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Iran: Drums of War Beating Louder

  • U.S. Mounts Further Military Build-Up in Persian Gulf
  • Special Project | The Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, & Iran
  • Veterans & GIs mobilize against war with Iran

Ben Schreiner, Global Research

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With the drums of war beating ever louder against Iran, the U.S. military has quickly moved to reestablish a war footing in the Persian Gulf.  The preparations for a looming military confrontation thus continue apace.

According to the Washington Post (1/27)<>, “The Pentagon is rushing to send a large floating base for commando teams to the Middle East.”  As the paper reports, the USS Ponce, a 40-year old amphibious transport dock previously set for decommission, will now be converted into a special ops hub, and then likely sent to the Persian Gulf.


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Special Project | The Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, & Iran: Week of January 22, David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

  • The Myth of “Isolated” Iran
  • War on Iran: It’s Not A Matter of “If
  • War Plan Iran: The US Finally Admits Its Criminal Bankruptcy
  • U.S. troops quietly surge into Middle East
  • Series | "Beyond The Battlefield" -- The Book ~ David Wood
  • The Battlefield and the Barracks: Two War Fronts for Women Soldiers

Veterans & GIs mobilize against war with Iran, ANSWER Coalition

  • All Out on Feb. 4 National Day of Action!
  • Please help us spread the word about this important day of protest by sharing this statement widely.
  • Click here for a list of actions.
  • Anti-war Protest, Saturday February 4
  • WAMM Speak Out
  • Minneapolis No War On Iran: National Day of Action
     

Veterans & GIs mobilize against war with Iran

  • All Out on Feb. 4 National Day of Action!
  • Please help us spread the word about this important day of protest by sharing this statement widely.
  • Click here for a list of actions.
  • Anti-war Protest, Saturday February 4
  • WAMM Speak Out
  • Minneapolis No War On Iran: National Day of Action

ANSWER Coalition

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The millionaire politicians are at it again, prodded by their buddies in Big Oil and the defense industry, beating the war drums against a country that refuses to bow down to Wall Street.

It’s the same old story: Republicans and Democrats alike are targeting yet another independent country—one not-so-coincidentally sitting atop massive oil reserves—and rambling on about Weapons of Mass Destruction that everybody knows don’t exist.

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Anti-war Protest, Saturday February 4, The World Can't Wait

  • Day of Mass Action to Stop a U.S. War on Iran
  • NO war! NO sanctions! NO intervention! NO assassinations!

WAMM Speak Out, WAMM
Saturday, February 4, 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sabathani Community Center, 310 East 38th Street, Minneapolis
Join us to share what's concerning you about the state of our country. For old and new WAMM members and other interested parties. The WAMM Speak Out is currently focused on supporting Occupy Minneapolis. There are now a variety of ways to be active, or just come to enjoy the lively discussions. Please note that Sunday Community Days at the American Indian Center have been cancelled.


Minneapolis No War On Iran: National Day of Action

  • Saturday, Feb 4, 3 pm, Mayday Plaza, 3rd Street and Cedar Ave So on the West Bank, Minneapolis
  • Indoor public forum will follow protest
  • Twin Cities event initiated by: Minnesota Peace Action Coalition. Initial endorsements: Anti-War Committee, Military Families Speak Out, Twin Cities Peace Campaign, Students for a Democratic Society (U of M), Women Against Military Madness and others.
  • For more information 612 522-1861 or 612 827-5364

Special Report | #OccupyWallStreet / October2011, Week of January 29

  • Searching for Hope in America: An impassioned plea for the American people to wake up!
  • Stop the Machine! Create a New World!

4 New Items including:

  • The World War on Democracy
  • Thank You For Standing Up
  • Soros Predicts Growth of Occupy Movement, Applauds it for Changing the Political Debate
  • Occupy Wall St & the Future of the 100%

David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Milt Priggee

The World War on Democracy, John Pilger, Global Research

  • The historic corollary of a perpetual war state, this is not fascism, not yet, but neither is it democracy in any recognisable form, regardless of the placebo politics that will consume the news until November.
  • The circumscribed task of journalism on both sides of the Atlantic is to create the pretence of political choice where there is none.

Thank You For Standing Up, Chris Hedges, Truthdig
"Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick-Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on Jersey Shore. The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters."

Soros Predicts Growth of Occupy Movement, Applauds it for Changing the Political Debate, John Arlidge, Newsweek / Kevin Zeese, October2011

  • George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War
  • 'The situation is about as serious and difficult as I've experienced in my career.'

Occupy Wall St & the Future of the 100%, MN Senator John Marty, Apple Pie Alliance
Now, it is important to channel the passion of the occupation into the nitty-gritty of grassroots democracy. As the writer Scott Turow suggests, "Those in tents across the nation should start going door to door with petitions, visiting legislators and building alliances with good-government groups, all in service to a proposed (constitutional) amendment" to regulate campaign financing to prevent anyone from having unequal influence on elections through their wealth.



 

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One hot sunny morning in April 1969 I found myself in a small Vietnamese village that had just been bombed. I was looking at more than a hundred strewn bodies of mostly young women and children, many dead, others dying. What on earth was going on here? These people were 10,000 miles from my farming community in upstate New York. They probably never traveled more than 20 miles from this village.

In one startling, shocking moment I realized I had been shamefully brainwashed. I was overcome by what seemed a simple truth, a truth that soon became irreversible knowledge, that a huge lie had been perpetrated upon me. No, not just upon me, but on my entire nation, at least the vast majority of whom believed in the war and were paying taxes to finance this incredible effort, allegedly protecting our national security by destroying another people’s aspirations for independence. I staggered at how preposterous and racist this war was. I gagged, then vomited, as I witnessed the horrible scene of carnage while understanding that these people had been savagely murdered and maimed for a nearly incomprehensible lie that I had so easily believed in.

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