[Peace-discuss] [Peace] peace demonstration / Saturday, 2pm-4pm / January 7, 2017

[Karen Medina]

oh, and i added a number 6.
hand back the war powers to Congress

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Peace-Discuss,
>
> I was reading through Carl's flyer.
> * It seems to me that Obama is a Lame Duck president with less than two
> weeks left in his presidency.
> * I think we might be better off diving directly into things as they
> currently are, the situation that Trump will inherit.
> * I took out stuff that I think we don't need, and I changed Obama to US
> in a few places.
>
> -karen medina
> ---
> A proposed flyer for Saturday’s demonstration. Comments welcome.
> [I took out stuff that I think we don't need.]
> ---
> THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S ATTACKS ON THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST -
> AND ITS WAR PROVOCATIONS AROUND THE WORLD - CONTINUE IN 2017.
> THAT’S UNJUSTIFIED - WE MUST TELL THEM TO STOP .
>
> The United States is continues making war around the world - although most
> Americans are not aware of what we are doing.
>
> Since World War II, US presidents have killed more than 20 million people
> in 37 nations. The US remains what M. L. King called it, “The greatest
> purveyor of violence in the world today.”
>
> In addition to conducting wars throughout the Mideast, the US is acting
> with belligerence toward China and promoting an ongoing proxy war against
> Russia in Ukraine; that war has already killed more people than Israel
> killed (with US permission) in Gaza in 2014. The United States is risking
> war with both Russia and China, even nuclear war. The President also
> commands a 70,000-member private army, the Special Operations Command,
> active in more than 130 countries. Their activities include kidnapping
> ("rendition"), murder, and torture.
>
> Not only is the United States risking nuclear war, we are preparing for
> it: President Obama  launched a 10-year trillion dollar program to update
> nuclear weapons - and make them more usable!
>
> The Obama administration is also partly responsible for the vicious civil
> war in Syria, which has killed thousands and flooded Europe with refugees.
>
> Why has our government plagued the world with war for more than two
> generations? The answer is simple and horrible - to protect the profits of
> the 1%, the American economic elite.
>
> When World War II ended in 1945, the US was the only undamaged major
> country, and controlled the world economy, for the benefit of that 1%. In
> all the years since, US administrations have been willing to kill people
> and make war to “maintain the disparity,” as American planners said.
>
> The Mideast has been a particular concern of the US government because of
> its vast stock of oil and natural gas. 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 - so control over theses resources gives the
> US a choke-hold over China, Germany, and other countries. But that control
> benefits only the American economic elite and not Americans in general,
> who’ve seen wealth concentrate in fewer and fewer hands - at an
> accelerating rate - throughout the Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barack
> Obama administrations.
>
> As Obama leaves office, he promises ten thousand US troops will stay in
> Afghanistan - along with mercenaries and ‘coalition forces’ (NATO). And US
> subversion of other countries in MENA - the Mideast and North Africa -
> continues apace.
>
> Astonishingly, the US administration claims that its authority to continue
> to kill people in the Mideast today comes from the “Authorization for the
> Use of Military Force” passed by Congress just after the criminal attacks
> of 9-11-2001: that was directed against al-Qaeda, the organization
> responsible for the 9-11 attacks. But the US administration is killing
> people today in the Syria in alliance with al-Qaeda - although most
> Americans don’t know it.
>
> And the supporters of that murderous policy, the neocons, are desperately
> seeking to influence the incoming Trump administration.
>
> The Australian journalist John Pilger wrote before the election, "The CIA
> has demanded Trump is not elected. Pentagon generals have demanded he is
> not elected. The pro-war New York Times - taking a breather from its
> relentless low-rent Putin smears - demands that he is not elected.
> Something is up. These tribunes of “perpetual war” are terrified that the
> multi-billion-dollar business of war by which the United States maintains
> its dominance will be undermined if Trump does a deal with Putin, then with
> China’s Xi Jinping. Their panic at the possibility of the world’s great
> power talking peace – however unlikely – would be the blackest farce were
> the issues not so dire."
>
> But if Trump can stick to his campaign promises, he will likely find
> reliable partners in Russian president Putin (in spite of the Democrats’
> lying portrayal of him ) and Chinese president Xi Jinping. Russia and China
> have little to gain from a confrontation with the US - or, even less, from
> war. Will president-elect Trump have the wisdom to realize this and use it
> for the benefit of America?
>
> AWARE and other anti-war groups around the US demand that President Trump
> ~ (1) establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law,
> human rights, and respect for the sovereignty of other nations;
> ~ (2) end the wars (in the Mideast and elsewhere) and stop the drone
> attacks;
> ~ (3) cut military spending by at least 50% and close the more than 700
> foreign military bases (neither Russia nor China has more than twelve);
> ~ (4) stop US support of human rights abusers, notably Israel and Saudi
> Arabia; &
> ~ (5) lead on global nuclear disarmament.
> ~ (6) hand back the war powers to Congress.
>
> ~~~
>         {This flyer is distributed by members and friends of the Anti-War
> Anti-Racism Effort}
>



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-- karen medina
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark
Twain
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