Negotiations

“A Timely Call for Peace in Ukraine by U.S. National Security Experts”

May 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Political Analysis, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, War and Weapons, Weapons Sales

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, May 16, 2023 Most of those who signed have been in the antiwar camp since the beginning of the Iraq war, but not the anti-imperialism camp. It is easy to end the Ukraine war; it is merely necessary to stop providing weapons to Ukraine. The Russians won’t massacre an unarmed force. They[…]

Ukraine War: Those Who Fail to Call for Negotiations, Fail to Understand the Dangerous Predicament that Faces Our Planet!

January 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Statement, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy

U.S. Peace Council Statement U.S. Peace Council January 25, 2023 At no time since the Cuban missile crisis has our world has been so close to disaster. As the war in Ukraine approaches its first anniversary, it is being increasingly transformed by the Biden administration and the “collective west” into a war between NATO and Russia. The danger of turning[…]

What Can the United States Bring to the Peace Table for Ukraine?

January 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, Weaponized Information, Weapons Sales

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just issued its 2023 Doomsday Clock statement, calling this “a time of unprecedented danger.” It has advanced the hands of the clock to 90 seconds to midnight, meaning that the world is closer to global catastrophe than ever before, mainly because the conflict in Ukraine[…]

US Imperialism’s Trillion-Dollar Fossil Fuel Gambit

October 25, 2022 UNAC Editor Germany, Hybrid Warfare, Militarism, Russia, Ukraine

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 21, 2022 The US-engineered sabotage of Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, as we shall see, aimed at guaranteeing the success of the US trillion dollar Ukraine fossil fuel war gambit to permanently substitute US-fracked Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) for Russia’s significantly less expensive fossil fuels. The US sabotage instantly eliminated[…]

Ukraine Negotiation Kabuki

April 22, 2022 UNAC Editor Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy

by Jim Kavanaugh, published on The Polemicist Substack, April 18, 2022 Though they are not given much of a voice in the mainstream media, many people oppose US/NATO sending more arms to Ukraine and oppose direct Western military intervention, because they see that such actions would only prolong an inevitably lost fight “to the last Ukrainian” and/or they do not[…]

Ukraine Crisis Risks Escalating Amid Stalled Talks, Rising Hostility

April 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Cold War, Diplomacy, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Weapons Sales

by Yang Sheng and Xu Yelu, published on Global Times, April 13, 2022 The Chinese draw attention to an inherent schism in the understanding of the two forces in Ukraine, a dangerous misunderstanding that prevents successful negotiation. [jb] Russian President Vladimir Putin called the situation in Ukraine “a tragedy” and peace talks had reached a “dead end” in his meeting[…]