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AMERICANS ARE AGAINST U.S. WAR-MAKING<br class="">
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DEMAND AN END TO U.S. KILLING IN OUR NAME</p>
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Obama and Trump were both elected as anti-war candidates. In office, both sent more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to increase the killing<br class="">
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The U.S. military is today killing people in seven Mideast and African countries - Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan. Thousands of U.S. troops are fighting in these countries, although most Americans don’t know that. In addition,
the 70,000-member U.S. ‘Special Operations Command’ is active in three-quarters of the countries of the world. Their activities include kidnapping (‘rendition’), torture, and murder.</p>
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President Obama was elected as an anti-war candidate, but in office he expanded the wars he inherited and vastly increased the war provocations against Russia and Chiina; his drone assassinations were rightly called “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern
times.”</p>
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President Trump, who promised caution and non-interventionism in foreign policy - and described Hillary Clinton as a “trigger happy warmonger” - has now done the same things himself.</p>
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What both men knew is that, in spite of intense media propaganda, most Americans don’t want U.S. troops engaged in foreign wars and don’t see the killing as justified; they had to agree, in order to get elected.</p>
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*But the ‘one percent’ - the U.S. economic elite - do want the wars.*</p>
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U.S. presidents have killed more than 20 million people in wars around the world since World War II. That war left the U.S. elite in an unprecedented position of world economic dominance. U.S. wars since then - in Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, and the Mideast
- have had the purpose of “maintaining the disparity,” as U.S. diplomat George Kennan wrote in 1948.</p>
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Ordinary Americans have paid for these vicious wars, but they haven’t profited from them. Most Americans are not aware of how much of the world is appalled at what the U.S. government has done in our lifetimes. It is a triumph of the American system of propaganda
and intellectual control - the most effective in history - that Americans are able to ignore it.</p>
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For many years the U.S. has attempted to exercise military control over the Mideast and its energy resources. The U.S. doesn’t need oil from the Mideast, but Mideast gas and oil are needed by America’s economic competitors in Europe and Asia, and so control
over them gives the U.S. a major advantage over China, Germany, and other countries - a choke-hold which benefits only the American one percent. In 2003 the U.S. illegally invaded Iraq - and killed perhaps a million people - and now has thousands of troops
and mercenaries throughout the Mideast.</p>
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The U.S. government says that we’re fighting terrorism, but we are in fact creating terrorists in response to our invasions, bombing campaigns, and drone assassinations, which have killed more than 5,000 people, including U.S. citizens and hundreds of children.</p>
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AWARE, the ‘Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort’ of Champaign-Urbana, joins other anti-war groups in the United States and around the world to call upon President Trump to</p>
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~ (1) establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law, and human rights;<br class="">
~ (2) end U.S. wars in the Mideast and war provocations against Russia (in Eastern Europe) and China (in the South China Sea), and stop the drone assassinations;<br class="">
~ (3) cut military spending by at least 50% and close the more than 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil (Russia has twelve; China has one); bring U.S. troops (and weapons) home from 3/4 of the world’s countries;<br class="">
~ (4) stop U.S. support for human rights abusers, notably Israel and Saudi Arabia; and<br class="">
~ (5) lead on global nuclear disarmament.</p>
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ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign Urbana Illinois></p>
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~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast <br class="">
~ Medicare for all <br class="">
~ Universal basic income</p>
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