Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Saher al Khamash, published on Workers World, August 12, 2024 During our trip to Nicaragua, we never thought we would meet Leila Khaled. However, her visit during this time in July is actually no surprise to those familiar with the details of her life and the parallels between the Palestinian and Nicaraguan liberation struggles. Palestinian revolutionary, socialist and guerrilla[…]
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CODEPINK Statement on the Call for War in Palestine, October 8, 2023 CODEPINK strongly opposes Secretary Lloyd J. Austin’s just-announced plan to send troops to the Eastern Mediterranean – including U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and defense munitions. Escalating the violence in Palestine is not the path to peace, it’s the path to destroying any chance the Palestinians have for peace,[…]
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by Alice Speri, published on Israel-Palestine News, April 1, 2023 *Featured Image: A mural reads, “This is a home just like yours” in Khalet a-Daba’, a Palestinian village inside the Masafer Yatta firing zone, in the occupied West Bank on Jan. 17, 2023. (photo) For the Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta’s firing zone, the court’s decision sanctioning their forcible transfer[…]
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Statement from U.S. Peace Council, October 2, 2022 I visited Iran several times a decade ago. Women have it pretty good in Iran. They have about the same ratio of women to men in college as the US (just like us, women do a little better in college and men do a little better in the economy). Women are free[…]
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by Hamid Shahrabi, October 3, 2022 Rather than detailing crimes committed by illegitimate sanctions, the purpose of this modest contribution is to draw attention on lessons learnt, with emphasis on how to effectively confront such criminal policy. But before that, considering my Iranian nationality, let us have a look at the case of Iran. Iran Sanctions After the overthrow of[…]
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by Jemima Pierre, published on Black Agenda Report, April 27, 2022 In the wake of the expulsion of the Organization of the American States from Nicaragua, we need to revisit one of its major crime scenes: Haiti. On April 24, 2022, Nicaragua’s Sandinista government officially booted the Organization of American States (OAS) out of their country. Foreign minister Denis Moncada[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, published on Common Dreams, August 30, 2021 Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban’s return to power in their country—and then by an Islamic State suicide bombing and ensuing massacre by U.S. forces that together killed at least 170 people, including 13 U.S.[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold, published on Countercurrents, March 13, 2020 This is overall a good piece, but I nearly didn’t publish it because of the paragraph towards the end which begins- the Iranian government “grossly mishandled the beginning of the outbreak.” What is the point of this hostile and unnecessary statement? I suppose people like to have a[…]
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by Azza Rojbi, published by Fire This Time Movement, July Issue It’s an honor to be with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a friend of mine, a man who has really done things in the last five years in terms of opening up Saudi Arabia. And I think especially what you’ve done for women. -U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP in[…]
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A family warms themselves on a fire outside their makeshift home during a power cut in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Khalil Hamra | AP US, Israel Seek to Exploit Palestinian Divisions and Create More of Them by Hisham H. Ahmed, Ph.D, originally published on MintPress News, September 12, 2018 OCCUPIED PALESTINE — (Analysis) This article is not written to support[…]
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