Pentagon

A Howl for Blood in Iran as Americans Cheer US Bombers on July 4

July 12, 2019 UNAC Editor Featured, Militarism, U.S. Aggression

By Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright, published on Consortium News, July 8, 2019 President Donald Trump’s order to the Pentagon to have an aerial parade of military aircraft over Washington, D.C., on July 4 provided a history lesson of America’s war mongering in the past two decades, and a terrifying view of what might appear in the skies of Iran[…]

Assange Is Not a Journalist (If Journalists Are Ass-Kissing Propagandists for the Ruling Class)

May 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

By Ann Garrison, Published on Black Agenda Report, May 8, 2019 Saying Assange not a journalist is like saying Darwin wasn’t a biologist, Einstein wasn’t a physicist and LeBron James can’t play basketball. “Assange is a genius who looked at global injustice with the mind of a systems analyst, then founded Wikileaks and the transparency movement.” High profile journalists have been[…]

Women’s March on the Pentagon: Women Speak Out!

October 26, 2018 UNAC Editor Ending War, Featured, Protest

by Netra Halperin, from Consortium News, October 23, 2018 Consortium News videographer Netra Halperin has produced a full video report of Sunday’s Women’s March on America’s center for planning and executing war. About 1,500 women and allied men marched on the Pentagon on Sunday to demand an end to perpetual war and the funding of education, health care and other[…]

AFRICOM, Staggering But Not Yet Down for the Count

February 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa

by Mark P. Fancher, originally published on Black Agenda ReportFeb 21, 2018 Niger Even though Donald Trump thinks Africa is a “shit hole” the continent forced its way into his life anyway in October when four U.S. soldiers were killed in Niger. After Trump deflected blame to others and made a soldier’s widow cry, he apparently returned quickly to his[…]