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“No U.S. war planes over #Syria - No military clash with #Russia - Sign the Petition!
No U.S. War planes over Syria
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The U.S. is risking a catastrophic military clash with Russia in Syria. There is no legal or moral basis for the United States to be waging war in Syria, risking conflict with Russia and nuclear apocalypse for us all.
The world's two big nuclear-armed governments are risking direct warfare. The U.S. shot down a Syrian government jet, after which Russia threatened to shoot down U.S. planes over Syria. Then Australia suspended its air missions over Syria, and Russian and U.S. planes reportedly came within 5 feet of each other over the Baltic.
This is happening while the U.S. military, which may very well have defied then-President Obama in September by bombing Syrian troops and scuttling a cease-fire agreement, has been given greater authority by President Trump to proceed as it sees fit.
The world's two big nuclear-armed governments are risking direct warfare. The U.S. shot down a Syrian government jet, after which Russia threatened to shoot down U.S. planes over Syria. Then Australia suspended its air missions over Syria, and Russian and U.S. planes reportedly came within 5 feet of each other over the Baltic.
This is happening while the U.S. military, which may very well have defied then-President Obama in September by bombing Syrian troops and scuttling a cease-fire agreement, has been given greater authority by President Trump to proceed as it sees fit.
Sign up for the Thunderclap and sign the petition to the U.S. Congress and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, urging them to immediately remove all U.S military planes from Syrian skies and keep them out of that country's airspace.
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As veterans, we took an oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. The fundamental values we were told we risked our lives to serve, the values for which so many of our brothers and sisters rendered the ultimate sacrifice, are now facing a serious and existential threat.
The Trump administration’s implementation of hateful White Nationalism through draconian executive orders that target Muslims and ban immigrants and refugees as well as U.S. visa and green card holders, and push for an extension of the wall on the border, are betrayals of the sacrifices made by U.S. veterans.
Veterans For Peace recognizes that these orders did not happen in a vacuum, but represent a long history of racist and violent policy that has perpetuated U.S. wars across the Muslim world and horrific domestic policy that created ICE, massive immigration detention centers and a wall that already separates families. However, the Trump administration has escalated, at an alarming pace, the implementation of new dangerous measures. President Trump is moving to fulfill on the promises of his campaign that caused an upsurge of hateful sentiment in our nation and spurred a rise in fear and anger. These measures increase alienation of targeted groups, give al Qaeda and ISIL recruitment propaganda and put service members lives in increased danger. Additionally, by stopping visa and green-card immigrants from re-entering the U.S., the administration’s actions have separated families.
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Sunday, July 02, 2017
In Boston-Matisse In The Air- It Ain’t Just Cutting Out Dollies
Matisse In The Air- It Ain’t Just Cutting Out Dollies
By Phil Larkin
Hey, I have been on the West Coast for a while so if you want to say long time no see go right ahead. While I was on the Left Coast (since we are deep into the cold civil war that my old friend and political commentator here Frank Jackman has been fuming about for the better part of the last two years and has even made a something of a believer out of non-political me) I attended a Matisse Exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (in a new downtown building very nice and spacious) coupled with a protégé of sorts the American artist Richard Diebenkorn. Very interesting to see the influence of the older artist on the younger before the younger man branched out on his own into more abstract expression works. (According to the captions though Diebenkorn always kept a little something of that Matisse influence right to the end of his life in 1993).
Lo and behold I no sooner get back to Boston and they are having a Matisse retrospective centered on his studio work (should be studios since he had several one patched up one due to a guy named Hitler who was eventually put paid to and none too soon). Call me nothing but an unpaid shill for the guy or maybe for the museum but you should check this out before it leaves the Museum of Fine Arts on July 9th of this year.
(This is no foolish plea either we were supposed to go to Matisse exhibit at MoMa back in, I think, 1993 when we were on the East Coast except the day we had the tickets for it snowed like hell and we couldn’t get to New York and thereafter not before the show closed. So twenty-five years later we have an embarrassment of riches with two shows. Nice but don’t you wait.)
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