Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Mazin Qumsiyeh, published by Defend Democracy Press, October 23, 2024 Dear friends and colleagues The situation in North Gaza is beyond the word catastrophic:horror, massacres, extermination. People are shot on site as they even try to evacuate injured people, medical personnel are targeted, hospitals are targeted. No food or water allowed. Israel simply rejected UN and humanitarian organization access.[…]
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Statement from The Bronx Antiwar Coalition, published on Workers World, September 30, 2024 Editor’s note: Some time has passed since this was first published, but I think it is increasingly pertinent as the impact of the initial disaster falls away. Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a deeply buried underground bunker along with some other leaders of Hezbollah and more than[…]
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by Barik Ravad, published on Axios, September 18, 2024 Israel decided to blow up the pager devices carried by Hezbollah members in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday out of concern its secret operation might have been discovered by the group, three U.S. officials told Axios. Why it matters: The attack took place as tensions rise between Israel and Hezbollah, which[…]
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with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate, published by the Grayzone, June 11, 2024 Normally I don’t post videos as a primary source, but this is worth your time. In any case the Washington Post has run a hit piece against the Grayzone suggesting that those involved should be convicted of a crime for their analysis. This unimaginable attack on free[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 12, 2024 Israel is crowing about rescuing four people held hostage and killing more than 200 Palestinians in the process. It is typical behavior for the apartheid state but all of the pressure it exerts can’t end the scorn, contempt, and protest it faces all over the world. The Israeli government[…]
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Press Release, published on Workers World, November 12, 2023 Susan Abulhawa: +1.267.391.5386, Suzanne Adely: +1.773.510.7446. UNAC AC member Sara Flounders is in Egypt with this group, working to get aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing. Hopefully we will have a report-back from the scene very soon. We are an international delegation of writers, lawyers, journalists, activists, students and organizers[…]
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by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, October 6, 2023 October 6, 2023, Latakia, Syria: The Syrian Arab Army has shot down drones targeting the Syrian Military Hospital at Homs today, where terrorists had planned to kill the hospitalized survivors of the massive drone attack the Uyghurs had carried out yesterday, as well as target the flag-draped coffins being dispersed[…]
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by Joe Lauria, published on Consortium News, April 30, 2022 Authorities in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa have set a 24-hour curfew from May 1-3 to prevent protests commemorating the burning alive on May 2, 2014 of 48 people who had rejected the U.S.-backed coup in Kiev earlier that year. The city, which is “(under the control of Ukrainian[…]
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by Deirdre Griswold, published on Workers World, October 13, 2020 Thousands of workers and students marched and rallied in Indonesia on Oct. 7 to protest a new antilabor law. “Labor rights activists, workers and students are protesting Indonesia’s new labor law they say will undermine pay and benefits, as well as the environment. The law is part of the president’s[…]
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by Medea Benjamin, published on MintPress News, November 22, 2019 I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of[…]
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