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The U.S. is now fomenting, under Trump, <i class="">proxy</i> and <i class="">economic</i> wars, not direct military conflicts with U.S. forces (which would alarm the public with casualties and U.S. vulnerabilities). Quite clever? But terriby destructive and
lethal nonetheless, In Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, in Africa, Palestine, etc.. Trump is no bystander. He is the lancepoint of American foreign policy, and should be beholden for these manifold policies, as well as on other critical
policies such as nuclear weapons issues, military-national security budgets, domestic issues…, that he embodies.
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<div class="">One can get the impression that Carl serves as an apologist for Trump by slyly deflecting criticisms from him to past U.S. transgressions …. </div>
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<div class="">Especially admirable is the next to last entry (With other peace groups…) of your pamphlet. </div>
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<div class="">UBI? What?<br class="">
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<div class="">On Dec 3, 2019, at 10:37 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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Much better.
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<div class="">Though I do have a question given the flyer is supposed to reflect the opinions of most AWARE folks, or those who intend to be at the demo. Saturday: Do most members of AWARE support UBI?</div>
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<div class="">On Dec 3, 2019, at 08:30, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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[Incorporates several suggestions from members & friends of AWARE]
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<div class=""><b class="">“IMPEACH TRUMP!” is the U.S. political establishment’s way </b><b class="">of distracting you from America’s war-making around the world</b></div>
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<div class="">The U.S. media (owned by large corporations) continue to tell us how terrible President Trump is, but that is a way to avoid talking about how terrible U.S. government war-making is - most recently in Venezuela and Bolivia.<br class="">
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And in regard to killing people around the world, the Trump administration’s policy seems little different from that of the Obama administration - for all of President Trump’s assertions that he wants to end the Obama-Clinton wars.<br class="">
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President Obama inherited two shameful wars from the Bush administration (in Afghanistan and Iraq): he increased the number to eight (attacking Libya, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen as well) and became the first U.S. president ever to
be at war throughout two terms. Not even presidents Roosevelt (WWII), Wilson (WWI), or Lincoln (Civil War) did that. <br class="">
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As Barack Obama said in 2012, after ordering drone assassinations of American citizens, including minors (purposely), “Turns out I’m really good at killing people; didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.” <br class="">
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While “covering sin with smooth names,” Obama continued America’s longest-standing foreign policy - attempting to prevent the integration of Eurasia, for fear that it would interfere with the U.S. elite’s economic exploitation of the rest of the world - by
American war provocations against Russia and China, from Ukraine to the South China Sea.<br class="">
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Trump, after criticizing Obama’s war-making, has largely continued it - in part at least because he is under pressure from the ‘deep state’ to maintain the traditional US foreign policy of retarding the economic development of Russia and China.<br class="">
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Since the end of WWII, the U.S. has killed more than 20 million people in wars (Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, Mideast, and elsewhere) designed to destroy challenges to the economic hegemony the U.S. obtained as the only major country largely undamaged by
WWII. (Russia lost 27 million people in defeating Naziism; U.S. losses in WWII totaled about a half million people.) <br class="">
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That is why today international polls show that the U.S. is the most feared government in the world - not China, Russia, Iran, or Israel. The rest of the world recognizes that the U.S. government remains what Martin Luther King called it long ago: “the greatest
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With other peace groups around the world, we call upon our president and government <br class="">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>(a) to close the thousand U.S. military bases on foreign soil (most encircling Russia and China), <br class="">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>(b) to bring all U.S. troops (and weapons) home, and <br class="">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>(c) to provide social supports - including free medical care, education, and a universal basic income - for Americans, who have been made poorer by generations of our government’s wars.<br class="">
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In Illinois, send your opinion to your local representatives in Congress--<br class="">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>~ Senator Dick Durbin:
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>~ Sen. Tammy Duckworth:
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>~ Representative Rodney Davis:
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<i class="">The ‘Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort’ is on Facebook at <br class="">
<AWARE of Champaign-Urbana Illinois><br class="">
The TV program ‘AWARE on the Air,’ a local discussion of war news, is on <br class="">
Urbana Public Television, Tuesdays at 10pm (& available on YouTube)</i><br class="">
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