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Dear Friends,
We've now held Peace Protests in Fayetteville 10 weeks in a
row! Here are 14 photos from this last
protest.. Thanks again to Pauline for taking pictures &
thanks to everyone that showed up!
Once again, we're continuing these protests at least 2 more
weeks until the end of August, and we meet every Saturday at 11 a.m. in front
of the Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville. Over the next week
we need to decide what to do next? We need all the input we can get, so
please respond to this email with your thoughts.
We're probably reaching a few hundred people every Saturday,
which is certainly meaningful, but we can reach tens of thousands if we hold
novel actions that will gain news coverage. (We did gain news coverage at
the beginning). Creating a new story could mean a protest at Tom Cotton's
office, and/or some form of civil disobedience. This could also mean
working to pass a Peace Resolution at the Fayetteville City Council, and then
other cities across Arkansas. We'll hold a meeting to decide what to do
next at Fayetteville Public Library immediately after this upcoming protest.
Here is our 6th ad in this Monday's Arkansas
Democrat Gazette, including a quote by the great radical Dr. King:
We still need help distributing the attached flyers, especially
at Farmers Market & UA campus. If you know any UA students that may
help, please ask them. Also, share this email with your friends and if
you're on Facebook, please share & invite your friends to this Facebook event page.
Lastly, if you would like to donate, you can do so online here, or mail checks made out to
Arkansas Nonviolence Alliance, 60 W. Smith St. Fayetteville AR 72701.
See You Saturday!
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SATURDAY’S ACTION TO PREVENT MORE
US AGGRESSION
OMNI
IRAN NEWSLETTER, August 23, 2019. #31
COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE AND
JUSTICE
(#11 Oct. 8, 2011; #12 Jan. 31, 2012; #13 Feb.
22, 2012; #14 Feb. 26, 2012; #15 March 17, 2012; #16 April 12, 2012; #17 May
21, 2012; #18, July 9, 2012; #19 August 13, 2012; #20 Sept. 10, 2012; #21, Dec.
14, 2012; #22 March 5, 2013; #23 Nov. 12, 2013; #24 March 5, 2014; #25 January
17, 2015; #26, July 28, 2015; #27, June 3, 2018; #28, June 21, 2019; #29, July
11, 2019; #30, August 9, 2019.)
CONTENTS IRAN NEWSLETTER #31, AUGUST , 2019
Kathy Kelly. “Take Heed & Seek Peace,” The Catholic Worker
The Daily Kos,
We’ve Seen This Before with Iraq
Hasan, The Intercept, US Mainstream Media Lies
About Iran
The Intercept
Podcast, John Bolton’s War
Negin Farsad. “Why
Iran Is [NOT] Our Enemy.” The Progressive
TEXTS
KATHY
KELLY. “TAKE HEED AND SEEK PEACE.” THE
CATHOLIC WORKER (August-September,
2019). Excellent short, circumstantial appraisal of US
Middle Eastern policies comparing US illegal wars against Iraq and Iran and US
support of Israel and Saudi Arabia. (Sorry, I could not retrieve her article.) The
US is threatening Iran, not the reverse.
Kelly appeals to US to return to the US/Iran nuclear agreement. (She is one of our country’s greatest
peacemakers, check her out, you’ll be enriched knowing about her.)
From The Daily Kos
We’ve seen this roadmap to war before.
We’ve seen this roadmap to war before.
We’ve seen this roadmap to war before.
Do you remember the last time we went to war based on
thin and questionable evidence? Linking Iran to Al Qaeda is today’s version of
the false links of yellowcake uranium to Saddam Hussein in the run up to the
Iraq war. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign
Relations committees reports, “They are looking to bootstrap an argument to
allow the president to do what he likes without coming to Congress, and they
feel the 2001 authorization will allow them to go to war with Iran.”
As I’m sure you know, a war with Iran would have
devastating consequences in both blood and treasure, potentially even worse
than the war in Iraq. According to.dozens of Middle Eastern scholars, a war
with Iran would undoubtedly lead to a horrific toll of dead and injured, major
environmental destruction, large scale forced migration, world-wide recession,
as well as producing other equally dangerous and unintended consequences. [2]
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates adds, “If you think the war in Iraq
was hard, an attack on Iran would, in my opinion, be a catastrophe,” and
commented that such an attack would only “make a nuclear-armed Iran
inevitable.”
Make no mistake, the time to prevent a war is now. Last week, Trump reportedly called off a military strike
on Iran. How much longer do you think he’ll stand up to the constant pro-war
rhetoric from Iran hawks like Bolton and Pompeo on his national security
team? The time for Congress to act is
now. Sign our petition today demanding that Congress speak out and step in to
stop the march to war with Iran.
Here
Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need to Refute to Stop Another Illegal War. Mehdi Hasan https://theintercept.com/2019/08/14/trump-iran-worst-lies/
Simple Steps the U.S. Media Could Take to Prevent a Trump
War With Iran. By Mehdi Hasan. The
Intercept (5-18-19).
Do U.S. reporters, anchors, and editors really want more
Middle Eastern blood on their hands? They’re certainly acting like it.
HERE WE GO again. Sixteen years after the U.S.
media helped the Bush administration
spread myths and lies about the threat posed by Iraq
to the United States and its allies, the Trump administration is spreading
similar myths and lies about the threat posed by Iran.
The 64,000-rial question, therefore, is
whether or not journalists have learned any lessons whatsoever from the Iraqi WMD debacle of 2003.
Well, consider these recent headlines:
“US deploying more Patriot missiles to
Middle East, amid Iranian threats” (CNN)
“Pentagon Builds Deterrent Force Against
Possible Iranian Attack” (New York Times)
“U.S. Says Iran Likely Behind Ship Attacks” (Wall Street Journal)
“Iranian threats led to White House’s
deployment announcement, U.S. officials say” (Washington Post)
The evidence for these hawkish headlines?
For this stream of alarmist media reports about “threats” and “attacks” from
Iran? Yes, you guessed it: statements provided to reporters by U.S. officials
hiding behind a cloak of anonymity. In some cases, just one official. Take the
Wall Street Journal’s scoop:
An initial U.S. assessment indicated Iran
likely was behind the attack on two Saudi Arabian oil tankers and two other
vessels damaged over the weekend near the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official
said, a finding that, if confirmed, would further inflame military tensions in
the Persian Gulf.
Why would you trust the word of a single
official on such a sensitive and contentious issue? And why, oh why, would you
rely on the testimony of a member of the Trump administration, known globally,
of course, for its stringent and unbending adherence to the truth?
More here:
Will John Bolton Finally Get His War With Iran?
Deconstructed Podcast. The Intercept (5-18-19). The hawkish national security adviser may be on the verge of achieving his most cherished foreign policy goal. LISTEN →
Deconstructed Podcast. The Intercept (5-18-19). The hawkish national security adviser may be on the verge of achieving his most cherished foreign policy goal. LISTEN →
The Intercept: Betsy Reed, Editor-in-Chief based in New
York City. betsy.reed@theintercept.com Glenn Greenwald, Co-founding Editor; Jeremy Scahill, Co-founding Editor.
Negin
Farsad. “Why Iran Is [NOT] Our
Enemy.” The Progressive (Aug. Sept. 2019). Rejects half a dozen accusations of Iran
threatening war, before fingering the US as the real war-threatener. (Farsad
concludes that the US has real, immense enemies it should be concentrating on—climate
change, for example--, and Iran is not among them.) --Dick
Negin Farsad is the Iranian female host of the
political comedy podcast Fake the Nation.
Will Sanctions
Undermine 1947 US Treaty with UN? By Thalif Deen.
[The answer is resoundingly
YES! And another treaty smashed by Trump. Read Deen below. –Dick]
UNITED
NATIONS, Aug 14 2019 (IPS) - When Yassir Arafat
was denied a US visa to visit New York to address the United Nations back in
1988, the General Assembly defied the United States by temporarily moving the
UN’s highest policy making body to Geneva– perhaps for the first time in UN
history– providing a less-hostile political environment for the leader of the
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
Arafat, who
first addressed the UN in 1974, took a swipe at Washington when he prefaced his
statement by saying “it never occurred to me that my second meeting with this
honourable Assembly, since 1974, would take place in the hospitable city of
Geneva”.
If Zarif is denied a visa, as expected, it
will be a violation of the 1947 UN-US headquarters agreement under which
Washington was expected to facilitate -- not hinder-- the smooth functioning of
the world body
The Trump
administration, which has had an ongoing battle with Iran, has imposed a rash
of political and economic sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Javid Zarif —
even as Washington, paradoxically, proclaims that the Iranian problem can be
resolved only diplomatically while, at the same time, it keeps the
negotiator-in-chief away from the US.
The sanctions on
Zarif will also prevent him from being a member of the Iranian delegation – and
also from addressing the six high-level summit meetings scheduled for late
September.
If Zarif is
denied a visa, as expected, it will be a violation of the 1947 UN-US
headquarters agreement under which Washington was expected to facilitate — not
hinder– the smooth functioning of the world body.
While the PLO
was not a full-fledged UN member state, Iran is a founding member of the world
body.
The Trump
administration has already reneged or abandoned several international
agreements, including the 2015 Paris Climate Change agreement, the 2015 Iranian
nuclear deal, and most recently the landmark 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces (INF) treaty with Russia which helped seal the end of the Cold War.
Will the US-UN headquarters agreement be far behind? MORE http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/08/will-sanctions-undermine-1947-us-treaty-un/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-sanctions-undermine-1947-us-treaty-un
CONTENTS: IRAN NEWSLETTER #30, August 9, 2019 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/08/iran-newsletter-30-august-9-2019_9.html
OMNI’S NO IRAN WAR DEMONSTRATIONS SATURDAYS 11AM, COURT
HOUSE (Abel Tomlinson)
Peacemaking
UN Charter
George, Abel, Art about Tulsi Gabbard and building the
peace movement.
Who Wants War? The
Warmakers!
Republicans Boozman and Cotton v. Udall-Kaine-Lee
Amendment.
Action: Call or write AR’s Congressional Delegation,
WOMACK
Chomsky v. Bolton and the other War-Lovers ruling our
government.
Peace Action v. Bolton and Pompeo et al.
Dick: NADG and
Mainstream Media
Dick: UAF Panel on
Iran as US threatens WAR
Foreign Pushing to War: “Coalition of the Killing”:
Netanyahu, bin Salman, bin Zayed
Uri Ben-Eliezer, Israeli’s
Militaristic Nationalism
Iran Newsletters 27-29
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