Militarism

MLK: Beyond Vietnam to Ukraine

January 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, Militarism, Ukraine

by Rick Sterling, published on LA Progressive, January 16, 2023 n April 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an eloquent and stirring denunciation of the Vietnam war and US militarism. The speech titled “Beyond Vietnam” is relevant to today’s war in Ukraine. In the speech at Riverside Church, King talked about how the US had supported France in trying to[…]

Capitalists Wage Class War: Organize Resistance!

January 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Latin America, Middle East Wars, Militarism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy, War on the Poor

by Workers World Party, published on Workers World, January 10, 2023 Billionaire Warren Buffett admitted in a 2006 interview that he and his fellow billionaires waged class war against the workers. The U.S. federal government, representing the interests of the U.S.-based imperialist ruling class, makes it a global war against all workers and poor people and most nations. The U.S.[…]

How the War Machine ‘Recruits’ Poor, Oppressed Youth

January 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Militarism, Recruitment, War on the Poor

by Richie Merino, published on International Action Center, December 20, 2022 A Dec. 11 New York Times report highlighted how thousands of public high school students in majority poor, Black and Brown districts are funneled into the U.S. military’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program. Students are automatically enrolled and forced to participate as an explicit requirement without parental consent.[…]

US Imperialism’s Trillion-Dollar Fossil Fuel Gambit

October 25, 2022 UNAC Editor Germany, Hybrid Warfare, Militarism, Russia, Ukraine

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 21, 2022 The US-engineered sabotage of Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, as we shall see, aimed at guaranteeing the success of the US trillion dollar Ukraine fossil fuel war gambit to permanently substitute US-fracked Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) for Russia’s significantly less expensive fossil fuels. The US sabotage instantly eliminated[…]

Capitalism is Killing Our Children

June 22, 2022 UNAC Editor Gun Violence, Militarism, War on the Poor

by Betsy Piette, published on Workers World, June 17, 2022 It is incomprehensible that Washington politicians could sit through the hours of gut-wrenching testimony from the loved ones of victims of recent gun violence in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, and not be moved. Yet this seems to be the case. Speakers included Uvalde teacher Arnulfo Reyes, who survived[…]

Mass Shootings, Empire and Racist Copaganda Dog Whistles

June 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Mass Shootings, Militarism, Political Analysis, The War at Home, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 1, 2022 Two mass shootings in quick succession brought out the worst in Americans. The anger and grief were followed by the usual lies and pretense that violence here is somehow mysterious. Political leaders advocate state violence all the time, calling for new victims to be created here and around the[…]

The New Racist Consensus: Shootings In Buffalo Solidify The Consensus

May 18, 2022 UNAC Editor Militarism, Racism, Ukraine, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, May 18, 2022 The latest mass shooter in Buffalo, New York was clearly a racist, and identified with Ukrainian and other neo-Nazis. But white supremacy has a stronger hold on European and U.S. society than is commonly acknowledged. The avowed racist is not the only problem. The incidents of mindless, mass carnage[…]

Marginalized Students Pay the Price of Military Recruitment Efforts

May 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Recruitment, War on the Poor

by Roberto Camacho, published on Prism, April 18, 2022 With pandemic restrictions easing, military recruiters are returning to high school campuses while anti-recruitment efforts struggle This is a good reminder that recruitment among young people is becoming increasingly aggressive. counter-recruitment is not only increasingly necessary but increasingly challenging. Here in upstate NY we used to be able to get into[…]

Fabricating Putin Quotes and Banning Paraplegic Athletes To Undermine Russia

April 22, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Militarism, NATO, Propaganda, Russia, US Hypocrisy

by Rick Sterling, published on Antiwar.com, April 8, 2022 Mobilizing a population to vilify and hate a targeted enemy is a tactic that leaders have used since before the dawn of human history, and it is being used to demonize Russia and Vladimir Putin in the current conflict. If we want to join the march to war, we can join[…]

Leaking Massive Red Hill Jet Fuel Tanks Will Not Be Closed Anytime Soon

April 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Militarism, Poisoning the Environment, Toxic Chemicals

by Ann Wright, published on Popular Resistance, April 15, 2022 Don’t Get Your Hopes Up! On March 7, 2022 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the defueling and closure of the 80-year-old leaking 250 million gallon jet fuel tanks at Red Hill on the island of O’ahu, Hawai’i. The order came 95 days after a catastrophic 19,000-gallon leak of jet fuel into[…]