Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
By Colonel Ann Wright, US Army (Retired), published on World Beyond War, February 6, 2022 We’ve seen this before. The U.S. creates a situation, digs in its heels and makes ultimatums—and tens of thousands die. I resigned from the U.S. government in 2003 in opposition to another war-President Bush’s war on Iraq in which followed that war playbook. We’ve seen[…]
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by Manlio Dinucci, published on Popular Resistance, February 2, 2022 The phone call between President Biden and Ukrainian President Zelensky “did not go well“, CNN headlines: while “Biden warned that the Russian invasion in February is practically certain when the frozen ground makes it possible for tanks to pass through”, Zelensky “ asked Biden to tone down, arguing that the[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, February 2, 2022 African people are already battling against U.S. rightist forces – from the Trump/Republican supporters to the warmongering neoliberal democrats. It would be an affront to our history and people to enter this struggle on the side of empire and NATO. Within large sectors of the U.S. left, including many[…]
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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[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 26, 2022 The 2014 U.S. sponsored coup against the elected government of Ukraine must be the starting point for any discussion of the current crisis. That crisis has been manufactured by Joe Biden, who was the Obama administration point person in using Ukraine as a means of destabilizing Russia. The corporate[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, January 31, 2022 So what are Americans to believe about the rising tensions over Ukraine? The United States and Russia both claim their escalations are defensive, responding to threats and escalations by the other side, but the resulting spiral of escalation can only make war more likely. Ukrainian President Zelensky is warning[…]
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by Bruce Gagnon, published on Keep Space 4 Peace, January 29, 2022 Ukraine diplomat sees little chance of war ‘in country with 15 nuclear reactors’ Ukraine is committed to seeking a diplomatic solution to the current tension with Russia, its ambassador to Japan, Sergiy Korsunsky, said on Wednesday (26 January), adding that he saw little chance of all-out war, although[…]
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Statement by the Chicago Anti-War Coalition (CAWC), January 27, 2022 The U.S. and Britain have in recent days sent at least 90 tons of military equipment to the government of Ukraine. This is in addition to placing thousands of troops currently stationed in the U.S. on high alert. Whether those measures are serious harbingers of a U.S./NATO war with Russia[…]
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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.”[…]
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by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, January 12, 2022 When I was a union organizer with the United Farm Workers I twice served on a contract negotiating committee – as the note-taker. I learned that the very first clause negotiated in any union contract is the ‘Recognition’ by the company of the union’s right to bargain on behalf of[…]
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