Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
Lifting the Veil of International Human Rights Day: How Gaza Exposed the Oxymoron of Western Values and Human Rights by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2025 The genocide in Gaza has torn off the West’s human rights mask. This naked colonial violence demands a new path where rights are won through people’s struggle, not granted by[…]
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by Kening Zhang, published on Palestine Watch, December 4, 2025 On November 17, local time, thirteen green votes lit up in the United Nations Security Council chamber, pushing forward a text titled the “Gaza Peace Resolution.” The abstentions from China and Russia did not change the outcome: the resolution passed. Many Middle East analysts believe that this vote resembled a[…]
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By Dr Mahboob A Khawaja, published on Countercurrents, August 27, 2025 Egoistic Leaders against Peace and Humanity Authoritarian leaders propel insanity and dystopian supremacy using democracy to shield their crimes against humanity. A hybrid culture, part human and part vulture. The Arab-Muslim world lives in fantasy as puppets as paper boys claiming to be negotiating peace but cannot mold nor[…]
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by Craig Mokhiber, published on Mondoweiss, September 10, 2024 One of the many disturbing revelations that have emerged since the current phase of genocide in Palestine began almost a year ago, is the degree to which U.S. and other Western politicians are prepared to dutifully stick to a script provided by Israel and its Western lobbies, whether the script is[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, June 4, 2025 Despite shared language, culture, and religion, Somalis still struggle to become a cohesive nation. Somalia is a nation of roughly nineteen million people with territory roughly the size of Texas. Its highly geostrategic coastline is the longest in Africa, sitting at the intersection of the European, African, and Asian worlds. For centuries,[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, February 19, 2025 Every year, people around the world honor Malcolm X. Though he was taken from us prematurely, his memory and impact remain. With that memory, there is a mandate that we accept and carry on the legacy of his politics and the others who are the heart of the Black[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 27, 2024 The International Criminal Court finally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, but this action is merely performative. If arrest warrants do not include war criminals like Joe Biden and other U.S. officials, they are ultimately empty attempts to maintain a semblance of legitimacy. After months of procedural stalling, allegations of sexual harassment[…]
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Statement by Socialist Action US, November 14, 2024 The eyes of the world are riveted on Palestine. After 13 months of a genocidal bombardment and invasion of Gaza, and now Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran and Iraq, the Zionist state has killed at least 50,000 people, two-thirds of whom are women and children, leaving over 100,000 injured, and at least 10,000[…]
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I Was Just Suspended by Cornell University. Here’s My Story. by Nick Wilson, published in the Cornell Sun, April 27, 2024 My name is Nick Wilson, I am a second-year undergraduate in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and yesterday I was temporarily suspended from the University for participating in a nonviolent encampment on the Arts Quad. I was suspended[…]
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by Nylah Iqbal Muhammad, published on Mondoweiss, August 3, 2024 Friends of the Congo Executive Director Maurice Carney and Professor Eman Abdelhadi discuss the intersections between the genocides in the Congo and Palestine. Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo is an old friend of UNAC, helping to keep us in touch with an African perspective. To understand this is[…]
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