Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Rick Sterling, published on Antiwar.com, February 25, 2023 The following is an adapted version of the presentation made at the webinar “Connecting Dots” on 2.25.2023. Other speakers were Dr. Marwa Osman and Dr. Atif Kubursi. Introduction Syria has been at war since 2011. The conflict is in a stalemate. US troops control nearly a third of the country. The[…]
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by Ted Kelly, published on Workers World, February 15, 2023 The terrible earthquake that hit a wide area of southeastern Türkiye and neighboring Syria has reportedly killed at least 36,000 people as of Feb. 13, with estimates that this total will reach 50,000. This winter the survivors who lost their housing face freezing and wet conditions, without any alternative shelter,[…]
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by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action Magazine, January 2, 2023 …Yet There is Almost No Opposition or Outcry—Even When Sanctions are Increasingly Having a Boomerang Effect The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a ‘response to foreign tyranny,’ but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations. On[…]
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by Erica Jung, September 30, 2022 Introduction North Koreans live under restrictions, embargoes, and scarcities imposed and enforced by a variety of sanctions from the United States and the United Nations.1 In fact, north Korea is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world, having been subject to sanctions since its foundation in 1950. US sanctions in particular serve[…]
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by Aaron Mate, published on Substack, July 16, 2022 In 2015, one year after a US-backed coup ushered in a US-friendly, far-right-dominated government in Kiev, University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer issued a stark warning. “The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path,” he said. “And the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked.” Mearsheimer’s cause[…]
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by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, June 8, 2022 Chad, in the middle of Africa, is a landlocked country with 16 million people. It is one of the three poorest countries in the world according to the U.N., with the lowest life expectancy (54 years). With nearly half a million refugees living within its borders, Chad passed a 2021[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 8, 2022 The U.S. drive to dominate creates self-inflicted wounds and self-imposed crises. It also creates suffering around the world with only the most servile vassal states willing to do what Washington wants. The United States continues to shoot itself in the foot in its futile effort to damage the Russian economy.[…]
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by Stephen Sefton, published on Tortilla Con Sal, June 5, 2022 Reading through you can find a good counter-position of imperialism vs anti-imperialism. [jb] Controversy has dogged this June’s United States government organized Summit of the Americas. Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela had already abandoned the OAS, seriously damaging the credibility of the Organization of American States as a trustworthy hemispheric[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, May 23, 2022 U.S. government strategists are using sanctions as a wrecking ball to demolish the globalized economy. It is a desperate struggle to preserve their global hegemony and a unipolar world. The policy of consciously demolishing supply chains of essential products amounts to a reckless war on defenseless civilian populations. Sanctions disrupt[…]
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by Vanessa Beeley, published on Organizing Notes, May 17, 2022 Under cover of media focus on the NATO proxy war in Ukraine and the Zionist assassination of Al Jazeera senior correspondent Shireen AbuAkleh, Washington is making moves to annex Syrian territory. On May 11th during the meeting of the “global coalition against Islamic State” in Marrakech, Morocco the U.S acting[…]
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