Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
By Eve Ottenberg, published on CounterPunch, April 16, 2021 Who can doubt that if Trump had won reelection, the numbers of people vaccinated against covid would be in the thousands, instead of Biden’s nearly 100 million? Who can doubt that the daily death rate would stand above 3000, as MAGA morons went about their business maskless and as it was[…]
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Statement by the Workers Voice Socialist Movement in New Orleans, La I saw this statement on the UNAC Discussion list. Great statement by workers in New Orleans. [jb] Millions go cold in Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Damascus, Syria What does the working class in these places have in common? Through military force, the U.S. government has seized oil and[…]
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by Martha Grevatt, published on Workers World, January 20, 2021 In April 2014 the city of Flint, Mich., made the fatal decision to switch its water supply from Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the heavily contaminated Flint River. Flint residents have waited almost seven years for the responsible parties — in particular former Governor Rick Snyder — to face[…]
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U.S. Peace Council Statement on the January 6, 2020 Events in Washington DC January 10, 2020 The deep political and social contradictions of the U.S. capitalist system, which were becoming increasingly visible to the people during the past few decades, and had come to the surface with the election of Donald Trump in 2016, found their most glaring manifestation in[…]
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UNAC Statement on the Right-wing Mob Attack at the Capitol Building While largely peaceful demonstrations against police killings of African Americans have been met by violent repression, the attempted takeover of the US Capitol by a white supremacist mob saw very light security and even collaboration. When UNAC organized a peaceful demonstration in Chicago at the NATO summit in 2012, there were[…]
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by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, January 10, 2021 Since the assault on the US Capitol on January 6 by right-wing Trump supporters, the fallout has been rapid. The Democrats, both elected officials and voters, were quick to jump on the impeachment train. Some elected officials are calling for Members of Congress who supported the events to resign and[…]
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by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Consortium News, January 9, 2021 Stop trivializing the term “coup”. It’s a real thing the US government really inflicts on other countries in a way that actually does topple governments and cause immense destruction. You cannot take over the US government with a small squadron of wingnuts. That’s not a thing. A coup attempt doesn’t[…]
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By G. Dunkel posted on Workers World, November 25, 2020 In March and April, over 22 million workers in the United States lost their jobs. So far, the stumbling economic recovery has brought 12 million back, but 10 million workers — 90% of them in the low-paid service sector — still do not have a job. A majority of these[…]
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by Lee Camp, published on Consortium News, October 12, 2020 Most Americans don’t know reality. They know their personal reality, but unfortunately their reality is thoroughly detached from real pure, uncut reality. For example, do they know that police across the country work with corporations to criminalize journalism? Do they know that large PR companies created a false reality to[…]
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by Gareth Porter, published on The Grayzone, September 13, 2020 I thought this was interesting not only because it is another nail in the coffin for Russiagate, but also because it is saying that a) voter databases are in many cases public information so no hacking is needed, and b) someone did hack our voter database info, not only the[…]
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