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DESCRIPTION:Emergency Discussion with Larry Everest: \n \nWhat is happening in Iraq and 
 the Middle East?  Will the U.S. Intervene? Where Do the Peoples' Interests 
 Lie?   \n\nThurs. June 19th, 7 p.m.   at Revolution Books - 2425 Channing 
 Way Berkeley\n\nEvents are unfolding rapidly in Iraq.  On June 10, armed 
 fighters of the Sunni jihadist group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria 
 (ISIS), took over Iraq's northern province of Nineveh and its capital 
 Mosul, a city of some 650,000, defeating the forces of the U.S.-installed 
 Iraqi government of Nouri al-Malaki.  ISIS then moved south, toward the 
 capital, Baghdad, attacking and capturing other cities.   On June 13, 
 President Barack Obama warned that the U.S. was considering the use of 
 military force to prevent the collapse of the Malaki Regime.  \n\n* Obama 
 said the U.S. might use military force because ISIS "poses a danger to Iraq 
 and its people" and to "American interests."  But what are U.S. interests?  
 Are they the same as the interests of the Iraqi people?  Why is it urgent 
 for people to protest any U.S. military action?\n\n* Who are the forces 
 involved in the conflict in Iraq, and why do the people - here and around 
 the world, including in Iraq - have no interest in siding with any of 
 them?\n\n* How do events in Iraq show that the U.S. rulers are not all 
 powerful?\n\n* Why is it true that there will not be a road forward for the 
 masses of people in the Middle East until the new stage of communism, whose 
 theoretical framework has been developed by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the 
 Revolutionary Communist Party, as concentrated in  COMMUNISM: THE BEGINNING 
 OF A NEW STAGE, A Manifesto from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA 
 (available online in English, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Spanish, German and 
 Portugese) becomes a current in this region that can cohere forces around 
 it and work for real revolution?\n\n*******\n\nLarry Everest is a writer 
 for Revolution newspaper (revcom.us) and author of Oil, Power & Empire: 
 Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda (available at Revolution Books), who has 
 reported from Iraq, Iran, Palestine and India.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/15/18757431.php
SUMMARY:Emergency Discussion with Larry Everest: What is happening in Iraq and the Middle East?
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/15/18757431.php
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