[News] Stand Against a US Attack on Syria!

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*Self-Determination Not Imperialism! *
	
*STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE ARAB WORLD *
* STAND AGAINST US WARS FOR EMPIRE!

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Once again, the Arab people, like the indigenous peoples of the 
Americas, Africa, and Asia before them, find themselves at the receiving 
end of US imperialism and ravages of US wars.

The US is preparing to strike Syria at any moment as reports are 
circulating of the US Sixth Fleet carrying a total of 300 cruise 
missiles and positioned off the Syrian and Lebanese coasts. This comes 
on the heels of graphic footage surfacing of another heinous crime 
committed in Syria's brutal civil war, where civilians were filmed 
suffocating and dying as a result of suspected use of chemical agents. 
The scene is on the outskirts of Damascus and the massacre occurred on 
the evening UN weapons inspectors arrived in Syria to investigate the 
possible use of Sarin-like nerve agent or Chlorine gas in the Aleppo 
area back in May 2013. Even according to some US admissions, the Syrian 
armed militias orchestrated the attacks in May. It is known that the 
Syrian regime had decisively scored military victories in Mid Syria and 
would therefore stand to suffer the most damage if it were to deploy 
non-conventional weapons on the day UN inspectors arrive in Syria. And 
yet the US chose to level unsubstantiated allegations against the Syrian 
regime that it used chemical weapons and mobilized its forces for a 
military strike, even prior to the UN commencing its investigation.

Ultimately, we know that both the Syrian regime and the US-funded 
militias are guilty of attacks against civilians. The Syrian civil war 
is being fought at the expense of Syrian families, workers, political 
activists, and the long legacy of Syrian cultural production.   It is 
still the people of Syria that possess the vision for a Syria free of 
autocracy and US imperialist interests, free of sectarianism and 
political repression, and their vision is the only true moral compass.

Syrian cultural and political activists have long been demonstrating 
their steadfastness against political repression and their commitment to 
self-determination. Time and time again they have denounced the 
destruction and devastation of the social and material fabric of Syria.  
These are the voices absent from dominant narratives plastered across TV 
screens, radio broadcasts and newsstands.  Their messages remain draped 
across walls and buildings throughout Syrian towns and villages 
uplifting voices for change, dignity and liberation.

*OBAMA AND THE LEGACY OF US IMPERIALISM*

The Obama administration is anything but a passive observer in the 
deepening of sectarianism and destruction in Syria. For the divisions in 
Syria and the Arab World only serve to secure US interests as defined by 
an elite who only stands to profit from war and weaponry. Have we 
forgotten the infamous "White Powder" scene, where Collin Powell was 
oddly shaking a vial of biological agent at the UN Security Council as 
he applied pressure on the voting members to sanction US colonization of 
Iraq? It was then done under the pretext of preemptive strikes to 
eliminate the non-existent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Today, 
Obama perpetuates the same policies of the Bush Administration in 
deepening the sectarian division, arming and training one group to fight 
another and exporting the war from Iraq to Syria and to the region as a 
whole.

The US, along with its client monarchies who brutally rule Bahrain, 
Saudi Arabia, and Jordan, have reacted to the wave of anti-autocratic 
uprisings by expanding the Iraq conflict. Today, Iraq bears witness to 
over 700,000 dead as a result of the US blockade and more than 1 million 
murdered during the US occupation of Iraq. Today, car bombs and 
sectarian conflict continue to engulf the country. Obama is clearly 
perpetuating Bush's policies by continuing the destabilization of Yemen, 
Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Lebanon and now Syria, all of whom are entrenched 
in a spiraling civil war that directly implicate the US militarily or 
politically.

*THE BANKRUPTCY OF US MORALITY *

On August 26, Secretary of State John Kerry stated that morality compels 
the US to act and attack Syria. We are left to ask, how would killing 
more Syrians with 300 cruise missiles decrease the bloodshed? While all 
atrocities are heinous and must be condemned, let us examine the moral 
standing of the US. Less than 10 days prior to the surfacing of the 
Syrian footage, US-funded Egyptian military were shooting unarmed 
civilians mobilizing throughout the streets. More than 1000 people were 
murdered in cold blood and Obama is yet to cut aid to Egypt in the hope 
of maintaining leverage over a continued peace treaty with Israel. In 
2009, Israel was using phosphorous bombs on a besieged civilian 
population in Gaza, killing over 1,200 people and injuring approximately 
10,000. Had it been about moral compulsion, we would have seen cruise 
missiles rain on the Knesset in Tel Aviv. In fact, Israel continues to 
bomb, kill, displace and steal Arab land on a daily basis while Obama's 
policy is to increase financial and military support for Israel by 
billions of dollars. And let us not forget the US use of depleted 
uranium in Iraq. Iraqis continue to suffer from devastating mortality 
and birth defect rates as the ramifications of US war crimes and use of 
nuclear agents are inherited from one generation to the next. The 
contemporary record speaks for itself and we need not go back in history 
to mention the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the two Hydrogen Bombs 
dropped on Japan and the purposeful deployment of small pox to wipe out 
whole indigenous American nations.

The US allies itself with monarchies and military dictatorships that are 
growing increasingly worried by the wave of Arab uprisings and is 
attempting, in unsubtle ways, to divert the people's energy into 
sectarian conflict along a Sunni-Shia divide. It is well documented that 
the US-funded Syrian rebels are linked to Al Qaeda, the same group the 
Obama administration uses as a pretext to maintain the march of death in 
Afghanistan. It is these same groups, with US training and funding, that 
are planting car bombs in the heart of Lebanon in an attempt to trigger 
another sectarian war and creating an internal quagmire, allowing for 
Israel to strike both Hezbollah and Iran in the future.

*SELF-DETERMINATION NOT US IMPERIALISM*

Join us in condemning in the strongest possible terms Obama's complicity 
in these bloody wars and crimes against humanity. Join us in calling for 
an end to this madness, and end to the perpetual strengthening of 
theocratic, monarchical and Zionist regimes.

How many wars must be fought and how many people must die before the US 
ruling industries are forced to cede to the calls for freedom? Exactly 
fifty years ago-today, Martin Luther King called for ending US 
imperialist wars in Vietnam and the Indo-China regions. Today, and under 
the pretext of morality, Barak Obama is planning to expand the Syrian 
conflict by bombing Syria and in reaction to a massacre of Syrian 
civilians.

We stand in support of the self-determination of the Syrian people and 
as such, oppose all attacks on Syria! As Libya and Iraq have so sadly 
taught us, there is no bigger loss than the loss of sovereignty to empire.

We condemn any US involvement in the attacks on Syria!

We demand an end to US military, political and financial support of 
Israel, Arab dictatorships and repressive regimes!

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Join us in the streets at protests planned across the US to stand 
against any attack on Syria!/ /

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No to war. No to occupation. No to US-Israeli hegemony in the Arab World.

*SUPPORT THE ARAB PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION FOR SELF-DETERMINATION!*
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