Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Abdul Jabbar, published on Multipolarista, April 25, 2022 In 2012 I joined a peace delegation to Pakistan to meet with Drone victims. The delegation was sponsored by Imran Khan and his PTI party. We were warmly welcomed at a party event, where we met some of the people. I remember there were elections within the party for various positions[…]
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by Steven Sahiounie, published on MidEast Discourse, July 12, 2022 The UN Security Council has agreed to extend a system for cross-border aid to Idlib, Syria until January 2023. The US and its allies had demanded a year-long extension, but Russia used its veto on Friday. UN and other NGO aid delivery trucks will cross from Turkey into Syria at[…]
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by Kiji Noh, published on Organizing Notes, July 28, 2022 Good big picture analysis by Andy Boreham [in the video above]. But the “debt trap diplomacy” trope here is not just information warfare to attack and delegitimate China. It is to ensure that any subsequent government Sri Lanka (SL) breaks or reduces ties with China. SL is very likely a[…]
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by Roger D. Harris, published on Resumen English, July 13, 2022 While the political balance between progressive and reactionary states south of the Rio Grande continues to tip to the left, even the corporate press pronounced Biden’s June Summit of the Americas meeting in Los Angeles a flop. Most recently, Colombia elected its first left-leaning president, following similar victories in[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, published by the TriContinental Institute Newsletter, July 6, 2022 If you like the featured image click the link above to view the original publication where there are many more. [jb] Over the course of the past fifteen years, European countries have found themselves with both great opportunities to seize and complex choices to make. Unsustainable reliance on[…]
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by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, July 6, 2022 These are amended remarks given by the author at an event held by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute titled “NATO and Global Empire.” The event can be watched in full here . This year’s NATO Summit took place amid a geopolitical seismic wave crashing upon Eurasia: Russia’s special military[…]
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by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, June 21, 2022 Today, world capitalism’s neo-liberal globalization is best characterized as a new form of organization where global value chains have become the dominant form of production, employing workers for one out of every five jobs on the planet. From low to high tech commodities, basic consumer goods to heavy capital equipment,[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, May 31, 2022 Just how far is the U.S. government determined to go in the protection of corporate profits? For the past two years the Biden administration and earlier the Trump administration have blocked every effort to make medicines for the COVID-19 virus widely available. U.S. control of the patents has been ruthlessly[…]
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by Medea Benjamin, May 18, 2022 On May 16, the Biden administration announced new measures to “increase support for the Cuban people.” They included easing travel restrictions and helping Cuban-Americans support and connect with their families. They mark a step forward but a baby step, given that most U.S. sanctions on Cuba remain in place. Also in place is a[…]
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by Carlos Martinez, published on Popular Resistance, May 8, 2022 The Anglo ruling classes have gone into a state of frenzy over a recently-signed security agreement between the People’s Republic of China and the Solomon Islands. Various people who had barely heard of the Solomon Islands just a few weeks ago are now expressing grave concern that this small sovereign[…]
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