<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 36px; font-family: Times;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A.W.A.R.E.</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><b class="">The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">The U.S. government is waging illegal wars around the world</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">and secretly twisting the international economy via ‘trade pacts’</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">like the TPP for the benefit of less than 1% of the U.S. population.</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><b class="">Join our demonstration the first Saturday of every month,</b></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><b class="">at the intersection of Church and Neil in Champaign, 2-4pm</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Meet with us Saturdays at the Urbana Farmers’ Market (indoors in winter at</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Lincoln Square) for books, bumper stickers, literature, and conversation</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Watch our weekly Urbana Public Television (channel 6) program </i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">“AWARE on the Air” (also on YouTube) or join us at noon Tuesdays</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">in the Urbana City Council Chambers for the live unrehearsed recordings </i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class="">We meet Sundays at 5pm at Cafeteria & Company, 208 W. Main, Urbana;</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class="">new members welcome: for information write us at <i class=""><</i></b><a href="mailto:aware@anti-war.net" class=""><b class=""><i class="">aware@anti-war.net</i></b></a><b class=""><i class="">></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class="">***</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Baskerville;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">President Obama is making war in eight countries;</i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Baskerville;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">he is sending U.S. ‘special forces’ into more than 3/4 of the</i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Baskerville;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">countries around the world; he has assassinated thousands</i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Baskerville;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">by drone - the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern</i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Baskerville;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">times; and he is provoking war with Russia and China.</i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">Contact the president (202-456-1111) and our representatives in Congress (202-224-3121):</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">tell them to end the wars and drone attacks, cut military spending by at least half, bring the</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">troops home, and close the US military’s 1,000 foreign bases; stop US support for - and </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">arms sales to - human rights abusers like Israel, and lead on global nuclear disarmament. </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>President Barack Obama <i class="">- <<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments" class="">http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments</a>></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>Senator Dick Durbin<i class=""> - <<a href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email" class="">http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email</a>></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>Senator Mark Kirk<i class=""> - <<a href="http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation" class="">http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation</a>></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>Representative Rodney Davis<i class=""> - <<a href="https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me" class="">https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me</a>></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 19px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">[verso]</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ARE A DISTRACTION</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO KILL PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">AND WILL DO SO WHETHER A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN IS ELECTED</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">UNLESS WE STOP THEM</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">“You can't bomb terrorism out of existence. Terrorism survives war.” --Phyllis Bennis</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">“Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it …</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">Obama's drone program is the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times." --Noam Chomsky</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">While the U.S. media bombard us with the presidential candidates, the Obama administration is literally</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">bombarding and killing people around the world - and managing to keep us largely unaware of it.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">Most Americans don’t realize that President Obama has attacked eight countries (two more than</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">President Bush) and is today sending U.S. troops into no less than 75% of the countries in the world:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">there are more than 70,000 of these “special operations forces,” and they report only to the president’s</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">National Security Council; their operations include kidnapping (‘rendition’), torture, and murder. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">And the president’s continuing drone assassinations (the NYT says he chooses the targets himself )</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">have already killed thousands of people, including U.S. citizens and hundreds of children. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">In addition to conducting wars throughout the Mideast, the Obama administration is acting with</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">belligerence toward China and promoting an ongoing proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, which</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">has already killed more people than Israel killed (with US permission) in Gaza in 2014. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">President Obama says that he is fighting terrorism, but America’s world-wide violence is creating</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">terrorists, not defeating them. The real reason that the U.S. is killing people throughout the Mideast ia</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">that the foundation of U.S. foreign policy since WWII has been U.S. control of Mideast energy resources,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">gas and oil. Control, not just access, is what the U.S. demands, because control is an unparalleled</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">weapon against the economic rivals of the U.S. 1% in the rest of the world.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">"Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the more astute of the senior planners</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">and analysts, pointed out in the journal National Interest that America’s control over the Middle East </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">gives it indirect but politically critical leverage on the European and Asian economies that are also</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">dependent on energy exports from the region.'” [Noam Chomsky]</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">In Vietnam forty years ago, the U.S. government withdrew from an illegal war because Americans</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">demanded it: by 1978, 72 percent of the U.S. population regarded the war as not “a mistake,” but</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">“fundamentally wrong and immoral.”** As in Southeast Asia then, so now in Southwest Asia: the U.S.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">must end its criminal war. We must demand that President Obama and his successor (probably Clinton)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(1) end the drone assassinations;</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(2) bring all U.S. troops (and mercenaries) home;</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(3) close the 1,000 foreign U.S. bases around the world (no other country has more than twelve); </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(4) end the provocations of Russia (in Ukraine) and China (in the South China Sea); </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(5) end support for Israel's apartheid policy, and stop sending them money and weapons; and </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(6) support negotiations among the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">the Kurds to end the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars.</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class=""> </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">“‘Turns out I'm really good at killing people,’ Obama said quietly.</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">‘Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.’”***</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">____________________________________________</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">* Andrew Cockburn, “A Special Relationship: the United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again,” Harper’s (January 2016)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">** Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, <i class="">American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy</i>, 1983 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">*** Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, <i class="">Double Down: Game Change 2012</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 36px; font-family: Times;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>