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Saturday, November 15 No New U.S. War in Iraq & Syria! 1:00 pm Park Street Station, Boston  Rally and march to Downtown Crossing with a mock drone and die-in Join us Saturday Nov 15th Stop the Bombing in Syria and Iraq Bring the troops home now Stop sending weapons into the region which are leading to so much bloodshed Support humanitarian aid, through neutral institutions, for victims of the conflict Support self-determination and the demilitarization of the area

 

Call Congress toll-free today and tell them: War is not working and is ineffective in addressing the threat of ISIS.

We face an uphill struggle in mobilizing members of Congress to stand in opposition to more war and war spending. But every member of Congress who votes AGAINST this counter-productive, dangerous and costly effort is laying the foundation for an ongoing mobilization on behalf of peace.

Call on Congress to End Endless War:  1-877-429-0678 [toll free]   Tell Congress War isn't working!

 

TOM HAYDEN: Letter to Congress on Escalation in Iraq & Syria

One of the bitter lessons of Vietnam, learned again in Iraq, is that it is relatively easy for Congress to authorize a war, but far more difficult to end one. Instead, there comes quagmire, suffering, cost, regret and political fallout. In the last few months, it was expedient for both political parties to pass the sword of war to the president in the midst of a national campaign that avoided the war-peace debate altogether. Now the American voters want to know where their representatives stand.  More

 

Last week, President Obama doubled down on the war in Iraq and Syria, ordering 1500 more troops on the ground in Iraq and requesting over $5 billion in funding.

As observed on Armistice Day/Veterans Day this week, we are in a never-ending war and expanding military intervention, this time in Syria and Iraq. Our leaders say that these new wars will last for years. But over the past 13 years, this country has already spent one trillion, five hundred billion dollars for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other parts of the Middle East and South Asia. These military actions have brought hundreds of thousands of deaths, but neither peace nor security. Meanwhile, these hundreds of billions of dollars could have been used instead to provide for jobs, human needs and renewable energy.

The current bombing campaign is a violation of the U.N. Charter and the U.S. constitution.

The Neocon Plan for War and More War

Buoyed by the Republican electoral victories, America’s neocons hope to collect their share of the winnings by pushing President Barack Obama into escalating conflicts around the world, from a new Cold War with Russia to hot wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and maybe Iran… There has long been a madness to neocon thinking, matching what the most extreme elements of the Israeli government seem determine to create, a roiling chaos across the Middle East amid fantasies of “regime change” somehow producing Arab leaders compliant with Israeli interests… As President Obama heads into the final quarter of his presidency, he must decide whether he will be led down that bloody path or finally stand up to the neocons (and their allies in Congress and within his own administration) and seek reasonable accommodations for peace.   More