[Peace-discuss] Draft flyer for AWARE distribution

[Stuart Levy]

It does seem strange to lead with Pres. Obama.   Trump is President now,
and primarily responsible for the current continuation of bipartisan US
war policy which Obama's administration pursued in his time.

It would be good too, even in a brief flyer, to bring up US provocations
against North Korea - at least to mention it in the subtitle along with
Russia and China.

On 09/28/2017 10:37 AM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote:
> *AMERICANS ARE AGAINST U.S. WAR-MAKING*
> *DEMAND AN END TO U.S. KILLING IN OUR NAME*
>
> *Obama and Trump were both elected as anti-war candidates.*
> *In office, both increased the killing by sending more troops to the
> Mideast *
> *and continuing war provocations against Russia and China.*
> *~*
> 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.
>
> /President Obama was elected as an anti-war candidate, but in office
> he sent thousands of additional U.S. troops into 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; they had to agree, in order to get elected.
>
> *But the ‘one percent’ - the U.S. economic elite - do want the wars.*
>
> /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./
>
> *~*
>
> 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.
>
> /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 chokehold 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./
>
> *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. *
>
> 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
>
> /~ (1) establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international
> law, and human rights;/
> /~ (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;/
> /~ (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); bring U.S. troops (and weapons) home; /
> /~ (4) stop U.S. support for human rights abusers, notably Israel and
> Saudi Arabia; and/
> /~ (5) lead on global nuclear disarmament./
>
> */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 ~/*
>
>
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