Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, August 24, 2022 Of the estimated 1.4 million top security clearance U.S. personnel employed by one or another of the government’s 18 branches of its $81 billion annually budgeted “U.S. Intelligence Community,” perhaps one or two individuals each year are designated as “whistleblowers” and persecuted to the high heavens. Today WikiLeaks founder and[…]
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by John V. Walsh, published on Antiwar.com, May 13, 2022 Seeing the most prolific liar acknowledge the truth gives me a headache. Cognitive dissonance, has my ears ringing. I don’t know what to make of it. But, if they will never acknowledge the cause, at least it is good to see them note the increasingly apparent and deadly consequences. […]
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Statement from Veterans for Peace, February 24, 2022 Veterans For Peace condemns the invasion of Ukraine. Our mission remains the same. We are committed to a sustainable and just peace. As veterans we know increased violence only fuels extremism. We have watched, and in some cases been firsthand witnesses to how the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc.[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, from Globetrotter, February 11, 2022 On February 8, 2022, UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets. One of the tweets, which included a photograph of a child lying in a hospital bed with her mother seated beside her, said: “Having recently recovered from acute watery diarrhea, two years old Soria[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 19, 2022 One can’t disagree with Margaret’s words. However, leaving aside commentary on that hideous insulting meeting with black leaders in December 2020, you could replace the term ‘Black people’ or ‘Black voters’ with ‘ordinary Americans’ on every point. [jb] The idea that Joe Biden would provide harm reduction was created[…]
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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 Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 21, 2021 With great publicity, President Joe Biden called a grand, international Summit on Democracy for Dec 9-10. This gathering, held on Zoom, was hardly more than a Washington D.C., webinar with a few hundred well-chosen invitees and a well-controlled microphone. Biden invited 111 countries. He snubbed another 81 countries, representing more[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, December 8, 2021 “What about the Supreme Court?” Those words are used to thwart any discussion which questions support for the Democratic Party. The democrats maintain their hold on voters who would otherwise be rid of them by dredging up the fear of the federal judiciary falling under Republican Party control. The legal[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, October 13, 2021 Some provisions of Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislation benefit the masses of Black people, but this legislation is a bare minimum effort to blunt some of the sharpest contradictions of the system while attempting to maintain the neoliberal order. For more than a week the country has been caught[…]
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Statement by Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, September 29, 2021 The Cross-Canada Campaign to FREE MENG WANZHOU is very pleased that Madame Meng has been released after nearly three years of unjust detention in Canada and has returned home safely to China, to her family, and to her duties as CFO of Huawei, which employs 1300 workers in Canada.[…]
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