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DESCRIPTION:United Statement and Call for Action to Oppose\nU.S./NATO AND ISRAELI WAR 
 ON SYRIA\n\nNo more wars – U.S. out of the Middle East!\nNational Days of 
 Action, June 28 - July 17, 2013\n\nThe White House’s June 13th 
 announcement that it would begin directly supplying arms to the opposition 
 in Syria is a dramatic escalation of the U.S./NATO war against that 
 country. Thousands of U.S. troops and intelligence personnel are training 
 opposition forces and coordinating operations in Turkey and Jordan. Israel, 
 the recipient of more than $3 billion annually in U.S. military aid, has 
 carried out heavy bombing raids against Syria. The Pentagon has developed 
 plans for a “no-fly” zone over Syria, threatening a new U.S. air 
 war.\n\nThe pretext for this escalation is the assertion, presented without 
 any actual evidence, that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons 
 in the conflict that has been raging for more than two years. Like their 
 predecessors, President Obama and other top U.S. officials pretend to be 
 concerned about “democracy” and “human rights” in Syria, but their 
 closest allies in the campaign against Syria are police-state, absolute 
 monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.\n\nJust as the false claim of 
 “weapons of mass destruction” was used as justification for the 
 invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the allegations that chemical 
 weapons were used by the Syrian military is meant to mask the real motives 
 of Washington and its allies. Their aim is to carry out “regime 
 change,” as part of the drive to create a “new Middle East.”\n\nThe 
 invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006, 
 the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya, the now-escalating war in Syria and the 
 growing threats against Iran are part of a coordinated regional effort by 
 the United States, Britain and France to dominate this oil-rich and 
 strategic region.\n\nThe U.S. government cuts basic services and has 
 eliminated hundreds of thousands of public sector workers jobs in the last 
 three years in the name of a discredited austerity which has destroyed the 
 economy, but has unlimited billions available for wars of aggression and 
 NSA surveillance of almost every American.\n\nWe join together to call for 
 National Days of Action, June 28 - July 17, 2013, to demand:\n\n-Stop the 
 U.S./NATO/Israeli war and forms of intervention against 
 Syria!\n\n-Self-determination free from outside intervention for the Syrian 
 people!\n\n-Fund people’s needs, not the military!\n\n-U.S. Out of the 
 Middle East!\n\nVisit http://www.answercoalition.org/ for a complete list 
 of endorsers. \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/05/18739434.php
SUMMARY:Sacramento Protest for Natl Days of Action: Stop the War on Syria!
LOCATION:15th & L Street, Sacramento
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/05/18739434.php
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