War and Weapons

“Roof Knocking” in Gaza and the Myth of the Benevolent Drone

May 26, 2021 UNAC Editor Drones, Israel-Palestine

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[…]

The Rising Threat Of Nuclear War

April 24, 2021 UNAC Editor Nuclear Agendas, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, War on the Earth

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[…]

Biden’s Drone Wars

April 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Drones

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[…]

A Cold War Re-Education in 8 Minutes

April 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Imperialism, Nuclear Weapons, Propaganda, War on the Earth

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[…]

What a US Nuclear War with China Would Look Like

April 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Nuclear Weapons

by Andre Damon, published on the World Socialist Website, March 24, 2021 Former NATO commander James Stavridis and novelist Elliot Ackerman have published a book depicting how the deepening conflict between the United States and China could escalate into a nuclear world war costing tens of millions of lives. The book, entitled 2034: A Novel of the Next World War,[…]

Killer Reaper Drones Coming to the Pacific “To Counter Threats from China.”

March 30, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Drones, Militarism

by Ann Wright, published on Popular Resistance, March 27 2021 A Chinese military takeover of Taiwan is the top U.S. concern in Asia and the Pacific, according to the admiral nominated to lead the U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific combatant command. During his confirmation hearing to head the command that covers 51 percent of the globe, U.S. Pacific Fleet commander Admiral John[…]

18 Years Ago Today the US War on Iraq Began

March 20, 2021 UNAC Editor US Foreign Policy, War and Weapons

by Ann Wright, published on Consortium News, March 19, 2021 March 19 is the 18th anniversary of the U.S. government’s political decision to invade and occupy oil-rich, Arab/Muslim Iraq, a country of 32 million people. U.S. elected officials and their advisers decided it would be in the U.S. national security interest to attack and overthrow the Iraqi government. We saw how[…]

Death TV

March 20, 2021 UNAC Editor Drones, Propaganda

by Alex Adams, published on Global Research, March 10, 2021 For those of us who have no direct experience of drone warfare, popular culture is one of the major ways that we come to understand what is at stake in UAV operations. Movies, novels, TV and other cultural forms can inform our ideas about drone warfare just as much as,[…]

Day of the Drone

March 18, 2021 UNAC Editor Drones, War and Weapons

by Conn Hallinan, published on Counterpunch, March 16, 2021 In the aftermath of the recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, drone warfare is being touted as the latest breakthrough in military technology, a “magic bullet” that makes armored vehicles obsolete, defeats sophisticated anti-aircraft systems, and rout entrenched infantry. While there is some truth in the hype,[…]

Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars

March 6, 2021 UNAC Editor US Foreign Policy, War and Weapons

By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies, On February 25th, President Biden ordered U.S. air forces to drop seven 500-pound bombs on Iraqi forces in Syria, reportedly killing 22 people. The U.S. airstrike has predictably failed to halt rocket attacks on deeply unpopular U.S. bases in Iraq, which the Iraqi National Assembly passed a resolution to close over a year ago.[…]