Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Jonathan Kuttab, published on FOSNA Website, January 17, 2025 We need to report this though it is not directly about Syria. I like this article because it focuses on the details of the present interaction and what it leaves open. [jb] It looks as if there will finally be a ceasefire and hostage deal, set to begin this Sunday.[…]
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by Ashjan Ajour, published on Truthout, January 9, 2024 Palestinian universities, powerful resistance sites, are forced to contend with settler violence and segregation walls. Israel’s long-standing assault on Palestine’s education sector is so severe that it has earned a label: scholasticide. In Gaza, the devastation has been catastrophic: Israel destroyed 80 percent of schools in the Strip and bombed all[…]
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by Marjorie Cohen, published on Popular Resistance , January 4, 2025 (originally published on Truthout) Editor’s Note: Our elected officials ignore our concerns, and dismiss our demands. Time to up the ante! The issue of genocide is too big to let them off. “We Have to Act.” Plaintiff Tarik Kanaana says the lawsuit “has given people something to rally[…]
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by Jeremy Salt, published on Palestine Chronicles, January 1, 2024 Israel’s latest actions in Gaza, from setting up a holiday village for soldiers to the destruction of hospitals, highlight a grotesque disconnection from human suffering. The real news of the day is not that the Israeli army has set up a holiday village for tired soldiers on the coast of[…]
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By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein, published on Workers World, December 20, 2024 A Venezuelan international relations expert, Rodriguez Gelfenstein was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country’s ambassador to Nicaragua and an adviser for international politics for TeleSUR. Translation: John Catalinotto. Dec. 18 – The situation in Syria has generated more[…]
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by Paul Larudee, published on Dissident Voice, December 16, 2024 For most of the time since its 1946 independence from France, Syria has resisted all attempts to make it a vassal state. It has paid dearly, as a target of subversion, war, occupation and the most onerous economic sanctions in the world, for its anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism, its support for[…]
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by Susan Abulhawa, published on Workers World, December 6, 2024 The following remarks by Palestinian-American writer and activist Susan Abulhawa were delivered during a debate sponsored by the Oxford Union, Nov. 28, 2024, on the motion: “This house believes Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide.” The motion was carried by an overwhelming majority of 278-59. Most members of[…]
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Syria Support Movement Statement, published on syriasupportmovement.org, December 3, 2024 The Syria Support Movement stands with the people of Syria and its democratically-elected government, led by President Bashar al-Assad, in the face of the current aggression by terrorist mercenaries of HTS, the latest iteration of Al Qaeda, and by the Free Syrian Army, both of which are foot soldiers of[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 27, 2024 The International Criminal Court finally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, but this action is merely performative. If arrest warrants do not include war criminals like Joe Biden and other U.S. officials, they are ultimately empty attempts to maintain a semblance of legitimacy. After months of procedural stalling, allegations of sexual harassment[…]
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by Martha Grevatt, published on Workers World, November 20, 2024 For over a year, the capitalist media has falsely portrayed Israel’s genocidal war against the people of Palestine as a war between Israel and Hamas, the resistance group that launched the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. The Flood was a heroic challenge to apartheid conditions imposed on Palestinians since[…]
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