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Renewed Peace Movement Lauded As Protesters Marched in Washington, D.C., on 20th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion of Iraq

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Featured, Human Rights, Protest

by Julie Varughese, published on Towards Freedom, March 21, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C.—An estimated couple of thousand of people to “several thousand” marched on March 18 in downtown Washington D.C., calling for an end to the U.S. imperialist project that they hold responsible for 20 years of a “War on Terror” on millions of people. The weekend marked the 20th anniversary[…]

Protesters to CNN: Don’t Be a Pentagon Stenographer!

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, Protest

by Marcy Winograd, published on the LA Progressive, March 20, 2023 CNN locked its front door during Saturday’s, March 18th, anti-war protest in front of the network’s towering Hollywood building, where hundreds of ethnically diverse demonstrators, young, old and in between, called on CNN to stop parroting Pentagon propaganda about an “unprovoked” war in Ukraine and to feature guests who[…]

China, COVID Origins and War Propaganda

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Asia Pivot, Bioweapons, China, Hybrid Warfare, Propaganda, Public Health, Weaponized Information

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 15, 2023 A human cause of covid-19 is possible, but anti-China rhetoric is war propaganda, not scientific evidence. “I was the first governor to take action to ban Tik Tok here in our state and we saw over two dozen different states take action and congress after that. So we’re thankful[…]

Supporting New U.S. bases in the Philippines Isn’t an Option

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia, Asia Pivot, The Philippines, US Foreign Bases, US Military

by Bernadette Ellorin and Azadeh Shahshahani, published in The Progressive, March 20, 2023 The Philippines remains the largest recipient of U.S. military aid in the Indo-Pacific region, having received more than $1.14 billion in funding from 2015 to 2022. These bases were used in every major U.S. war in the twentieth century, as well as serving as “rest and recreation” sites[…]

The Not-So-Winding Road from Iraq to Ukraine

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Diplomacy, Imperialism, Iraq, Militarism, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 15, 2023 March 19th marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the short history of the 21st century not only continues to plague Iraqi society to this day, but it also looms large over the current crisis in Ukraine, making it impossible[…]

‘Feed the People, Not the U.S. War Machine!’

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Protest

by Richie Merino, published on Workers World, March 22, 2022 Just days after the Biden administration proposed an egregious $900 billion military budget, the Federal Reserve printed $300 billion to bail out two banks that were “too big to fail.” Let me be clear: this is a bailout for the rich, a bailout for Silicon Valley tech companies, venture capital[…]

On the 20th Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq It Must be Clear

March 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Black Liberation Movement, Iraq, NATO, The War at Home, U.S. Aggression

The U.S. Is the Greatest Threat to World Peace and Collective Humanity by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, March 15, 2023 History teaches that the greatest threat to peace today is the United States. No other nation creates dangers as great as those emanating from the U.S. commitment to the doctrine of Full Spectrum Dominance. As anti-imperialist and Anti-war activists[…]

Protesters Charged With Terrorism in Atlanta

March 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Militarized Police, Police Brutality, Political Corruption, Poverty, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home, Violence Against Protesters

News by People’s Dispatch, March 18, 2023 At least 23 protesters have been charged with domestic terrorism amid a week of action against the construction of “Cop City” in Atlanta, a proposed $90 million police training complex. Atlanta police detained 35 people and arrested 23 on the night of March 5, they claim, for vandalism against the Cop City construction[…]

How The United States Is Preparing For Imminent War With China

March 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Audio Podcast, China

By Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, March 13, 2023 US aggression toward China is escalating and China is shedding its usual restraint to more clearly call out this aggression and warn the US not to overstep its red lines. Clearing the FOG speaks with K. J. Noh, an activist, journalist and scholar on the geopolitics of the Asian continent.[…]

Liquified Natural Cash

March 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Capitalism, Economics

How Methane Exports Reverse Climate Progress, Harm Consumers and Endanger Communities The problem analysis here is very informative. The policy recommendations, however, are framed as “President Biden should” do this; “President Biden should” do that. Of course, President Biden will not do any of these things, and if he appeared to do so, it would be a “feint” because President[…]