Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

UNAC Statement on the 2024 Presidential Election

by UNAC, November 6, 2024 In the 2024 Presidential elections, neither candidate spoke for peace.  The election was held while there was a US/NATO war with Russia in Ukraine and a US/Israeli genocide in Palestine and an ever-expanding war in West Asia.  The election was held at a time that the US is militarily encircling and threatening China and North[…]

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From the Phony Debate on Gaza to the Uhuru 3: The US/EU Commitment to Human Rights Has Always Been Lie

Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 18, 2024 State repression increases as the so-called democracies continue in a state of crisis. Only a people-centered human rights struggle can bring true justice and peace. “Instead of prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan, the anti-Semites, and reactionaries, the government is arresting anti-fascists.”  (Claudia Jones) Margaret Kimberley: I’m joined[…]

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Biden Calls on Trump to “Join” Him In A War Against Immigrants and Asylum

by Cristobal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, June 16, 2024 The June 4th announcement by President Joseph Biden that the right to asylum was all but over is a reactionary move by a reactionary administration. Ironically, 85 years ago to the day, the racist 1924 US Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, tragically refused asylum to close to[…]

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Struggling to Break the Gaza Blockade

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 22, 2023 Miles of semi-trailer trucks are lined up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing, waiting to deliver water, food, medicine and other essentials to Gaza. Longtime peace and justice activist Sarah Flounders recently traveled to Egypt with a delegation to push for opening the Rafah Crossing to let[…]

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The World Would Rather Show Solidarity with Our Corpses than Honor our Resistance

by Fathi Nemer, published on Mondoweiss,  October 24, 2023 Who is defending themselves [jb] For decades, the Israeli regime has upheld a brutal settler colonial occupation and siege of Palestine, controlling every aspect of Palestinian life. It has committed untold war crimes all across colonized Palestine, violating the rights of the population it controls. In Gaza specifically, in addition to[…]

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Israel, and the US, Bear Full Responsibility for the Ongoing Bloodshed!

Statement from The U.S. Peace Council, October 8, 2023  This is the Inevitable Result of 75 Years of Illegal Occupation and Brutal Violation of Palestinians’ Human Rights “We are in a state of war…. The enemy will pay a price like they have never known before,” declared Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, immediately after the beginning of the Hamas[…]

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Menendez Indictment Exposes the US-Egypt Weapons to Ukraine Dispute

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, September 25, 2023 Yes, more on the Menendez ‘scandal’.  There are a lot of angles here.  It’s rather entertaining.  [jb] US Senator Robert Menendez, (D. NJ.) temporarily stepped down from his powerful role as chairman of the Senate Relations Committee, according to Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer, following accusations of political corruption[…]

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The Struggle Against the Asylum Ban and US Imperialism in Latin America

By Cristóbal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, May 29, 2023 The new asylum ban that the Biden administration announced on May 11 in the wake of ending of Title 42, is cruel, inhumane and shows the reactionary character of the Biden administration’s immigration policy even as Biden continues traditional US policies aimed at subjecting Latin America to US neo-colonial control.[…]

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Human Rights Experts Call For Withdrawal Of Biased UN Report

by Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, published on Popular Resistance, March 31, 2023 BTW, I signed it too:)  [jb] Alfred de Zayas, former UN Independent Expert on International Order, has joined other human rights specialists in condemning an “expert” report on Nicaragua published on March 2nd as being unprofessional, biased, incomplete and concocted to justify further coercive sanctions that will damage Nicaragua’s[…]

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