[Peace-discuss] Draft flyer for AWARE distribution

[Carl G. Estabrook]

I’m going to print this (front & back on one sheet) and cut it in half  - maybe 100 sheets (so 200 flyers).

[RECTO]
~ 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 
& continuing war provocations vs. Russia (in Syria) and China (in Korea).
~
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.

Both men knew that, in spite of intense media propaganda, most Americans don’t want U.S. troops engaged in war and don’t see the killing as justified; both had to seem to agree with that, in order to be elected.

But the ‘one percent’ - the U.S. economic elite - do want the wars, to ‘contain’ Russia and China.

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, to protect the profits of the American 1% - at the expense of the US populace. 

~

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 example, 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 and duplicitously invaded Iraq, which has some of the world’s largest oil reserves - and killed perhaps a million people; we now have 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 alone 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 Syria and Eastern Europe) and China (in Korea and 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 (Russia has twelve; China has one); 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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[VERSO]

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 example, 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 and duplicitously invaded Iraq, which has some of the world’s largest oil reserves - and killed perhaps a million people; we now have 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 alone 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 Syria and Eastern Europe) and China (in Korea and 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 (Russia has twelve; China has one); 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 ~



~ 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 &  continuing war provocations vs. Russia (in Syria) and China (in Korea).
~
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.

Both men knew that, in spite of intense media propaganda, most Americans don’t want U.S. troops engaged in war and don’t see the killing as justified; both had to seem to agree with that, in order to be elected.

But the ‘one percent’ - the U.S. economic elite - do want the wars, to ‘contain’ Russia and China.

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, to protect the profits of the American 1% - at the expense of the US populace. 

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