[Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demonstration, Saturday 12/2

[Roger Helbig]

Bovine excrement - no one wants the wars, but no one wants terrorist
attacks either - what you folks need is a terrorist incident in your
home town -that might wake you up -

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:46 PM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss
<peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT THE PROBLEM:
> ILLEGAL U.S. WARS AROUND THE WORLD ARE
>
> The US government is today making war around the world - and it’s doing so
> without authorization from the U.S. Constitution or the U.N. Charter.
>
> If American leaders were put on trial today as German leaders were, at
> Nuremberg after World War II, for “launching aggressive war,” they - like
> the German leaders - would be hanged.
>
> The U.S. military is today killing people in seven Mideast and African
> countries - Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan
> (and on the other side of the world, in the Philippines). 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.
>
> President Obama was elected as an anti-war candidate, but in office he sent
> thousands of additional U.S. troops into America’s longest war, in
> Afghanistan. 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 thing himself.
>
> 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; both candidates had to seem to oppose the wars, in
> order to get elected.
>
> But the ‘one percent’ - the U.S. economic elite - do want the wars.
>
> When World War II ended in 1945, the U.S. was the least-damaged major
> country on either side, and controlled the world economy. America’s wars
> since then - in Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, and the Mideast - have killed
> between 20 and 30 million people for the purpose of maintaining that
> control. Ordinary Americans have paid for these vicious wars, but they
> haven’t profited from them.
>
> 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."
>
> We must demand that foreign military bases be closed, U.S. troops (and
> weapons) be brought home, and social support - including free medical care,
> education, and a universal basic income - be provided for Americans
> immiserated by generations of U.S. government wars.
>
> WRITE CONGRESS - DEMAND U.S. TROOPS & WEAPONS BE BROUGHT HOME
> Our representatives in Congress from this area - and their email addresses -
> are as follows:
>
> Representative Rodney Davis: <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/>
> Senator Tammy Duckworth:
> <https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator>
> Senator Dick Durbin: <https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email>
>
> ~~~
>
> ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign Urbana
> Illinois>
> ~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast ~ Medicare for all ~ Universal
> basic income ~
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Peace-discuss mailing list
> Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss
>