Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Sondos Asem, published by Defend Democracy Press, November 13, 2024 Editor’s Note: This would normally come from the Security Council. However a Uniting for Peace initiative would be able to do it. The letter is still open for signatures. Please have a look for the details and also if you are interested in signing. By Sondos Asem, Nov 8,[…]
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by Joy Gordon, published on LaMonde Diplomatique, October 7, 2024 Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US imposed severe new economic measures against the island nation. In the[…]
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by Steven Sahiounie, published on MidEast Discourse, October 20, 2024 The international community is united in their condemnation of the actions of Israel upon the civilians in Gaza, with a death now well over 40,000, and the attacks on Lebanon which have killed and injured civilians who have no connection to Hezbollah. The UN General Assembly has voted for a[…]
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by Abyomi Azikiwe, published on Global Research, September 25, 2024 United States President Joe Biden addressed the United Nations General Assembly 79th Session on Tuesday September 24 noting this would be his last speech before the international body founded in 1945 in the aftermath of World War II. Although Biden spoke about his supposed desire to see a ceasefire in[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, September 15, 2024 On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months. Given that the General Assembly, unlike the exclusive 15-member UN Security Council, allows all UN members to vote[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 22, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, was invited to brief the United Nations Security Council on May 20, 2024, as a civil society representative. The subject of the meeting was weapons supplies to Ukraine as a threat to peace and security. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you[…]
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by Sam Husseini, published on the Institute for Public Accuracy, May 24, 2023 UN whistleblower Craig Mokhiber just posted on X: “BREAKING: The #ICJ has just ruled in favor of additional provisional measures in the Genocide case against Israel, ordering Israel to immediately halt its military offensive and other activities in Rafah and to allow aid and genocide investigators in.”[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 17, 2024 The U.S. kept the U.N. Security Council from sending in troops to stop the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. The US in[…]
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by Mazin Qusiyeh, writing in Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine, published on Popular Resistance, January 26, 2024 What is the story with UNRWA? If Israel succeeds in liquidating the Palestinian cause, will the whole globe be at risk of a global war that ends humanity? And what does sex extortion and people movement have to do with it? Read on for this serious[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, December 13, 2023 On Friday, December 8, the UN Security Council met under Article 99 for only the fourth time in the UN’s history. Article 99 is an emergency provision that allows the Secretary General to summon the Council to respond to a crisis that “threatens the maintenance of international peace and[…]
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