War and Weapons

Kamala Harris in Her Own Words

August 14, 2024 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Weapons Sales

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[…]

Nuclear Weapons Do Not Make Us Safe

August 12, 2024 UNAC Editor Nuclear Agendas, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Resistance

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[…]

Confrontation of NATO vs. SCO – Two Radically Different Summits

July 31, 2024 UNAC Editor Belt and Road, China, Diplomacy, Economics, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, War and Weapons

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[…]

NATO/US Complicity in The Relentless Israeli Genocide of Gaza

July 23, 2024 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, NATO, Palestine, Weapons Sales

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[…]

Similar to Biden, NATO Is Aged and Unfit for Leadership

July 15, 2024 UNAC Editor NATO, Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Bases, US Foreign Policy, War and Weapons, Weapons Sales

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[…]

From Napoleon and Hitler to … Biden, Macron and Stoltenberg! West’s new Russian campaign

June 30, 2024 UNAC Editor History, NATO, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, Weapons Sales

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[…]

The United States Is the Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine

June 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, War and Peace, War Crimes, Weapons Sales

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,[…]

Israel Invades Rafah and the Genocide will be Completed with US Complicity

June 2, 2024 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Weapons Sales

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, May 12, 2024 Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza as Israeli warplanes and artillery attacked overnight, following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order to seize the Rafah border crossing in Gaza. Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets in eastern Rafah telling people to flee and move to what Israel called a humanitarian zone to[…]

U.S. rejects China’s Proposal to Ban First Use of Nuclear Weapons

May 21, 2024 Judith Bello Asia, China, Diplomacy, Nuclear Weapons

by John Wojcik, Mark Gruenberg and Ben Chacko, published on People’s World, May 16, 2024, The U.S. has dismissed Chinese calls for a no-first-use treaty between nuclear weapons states, saying it has questions about China’s “sincerity.” The outright dismissal of China’s proposal followed a major speech in which Biden announced radical tariffs of up to 100 percent, on steel imports[…]

Campus Revolts Inspire Anti-Imperialist Solidarity

May 2, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Genocide, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, LandGrabs, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Protest, Student Activists, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, Violence Against Protesters, War Crimes, Weapons Sales

by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 30, 2023 Faced with the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in occupied Gaza that has claimed the lives of 34,454 civilians, with 77,575 people injured as of April 28, according to Gaza’s Palestinian Ministry of Health, and caused the displacement of over 1 million people, the solidarity with Palestine is evolving into a[…]