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

Tue Dec 3 14:24:04 UTC 2019

Of course the flyer is not “defending Trump” (nor implying him “innocent”!) but pointing out that the political establishment (the Democrat party, the “intelligence community’ [CIA/FBI/NSA], the NYT & WaPo et al.) is deflecting criticism of the US government’s criminal war policy (which of course includes Venezuela and Bolivia, which the flyer should mention) into a demand to replace Trump. 

“IMPEACH TRUMP!” Is a disingenuous alternative to “BRING ALL US TROOPS HOME!"

And the political establishment is doing that in *defense* of US war-making, as 'Russiagate' shows. Trump was the first major party candidate since George McGovern to criticize US war policy: the political establishment are afraid he may act on those criticisms (e.g., withdraw from Afghanistan, Syria, and elsewhere).

—CGE

> On Dec 3, 2019, at 5:57 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> No mention of Bolivia and the torture and murder of the many indigenous supporters of Evo Morales, the elected President who had to flee to Mexico due to a US supported coup? 
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> No mention of the attempted over throw of the elected leader of Venezuela? 
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> No mention of the sanctions, which are war, being used against Iran?
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> The drone wars of the Obama Administration have been continued and increased by the Trump Administration, not discontinued. 
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> The above is just a few of the crimes being committed by the Trump Administration along with the continuation of the Obama Administration wars. Granted Trump isn’t as interested in continuing the eight wars of the Obama Administration and it is the (Deep/ Perpetual State) that is responsible, but it is our “system” of capitalism that needs to be addressed, not the puppet in the White House, and Trump is not an innocent as you imply, he has blood on his hands. 
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> If the only thing AWARE is concerned with is defending Trump, granted the impeachment is just a political tool to oust him from power, further denigrate Russia, and distract the American people, then I certainly won’t be participating in a demonstration more concerned with supporting Trump than calling attention to US wars of hegemony.
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>> On Dec 2, 2019, at 19:52, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> [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
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.”
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.)
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>> 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.”
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>> 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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