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DESCRIPTION:The ANSWER Coalition is calling for demonstrations to oppose the bombing of 
 Syria and Iraq from September 23 through September 28\n\nThe U.S. bombing 
 of Syria has begun tonight. \n\nThis new aggression is loaded with irony. 
 The Pentagon spokesperson says that the bombing is directed against the 
 self-named Islamic State (ISIS) forces that have gained control over large 
 swaths of Syria and Iraq. But it was precisely the arms transfers and 
 funding of ISIS by the U.S.'s principal allies in the region, especially 
 Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, that has allowed the Islamic state to grow 
 strong in its struggle to topple the secular Syrian government led by 
 Bashar Al-Assad.  \n\nLet's tell the fundamental truth that the Obama 
 Administration conceals from the people. The so-called Islamic State or 
 ISIS wouldn't exist today as a major force either in Syria or Iraq except 
 for the U.S. military aggression that smashed the secular, nationalist 
 governments in Iraq in 2003 and Libya in 2011 followed by its catastrophic 
 support for the armed opposition against the similarly organized government 
 in Syria. \n\nThe U.S. bombing of Syria territory is taking place without 
 the consent of the Syrian government. It is one more U.S. violation of 
 international law and Syrian sovereignty. The Syrian government had offered 
 to cooperate with the United States in a joint military struggle against 
 the reactionary forces of ISIS. That offer has, however, been immediately 
 and categorically rejected by all in the U.S. ruling class political 
 circles who has already announced that the Syrian government must be 
 destroyed. Obama and the Pentagon and the CIA and, last and least,  the 
 bribed and corrupted talking heads in Congress are determined to use the 
 attack against the Islamic State as a pretext to carry out regime change in 
 Syria by military means even though the the Syrian government has been the 
 most effective military force in struggling against the so-called Islamic 
 State. \n\nThe real objectives of US imperialism are to locate permanent 
 Pentagon military bases in Iraq, Syria and the entire resource rich region 
 of the Middle East. This is goal: the projection of permanent imperial 
 power and domination in a region that contains two thirds of the worlds oil 
 reserves.\n\nFor the past twenty four years the US has relentlessly bombed 
 Iraq and now it is bombing Syria. Neither Iraq or Syria have ever attacked 
 the United States or its people. This enduring war against previously 
 colonized peoples is justified with shifting and changing rationales. But 
 it is illegal. It is an expression of modern day imperialism. It is causing 
 chaos and destruction in the targeted countries. And ultimately it will  
 fail to satisfy its objectives because it is based on the fantasies of 
 those who have become drunk on that now familiar toxic combination of 
 unbridled arrogance and military power.\n\nThe majority of people of the 
 United States oppose this endless war in Iraq and now Syria. It is not in 
 their interest.  At any moment this or that poll will announce that the 
 American people favor military action of some sort. This is paper thin 
 propaganda. If the country and its people were actually  threatened the 
 Commander in Chief would not have to go on national TV and promise the 
 people  that this war will involve “no boots on the ground.” There is 
 no clearer indication that the motivation for the new imperial war is not 
 just flimsy but false.\n\nDemonstrations will be taking place nationwide to 
 oppose the bombing of Syria and Iraq from September 23 through September 
 28. A list of demonstrations will be available soon at 
 www.AnswerCoalition.org. Please send in details of planned demonstrations 
 to info@answercoalition.org.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/09/23/18761973.php
SUMMARY:Emergency Protest "Stop the U.S. bombing of Syria!"
LOCATION:Powell and Market Sts. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/09/23/18761973.php
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