Subject: this weekend
attend your religious group if you have one
It looks as though Congress will not be voting until next week. President Obama has a prime time address scheduled for Tuesday. Obviously he hopes to convince members of Congress to forget about the opposition they've been receiving to voting for a war on Syria.
In the meantime, reading the news from other places in the world, it looks more and more as though THERE WOULD be a big war if the United States were to bring an attack against Syria. Forget about what the military corporations and their mouthpieces say in public! The propagandists--many media members and many "big" politicians--are either innocently repeating what those who pay them tell them or they know better too and are lying themselves. See generally, Senators Voting for Strikes on Syria Got More Defense Money. Count on another war, an even bigger war. If there going to be any jobs on which one can support a family, most of them are going to be war jobs. That is not what I want for my family. And I don't want it for your family either.
I listened on the FCNL telephone conference call for the full hour last evening. I was a bit disappointed that there was no mention of some of the wider issues involved with our continually escalating warfare*, the biggest wider issue being our escalating destruction [diminution of the habitability] of the planet. No mention.
Kate Gould, FCNL Legislative Assistant on the Middle East, talked very very positively about the feedback they hearing from people in Congress, things like one assistant saying that callers are against a war on Syria 400 to 1. She minimized/did not see fit to mention the immense pressure, significantly financial pressure, that legislators are under from the so-called military/industrial complex.
Kate Gould's emphasis was on using diplomacy with all the countries most directly involved with what happens with Syria, even including Iran and Russia, as well as through the United Nations.
She also acknowledged the need to punish whoever it was who used chemical weapons in Syria last month. She said that there are world legal mechanisms for that, mechanisms that will not start a war that would inevitably end up killing vastly more civilians than were killed in the chemical attack.
In the context of the prediction that the congressional voting will take place toward the middle or end of next week, she emphasized that it will be productive for all of us to keep accelerating the pressure on Congress next week.
Then she made the suggestion that all of us might go and talk with people in our religious groups this weekend, those who can, and ask them to make phone calls and write things to their federal representatives also. YES!
Larry
* Download link for 58 min Bush and Obama--Age of Terror video. No web page, just download. http://tinyurl.com/lxdgunh
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http://carolynbaker.net/2013/09/05/necessary-and-unnecessary-wars-by-carolyn-baker/
P.S. I am adding two more sites to my resources links at larryatblogspot.blogspot.com
http://www.naomiklein.org/main
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/
See the text a September 5th interview with Naomi Klein:
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/naomi_klein/
It looks as though Congress will not be voting until next week. President Obama has a prime time address scheduled for Tuesday. Obviously he hopes to convince members of Congress to forget about the opposition they've been receiving to voting for a war on Syria.
In the meantime, reading the news from other places in the world, it looks more and more as though THERE WOULD be a big war if the United States were to bring an attack against Syria. Forget about what the military corporations and their mouthpieces say in public! The propagandists--many media members and many "big" politicians--are either innocently repeating what those who pay them tell them or they know better too and are lying themselves. See generally, Senators Voting for Strikes on Syria Got More Defense Money. Count on another war, an even bigger war. If there going to be any jobs on which one can support a family, most of them are going to be war jobs. That is not what I want for my family. And I don't want it for your family either.
I listened on the FCNL telephone conference call for the full hour last evening. I was a bit disappointed that there was no mention of some of the wider issues involved with our continually escalating warfare*, the biggest wider issue being our escalating destruction [diminution of the habitability] of the planet. No mention.
Kate Gould, FCNL Legislative Assistant on the Middle East, talked very very positively about the feedback they hearing from people in Congress, things like one assistant saying that callers are against a war on Syria 400 to 1. She minimized/did not see fit to mention the immense pressure, significantly financial pressure, that legislators are under from the so-called military/industrial complex.
Kate Gould's emphasis was on using diplomacy with all the countries most directly involved with what happens with Syria, even including Iran and Russia, as well as through the United Nations.
She also acknowledged the need to punish whoever it was who used chemical weapons in Syria last month. She said that there are world legal mechanisms for that, mechanisms that will not start a war that would inevitably end up killing vastly more civilians than were killed in the chemical attack.
In the context of the prediction that the congressional voting will take place toward the middle or end of next week, she emphasized that it will be productive for all of us to keep accelerating the pressure on Congress next week.
Then she made the suggestion that all of us might go and talk with people in our religious groups this weekend, those who can, and ask them to make phone calls and write things to their federal representatives also. YES!
Larry
* Download link for 58 min Bush and Obama--Age of Terror video. No web page, just download. http://tinyurl.com/lxdgunh
--
http://carolynbaker.net/2013/09/05/necessary-and-unnecessary-wars-by-carolyn-baker/
P.S. I am adding two more sites to my resources links at larryatblogspot.blogspot.com
http://www.naomiklein.org/main
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/
See the text a September 5th interview with Naomi Klein:
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/naomi_klein/
