Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
Kathy Kelly June 25, 2019 Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about how U.S. policies cause suffering and trauma far beyond U.S. borders. Her diabetic father, for example, is in danger of losing access to medicines because sanctions against Iranian banks make it nearly impossible to pay for[…]
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by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Published in the Popular Resistance Newsletter, June 23, 2019 The recent escalation of conflict between the United States and Iran threatens another US military quagmire that would create crisis and chaos in Iran, the region and perhaps globally as well as costing the US trillions of dollars. The US needs to change course —[…]
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By UNAC and Green Party Peace Action Committee, Popular Resistance, Published on Popular Resistance, June 22, 2019 UNAC supports the call from several member groups for local protests on or around the weekend of July 13 and 14 calling for No War on Iran, No U.S. Coup in Venezuela, End Sanctions Now, Bring all U.S. Troops home now. We urge[…]
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Published on Workers World, June 15, 2019, from the Editor The U.S. government is charging that on June 13 Iran attacked two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz — the Norwegian-owned MT Front Altair and the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous. The threat of yet another U.S. military aggression in an area already devastated by decades of war is very real.[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, Published on Black Agenda Report, June 19, 2019 Americans are, indeed, exceptional – the most gullible public in the world, always ready to believe their leaders’ lies. “The increasing closeness between China, Russia and their central Asian partners is a reaction to U.S. threats and aggressions.” The latest in the saga of the desperate empire is the[…]
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by Bill Van Auken, Published on WSWS.org, June 14, 2019 The Trump administration’s thuggish secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, made a presentation to the media Thursday afternoon in which he asserted that Iran was responsible for suspected attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman near the strategic Strait of Hormuz. These charges carry with them the threat[…]
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by Javid Heirannia, Published on Tehran Times, May 27, 2019 Note: Once and a while we should see the best side of regional initiatives. Yes, they have peace-building ideas of their own. . . . . but how can they implement them the pink elephant of U.S. intervention in the middle of the room. After a meeting with his Iraqi[…]
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Image from US Embassy Correspondence, Tiblisi, Georgia by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World and IAC blogs, May 21, 2019 May 20 — Another U.S. initiated crisis reached an ominous level this past week with President Trump’s announcement that Iran suddenly presented a new, unspecified threat, serious enough to send a U.S. Naval aircraft carrier battle group churning toward the[…]
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A war against Iran at this time would be a war against a stretch of the world that has seen too many wars in recent times, that would like to open the door to peace. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) by Vijay Prashad, from Countercurrents, May 8, 2019 On Sunday, May 5, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton announced that the[…]
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Photo by Lynda Howland At the Armenian Genocide Museum: The young girl spoke good English, and her non-English speaking parents just beamed with pride. The man on the left and the woman next to me (Lynda) are Delegation members. by Ann Wright, Published on Consortium News, March 14, 2019 (as “American and Iranian Hardliners Continue the Suffering“) We knew that[…]
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