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United National Antiwar Coalition

Articles by members and friends of UNAC. The views, opinions and positions expressed on this blog are those of the authors​ and do not necessarily reflect the positions of UNAC.

Democrat Zohran Mamdani and Superman the Movie: Billionaire’s Debate Damage Control as U.S. Opinion Increasingly Rejects Zionist’s Palestine Genocide

Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Socio-Economic Struggles, The War at Home, The Working Class, US Politics

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 25, 2025 As a teenage Superman fan of yesteryear, in the 1950s, I recall that Superman was described on radio as a “strange visitor from another planet.” I couldn’t resist going to my local Oakland movie theater to see the latest iteration starring David Corenswet as Superman. I was surprised. While the[…]

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Unilateral And Illegal Sanctions Kill Half A Million Civilians Per Year

Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Global Economics, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, US Government Action, War and Weapons

by Vijay Prashad, from the Tricontinental Institute,  published on Popular Resistance, August 1, 2025 Deadly Sanctions Are Mainly By The United States. A study in The Lancet estimates that unilateral sanctions have caused as much death as wars, with an estimated half a million deaths per year. Those who do not live in war zones or in suffocated countries are[…]

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Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not US Sanctions, Says Ex-UN Special Rapporteur

Abuses of Empire, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, United Nations, US Politics

by Marjorie Cohn, published on the LA Progressive, July 15, 2025 The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Note that all of Albanese’s recent reports are linked in this article.  [jb] The day after Donald Trump welcomed indicted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States[…]

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Message from Tehran: ‘Iran Will Resist, Will Fight Back and Shall Never Surrender’

Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Featured, Iran, Resistance, U.S. Aggression

UNAC and BAYAN (Philippines), along with our membership, organized actions across the US and around the Globe to protest Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran to and to support Iran’s successful resistance to those attacks.   On this site, we have listed 70 actions in around 65 different cities, and more than 250 endorsements.      The following messages from Global[…]

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Iran, BRICS, and the Dangers of Strategic Patience

Cold War, Iran, Iran, Israel, U.S. Aggression, U.S. Hegemony, US Intervention, White Supremacy, Zionism

by Tarak Cyril Amar, published on TarakCyrilAmar.com, June 27, 2025 Not as Antiwar as I would like to publish, but Anti-imperialist for sure.   This perspective is not new to those of us in the ‘belly of the beast’ who would like to see world emancipation. The recent – and certainly not last – massive and unambiguously criminal assaults by the[…]

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China is a Force for Peace and Progress, That’s Why the World Needs China

Censorship and Propaganda, China, Diplomacy, Middle East Wars, Propaganda

by Carlos Martinez, published on Friends of Socialist China,  June 27, 2025 Friends of Socialist China was among the organisers of a hybrid event in Portland, Oregon (US), held on 22 June 2025, discussing Kyle Ferrana’s important book Why the World Needs China. In his speech (delivered via Zoom), Carlos Martinez endorsed the central thesis of the book, arguing that[…]

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Book Signing on ‘Why the World Needs China’

Book Review, China, Paths to Emancipation, Political Analysis, Socialism

by Lyn Neeley, published on Workers World, June 27, 2025 Portland, Oregon A book signing on June 22 in Portland, Oregon, featured Kyle Ferrana, author of “Why the World Needs China,” Dee Knight, author of “Befriending China,” and Alder, who promoted Ferrana’s book at her Communist Party USA book club. The event took place in person and online. Ferrana read[…]

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Israel Seeks ‘Quick End’ to War as Heavy Iranian Attacks Pummel Major Cities: Report

Air Wars, Iran, Israel, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, War and Weapons, War Crimes

from the News Desk at The Cradle, Published on Popular Resistance, June 23, 2025 This report is nearly a week old, published the day after (written the day before) the United States bombed 3 nuclear sites in Iran, calling an end to the war between Israel and Iran, at least for the time being.   It is a critical snap shot[…]

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The People vs. The Abyss: The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal

Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, International Institutions, International Law, Israel, Palestine, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, White Supremacy, Zionism

by Craig Mokhiber, published on Defend Democracy, June 5, 2025 A people’s tribunal Almost sixty years ago, the world watched in horror as the US carried out brutal aggression and serial atrocities against the people of Vietnam. Those atrocities, and the apparent impunity afforded to the US in their commission, was, for many, too much to bear. Because no state,[…]

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