Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine and Huthifa Fayyad, published on Middle East Eye, August 28, 2024 Israel launched its largest offensive on the occupied West Bank since the Second Intifada, attacking three cities – Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas – from land and air. Drone strikes were reported in the three cities as troops opened fire at Palestinians on the[…]
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by Sue Harris, posted on Workers World, August 23, 2024 Prior to October 7, 2023, Israel and the U.S. had a sweet deal. The U.S. sent Israel $3.8 billion each year to be provided through 2028 to maintain its Qualitative Military Edge (QME). According to the military experts quoted in the June 29 Reuters article, the U.S. must provide better[…]
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by Sharon Zhang, published on Truthout, August 7, 2024 Editor’s Note: Thank you Mayor Suzuki. Your integrity is U.S. ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel is reportedly skipping an annual memorial ceremony for the U.S.’s atomic bombing of Nagasaki after organizers of the event decided to exclude the Israeli ambassador from the event due to pressure from activist groups. The U.S.[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 14, 2024 Kamala Harris stands with the corporate democrats who are committed to austerity and imperialism. No one needs to wonder what she will do should she become president. What did Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden do? President Harris would follow in their ignoble footsteps. “People have said if[…]
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Speech given by Holly Adams at Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace 45th Hiroshima Day Commemoration, August 7, 2024 Nuclear weapons do not make us safe. In January this year, the Union of Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight, for the second year in a row, the closest to global catastrophe it’s ever been. It may[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, July 27, 2024 Two major security alliances held summits in July. Each summit consisted of a bloc of major powers and nearby countries. Both alliances hold military exercises. Each summit meeting included guest and observer countries. The two summits could not have been more different in tone and in purpose. The Shanghai Cooperation[…]
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by Ann Wright, published on World Beyond War, July 17, 2024 As Israel continued its relentless genocide on steroids of Palestinians in Gaza with over 140 killed in the past weekend, imprisonment without charges of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and destruction of the hospitals, universities, schools (8 UNRWA schools bombed in the past 10 days), cultural centers[…]
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by Medea Benjamin, published on World Beyond War, July 12, 2024 As NATO wrapped up its Summit and Biden held a crucial press conference, the media frenzy continued to focus on Biden’s age and cognitive abilities. Is he too old and disoriented to lead the “free world”? Was he able to get through his press conference without stumbling too many[…]
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by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, published on Defend Democracy, June 3, 2024 A European perspective on U.S./NATO aggression towards Russia. [jb] Napoleon campaigned in Russia and was crushed. The Western powers heavily intervened in Russia against the Bolsheviks (1918-21), only to face humiliation and see their own troops revolt. Hitler’s Germany attacked Russia and was destroyed. Their glory is apparently envied now[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, June 17, 2024 On June 13, Hamas responded to persistent needling by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the U.S. proposal for a pause in the Israeli massacre in Gaza. The group said it has “dealt positively… with the latest proposal and all proposals to reach a cease-fire agreement.” Hamas added,[…]
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