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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Below is my debunking of the bogus chemical weapons charges at the time they were made, later confirmed by Sy Hersh. Any idiot could have
 figured out that this was Warmongering Propaganda by Obama and his Harvard/Yale Law Mafia—including the “left” warmongers who called for Obama to bomb Syria. Fab.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A Final Comment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Francis Boyle critiqued the UN report. He cited:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(1) Appendix 3, paragraph 3: UN inspectors "admit they were under the control of the opposition in order to make their inspection of Ghouta."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(2) Appendix 4: "Admittedly this was a rush job designed to meet an artificial deadline of questionable significance."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(3) Page 15: "So why did none of the 3 hair samples test positive for sarin?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(3) Statisticians should "do a run on the statistical significance of the findings here given the low number N=34-36 out of the alleged"
 1,429 victims Kerry wrongfully claimed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(4) Appendix 5 - Munitions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(a) Page 18: Inspectors said "(f)ragments and other possible evidence have clearly been handled/moved prior to the arrival of the investigation
 team."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The above discussion suggests the same thing.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The alleged crime scenes were manipulated. Doing so made evidence collected suspect, tainted and/or worthless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">According to Boyle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">So-called "munitions 'evidence' could have been easily planted beforehand by the opposition that was in complete control of this area" at
 the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(b) According to UN inspectors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">During the time spent at these locations, individuals
 arrived carrying other suspected munitions indicating that such potential evidence is being moved and possibly manipulated."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">In other words, said Boyle, perhaps so-called "evidence" isn't any at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(5) Appendix 7: Lab 1 and 2 results show "large numbers of the samples indicated NO CW agents: 'NONE,' " said Boyle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Most likely they were largely conventional munitions fragments. Sarin was present in a small fraction of them. UN inspectors admitted
 crime scenes were "manipulated."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">They were tampered with. Contamination made them worthless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Note: Major media reports suppressed what's most important to report! They ignored vital truths! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">They wrongfully blamed Assad for insurgents' crimes! They did so based on manipulated/corrupted/fabricated evidence!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">According to Boyle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"At 7.2 on the Biomedical Results, of 36 samples, the 2 labs together could not confirm even ONE chem by means of a urine test." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"Indeed, most of the urine tests were NA - not available, in other words, not reported."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">UN inspectors' "report is completely slipshod and worthless, even in accordance with (their) own terms." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"It establishes almost nothing of any scientific significance. It was rushed on through to provide BKM and the Americans a pretext for
 further warmongering."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Doing so shows so-called inspectors willfully deceived. They lied for power. UN agencies operate this way. They're little more than wholly
 owned US subsidiaries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">They're corrupted and worthless. Don't expect major media scoundrels to explain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at
<a href="mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net">lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Syria Gas Attack: Assad Wrongfully Blamed</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">by Stephen Lendman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On Monday, UN inspectors released their eagerly awaited report. Security Council members were briefed in closed session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On Tuesday, the report was published online. It's titled "<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/unoda-web/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SG_Report_of_CW_Investigation.pdf">Report
 on the Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in the Ghouta Area of Damascus on 21 August 2013</a>."</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1255CC"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On September 16, the
<a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45856&Cr=syria&Cr1=#.Ujg7phar3uR">
<span style="color:#1255CC">UN News Centre </span></a>headlined " 'Clear and convincing' evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria, UN team reports."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom headed the UN team. It's called the Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in
 the Syrian Arab Republic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On March 21, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon established it. World Health Organization (WHO) and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
 Weapons (OPCW) experts were involved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Evidence confirmed sarin gas use. Ban called its Ghouta investigation findings "overwhelming and indisputable. The facts speak for themselves." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"The United Nations Mission has now confirmed, unequivocally and objectively, that chemical weapons have been used in Syria."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"There must be accountability for the use of chemical weapons. Any use of chemical weapons by anyone, anywhere, is a crime."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"But our message today must be more than that: Do not slaughter your people with gas. There must also be no impunity for the crimes being
 committed with conventional weapons."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"This is a war crime. The international community has a responsibility to hold the perpetrators accountable and to ensure that chemical weapons
 never re-emerge as an instrument of warfare."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sellstrom's team was mandated to determine if chemical weapons were used. "It is for others to decide whether to pursue this matter further
 to determine responsibility," he said. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"We may all have our own thoughts on this, but I would simply say that this was a grave crime and those responsible must be brought to justice
 as soon as possible."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Evidence examined came from biomedical hair, urine and blood samples. Soil and environmental samples were analyzed. So were alleged munitions
 and impact sites.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">More than 50 "survivors, medical personnel and first responders" were interviewed. It's unclear how they were chosen. Lack of clarity raises
 concerns. Objectivity may have been compromised.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Since conflict erupted in March 2011, Syria repeatedly has been wrongfully blamed for insurgents' crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The so-called UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry (COI) consistently lies for power. Its reports lack credibility. They largely
 point fingers one way. They do so duplicitously.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">They ignore clear evidence of insurgents use of chemical weapons. They're silent about numerous massacres they committed. They wrongfully
 blame Assad. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Clear evidence showed insurgents responsible for Ghouta's attack. Nothing links Syrian forces. Previous articles explained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Following the Security Council's closed briefing, Britain's UN envoy Mark Lyall Grant lied saying:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"(I)n our view, there is no remaining doubt that it was the (Syrian) regime that used chemical weapons" in Ghouta.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Washington's UN ambassador
<a href="http://usun.state.gov/briefing/statements/214290.htm"><span style="color:#1255CC">Samantha Power</span></a> issued a lengthy duplicitous statement. She lied saying:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"(T)he technical details of the UN report make clear that only the regime could have carried out this large-scale chemical weapons attack."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"But based on our preliminary review, I will note one particular observation. We have associated one type of munition cited in the UN report
 - 122mm rockets - with previous regime attacks." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"We have reviewed thousands of open source videos related to the current conflict in Syria and have not observed the opposition manufacturing
 or using this style of rocket."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"(M)r. Sellstrom (said sarin used was) professionally made. He said (it) bore none of the characteristics of improvised weapons."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The UN report said nothing about sarin quality. Power lied claiming otherwise. She wrongfully said Assad "used (chemical weapons) multiple
 times over the last year."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Throughout months of conflict, Washington, key NATO partners, Israel, and rogue Arab states armed, funded and trained mercenary killers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Saudi Arabia was caught red-handed supplying toxic agents. Last May, Turkish authorities arrested 12 suspected Al Nusra fighters. They had
 two grams of sarin nerve gas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On September 15,<a href="http://rt.com/news/turkey-syria-chemical-weapons-850/"><span style="color:#1255CC"> Russia Today</span></a> headlined
 "Turkish prosecutors indict Syrian rebels for seeking chemical weapons," saying:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"The prosecutor in the Turkish city of Adana has issued a 132-page indictment, alleging that six men of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front
 and Ahrar ash-Sham tried to seek out chemicals with the intent to produce the nerve agent, sarin gas, a number of Turkish publications reported."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"The main suspect in the case, 35-year-old Syrian-national Hytham Qassap has been charged with 'being a member of a terrorist organization'
 and 'attempting to acquire weapons for a terrorist organization.' " <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"The other 5, all Turkish nationals are being charged with 'attempting to acquire weapons for a terrorist organization.' "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"The indictment alleges that Qassap tried to setup a network in Turkey in order to obtain chemical materials for the al-Nusra Front and Ahrar
 al-Sham Brigades." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"Citing telephone calls made by the cell, the prosecution believes that the group ordered at least ten tons of chemicals, Al-Alam News Network
 reports."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A previous article cited<a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/">
<span style="color:#1255CC">Mint Press News</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1255CC">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">headlining
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323333">"Exclusive: Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack," saying:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323333">"Rebels and local residents in Ghouta accuse Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan of providing chemical weapons to an al-Qaida linked rebel group."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323333">Insurgents had "tube-like" weapons. Others were in a "huge gas bottle."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323333">Another previous article said the following: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323333">Pentagon contractors provided chemical weapons training. Syrian forces seized a warehouse. It contained barrels marked "Made in KSA (Kingdom
 of Saudi Arabia)." Protective masks were found. So were drugs used when inhaling chemicals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323333">"The Qatari-German Company for Pharmaceutical Industries (was) inscribed on them." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Throughout months of conflict, anti-Assad nations provided Western-enlisted death squads with heavy weapons. They still do. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Insurgents bear fully responsibility for attacking Ghouta. Claiming they have no access to sarin, other chemical weapons, and high quality
 munitions doesn't wash.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Power duplicitous accused Assad of "genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity." She wants him prosecuted in the Hague. She endorses
 military force to topple his government. She supports lawless aggression.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said Sellstrom's report requires careful evaluation. It's a "very technical report. It avoids categorical
 assessments and conclusions," he stressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">It says chemical weapons were used "on a relatively large scale." It excluded attribution. "There are no solid conclusions and data" suggesting
 Syria's responsibility, said Churkin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"In the process of further review, everyone will be able to make their own conclusions, and we can only hope that they will be professional,
 not inspired by some political pressure."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">UN inspectors didn't find warheads filled with sarin gas. They found munitions fragments. They suggest having been fired from multiple rocket
 launchers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Other evidence indicates they came "rebel" held territory. Pro-Assad civilians were targeted. Unaddressed was why would Assad attack his
 supporters? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Why would he do it with UN inspectors close by? Why would he risk harming his own soldiers and innocent civilians?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Why would he need to use chemical weapons? He's effectively routing insurgent fighters. He's doing it consistently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Other evidence indicates extremist anti-Assad fighters used chemical weapons multiple times. Material evidence of sarin use may have been
 transported from one location to another. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">It may have been done to deceive inspectors. Their report excluded numbers of victims killed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">At most it was scores or perhaps two or three hundred. John Kerry claiming 1,429 conflicts with Britain and France estimating several hundred.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">UN inspectors found no evidence of huge numbers. Many questions remain unanswered. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Knee-jerk Western conclusions point fingers the wrong way. Washington wants Assad toppled. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">It wants Syrian sovereignty destroyed. It wants subservient puppet governance replacing it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">It wants Iran isolated. It wants Shah era harshness restored. It wants unchallenged regional dominance. War is Obama's option of choice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Plans to launch it remain firm. Timing alone is changed. Pretexts are easy to create. Ghouta was a classic false flag. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Expect another major one ahead. Expect it used to wage war. Launching it could come any time. The fullness of time will tell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Following release of the UN report, White House press secretary Jay Carney said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Below is my debunking of the chemical weapons charges at the time, later confirmed by Sy Hersh.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A Final Comment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Francis Boyle critiqued the UN report. He cited:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(1) Appendix 3, paragraph 3: UN inspectors "admit they were under the control of the opposition in order to make their inspection of Ghouta."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(2) Appendix 4: "Admittedly this was a rush job designed to meet an artificial deadline of questionable significance."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(3) Page 15: "So why did none of the 3 hair samples test positive for sarin?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(3) Statisticians should "do a run on the statistical significance of the findings here given the low number N=34-36 out of the alleged"
 1,429 victims Kerry wrongfully claimed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(4) Appendix 5 - Munitions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(a) Page 18: Inspectors said "(f)ragments and other possible evidence have clearly been handled/moved prior to the arrival of the investigation
 team."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The above discussion suggests the same thing.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The alleged crime scenes were manipulated. Doing so made evidence collected suspect, tainted and/or worthless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">According to Boyle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">So-called "munitions 'evidence' could have been easily planted beforehand by the opposition that was in complete control of this area" at
 the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(b) According to UN inspectors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">During the time spent at these locations, individuals
 arrived carrying other suspected munitions indicating that such potential evidence is being moved and possibly manipulated."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">In other words, said Boyle, perhaps so-called "evidence" isn't any at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(5) Appendix 7: Lab 1 and 2 results show "large numbers of the samples indicated NO CW agents: 'NONE,' " said Boyle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Most likely they were largely conventional munitions fragments. Sarin was present in a small fraction of them. UN inspectors admitted
 crime scenes were "manipulated."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">They were tampered with. Contamination made them worthless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Note: Major media reports suppressed what's most important to report! They ignored vital truths! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">They wrongfully blamed Assad for insurgents' crimes! They did so based on manipulated/corrupted/fabricated evidence!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">According to Boyle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"At 7.2 on the Biomedical Results, of 36 samples, the 2 labs together could not confirm even ONE chem by means of a urine test." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"Indeed, most of the urine tests were NA - not available, in other words, not reported."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">UN inspectors' "report is completely slipshod and worthless, even in accordance with (their) own terms." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"It establishes almost nothing of any scientific significance. It was rushed on through to provide BKM and the Americans a pretext for
 further warmongering."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Doing so shows so-called inspectors willfully deceived. They lied for power. UN agencies operate this way. They're little more than wholly
 owned US subsidiaries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">They're corrupted and worthless. Don't expect major media scoundrels to explain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"The information provided in that report that the sarin agent was delivered on surface to surface rockets that only the Assad regime has,
 makes clear the responsibility."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Last May, UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"According to the testimonies we have gathered, the rebels have used chemical weapons, making use of sarin gas."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"We still have to deepen our investigation, verify and confirm (the findings) through new witness testimony, but according to what we have
 established so far, it is at the moment opponents of the regime who are using sarin gas."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A
<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/unoda-web/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FS_SG_CW_Bilingue.pdf">
<span style="color:#1255CC">summary fact sheet</span></a> accompanied a detailed technical UN report. It said in part:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"During a temporary ceasefire for five hours each day between 26 - 29 August 2013, the Mission was able to access affected sites in Moadamiyah,
 Ein Tarma and Zamalka in the Ghouta area of Damascus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Fact-Finding Activities:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Interviews with more than 50 survivors, including patients, other victims, health workers and first-responders;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Documentation of munitions and their sub-components;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Assessment of symptoms of intoxicated survivors;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Collection and analysis of bio-medical (hair, urine and blood) samples;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Collection and analysis of 30 soil and environmental samples.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Analytical Results and Factual Findings:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Impacted and exploded surface-to-surface rockets, capable of carrying a chemical pay load, were found to still contain sarin;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Close to the rocket impact sites, survivors were affected, the environment was found to be contaminated by sarin;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A number of survivors clearly diagnosed for intoxification by and with organophosphorous compound and clearly presented symptoms of exposure;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Almost all of the blood samples from the above same survivors were found positive for sarin and sarin signatures.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">UN Missions Conclusions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"On the basis of the evidence obtained during the investigation of the Ghouta incident, the conclusion of the UN mission is that, on 21 August
 2013, chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic on a relatively large scale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In particular, the environmental, chemical and medical samples collected by the Mission provide clear and convincing evidence that surface-to-surface
 rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used in the Ghouta area of Damascus."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In response, White House National Security Advisor Susan Rice said evidence UN inspectors reported "reinforces our assessment that these
 attacks were carried out by the Syrian regime, as only they had the capability to mount an attack in this manner."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">False! Insurgents are fully capable. They've been trained to be so. They're supplied with chemical weapons. They used them multiple times
 before. They used them in Ghouta. They bear full responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">They'll use them again. Assad's repeatedly blamed for their crimes. Expect more false accusations ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Big Lies launch wars. America takes full advantage. Obama plans shock and awe madness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">He's ravaging one country after another. He's waging war on humanity. He risks annihilating it altogether. Stopping him matters most.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A Final Comment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Francis Boyle critiqued the UN report. He cited:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(1) Appendix 3, paragraph 3: UN inspectors "admit they were under the control of the opposition in order to make their inspection of Ghouta."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(2) Appendix 4: "Admittedly this was a rush job designed to meet an artificial deadline of questionable significance."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(3) Page 15: "So why did none of the 3 hair samples test positive for sarin?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(3) Statisticians should "do a run on the statistical significance of the findings here given the low number N=34-36 out of the alleged"
 1,429 victims Kerry wrongfully claimed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(4) Appendix 5 - Munitions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(a) Page 18: Inspectors said "(f)ragments and other possible evidence have clearly been handled/moved prior to the arrival of the investigation
 team."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The above discussion suggests the same thing.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The alleged crime scenes were manipulated. Doing so made evidence collected suspect, tainted and/or worthless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">According to Boyle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">So-called "munitions 'evidence' could have been easily planted beforehand by the opposition that was in complete control of this area" at
 the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(b) According to UN inspectors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">During the time spent at these locations, individuals
 arrived carrying other suspected munitions indicating that such potential evidence is being moved and possibly manipulated."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">In other words, said Boyle, perhaps so-called "evidence" isn't any at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(5) Appendix 7: Lab 1 and 2 results show "large numbers of the samples indicated NO CW agents: 'NONE,' " said Boyle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Most likely they were largely conventional munitions fragments. Sarin was present in a small fraction of them. UN inspectors admitted
 crime scenes were "manipulated."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">They were tampered with. Contamination made them worthless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Note: Major media reports suppressed what's most important to report! They ignored vital truths! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">They wrongfully blamed Assad for insurgents' crimes! They did so based on manipulated/corrupted/fabricated evidence!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">According to Boyle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"At 7.2 on the Biomedical Results, of 36 samples, the 2 labs together could not confirm even ONE chem by means of a urine test." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"Indeed, most of the urine tests were NA - not available, in other words, not reported."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">UN inspectors' "report is completely slipshod and worthless, even in accordance with (their) own terms." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"It establishes almost nothing of any scientific significance. It was rushed on through to provide BKM and the Americans a pretext for
 further warmongering."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Doing so shows so-called inspectors willfully deceived. They lied for power. UN agencies operate this way. They're little more than wholly
 owned US subsidiaries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">They're corrupted and worthless. Don't expect major media scoundrels to explain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at
<a href="mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net">lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">Law Building<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">Champaign, IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 9, 2017 10:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Karen Aram <karenaram@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Estabrook, Carl G <galliher@illinois.edu>; Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net>; prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net; Peace <peace@anti-war.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Trump's defeat by the political establishment leads to war<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">As you can see, at the time I was doing everything humanly possible to prevent Obama from bombing Syria, including debunking the
 bogus chemical weapons charges.  Then these “leftist” warmongers came out against us. They are all Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing. Fab.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Institute for Public Accuracy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045<br>
<a href="tel:%28202%29%20347-0020" target="_blank">(202) 347-0020</a> * <a href="http://www.accuracy.org/" target="_blank">http://www.accuracy.org</a> * <a href="mailto:ipa@accuracy.org" target="_blank">ipa@accuracy.org</a><br>
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          Monday, September 9, 2013<br>
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          * Key Author of War Powers Act: "Obama has no Authority to Attack Syria" <o:p></o:p></p>
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PAUL FINDLEY, <a href="tel:%28217%29%20243-8444" target="_blank">(217) 243-8444</a>, <a href="mailto:findley1@frontier.com" target="_blank">findley1@frontier.com</a><br>
    Available for a limited number of interviews, Findley served as a member of United States House of Representatives for 22 years. He was a key author of the War Powers Act and a leader in securing its enactment by overriding the veto of President Richard
 Nixon. He is also the author of six books. The federal building in Springfield, Ill. is named for him. <br>
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    He just wrote the piece "<a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/component/content/article/264-paul-findley/1736-obama-has-no-authority-to-attack-syria#.Ui2-27xieUc" target="_blank">Obama has no Authority to Attack Syria</a>," which states: "Despite his own
 recent statements to the contrary, President Barack Obama has no legal authority to assault the government of Syria even as “a warning shot.”  Neither the United States Constitution, nor the War Powers Act of 1973 gives him such authority in the absence of
 an emergency that allows Congress no time to react. Obama cannot cite the present situation as such an emergency, given his public statement that members of Congress need not act until the completion of their scheduled vacation. He has said that his proposal
 is 'not time sensitive.' If Congress fails to approve a resolution approving acts of war against Syria, he cannot order any military assault into Syria.   <br>
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    "On several recent occasions the President and administration officials have mentioned a “sixty day” period during which he has authority to act without approval of Congress. Such authority does not exist. It is a misreading of a provision of the War Powers
 Act that provides only Congress with oversight constraints on executive actions. ..." Findley also recently wrote the piece "<a href="http://www.sj-r.com/opinions/x1837080258/Paul-Findley-Syria-a-war-we-should-reject" target="_blank">Syria — a War We Should
 Reject</a>."<o:p></o:p></p>
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FRANCIS BOYLE, <a href="tel:%28217%29%20333-7954" target="_blank">(217) 333-7954</a>, <a href="mailto:fboyle@illinois.edu" target="_blank">fboyle@illinois.edu</a><br>
    Boyle is a professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and author of <i>Tackling America’s Toughest Questions</i>. Boyle drafted <a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RfIoPGB.html" target="_blank">articles of impeachment that were introduced
 by the late Rep. Henry Gonzalez</a> against President George H. W. Bush in 1991. Boyle said today: "Impeachment is the remedy for a president taking extra-constitutional action. Obama claims he has the authority to attack Syria when -- under the Constitution
 -- he does not."<br>
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See: "<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/cornel-west-its-grounds-for-impeachment-if-obama-bombs-syria" target="_blank">Cornel West: It’s 'Grounds For Impeachment' If Obama Bombs Syria Without Congressional Approval</a>." <br>
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For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:<br>
Sam Husseini, <a href="tel:%28202%29%20347-0020" target="_blank">(202) 347-0020</a>, <a href="tel:%28202%29%20421-6858" target="_blank">(202) 421-6858</a>; or David Zupan, <a href="tel:%28541%29%20484-9167" target="_blank">(541) 484-9167</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 9, 2017 9:58 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Karen Aram' <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Estabrook, Carl G <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>>; Peace-discuss List <<a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net">prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net</a>; Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@anti-war.net">peace@anti-war.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Trump's defeat by the political establishment leads to war<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">Yeah, just look at the list of “leftist” warmongers who called upon Obama to Bomb Syria over the bogus chemical weapons charges
 that I was doing everything humanly possible at the time to stop and was debunking too. Later Sy Hersh revealed it was all warmongering propaganda in his investigative report in the London Review of Books. It was obvious to me and others at the time that this
 was typical Obama Liberal Warmongering Propaganda. And most  of these “leftist” warmongers  could have easily figured it out if they wanted to. And many of them probably already had. Fab.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Radical Philosophy Association [<a href="mailto:RPA-LIST@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU">mailto:RPA-LIST@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Curtis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:RPA-LIST@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU">RPA-LIST@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPA-LIST] Jean Bricmont: The Wishful Thinking Left<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="color:black">Wishful thinking on the “Left” really?  Who are these supposed “Leftists” he has in mind?  It is wishful thinking by liberals!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="color:black">From what I can tell we on the Left are very clear that the “rebels” in Syria are just mercenaries being paid by imperialist forces.  The battle in Syria is to preserve sovereignty in
 the face of imperial aggression.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="color:black">Anyone who does not understand this is obviously not deserving of any respect (they are brain dead morons falling for imperial lies).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="color:black">I pasted the list of signatories below and most of the names I do not recognize.  There are a few names (Alice Walker, Frederick Jameson, Norm Finkelstein and Tariq Ali) who ought to know
 better so I am puzzled that their names appear (I also recognized Michael Lowy, but I worry that his romanticism leads him to misunderstand the world generally, but that is just my personal view having read him in the past).  But maybe someone hit them up
 with a distorted version or something.  But what stands out from the list is that it is just a random list of names.  It is not a list of political intellectuals on the left.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="color:black">Richard C<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">Signatories<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Aaron Winslow</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Columbia University,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Abbas Beydoun, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Poet, Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Abdellatif Zeroual</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Left activist,
 Morocco)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Abdeslam Cherkouk</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Journalist,
 Morocco)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Abir Saksook</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Architect and activist,
 Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Adam Hanieh</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (SOAS University of
 London, United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Adam Shapiro</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Activist, United
 States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Aida Seif Ell Dawla</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Human Rights
 Activist, Egypt)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Akram Zaatari</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Artist, Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ala Hlehel</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Author, Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Alex Todorova</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University of Columbia,
 United States/Bulgaria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ali Amin Suwaid</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Writer, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ali Atassi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Journalist, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Alice Walker</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Writer, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Amahl Bishara</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Tufts University,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Amr Al-Azm</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Shawnee State University,
 Activist and board member of The Day After NGO, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Amr Saeddeine</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Université libre
 de Bruxelles, Belgium/ Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Amy Ansell,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Emerson College, United
 States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ania Loomba</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Pennsylvania,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">AnnJanette Rosga</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Human Rights
 Researcher, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ann Ferguson </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(University of Massachusetts,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Anne Meneley,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Trent University,
 Canada)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Anthony Arnove</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Author, Iraq:
 The Logic of Withdrawal, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Arturo Escobar</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of
 North Carolina-Chapel Hill, United States/Colombia)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Asef Bayat</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University of Illinois,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ashok Chowdhury, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(India)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Aziza Chaouni,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University of Toronto,
 Canada/Morocco)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Azmi Bishara</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (writer, Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Bassem Chit</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Socialist Forum,
 Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Bernadette Daou</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (leftist militant,
 Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Bernardine Dohrn</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Northwestern
 University, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Bill Ayers</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University of Illinois
 at Chicago, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Bill Weinberg</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Journalist and
 author, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Brian Slocock</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Paisley,
 Scotland)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Budour Hassan</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Author, Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Cara Moyer, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Emerson College, United
 States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Caitlin Ella Wind, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Writer, United
 States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Can Irmak Özinanır</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Faculty of
 Communication, Ankara University, Turkey)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Chandan Redd</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Washington,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Chandler Davis</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of
 Toronto, Canada)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Chandra Talpade Mohanty</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Feminist
 Scholar-Activist, India/United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Charles Hirschkind,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (UC Berkeley,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Chela Sandoval</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University of California,
 Santa Barbara)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Claudia Castañeda, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Emerson College,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">David Byrne</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, McDonald III, (Photographer
 and activist, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">David McNally</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (York University,
 Canada)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/david.wearing"><b><span style="font-family:inherit;color:#28708A;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">David Wearing</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">,
 (SOAS, United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Dean Spade, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Seattle University
 Law, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Deepa Kumar</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Rutgers University,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Diana Coryat</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">,  (University of Massachusetts,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Dyala Hamzah</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Université de Montréal,
 Canada)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Elena Yehia</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of North
 Carolina, United States/ Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Elias Khoury,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Writer, Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Elliott Colla,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Georgetown University,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Elsa Wiehe</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Massachusetts,
 United States/ Mauritius)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Erika Marquez</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Bryn Mawr College,
 United States/Colombia)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Estella Carpi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University of Sydney
 / American University of Beirut)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Etienne Balibar</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Columbia University,
 United States/ France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Faraj Bayrakdar</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Poet, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Farouk Mardam Bey </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Intellectual,
 Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Fawaz Traboulsi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Writer, Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Felicia Pratto</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of
 Connecticut, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Francois Burgat</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (CNRS, France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Fredric Jameson</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Duke University,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Gail Daneker</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Director of Peace
 Education and Advocacy, Friends for a NonViolent World –St. Paul, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Gerry Emmett</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Resident Editorial
 Board, News and Letters Committees, Chicago, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ghassan Hage</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">  (University of Melbourne,
 Australia/ Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ghassan Makarem</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Socialist Forum,
 Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ghayath Naisse</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Surgeon, Left
 Revolutionary Current, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Gilbert Achcar</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (SOAS, University
 of London, Lebanon/ United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Golbarg Bashi,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Rutgers University,
 United States/Iran)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Graham Peebles</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Artist and Writer,
 United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Gustavo Esteva</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Universidad de
 la Tierra-Oaxaca, Mexico)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Hamid Dabashi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Columbia University,
 United States/ Iran)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Hani al-Sayed</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (American University
 in Cairo, Syria/ Egypt)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Haroldo Dilla Alfonso</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Sociologist,
 Cuba/Dominican Republic)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Hazem al-Azmeh</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Intellectual, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ibrahim Al-Assil</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Syrian Non-Violent
 Movement, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ibrahim Jalal</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Artist, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ilan Pappe</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University of Exeter,
 United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Isabelle Momméja</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Activist, France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Issam Aburaya, (Seton Hall University, United States)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">James Cohen</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Université Sorbonne
 Nouvelle Paris 3, France/ United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">James L. Gelvin,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (UCLA, United
 States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jamie Allinson</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of
 Westminster. UCU member, United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jean-Philippe Schreiber</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Université
 libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jean-Pierre Filiu</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Institut d'études
 politiques de Paris, France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jed Murr</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Washington,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jeff Napolitano, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Activist, United
 States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jens Hanssen</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> ( University of Tornoto,
 Canada/ Germany)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jihad Yazigi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Journalist, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jihane Sfeir</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Université Libre
 de Bruxelles, Lebanon/ Belgium)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jillian Schwedler</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University
 of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Joanne Landy</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Co-Director, Campaign
 for Peace and Democracy, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Joe Vasicek</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Science Fiction &
 Fantasy Writer, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">John Chalcraft,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (London School
 of Economics, United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">John Holloway</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Benemérita Universidad
 Autónoma de Puebla, United States/ Mexico)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">John O’Brien</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Los Angeles California, Stonewall
 Rebellion Participant, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Joseph Daher,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University of Lausanne,
 Syria/ Switzerland)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Karam Dana</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Washington,
  United States/Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Karmen Abou Jaoudeh</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Legal activist,
 Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Kathy McDonough, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Wheelock College,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Khaled Khalifa</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Novelist, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Khaled saghieh</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Journalist, Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Khawla Dunia</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Activist, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Kifah Kayal,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Activist, Palestinian
 ex-political prisoner, Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Kirsten scheid</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (American University
 of Beirut, Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Kmar Bandana</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Université de La
 Manouba, Tunisia)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Konstantin Kilibarda</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (York University,
 Mississauga territories)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Laleh Khalili,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (SOAS, University
 of London, United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Lawrence Grossberg</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University
 of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Leyla Dakhli</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Researcher, CNRS,
 France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Lieven De Cauter,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Catholic University
 of Leuven/RITS, Belgium)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Lilia Marsali</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Teacher, United
 Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Linda Quiquivix, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Brown University,
 United States / Guatemala)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Lindsey Collen</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (left activist
 and novelist, Mauritius)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Loulouwa Al Rachid</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Journalist,
 Saudi Arabia)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Lucia Sorbera</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (The University
 of Sydney, Australia)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Manijeh Nasrabadi, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(New York University,
 United States/ Iran)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Manuel Barrera</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Metropolitan State
 University, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Manuel Castells,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University Professor
 of Communication, University of Southern California)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Marc Saint-Upéry,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Journalist and
 translator, France/Ecuador)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Maria Koundoura </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Emerson College,
 United States/ Greece)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Marisol de la Cadena</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (UC Davis,
 United States/ Peru)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Marnia Lazreg</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, sociologist, USA/Algeria</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mary Nyquist</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, University of Toronto,
 Canada<br>
<b>Mary Rizzo</b> (blogger and activist translator, Italy) </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Max D. Weiss,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Princeton University,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mayssun Succarie, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(American University
 in Cairo, Egypt/ Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mehdi Meftah</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Militant, France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mélanie Cambrezy</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Université de
 Montréal, Canada)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mercedes Olivera B.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Antropóloga
 Feminista, UNICACH, México.)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Michael Cisco</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (writer and teacher,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Michael Lowy</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">,  (Social scientist,
 France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mirta Tocci</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Emerson College,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mirza Waheed</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Novelist, United
 Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mohamad Ali Attassi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Writer, Syria/
 Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mohamad Al Bardan, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Syrian Non
 Violent Movement, United States/ Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mohammad Moeini,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University of
 Massachusetts, United States/ Iran)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mohammed Bamyeh</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of
 Pittsburgh, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mona Abaza</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (American University
 in Cairo, Egypt)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Muhammad Ali Khalidi,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (York University,
 Canada)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Muhammad Idrees Ahmad</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Writer
 and Sociologist, Scotland)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Nader Atassi,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Writer, Syria /
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Nadia Fadil</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (KU Leuven, Belgium)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Nadim N. Rouhana, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Tufts University
 -- United States, and Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Nadine Bekdache,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Designer/ Activist,
 Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Nadje Al-Ali,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (SOAS, University
 of London, United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Nasser Rabbat</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (MIT, United States/Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Natalie Zemon Davis,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University
 of Toronto, Canada)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Nidal Al-Azraq</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (United States/
 Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Nigel Gibson</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Emerson college,
 United States/ Britain)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Nimer Sultany,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (SUNY Buffalo Law
 School, United States/Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Noa Shaindlinger</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of
 Toronto, Canada/Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Norbert Hirschhorn</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Physician,
 United Kingdom/ Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Norman Finkelstein</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (American researcher
 and writer, United Sates)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Scholar,
 France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Omar Dahi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Hampshire College,
 Syria/ United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Omar Dewachi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (American University
 of Beirut, Iraq/Canada)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Omnia El Shakry,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (UC Davis, United
 States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Oussama Mohamad</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Film maker, Syria/
 France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ozlem Goner</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (CUNY, Turkey/ United
 States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Pablo Stefanoni</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Chief editor,
 Nueva Sociedad, Argentina)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Paul Kellogg</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Athabasca University,
 Edmonton, Canada)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Paul Kingston</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Toronto,
 Canada)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Pierre Tevanian</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Writer, activist,
 France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">R. Radhakrishnan</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (UC Irvine, United
 States/ India)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Rabha Attaf</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Reporter, France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Raed Firas</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Activist, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Raed Khartabil</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Activist, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Rashid Khalidi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Columbia University,
 United States/Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Razan Ghazzawi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Activist, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Richard Seymour</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Writer, London
 School of Economics, International Socialists Network, United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Rime Allaf</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Writer and adviser,
 Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Robert Young</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (New York University,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Robin Yassin-Kassab</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (novelist
 and commentator, Syria/ United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Rola Rukbi,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ruba Alkhouli</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Activist, Spain)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Rupert Read,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Chair of the Green
 House thinktank, United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Saad Hajo</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Cartoonist, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Saba Mahmood </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(UC Berkeley, United
 States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sabah Hallak,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sadiq Jalal Azem</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Writer, Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sadri Khiari</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Writer, Tunisia)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Salah Mosbah</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Tunis,
 Tunisia)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Salam Kawakibi, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Arab Reform Initiative,
 Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Salam Said</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Economist/Germany)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Salameh Kaileh</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Intellectual, Syria/Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Salim Vally</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Johannesburg,
 South Africa)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sami Hermez</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Pittsburg,
 United States/ Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Samir Aita</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Le Monde Diplomatique
 editions arabes, Cercle des Economistes Arabes)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Samuel Binkley, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Emerson College,
 United States)<b>           </b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Santiago de Rico Alba</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Philosopher,
 Spain)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sarah Bracke</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (KU Leuven, Belgium)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sarah Eltantawi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Scholar of religion
 and writer, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sari Hanafi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (American University
 of Beirut, Lebanon/ Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Seda Altug</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Bogazici University,
 Turkey)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sherifa Zuhur</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (historian, Director,
 Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies, United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sherry Wolf</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Author of Sexuality
 and Socialism, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Simon Assaf</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Activist, United
 Kingdom/ Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sinan Antoon, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(New York University,
 Iraq/ United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sirisha Naidu</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Wright State University,
 India/ United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sonja Mejcher-Atassi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (America
 University of Beirut, Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Srinivas Lankala</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of
 Massachusetts, India/United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Stephen R. Shalom</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (William Paterson
 University, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Steve Graham</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Newcastle University,
 United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Steven Friedman</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of
 Johannesburg, South Africa)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Suad Joseph</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of California,
 Davis, United States/ Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Swati Birla</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (University of Massachusetts,
 India/ United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sylvie Tissot</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (University of Paris-8,
 France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Talal Asad</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (CUNY, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Tamera Marko</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Emerson College,
 United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Tariq Ali</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Writer, journalist,
 and filmmaker, United Kingdom/ Pakistan)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Tewfik Allal, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Activist, Manifeste
 des libertés, France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Thaer Alsahli </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Activist, Syria/Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Thierry Boissière</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Institut français
 du Proche-Orient, France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;line-height:16.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Thomas Harrison</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Co-Director,
 Campaign for Peace and Democracy, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Thomas Markus Kvilhaug</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (International
 Socialist branch, Norway)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Tiffany Kreierhoff</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (writer, United
 States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Toufic Haddad</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (author, SOAS, United
 Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Vijay Prashad</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Trinity College,
 United States/ India)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 United States/ Argentina)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 University, United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Yahya Madra</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Boğaziçi University,
 Turkey)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 and Political Science, Cairo University)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 Syria/ United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 Syria)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Yazan Louai Al-Saadi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (Journalist,
 Al-Akhbar English, Lebanon) </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Youssef Fakhr el-Din, </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">(Journalist,
 Syria/ Palestine)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 States/Lebanon)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Yveline, Delacroix,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Activist,
 France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 la Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 United States/ Egypt)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Zena Hallak,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Tunisia)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Zeynep Inanc</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, (United States)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ziad Majed</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (American University
 of Paris, Lebanon/ France)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ziauddin Sardar</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#4F4F4F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> (Intellectual,
 Pakistan/ United Kingdom)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Radical Philosophy Association [<a href="mailto:RPA-LIST@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU">mailto:RPA-LIST@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mitchel Cohen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:RPA-LIST@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU">RPA-LIST@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RPA-LIST] Jean Bricmont: The Wishful Thinking Left<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/14/the-wishful-thinking-left/print">http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/14/the-wishful-thinking-left/print<br>
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</a>August 14, 2013<br>
<br>
The Unwitting Agents of the Imperial Order<br>
<b><span style="font-size:24.0pt">The Wishful Thinking Left<br>
<br>
</span>by JEAN BRICMONT<br>
<br>
</b><i>Louvain, Belgium.<br>
<br>
</i>Once upon a time, in the early 1970s, many people, including myself, thought that all the "struggles" of that period were linked: the Cultural Revolution in China, the guerillas in Latin America, the Prague Spring and the East European "dissidents", May
 68, the civil rights movement, the opposition to the Vietnam war, and the nominally socialist anti-colonial movements in Africa and Asia. We also thought that the "fascist" regimes in Spain, Portugal and Greece, by analogy with WWII, could only be overthrown
 through armed struggle, very likely protracted.<br>
<br>
None of these assumptions were correct. The Cultural Revolution had nothing to do with the anti-authoritarian movements in the West, the Eastern European dissidents were, in general, pro-capitalist and pro-imperialist, and often fanatically so, the Latin American
 guerrillas were a pipe dream (except in Central America) and the national liberation movements were just that: they (quite rightly) aimed at national liberation and called themselves socialist or communist only because of the support offered to them by the
 Soviet Union or China. The southern European "fascist" regimes transformed themselves without offering a serious resistance, let alone an armed struggle. Many other authoritarian regimes followed suit: in Eastern Europe, in Latin America, in Indonesia, Africa
 and now in part of the Arab world. Some collapsed from inside, other crumbled after a few demonstrations.<br>
<br>
I was reminded of these youthful illusions when I read a petition "in solidarity with the millions of Syrians who have been struggling for dignity and freedom since March 2011", whose list of signatories includes a veritable who's who of the Western Left. The
 petition claims that "The revolution in Syria is a fundamental part of the North African revolutions, yet it is also an extension of the Zapatista revolt in Mexico, the landless movement in Brazil, the European and North American revolts against neoliberal
 exploitation, and an echo of Iranian, Russian and Chinese movements for freedom."<br>
<br>
The signatories of course demand the immediate departure from power of Bashar al-Assad, which is supposed to be the only "hope for a free, unified, and independent Syria". They also characterize Russia, China and Iran as standing "in support of the slaughter
 of people", although they are "allegedly friends of the Arabs"; they acknowledge that "the U.S. and its Gulf allies have intervened in support of the revolutionaries", but blame them for "having done so with a clear cynical self-interest" and trying to "crush
 and subvert the uprising". It is not clear how this squares with the next line of the text, which claims that "regional and world powers have left the Syrian people alone".<br>
<br>
The upshot of the petition consists in grandiose claims of "solidarity" from "intellectuals, academics, activists, artists, concerned citizens and social movements", "with the Syrian people to emphasize the revolutionary dimension of their struggle and to prevent
 the geopolitical battles and proxy wars taking place in their country." Nothing less!<br>
<br>
This petition is worth analyzing in detail, because it nicely summarizes everything that is wrong in today's mainstream leftist thinking and it both illustrates and explains why there is no Left left in the West. The same sort of thinking dominated the Western
 Left's thinking during the Kosovo and the Libyan wars, and to some extent during the wars in Afghanistan ("solidarity with Afghan women") and Iraq ("they will be better off without Saddam").<br>
<br>
First of all, the presentation of the facts about Syria is very doubtful. I am no expert on Syria, but if the people are so united against the regime, how come that it has resisted for so long? There have been relatively few defections in the army or in the
 diplomatic and political personnel. Given that the majority of Syrians are Sunnis and that the regime is constantly depicted as relying on the support of the "Alawi sect", something must be wanting in that narrative about Syria.<br>
<br>
Next, like it or not, the actions of "Russia, China and Iran" in Syria have been in accordance with international law, unlike those of the "U.S. and its Gulf allies". From the viewpoint of international law, the current government of Syria is legitimate and
 responding to its request for help is perfectly legal, while arming rebels is not. Of course, the leftists who sign the petition would probably object to that aspect of international law, because it favors governments over insurgents. But just imagine the
 chaos that would be created if every Great Power was arming the rebels of its choice all over the world. One could deplore the selling of arms to "dictatorships", but the U.S. is hardly in a position to lecture the world on that topic.<br>
<br>
Moreover, it is "Russia and China" who have, by their vote at the UN prevented another U.S. intervention, like the one in Libya, which the Western Left, opposed very lukewarmly, if at all. In fact, given that U.S. used the U.N. Resolution on Libya to carry
 out a regime change that the resolution did not authorize, isn't it natural that Russia and China feel that they were taken for a ride in Libya and say: "never again!"?<br>
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The petition sees the events in Syria as an "extension of the Zapatista revolt in Mexico, the landless movement in Brazil, the European and North American revolts against neoliberal exploitation, and an echo of Iranian, Russian and Chinese movements for freedom.",
 but they are careful not to link them to the anti-imperialist governments in Latin America, since the latter stand squarely against foreign interventions and for the respect of national sovereignty.<br>
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Finally, what should make anybody think that the "immediate" departure of Bashar al-Assad would lead to a "free, unified and independent Syria"? Aren't the examples of Iraq and Libya enough to cast some doubts on such optimistic pronouncements?<br>
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That brings us to a second problem with the petition, which is its tendency towards revolutionary romanticism. The present-day Western Left is the first to denounce the "Stalinist" regimes of the past, including those of Mao, Kim Il Sung or Pol Pot. But do
 they forget that Lenin fought against tsarism, Stalin against Hitler, Mao against the Kuomintang, Kim Il Sung against the Japanese and that the last two ones, as well as Pol Pot, fought against the U.S.? If history should have thought us anything, it is that
 struggling against oppression does not necessarily turn you into a saint. And given that so many violent revolutions of the past have turned sour, what reason is there to believe that the "revolution" in Syria, increasingly taken over by religious fanatics,
 will emerge as a shining example of freedom and democracy?<br>
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There have been repeated offers of negotiations by "Russia, China and Iran", as well as from the "Assad regime" with the opposition as well as with its sponsors (the "U.S. and its Gulf allies"). Shouldn't one give peace and diplomacy a chance? The "Syrian regime"
 has modified its constitution; why be so certain that this cannot lead a "democratic future", while a violent revolution can? Shouldn't one give reform a chance?<br>
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However, the main defect of this petition, as well as with similar appeals from the humanitarian  interventionist Left in the past, is: to whom are they talking? The rebels in Syria want as many sophisticated weapons as possible- no signatory of the petition
 can deliver them, and it is hard to see how the "global civil society, not ineffective and manipulative governments" can do it. Those rebels want
<i>Western governments</i> to provide them with such weapons-they couldn't care less what the Western Left thinks. And those Western government hardly know that the wishful thinking Left even exists. And if they did, why would they listen to people with no
 serious popular support, and so no means of pressuring governments? The best proof of that is given by the cause to which so many signatories have devoted a good part of their lives: Palestine. Which Western government pays any attention to the demands of
 the "Palestine solidarity movement"?<br>
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Just because the petition has no effect in Syria does not mean that it has no effect
<i>tout court</i>. It weakens and confuses what is left of antiwar sentiments, by stressing that "our" priority must be empty gestures of solidarity with a rebellion that is already militarily supported by the West. Once this mindset is acquired, it becomes
 psychologically difficult to oppose U.S. intervention in the internal affairs of Syria, since intervention is precisely what the revolutionaries that we must "support" want (apparently, they have not noticed, unlike the petitioners, that the West wants to
 "crush and subvert the uprising"). Of course, defenders of the petition will say that they don't "support" the more violent extremists in Syria, but who exactly are they supporting then, and how? Moreover, the false impression that the "world powers have left
 the Syrian people alone" (while, in fact, there is a constant flood of arms and jihadists into Syria) comes partly from the fact that the U.S. is not foolish enough to risk a World War, given that Russia seems to mean what it says in this affair. The thought
 that we might be on the brink of a World War never seems to occur to the petitioners.<br>
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Defenders of the petition will probably say that "we" must denounce both U.S. imperialism
<i>and</i> the oppressive regimes against which the "people" revolt. But that only shows the depth of their delusions: why claim doing two things at once, when one is not capable of doing either, even partly?<br>
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If such petitions are worse than doing nothing, what should the Left do? First of all, mind its own business, which means struggling at home. This is a lot harder than expressing a meaningless solidarity with people in faraway lands. And struggling for what?
 Peace through demilitarization of the West, a non-interventionist policy, and putting diplomacy, not military threats, at the center of international relations. Incidentally, a non-interventionist policy is advocated by the libertarians and by the paleoconservative
 Right. This fact, plus invocation of pre-World War II history (the Spanish civil war, the Munich agreements), is constantly used by the Left to give anti-interventionism a bad name. But this is silly: Hitler is not really being constantly resurrected, and
 there are no serious military threats faced by the West.  In the present situation, it is a perfectly legitimate concern of American citizens to cut back the costs of Empire.<br>
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In fact, it would be perfectly possible to set up a broad Left-Right coalition of people opposed to militarism and interventionism. Of course, within that coalition, people might still disagree on Gay marriage but, important as this issue may be, it should
 perhaps not prevent us from working together on issues that might also seem important to some people, such as World peace, the defense of the U.N. and of international law, and the dismantling of the U.S. empire of bases. Besides, it is not unlikely that a
 majority of the American public could be gained to such positions if sustained and well organized campaigns were set up to persuade them.<br>
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But of course, the spirit of the petition goes exactly in the opposite direction, towards more U.S. involvement and interventions. Many signatories certainly think of themselves as anti-imperialists and pro-peace, and some of them have had an important role
 in opposing previous U.S. wars. But they do not seem to have noticed that the tactics of imperialism have changed since the days of the national liberation movements. Now, that decolonization is complete (with the exception of Palestine), the U.S. is attacking
<i>governments,</i> not revolutionary movements, that are considered to be too independent. And, in order to do that, they use a variety of means that are similar
<i>in their tactics</i> to the revolutionary or progressive movements of the past: armed struggle, civil disobedience, government funded "N"GO's, colored revolutions, etc.<br>
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The latest example of these tactics is the attempt by Western governments to use the LGBT community as ideological storm troopers against Russia and the Winter Olympics, in a transparent effort to deflect public attention from the embarrassing fact that, in
 the Snowden affair, it is Russia and not the U.S. that is on the side of freedom. It is to be feared that the humanitarian interventionist Left will jump on the bandwagon of this new crusade. Yet, as Gilad Atzmon has pointed out, with his usual slightly provocative
 style, it is unlikely that this will do any good to the LGBT community in Russia, since this sort of support allows their opponents to brand them as bearers of foreign influence. It is not a good idea for any minority, anywhere in the world, to be seen as
 agents of a foreign power, and least of all, of a government so hated for its arrogance and its interventionism as the present U.S. administration. And incidentally, the people who call for boycott of the Winter games in Russia had no objection to holding
 the Olympic games in London, which implies that, in their eyes, taking anti-gay measures is a serious crime, whereas wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are mere peccadillos.<br>
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People who succumb to the illusions of revolutionary romanticism or who side with the apparent underdog, regardless of the underdog's agenda, are being taken in by the tactics of present-day imperialism. But those who aspire to a more peaceful and more just
 world order, and who think that a precondition of this order is the weakening of U.S. imperialism, easily see through this camouflage. These two different world views divide both the Left and the Right: liberal interventionists and neoconservatives on one
 side, libertarians, paleoconservatives and traditional leftists on the other, and it may call for new and heterodox alliances.<br>
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<b><i>JEAN BRICMONT</i></b><i> teaches physics at the University of Louvain in Belgium. He is author of
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 9, 2017 9:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Boyle, Francis A <<a href="mailto:fboyle@illinois.edu">fboyle@illinois.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Estabrook, Carl G <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>>; Peace-discuss List <<a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net">prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net</a>; Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@anti-war.net">peace@anti-war.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Trump's defeat by the political establishment leads to war<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">Exactly, when speaking with those opposed to war, any initial exhilaration I feel at hearing their opposition, is immediately dashed when they assume, its all about Trump and we need to get rid of him,   and get
 a Democrat in power, or a third party candidate, Bernie. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">I control my need to ask, where have you been for over eight years now, by pointing out Bush put us into 2 wars, Obama extended those to now 7. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">On Oct 9, 2017, at 07:14, Boyle, Francis A <<a href="mailto:fboyle@illinois.edu">fboyle@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">And I would add that Amy Badman is typical for what passes for most of the American “left” these days—warmongers. Fab.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Boyle,
 Francis A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, October 9, 2017 8:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Estabrook, Carl G <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>>; Peace-discuss List <<a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net">prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net</a>; Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@anti-war.net">peace@anti-war.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Trump's defeat by the political establishment leads to war</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, October 09, 2017 7:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Boyle, Francis A <<a href="mailto:fboyle@illinois.edu"><span style="color:purple">fboyle@illinois.edu</span></a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Estabrook, Carl G <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu"><span style="color:purple">galliher@illinois.edu</span></a>>; Peace-discuss List <<a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"><span style="color:purple">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</span></a>>;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net"><span style="color:purple">prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net</span></a>;
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Trump's defeat by the political establishment leads to war</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">I wasn’t aware of Amy’s support for Libyan intervention at the time, but given her take on Syria of recent, I no longer pay attention to DN when it comes to foreign policy. <o:p></o:p></p>
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 who run our government. NSA, CIA, CFR, Pentagon, State Dept., and the many contractors who profit from war, own the DNC and GOP. The only difference in either party or groups holding power is strategy and tactics, and their only concern is “power”. There is
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">On Oct 9, 2017, at 04:56, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"><span style="color:purple">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">Yeah well Amy Badman fully supported Obama’s unconstitutional war against Libya for eight months that killed about 50,000 Muslims/Arabs/Africans of Color, Men, Women and Children, destroyed Libya as a State and
 turned Libya into Somalia on the Med, along with her Boy Toy Juan Cole of UMichigan, a reported CIA Asset. Fab.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, October 09, 2017 4:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Estabrook, Carl G <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu"><span style="color:purple">galliher@illinois.edu</span></a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Peace-discuss List <<a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"><span style="color:purple">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</span></a>>;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net"><span style="color:purple">prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net</span></a>;
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[Peace] Trump's defeat by the political establishment leads to war</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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 administration) couldn’t stand that. So they destroyed it, to further their long-standing policies to retard the economic development of Eurasia, seen as a threat to the US one-percent’s profits. They’re wiling to kill a lot of people to do that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">...the failure of Donald Trump’s America First policy ... Trump has done a pretty horrible job selling his policy. There was a non-interventionist component that he campaigned on, which proved pretty popular, particularly
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">...these numbers ... started to shift when the election campaign began. They reflect a concerted campaign by the mainstream media and by the national security state, which has unprecedented access and control over
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 take place? Because of the partisan war against Trump, who has been portrayed as an enemy of NATO – even though he is now as supportive of NATO as ever; as someone who is a Manchurian candidate of Russia, who is controlled by Putin’s nine-dimensional chess
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