[Peace-discuss] Proposed flyer (unformatted) for AWARE demo Sat. 3 Sept., 2-4pm

[C. G. Estabrook]

A.W.A.R.E.
The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana

The U.S. government is waging illegal wars around the world
and secretly twisting the international economy via ‘trade pacts’
(TPP, TTIP) for the benefit of less than 1% of the U.S. population.

Join our demonstration the first Saturday of every month,
at the intersection of Church and Neil in Champaign, 2-4pm

Meet with us Saturdays at the Urbana Farmers’ Market (Lincoln 
Square) for books, bumper stickers, literature, and conversation

Watch our weekly Urbana Public Television (channel 6) program 
“AWARE on the Air” (also on YouTube), and/or join us at noon Tuesdays
in the Urbana City Council Chambers for the live unrehearsed recordings 

We meet Sundays at 5pm at Pizza M, 208 W. Main St., Urbana;
new members welcome: for information write us at <aware at anti-war.net <mailto:aware at anti-war.net>>
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President Obama is making war in eight countries;
he is sending U.S. ‘special forces’ into more than half the world’s countries - to kidnap, torture, and kill ‘bad guys’; 
he has assassinated thousands by drone - the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times - including US citizens; 
and he is provoking war with Russia and China.

Contact the president (202-456-1111) and our representatives in Congress (202-224-3121):
tell them to end the wars and drone attacks, cut military spending by at least half, bring the
troops home, and close the U.S. military’s 1,000 foreign bases; stop U.S. support for - and 
arms sales to - human rights abusers like Israel, and lead on global nuclear disarmament. 

	President Barack Obama - <http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments>
	Senator Dick Durbin - <http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email>
	Senator Mark Kirk - <http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation>
	Representative Rodney Davis - <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me>

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President Obama is Killing People in the Mideast and Should Stop 

When the new president (probably Hillary Clinton) is inaugurated next January, Barack Obama will have become the first US president - ever - to have been at war throughout two presidential terms. His greatest talent seems to be his ability to distract Americans from what he’s doing. He has attacked eight countries - two more than George Bush - and is today conducting what has been called “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times” - his drone assassinations. He has killed thousands of civilians, including U.S. citizens and hundreds of children, with drones. The New York Times says he chooses the targets himself, from lists prepared by the CIA.

In a book on the last presidential campaign, he is quoted as follows: "'Turns out I'm really good at killing people,' Obama said quietly. 'Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.'" However ironically he meant it, the quote has not been denied by the White House, and it turns out to be true. 

In addition to conducting wars throughout the Mideast, the Obama administration is acting with belligerence toward China, and promoting an ongoing proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, which has already killed more people than Israel killed (with US permission) in Gaza in 2014. He is risking war in both places, even nuclear war. The president also commands through the National Security Council a 70,000-member private army, the Special Operations Command, active in half the countries of the world. Their operations include kidnapping ("rendition"), murder and torture.

Hillary Clinton, responsible for horrors in Honduras, Libya, Syria and elsewhere, as president would only continue and intensify the warmongering of recent administrations, the blowback from which is now producing terrorist attacks in Europe and America. 

Syria. The Obama administration is responsible for the vicious civil war in Syria that has killed thousands and flooded Europe with refugees. The disclosure by former US intelligence chief Lt. General Michael Flynn that the Obama administration was well aware from as early as 2012 that its covert support to anti-government militants in Syria was fomenting jihadist terrorism was a rare moment of honesty. Obama’s Secretary of State at that crucial time was Hillary Clinton. In that regard, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is right to say that Obama and Clinton “created” Islamic State and other related jihadist terrorist groups. [F. Cunningham]

Yemen. One of the poorest countries in the world, Yemen is being destroyed by Saudi Arabia, with the active support of the Obama administration.  Saudi Arabia, one of the two chief clients of the US in the Mideast (the other is Israel) has been bombing and shelling Yemen for 16 months. The UN puts the civilian death toll at 3700, but it is probably much higher. This rain of destruction was made possible by the material and moral support of the United States, which supplied most of the bombers, bombs, and missiles required for the aerial onslaught. Saudi Arabia is a major contributor to the Clinton Foundation.

The Mideast has been a particular concern of all recent presidential administrations because of its vast stock of oil and natural gas.  In the last two generations, US executive branch leaders have killed, wounded and made homeless well over 20 million human beings, many in the Mideast, in order to control those resources. The US 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 US a major  advantage over China, Germany, and other countries; that control benefits only the American economic elite - the one percent - and not Americans in general, who’ve seen wealth concentrate in fewer and fewer hands at an accelerating rate throughout the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations.

President Obama has fallen in with this pattern and extended it through two terms. Every indications is that these crimes will continue in the new administration, unless Americans demand that they cease.

A.W.A.R.E. - The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana

{For citations, questions, or comments on this flyer, contact<carl at newsfromneptune.com <mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com>>}   ###
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