Antiwar

UNAC conference draws hundreds to oppose genocide in Gaza and a hybrid war against China – Focus on building unity in action

April 15, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Conferences, Featured

by Joe Lombardo, April 12, 2024 Over 400 antiwar, anti-imperialist and Palestine solidarity activists convened in St. Paul, Minnesota, on April 5, 6 and 7, in the first major conference of the U.S. antiwar movement since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Geographical representation ranged from Maine and New York to California and the Pacific Northwest, and from Minnesota to New Orleans[…]

Bar the War Criminals From King Day Celebrations

January 15, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Racism, The War at Home

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 10, 2024 Most Martin Luther King birthday celebrations are tawdry displays of political cynicism and cooptation. The people must recapture the day from war criminals and their Black misleadership puppets The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. His birthday became an official federal holiday in 1983[…]

Rome Peace Conference Declares: U.S., Allies Provoked War in Ukraine, Stop NATO!

November 10, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Imperialism, NATO, Neocolonialism, Organizing, Terrorism, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Meddling in Europe

Statement published on Workers World, October 28, 2023 Delegates from 40 organizations and individuals from 25 countries gathered in Rome on Oct. 27 and 28, 2023, to discuss the causes of the current war in Ukraine, the war’s impact on international peace, the dangers facing our people and the tasks of the movement for a fair and permanent peace. The[…]

Response to “Spinning Illusions: The Anti-American Left and the Ukraine war” – a New McCarthyism

August 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Featured, Imperial Wars, Paths to Emancipation, Statement, U.S. Aggression, U.S. Budget

by Joe Lombardo and Sara Flounders, published on UNACPeace.org, August 25, 2023 Recently, articles have appeared on the front page of the New York Times that smear Code Pink, The People’s Forum and TriContinental for allegedly taking money from an alleged Chinese agent. After the Times article was published, Senator Marco Rubio issued a statement calling for an investigation of[…]

Breaking News! Some on the Left Have Benefactors…

August 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, China, NATO, Political Analysis, Propaganda, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy

by Greg Godel, published on ZZ’s Blog, August 14, 2023 In June, I commented on a scurrilous article originally appearing in The Daily Beast and inexplicably reposted on the Portside website. Entitled, U.S Tech Mogul Bankrolls Pro-Russia, Pro-China News Network, the article accused several left groups of having not only received money from a benefactor sympathetic to the People’s Republic[…]

Can You Fight for Climate Justice Without Being Antiwar?

April 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-War, Climate Change, Cost of War, Environment, War on the Earth

by Teddy Ogborn, produced by CodePink, April 13, 2023 Can organizations sincerely say they are leading the climate justice fight without also being unapologetically antiwar? Short answer – no. Here’s why. We cannot end climate change without ending war. The United States military is the planet’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gasses and consumer of oil. The US military and[…]

The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking

April 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda, Diplomacy, War and Peace

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, April 3, 2023 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. – Matthew 5:9 In a brilliant Op-Ed published in the New York Times, the Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi explained how China, with help from Iraq, was able to mediate and resolve the deeply-rooted conflict between Iran[…]

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[…]

A Song for Julian: Lyrics by Dennis Bernstein, Sung by Francisco Herrera

February 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Free Speech, Political Prisoners, Protest

Great New Video from the Free Julian Assange Campaign! A Song for Julian: Lyrics by Dennis Bernstein, Sung by Francisco Herrera It’s a shame that they have classified this video to make it unavailable to show an embed. I suppose the restraint might be justified by the scenes from the ‘Collateral Murder’ video, but it’s also something they don’t want[…]

Protests on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Raise Hopes For Revitalization of Antiwar Movement

January 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Featured, Protest, Resistance, U.S. Aggression, War and Peace

by Dee Knight, published on CovertAction Magazine, January 25, 2023 Demonstrators in 50 cities ( 88 actions in 72 cities ~jb ) invoke King’s legacy in denouncing U.S. war machine It has been a year of nearly unprecedented war hysteria—remarkable in a country that has been gripped in continuous war hysteria for generations. The memories of mainstream media publishing major exposures[…]