Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Vijay Prashad, published by the TriContinental Institute Newsletter, July 6, 2022 If you like the featured image click the link above to view the original publication where there are many more. [jb] Over the course of the past fifteen years, European countries have found themselves with both great opportunities to seize and complex choices to make. Unsustainable reliance on[…]
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by Scott Ritter, published on Consortium News, June 25, 2022 The overwhelming hypocrisy of NATO laid bare. [jb] For a moment in time, it looked as if reality had managed to finally carve its way through the dense fog of propaganda-driven misinformation that had dominated Western media coverage of Russia’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine. In a stunning admission, Oleksandr[…]
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by Michael Cohen, published on Covert Action Magazine, May 31, 2022 This is an important article showing the depth of the conflict and what is really at stake for the future. Russia rejects GMO agriculture! While they are blaming Russia, the worlds largest producer of grain, for causing a ‘famine’ we see that Russia holds the key to avoiding future[…]
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by Kyle Anzalone, published on Antiwar.com, June 19, 2022 This isn’t big news, but it is an interesting counterpoint to the piece I posted earlier today from Covert Action. It is a sad story. Here we have the response of the utterly powerless to a calamity largely brought upon themselves (and millions of innocent Ukrainians). It is true, they[…]
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by Roger Annis, published on Covert Action Magazine, June 21, 2022 Far from condemning the national aspirations of Ukrainians, Putin defends them In July 2021, Vladimir Putin published a historical essay on Russia and Ukraine on the website of the President of Russia. The essay is a very informative read, written by someone with a deep knowledge of the subject.[…]
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by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, June 8, 2022 Chad, in the middle of Africa, is a landlocked country with 16 million people. It is one of the three poorest countries in the world according to the U.N., with the lowest life expectancy (54 years). With nearly half a million refugees living within its borders, Chad passed a 2021[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 8, 2022 The U.S. drive to dominate creates self-inflicted wounds and self-imposed crises. It also creates suffering around the world with only the most servile vassal states willing to do what Washington wants. The United States continues to shoot itself in the foot in its futile effort to damage the Russian economy.[…]
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by Shan Jie and Fan Wei, published in Global Times, May 24, 2022 The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has led to a global food crisis, at a time of climate change, pollution, and other threats to the food supply. In the predictable future, food problems will be a permanent fixture in the world, while conflicts arising from “wars on[…]
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By Richard Falk, published on Counterpunch, May 20, 2022 Interesting analysis of the realities of international politics. Interests, boundaries and relative strength are highly relevant to international negotiations. The structure of the United Nations is as significant as the rules. Westphalian refers to a treaty from 1649 that secured the peace through recognition of national boundaries. Interestingly, I found a[…]
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by Richard Ochs, published on Covert Action Magazine, May 18, 2022 In any war, the first casualty is truth. Here are the biggest lies: 1. “Ukraine is a democracy” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky banned all opposition parties and banned the use of Russian as a second state language. Why did he violate his 2019 campaign promise to stop the genocidal[…]
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