Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 23, 2022 It was nice to see the faces of the young cashiers at the supermarket yesterday. BUT… the number of US deaths from COVID passed 1 million on Thursday this week and continues to rise. [jb] Pollsters have advised Joe Biden to declare covid over. But the pandemic revealed all[…]
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by Daniel Tarade, published on Socialist Action, February 12, 2022 While the anti-mandate siege in Ottawa continued, Torontonians learned of a similar convoy set for the weekend of February 5, 2021. We anticipated thousands of people would converge in Toronto to spread a eugenicist message — that saving the lives of the most vulnerable from Covid-19 is not worth any[…]
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by John V Walsh, published on Popular Resistance, January 19, 2022 A twisted narrative by a paper unhinged by China’s success with Covid-19. In a lead article, on page one of the New York Times on January 13, Li Yuan an NYT reporter, has equated the public health and medical personnel behind China’s successful battle against Covid-19 in the city[…]
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by Greg Godels, published in ZZ’s Blog, January 7, 2021 It is often said that “the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members,” a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Nothing has brought that measure to the forefront like the two years of the Coronavirus pandemic. In an unusual circumstance, a catastrophe[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 5, 2022 The neo-liberal austerity model of governance ensures that Covid-19 will continue spreading and producing new variants. Only people focused public health remedies will end the pandemic. On December 31, 2019 Chinese media told the world about a newly discovered disease cluster in the city of Wuhan. What was thought to be a[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published onWorkers World, December 24, 2021 The ominous toll of 800,000 deaths from COVID-19, reached in the U.S. Dec. 14, confirms that health care for profit is more deadly than the virus itself. The U.S. has consistently had the most COVID-19 deaths of any country. (tinyurl.com/3nunmuv7) Since the omicron variant surfaced here Dec. 1, infection rates have[…]
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by Joe Lombardo, November 28, 2021 So now we learn that there is a new variant of the virus called Omicron. This, they say may be more transmittable and may be resistant to the vaccines that have been developed. This, of course, was predictable. They horded the vaccines for the rich countries, which meant the virus was allowed to run[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, October 20, 2021 The reason Nicaragua is labeled an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security of the U.S.” – a military corporate superpower – became abundantly clear to a delegation visiting the country Oct. 3 to 10. The delegation was organized by the Alliance for Global Justice/Nica Network. Nicaragua, a small[…]
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by Betsey Piette, published on Workers World, October 7, 2021 At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, panic buying seemed to create a shortage of different necessities, including toilet paper. Midway through the COVID-19 pandemic, housing prices started rising drastically, as demand surpassed supply due to shortages of construction materials. As students returned to in-person learning, schools found[…]
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by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, September 13, 2021 Between 2 and 4 million households, out of 80 million rental households, will lose their homes due to evictions in the next two months, according to a survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. This is four times as many as would typically occur nationwide throughout an entire calendar year. (Washington[…]
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