Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

The Big Business of War. A Clandestine Arms Market in Ukraine

by Manlio Dinucci, published Global Research, September 26, 2023 After his show at the United Nations, where he declared that “Russian aggression could expand beyond Ukraine,” Zelensky asked for more than a billion dollars from the US Congress. The Congress has so far allocated 43 billion in “assistance to the security of Ukraine”, i.e. for direct military purposes. Together with[…]

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The Economic Interests Behind the Conflict in Ukraine

by Roger Keeran, published on MLToday, August 10, 2023 Anyone paying the slightest heed to the conflict in the Ukraine can appreciate the utter falsity of the American narrative of its cause, namely that the dictator Vladimir Putin embarked on an “unprovoked” war in a bloodthirsty effort to restore the Russian czarist empire.   Alas, most Americans are not paying heed,[…]

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Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden Yes-Man, a Putin Apologist or a Peacemaker?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, September 5, 2023 Seems like at minimum, William Burns is a potential peace maker.  Perhaps the movement should reach out to him and explore possibilities.  [jb] Lost in a chaotic hall of mirrors of its own creation, the CIA has generally failed in its one and only legitimate task, to provide U.S.[…]

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Stop Sending Weapons to Ukraine!

Statement by the Chicago Antiwar Coalition, August 30, 2023 The Biden Administration is continuing its war against Russia using Ukraine as a proxy despite heavy losses by the Ukrainian forces and them not doing well militarily against the Russian forces. The Biden Administration is now having the U.S. government send another $250 million in military assistance to the Ukrainian government.[…]

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US-Backed Roll of the Dice Leaves Ukraine in Worse Crisis

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, August 16, 2023 Based on Biden’s own definition of U.S. war aims, his policy is failing, and it is hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers, not Americans, who are paying the price. President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight[…]

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Breaking News! Some on the Left Have Benefactors…

by Greg Godel, published on ZZ’s Blog, August 14, 2023 In June, I commented on a scurrilous article originally appearing in The Daily Beast and inexplicably reposted on the Portside website. Entitled, U.S Tech Mogul Bankrolls Pro-Russia, Pro-China News Network, the article accused several left groups of having not only received money from a benefactor sympathetic to the People’s Republic[…]

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No to US Cluster Bombs to Ukraine? US Out Now!

Cluster Bombs and A Brief History of the US-instigated Ukraine War By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 18, 2023 In yet another escalation of the US-instigated Ukraine War, the Biden administration’s decision to send internationally banned cluster bombs to Ukraine reminds us once again that U.S. imperialism accepts zero limits on its heinous and genocidal policies. Ukraine is[…]

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World Hunger and the War in Ukraine

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, July 19 2023 The header image gives a little perspective.  It says that Ukraine is not in the same class as Russia in terms of the amount of grain it exports.  In fact The U.S., Canada, Australia and France all export larger quantities of wheat than Ukraine, but significantlu less than Russia.   [jb] On[…]

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Veterans’ Group Responds To Biden’s ‘Cluster Bombs For Ukraine’

by Veterans for Peace, published on Popular Resistance, July 8, 2023 “Horrific escalation of the war in Ukraine.” Group also announces demonstration at Scranton, PA arms plant. Veterans For Peace and other U.S. anti-war organizations denounce the Biden administration’s decision to send cluster bomb munitions to Ukraine and they will hold a rally on July 22 at 11 am at[…]

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