Forum against U.S. intervention in Syria and Iran. Feb 4. DePaul [Chicago]

[ckaihatsu]

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Forum against U.S. intervention in Syria and Iran. Feb 4. DePaul.


FORUM

U.S. Intervention & Threat of Military Attack On Iran and Syria

Monday, February 4 at 7 p.m.
DePaul University, Lincoln Park campus
Rooms 114-15 Munroe Hall, 2312 N. Clifton, corner of Belden

(This is 3 ½ blocks west of the Fullerton Red Line stop and one block south of Fullerton)

The panel, to be followed by a discussion period, will include:

- Neal Resnikoff of the March 19th Anti-War Coalition

- Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO

- John Beacham of the ANSWER Coalition

- Joe Iosabaker of the Anti-War Committee


The panelists will take up questions such as: Why does the U.S. government want regime change in Syria and Iran? How does the U.S. government try to justify its intervention in Syria and Iran? What financial and military support has the U.S. and its NATO partners given to various anti-government forces in Syria and Iran? What is the relationship between the U.S. and NATO? What are the results of U.S. intervention in countries like Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq? What does international law have to say about the actions of the U.S. and NATO vis a vis Syria and Iran? What stand should we, the people, take on the issue of U.S. intervention and threats of further military attacks on Syria and Iran? What actions can we take?

This program has been organized by the March 19th Anti-War Coalition, [email protected], 773.250.3335. The program is co-sponsored by the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program at DePaul, which will be providing some light refreshments for the audience.

The program is free and open to all. Wheel chair accessible.

[ckaihatsu]

I attended this and it was very good. The panelists all "set the stage" very well in terms of what's going on the world of geopolitics and what it all means to a regular person on planet earth.

Most of the discussion was focused on the topic of 'What drives the war drive?' since public support for (imperialist) war varies depending on the situation and how it's portrayed in the corporate mass media.

I noted as an aside that I've been noticing a current media campaign that focuses on portrayals of returning soldiers -- it seems like an indirect, soft-sell of war to make the ongoing war policy feel more acceptable.

I'm thinking that this showcasing of military personnel could potentially backfire since it's inadvertently *politicizing* them somewhat -- normally we may get routine government messages of 'Support the troops' but that's usually overshadowed by the actual attacks on foreign lands themselves.

Now with the re-domestication of soldiers the personnel may be becoming open to the public arena, with a politicization of their personal experiences as invaders of lands abroad.

If the powers-that-be rely on this direction too much it may be a *cultural* Bonapartism in addition to the typical *militarist* Bonapartism that the state is relying on for their overall civilization.