Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
Header and photos all from Voices for Creative Nonviolence by Kathy Kelly, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, November 8, 2018 Over these past three days, Voices and a coalition of justice-minded organizations have been at and around the United Nations in New York City protesting the ongoing U.S.-Saudi attack on famine- imperiled Yemen. Details are available at www.vcnv.org along[…]
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by David William Pear, from CounterCurrents Blog, October 15, 2018 “Only God can save our children”, say Yemeni fathers and mothers as they can do nothing but watch their children die, try to comfort them in their final agonizing hours, and pray for God to spare them from death. The fathers and mothers watch and pray, as one by another their children[…]
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The United States, the European Union, the Arab League, Turkey, Canada and Australia have collectively taken measures since 2011, and the United States since 1979, to destroy Syria’s economy. The measures are illegal under international law, which prohibits states from using economic pressure, outside the framework of the UN Security Council, to coerce other states. With Syrians fleeing sanctions-induced economic[…]
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Protecting Russian interests in Syria and the Mid-East was and is the driving force for Russian military and diplomatic activity, nothing else! “The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world [….] No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity, much less dissent.”—[…]
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Photo | A young boy who lost his leg in the Yemen war uses a prosthetic limb at a rehabilitation center in Sanaa, Yemen, March 5, 2016. Hani Mohammed | AP By Ahmed Abdulkareem, Originally Published on Mint Press News, September 25th, 2018 SADAA, YEMEN — September is the month when students around the world head back to school and, despite[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, Originally published on Black Agenda Report, September, 26, 2018 Israel has bombed Syria at will, apparently with Russian permission, but that may change after the downing of a Russian plane. The American public is being force-fed dangerous lies about its government’s war policies.” President Bashar al-Assad has reconquered most of Syria from the United States-backed al Qaeda[…]
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White Helmet activists in Khan Sheikhoun made a video of themselves collecting evidence at the site of the execution of the supposed sarin gas attack. It is notable that they are not wearing adequate protective gear. By Ray McGovern, originally published on Consortium News, September 12, 2018 he New York Times, on September 11, 2013, accommodated Russian President Vladimir V.[…]
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by Andre Damon, published on World Socialist Website, September 12, 2018 Seventeen years after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks—which became the official pretense for the “war on terror” and a series of bloody conflicts that cost the lives of at least one million people—Washington is on the verge of launching a massive new military offensive in Syria in defense[…]
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The “Russians” had to be reinstalled as the “enemy” after Obama made his alliance with Islamist jihad. Trump has now signed on as Protector of the Idlib Caliphate. by Glen Ford, originally published on Black Agenda Report, September 6, 2018 “The so-called ‘resistance is the world’s phoniest ‘left.’” The Trump administration, just like the Obama regime, is willing to start[…]
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Editor’s note: This article is a little different. It’s a few months old and it contains some information most of us are already familiar with. But the way the events are strung together and the clarity of the message is timely and worth reading now. Caitlins’s podcast at the end of the article adds content, depth and attitude to the[…]
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