[Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demonstration

[Karen Aram]

We need to add something in relation to the most recent provocations of China, sanctions against Iran and N. Korea, as well as planned war across the nations of the Sahel. 

 I will see what I can come up with later, but if you or anyone else can provide……..sticking to the issue of (war, and what the USG is doing in relation to foreign policy) 

Other than “Costs of War” I don’t think our domestic concerns belong in the Anti-war “flyer.” We need to keep it simple, for the many who don’t even know we’re at war with currently eight nations. We want people to read the flyer. 

We can do other flyers with more in-depth information for the Market in the Spring, or for distribution at events. 
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>> IN THE PAST YEAR, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT MADE WAR
>> AROUND THE WORLD - AS IT HAS FOR YEARS. THAT MUST STOP.
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>> The Trump Administration left no doubt as to US priorities by making Saudi Arabia and Israel his first overseas visits – coinciding with a massive Saudi arms deal and planned increase in US military aid to Israel.
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>> For the Washington lobbyists and US foreign policy establishment, this was business as usual. 
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>> Not only did the arming of Syria’s rebels fuel and prolong a war that has killed some 400,000 people, but also many of the arms supplied by the US and its allies ended up in the hands of the same Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorists the US and its allies were purporting to fight. But the US and its allies have long regarded Islamist forces as a useful foreign policy tool, regardless of their disdain of democracy, human rights or other claimed ‘US values.’
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>> Similarly, the US reportedly facilitated the escape of IS fighters from Raqqa, and appeared to strike a deal with IS fighters to allow the US’ SDF proxies an unopposed advance in their race to seize Deir ez-Zor oilfields, thereby preventing their retaking by forces loyal to Assad. This illustrates how even now, the uninvited and hence unlawful US presence in Syria continues.
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>> As in Syria, 2017 also saw IS largely defeated in Iraq. US-led airstrikes undoubtedly played a role in this – but at great civilian loss of life. 
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>> The same applies to The Saudi air campaign and blockade against Yemen which, using US and UK supplied weapons, training and logistics support continues
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>> US Decline? The recent UN votes against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and for example the US position on climate change and Iran, show a US arguably more isolated from world opinion, including even its close allies, than at any time in recent history.
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>> Yet rather than work to cultivate partnerships to deal with common issues such as Korea or terrorism, the US continues to publicly designate potential allies as enemies, as for example in its recent security strategy document – and to seek confrontation rather than cooperation, as arguably in its decision to send arms to Ukraine.
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>> The US remains the world’s most powerful nation. But unless it can be forced to act in the interests of peace, stability, of its own people and the wider world rather than in the narrow interests of the American economic elite - the ‘corporate globalists’ who are driving its policies - its influence in an increasingly multipolar world is bringing humanity to the precipice of doom. 
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>> ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign Urbana Illinois>
>>                 ~ U.S. troops and weapons out of the Mideast ~ 
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