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Swedish Society Polarized Over Joining NATO

January 22, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, NATO, Russia

by Lucas Leiroz, published on BRICS Information Portal, January 21, 2022 This is a kind of scary follow on to Bruce’s piece below. Apparently Western (U.S.) propaganda is succeeding in Sweden. [jb] Western anti-Russian propaganda is having effects. In Swedish society, fear is spreading about the “risks” of a Russian invasion. As a result, the possibility of the Scandinavian country[…]

Washington Pumping Up War Fever

January 22, 2022 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, NATO, Propaganda, Russia, Ukraine

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Keep Space for Peace, January 20, 2022 It’s nonstop in the western media. The message – war with Russia is coming. An American friend of mine, now living in Russia, has two sons in the US Army. One of them said to him today, “your two sons are going to be fighting your beloved Russia.”[…]

National Endowment for Democracy Provided $1.2 Million to Kazakhstan to Help Spark Color Revolution

January 13, 2022 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions, Kazakhastan, Russia, US Incited Protests

by Jeremey Kuzmarov. published in Covert Action Magazine, January 12, 2022 There are numerous articles written on how these events in Kazakhstan went down. There are many different views published on respectable websites. There is a Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan claiming to have orchestrated all the protests around the country. Pepe Escobar says that there was a sit-room in Almaty[…]

What was Washington’s real agenda at Russia meeting?

January 13, 2022 UNAC Editor NATO, Russia, US Foreign Policy

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, January 12, 2022 When I was a union organizer with the United Farm Workers I twice served on a contract negotiating committee – as the note-taker. I learned that the very first clause negotiated in any union contract is the ‘Recognition’ by the company of the union’s right to bargain on behalf of[…]

Russia’s Demands Challenge NATO’s Threats

January 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy

by Sara Flounders, published on International Action Center, January 5, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin at his End of the Year Press Conference, Dec. 23, 2021, speaking to 500 domestic and international journalists, said the following: “We have made it clear that any further movement of NATO to the East is unacceptable. Is there anything unclear about this? Are we[…]

Ukraine: What Does It Have To Do With Black Folks

January 6, 2022 UNAC Editor NATO, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, Jan 5, 2022 “…it is imperative that everyone, in particular Black and working-class people, understand that not having an awareness of the interconnections of the “grind” (the struggle to survive in the U.S.) and U.S. white supremacist, imperialist policies, and not being prepared to commit to altering those power relations, ensures that[…]

The Escalating Crisis in Ukraine Poses an Imminent Threat to World Peace!

January 3, 2022 UNAC Editor NATO, Russia, Statement, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

Statement by U.S. Peace Council, January 2, 2022 For weeks, the U.S. corporate media have been shrill in declaring that Russia, having positioned tens of thousands of Russian troops on the border, may be about to invade Ukraine. U.S. State Department spokesmen have been threatening Russia with punishing economic sanctions if there were an invasion. Daily, if not hourly, TV[…]

U.S./NATO threats heighten tension with Russia

December 31, 2021 UNAC Editor Fascism, NATO, Russia, U.S. Aggression

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, December 22, 2021 Washington has threatened economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia over the conflict with Ukraine and has raised the possibility of military action. In an interview with Fox News Dec. 7, Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker even discussed U.S. troop intervention and a nuclear first strike! Moscow countered with a series[…]

U.S. and Their Nazi Puppets in Ukraine Threaten War with Russia

November 30, 2021 UNAC Editor Fascism, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

by NOWG, published on Workers Voice, November 25, 2021 Fascist U.S. War Profiteers Are the Real Danger, Not Russia According to Avril Haines, the former head of the CIA and current director of national intelligence, Russia is on the verge of invading Ukraine. This is yet another lie brought to you by the same people who falsely claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass[…]

The High Stakes of the U.S.-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine

November 23, 2021 UNAC Editor Cold War, NATO, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, November 22, 2021 A report in Covert Action Magazine from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine describes grave fears of a new offensive by Ukrainian government forces, after increased shelling, a drone strike by a Turkish-built drone and an attack on Staromaryevka, a village inside the buffer zone established by the[…]