Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, August 21, 2024 An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of the delegates seem to realize that their country is on the brink of direct involvement in major wars with Russia and Iran,[…]
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by Sharon Zhang, published on Truthout, August 7, 2024 Editor’s Note: Thank you Mayor Suzuki. Your integrity is U.S. ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel is reportedly skipping an annual memorial ceremony for the U.S.’s atomic bombing of Nagasaki after organizers of the event decided to exclude the Israeli ambassador from the event due to pressure from activist groups. The U.S.[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 14, 2024 Kamala Harris stands with the corporate democrats who are committed to austerity and imperialism. No one needs to wonder what she will do should she become president. What did Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden do? President Harris would follow in their ignoble footsteps. “People have said if[…]
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Editorial, published on Workers World, August 13, 2024 When Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate, announced her running mate on Aug. 6 — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — there were probably more than a few sighs of relief. At least she didn’t pick Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a virulent Zionist who boasts of having once served in the Israeli[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 31, 2024 Rwanda weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), just as Israel weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Rwanda is the Israel of Africa. The two nations reinforce one another in a longstanding victims’[…]
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by Jonathon Cook, published on Middle East Eye, July 19, 2024 Women and children are being targeted intentionally, say Israeli whistleblowers. From ground troops to commanders, the rules of war have been shredded. They just keep coming. On the weekend, Israel launched another devastating air strike on Gaza, killing at least 90 Palestinians and wounding hundreds more, including women, children[…]
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Statement from the ANSWER Coalition in Response to White House and Media Lies published on Socialist Action, July 25, 2024 Editor’s Note: Jeff Mackler, Thousands of antiwar and social justice activists, supporters of Palestinian freedom, people of all faiths and organizations representing a broad spectrum of the US antiwar movement mobilized in Washington, D.C on July 24. We reprint below[…]
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by Neal Resnikoff, Chicago Antiwar Coalition (CWAC), July 25, 2024 It was inspiring to see the turnout of tens of thousands and excellent rally and march in Washington, D.C. yesterday against the invitation by the U.S. Congress to have Crime Minister of Israel Netanyahu speak. A goodly number of trade unionists wearing their union t-shirts and carrying logos participated. Many[…]
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by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Substack, July 25, 2024 Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, yet simultaneously very illuminating and revealing. The Israeli prime minister received no fewer than 58 standing ovations while speaking before both houses of Congress and spewing the most despicable lies you could possibly imagine in[…]
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by Ann Wright, published on World Beyond War, July 17, 2024 As Israel continued its relentless genocide on steroids of Palestinians in Gaza with over 140 killed in the past weekend, imprisonment without charges of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and destruction of the hospitals, universities, schools (8 UNRWA schools bombed in the past 10 days), cultural centers[…]
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