Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, July 21, 2923 The NATO Summit in Vilnius earlier this month signaled that there is absolutely no possibility of talks to settle the Ukraine war in the foreseeable future. The war will only intensify, as the U.S. and its allies still hope to inflict a military defeat on Russia although that is[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, July 19 2023 The header image gives a little perspective. It says that Ukraine is not in the same class as Russia in terms of the amount of grain it exports. In fact The U.S., Canada, Australia and France all export larger quantities of wheat than Ukraine, but significantlu less than Russia. [jb] On[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, July 26, 2022 A deal brokered by Turkey for the export of grain from both Ukraine and Russia presents a political problem for U.S. imperialism and its war aims. Washington’s response: ship more weapons. The landmark deal to move hundreds of tons of grain, if it moves forward, undermines U.S./NATO determination to continue[…]
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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 Vijay Prashad, OpEd to Big News Network, published March 9, 2022 The war between Russia and Ukraine began much before February 24, 2022-the date provided by the Ukrainian government, NATO, and the United States for the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to Dmitry Kovalevich, a journalist and a member of a now-banned communist organization in Ukraine,[…]
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by Joe Lombardo, February 27, 2022 The propaganda of the US government and its media always looks at what is happening now and does not give us the whole picture. So, if the US and its allies bully a country until it can take it no more and strikes back, you only hear about them striking back not what came before. It[…]
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by Phil Wilayto, published in the Virginia Defender, February 3, 2021 In the winter of 2022, the news is dominated by growing tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Reports that Russia has amassed some 100,000 troops on its border with neighboring Ukraine have brought charges from the United States and NATO that Russia is planning to invade its neighbor, with whom[…]
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Photo above; Fascists marching in Odessa, May 2, 2019, in the evening following the memorial for those slain by a brutal fascist attack on May 2, 2014. ~from a video by Pippa Bartolotti by Joe Lombardo of the United National Antiwar Coalition After taking an overnight train from Kiev, we arrived in Odessa and were met by two anti-Maidan supporters[…]
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Memorial service on 10 May 2014 in honour of those who died in the clashes on 2 May, outside the burnt Trade Unions House ~HOBOPOCC, Flikr by Joe Lombardo, UNAC I am in Kiev, Ukraine with Pippa Bartolotti, a UNAC supporter from Wales, on our way to Odessa where there will be a mobilization to remember the massacre of more[…]
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A Call for International Actions From the Odessa Solidarity Campaign May 2, 2019, will mark five years since a right-wing mob attack on the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of at least 42 people and more than 100 injured. Today there still is no justice in sight for the mourners of[…]
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