Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
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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by Joe Piette, published on Workers World, March 1, 2022 Tens of thousands of essential workers lost their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many were exposed when they were put in harm’s way to do the work providing the goods and services, so that corporate owners could continue to gather their billions of dollars in profits. The print press and[…]
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by Finian Cunningham, published on Strategic Culture, February 12, 2022 The Anglo-Americans are running a modern-day reworking of Operation Overlord, the June 1944 military invasion plan billed to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. This time around, the billed objective is to “liberate” the European Union from its “tyrannical” dependency on Russian natural gas. In reality, the unspoken objective is[…]
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by Paul Antinopoulos, published on InfoBRICS, February 11, 2022 Normally I might not publish something like this but I think we all should consider just how incompetent our leaders and their ‘diplomats’ really are. [jb] President Joe Biden called for American citizens in Ukraine to leave the country as soon as possible after revealing the potential for a “world war”[…]
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By Colonel Ann Wright, US Army (Retired), published on World Beyond War, February 6, 2022 We’ve seen this before. The U.S. creates a situation, digs in its heels and makes ultimatums—and tens of thousands die. I resigned from the U.S. government in 2003 in opposition to another war-President Bush’s war on Iraq in which followed that war playbook. We’ve seen[…]
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by Manlio Dinucci, published on Popular Resistance, February 2, 2022 The phone call between President Biden and Ukrainian President Zelensky “did not go well“, CNN headlines: while “Biden warned that the Russian invasion in February is practically certain when the frozen ground makes it possible for tanks to pass through”, Zelensky “ asked Biden to tone down, arguing that the[…]
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by Greg Godels, published on Ziggy’s Blog, February 2, 2022 Cuba, a country with a population roughly the size of Paris, France, poses no threat to the United States, except in the minds of the deranged. Yet there is a remarkable number of “deranged” people populating the upper echelons of US government officialdom, the foreign policy academy, and the media.[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 26, 2022 The 2014 U.S. sponsored coup against the elected government of Ukraine must be the starting point for any discussion of the current crisis. That crisis has been manufactured by Joe Biden, who was the Obama administration point person in using Ukraine as a means of destabilizing Russia. The corporate[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, January 19, 2022 President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would quickly remedy its worst impacts. As a senior member of the Obama administration, Biden surely needed no schooling on Obama’s diplomatic agreements with Cuba and Iran, both[…]
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by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, January 12, 2022 When I was a union organizer with the United Farm Workers I twice served on a contract negotiating committee – as the note-taker. I learned that the very first clause negotiated in any union contract is the ‘Recognition’ by the company of the union’s right to bargain on behalf of[…]
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