War and Weapons

Following US Pressure, Aid to Yemen Falls to Just 25 Cents Per Day

October 9, 2020 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Saudi Arabia, War and Weapons, War on the Poor, Yemen

by Alan MacLeod, Published on MintPress News, October 7, 2020 Home to what the United Nations has described as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” Yemen is on the brink of total disaster after five years of protracted war. Yet crucial international aid to the country has been cut this year to just 25 cents per person, per day, around half of what[…]

Masters of Space: Deep Space Strategy in the Age of Trump

June 28, 2020 UNAC Editor Militarism, Military Budget, U.S. Aggression, War and Weapons

by Karl Grossman, published on CounterPunch, June 25, 2020 The United States “must be capable of winning wars that extend into space,” asserts a just-released “Defense Space Strategy” report. It is the first space strategy document issued by the U.S. since President Donald Trump, after declaring that the U.S. must achieve “dominance in space,” signed a measure this past December[…]

Send Emails By May 20 Urging Germany: “Don’t Arm Your Drones.”

May 13, 2020 UNAC Editor Drones, Resistance, War and Weapons

by Nick Mottern, published on KnowDrones, May 8, 2020 The German Parliament is about to enter a decisive stage in the only public debate ever to be required by the ruling parties of a NATO-member state regarding whether to acquire lethal killer drones. Other NATO countries have blindly followed the U.S. and Israeli precedent without much public discussion. This unique[…]

Civilian Testimony: US Drones Continue to Slaughter Civilians

May 12, 2020 UNAC Editor Drones, War and Weapons, War on the Earth, War on the Poor

CJ Werleman, published on ByLineTimes, May 6, 2020 Background In what’s been described as a “rare admission” of culpability, the United States military acknowledged on Monday it had killed two civilians and injured three more when it carried out a drone strike in Somalia more than a year ago. “Regrettably two civilians were killed and three others injured in a[…]

Pandemics and War Games, Solidarity As an Antidote

March 21, 2020 UNAC Editor Biological Weapons, War and Weapons

By Stella Calloni on Resumen, March 15, 2020 The coronavirus, a new strain of the already existing one, whose mutation is being investigated has put the world between the solidarity and the misery of a dying system, capable of using the effects of a pandemic to impose a state of terror at a global level and to justify a stock[…]

U.S. Military Budget Seen From Italy

February 24, 2020 UNAC Editor War and Weapons, War on the Earth

By Manlio Dinucci posted on Workers World, February 19, 2020 Published Feb. 18 in Il Manifesto in Dinucci’s “Art of War” column, which examines Trump’s proposed military budget. Translation by John Catalinotto. The “Budget for the Future of America,” which the U.S. government submitted, shows what the Trump administration’s priorities are in the federal budget for fiscal year 2021 (which[…]

The United States Air Force at Incirlik, Our National “Black Eye”

October 21, 2019 UNAC Editor Turkey, US Foreign Bases, War and Weapons

by Brian Terrell, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, October 18, 2019 Current events concerning Turkey and the Kurds in Syria remind me of a conversation I had with a US Air Force colonel almost 17 years ago in a courtroom in Des Moines. To refresh my memory, I dug deep into my closet and dusted off the transcript of[…]

“Operation Brown Nose” U.S. Aids French Dirty Work in Africa

October 2, 2019 UNAC Editor Africa, Drones, Featured, Niger, War and Weapons

by Mark P. Fancher, Published on Black Agenda Report, September 18, 2019 The U.S. has gone extra miles to support French military efforts to protect uranium mining in Niger. “When U.S. economic or geo-political interests are in jeopardy in Africa, France is often regarded as the “go-to” country for a military solution.” Two years ago, four U.S. soldiers deployed in[…]

US Terror Syndicate

September 15, 2019 UNAC Editor US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, War and Weapons

by Finian Cunningham, published on Information Clearing House, September 9, 2019 A recent investigation has uncovered explosive evidence that the US is supplying weapons to terror groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. The finding blows the lid sky-high on Washington’s much-vaunted claims of “fighting terrorism”. Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva and her Arms Watch website have uncovered perhaps some of the[…]

Unwrapping Armageddon: The Erosion of Nuclear Arms Control

November 27, 2018 UNAC Editor International Law, War and Weapons

A view of the some of ground launched cruise missiles (GLCM) that will be destroyed in accordance with the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Forty-one GLCMs and their launch canisters and seven transporter-erector-launchers will be disposed of at the base in the first round of reductions mandated by the treaty. (1988) by Conn M. Hallinan, from Dispatches from the Edge,[…]