Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Ann Wright, published on World Beyond War, July 17, 2024 As Israel continued its relentless genocide on steroids of Palestinians in Gaza with over 140 killed in the past weekend, imprisonment without charges of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and destruction of the hospitals, universities, schools (8 UNRWA schools bombed in the past 10 days), cultural centers[…]
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from ILPS, published by Workers World, July 15, 2024 The Resist NATO coalition held a People’s Summit, rally and march to condemn NATO’s expansion, its role in military aggression and in resource extraction across the globe. Workers World Party actively mobilized from several cities and aided in publicity and materials with the Resist NATO Coalition to respond to the danger[…]
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by World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), published in Labor Today International, July 6, 2024 The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing more than 105 million workers who work live, and struggle in 133 countries all over the world, strongly condemns the continuation of military interventions and wars, the accelerated militarization of international relations and confrontational rhetoric, the soaring of[…]
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by Jeremy Kuzmerov, published on CovertAction Magazine, July 13, 2024 Will a formidable peace movement ever emerge that can succeed in stopping it? This past week, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) celebrated its 75th anniversary by hosting a summit in Washington, D.C., where its founding treaty was signed. A declaration issued at the summit made clear NATO’s intent to[…]
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by Medea Benjamin, published on World Beyond War, July 12, 2024 As NATO wrapped up its Summit and Biden held a crucial press conference, the media frenzy continued to focus on Biden’s age and cognitive abilities. Is he too old and disoriented to lead the “free world”? Was he able to get through his press conference without stumbling too many[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, July 9, 2024 This article provides a good synopsis at one level. Although the focus is on French intervention, we wish to note that the U.S. was forced to abandon it’s largest drone base in Africa, located in Agadez Niger, following last year’s coup. [jb] On July 6 and 7, the leaders of the[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, July 1, 2024 After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9th NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British will not burn down the U.S. Capitol as they did in 1814, and the[…]
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by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, published on Defend Democracy, June 3, 2024 A European perspective on U.S./NATO aggression towards Russia. [jb] Napoleon campaigned in Russia and was crushed. The Western powers heavily intervened in Russia against the Bolsheviks (1918-21), only to face humiliation and see their own troops revolt. Hitler’s Germany attacked Russia and was destroyed. Their glory is apparently envied now[…]
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by John Catalinotto, published on International Action Center, June 5, 2024 According to the self-serving description on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s website, the military alliance “strives to secure a lasting peace in Europe and North America, based on its member countries’ common values of individual liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.” Reading that statement provides an[…]
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by Diana Johnstone, published on Consortium News, June 14, 2024 In retrospect, it becomes clear that the Cold War “communist threat” was only a pretext for great powers seeking more power. Ceremonies were held last week commemorating the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the Anglo-American landing on the beaches of Normandy that took place on June 6, 1944, known as[…]
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