Civilian Casualties

US Lawmaker Revives PAGER Act Demanding Lebanon ‘ End Any Recognition of Hezbollah’

March 7, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Imperialism, Israel, Lebanon, United Nations

from the News Desk at The Cradle, March 5, 2025 On 5 March, US Representative Greg Steube reintroduced to Congress the Preventing Armed Groups from Engaging in Radicalism (PAGER) Act, which seeks to condition US financial aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) until Beirut ends “any official recognition of Hezbollah and its allies.” According to the text of the[…]

U.S. Post 9/11 Wars Caused 4.5 Million Deaths, Displaced 38-60 Million People, Study Shows

June 11, 2023 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Anti-War, Iraq, Libya, Social Impact, Somalia, Sudan, U.S. Aggression, War on the Earth, War on the Poor

by Ben Norton, published on Black Agenda Report, May 24, 2023 Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya and Somalia following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University. Originally published in Geopolitical Economy . The[…]

‘God Will Sort Them Out’: Ukrainians of Donbass Beg NATO to End War

May 26, 2022 UNAC Editor NATO, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

by Fergie Chambers, published on Towards Freedom, May 25, 2022 DONETSK, DONETSK PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC—The Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine reached its 90th day and the Western press continues to be inundated with unverified claims of war crimes Russian forces allegedly have committed. Accusations have been lodged against the Russian military for mass graves in Bucha, a narrative which has[…]

In a Syrian Christian Town Near Idlib

June 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Syria

Feature photo | Families grieving the loss of children killed in As Suqaylabiyah, May 12, 2019. Photo | Salm Photography by Vanessa Beeley, Published on MintPress News, June 5, 2019 On the 12th of May, 2019, Jaish Al Izza — an armed affiliate of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) — an Al Qaeda rebrand that controls the majority of Idlib[…]

Liberate Syria’s Idlib, Precisely for the Civilians

June 1, 2019 UNAC Editor Syria

Photo: Looking out from a factory in western Aleppo, just 400 metres from al-Qaeda snipers. © Eva Bartlett by Eva Bartlett, Published by Information Clearing House, May 25, 2019 Western media and politicians are crying for Al-Qaeda in Syria again. It doesn’t get much more absurd than this! After years of brutal occupation by terrorists from various groups and now overwhelmingly Hay’at Tahrir[…]

Every War is a War Against Children

April 7, 2019 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Middle East Wars, Yemen

Photo: Yemeni children huddle in April 2015 during bombing of a residential neighborhood. by Kathy Kelly, from Voices for Creative Nonviolence, March 28, 2019 ( This article first appeared on the website of The Progressive Magazine.) At 9:30 in the morning of March 26, the entrance to a rural hospital in northwest Yemen, supported by Save the Children, was teeming[…]

US War Crimes in Syria Exposed

June 12, 2018 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Syria

by Niles Neimuth, originally published on the World Socialist Website The United States committed war crimes of staggering proportions last year during its four-month-long siege of the Syrian city of Raqqa, demolishing up to 80 percent of the city with an unrelenting blitzkrieg of bombs and artillery shells that killed hundreds of civilians. The devastation left behind by the US[…]

Dear Salafist Wahhabist Apologists

April 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Propaganda, Syria

Paul has written a response to a rather insulting article by Mehdi Hassan that was published in the Intercept. Like many of us, Paul is disappointed by a certain thoughtlessness and lack of integrity displayed by certain articles on The Intercept. especially regarding Syria. ~Editor by Paul Larudee, originally published on Dissident Voice, April 21, 2018 Your head chopper heros[…]