International Law

U.S. Legally Owes Nicaragua Reparations, But Still Refuses to Honor 1986 ICJ Ruling

July 13, 2023 UNAC Editor International Law, Nicaragua, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Revolution

by Ben Norton, published on Black Agenda Report, July 5, 2023 (originally published on Geopolitical Economy Report, June 28, 2023) The International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled in 1986 that the US government had violated international law in its attacks on Nicaragua and that it owed the Central American nation reparations. June 27, 2023 was the 37th anniversary[…]

Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government To Conceal Source of Syria’s Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis

July 2, 2023 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, International Law, Propaganda, Syria, Terrorism, U.S. Aggression, US Government Action, US Incited Protests

by Jeremey Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, June 30, 2023 Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and incredibly brazen theft by U.S. forces of 66,000 barrels of Syrian oil per day (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back to the stone age. Following a devastating earthquake in February[…]

Reflections Upon the 1986 Case of Nicaragua v. US

June 28, 2023 UNAC Editor International Institutions, International Law, Nicaragua, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, US Foreign Policy

by Dan Kovalik, published on Tortilla Con Sal, June 26, 2023 It has now been 37 years since the landmark decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case of Nicaragua v. United States. Seven different US Presidents, some Republican and some Democrat, have sat in the White House since then. Yet sadly, the debt owing on that[…]

Putin, South Africa and the International Criminal Court

June 8, 2023 UNAC Editor International Law, Lawfare, Russia

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 31, 2023 The West has deployed the International Criminal Court in the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. On March 17, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted and issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova. They are the first and[…]

Scott Ritter Uncanceled: Rage Against the War Machine Speech (Updated with Video)

February 20, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, International Law, Nuclear Agendas, Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Aggression, War and Peace

by Scott Ritter, published on Scott’s Substack, February 9, 2023 [Note: I was going to speak at the Rage against the War Machine rally, scheduled for February 19 at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C. For personal reasons, I will no longer be speaking. In short, I have decided to take one for the team. I wish all participants and[…]

Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

January 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Book Review, International Law, Lawfare, Nicaragua, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Ukraine, Venezuela

by John Perry of Masaya, Nicaragua, published on the website of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, COHA, January 10, 2023 A review of the report Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, edited by Sara Flounders for the Sanctions Kill campaign and published by World View Forum.(1) Sanctions imposed without United Nations endorsement are illegal. That is why they[…]

Attempt to Try Russian Leaders for War Crimes is Part of the West’s Weaponization of the International Criminal Cour

November 21, 2022 UNAC Editor International Law, Lawfare, Russia, United Nations, US Foreign Policy

by Robin Philpot, published on Covert Action Magazine, November 14, 2022 International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it. The quote above does not come from President Putin of Russia or from President Xi of China. It comes[…]

Why Peace and Disarmament Are at the Heart of Nonalignment

June 17, 2022 UNAC Editor International Law, New World Visions, Nuclear Weapons, War on the Poor

by Kate Hudson, Produced by Globetrotter, June 13, 2022 As our world spirals toward the catastrophe of nuclear war, there has never been a greater need for a new global balancing, a rejection of great power war, exploitation, and aggression. Now more than ever, we need to reject the brutal unipolar agenda of the United States, the dividing up of[…]

On Russia’s Military Intervention in Ukraine

March 25, 2022 UNAC Editor International Institutions, International Law, Lawfare, Right Wing Extremism, Russia, Ukraine, US Hypocrisy, US Meddling in Europe, War and Weapons, Weaponized Information, White Supremacy

Statement from U.S. Peace Council, March 24, 2022 What we all hoped would not happen has happened. The Russian Federation sent troops into Ukraine on February 24 in response to decades of relentless US-led NATO provocation. The present situation puts many serious, fundamental questions before the global peace movement. A fierce propaganda campaign, long simmering with Russiagate and the onset[…]

The Illegality of NATO

February 9, 2022 UNAC Editor International Institutions, International Law, NATO

by John Scales Avery, published on Popular Resistance, February 5, 2022 Recent threats of war over Ukraine. Russia understandably fears the eastward expansion of NATO. Recently NATO countries, led by the United States, have supplied arms to Ukraine. There is a threat that the tensions building up in the region will lead to war. Such a development would be catastrophic[…]