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<div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b>Self-Determination
Not Imperialism! </b></div>
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<div><strong>STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE ARAB
WORLD </strong></div>
<div><strong><span> STAND AGAINST US WARS FOR
EMPIRE!</span><br>
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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. </div>
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<div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;" align="left">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.<br>
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<div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;" align="left">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.</div>
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align="left"><span size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">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.</span></p>
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<div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>OBAMA AND THE LEGACY OF US
IMPERIALISM</strong></span><br>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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. <br>
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<div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 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.</span><br>
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<div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>THE BANKRUPTCY OF US MORALITY </strong></span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 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.</span><br>
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<div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>SELF-DETERMINATION
NOT US IMPERIALISM</strong><br>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</div>
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<p
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many</span> 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. </span></p>
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<p
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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.</p>
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align="center">We condemn any US involvement in the attacks on Syria! </p>
<p
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align="center">We demand an end to US military, political and
financial support of Israel, Arab dictatorships and repressive regimes!</p>
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<div
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us in the streets at protests planned across the US to stand against
any attack on Syria!<em> </em></span></div>
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<div
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No to war. No to occupation. No to
US-Israeli hegemony in the Arab World. </span><br>
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THE ARAB PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION FOR SELF-DETERMINATION!</strong></div>
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