Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Vijay Prashad, OpEd to Big News Network, published March 9, 2022 The war between Russia and Ukraine began much before February 24, 2022-the date provided by the Ukrainian government, NATO, and the United States for the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to Dmitry Kovalevich, a journalist and a member of a now-banned communist organization in Ukraine,[…]
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by Ilan Pappé, Palestine Chronicle, March 4, 2022 The USA Today reported that a photo that went viral about a high-rise in the Ukraine being hit by Russian bombing turned out to be a high-rise from the Gaza Strip, demolished by the Israeli Air Force in May 2021. A few days before that, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister complained to the[…]
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by Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, published on Dilyana.bg, January 24, 2022 I just noticed what was going on when I saw this tweet from Dilyana: The whole https://t.co/3Fu01l3f4o is currently missing from DNS, not only these files. All documents published by the US government here are not available anymore https://t.co/Gyl7cRs9iJ — Dilyana Gaytandzhieva (@dgaytandzhieva) February 26, 2022 A couple of notable points,[…]
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by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, March 11, 2022 While we are debating our own concerns in the antiwar movement about how to frame the US proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, the rest of the world is not staying silent. They have strong opinions, most of which are not flattering. [jb] What was the need for all[…]
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by Scott Ritter, published on Consortium News, March 7, 2022 Pity the Nation Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them… Pity the nation oh pity the people Who allow their rights to erode and their freedoms to be washed away – Lawrence Ferlinghetti In the past few months, the United States has undergone a kind[…]
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Statement from Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, February 25, 2022 The US and NATO created this crisis because they tossed aside the reasonable demands of the Russian Federation in two draft treaties submitted on December 21, 2021. One of the key demands was for a neutral Ukraine and a binding pledge that it would never join NATO. For his part,[…]
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by Lucas Leiroz, published on InfoBrics, March 4, 2022 Amid the abusive wave of sanctions against Russia due to the special operation in Ukraine, some specific rumors have caught the attention of experts, suggesting that there are plans on the part of the Western states to simply pressure to remove Russia’s permanent seat on the UN Security Council (UNSC). This[…]
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by Betsey Piette, published on Workers World, March 8, 2022 As the U.S. and NATO work to advance their war against Russia now breaking out in Ukraine, many countries who have experienced imperialist aggression — by the U.S., France, Britain and other NATO members — are speaking out. They are denouncing the impact of U.S. sanctions as acts of war[…]
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by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, March 6, 2022 Much to my astonishment I am getting emails from long respected ‘peaceniks’ passing on information that says there was no coup d’etat in 2014 (which was orchestrated by the Obama administration). The emails often suggest that there are also no Nazis in Ukraine. How is this possible that otherwise experienced[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, March 5, 2022 Surprise and horror have defined the reaction to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. That’s likely because although the intervention has followed the contours of a modern land war, it has also marked a break with the past in a number of ways. The world has become used to military interventions[…]
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