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2019 Defense Budget Supports 883 Overseas Bases And Is Lethal To Humanity

September 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, US Foreign Bases

Above photo: http://damwest.com/department-of-defense-grant-and-agreement-regulations/ by Lynn Petrovich, Originally published on Popular Resistance, September 22, 2018 My grandfathers were both veterans of World War One. Vincent Coen, my maternal grandfather, was a sailor aboard The SS Leviathan, which transported over 119,000 US troops across the Atlantic to France. William J. Reddan, my paternal grandfather, was Captain of Company B, 114th infantry, and was[…]

Debate on Nicaragua: Capitalist Reform or Socialist Revolution?

September 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Revolution, Socialism

A protester in Masaya holds a cartoon likening Ortega to the former dictator Somoza. by Jeff Mackler, originally published on Socialist Action, September 23, 2018 Part II. (Part I appeared in August 2018.) In today’s epoch of worldwide imperialist intervention and war, real revolutions are hard to make, even harder to maintain, and sometimes difficult to define in their evolution[…]

Demonization of Russia in a New Cold War Era

September 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Russia

Featured Image: It is time for political leaders and each individual to move us back from the brink of catastrophe to begin to build relationships with our Russian brothers and sisters.(Photo: U.S. Department of Defense/flickr/cc) by Mairead Maguire, from Common Dreams, September 14, 2018 In examining the future, we must look to the past. As we watch the media today,[…]

Washington’s Long War on Syria Isn’t About to End

September 29, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Imperial Wars

Featured Image from SyrianCivilWarMap.com Washington’s Long War on Syria Isn’t About to End: On the Contrary, the White House Has Blessed Pentagon Plans for More Aggression By Stephen Gowans, from Whats Left, September 10, 2018 The United States has a new strategy for Syria, according to The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. The new direction, however, is simply[…]

Hurricane Florence Delivers a Stark Antiwar Message

September 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Ending War, Environment, Militarism

by Nick Mottern, from Buzzflash @ Truthout.org “Hurricane Florence, a storm whose size, intensity and destructive potential is directly related to climate change, continues its rampage in the Carolinas, bringing ashore not only high winds, but record-breaking flooding that will incapacitate the region for months, if not years,” said Truly Courageous, of the National Weather Service Hurricane Center. “We are[…]

All Wars are Illegal, So What Do We Do About It?

September 25, 2018 UNAC Editor International Law, Militarism, Resistance

Photo: Getty Images by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, from Popular Resistance Every war being fought today is illegal. Every action taken to carry out these wars is a war crime. In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact or Pact of Paris was signed and ratified by the United States and other major nations that renounced war as a way to resolve[…]

The Deal that Lurks Behind the Calm

September 18, 2018 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Rights of Opressed Peoples

A family warms themselves on a fire outside their makeshift home during a power cut in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Khalil Hamra | AP US, Israel Seek to Exploit Palestinian Divisions and Create More of Them by Hisham H. Ahmed, Ph.D, originally published on MintPress News, September 12, 2018 OCCUPIED PALESTINE — (Analysis) This article is not written to support[…]

US Left is Being Left Behind

September 18, 2018 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Diplomacy, Trade Wars

Map From Business Insider: Inside the Belt and Road, China’s Mega Project that is linking 70 countries across Asia, Europe and Africa (and by the way, they are in South America as well). Based on December 2015 data. ~Reuters by Kevin Zeese and Dr. Margaret Flowers, published in Counterpunch, August 30, 2018 The United States has a long history of[…]

On the Brink with Russia in Syria Again, 5 Years Later

September 14, 2018 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Featured, Political Analysis, Syria

White Helmet activists in Khan Sheikhoun made a video of themselves collecting evidence at the site of the execution of the supposed sarin gas attack. It is notable that they are not wearing adequate protective gear. By Ray McGovern, originally published on Consortium News, September 12, 2018 he New York Times, on September 11, 2013, accommodated Russian President Vladimir V.[…]

Seventeen years after 9/11: From “war on terror” to “great power conflict”

September 14, 2018 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Political Analysis, Syria

by Andre Damon, published on World Socialist Website, September 12, 2018 Seventeen years after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks—which became the official pretense for the “war on terror” and a series of bloody conflicts that cost the lives of at least one million people—Washington is on the verge of launching a massive new military offensive in Syria in defense[…]