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NYT’s Warmonger Bret Stephens Says the U.S. Must Attack Iran: Some Necessary Iran-US history

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Censorship and Propaganda, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Joseph Palermo, published on Socialist Action, October 8, 2024 Reprinted from The LA Progressive [Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler: We reprint below Joseph Polermo’s Los Angeles Progressive factual account obliterating NYT’s rightwing editorialist Bret Stephen’s call for a punishing US war against Iran for its recent retaliatory firing of missiles on the genocidal Zionist Israeli entity. Polermo more than adequately[…]

Fascism and War Cannot Be Voted Out

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Capitalism, Censorship and Propaganda, Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Imperial Lies and Liars, Protest, Racism, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

by Ellen Isaacs, published on Countercurrents, September 23, 2024 Editor’s Note: Another much needed perspective that has been in the queue for too long. [jb] Many progressive friends declare they will “hold their nose” and vote for Harris, if only to prevent Trump from instituting fascism. “Bad as she is” – intolerable on Palestine, flipflopping on the environment and health[…]

Censorship, War Propaganda and Fascism

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Fascism, Genocide, Imperialism, Iran, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 16, 2024 The U.S. edges closer to hot war and continues aiding and abetting a genocide. Censorship and war propaganda are necessary tools when a rogue state chooses to silence its opponents. The F-word of the moment is fascism. Establishment pundits, Democratic Party politicians, and corporate media are of one accord[…]

The Legacy of Martyr Nasrallah and the Zionist Massacre That Won’t Crush Resistance

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Colonialism, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, Revolution, Syria

Statement from The Bronx Antiwar Coalition, published on Workers World, September 30, 2024 Editor’s note: Some time has passed since this was first published, but I think it is increasingly pertinent as the impact of the initial disaster falls away. Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a deeply buried underground bunker along with some other leaders of Hezbollah and more than[…]

We Must Not Surrender to Totalitarianism

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Censorship and Propaganda, Colonialism, Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lawfare, Palestine, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, The War at Home, Violence Against Protesters

Statement from Black Alliance for Peace, October 17, 2024 Resistance to Oppression is a Human Right The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) recognizes that we are in a moment of increased and increasingly dangerous political repression. Peoples’ resistance to oppressive, militaristic, and genocidal policies enacted by the U.S. national security apparatus are once again being met with persecution, marginalization, violence,[…]

The Beginning of the End of Israel

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, International Institutions, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Racism, United Nations, US Hypocrisy, US Intervention, War Crimes, War on the Poor

by Craig Mokhiber, published on Mondoweiss, October 8, 2024 One year later the flames of genocide still burn, but after decades of persecution and bloodshed we may well be seeing the beginning of the end of the settler-colonial project in Palestine. We have reached a grim milestone. A full year of gruesome Israeli mass murder. A year of epic Palestinian[…]

Solidarity With Samidoun And Khaled Barakat, Designated As ‘Terrorists’

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Lawfare, Legal Struggles, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, Violence Against Protesters, Zionism

by Dalal Zainabi and Saheli Chowdhury, published on The Orinoco Tribune, October 16, 2024 Editor’s note: Aside from the domestic political implications of this bizarre decision, we can consider the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, often without charge, brutally tortured in many cases, and suffering unlimited sentences. The one organization that openly supports them across the Western world[…]

Five Things We’ve Learned Since October 7

October 11, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, U.S. Aggression

by Noura Erakat, Published on Mondoweiss, October 8, 2024 Editor’s Note: This is the transcript of a speech delivered by Noura Erakat on August 30, 2024 in Chicago as part of a panel titled, “All Eyes on Palestine,” at the Socialism conference in Chicago. It is being repurposed here as part of the Mondoweiss Reflections on a Genocide series. It[…]

At Last: US Navy Was at Scene of Nord Stream Blasts (Danish Media)

October 11, 2024 UNAC Editor Environment, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, US Government Action

from Al Mayadeen, published on Global Research, October 9, 2024 According to Politiken, US warships were operating in the region with their transponders turned off. Prior to the explosions that destroyed the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea, US Navy ships were present at the location, according to a local harbormaster quoted in the Danish newspaper[…]

The Resistance Axis Evaluates The Field: Beginning a Second Year of War with Greater Confidence

October 11, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Imperial Wars, Iran, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Revolution

by Syed Akif Zaidi in Palestine, published on Countercurrents, 09/10/2024 An entire year has now passed since the Palestinian uprising of October 7. As we enter the second year of this war, it is important to take stock of the ways in which a year of war has changed the geopolitical situation and balance of power in West Asia and[…]