[Peace-discuss] Flyer to distributed at Dec.7 demo

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Flyer to distributed at the regular monthly anti-war demo, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2-4pm at the Susan B. Anthony Memorial, at the intersection of Main and Neil Streets in Champaign.]
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“IMPEACH TRUMP!” is the US political establishment’s way of distracting you from America’s war-making around the world

The U.S. media (owned by large corporations) continue to tell us how terrible President Trump is, but that is a way to avoid talking about how terrible U.S. government war-making is.

And in regard to killing people around the world, the Trump administration’s policy seems little different in fact from that of the Obama administration - for all of President Trump’s assertions that he wants to end the Obama-Clinton wars.

President Obama inherited two shameful wars from the Bush administration (in Afghanistan and Iraq): he increased the number to eight (attacking Libya, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen as well) and became the first U.S. president ever to be at war throughout two terms. Not even presidents Roosevelt (WWII), Wilson (WWI), or Lincoln (Civil War) did that.

As Barack Obama said in 2012, after ordering drone assassinations of American citizens, including minors (purposely), “Turns out I’m really good at killing people; didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”

Even more dangerously, he continued America’s longest-standing foreign policy - attempting to prevent the integration of Eurasia, for fear that that would retard the U.S. elite’s economic exploitation of the rest of the world - by American war-provocations against Russia and China, from Ukraine to the South China Sea.

Trump, after criticizing Obama’s war-making, has largely continued it - in part at least because he is under pressure from the ‘deep state’ to maintain the traditional US foreign policy of retarding the economic development of Russia and China.

Since the end of WWII, the U.S. has killed more than 20 million people in wars (Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, Mideast, and elsewhere) designed to destroy challenges to the economic hegemony the U.S. obtained as the only major country largely undamaged by WWII. (Russia lost 27 million people in defeating Naziism; U.S. losses in WWII totaled about a half million people.)

That is why international polls show that the U.S. is the most feared government in the world - not China, Russia, Iran, or Israel. The Trump administration is not the problem: U.S. war-making is. The rest of the world recognizes that the U.S. government remains what Martin Luther King called it long ago: “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”

With other peace groups around the world, we call upon our president and government to close all U.S. military bases on foreign soil, bring all U.S. troops (and weapons) home, and provide social supports - including free medical care, education, and a universal basic income - for Americans, who have been made poorer by generations of our government’s wars.
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In Illinois, send your opinion to your local representatives in Congress--
~ Senator Dick Durbin: <https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email>
~ Sen. Tammy Duckworth: <https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator>
~ Representative Rodney Davis: <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/>
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The ‘Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort’ is on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign-Urbana Illinois>
The TV program ‘AWARE on the Air,’ a local discussion of war news, is on Urbana Public Television, Tuesdays at 10pm (& available on YouTube)
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