep explanation for the technically inclined of where Afghanistan’s frozen wealth derives from and why they can’t be dismissed as an “asset” of the Taliban government. It also explains how frozen accounts related to unilateral coercive measures on other countries distort their economies. [jb] On August 10, more than 70[…]
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by Oleen Ndori, published on ZBC News, September 9, 2022 The United Nations Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan has recommended the lifting of the unilateral sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe in line with the principles of international law. Between the 18th and 28th of October last year, United Nations Special Rapporteur, Dr Alena Douhan embarked on a 10-day fact finding mission on[…]
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