Nuclear War

Russia Is Not Bluffing: To Avoid WWIII, The US Must Find A Diplomatic Offramp

September 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy

by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, September 17, 2024 Last week, the United States was considering Ukraine’s request for long-range missiles that could strike more deeply into Russian territory. The Russian government made it clear that this would be viewed as a declaration of war and that it would respond with attacks on NATO countries, including the United States.[…]

From Napoleon and Hitler to … Biden, Macron and Stoltenberg! West’s new Russian campaign

June 30, 2024 UNAC Editor History, NATO, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, Weapons Sales

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[…]

What Would Happen if an 800-kiloton Nuclear Warhead Detonated Above Midtown Manhattan?

July 22, 2022 UNAC Editor Nuclear Agendas, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Propaganda

By Steven Starr, Lynn Eden, Theodore A. Postol , published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, February 25, 2015 This article was published more than 7 years ago. The video was published a few weeks ago. Read a while, watch the video, and then let me know. What is going on here? Any ideas? [jb] Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles[…]

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[…]

With Its Doomsday Clock Set at 100 Seconds to Midnight, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Calls for Escalating U.S. Aggression Against Russia

February 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Nuclear Weapons, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

By Roger D. Harris, Published on Black Agenda Report, February 16, 2022 The venerated Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is not a formation that peace advocates can support. Its recent statements on the US manufactured Ukraine crisis are supportive of US/NATO imperialism. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists emerged after World War II as a voice for peace by some of[…]

China Gives Oomph to Russia’s ‘Nyet’ on NATO

February 2, 2022 UNAC Editor China, Diplomacy, Russia, U.S. Aggression

by Ray McGovern, published on Antiwar.com, February 1, 2022 Fourteen years ago today, when then-ambassador to Russia William Burns, in an IMMEDIATE cable titled “Nyet Means Nyet: Russia’s NATO Enlargement Redlines,” reported Moscow’s warning that NATO membership for Ukraine would cross a red line, the Russians could do little more than grouse. Enter from left stage Chinese President Xi Jinping[…]

Washington Pumping Up War Fever

January 22, 2022 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, NATO, Propaganda, Russia, Ukraine

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Keep Space for Peace, January 20, 2022 It’s nonstop in the western media. The message – war with Russia is coming. An American friend of mine, now living in Russia, has two sons in the US Army. One of them said to him today, “your two sons are going to be fighting your beloved Russia.”[…]

Giving the Bomb to Saudi Arabia’s Dr. Strangelove

April 2, 2019 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Nuclear Agendas, Saudi Arabia

by Chris Hedges, 1st published on TruthDig, March 3, 2019 The most dangerous foreign policy decision of the Trump administration—and I know this is saying a lot—is its decision to share sensitive nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia and authorize U.S. companies to build nuclear reactors in that country. I spent seven years in the Middle East. I covered the despotic,[…]

Unwrapping Armageddon: The Erosion of Nuclear Arms Control

November 27, 2018 UNAC Editor International Law, War and Weapons

A view of the some of ground launched cruise missiles (GLCM) that will be destroyed in accordance with the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Forty-one GLCMs and their launch canisters and seven transporter-erector-launchers will be disposed of at the base in the first round of reductions mandated by the treaty. (1988) by Conn M. Hallinan, from Dispatches from the Edge,[…]

The Eclipsing Iran Deal:Truth And Consequences

May 13, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Iran

by Arshan M. Khan, originally published on Countercurrents Blog, May13 International treaties and agreements are between countries — not between leaders or governments, for if that were the case they would not be worth the paper they were written on. The Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union was signed in 1972. Bush II withdrew unilaterally in 2001 citing a[…]