[Peace] Student Greens Program tonight

Fri Sep 23 02:58:05 UTC 2016

GREEN PARTY FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY

[1] A Green party president, such as Jill Stein, would stop the vicious war-making over which the current US president presides. Like all American presidents for more than a generation, President Obama is making war around the world. 

[2] Since World War II, US presidents have killed more than 20 million people in 37 nations. The US remains in the Obama administration what Martin Luther King called it long ago: “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”

[3] When the new president is inaugurated next January, Barack Obama will have become the first US president - ever - to have been at war throughout two presidential terms. He has attacked eight countries - two more than George Bush - and is today conducting what has been called “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times” - his drone assassinations. He has killed thousands of civilians with drones, including U.S. citizens and hundreds of children. The New York Times says he chooses the targets himself, from lists prepared by the CIA.

[4] In addition to conducting wars throughout the Mideast, the Obama administration is acting with belligerence toward China, and promoting an ongoing proxy war against Russia in Ukraine; that war has already killed more people than Israel killed (with US permission) in Gaza in 2014. The president is risking war with both Russia and China, even nuclear war. He also commands through the National Security Council a 70,000-member private army, the Special Operations Command, active in half the countries of the world. Their operations include kidnapping ("rendition"), murder, and torture. 

[5] Not only is the Obama administration risking nuclear war, they’re preparing for it: President Obama has launched a 1o-year trillion dollar program to update nuclear weapons - and make them more usable!

[6] The Obama administration is also responsible for the vicious civil war in Syria that has killed thousands and flooded Europe with refugees. Hillary Clinton, responsible for horrors in Honduras, Libya, Syria and elsewhere, as president would only continue and intensify the warmongering of the Bush and Obama administrations, the blowback from which is now producing terrorist attacks in Europe and America. 

[7] The Green party says instead, “Establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law, and human rights. End the wars [in the Mideast and elsewhere] and [stop the] drone attacks; cut military spending by at least 50% and close the more than 700 foreign military bases that are turning our republic into a bankrupt empire. [Neither Russia nor China has more than 12.] Stop U.S. support and arms sales to human rights abusers [notably Israel], and lead on global nuclear disarmament.” [Jill2016] 

[8] That’s a call for a reversal of the Obama administration’s foreign and military policy. The positions of the Green party’s presidential  candidate, Jill  Stein, on foreign and domestic policy - to say nothing of climate catastrophe - are far better than those of the major party candidates, but I won't be dissuaded by the argument that voting for a third party helps Trump - because his positions on war and the economy are substantially better than Clinton's.

[9] Clinton is the candidate of the ‘defense’ industries and Wall Street because they see accurately that she is both neoconservative (which means more war) and neoliberal (which means more austerity) - and that Trump isn’t. 

[10] Not only have the leading neoliberals rallied to Clinton, the leading neocons have fled the Republicans to support her. With Clinton as president, we're certain to get more war, in the tradition of the last 25 years. With Trump as president, we might not. 

[11] John Pilger has written, “The CIA has demanded Trump [not be] elected. Pentagon generals have demanded he [not be] elected. The pro-war New York Times - taking a breather from its relentless low-rent Putin smears [of Russian president Putin] - demands that he [not be] elected. Something is up. These [promoters] of "perpetual war" are terrified that the multi-billion-dollar business of war by which the United States maintains its dominance will be undermined if Trump does a deal with Putin, then with China's Xi Jinping. Their panic at the possibility of the world's great power talking peace - however unlikely - would be the blackest farce were the issues not so dire.”

[12] But there is in fact a candidate talking peace - and a reversal of Obama’s war policies - even more than Trump, and that’s Jill Stein of the Green party.

—CGE

> On Sep 22, 2016, at 3:44 PM, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Details
> The UIUC Student Greens are hosting a panel event. Speakers include the Prairie Greens, Scott Summers (Illinois Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate), and music by HarryoftheEarth Music <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_HarryoftheEarth-2DMusic-2D1013470505349268_&d=CwMFAg&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=tfHzwZBcTLEveiewRiq0OdhFmfRmlvZjpIBS0AUJ2v0&m=Esi0lYP62LknjN-pGgwKh9jbLQzfbOmi5lJDPGC4KL8&s=3x34JUmkqMHvDpIr-3W_uXxFraJiCVaEEEMMurBuqdQ&e=>. All will be followed by a Q&A, so come with questions or discussion points!
> About UIUC Student Greens
> 
> UIUC Student Greens <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_UIUCGreens_&d=CwMFAg&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=tfHzwZBcTLEveiewRiq0OdhFmfRmlvZjpIBS0AUJ2v0&m=Esi0lYP62LknjN-pGgwKh9jbLQzfbOmi5lJDPGC4KL8&s=ZrlyljNWRlgpo41VhGBFvtH-0otWdlPuZ6fi0jIljTA&e=>
> Political Organization
> This is the student organization at the U of Illinois supporting the Green Party of the United States.
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/attachments/20160922/c8e3a9ee/attachment.html>