Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Kathy Kelly, published on Common Dreams, March 22, 2022 The United Nations’ goal was to raise more than $4.2 billion for the people of war-torn Yemen by March 15. But when that deadline rolled around, just $1.3 billion had come in. “I am deeply disappointed,” said Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. “The people of[…]
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by Dee Knight, published on Covert Action Magazine, March 16, 2022 “Shock and awe” was George Bush senior’s name for his “Desert Storm” attack on Iraq in 1990 – 91. A United Nations report described the effect on Iraq as “near apocalyptic,” sending Iraq back to the “pre-industrial age.” But it wasn’t enough. After a decade of sanctions against Iraq,[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, March 16, 2022 A seismic shift is sending shock waves through the global economy. The well-established capitalist disorder, dominated by U.S. imperialism and in place since World War II, is on shaky ground. Extreme economic sanctions imposed on Russia are dragging the whole world into a war that started long before the Russian[…]
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Statement from Sanctions Kill Coalition, March 17, 2022 The SanctionsKill Campaign is a broad coalition of social justice, solidarity, and peace forces focused on exposing the devastating impact of US sanctions on civilian populations globally. Sign the Statement: HERE Sanctions are not a substitute for war The current regime of sanctions against Russia is not a substitute for war, but[…]
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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 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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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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