Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Koohan Paik-Mander, published on Organizing Notes (Space4Peace), June 26, 2021 This is really quite sickening. My first thought was a line from the old Joni Mitchell song, “Big Yellow Taxi“, “Pave Paradise. Put up a parking lot.” But, of course, it is far worse than that. They are turning “Paradise” into “Hell”. And we are paying our tax dollars, […]
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by Dilyana Gaytandhzieva, published on ArmsWatch, June 21, 2021 And you thought the war on Syria was pretty much over, but here we are. This is particularly interesting in light of the recent Frontline interview with Mohammed al-Jolani, head of Hayt-al-Tahrir (ie. Jabhat-al-Nusra, ie. Al Qaeda in Syria), who is now running Idlib Province in Syria which remains occupied by[…]
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by William Hartung, published on TomDispatch, May 25, 2021 Factoid of the day: $63 Billion has been laundered through Israeli Arms Aid/Purchases out of our tax dollars and into the pockets of arms manufacturers… Maybe the karma would be better if they just stole the money and skipped the death machine in the middle. [jb] When it comes to[…]
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by Danaka Katovich, Codepink, June 14, 2021 At some point before the summer of 2018, an arms deal from the US to Saudi Arabia was sealed and delivered. A 227kg laser-guided bomb made by Lockheed Martin, one of many thousands, was part of that sale. On August 9th, 2018 one of those Lockheed Martin bombs was dropped on a school[…]
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by Abdus Sattar Ghazali, published on Countercurrents, June 13, 2021 Pakistani officials have privately begun confirming a secret visit to Islamabad of CIA Director William Burns and are suggesting that he was firmly told that Pakistan would not host the spy agency’s drone bases on its territory, according to the daily Dawn. This comes after New York Times in an[…]
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by Chip Gibbons, published on The Jacobin, April 10, 2021 Former intelligence analyst Daniel Hale is being prosecuted for blowing the whistle on America’s drone program. It’s the latest in the topsy-turvy world of national security whistleblowers, who reveal illegal and immoral conduct by the US military yet face prison time as if they committed the real crimes. On Wednesday,[…]
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by Brian Terrell, published on CounterPunch, May 21, 2021 In its deadly attacks in densely populated Gaza, the Israeli Defense Force is employing a technique they call “roof knocking.” First drones fire small missiles without warheads on a residential building, intended only to shake the building before armed missiles destroy it minutes later. The IDF calls these “warning shots” and[…]
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by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Popular Resistance, April 19, 2021 US Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for America’s nuclear arsenal, tweeted the following on Tuesday: “The spectrum of conflict today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as[…]
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by Brian Terrell, published on World Beyond War, April 19, 2021 On Thursday, April 15, the New York Times posted an article headed, “How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan,” just in case anyone misunderstood the previous day’s headline, “Biden, Setting Afghanistan Withdrawal, Says ‘It Is Time to End the Forever War’” as indicating the[…]
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by David Swanson, published on Let’s Try Democracy, March 21, 2021 from Remarks by David Swanson at the Cold War Truth Commission The Cold War didn’t have a hard and fast beginning that transformed the world or that turned heroic anti-Nazi Soviets into Satanic Commies on a particular afternoon. The rise of Nazism had been facilitated in part by[…]
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