Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Betsy Piette, published on Workers World, June 11, 2024 Over 75,000 pro-Palestine protesters surrounded the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 8, creating a symbolic two-mile-long “red line” to call out President Joe Biden’s hypocritical rhetoric in May when he said he would withhold weapons to Israel if they launched an assault on Rafah in Gaza. Many people[…]
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by Jonathan Cook, published on Global Research, May 21, 2004 There is one thing we should all be able to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel’s war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, “absurd and false” and a “distortion of reality”. Here’s why: Israeli war crimes have been ongoing for[…]
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by Sam Husseini, published on the Institute for Public Accuracy, May 24, 2023 UN whistleblower Craig Mokhiber just posted on X: “BREAKING: The #ICJ has just ruled in favor of additional provisional measures in the Genocide case against Israel, ordering Israel to immediately halt its military offensive and other activities in Rafah and to allow aid and genocide investigators in.”[…]
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by Tareq S. Hajjaj, published on Mondoweiss, May 8, 2024 It’s a scene that has played over and over again in the southern Gaza city of Rafah since the beginning of the war: mothers with sad and pale faces carrying their children on their shoulders and in their hands, balancing many bags on their backs, surrounded by more children carrying[…]
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How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s War by Helen Benedict, published on Tom Dispatch, May 2, 2024 Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside[…]
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VCU USES HUNDREDS OF COPS TO BREAK UP PEACEFUL PROTEST by Phil Wilayto, for The Virginia Defenders, April 30, 2024 RICHMOND, VA, April 29 — At about 8:30 this evening, Virginia Commonwealth University put out an alert that a “violent protest” was taking place on the campus of the state’s largest public university. There was violence, but it wasn’t from[…]
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