Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
ILWU Statement, published on Socialist Action, December 15, 2022 ILWU Must Stand in Opposition to the U.S./NATO-Provoked War! We, members and retirees of the ILWU, are very concerned about the Coast Committee’s public statement of March 3, 2022 on the war in Ukraine. It diverges from the many anti-war positions that our union has taken even when it was unpopular[…]
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by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action, December 19, 2022 War was inevitable outcome of 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview with Die Zeit, published on December 7, that “the 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give time to Ukraine. It…used this time to become stronger as can be seen today. The Ukraine[…]
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by Moon of Alabama, published Popular Resistance, December 10, 2022 Helmholtz Smith, Andrew Korybko and Andrei Martyanov have some thoughts about a recent interview the former German chancellor Angela Merkel gave to the German weekly broadsheet Die Zeit. Smith says it shows that the ‘West’ is not trustworthy. Korybko thinks the interview will prolong the conflict in Ukraine. Martyanov says that Merkel is stupid. She isn’t. In[…]
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by Ted Snider, published on Antiwar.com, December 7, 2022 The Ukraine war has caused some cracks in NATO. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it will break. [jb] The war in Ukraine is stretching the NATO alliance. The pull is still gentle and the cracks still small. But the potentially endless duration of the war, the economic suffering it has caused[…]
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by Diana Johnstone, published on Peace and Planet News, Fall 2022 (originally published, June 2014) This is interesting. Notice that everything that is happening now was foreseen at it’s inception. There was actually a meeting where the gauntlet was thrown down. [jb] NATO leaders are currently acting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron[…]
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by Robin Philpot, published on Covert Action Magazine, November 14, 2022 International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it. The quote above does not come from President Putin of Russia or from President Xi of China. It comes[…]
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by Uriel Araujo, published on InfoBRICS, November 4, 2022 POLITICO reports that, according to a US diplomatic cable, the sending of upgraded B61-12 air-dropped thermonuclear gravity bombs to Europe, formerly scheduled for next spring, is now planned for this December. American officials told this to their NATO allies in a closed-door meeting in Brussels last month. The new version is[…]
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by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, November 2, 2022 Very innocuously, the Biden Administration has ‘sensitised’ the world opinion that American troops are indeed present on Ukrainian soil in Russia’s immediate neighbourhood. Washington made a “soft landing” with an unnamed senior Pentagon official making the disclosure to the Associated Press and the Washington Post. The official gave an ingenious[…]
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by David O., published on Bruce Gagnon’s Organizing Notes, October 30, 2022 Just want to relay how much I appreciate and rely on reading “Organizing Notes.” Especially enjoyed your thoughts in the post, October 16, 2022, entitled: Seasons Change and So Did I. Your call for clear-headed analysis and incisive expression in this crucial moment we find ourselves in —[…]
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By Betsey Piette posted on Workers World, October 27, 2022 This October marked the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis — when the U.S. and the Soviet Union were on the brink of a global nuclear war. The current conflict between the U.S. and Russia, brought on by U.S./NATO use of the war in Ukraine to promote a broader[…]
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