US Wars

Three U.S. wars threaten World War Three: $95 billion targets Palestine, Iran, Russia and China

May 5, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, China, Fascism, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, NATO, Palestine, Resistance, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, May 3, 2024 Anyone who thinks that the U.S. policy of continued arming and fully supporting the Israeli genocide is an accident or a mistake need only look at the $95 billion “supplemental aid” bill just passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden on April 24. The same group of war[…]

17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong

October 2, 2018 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Imperial Wars

by David Swanson, Originally published on DavidSwanson.org, September 28, 2018 We expect 17-year-olds to have learned a great deal starting from infancy, and yet full-grown adults have proven incapable of knowing anything about Afghanistan during the course of 17 years of U.S.-NATO war. Despite war famously being the means of Americans learning geography, few can even identify Afghanistan on a[…]

How Do Weapons Makers Sleep at Night?

September 13, 2018 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Militarism, War and Weapons

by David Swanson, published on Let’s Try Democracy, September 11, 2018 A new report by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies “focuses on the five largest U.S. arms manufacturers — Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics — and their dealings with three repressive nations: Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt.” This may prove to be a very valuable approach.[…]