Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, January 31, 2022 So what are Americans to believe about the rising tensions over Ukraine? The United States and Russia both claim their escalations are defensive, responding to threats and escalations by the other side, but the resulting spiral of escalation can only make war more likely. Ukrainian President Zelensky is warning[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, January 30, 2022 This article, originally published July 12, 2017, by Workers World, remains timely in January 2022 as the U.S. threatens war at the Russian border with Ukraine and ramps up China-baiting in an attempt to break up agreements being forged between nations seeking to remain independent of U.S. imperialism. See also[…]
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Call from U.S. Peace Council, January 30, 2022 We must act now to stop the war with Russia over Ukraine, a war that would risk becoming a dangerous conflict between nuclear states. As people residing in the United States, we have a special responsibility to call upon the U.S. government to: Stop the war with Russia Stop the NATO expansion[…]
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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[…]
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by Manlio Dinucci, published on Workers World, January 25, 2022 I have to say that these actions may be a way to start a war, but this kind of grandstanding and showing off is not the way to win a war. Hopefully the former will fail and the context for the latter will never arise. [jb] “As a precautionary measure[…]
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by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, January 19, 2022 COVID-19 continues to spread with rapid ferocity across the United States. On January 14th, the U.S. surpassed 850,000 COVID-19 deaths. More deaths from the pandemic have accumulated under President Joe Biden than his predecessor, Donald Trump. Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s lack of competence in addressing the[…]
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by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, January 19, 2022 Managua, Nicaragua: Members of anti-imperialist organizations from around the U.S. traveled to Nicaragua during the week of Jan. 10 to observe the inauguration of President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo of the party of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN). Ortega and Murillo’s[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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