Once more on ISIS and Rojava

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Social imperialists, also on RevLeft (and there are a lot of them!) have basically said: "so what if YPG allies themselves with USA? They fight to survive".


Now USA support Turkish invasion of Syria and even its aggression against the Kurdish autonomy, thereby betraying PYD. It confims what us ultra-left and Spartacist malcontents have said- that the Kurdish nationalists' policy of relying on US imperialism's good will has been short-sighted and criminal. If Kurds want to end their national oppression, they have to unite with Sunni Arab masses in struggle for socialist federation of the Middle East.


The main enemy of the workers and oppressed of the world is the bloody US evil empire, and its and its proxies' defeat is a lesser evil even when it fights against the hideous Islamic reaction. USA will strangle the Kurds even more than the IS would. And if USA suppresses ISIS, soon another ISIS will come because American bombs make the Middle East a breeding ground for Islamic fundamentalists.


Trotsky concluded that the defeat of Italian imperialism against Ethiopia would be a lesser evil, even though the latter was an absolutist monarchy and one of the last bastions of chattel slavery.


If Mussolini triumphs, it means the reinforcement of fascism, the strengthening of imperialism, and the discouragement of the colonial peoples in Africa and elsewhere. The victory of the Negus, however, would mean a mighty blow not only at Italian imperialism but at imperialism as a whole, and would lend a powerful impulsion to the rebellious forces of the oppressed peoples. One must really be completely blind not to see this.

It's a shame that Sparts are banned for "fascist apologism", while people who cheer for Assad (whose regime has more in common with fascism than ISIS, and which has killed far more people than it so far) or for Hamas and Hezbollah (like Cliffites), or who have supported the anti-working class and anti-woman Islamic "revolution" of 1979 in Iran, are allowed. Also it needs to be said tendency to which CyM, the administrator who orchestrated the Spart purge, belongs, have described Ba'athist Syria as "deformed workers' state" and called for withdrawal of Soviet Army in Afghanistan. It is you who are in bed with fascists and mullahs!

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Social imperialists, also on RevLeft (and there are a lot of them!) have basically said: "so what if YPG allies themselves with USA? They fight to survive".


As one who took this stance, I have to point out that it amounts to nothing more than *a tactic*, and you're erroneously making the temporary alliance sound like something carved in stone. I really doubt the Kurds / YPG were thinking 'bff' with the U.S., anyway -- the term 'social imperialists' is facile and too-dismissive.





Now USA support Turkish invasion of Syria and even its aggression against the Kurdish autonomy, thereby betraying PYD. It confims what us ultra-left and Spartacist malcontents have said- that the Kurdish nationalists' policy of relying on US imperialism's good will has been short-sighted and criminal.


'U.S. imperialism's "good will" -- ??

Do you really think that's what the Kurds / YPG / PYD were *thinking* -- ?

My understanding has been that it was an anti-ISIS bloc, so the Kurds were helping the U.S. to clean up its own mess, with no expectations of U.S. help with their own Kurdish separatist objective of carving out their own permanent nation.





If Kurds want to end their national oppression, they have to unite with Sunni Arab masses in struggle for socialist federation of the Middle East.


Yes.





The main enemy of the workers and oppressed of the world is the bloody US evil empire, and its and its proxies' defeat is a lesser evil even when it fights against the hideous Islamic reaction.


I can't / don't agree with this. Islamic fundamentalism is further-right than U.S. imperialism and is potentially more dangerous than Western capitalism.

That said, it's obvious that the U.S. / NATO has been *nowhere serious* about shutting down ISIS, or else it would have already done it definitively, perhaps in the way that it took over Libya. ISIS seems to serve as a decent new 'bad guy' for the U.S. to play-off-of. (And Turkey has been outright *working with* ISIS, as in providing supply routes.)





USA will strangle the Kurds even more than the IS would.


I tend to think that Turkey has more of a burning interest in this, so the U.S. / the West may just look the other way.





And if USA suppresses ISIS, soon another ISIS will come because American bombs make the Middle East a breeding ground for Islamic fundamentalists.


(As with al Qaeda, before.)





Trotsky concluded that the defeat of Italian imperialism against Ethiopia would be a lesser evil, even though the latter was an absolutist monarchy and one of the last bastions of chattel slavery.


Hmmmm, I would probably side with modernity on this issue, as I am with the U.S.-ISIS issue.





It's a shame that Sparts are banned for "fascist apologism", while people who cheer for Assad (whose regime has more in common with fascism than ISIS, and which has killed far more people than it so far) or for Hamas and Hezbollah (like Cliffites), or who have supported the anti-working class and anti-woman Islamic "revolution" of 1979 in Iran, are allowed. Also it needs to be said tendency to which CyM, the administrator who orchestrated the Spart purge, belongs, have described Ba'athist Syria as "deformed workers' state" and called for withdrawal of Soviet Army in Afghanistan. It is you who are in bed with fascists and mullahs!


No one's *cheering* for Assad -- it's merely tacit *tolerance* for the status-quo for Syria and its people against the predations of the foreign Western imperialists.

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Cordesman went on to declare that ISIS was not the main problem in Syria or Iraq.




http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/07/syri-s07.html

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/08/turk-s08.html


Turkey prepares joint action with US in Syria

By Bill Van Auken

8 September 2016

The Turkish government is prepared to carry out a joint assault with the US on the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) “capital” in Raqqa, Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told the Turkish media.

Erdogan made the remarks to journalists on board his plane returning from the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, where he said US President Barack Obama had proposed the joint action.

“Obama particularly wants to do something together [with us] about Raqqa,” Erdogan said, according to the daily Hurriyet. “We have told him that this is not a problem for us.” He added that top level military commanders from both sides should meet and “then what is necessary will be done.”

Turkey launched what it has dubbed “Operation Euphrates Shield” two weeks ago, sending troops and tanks across its border to attack both ISIS positions and those of the Syrian Kurdish separatists of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). The Kurdish forces have been employed as the Pentagon’s main proxy forces in terms of ground operations against ISIS, receiving weapons, funding, training and support from US special operations units on the ground in Syria.

Turkey has backed its own “rebels,” comprised of Sunni Turkmen and Arab Islamist militias, to not only attack ISIS but drive the Kurdish forces out of areas that they had wrested from ISIS with US backing. From the outset of the intervention, it has been evident that these forces are Turkey’s main target. Ankara fears that continued military successes by the YPG could consolidate an autonomous Kurdish region on its border and encourage Turkey’s own Kurdish separatist movement, the PKK, with which the Syrian Kurdish movement is politically aligned.

Turkey’s deputy prime minister, Nurettin Canikli, told the media that Turkish forces had so far killed a combined total of 110 ISIS and Kurdish fighters. Three Turkish soldiers were reportedly killed in an ISIS rocket attack on Tuesday, while another died at the outset of the offensive in clashes with the YPG.

The Turkish official added that, after having secured the border area, Turkish forces could push further into Syria.

It appears that is what the Turkish military is preparing. Syrian sources reported Wednesday that Turkish warplanes struck targets in the ISIS-held town of Al-Bab, which is 180 kilometers northeast on the highway leading to Raqqa. At least 14 civilians were reportedly killed in the Turkish bombardment.

A battle for control of Al-Bab could prove particularly bloody and involve multiple antagonists in addition to ISIS. Turkish forces and Turkish-backed Islamist militias are advancing on the town from the west, the Russian-backed Syrian army is within striking distance from the south and US-backed Kurdish forces are approaching from the north and east. The main Turkish objective appears to be to prevent the Kurdish militia from taking Al-Bab, which would allow them to join their main enclave in northeastern Syria with territory they control in the northwest.

Turkish officials are already speaking of the latest incursion carving out a “de facto safe zone” that would divide Syrian Kurdish controlled areas in the east and west of the border area and leave Turkey in a more or less permanent occupation of a swathe of Syrian territory.

A spokesperson for the YPG said that the group had asked US forces to take a stand in their defense against the Turkish offensive. “They replied that a decision will be made in Washington,” he said.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement Wednesday expressing concern over Turkey’s offensive into Syria. “This calls into question the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic,” it said, adding, “We call on Ankara to refrain from any steps which can further destabilize the situation in Syria.” It pointed out that the Turkish operation had been launched without either the permission of the Syrian government or authorization by the United Nations.

Turkey renewed relations with Moscow last month in the wake of the abortive July 15 coup, which was widely seen as having been backed by Washington. The de-escalation of tensions played a significant role in freeing Ankara’s hand to launch its Syrian operation. After an incident in November of last year in which Turkish warplanes ambushed and shot down a Russian jet in the border area, relations were broken and the threat of a major armed conflict between Russia and Turkey, a member of the US-led NATO alliance, rose sharply.

The Erdogan government now appears to be disposed to pursuing its own interests by playing off Washington and Moscow, whose strategic objectives Syria—under the veneer of a common struggle against terrorism—are diametrically opposed.

Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are set to meet in Geneva on Thursday and Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported. Washington has demanded the implementation of an immediate ceasefire, particularly in the area of Aleppo, where a government offensive has thrown back the Al Qaeda-linked militias that Washington and its allies have backed in the five-year-old war for regime change in Syria.

“We’re not going to take a deal that doesn’t meet our basic objectives,” US deputy national security advisor Benjamin Rhodes told reporters during a stop by President Obama in Laos.

These “objectives” were spelled out Wednesday in a 25-page “transition plan” issued by the so-called High Negotiations Committee, a front representing the Islamist militias and Syrian exile politicians aligned with various powers and their intelligence agencies that was cobbled together by the Saudi monarchy. It demands the ouster of “Bashar al-Assad and his clique” within six months and the installation of a “transitional governing body” that would rule the country for 18 months leading up to elections.

How such a body would be selected is not specified, but the transparent aim is to impose a regime in Damascus that would be aligned with Washington and its allies, thereby achieving US imperialist aims of furthering hegemony over the oil-rich Middle East and further isolating Russia and China.

The insistence on these objectives coupled with the increasing weakness of US-backed forces on the ground in Syria and the new aggressive intervention by NATO member Turkey are creating an extremely volatile situation in which the threat of a direct confrontation between the world’s two foremost nuclear powers, the US and Russia, is growing.

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The Fight Against ISIS - Ross Kemp Joins Kurds [Documentary HD]

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USA will strangle the Kurds even more than the IS would.

With all due respect, I don't see US soldiers kidnapping Yazidis and extorting ransom from their relatives -- burying them alive, beheading them, obliterating entire villages.


Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of America's transnational crimes, but the way the world runs today, if the US was removed from its office as the head of nations, that vacuum would not stay empty for long. Somebody would fill it, and I do not want to know who.


Turkey was enabled not by the US in this instance but by its coalition with Iran and Russia.


As for Rojava specifically, they're awfully isolated, entrapped even. Enemies are on all corners. You can't blame them for accepting relations with the US. If they managed to obtain support from, say, the Gulf States instead, I would be glad for them, but I'm not holding my breath.


And if USA suppresses ISIS, soon another ISIS will come because American bombs make the Middle East a breeding ground for Islamic fundamentalists.

The United States has doubtlessly facilitated exacerbated and taken advantage of Islamist developments on some occasions, and during the Cold War did so directly. However, the Middle East has suffered as a breeding ground for Islamic fundamentalists for 50 years, with no sign of de-escalation, and would not stop being one if the US disappeared.


I suggest that the material roots of the Tajdid are to be searched elsewhere,¹ with actual class analysis.² If it had been only about resistance to colonialism, why would Islamism have replaced Nasser's pro-Soviet pan-Arabism when the postindependence generation came of age? Consider the 1970s surge in Saudi oil production, the 1973 oil crisis, as well as Iran's competition over the Gulf since the revolution and nationalization of the oil industry. The Islamic revival grew with economic inequality.

1. tuvalu . santafe . edu/~bowles/TheoryIslamicRevival.pdf
2. marxists . org/archive/harman/1994/xx/islam.htm#pt2

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US special forces flee “moderate” rebels in Syria

By Bill Van Auken

17 September 2016

US special operations troops were compelled to flee from a village in northern Syria Friday after their lives were threatened by elements of the so-called Free Syrian Army, the amorphous group of Islamist militias that Washington has backed in its five-year-old war for regime change.

A video posted online showed a column of vehicles carrying the American special forces operatives speeding out of the village as a crowd of Islamist jihadis waving automatic weapons chanted anti-American slogans and death threats.

“We’re going to slaughter you,” the so-called “moderate rebels,” shouted. “Down with America. Get out you pigs.”

[...]

The attempt to deploy American special operations troops with the Turkish-backed militias raised the real prospect of US soldiers confronting each other on opposite sides of the battlefield.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/17/syri-s17.html

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Citing unnamed “American officials,” the Times floats the perverse thesis that the real significance of an unprovoked attack, which killed and wounded nearly 200 Syrian government soldiers, in a country where US imperialism is carrying out military operations in flagrant violation of international law, is that it provided a pretext for Russia to abrogate a ceasefire agreement that Moscow, itself, had proposed. In other words, whatever evidence to the contrary, it is all Putin’s fault.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/20/pers-s20.html

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/12/wiki-o12.html

Leaked Clinton email admits Saudi, Qatari government funding of ISIS in Syria

By Bill Van Auken

12 October 2016

An email exchange between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta, posted Monday by WikiLeaks, frankly acknowledges that the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is funded and supported by Washington’s chief allies in the Arab world.

The September 2014 exchange was contained in one of the 2,086 documents posted by WikiLeaks Monday, following up on the release a week ago of over 2,000 more of Podesta’s emails and attachments.

At the time of the exchange on ISIS, Podesta was a White House counselor to President Barack Obama. One of the most powerful figures in the Democratic Party establishment, he is the former White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton, the former chairman of the Obama transition and a corporate lobbyist for corporations like WalMart, BP and Lockheed Martin. For her part, Clinton had left her post as secretary of state over a year earlier.

The email acknowledges that the sources for the assessment of the Saudi and Qatari support for ISIS “include Western intelligence, US intelligence and sources in the region.”

The document calls for increased reliance upon the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga as a key proxy force for combating ISIS in Iraq, pointing to the Kurdish militia’s “long standing relationships with CIA officers and Special Forces operators.”

It adds: “While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL [ISIS] and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”

The email continues: “This effort will be enhanced by the stepped up commitment in the [Kurdish Regional Government]. The Qataris and Saudis will be put in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious US pressure.”

The Obama administration has publicly embraced Saudi Arabia as its closest Arab ally and the ostensible leader of an “Islamic alliance” against terrorism. The Saudi regime is the patron of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), which purportedly represents the so-called “moderate” opposition that is also supported by Washington in the more than five-year-old war for regime change against the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Officially, the US administration has maintained that, while wealthy individuals in Saudi Arabia and Qatar had helped finance ISIS, the despotic governments of these oil monarchies were blameless.

This pretense was blown in October 2014, barely a week after the Podesta-Clinton email, when Vice President Joe Biden told an audience at Harvard University that the Saudi regime, along with other Gulf sheikdoms and Turkey, had “poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad. Except that the people who were being supplied were al-Nusra and Al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.”

“We could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them,” Biden added.

The US State Department subsequently “clarified” the vice president’s remarks and Biden himself apologized for “any implication that Turkey or other Allies and partners in the region had intentionally supplied or facilitated the growth of ISIL [ISIS] or other violent extremists in Syria.”

The contents of the Clinton-Podesta email are supplemented by a separate email released by WikiLeaks that includes an excerpt from a secret speech delivered by Clinton in 2013 that was flagged as problematic by her staff. In it she claimed that US attempts to “vet, identify, train and arm cadres of rebels” in Syria had been “complicated by the fact that the Saudis and others are shipping large amounts of weapons--and pretty indiscriminately--not at all targeted toward the people that we think would be the more moderate, least likely, to cause problems in the future.”

And previously, WikiLeaks posted a secret State Department memo signed by Clinton in 2009 that affirmed: “Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, LeT, and other terrorist groups.”

The Clinton camp has responded to the latest release of emails by ratcheting up its virulently anti-Russian campaign, claiming that WikiLeaks was acting as a pawn of the Kremlin and that the material released may have been altered to serve Moscow’s foreign policy purposes.

In her debate Sunday with her Republican rival Donald Trump, however, Clinton herself acknowledged the authenticity of the documents, attempting to defend a statement quoted in one of them from a speech to real estate investors in which she declared that in politics “you need both a public and private position.” She claimed that her inspiration for this approach was Abraham Lincoln.

The method of the “public and private” position is clearly in force in relation to Saudi Arabia, and for good reason.

Saudi Arabia remains a key pillar of political reaction and imperialist domination in the Middle East, with its ruling monarchy constituting the world’s chief customer of the American arms industry. Some $115 billion in US weapons and military support have poured into the kingdom since Obama took office in 2009.

More importantly, the Saudi government support for Al Qaeda, ISIS and similar Islamist militias has developed in close collaboration with the CIA, which coordinated the flow of arms, money and foreign fighters into Syria from a station in southern Turkey.

Moreover, such collaboration began long before the Syrian civil war, dating back to the US-orchestrated war against the Soviet-backed regime in Afghanistan in the 1980s, where Al Qaeda got its start under the leadership of Osama bin Laden, who collaborated closely with the CIA and Pakistani intelligence.

The determination of the US ruling establishment to maintain a veil of secrecy over this collaboration was underscored by Obama’s veto--subsequently overridden--of legislation allowing Americans to sue foreign governments alleged to be responsible for terrorist attacks in the US. The clear target of the bill was Saudi Arabia, based on ample evidence of Saudi government involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives.

The overriding fear within the administration and US ruling circles is that any serious probing of the Saudi role in these attacks would uncover the complicity of elements within the US intelligence agencies themselves in the events of 9/11.

Another significant element of the Clinton-Podesta email is its welcoming of the ISIS 2014 offensive in Iraq. It states that “the advance of ISIL [ISIS] through Iraq gives the U.S. Government an opportunity to change the way it deals with the chaotic security situation in North Africa and the Middle East. The most important factor in this matter is to make use of intelligence resources and Special Operations troops in an aggressive manner.”

In other words, ISIS provided a pretext for launching a renewed US military intervention aimed at furthering the strategic goal of American hegemony in the Middle East under the guise of a struggle against terrorism.

The email exchange further exposes Hillary Clinton’s deep involvement in all of these crimes.

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https://www.rt.com/news/362559-syria-iraq-mosul-isis/

US, Saudis to grant 9,000 ISIS fighters free passage from Iraqi Mosul to Syria – source

Published time: 12 Oct, 2016 21:01
Edited time: 13 Oct, 2016 16:04

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The US and Saudi Arabia have agreed to grant free passage to thousands of Islamic State militants before the Iraqi city of Mosul is stormed. The jihadists will be redeployed to fight against the government in Syria, a military-diplomatic source told RIA Novosti.
"More than 9,000 Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) militants will be redeployed from Mosul to the eastern regions of Syria to carry out a major offensive operation, which involves capturing Deir ez-Zor and Palmyra,” the source (https://ria.ru/syria/20161012/1479071235.html) said.

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‘Americans are on our side’: Al-Nusra commander says US arming jihadists via 3rd countries (https://www.rt.com/news/360690-us-arms-nusra-syria/)

According to the anonymous diplomatic source, US President Barack Obama has already sanctioned an operation to liberate Mosul, due to take place in October.

During the storm of the city in northern Iraq the US-led coalition’s planes would only strike detached, vacated or uninhabited buildings, while keeping terrorists as targets, he said.

In September, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter confirmed that Washington would send an additional 600 troops to Iraq to help liberate Mosul at the request of the local authorities.

The source suggested that redeployment of IS militants is necessary because “Washington must somehow counter Russia’s achievements in Syria, try to diminish their importance.”

"Apart from the purely political dividends, the other purpose of this operation, obviously, will be to discredit the success of Russian Airspace forces. And, of course, it’s an attempt to undermine Syrian President (Bashar) Assad,” he said.

The leadership of Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Directorate will be the mediators and guarantors of the agreement on safe passage for the jihadists from Mosul, he claimed.

The source added that a similar scheme had been used by the US and its allies during the liberation of the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

READ MORE: Russia, US to discuss possible steps for Syria crisis settlement in Lausanne on Saturday – Moscow (https://www.rt.com/news/362514-syria-us-russia-meeting/)

Damascus has accused Washington for coordinating with IS after an airstrike against the Syrian government troops near the city of Deir ez-Zor on September 17. Washington said that the bombing, in which 83 soldiers were killed and over 100 injured, was a mistake.

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U.S. HANDS OFF SYRIA

An Urgent Message for Peace
on the Eve of Wider War

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Dear friends of International Action Center,

Please review this statement issued by the newly-formed Hands Off Syria Coalition. It follows a lengthy round of discussions among several antiwar and social justice organizations and leading individuals about the urgent need for a broad coalition to confront the escalating war in Syria. International Action Center- IACenter.org is supportive of this process and a signatory to this statement. We invite you to join the rapidly growing coalition and encourage others to join.

Solidarity, Sara Flounders for IAC

We raise our voices against the violence of war and the enormous pressure of war propaganda, lies and hidden agendas that are used to justify this war and every past U.S. war.

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, endorse the following Points of Unity and will work together as an Ad Hoc Coalition to help put an end to the regime change intervention by the United States, NATO and their regional allies and the killing of innocent people in Syria:

1. The continuation of the war in Syria is the result of a U.S.-orchestrated intervention by the United States, NATO, their regional allies and reactionary forces, the goal of which is regime change in Syria.

2. This policy of regime change in Syria is illegal and in clear violation of the United Nations Charter, the letter and spirit of international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

3. This policy of forced regime change is threatening the security of the region and the world and has increased the danger of direct confrontation between the United States and Russia, with the potential of a nuclear catastrophe for the whole world.

4. War and U.S. and EU sanctions have destabilized every sector of Syria's economy, transforming a once self-sufficient country into an aid-dependent nation. Half the Syrian population is now displaced. A UN ESCWA report reveals these U.S. sanctions on Syria are crippling aid work during one of the largest humanitarian emergency since World War II. The one third of Syrians refugees in surrounding Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have been hit hard by U.S. cuts to UNICEF. This forces desperate refugees to struggle to reach Europe.

5. No foreign entity, be it a foreign government or an armed group, has the right to violate the fundamental rights of the Syrian people to independence, national sovereignty and self-determination. This includes the right of the Syrian government to request and accept military assistance from other countries, as even the U.S. government has admitted.

6. Only the people of Syria have the inalienable right to choose their leaders and determine the character of their government, free from foreign intervention. This right cannot be properly exercised under the conditions of U.S.-orchestrated foreign intervention against the Syrian people.

7. Our opposition is to forced regime change in Syria by U.S.-backed foreign powers and their mercenaries. It is not our business to support or oppose President Assad or the Syrian government. Only the Syrian people have the right to decide the legitimacy of their government.

8. The most urgent issue at present is peace and putting an end to the violence of foreign intervention that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the displacement of millions of Syrians both internally or as refugees abroad.

Based on these Points of Unity, we, as individuals and organizations-in an Ad Hoc Coalition-agree on the following demands and commit ourselves to working together to help achieve them:

1. An immediate end to the U.S. policy of forced regime change in Syria and full recognition and compliance by the U.S., NATO and their allies with principles of international law and the U.N. Charter, including respect for the independence and territorial integrity of Syria.

2. An immediate end to all foreign aggression against Syria, and serious efforts toward a political resolution to the war.

3. An immediate end to all military, financial, logistical and intelligence support by the U.S., NATO and their regional allies to all foreign mercenaries and extremists in the Middle East region.

4. An immediate end to economic sanctions against Syria. Massive international aid for displaced people within Syria and Syrian refugees abroad.

Only in a peaceful and independent Syria, free of foreign aggression, can the people of Syria freely exercise their sovereign rights, express their free will and make free choices about their government and their country's leadership.

We invite all supporters of peace and peoples' right to self-determination around the world to join hands of cooperation in this effort to achieve these most humanitarian demands.

We need jobs, healthcare, education and an
end to racist police violence here at home,
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Initial signers of the statement:
Organizational Signers (in alphabetical order):

Alliance for Global Justice
Al-Awda - Palestine National Right to Return Coalition
All-African People's Revolutionary Party (GC)
American Party of Labor
ANSWER Coalition
Antiwar Committee - Chicago
Antiwar Committee - Minneapolis
Antiwar Committee - Tampa
Antiwar Committee - Tucson
Antiwar Committee - Utah
Arab Americans for Syria
Arab Women Progressive League
BAYAN - Philippine Coalition
Citizens of the World - Canada
Coalition of Arab Canadian Professionals and Community Associations
Columbus Campaign for Arms Control
Conselho Português para a Paz e Cooperação /
Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation
Dallas Left Alliance
Ecumenical Peace Institute Clergy and Laity Concerned
FLC-CGIL Trade Union University of Florence (Italy)
Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Hands Off Syria (Australia)
Houston Peace Council
Houston Communist Party
International Action Center
International League of Peoples Struggle - U.S.
Los Alamos Study Group - AZ
Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice
Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO) - Canada
New Jersey Peace Council
No Nukes No War - CT
Northeast Iowa Peace and Justice Committee
One State Assembly
Orange County Healthcare For All!
Peace Roots Alliance - Tennessee
Peoples Organization for Progress
Pittsburgh Anti-Imperialist League
Peoples Opposition to War, Imperialism & Racism - POWIR (Florida)
Popular Resistance
Popular Committee in Defense of Syria
Queers Without Borders - Hartford CT
Return Now Coalition
Socialist Action - Ligue pour l'Action Socialiste, Canada
South Asian Fund For Education, Scholarship & Training (SAFEST)
South Coast People For Peace and Justice
Southern Human Rights Organizers' Conference - SHROC
Students for Democratic Society - SDS
Swedish Peace Council
Syria Solidarity Movement
Syrian American Forum
Syrian American Will Association - SAWA
Syrian Social Club Community in the UK (Dr. Issa Chaer, Co-founder)
The Expatriates Association of Syrians in Canada
United National Antiwar Coalition - UNAC
United Steelworkers Local 8751
Unleashed (Anarcho-Liberation)
Upstate New York Drone Action
U.S. Peace Council
Veterans For Peace Chapter 111, Bellingham, WA
Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality
Women Against Military Madness - WAMM

Individual Signers (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Assad, The Expatriates Association of Syrians in Canada
Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan Africa News Wire
Ajama Baraka, Human Rights Defender
Judith Bello, Member of Admin Committee, UNAC
Vanessa Beeley, Independent Journalist and Photographer
Bob Brown, Organizer, All-African People's Revolutionary Party
(GC) - USA
Mark Burton, Member of the Board, Alliance for Global Justice
Alfonse Casal, National Spokesperson, American Party of Labor
Frank Chapman, Field organizer, Chicago Alliance Against Racist
and Political Repression*
Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General & Human Rights Attorney
Gerry Condon, National Board Vice President, Veterans For Peace*
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House: Oppose Engel Bill Which Promotes Syria War & Undermines Iran Deal


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New York Representative Eliot Engel, who voted for the Iraq war and opposed the Iran nuclear deal, has introduced a bill that would undermine U.S. diplomacy to reduce violence in Syria, advocates further entangling the U.S. militarily in Syria's civil war, and would undermine the Iran nuclear deal. Engel's bill is opposed by the Obama Administration.

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The bill advocates for the U.S. to impose a "no fly zone" in Syria, an act of war. Hillary Clinton has noted that a "no fly zone" would mean that the U.S. would have to “take out all of the air defense, many of which are located in populated areas. So … you’re going to kill a lot of Syrians. So all of a sudden this intervention that people talk about so glibly becomes an American and NATO involvement where you take a lot of civilians.” The Obama Administration opposes calls for the U.S. to impose a "no fly zone" in Syria.

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Obama administration split on “Plan B” for Syria intervention

By Bill Van Auken

25 October 2016

The Obama administration’s National Security Council has discussed proposals for a “Plan B” in Syria, involving a major escalation of the five-year-old US intervention aimed at toppling the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

“Plan B”—meant to signal Washington’s response to its failure to secure its goal of “regime change” by means of a negotiated agreement with Russia, the main ally of the Assad government—would involve significantly increasing the supply of weapons to the so-called rebels, a collection of Al Qaeda-linked Islamist militias. This would include the provision of antiaircraft weapons capable of shooting down not only Syrian government warplanes, but also those of the Russian air force.

The secret talks were convened in the context of the breakdown of a short-lived ceasefire agreement brokered between Washington and Moscow and the prospect of a Russian-backed Syrian government offensive overrunning the last urban stronghold of the Islamist forces in eastern Aleppo.

According to a report published Monday in the Washington Post, the National Security Council met at the White House October 14 to hear the proposals, but “neither approved nor rejected” them, reflecting sharp divisions within the US government and its military and intelligence complex.

Identified as strong supporters of “Plan B” were both US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and CIA Director John Brennan. According to the Post, they and other advocates of escalation argued that the “rebels” had to be reinforced because they constitute “the only force in Syria capable of prolonging the war and possibly pushing Moscow to abandon Assad as part of a political solution.”

The language is significant. It identifies a major strategic goal of US imperialism as that of “prolonging” a war that has already killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions.

Carter is said to have advocated a “doubling down” of the CIA program in order “to inflict higher costs on Moscow for its intervention” in support of the Assad government.

Opponents of the plan, who apparently now include Secretary of State John Kerry, an earlier advocate of escalation, reportedly argued that an intervention aimed at bringing down Syrian and Russian warplanes would likely end in a direct confrontation between Washington and Moscow.

One senior administration official told the Post, “You can’t pretend you can go to war against Assad and not go to war against Russia.”

Another senior US official quoted by the Post acknowledged that the so-called Free Syrian Army, which has been armed, trained and paid by the CIA and Pentagon, as well as Washington’s regional allies, is “increasingly dominated by extremists,” i.e., Al Qaeda.

Among the major concerns voiced within US government circles about providing heavy weapons to the “rebels,” and particularly MANPADs, highly portable shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, is that these Al Qaeda-linked forces will just as likely turn them against civilian passenger jets as Russian fighter planes.

The advocates of the escalation, according to the Post report, proposed “a compromise in which the CIA and its partners would deliver truck-mounted antiaircraft weapons that could help rebel units but would be difficult for a terrorist group to conceal and use against civilian aircraft.”

The fact that the heads of both the Pentagon and the CIA are at odds with the White House on the proposed “Plan B” raises the serious question of whether the powerful US military and intelligence apparatus will not find means to circumvent the administration’s policy in order to further an intervention in which they are deeply invested. One means of doing this would be to use regional allies, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, which are already heavily involved in the war for regime change in Syria.

Moreover, it appears certain that an incoming administration led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will introduce a change of course of Syria, opting for a more aggressive US military intervention.

In two debates with Republican rival Donald Trump, Clinton has voiced her support for the imposition of a “no-fly zone” in Syria on the pretext of humanitarian protection of civilians. The US military has warned that imposing such a zone would entail a military confrontation with Russia. Clinton herself, as revealed in a 2013 speech she delivered to Goldman Sachs released by WikiLeaks, acknowledged that creating such a zone would require extensive air strikes on government positions in densely populated areas in which “you’re going to kill a lot of Syrians.”

According to earlier reports, there is strong support from both Republican and Democratic wings of the US foreign policy establishment for an escalation in Syria.

Two pieces published in the Washington Post give a sense of the criminality of these layers. The first by the Post’s foreign policy columnist Josh Rogin and published Monday expresses support for the “interventionist side” of Clinton’s transition team, including “the Center for American Progress, the think tank founded by her campaign chairman, John Podesta, which last week released a report calling for the use of American air power to protect civilians in Syria.”

Rogin concludes the article exhorting Clinton to “accept the security and political risks that come with committing more American resources to ending the slaughter and confronting the regime and its partners.”

In an earlier op-ed piece published Saturday by the Post, John Allen, the retired Marine Corps general who headed US-led occupation forces in Afghanistan and was a speaker at the Democratic convention in July, endorsing Hillary Clinton, joined with Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute in lashing out at US policy in Syria, including “our unwillingness to tangle with the regime, and now with the Russians.”

The piece demands that the US government ratchet up the confrontation with Russia, first by “imposing an escalatory set of economic sanctions” against Moscow.

It continues: “The second option is one the Russians believe the United States will never do: Escalate the conflict. The United States must challenge the status quo and end the regime’s war crimes, by force if necessary.”

Washington, the article argues, “must both accelerate and broaden the provision of lethal and nonlethal assistance” to the so-called rebels. It goes on to advocate the formation of a “coalition of the willing,” the term coined by the Bush administration in preparing the criminal US war in Iraq, “to credibly threaten military actions against Assad’s military infrastructure.”

It acknowledges, “We should expect the possible intentional co-mingling of Syrian and Russian forces and assets,” but insists, “we should not miss the opportunity to hit offending Syrian elements and units.”

The piece concludes, “The credibility of the United States, as the leader and the defender of the free world, must be salvaged from the horrific devastation of Syria.”

The recklessness of such policies, aimed at deliberately provoking military confrontation with Russia, a power that controls the world’s second-largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, is staggering.

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This kind of pseudo-left, seemingly anti-imperialist mumbo jumbo is what gets some people to Assad apologism as well, don't forget that, while opposing his system. Maybe some people on the left should stop with the ongoing mantra that USA is somehow the worst of all imperialists, and that non-USA reactionary tendencies or imperialist states are somehow still better. The problem is that USA became such a gargantuan symbol of imperialism that now it is ridiculous. Having a symbolic rule in capitalism and imperialism, USA became a scapegoat for everything, while anyone who holds anti-USA sentiments either because of geopolitical or ideological reasons is regarded as somehow being at least a little better. No way. This kind of symbolic concentration of hatred on a particular scapegoat falls not far from the philistine right-wing attitude and ideas of some evil USA-Israel cabal. Even the rhetoric of OP echoes that of the early 2000's European neofascist parties, that frequently called the USA some evil empire, and it was their favourite topic before immigration and refugees. Sure, governments of the USA during history did horrible things, but this is how a state with strong racial and class antagonisms behaves. And of course the USA is a fine example of how contemporary capitalism manifests itself through the capitalist state and the markets in the worst ways possible, but the particular hate on the US is not getting anyone anywhere. Also, sorry for the rant. I really only addressed the rhetoric, and the somewhat subtextual ISIS apologism.

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This kind of pseudo-left, seemingly anti-imperialist mumbo jumbo is what gets some people to Assad apologism as well,


I've seen *zero* Assad apologism here at RevLeft.





don't forget that, while opposing his system. Maybe some people on the left should stop with the ongoing mantra that USA is somehow the worst of all imperialists,


The U.S. *is* the worst of all imperialists historically because it's the most-dominant and widely oppressive through its own military, and through its geopolitical connections with other oppressive regimes, like that of Saudi Arabia.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases





and that non-USA reactionary tendencies or imperialist states are somehow still better.


The principle here is *self-determination* / national-liberation for the people of Syria.





The problem is that USA became such a gargantuan symbol of imperialism that now it is ridiculous. Having a symbolic rule in capitalism and imperialism, USA became a scapegoat for everything, while anyone who holds anti-USA sentiments either because of geopolitical or ideological reasons is regarded as somehow being at least a little better. No way. This kind of symbolic concentration of hatred on a particular scapegoat


You're claiming that the U.S. empire and all of its destructive violence is being 'scapegoated' -- ? -- !





falls not far from the philistine right-wing attitude and ideas of some evil USA-Israel cabal. Even the rhetoric of OP echoes that of the early 2000's European neofascist parties, that frequently called the USA some evil empire, and it was their favourite topic before immigration and refugees. Sure, governments of the USA during history did horrible things, but this is how a state with strong racial and class antagonisms behaves. And of course the USA is a fine example of how contemporary capitalism manifests itself through the capitalist state and the markets in the worst ways possible, but the particular hate on the US is not getting anyone anywhere. Also, sorry for the rant. I really only addressed the rhetoric, and the somewhat subtextual ISIS apologism.


Just because there may be some similarity in analysis between the left and the right -- in pointing out the U.S.-Israel relationship -- doesn't mean that there's *political agreement* between the left and the right.

The U.S. *continues* to do horrible things.

There's no 'hate' *required* for a critique of the U.S. -- the plain recitation of empirical facts about the U.S. empire's unprovoked violence throughout the centuries is sufficient.

I don't see any 'subtextual ISIS apologism' on display.

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Pentagon: Come Clean on Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons in Syria


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Amnesty International issued a report Tuesday on 11 separate strikes by the US-led “coalition” in which it said some 300 civilians were killed. The Pentagon has acknowledged only one death in these bombing raids. Other monitoring groups have put the civilian death toll inflicted by the US air war in Syria at well over 1,000. All told, the Pentagon admits to killing only 55 civilians in two years. Power’s jibe that the Russians view every child in Aleppo as a member of Al Qaeda applies with equal force to the Pentagon, whose bombs apparently kill only members of ISIS.

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U.S. Hands Off Syria

An Urgent Message for Peace on the Eve of Wider War

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UNAC has joined with hundreds of organizations, prominent individuals and others to form the “Hands off Syria Coalition.” Please click the link below to join the coalition and read the points of unity.

Please click here to add your name in support of the Hands off Syria Coalition (http://handsoffsyriacoalition.net/)

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Hands Off Syria Coalition — Points of Unity Statement

October 13, 2016 Leave a comment


Dear Friends of Peace and Justice in the U.S. and the World,

We are very pleased to announce that, following a lengthy round of deliberations among several organizations and leading individuals in the peace movement about the urgent need for a broad coalition to oppose war and U.S./NATO intervention for a forced regime change in Syria, numerous organizations and prominent leaders of the peace movement have signed on the Coalition’s Points of Unity statement and have agreed to cooperate within the framework of an Ad Hoc coalition named Hands Off Syria Coalition.

Our objective is to create the broadest possible united front for peace and justice by peace activists and organizations in the U.S. and around the world to fight for an end all violence, intervention and sanctions against Syria, which is now threatening world peace.

We have attached below our Points of Unity statement for your review. It is our sincere hope that you will also agree with this statement and join this broad coalition, either as an organization or as a pro-peace individual.

We sincerely thank you for considering this invitation, and ask you to kindly distribute this invitation broadly.

Hands Off Syria Coalition

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U.S. Hands Off Syria
An Urgent Message for Peace on the Eve of Wider War

We raise our voices against the violence of war and the enormous pressure of war propaganda, lies and hidden agendas that are used to justify this war and every past U.S. war.

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, endorse the following Points of Unity and will work together as an Ad Hoc Coalition to help put an end to the regime change intervention by the United States, NATO and their regional allies and the killing of innocent people in Syria:

1. The continuation of the war in Syria is the result of a U.S.-orchestrated intervention by the United States, NATO, their regional allies and reactionary forces, the goal of which is regime change in Syria.

2. This policy of regime change in Syria is illegal and in clear violation of the United Nations Charter, the letter and spirit of international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

3. This policy of forced regime change is threatening the security of the region and the world and has increased the danger of direct confrontation between the United States and Russia, with the potential of a nuclear catastrophe for the whole world.

4. War and U.S. and EU sanctions have destabilized every sector of Syria’s economy, transforming a once self-sufficient country into an aid-dependent nation. Half the Syrian population is now displaced. A UN ESCWA report reveals these U.S. sanctions on Syria are crippling aid work during one of the largest humanitarian emergency since World War II. The one third of Syrians refugees in surrounding Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have been hit hard by U.S. cuts to UNICEF. This forces desperate refugees to struggle to reach Europe.

5. No foreign entity, be it a foreign government or an armed group, has the right to violate the fundamental rights of the Syrian people to independence, national sovereignty and self-determination. This includes the right of the Syrian government to request and accept military assistance from other countries, as even the U.S. government has admitted.

6. Only the people of Syria have the inalienable right to choose their leaders and determine the character of their government, free from foreign intervention. This right cannot be properly exercised under the conditions of U.S.-orchestrated foreign intervention against the Syrian people.

7. Our opposition is to forced regime change in Syria by U.S.-backed foreign powers and their mercenaries. It is not our business to support or oppose President Assad or the Syrian government. Only the Syrian people have the right to decide the legitimacy of their government.

8. The most urgent issue at present is peace and putting an end to the violence of foreign intervention that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the displacement of millions of Syrians both internally or as refugees abroad.

Based on these Points of Unity, we, as individuals and organizations—in an Ad Hoc Coalition—agree on the following demands and commit ourselves to working together to help achieve them:

1. An immediate end to the U.S. policy of forced regime change in Syria and full recognition and compliance by the U.S., NATO and their allies with principles of international law and the U.N. Charter, including respect for the independence and territorial integrity of Syria.

2. An immediate end to all foreign aggression against Syria, and serious efforts toward a political resolution to the war.

3. An immediate end to all military, financial, logistical and intelligence support by the U.S., NATO and their regional allies to all foreign mercenaries and extremists in the Middle East region.

4. An immediate end to economic sanctions against Syria. Massive international aid for displaced people within Syria and Syrian refugees abroad.
Only in a peaceful and independent Syria, free of foreign aggression, can the people of Syria freely exercise their sovereign rights, express their free will and make free choices about their government and their country’s leadership.

We invite all supporters of peace and peoples’ right to self-determination around the world to join hands of cooperation in this effort to achieve these most humanitarian demands.

We need jobs, healthcare, education and an end to racist police violence here at home, not U.S. wars abroad!!



Organizational Signers (in alphabetical order):



African Awareness Association, USA
Akademie Solidarische Akademie, Germany
AKF, Germany
Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice (Chicago)
Alliance for Global Justice
Al-Awda — Palestine National Right to Return Coalition
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
All India Anti-Imperialist Forum, India
Alternative Media — Ireland
American Party of Labor
ANSWER Coalition
Antiwar Committee — Chicago
Antiwar Committee — Minneapolis
Antiwar Committee — Tampa
Antiwar Committee — Tucson
Antiwar Committee — Utah
Arab Americans for Syria
Arab Women Progressive League
Arbeitskreis für Friedenspolitik – atomwaffenfreies Europa e. V., Berlin, Germany
Arbeitskreis Marburger WisxsenschaftlerInnen für Friedens – und Abrüstungsforschung (AMW) — Germany
Associazione per la Pace di Pordenone, Italy
Attac, Hamburg, Germany
Auszeithaus, Germany
BAYAN – Philippine Coalition
Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace
Bike Arts Artist/Environment Forum, Toronto, Canada
Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations
British Afro-Asian Organisation
Buffalo Anti Racism Coalition
Byke4Peace.com
Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD), Australia
Casa de las Lenguas, Texas
Chicago Area CodePINK
Citizens of the World — Canada
Coalition of Arab Canadian Professionals and Community Associations
Codepink Golden Gate Chapter, Berkeley, California
Cognitive Liberty, Californian, USA
Collettivo redazionale – La Città Futura, Giornale comunista on-line, Italy
Columbus Campaign for Arms Control
Comite Surveillance OTAN, Bruxelles, Belgique
The Committee to Stop FBI Repression — NYC
Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
Community Media Trust, Wellington, New Zealand
Conselho Português para a Paz e Cooperação / Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation
Consejo de la juventud de Torrelavega, Torrelavega, Cantabria, Spain
Coop Anti-War Cafe, AntikriegTV, Berlin, Germany
CT 9/11 Truth
Countercurrents.org
Dallas Left Alliance
Democracy TV Berlin, Germany
Democracy without Borders, Canada
Deutscher Freidenkerverband, Berlin, Germany
Deutscher Freidenker-Verband, Germany
Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand
DKP, Germany
Earth Neighborhood
Ecumenical Peace Institute Clergy and Laity Concerned
Ecumenical Women’s Forum — Philippines
El Movimiento Meicano Por la Paz Y el Desarollo (MOMPADE) — Mexico
Far Eastern Press
Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice — Canada
FLC-CGIL Trade Union University of Florence (Italy)
Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico
Foro Contra la Guerra Imperialista y la OTAN (Spain)
Free Mumia Abu Jamal Coalition — NYC
Friedensbündnis Berlin, Germany
Friedensinitiative Sülz-Klettenberg Köln, Germany
Frome Stop War, UK
Fronte Popolare (Italia)
Galway Alliance Against War, Ireland
Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition, USA
Greater New Haven Peace Council, Connecticut
Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Hands Off Syria (Australia)
Handsoff Venezuela—Finland
HEAL
House of Creative Writing, Michigan, USA
Houston Peace Council
Houston Communist Party
Humanistischer Landesverband Thüringen e.V., Jena, Germany
ImaginAction Theatre, Sierra Madre, California
In Service to Humankind of Planet Earth, Washington DC
International Action Center
International Anti-imperialist Coordinating Committee, Kolkata, India
International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
International Indigenous Society, Georgia, USA
International-Lawyers.Org, Geneva, Switzerland
Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte, Germany
International League of Peoples Struggle – U.S.
International Movement for a Just World (JUST), Malaysia
Jersey City Peace Movement, New Jersey, USA
Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation, UK
Just Peace Qld Australia
Koalition des Widerstands, Berlin, Germany
Labor Fightback Network, New Jersey, USA
Labor Union Advocates
Liberty From The Lobby
Los Alamos Study Group — Arizona
Maine Social Justice — Public Access TV Show
Malcolm X Center
Manu Waiata Restoration & Protection Society, Ltd, New Zealand
Melbourne May Day Committee, Australia
Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, Australia
Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice
Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO) — Canada
Movement for People’s Democracy, Los Angeles, California
Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center, California, USA
Multipolar World against War, Berlin, Germany
Münchner Bündnis gegen Krieg und Rassismus, Germany
Mütter gegen den Krieg Berlin-Brandenburg
New Afrikan Independence Party (NAIP)
New Jersey Peace Council
New Mexico Intrinsic Human Rights Collaborative
New Orleans Workers Group, USA
News Source, Inc., Newton, Massachusetts
No NATO List, Rome, Italy
No Nukes No War — Connecticut
Northeast Iowa Peace and Justice Committee
Northeast Philly for Peace and Justice
NoWar — Casa internazionale delle donne, Roma, Italy
No War Net — Rome, Italy
Nowar-Paix, Ottawa, Canada
Oma, Nokia, Finland
One State Assembly
One World Media, Berlin, Germany
One World Life Systems, New York
Ontario Civil Liberties Association, Canada
Orange County Healthcare For All!
Our Revolution Los Angeles
PädagogInnen für den Frieden, Hamburg, Germany
Pakistan USA Freedom Forum, New York
Pax Christi — Clinton, Iowa
PDA Chicago
Peace, Bochum, Germany
Peace Action of San Mateo County, California
Peace Forum Sangerhausen, Germany
Peace Roots Alliance — Tennessee
PeaceWorks, Maine
Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community (PARC), California
Peoples Organization for Progress
Pittsburgh Anti-Imperialist League
People Demanding Action, Florida
Peoples’ Liberation Front — JVP, Srilanka
Peoples Opposition to War, Imperialism & Racism — POWIR (Florida)
Popular Resistance
Popular Committee in Defense of Syria
Portuguese Institute of Higher Studies in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences
Project NatureConnect, Los Angeles, USA
Queers Without Borders — Hartford, Connecticut
Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice, Wisconsin, USA
Radical Student Union — CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio
Return Now Coalition
Revolutionary Theory and Action Collective – Journal, Georgia, USA
Rochester Peace Action and Education
Rumble of the People, New Mexico, USA
Samizdat: Socialist Prisoners Project, Wisconsin
San Diego County Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party of California
SEC. Rly Pensioners Association of India
Seniora.org, Zurich, Switzerland
Socialist Action
Socialist Action — Ligue pour l’Action Socialiste, Canada
SOLVE, Florida, USA
South Asian Fund For Education, Scholarship & Training (SAFEST)
South Coast People For Peace and Justice
Southern Human Rights Organizers’ Conference – SHROC
Spirit of Eureka (Victoria – Australia)
St. Pete for Peace
Stop the War Machine
Strength Through Peace, an affiliate of the Fort Collins Community Action Network, Colorado
Students for a Democratic Society — SDS
Students for a Democratic Society (Angelina College Chapter), Texas
Students for a Democratic Society — Clemson SDS
Students for a Democratic Society at University of Houston
Students for a Democratic Society, Salt Lake City, Utah
Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, Sweden
Swedish Peace Council
Syria Solidarity Movement
Syrian American Forum
Syrian American Will Association – SAWA
Syrian Social Club Community in the UK (Dr. Issa Chaer, Co-founder)
The Expatriates Association of Syrians in Canada
The Pacific Institute of Resource Management, Wellington, New Zealand
Topanga Peace Alliance and MLK Coalition of Greater Los Angeles
Umbrella Peace Art, Berlin, Germany
United National Antiwar Coalition — UNAC
United Opt Out National
United Steelworkers Local 8751
Unleashed (Anarcho-Liberation)
Upstate New York Drone Action
U.S. Peace Council
ver.di, Braunschweig, Germany
Veterans for Peace Chapter 15, Tallahasseee, Florida
Veterans For Peace Chapter 21, Northern New Jersey
Veterans For Peace Chapter 71, Sonoma County, California
Veterans For Peace Chapter 109, Washington State
Veterans For Peace Chapter 111, Bellingham, Washington State
Veterans for Peace — Ireland
Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality
Villas de la Playa Vega baja, Puerto Rico
Walden Three, Wien, Austria
War is Unacceptable to Consciousness
Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, Chicago
Whores Against Wars, New Zealand
Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement
WisxsenschaftlerInnen für Friedens – und Abrüstungsforschung (AMW) — Germany
Wolf’s Enterprises Human and Civil Rights Advocacy
Women Against Military Madness — WAMM
Women for Peace, Finland
Workers World Party
World 5.0
World Peace Council (WPC)
Würselener Initiative für den Frieden, Germany
www.balqis.de
Zimbabwe Pan Africanist Youth Agenda


Individual Signers (in alphabetical order):

Matti Aalto, Secretary of Oulus District, Communist Party of Finland*
Jim Abourezk, Former U.S. Senator, South Dakota
Judith Ackerman, WIB,* New York
Jairo Aja Garcia, Ex-vicepresidente, Consejo de la juventud de Torrelavega, Torrelavega, Cantabria, Spain
Arena Alessio, General Secretary, Fronte Popolare,* Italy
Charles Altman, Huntington Woods Peace, Citizenship and Education Project,* Michigan
Akubundu Amazu, Central Committee Member, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party
Robert Anderson, Co-Director, Stop the War Machine
Tim Anderson, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney,* Australia
Dietrich Antelmann, Diplomkameralist, Mitglied beim Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie,* Potsdam, Germany
Masad Arbid, M.D., Arab – Americans for Syria*
Mohammed Arif, General Secretary, British Afro-Asian Organisation
Hector Aristizabal, Director, ImaginAction Theatre, Sierra Madre, California
Lee Artz, Professor, Media Studies, Purdue Northwest,* Indiana
Kenneth Ashe, Veterans for Peace,* Marshall, North Carolina
Karen Ashikeh, Founder, Earth Neighborhood, Fremont, California
Christopher Assad, The Expatriates Association of Syrians in Canada
Margli Auclair, Director, Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center, Walnut Creek, California
Dr. Georg Auernheimer, Univ. Prof. em., Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte
Steffen Aumüller, Friedensbündnis Berlin, Mitglied DIE LINKE, Germany
Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan Africa News Wire
Kazem Azin, Co-founder, Solidarity Iran — SI, USA
Alli Baker, Pastor, Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, Chicago
Ekkehard Basten, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear Weapons,* Berlin, Germany
Romina Beitseen, Secretary, Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD), Australia
Richard Baker, Fronte Popolare, Italy
Ajama Baraka, Human Rights Defender
William Barklay, In Service toHumankind of Planet Earth, Washington DC, USA
Peter Barrett, President, Pacific Institute of Resource Management,* Wellington, New Zealand
Thomas Baxter, President, Veterans for Peace Chapter 15, Florida
Mary Beaudoin, Women Against Military Madness,* Minnesota, USA
Daniel Becker, Deutscher Freidenker Verband,* Berlin, Germany
Dr. Johannes Mari Becker, Senior Researcher, Arbeitskreis Marburger
Vanessa Beeley, Independent Journalist and Photographer
Mike Beilstein, City Councilor,* Corvallis, Oregon
Judith Bello, Member of Admin Committee, UNAC; Rochester Peace Action and Education
William Bianchi, Chair, PDA Chicago
Thomas Bias, National Secretary, Labor Fightback Network, New Jersey, USA
Olga Bidshijewa, Verdi, S21-Gegner,* Stutgart, Germany
Toby Blomé, CODEPINK, SF Bay Area Chapter,* California, USA
Max Bollock, Board Member, San Mateo County Peace Action,* USA
Anne Bowers, Women in Black,* New York, USA
Vincenzo Branid, Spokesman, No War Net / No NATO List — Rome (Italy)
Jimmy Brash, Editorial Board Member, The North Star website,* Parsippany-Troy Hills, new Jersey
Manfred Braun, Member of Local Speaker Council, DIE LINKE,* Brühl (Baden), Germany
Charles Britz, Appalachian Left,* Huntington, West Virginia
Keith Brooks, UFT Retiree, NWU,* New York, USA
Bob Brown, Organizer, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) — USA
Mattie Boyd, Workers World Party,* Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vincenzo Brandi, Spokesman, No War Net Rome / No NATO List — Italy
Daniel Brown, Director, Rite of Strings, Modern Guitar Tuition, Cockburn Central, Australia
Annette Brownlie, President, Just Peace Qld Australia
Minnie Bruce Pratt, UAW Local 1981/ National Writers Union*
Kim Bryan, General Secretary,* Socialist Labour Party (Great Britain)
Heinrich Buecker, Initiator, Coop Anti-War Cafe, AntikriegTV, Berlin, Germany
Doug Bullock, Legislator, Albany County,* USA
Kerry Burch, Professor, Northern Illinois University,* USA
Mark Burton, Member of the Board, Alliance for Global Justice
Gregory Butterfield, National Organization of Legal Services Workers, UAW Local 2320,* New York, USA
Mike Caggiano, President, Peace Action of San Mateo county, California
Traian Cainaru, USFSP,* New York, USA
Luke Callinan, Political Organiser, Sinn Féin,* Ireland
Candace Carnicelli, Executive Director, Common Peace,* California, USA
Alfonse Casal, National Spokesperson, American Party of Labor
Elizabeth Case, Dorchester People for Peace,* Boston, Massachusetts
Isabelle Casel, Die Linke,* WIIS,* attac DPG,* Bonn, Germany
Liane Casten, Co-Chair, Citizens Act to Protect Our Water (CAPOW!)*
John Catalinotto, Managing Editor, Workers World newspaper,* USA
Sara Catalinotto, Delegate, UFT Local 2/MORE Caucus,* New York
John Chadwick, Magistrate of Visa Application,* Bellingham, Sashington State
Dr. Issa Chaer, Syria Solidarity Movement
Frank Chapman, Field organizer, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression*
Courtney Childs, CCDS, Corvallis Chapter,* Oregon
K. R. Chowdry, President, All India Anti-imperialist Forum, Kokata, India
Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General & Human Rights Attorney
Polet Claudine, Comite Surveillance OTAN, Bruxelles, Belgique
Lynn Comerford, Professor, California State University — East Bay*
Mary Compton, Co-Chair, Greater New Haven Peace Council,* Connecticut
Shahid Comrade, Secretary General, Pakistan USA Freedom Forum, New York
Gerry Condon, National Board Vice President, Veterans For Peace*
James Connolly, Administrator, Connecticut Progressives FB Page
Sheila Coombes, Founder and Coorinator, Frome Stop War, UK
Len Cooper, Melbourne May Day Committee, Australia
Heather Cottin, Long Island Committee Against US Wars,* Freeport, New York
Ian Cox, Vice-Chair, Students for a Democratic Society (Angelina College Chapter), Texas
Pastor Michael-Vincent Crea, Founder & Pastor One World Life Systems, New York
Cheryl Curtis, Ct 9/11 Truth
Christine Curtiss, Arlington Street Church,* Boston, Massachusetts
Kenneth Dalton, Veterans For Peace, Chapter 21,* New Jersey, U.S.A.
Claudine Dauphin, Archaeologist and Historian of the Middle East, Paris, France
Nicolas J. S. Davies, Author of Blood On Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, Florida, USA
Erin Davis, Ancaster Discovery Gardens,* Ancaster, Canada
Susan E. Davis, National Writers Union, UAW 1981,* New York
Ian Decker, National Organizer, Students for a Democratic Society (National);* Organizer, Students for a Democratic Society @UofU,* Utah
Kimberly DeFranco, Welfare Rights Committee,* Minnesota, USA
Luana DeJesus, Buffalo Anti Racism Coalition, New York, USA
Joe Delaplaine, Organizer, Party for Socialism and Liberation,* California
Francesco Delledonne, Fronte Popolare (Italia)
Judith Deutsch, Past President, Science for Peace,* Toronto, Canada
Kate Dewes, Coordinator, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand
Jadranka Dierkes, Peace, Bochum, Germany
Lucas Dietsche, Organizer, Samizdat: Socialist Prisoners Project, Wisconsin
Selena Di Francescantonio, Fronte Popolare,* Italy
Cheryl Distaso, Coordinator, Strength Through Peace, an affiliate of the Fort Collins Community Action Network, Colorado
Said Dodin, Gründer, One World Media, Berlin, Germany
Curtis Doebbler, Officer, International-Lawyers.Org, Geneva, Switzerland
Denis Doherty, National Coordinator, Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition
Arthur Donart, Deacon, Pax Christi — Clinton, Iowa
Ute Donner, Artist, Umbrella Peace Art,* Berlin, Germany
Henry Duke, M.D., Founder, Medical Director, Orange County Healthcare for All!, California
Mary Catherine Dundon, SSND, Retired, School Sisters of Notre Dame,* Wisconsin
Frank Dorrel, Publisher, ADDICTED To WAR, California, USA
Nicolas Dryansky, UNAC,* New York
Henry Duke, M.D., Medical Director, Orange County Healthcare For All!
Berthony Dupont, Haiti Liberté Newspaper,* New York, USA
Sandy Eaton, South Shore Coalition for Human Rights — Massachusetts,* USA
Nick Egnatz, NW Indiana Veterans For Peace*
Bernie Eisenberg, HP Boycott Campaign,* California
Irene Eckert, Board Member, AKF, Berlin, Germany
Irene Eckert, Board Member, Arbeitskreis für Friedenspolitik – atomwaffenfreies Europa e. V., Berlin, Germany
Mick Eddings, Contacts Coordinator, New Mexico Intrinsic Human Rights Collaborative
Debra Ellis, Cognitive Liberty, Californian, USA
Chris Ernesto, St. Pete for Peace
Wolfgang Fabricius, Leitungskreis, Akademie Solidarische Akademie, Germany
Niall Farrel, Press Officer, Galway Alliance Against War, Ireland
Marcello Ferrada de Noli, Chairman, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, Sweden
Rachelina Ferrecchia, Fronte Popolare,* Italy
Maria Ilda Figueiredo, Chairperson, Conselho Português para a Paz e Cooperação / Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation
Andrew Fink, Party for Socialism and Liberation,* Illinois
Mary Lou Finley, Co-Chair, San Diego County Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party of California
Anita Fisicaro, Nowar, Italy
Terence Fitzgibbons, Veterans For Peace,* New Jersey, USA
Irene Flachsbart, Friedenskoordination,* Berlin, Germany
Margaret Flowers, M.D., Green Party Candidate for Senate; Co-Director, It’s Our Economy*
David Foreman, Communist Party of Canada*
Haelg Franz, Obmann, Auszeithaus, Germany
Wolfram Freiling, Peace Party,* Germany
Ramiro Funez, ANTICONQUISTA*
Carl Gentile, CEO, Labor Union Advocates, Maryland, USA
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space*
Robin Gaura, Teacher, Diamond Mountain University,* Santa Cruz, California
Carol Gay, President, NJ State Industrial Union Council,* USA
Franziska Genitsch, Swiss Peace Movement,* Switzerland
Frank Geppert, Thale, Germany
Peter Gerlinghoff, Speaker, Peace Forum Sangerhausen, Germany
Jürgen Geppert, Kommunistische Partei Deutschland*
Michael Gessner, Friedensinitiative Sülz-Klettenberg Köln, Germany
Bradley Geyer, Veterans for Peace-Chapter 175,* Janesville WI; Iraq Veterans Against War,* Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3589*—Jefferson, WI
Subrata Ghoshroy, Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*
John Gilbert, Secretary, FLC-CGIL Trade Union University of Florence (Italy)
Ayesha Gill, IWW,* Oakland, California
Steven Gillis, Financial Secretary, United Steelworkers Local 8751
Daniel Gilman, President, Veterans For Peace Chapter 92,* Greater Seattle, Oregon
Mike Gimbel, Retired Executive Board Member, Local 375 AFSCME,* Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania
Greg Godels, Co-Director, Pittsburgh Anti-Imperialist League
Tayfun Gol, Co-Director, Pittsburgh Anti-Imperialist League
Flávio Gonçalves, Chairman, Instituto de Altos Estudos em Geopolítica e Ciências Auxiliares — Portuguese Institute of Higher Studies in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences, Amadora, Portugal
Socorro Gomes, President, World Peace Council (WPC)
Therese Gonzalez, Collectif de soutien aux réfugies,* Abriès, France
Trevor Goodger-Hill, Citizens of the World, Canada
Bob Goodman Steering Committee Member, Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition
Martha Grevatt, Trustee, UAW Local 869,* Michigan, USA
Eldon Grossman, Veterns For Peace,* Chicago, Illinois
Joachim Guilliard, Forum against Militarism and War,* Heidelberg, Germany
Maria Gabriella Guidetti, NoWar — Casa internazionale delle donne, Roma, Italy
Margaret Guttshall, Green Party,* Candidate for Wayne State University Board of Governors, Michigan
Evelyn Haas, Member of Executive Committee, Northeast Philly for Peace and Justice
Hermann Haberl, Mitglied, Gewerkschafter gegen Atomenergie und Krieg,* Wien, Austria
Willie Hager, National Board Member, Veterans For Peace*
Henry Hagins, Free Mumia Abu Jamal Coalition — NYC
Abbas Hamideh, al-Awda Steering Committee*
Erika Hampel, LINKE,* Berlin, Germany
Joseph Hancock, Movement for People’s Democracy, Los Angeles, California
Donald Hank, Laigles Forum, Florida
Tamara Hansen, National Coordinator, Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice — Canada
Marion Harper, Hon. Secretary, Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, Australia
Sue Harris, Peoples Video Network
Niels Harrit, Associate Professor Emeritus, 911 Truth Denmark*
Klaus Hartmann, President, World Union of Freethinkers / German Freethinkers Association
Franz Haslbeck, Münchner Bündnis gegen Krieg und Rassismus, Germany
Tatjana Miriam Hasse, Member, DIE LINKE,* Heidelberg, Germany
Jorge Herrera, Director of the Program, Oye Latino Radio program at Access Radio 783 AM*
Mrs. Harriet Heywood, Florida Coordinator, People Demanding Action
S. Hedgecoke, CWA 14156,* New York
Robert Hepburn, Coordinating Committee Member, Veterans For Peace,* Arcata, California
Patrick Higgins, Students for a Democratic Society at UH
Joseph Hickey, Executive Director, Ontario Civil Liberties Association, Canada
Jaribu Hill, Human Rights Defender
Fred Hirsch, Labor Council Delegate, Plumbers and Fitters Local 393,* California
Doris Hoerner, Die LINKE,* Buchen, Germany
Dr. Fritz Erik Hoevels, Psychoanalyst, Alliance Against Conformity,* Freiburg, Germany
Herbert Hoffman, Veterans for Peace,* Albuquerque, New Mexico
Edward Horgan, Chairperson, Veterans for Peace Ireland
Lydia Howell, Producer, Host of “Catalyst,” KFAI Community Radio, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Joan Hoff, Research Professor of History, Nontana State University,* Bozeman
Veron Hoffman, Bike 4 Peace, Oregon, USA
Julia Hoppe, Secretary, Schweizerische Friedensbewegung (SFB), Basel, Switzerland
Pat Hunt, Chicago Area CodePINK
Edward Horgan, Chairperson, Veterans for Peace — Ireland
Brian Huseby, International Socialist Organization
Joe Iosbaker, Anti-War Committee — Chicago
Abdul Jabbar, Emeritus Professor City College of San Francisco,* California
Sebastian Jahn, Der Stachel Leipzig,* Germany
Joe Jamison, Coordinator, Queens Peace Council*
Heide Janicki, Rentnerin, ver.di, Braunschweig, Germany
Jane Anne Jeffries, L.A. Coordinator, Project NatureConnect
Arlene Johnson, CEO, News Source, Inc., Newton, Massachusetts
Dale Johnson, Retired Professor, Brava, Costa Rica
Ivar Jordre, Board Member, Latin America Group,* Bergen, Norway
Lars Jørgensen, Researcher, Homo Sociologicus, Denmark
Alicia Jrapko, U.S. Coordinator, International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity
Kerry Kappell, Popular Resistance,* New York
Sonja Karas, Green Party,* Kremmen, Germany
Mohd Kassem, Followup Committee, Anti Imperialist Forum, Beirut, Lebanon
Tarak Kauf, National Board Member, Managing Editor, Peace in Our Times, Veterans For Peace*
Chris Kaihatsu RevLeft.com,* Chicago, Illinois
Michael Keefer, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph,* Toronto, Canada
June Kelly, Editor, Independent Researcher — Alternative Media — Ireland
Jesse Kern, Veterans For Peace,* Saint Petersburg, Florida
Michaela Kerstan, Sprecherin, Die Linke Haltern am See,* Haltern am See, Germany
Geraroid Kilgallen, Member of Steering Committee, Irish Anti-War Movement*
Margaret Kimberly, Editor and Senior Columnist, Black Agenda Report
Elaine Marie Kinch, founding Member, Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice, Wisconsin, USA
Timothy King, Treasurer, Christians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East,* Indiana
John Kiriakou, former CIA counterterrorism officer and former senior investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dr. Ansgar Klein, Sprecher, Aachener Aktionsgemeinschaft, “Frieden jetzt!”, Wuerselen, Germany
Helene Klein, Sprecherin, Würselener Initiative für den Frieden, Würselen, Germany
Gary Kleppe, Chair, York Township Democratic Organization,* Illinois
Cheryl Kozanitas, Board Member, Peace Action of San Mateo County,* California
Michael Kramer, Chapter President, Veterans For Peace — Chapter 021 (Northern New Jersey)*
Vladislaw Krasnow, Russia & America Goodwill Association,* Virginia, USA
Steve Krevisky, Congress of CT Community Colleges,* Connecticut, USA
Guenter Kuesters, Workinggroup, “Geopolitics and Peace,” from Attac and Peace-Forum,* Cologne, Germany
Mike Kuhlenbeck, National Writers Union UAW Local 1981/AFL-CIO,* Des Monies, Iowa
Lothar-Erich Kurth, Vertrauensmann, Ver.di,* Berlin, Germany
Norbert Kuske, Mitglied, ver.di, Wahlstedt, Germany
James Lafferty, Executive Director Emeritus, National Lawyers Guild,*
Ray Laforest, Haiti Support Network
John Laforge, Co-Director, NukeWatch
Elisabeth Lauck-Ndayi, Freiburger Friedensforum, Forum Weingarten e.V.,* Germany
Lea Launokari, Women for Peace, Finland
Verbena Lea, Director, Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community (PARC), California
Virginia Lee, Attorney, Law Office of Virginia Curtis Lee, Salt Lake City, Utah
Albert Leger, Multipolar-World against War, Berlin, Germany
Ed Lehman, Vice President, Regina Peace Council*
Julie, Levine, Co-Director, Topanga Peace Alliance and MLK Coalition of
Greater Los Angeles
John Lewis, Retired Member, UFCW Local 400,* New York
Dawn Lifsey, President, Students for a Democratic Society – Clemson SDS
Otmar Lindner, Monitor, OSCE,* Sr. Kanzian, Austria
Joan Livingston, Veterans For Peace,* No-Drones Network,* Boston Massacusetts
Dave Logsdon, President, Veterans For Peace — Chapter 27,* Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Dr. Zieske Lothar, Attac, Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Manfred Lotze, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,* Germany
Henry Lowendorf, Co-Chair, Greater New Haven Peace Council, Connecticut, USA
David Macilwain, Spokesperson, Australians for Reconciliation in Syria*
Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action, California
Jeff Mackler, The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Northern California
Mafa Mafa, President, Zimbabwe Pan Africanist Youth Agenda
Lisa Makarchuk, Retired Teachers of Ontario (RTO),* Toronto, Canada
Issam Makhoul, Chairperson, Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies,* Haifa, USA
Ali Mallah, Steering Committee, Syria Solidarity Movement
Jari Mäntylä, Director, Oma, Nokia, Finland
Alfred Marder, President, U.S. Peace Council
John Marienthal, Former Commissioner, San Jose Human Rights Commission,* California
George Martin, Liberty Tree
Sarah Martin, Co-Chair, Women Against Military Madness,* Minneapolis Minnesota
Binu Mathew, Editor, Countercurrents.org, India
David Maynard, Seat 1, Hillsborough County Soil and Water Conservation,* Florida
Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and Presidential briefer
Jo (Yosi) McIntire, Acroosthe Straits / The Friendship Association,* Florida, USA
Kimberly McKeon, Board Member/Volunteer, Institue for Global Education*
Susan McLucas, Committee for Peace & Human Rights,* Massachusetts
Pat McSweeney Citizens for an Informed Community,* Massachusetts
Rev. F. Mark Mealing, Ph.D., Anglican Church of Canada,* Meadow Creek, Canada
Gregory Mello, Executive Director, Los Alamos Study Group
Daniel A. Mengeling, Law Offices of Daniel A. Mengeling, New Mexico, USA
Harry Meserve, Associate Librarian Emeritus, San Jose State University,* Capitola, California
Priscilla & Thomas Metscher, Retired University Teachers, Grafenau, Germany
Thodore Micceri, SOLVE, Florida, USA
Thomas Milcarek, Veterans For Peace,* Santa Cruz, California
Dennis Mills, Treasurer, Veterans For Peace Chapter #109, Washington State
Gabi Meyer, Friedensgrupp,* Bendestorf, Germany
Ingrid Monkiewicz, Founding Member, Liberty From The Lobby,* Washington DC
Monica Moorehead, US Presidential Candidate, Workers World Party
Amir Mortasawi, Physician and Author, Rotenburg sn der fulda, Germany
Nick Mottern, Knowdrones.com
Gavin Mueller, Visiting Assistant Professor, UT Dallas*
Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary, International Anti-imperialist Coordinating Committee, Kolkata, India
lois and Maria Mueller-Giebels, Frieden jetzt, Aachen,* Germany
Phil Mueller, Veterans For Peace,* Crown Point, Indiana
Gabriel Murcia, Radical Student Union — CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio
Luci Murphy, Music Administrator, DC Black Workers Center*
Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Radmila Nastic, University Professor, Belgrade, Serbia
Navid Nasr, Editor-in-Chief, Balkans Post,* Croatia
Donna Nassor, PhD, Human Rights Activist, New Jersey, USA
Jim Newman, JVP,* Evanston, Illinois
Theresa Nielson, President, Students for a Democratic Society, Salt Lake City, Utah
Hassanal Noor Rashid, Program Coordinator, International Movement for a Just World (JUST), Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Agneta Norberg, Chairwoman, Swedish Peace Council
Efia Nwangaza, Founder/Director, Malcolm X Center
Marlene Obeid, Hands Off Syria, Sydney,* Australia
Daniel O’Brien, CDC, London Regional Organizer, Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
Elder Gidon Odinga Mukhtar Odinga, Editor, Revolutionary Theory and Action Collective – Journal, Georgia, USA
Sazi Okera, Minister, International Indigenous Society, Georgia, USA
Jon Olsen, Co-Chair, Maine Green Independent Party*
Giovanni Ordanini, Fronte Popolare,* Milan, Italy
Ivonne Padilla, Villas de la Playa Vega baja, Puerto Rico
Elfi Padovan, Sprecherin, LAG Frieden der LINKEN,* Munich, Germany
Elayne Pallistan, Facebook Editor, Neighbors For Peace*
Manuel Pardo, Secretary, Foro Contra la Guerra Imperialista y la OTAN (Spain)
Nasrin Parsa, Producer, Democracy TV Berlin, Germany
Dhuruv Pathak, Workers World Party,* New York
Rosalie Paul, Organizer, PeaceWorks, Maine
Wolfgang Penzholz, Koalition des Widerstands, Berlin, Germany
Cynthia Papermaster, Organizer, Codepink Golden Gate Chapter, Berkeley, California
Carmencita Peralta, Convenor, Ecumenical Women’s Forum — Philippines
Lindis Percy, Co-founder, Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases — CAAB UK*
Candida Rosa Perez Flores, Campamento Contra La Junta,* San Juan, Puerto Rico
Sam Petker, Party for Socialism and Liberation,* Stockton, California
Bryan Pfeifer, Coordinator, Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement
Nascent Ping, Creator, War is Unacceptable to Consciousness, New Jersey
Paul Pipkin, Nat’l Committee of GPUS, Candidate for 20th US Congressional Dist of Texas, Green Party*
Rafael Pla-Lopez, Secretary of Internal Communication, PCPV,* Spain
Wendy Pond, Secretary, Manu Waiata Restoration & Protection Society, Ltd, New Zealand
Catherine Pottinger, Program Chair, SEIU 6 Active Retirees,* Washington State, USA
Dr. Peter Priskil, Historian, Alliance Against Conformity,* Freiburg, Germany
Rod Prosser, Community Media Trust, Wellington, New Zealand
Jim Prues, Director, World 5.0
Trudy Quaif, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace
Brigitte Queck, Vorsitzende, Mütter gegen den Krieg Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam, Germany
Khalid Raheem, Chairman, New Afrikan Independence Party (NAIP), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sami Ramadani, Committee Member, Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation, London, UK
Felipe Ramos, Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico
Evan Ramsden, Chairperson, Newcastle Peace Group, Lambton, Australia
Dennis Rancourt, PhD, Researcher, Ontario Civil Liberties Association,* Ottawa, Canada
Barry Ranger, Co-Chair, Northwest Iowa Peace and Justice Committee
Jammu Narayana Rao, General Secretary, SEC. Rly Pensioners Association of India
Elsa Rassbach, Coordinating Committee, UNAC*
Bimal Rathnayake, Member of Parliament, Peoples’ Liberation Front — JVP
Srilanka
Linda Ray, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council*
Quest Riggs, Treasurer, New Orleans Workers Group, USA
Mary & Rev. Robert Reader, Veterans for Peace,* Coalition for Peace, and Justice,* O. C. Peace and Justice,* etc., New York
Ken Rennery, Organizer, Democracy without Borders, Canada
Neal Resnikoff, Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice / March 19th Anti-War Coalition (Chicago)
David Riehle, Local Chairman Emeritus, United Transportation Union (SMART) Local 650,* St. Paul, Minnesota
Hartmut Ring, PädagogInnen für den Frieden, Hamburg, Germany
George Ripley, Dir. Focus on Democracy,* Washington DC
Chris Robinson, Membership Secretary, Green Party of Philadelphia*
Ldd Robinson, President, African Awareness Association, USA
Suzanne Ross, Pam Africa, Chair, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Coleen Rowley, retired FBI agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel
Bronson Rozier, Organizer, Socialist Action,* Louisville, Kentucky
Carol Rozier, Organizer, Socialist Action,* Louisville, Kentucky
Antonio Rue, Teacher, Marist Brothers,* Libertador, Argentina
Rauni Salminen, Handsoff Venezuela—Finland
Phil Sarazen, Artist Producer, Bike Arts Artist/Environment Forum, Toronto, Canada
Lampros Savvidis, Delegierter, DIE LINKE Steglitz / Zehlendorf,* Berlin
Randal Scamardo, Casa de las Lenguas, Texas
Eric Schechter, Newsletter Editor, Nashville Peace and Justice Center,* Tennessee
Karen Schieve, Retired Member of United Educators of San Francisco*
Ben Sears, AFT (Teachers’ Union — Retired),* USA
Klaus-P. Schleisiek, Attac,* Germany
Einar Schlereth, Writer, Journalist, Translatror, Klavreström, Sweden
Renate Schönfeld, DKP, Germany
Pete Schoonmaker, Veterans For Peace,* Seattle, Washington
Mechthild Schreiber, Mitglied, Regionalgruppe: forum Ziviler Friedensdienst,* Munich, Germany
Dr. Larry Semark, ANSWER,* Albuquerque, New Mexico
Randy Shannon, Secretary, Progressive Democrats of America*
Cindy Sheehan, Anti-War Gold Star Mother
Jeffrey Shurtleff, Volunteer, Amnesty International USA,* California
Marjaliisa Siira, Finnish Peace Committee*
William Simon, President, Veterans For Peace Chapter 71, Sonoma County, California
Wm. & Ursula Slavick, Retired Coordinator, Pax Christi Maine*
Meaghan Simpson, Founder/Director, Mending Wheel,* Fortuna, California
Peter Sirois, Producer, Maine Social Justice — Public Access TV Show
Angel Smith, HEAL, Seattle, WA
Ceresta Smith, Administrator, United Opt Out National, Florida
Jack A. Smith, Editor, Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter, New York
Stansfield Smith, Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee
Günter Sölken, Berlin, Mitglied im Rat von attac Deutschland,*
Louise-Lora Somlyo, Peace Action Maine*
John Spitzberg, Veterans For Peace,* Willow, Alaska
John St. Peter, Peace Action of San Mateo County,* California
Mark Stansbery, Co-Coordinator, Columbus Campaign for Arms Control*
Steven Starr, Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility,* Missouri
Lauren Steiner, Lead Organizer, Our Revolution Los Angeles
Tina Stevenson, Neighbors 4 Peace,* Evanston, Illinois
Jens Stiller, Journalist, Berlin, Germany
Jane Stillwater, President, Century of the Child
Sava Stomporowski, Mitglied Partei Bündnis/90 — DIE GRÜNEN, Germany
Barbara Strathdee, Secretary, Pacific Institute of Resource Management,* Wellington, New Zealand
Ninie G. Syarikin, House of Creative Writing, Michigan, USA
Claudio Tamagnini, International Solidarity Movement,* Italy
Jay Tharappel, Committee Member, Hands Off Syria, Sidney, Australia
Dieter Thiessen DKP,* Berlin, Germany
Lesley Thomas, Far Eastern Press
Will Thomas, New Hampshire Veterans For Peace*
Veronika Thomas-Ohst, Vorsitzende Euregioprojekt Frieden e.V.,* Aachen, Germany
James Thompson, Chairperson, Houston Peace Council
James Thring, Founder, Ministry of Peace,* London, UK
Ann Tiffany, Syracuse Peace Council,* New York, USA
Dr. June Terpstra, Faculty, NEIU,* Sun City, Arizona
Roberto Torres-Collazo, Encuentro 5*
Loan Tran, Workers World Party,* North Carolina
Wolfgang G. Trapp, Pressebüro,* Germany
Iraklis Tsavdaridis, Executive Secretary, Wold Peace Council
Tracey Tully, Anti-war Sex Worker, Whores Against Wars, The Crown, New Zealand
Kerstin Tuomala, Secretary, Lappland’s District Organization, Finnish Peace Committee*
Mark Ugolini, Socialist Action,* Chicago
Ana Barbara von Keitz, Handwerkerin, Berliner Arbeitskreis Uran-Munition,* Germany
Marianne van Ophuijsen, WILPF,* Amsterdam, Nederland
Urte von Bremen, Friko Berlin,* Germany
Minna Virtanen, Board Member, Hands Off Venezuela – Finland*
Anton M. Voissem, School Sisters of Notre Dame,* beaver Dam, Wisconsin
Amal Wahda, Arab Women’s Progressive League
Willy Wahl, Seniora.org, Zurich, Switzerland
Monika Rosa Waldkirch, DIE LINKE,* Germany
Roy Walker, Pan-African Perspective,* USA
John Walsh, Come Home America,* California
James Walter, President, Walden Three, Wien, Austria
William H. Warrick, M.D., Veterans For Peace Chapter #14;* Alachua County Green Party,* Gainesville, Florida
Joseph Wasserman, Co-Chair, No Nukes No War
C. T. Weber, Legislative Committee Chair, Peace and Freedom Party of California*
Peter Weinfurth, Journalist, Linke Zeitung,* Ennepetal, Germany
Vivian Weinstein, JVP,* Denver, Colorado
Kay Weir, Editor, Pacific Ecologist, The Pacific Institute of Resource Management, Wellington, New Zealand
Sherry A. Wells, J.D., Michigan, USA
Dave Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council*
Albert Wight, Intelligence and Consultant/Advisor, Wyoming, USA
Barbara Williams aka Costelli, Co-Founder, Rumble of the People & The Dare To Dream Network, New Mexico, USA
Danny Williams, Co-Founder, Rumble of the People, New Mexico, USA
S. Brian Willson, Author, Activist, Oregon
Gwen Winter, IBEW Local 340,* Sacramento, California
Shirley Winton, Coordinator, Spirit of Eureka (Victoria – Australia)
Sven Wirzbowitz, Schatzmeister, Humanistischer Landesverband Thüringen e.V., Jena, Germany
Mike Wisniewski, Los Angeles Catholic Worker*
S. Wolf Britain, Wolf’s Enterprises Human and Civil Rights Advocacy, Montana, USA
Jo Wood, Organizer, Nowar-Paix, Ottawa, Canada
Ann Wright, Retired US Army Reserve Colonel and Former US Diplomat
Caroline Yacoub, County Council, Green Party of Santa Clara County*
Len Yannielli, Community Outreach Director, Gunntown Group (Environment),* Naugatuck, Connecticut
Ali Yerevani, Political Editor, Fire This Time newspaper,* Burnaby, Canada
Omali Yeshitela, Chair, Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations
Eddie Yood, Co-Chair, CWA Local 1180 Committee on People with Disabilities*
Kevin Zeese, Co-Director, Popular Resistance
Manfred Ziegler, Principal, www.balqis.de, Germany
Bernd Zielmann, Independent Filmmaker, Hattingen, Germany
Alex Zollmann, VVN-BdA Ortenau,* Bühl, Germany
Edik Zwarenstein, Retired Engineer, Society of Energy Professionals,* Ontario, Canada
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Christina Campbel, New Jersey, USA
Josephine Perry, California, USA
Adam Nation, New Jersey, USA
Jane Christenson, Washington State, USA
Karima Lemmens, Brussels, Belgium
Deana Willians, Iowa, USA
Priya Singh, New York, USA
Jeffrey Sarles, Illinois, USA
Primitivo Racimo, Illinois, USA
Michael Baker, Lincoln, UK
Christal Whitt, Louisiana, USA
Kevin Lindemann, Illinois, USA
John Prewitt, Texas, USA
Robert Keilbach, New York, USA
Michael Amin, California, USA
Kelly Studholme, Virginia, USA
Miriam Kurland, Massachusetts, USA
Karen MacRae, Toronto, Canada
Tony Soldo, Florida, USA
Sophie Stephenson, Bonnyrigg, UK
Arnar Steinson, Hafnafjörður, Iceland
Scott Duncan, North Carolina, USA
Jonathan Lyle, North Carolina, USA
Blair Bertaccini, New York, USA
Doran Hunter, Arizona, USA
Sean Orr, Wisconsin, USA
Pam Krimsky, New York, USA
Jessica Eden, NORTH CAROLINA, USA
Beth Angel, Connecticut, USA
Austin Passiment, Virginia, USA
Lisa Greenleaf, Connecticut, USA
Nancy Jakubiak, Kentucky, USA
Rene Prieto Polymeris, Texas, USA
Chanendra Shrestha, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mustafa Amir Ahmed, Ottawa, Canada
Carol Holland, California, USA
Ariel Paz, Utah, USA
Nancy Hammond
Dina, Salha, Ontario, Canada
Sally Parker, California, USA
Sean Mulligan, Georgia, USA
Constance Penn, Oregon, USA
Randhir Singh, Maharashtra, India
Richard Reilly, Illinois, USA
Jonathan Boyne, Hawaii, USA
Gregory Elich
V & E Clay, Portugal
Heidi Uppgaard, Minnesota, USA
Akira Asada, Takarazuka, Canada
Julia Ganson, New York, USA
Edward Juillard, Illinois, USA
Sand Fessler, New York, USA
Betty Wolfson, Massachusetts. USA
Satinath Choudhary, New York, USA
Beverly Williams, Retired Teacher, Oregon, USA
Caroline Knight, South Carolina, USA
Melinda Power, Illinois, USA
Ron Khoury, California, USA
Magdalena Melter, Heidelberg, Germany
Stephanie Bilenko, Illinois, USA
Ann Joseph, Illinois, USA
Patsy Lowe, California, USA
Mrs. Martha Armas, New York, USA
Joseph Manfredi, California, USA
Immanuel Ness, New York, USA
Miriam and Juern-Hinrich Volkmann, Germany
Beverly Walter, Illinois, USA
Jerald Davidson, Wisconsin, USA
Chris Enock
Behrouz Talali, California, USA
Gabrielle Verdier, Les Lilas, France
Steve McKeown, Minnesota, USA
Elder & Minister Chicahuac, Kansas, USA
Paul Teitelbaum, Arizona, USA
Michael Gruber, California, USA
Rael Nidess, M.D., Texas, USA
Diane Steele, Minnesota, USA
Mavis Belisle, Texas, USA
Dr. Jay Gilbert, New York, USA
Dorothy Brockway, Oregon, USA
Vincenzo Russo, Medic, Cesena, Italy
Ms. Mirian Cruz, Californai, USA
Maret Ekner, Sweden
Fadi Abdul Hai, New York, USA
Dr. Bob Hanson, California, USA
John Mesler, New Jersey, USA
Rick Staggenborg, M.D., Oregon, USA
Christian Rivera, New York, USA
Michael Meredith, California, USA
Denise Lewis, Michigan, USA
George Desnoyers, Massachusetts, USA
W. Gary Johnson, New York, USA
John Nettleton, Oregon, USA
Ursula Mathern, Merxheim, Germany
Rod Hojat, Ohio, USA
Florence Steichen, Minnesota, USA
Christian Beyer, Tromsø, Norway
Stig-Lennart Johanson, Holmsund, Sweden
William Vannatta, Florida, USA
Mike Trajkovic, New York, USA
Sue Bastian, Oregon, USA
Carl Nigro, Illinois, USA
Mary Finneran, New York, USA
Francisco Nunes, Portugal
John Estes, Alabama, USA
Richard Roper, UK
Kevin Chamberlin, Massachusetts, USA
Rev. James Swarts, New York, USA
Paul Lacey, Basingstoke, UK
Carmen Renieri, Artist, Esslingen, Germany
Emil Nasr
Nancy Gillard-Bartels, California, USA
Jeffrey Laubach, Pennsylvania, USA
Ernie Goitein, California, USA
Kathy Lipscomb, California, USA
David Lorig, Colorado, USA
Bill Shpikula, Toronto, Canada
Catherine Orloff, Rhode Island, USA
John and Martha Stolternberg, Wisconsin, USA
Simin Bokharaiee, Regina, Canada
Janet Contursi
Robert Hutchings, Camberley, UK
LynnMarie Berntson, Minnesota, USA
Susan Gillette, Michigan, USA
Suzanne Sparks, California, USA
Ross Rowley, Minnesota, USA
Victor Jasin, London, Canada
Michiko Bickelman, Illinois, USA
Mike Beyers, Digmarc Transactions, Chiba, Japan
Bonni McKeown, Illinois, USA
Jan Boudart, Illinois, USA
Khaled Bizri, California, USA
Chrys Ballerano, New York, USA
Anne Lossing, Flores, Peten
Cindy Davis, Connecticut, USA
Thomas Oberhofer, Obersuessbach, Germany
Stephanie Hoffman, New Jersey, USA
Ernest Coitein, California, USA
Mrs. Bonnie Hong, Connecticut, USA
David Lowen, Oregon, USA
Cam Zanin, London, UK
Daniel Wirt, M.D., Texas, USA
Aleta Cooper, Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada
Susan Grant, Durham, UK
Christopher Reed, New York, USA
Eddie Farrel, London, UK
Jill Pyeatt, California, USA
Bill Sorem, Minnesota, USA
Seth Farber, Ph.D., New York, USA
Lorna VanderZanden, Virginia, USA
John Warne
Nadeja Aletkina, Kingston, Canada
Catherine Lignza, Massachusetts, USA
David Rennie, Hamilton, Canada
Fred Mrozek, Illinois, USA
Rob Prince, Colorado, USA
Stephen Wright
Ayesha Gill, IWW,* California, USA
Amir M. Masoumi, Cote-St-Luc, Canada
Michael Shaw, California, USA
Mikael Martinsson, Mölndal, Sweden
Marcel Ellis, Bangkok, Thailand
Suzan Zuhair, Damascus, Syria
Charles, W. Philip, New York, USA
Annette Lengyel, Calgary, Canada
Tomer Danan, London, UK
Deniz Temiz, Turkey
Hugo vd Kuil, Capelle aan den IJssel, Nederland
Don Moody, Edmonton, Canada
Larissa Kilmetieva, Canberra, Australia
Massimo Denaro, Ragusa, Italy
Michael Reisch, North Carolina, USA
Marlene Obeid, Glebe, Australia
Peter Berkowitz, Massachusetts, USA
Edwin Wilson
Daneil Brown, Rite of Strings, Cockburn Central, Australia
Maria Luttjeboer, South Africa
Helene Matz, Olen, Rogaland
Laura Welch, Indiana, USA
Thomas Dickinson, Minnesotta, USA
J. Michael Springmann, Law Office of J. Michael Springmannn PLLC, Washington DC, USA
Rania Akhras
Dorrine Marshall, California, USA
Dario Zapata, Massachusetts, USA
Judy Meyer, Texas, USA
Roger Opener, California, USA
Zoubaida Alkadri, Michigan, USA
Michael Anthony, Illinois, USA
Nancy Jakubak, Kentucky, USA
Ali Mallah, Toronto, Canada
Ana, Connecticut, USA
Alice Strum Sutter, New York, USA
Alfred Molison, Texas, USA
Taryn Fivek, New York, USA
Scott Moen, Minnesota, USA
Espoir Manirambona, Ottawa, Canada
Joel Northam, New York, USA
Ben Reynolds, USA
Sam Holloway, Illinois, USA
Sam Rogers, Tennessee, USA
Ani Manoukian, Ninove, Belgium
Majid Darwish
William Hopkins, Washington State, USA
Judy Robbins, Maine, USA
Elisha Belmont, California, USA
Mike Scarpa, Illinois, USA
Mansoor Bangash, Birmingham, West Midlands
Steven Friel, Pennsylvania, USA
A. Sparkelaar, The Netherlands
Rosa Perez, Carolina, Puerto Rico
Ben Norton, New York, USA
Adnan Popara, Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Linda Nelford, Utah, USA
Mary Lee, North Carolina, USA
Ivonne Padilla, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Moaaz Saleh, Preston, Lancashire, England
Harvey Markowitz
Kathleen Villaire, Michigan, USA
Ms. Richenda Kramer, New York, USA
Anik Bhattacharya, Florida, USA
Matthew Reeves, Guelph, Canada
Joseph Milum, California, USA
Doug Noble, New York, USA
Anthony Black, Independent Journalist, Hamilton, Canada
Dr. Harvey Thorstad, Oregon, USA
Iran Parker, New Hampshire, USA
Robert Redwoodhippie Palmer, Minnesota, USA
Roxane von Gerber Hdayat, Skarpnäck, Sweden
Darlene Poor, Missouri, USA
Henry Assad, Ottawa, Canada
Samuel Lopez, Nevada, USA
Gerhard Mertschenk, Berlin, Germany
Dave Bicking, Minnesota, USA
Lorilee House, California, USA
Winston Warfield, Veterans For Peace,* Massachusetts, USA
Zvonimir Levačić, Croatia
Chris Jackson, Colorado, USA
Avin Dirki, SAWA, New Jersey, USA
James Cates, Washington State, USA
Wilhelm Schulze-Barantin, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nydia Leaf, New York, USA
Bill sorem, Minnesota, USA
William Whitney, Let Cuba Live Committee of Maine,* USA
Kaspar Sloth, Copenhagen, Denmark
T. Fernandez, California, USA
Carl Rising-Moore, Central Philippines, State University,* Abankalan, Philippines
Tom Shepherd
Joe Reilly, New Jersey, USA
Zuhair Al-Atwi, new York, NY
Bojana Bojanovic, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sherry Bonner, Maryland, USA
Susan Epstein, New York, USA
Raphael Wakefield, New York, USA
Jacob Sabat, New York, USA
Carol Zaman, Montreal, Canada
Evan Ravitz, Colorado, USA
Edik Zwarenstein, Toronto, Canada
Dr. roger Kotila, California, USA
Ms. Mickail Farrin, Colorado, USA
Jelica Roland, Buzet
Sally-Alice Thompson, New Mexico, USA
Hilda Richey, Wisconsin, USA
Misty Rowan, Minnesota, USA
Rene Parsons, Maine, USA
Nicholas Reed
Nilsa Ferrer, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico
Gwendolyn Suehunu, Maryland, USA
Bill Nicholson, Haywards Heath, UK
Riaaz Booley, Cape Town, South Africa
William Grosh, California, USA
Mark Matthews, Vancouver, Canada
Deborra Low, Oregon, USA
Doris and George Pumphrey, Berlin, Germany
Bernhard Trautvetter, Teacher, Trade Unionist, Essen, Germany
Dragan Pavlovic, University Professor, Paris, France
Greg Firmstone, High School Teacher, Gympie, Australia
Jill Rowan, Glasgow, Scotland
Albrecht Ludlof, Deutscher Freidenkerverband, Germany
Timothy Kaminski, Missouri, USA
Stephanie Damm, Berlin, Germany
Stelle Sheller, Pennsylvania, USA
Elke Zwinge-makamizile, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Schlüter, Berlin, Germany
Sharon Powel, Minnesota, USA
Gernot Sterling, Bonn, Germany
Jutta Kausch-Henken, Berlin, Germany
Heinz Eckel, Berlin, Germany
Richard L. Giovanoni, Illinois, USA
Anna Doumanas, Berlin, Germany
Nielz Lenz, Texas, USA
Gary Anderson, Colorado, USA
L. Kent Bendall, Connecticut, USA
Jackie DiSalvo, New York, USA
Dr. Anthony Gronowicz, New York, USA
Coleen Doran, Whitby, UK
Amy Meyers, Illinois, USA
John Peters, Michigan, USA
Ellen Kirshbaum, New York, USA
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Weil, Illinois, USA
Roger Harris, California, USA
Mary lawrence, Florida, USA
Ms. Ann Ruthsdottir, Maine, USA
John Brown, IT Retiree, Novelist, Virginia, USA
Doris and George Pumphrey, Berlin, Germany
Sally-Alice Thompson, New Mexico, USA
Leonore Schroeder, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
Mr. Terry Phelan, New York, USA
Elias Davidsson, Kirchen, Germany
Myra Sidrassi, Munich, Germany
John Spritzler, Massachusetts, USA
Juergen Stuttner, Siegen, Germany
Leonard Kacanga, Friedrichsthal, Germany
Paige Robinson, Georgia, USA
Mona Goode, Washington State, USA
Linda Greene, Indiana, USA
Ulrich Streffing, Cologne, Germany
Anthony Gratrex, Bracknell, UK
Gunter Schenk, Strasbourg, France
Michael Gabriel, Florida, USA
Ulrich Mies, Political Scientist, Vaals, Netherland
Eva Tramontana, Munich, Germany
John duddy, Calgary, Canada
Mrs. Jody Fritzke, Minnesota, USA
Joseph Clifford
Maria Elena Mesa, Toronto, Canada
Sr. Lewis Patrie, Noeth Carolina, USA
James Appleton
Rebecca Mosher, Teacher, Ohio, USA
Hüseyin Kabadayi
Jane Christ, Georgia, USA
Vincent Colletti, New York, USA
Steven Kostis, The God Is Dead Theology Movement, New York, USA
Vincent Collletti, New York, USA
Peter Gunther, Illinois, USA
Ms. Isabel Baltazar, Massachusetts, USA
Angelika Roll, Berlin, Germany
Herbert Rubisch, Berlin, Germany
James King, South Melbourne, Australia
Petra Scharrelmann, Bremen, Germany
Michel Labelle, Montreal, Canada
Yolanda Birdwell, Texas, USA
Daniel Azar
Khalil Joulak
Bernadette Evangelist, New York, USA
Chris Clark, Washington State, USA
Rod Hojat, Ohio, USA
James Cockcroft, Author
Bob Stuart, Spiritwood, Canada
Diana Cumming, Minnesota, USA
Rosaura Sanchez, Professor, California, USA
Skip Slivak, Ohio, USA
Paul O’Hanlon, NU, Edinburgh, UK
Mike Powers, Hässelby, Sweden
Helen Slimmond
John McArthur, Glasgow, Scotland
Dalal Musa, Virginia, USA
Nasser Iraniha, Scripps,* Lemon Grove, Canada
Joseph Vella, California, USA
Ms.Toni Caldwell Clark, Kansas, USA
Matthew Allen, Ota-ku, Japan
Diane Shaughnessy, Washington State, USA
Anthony Gratrex, Bracknell, UK
Shirin Tavallae, Gothenburg, Swede
Serge Arakeli, Doonside, Australia
Nassy Fesharaki, PWAC (student),* Writer, Filmmaker, Toronto, Canada
Sonja Kotlica, Washington DC, USA
Laura Wilder, Texas, USA
Doug McMichael, Maine, USA
Dada Vecerin, Germany
Paul Barbara, London, UK
Denise Keats, Nevada, USA
Colin Smith, Aylesbury, United Kingdom
Nakle Awad, Political Activist, Pennsylvania, USA
Ed Benner, Indiana, USA
Robert Welch, Texas, USA
Jean Mont-Eton, California, USA
Carlos Parrilla Martinez, Melbourne, Australia
Brandon Barnard, Maryland, USA
Elisabeth Anne Manning, New Mexico, USA
Siamak Vossoughi, California, USA
Mira Talbott-Pope, California, USA
Badralsadat Madani, south Carolina, USA
Eeo Stubblefield, Farmer, Kat the Kid Farm, New York, USA
Kathryn Christian, Colorado, USA
Nicolas Royer-Artuso, PhD Student, Laval University, Montreal, Canada
Kenneth Anderson, North Carolina, USA
Gene Johnson, Virginia, USA
Dominic Jermano
MaryAnne Fratelli, South Carolina, USA
Nichoals Heer, Washington State, USA
Luis F. Abreu Eliaas, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Pat Berger, Maine, USA
Lydia Garvey, Public Health Nurse, Oklahoma, USA
Allan Janczewski, New York, USA
Ms. Marge Maloney, New York, USA
Stephen Lewis, Utah, USA
Denise Lytle, New jersey, USA
Robb de Vournai, California, USA
Ms. Miriana Demas, New York, USA
Arden Kirkman
Lois Jordan, Arizona, USA
Mike Eilenfeldt, Quito, Ecuador
Sterling Gruver, Arizona, USA
Robert Shore
Bob Gorringe, California, USA
Ms. Pam Thomas-Hill, Texas, USA
Monroe Jeffrey, Oklahoma, USA
Lawrence Hager, Virginia, USA
G. J.
Amy Harlib, new York, USA
Cathleen Deppe, California, USA
Tod Jones, Oregon, USA
David Carlton
Mike Baldwin, California, USA
Diana Little, Psychotherapist, Kaiser Permanante*
Frank Gage, New York, USA
Georgia Tattu, California, USA
Adam Marsan, Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Prisca Gloor, California, USA
Edward Dingilian, New York, USA
Edwin Hiley, Pennsylvania, USA
martha Austen, California, USA
Jose Garavito
David Chase, California, USA
Raymond Smith, North Carolina, USA
Marian Smith, California, USA
Dave Lindblom, Utah, USA
Leah Willoughby, Kentucky, USA
David Morais, Louisiana, USA
Marilyn Fuller, Washington State, USA
Cecile Pineda, California, USA
Ms. Karen Toth, Kitchener, Canada
Michael Pastorkovich, Pennsylvania, USA
Antonia Shouse, New York, USA
Lonnie Lopez, Washington Sate, USA
Walter Glass
Elizabeth Molchany, Attorney at La, Virginia, USA
Julie Rufo, California, USA
Jow Weis, California, United States
Don Hon, Minnesota, USA
Kathryn Roston, Montreal, Canada
Ken Laufer, new York, USA
Kenneth McDonald, Texas, USA
Siti Dalila Muaz
Cheryl Kozanitas, California, USA
Ms. Valerie Pistoni, California, USA
Frank Munley, Virginia, USA
Susan Sheinfeld, Massachusetts, USA
Eunice Tirado, California, USA
Dianne Budd, M.D., California, USA
Karen Crose, Maryland, USA
Christopher Tuch, Texas, USA
Abbas Tim Mestani, Oosterhout, Netherlands
John Satter, Colorado, USA
Clay woody, New mexico, USA
William Kolar, Oregon, USA
Annapoorne Colangelo, Washington State, USA
Paul R. Davis, Florida, USA
Steve Gilmartin, California, USA
Michael Gruber
William Prest, Vancouver, Canada
John Mizzi, New York, USA
Ann Grant, Vancouver, Canada
Wanda Ballentine, Minnesota, USA
Patrick Brennan, New York, USA
Gerry Hiles, Elizabeth Vale, South Australia
Maureen Wheeler, Maryland, USA
Barbara Dale
Cathy Brochet, Cookshire, Canada
Mary McConnely, Professor, California, USA
Monica Dahlby, Karlstad, Sweden
Jonathan Boyne, Hawaii, USA
Mazdak Farhat, California, USA
Philippe Bosshard
Charles Kleymeyer, Virginia, USA
Richard Grassl, Washington State, USA
Paul Troyano, Louisiana, USA
K. Yekta, California, USA
Bobbie Flowers, New York, USA
Lynn Shoemaker, Wisconsin, USA
Pat Gibs, Maple ridge, Canada
Wm. & Ursula Slavick, Maine, USA
Ajit Singh, Hamilton, Canada
Cathy Browning, Virginia, USA
Paul Daniel
Bret Polish, California, USA
Geraldine Ma, California, USA
Oosha Ramsoondar, Canada
Karin Brothers, Canada
Jim Yarbrough, California, USA
Howard Emerson, California, USA
Mike Deycaza
James Mulcare, Washington State, USA
Steven Lesh
Rosie Hinnebusch, Florida, USA
Yelena Komnatski, California, USA
Edwin McCready, California, USA
Constance Garcia-Barrio, Pennsylvania, USA
Erik Kennedy-McDonnell, California, USA
Nurun Chowdhury, Florida, USA
Ms. Anneliese Schultz, Maine, USA
Jonathan Mitchell, Llabama, USA
Philip Dennany, Indiana, USA
Michael Scrive, Maule, France
Miguel Marti, Illinois, USA
Ruth Gouldgoodman, California, USA
Carol Changus, California, USA
Lara Nunes, Florida, USA
Maria Rua, New Jersey, USA
Andy Manoff, California, USA
Jana Lynne Webb Niernberger Muhar, California, USA
Chuck Puckett, Kentucky, USA
Terry & Bernt Lawrence, Surrey, Canada
Babette Grunow, Wisconsin, USA
Jaime Cader, California, USA
Tom Ferguson, Gerogia, USA
Richard Chambers, Maine, USA
Ed Felien, Minnesota, USA
Tomas Daly
Amy Sheppeck, Minnesota, USA
Azra Saharkhiz, South Carolina, USA
Jean Lawrence, Victoria, Canada
Debra Ellis, California, USA
Peter Kuttner, Illinois, USA
John Kraft, Victoria, Australia
Ludivine Cuisinier
Mona Salloum
Dwarikanath Rath, Ahmedabad, India
Dr. V. George Venturini, Hazelwood North, Australia
Dr. Jesus Nieto, California, USA
Allan Miller, USA
Ana Bazac, Bucharest, Romania
Jonathan Trautman, Calgary, Canada
Lynne Purdy, Teesside, UK
Val Shortland, Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Henry Stahl, Senior Medical Consultant, PSR,* Eschwege, Germany
Judith Taylor, Johannesburg, South Africa
Karin Nebauer, Munich, Germany
Gordon Lee, New York, USA
Susan Carey, New York, USA
Roland Lombard, France
Andreas Rosenkranz, Pirna, Germany
Derek Martin, By Spean Bridge, UK
Andy Wendler
Laura M. Ohanian, Oregon, USA
Pilar Quarzell Theatra, Trevignano Romano, Italy
Karine Dumont, Writer, Geneva, Switzerland
Klemens Alschner, Germany
Abdul Nayyar, Islamabad, Pakistan
Susan Maria Gavaghan, Liverpool, UK
Enzo Apicella, UK
Marcus Lock, Munich, Germany
Edwin Rutledge, Washington State, USA
Giulio Bonali, Fiorenzuola (PC), Italy
Marcus Lepzien, Peine, Germany
Norma Frye, Fairford, UK
Esther Thomsen, Diplom-Theologi, Ahrensburg, Germany
Sebastian Schiller, Bonn, Germany
Jens Witschel, Germany
Isolde Herold, Germany
Art Hanson, Michigan, USA
Sandra Melzer, Berlin, Germany
Konrad Kiener, Austria
Simon Wolfers, Llanbedr, UK
Sven Ruin, Sweden
David Wilmot, North Carolina, USA
Franz Brandl, Lam, Germany
Maik Abel, Muencheberg, Germany
Filipp Peters, Böblingen, Germany
Kathryn Beard, Michigan, USA
Lillian Pickering, Vermont, USA
Barbara Birkle, Hanau, Germany
Gordon Tophofen, Germany
Martin Birkle, Hanau, Germany
Izzeddin Musa, Wachtberg, Germany
Douglas Turnbull, Kippa-Ring, Queensland, Australia
Marina Kun, President, Kun Shoulder Rest, Inc.,* Ottawa, Canada
Natalie Hanson, Michigan, USA
Ghincea Marius – Cristian, Voluntari, Romania
Gerhard Bastir
Peter Franke
Barbara Tutor, Florida, USA
Diana Ralph, Pennsylvania, USA
Gue Schmidt, CEO, TRANSFER c/o MAG3,* Vienna, Austria
Luisa Brehm, Lisbon, Portugal
Henriette McPartlin, Abba’s Dutch Touch
Victor Silva, Amora, Portugal
Mark Bender, Virginia, USA
Norma Jacobs, California, USA
Roger Gwynn, Stroud, UK
Cornelia Rakow, New York, USA
Kevin Squires, Florida, USA
Maamoun Chawki
Ed Tomasiewicz, Kano
Jean Kuntz, Missouri, USA
Lionel Burman, UK
Susan Massad, Massachusetts, USA
Patricia Thukral, Virginia, USA
Corey Schade, New Jersey, USA
Corey Schade, New Jersey, USA
Nancy McGill, Nebrask, USA
Joan Payne Kincaid, member, WBAI,* New York, USA
Richard Hugus, Massachusetts, USA
Ali Yousefi, Toronto, Canada
Tsun, Ottawa, Canada
Stratis Kounias, Zorafou, Greece
Ian Latime, Edinburgh, Scotland
Patricia Dion, Ohio, USA
Debora Scatena-Hubbard, St John’s, Canada
Elwyn Patterson, Vancouver, Canada
Noah Lentz, Wisconsin, USA
Carlos Canales, Community Organizer, New York, USA
John Obeda, Illinois, USA
Ms. Odile Hugonot Haber, Michigan, USA
Tracey Ferguson, Winnipeg, Canada
John Mark Robertson, Belleville, Canada
Jeannette Hanna, California, USA
William Gsuella, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Annette Hartshorne, Wisonsin, USA
Zheila Ommani, California, USA
Christopher Lish, California, USA
Michael Moats, Illinois, USA
James Raynor, WWP,* Gerogia, USA
John Mackoviak, Arizona, USA
David Hollister, Florida, USA
Ahmed Kamel, new York, USA
Claudio Contreras, Chile
Roger Burkhart, New Hampshire, USA
Louis Deneau, California, USA
Dan Wicht, Minnesota, USA
David Brooks, Saint John, NB, Canada
Dorothy Emerson, Massachusetts, USA
Mayur Thakare, Researcher and Write, Mumbai, India
Marie Evola, Florida, USA
Bara Berg, Minnesota, USA
Mary Avice, St. Gabriel, Canada
Michael Behrent, Wisconsin, USA
Nicholas Prychodko, New York, USA
Ricardo Mendez, California, USA
Eric Walberg, toronto, Canada
Jamie Clemons, Illinois, USA
Belle McMaster, Georgia, USA
Mrs. Fran Merker, new York, USA
Rhonda Cummings
Gil Toff, California, USA
Roy Tricke, Kenabee, Canada
Philippe de Reilhan, Graulhet, France
Elmir Mecevic, Wien, Austria
Sean Earner, Virginia, USA
Scott Baker, Managing Editor/Econoomics Editor; Senior Advisor & NY Coordinator, Opednews.com, New York
Mouna Schaheen, Arizona, USA
Munir Jirmanus, Massachusetts, USA
Edward Gibney, Virgin Islands
Angela Milivojevic, Toronto, Canada
Charles Nafziger, Washington State, USA
Casey Hennessey, Illinois, USA
Kevin, Leys, Manchester, UK
Lois Gagnon, Massachusetts, USA
Jeff Klein, Massachusetts, USA
Stephanie Schoen, California, USA
Thomas Bradtke, Maryland, USA
Lloyd Cartey, Milton Keynes, UK
Peter Brecht, Weinsberg, Germany
Berjouhy Gulesserian, new York, USA
Eileen Massey, California, USA
Yvon A. Moreault, Québec, Canada
David Deutsch, California, USA
Molly Hogan, California, USA
Elaine Hagopian
Fernando Jardim, Portugal
Joel Lorimer, Minnesota, USA
Daniel Johnson, New York, USA
Carole Tyksinski, Pennsylvania, USA
Nancy Schmidt
Lahoucine Choual, Mohammedia, Morocco
S. Jahangeer, Virginia, USA
Arlan Ebel, USA
Dr. Dirk Schweitzer, Massachusetts, USA
Ann Ellis, New York, USA
Farrokh Rahnemoon, Michigan, USA
Philipp Helmer, Wäschenbeuren, Germany
Ruth Faris, Massachusetts, USA
Gregg Kozloff, Colorado, USA
Bonita Staas, Illinois, USA
Norman Gomes, Captain, Merchant Seaman (retired), Massachusetts, USA
Gabriel Rosenstock
Ms. Michelle Smith, Maryland, USA
Paul Offen, North Carolina, USA
Jeff Riney, Georgia, USA
L. Childs
Marie Andrews, Florida, USA
Karena Acree-Paez, California, USA
Miss Marge Dakouzlian, New York, USA
Mrs. Joyce Banzhaf, California, USA
Douglas Olson, Minnesota, USA
Mrs. Jean Bails, Retired R.N., Michigan, USA
Hartmut Wihstutz, Physician, Hohen Neuendorf, Germany
Klaus-Peter Kurch, Freidenker, Berlin, Germany
Barbara Hathaway, New York, USA
Debra DeLong, Trucker, Elite Carriers,* Wisconsin, USA
Jean Boustani, Massachusetts, USA
Fredrick Warner, Vogel Town, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Osami Nomura, Tokyo, Japan
Gisela Lopez, Illinois, USA
Ben Tao, Massachusetts, USA
Siamak Amini, Altrincham, Cheshire, UK
Imran Ashraf Malik, Lahore, Pakistan
Jay Noor, Montreal, Canada
Frans De Maegd, Sint-Joris-Weert, Belgium
Christina Hügli, Winterthur, Switzerland
Louise Legun, Pennsylvania, USA
Monica Zoppé, Pisa, Italy
Ms. Janet Lind, Washington State, USA
Robert Kosuth, Minnesota, USA
Khalil Rabiei, Illinois, USA
Gary Jones, Illinois, USA
Ms. Lila York, New York, USA
Ann Fawcett Ambia, New York, USA
Ni Meyer, New Mexico, USA
Khalid Raheem, Pennsylvania, USA
Gayle McIntyre, Mississauga, Canada
Jay Watts, Toronto, Canada
Peter & Waltraud Seidel, Berlin, Germany
Glenna Johnson
Massoumeh Asi, Maryland, USA
Kathleen Ryan, Virginia, USA
Susan Maria Gavaghan, Liverpool, UK
Susanne Kühn, Berlin, Germany
Greg Gallinger, Winnipeg, Canada
Richard Keller, Wellington, New Zealand
Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Miriam Kurland, Massachusetts, USA
Jeffrey Jones, New York, USA
Richard Mosher, Connecticut, USA
JoAnne Bauer,Connecticut, USA
Summer Smith, Utah, USA
Austin Austi
Tyler Keir, Michigan, USA
Mary Fishler, Oregon, USA
Bill Nicholson, Haywards Heath, UK
Martin Riley, Scarborough, UK
Amanda Vasquez, California, USA
Alessandro Papaleo, rome, Italy
Ms. Lisa Savage, Maine, USA
Faramak Zahraie, Washington State, USA
Harold Kimpel, Tennessee, USA
Brenda Fowke
Gabriele S. von Gallera, Berlin, Germany
Aran Fay
Nikolaus Blank, Berlin, Germany
Peter Glen, Bensheim, Germany
Julie Bosh, Ohio, USA
Michelle Kaiser, Connecticut, USA
Nancy Eberg, Connecticut, USA
Sigrid Sjöberg-Glenz, Bensheim, Germany
Michael Baker, Lincoln, UK
Kanika U. F. Ajanaku, South Carolina, USA
Reg Johnson, Writer, Activist, Connecticut, USA
Rita Abert, Berlin, Germany
Silvio Wendrich, Germany
Tobias Weise, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Hannah Rush, Texas, USA
يوسف عبدلكي, Damascus, Syria
Barbara Costello, New Mexico, USA
Jon Karl Stefansson, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sally Jane Black, Louisiana, USA
Johannes Loew, Berlin, Germany
Natylie Baldwin, Author/Analyst, California, USA
Bernard Elias, California, USA
Mary Jo Fesenmaier, Wisonsin, USA
Tim Everett, UK
Elizabeth Resnikoff, Illinois, USA
Lauren Manning, New York, USA
Rael Nidess, M.D., Texas, USA
Mike Ennis, Wellington, New Zealand
Susan Mercurio, New Mexico, USA
Michael Van Arragon, Hamilton, Canada
Mike Woods, New Zealand
Andrew Reed, UKIP,* (Retired), Brussels, Belgium
Joseph Jordan, Michigan, USA
Daniel Doile, Berlin, Germany
Vig Orniensis, Worcester, UK
Julie Webb-Pullman
Adrianne Leon, Connecticut, USA
Cassandra Rhodin, Sweden
Dr. Joachim Gruber, Ankershagen, Germany
Gunnar Øyro, Bergen, Norway
Maria Anna Steenken, Berlin, Germany
Catherine Wilkerson, M.D., Michigan, USA
Jochen Gruber, Rumpshagen, Germany
Arianna Carciofo, Berlin, Germany
Lanlan Hoo, Illinois, USA
Kamil Abbas, Pennsylvania, USA
David Glackin, Cookstown, Ireland
Angelika Engels, Berlin, Germany
Per Mathis Mathisen, Medical Doctor, Kristiansand, Norway
Mrs. Lori Flynn, Pennsylvania, USA
Janet Gaspar, Wadebridge, UK
Jack Moylet
Mark Carpenter, New Hampshire, USA
Barry Kissin, maryland, USA
Michael Moats, Illinois, USA
Bob Mueller, Illinois, USA
Matthew Cunningham-Cook
Bruce Farland, Wellington, New Zealand
Dolores Parra, Florida, USA
Heather Trainor, Connecticut, USA
Robert Beal, Texas, USA
Morton Brusselm, Illinois, USA
Janet Mayes, New Jersey, USA
Donald Hank, Laigle’s Forum, Florida
Patty Battaglio, Pennsylvania, USA
Barry Hermanson, California, USA
David Creighton, Ottawa, Canada
Robert Funke, Massachusetts, USA
Doug Brown, Burlington, Canada
Bruce Lesnick
Louise Chegwidden, California, USA
Gary Elliott, Vermont, USA
Pamela Elliott, Vermont, USA
Nicolas Brannon, California, USA
Nikita McKinder
Ellen Murphy, Washington State, USA
Nate Baldo, New York, USA
Ann Patterson
David Thomas Sr, Canada
Pete Shell, Pennsylvania
Mike Magee, UK
Phillip Kwik, Michigan
Kevin Pina, Journalist & Educator
Melissa Muldoon, Connecticut, USA
John & Karen Schraufnagel, Minnesota, USA
Linda Powel
Don Harmon, California, USA
Martine Hildebrandt, Paris, France
Mary Sue Meads, California, USA
Jane Newton, Maine, USA
Steve Ongerth, California, USA
Cristina Sala, Spain
Franziska Busacker, Sant Vicenç de Torelló, Spain
D. T. Ptak, New York, USA
Matt Rosa, Connecticut, USA
Janet Lind, Washington State, USA
Cynthia M. Little, Maine, USA
Dawn Reel, Nonprofit Technologist, New York, USA
Stephen Mitchell, Sydenham, Canada
Nicholas Cass, Illinois, USA
Dr. Ebert Hino, California, USA
Suzanne Cole, Canada
Tania Abbatello, Connecticut, USA
Jacqui Deveneau, Maine, USA
Carlyle Moulton, Ermington, NSW Australia
Noeline Gannaway, Wellington, New Zealand
Emil Abel, Fulda, Germany
Urte von Bremen, Berlin, Germany
Conny Schulz, Berlin, Germany
Adam Broinowski, Historian, Peace Researcher
Patti Cornel, Connecticut, USA
Angelika Spell, Berlin, Germany
Steve Sutcliffe, Halifax, UK
Edwina Smith, California, USA
Mohamad Rahimy, California, USA
Ale Capuzzo, Trieste, Italy
Uwe Wollmerstädt, Berlin, Germany
Patricia Hopkins, Connecticut, USA
Alina Dollat, Gouvieux, France
Barbara Römer, Kassel, Germany
Mick Eddings, New Mexico, USA
Jeanne Marie Dauray, Illinois, USA
Cindy Davis, Connecticut, USA
Bruce Chapman, Utah, USA
Andrew Costigan, Massachusetts, USA
Carol Jagiello, New Jersey, USA
Mohammad Ataullah, Toronto, Canada
Krizta Moon, Connecticut, USA
Karl Moore, Louisiana, USA
Frank Fischer, Berlin, Germany
Susan Willis, Arizona, USA
Lilith Grimhildr, Georgia, USA
Lori Tuttle, California, USA
Kenneth: Ruby, New Hampshire, USA
Peter Sullivan, New York, USA
Dustin McFadden, Missouri, USA
Jean-Theo Jost, Berlin, USA
Sylvia Gossani, Germany
David Jeang, Maryland, USA
Thomas Shields, New York, USA
Claudia Karas, Frankfurt, Germany
Simeon Newman, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ellen Kienhorst, Hannover, Germany
Elke Roll, Zirndorf, Germany
Bernhard Meyer, Ofterdingen, Germany
Dietrich Hyprath, Sant Josep (Ibiza), Spain
Ian Henshall, UK
Lisa Simeone, Maryland, USA
Wiete Dankov, Köln, Germany
Liz Matthews, Virginia, USA
Robert Janusko, Pennsylvania, USA
Steve Connery, Maryland, USA
Pia Mørk Danielsen, UK
Andy Snoddy, Nyon, Switzerland
Tamara Djuranova, Rome, Italy
Ed Bennett, Washington State, USA
Durnick Viktor, Germany
Ariane Herrmann, Olhao, Portugal
Torgeir Salih Holgersen, Teacher and Author, Oslo, Norway
Marion Denk, Fürth, Germany
Filippo Gentili, Alba Adriatica, Italy
Guy Hollyday, Maryland, USA
Paul Palla
Per Johannessen, kragerø, Norway
Fred Morrison, Psychotherapist, California
Linda Jansen, Washington State, USA
Julie Garton, Oregon, USA
Edwina Smith, California, USA
Roy Hunter, London, UK
Laurisch Karsten, Germany
Peter Förster, Köln, Germany
Johannes Keller, Stockach, Germany
Amparo Hyprath, San Jose (Ibiza), Spain
Angelika Spell, Berlin, Germany
Werner Schilling, Barsinghausen, Germany
Ed Cloonan, Pennsylvania, USA
Piotr Luczak, Berlin, Germany
Holger Bartholz, Germany
Holger Bartholz, Germany
Viveca Hedengren, Helsinki, Finland
Michael Gilliland, Teacher, Barcelona, Spain
Jim Nelson, Missouri, USA
Eberhard Schmitt-Burk, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Roger Fleming, Missouri, USA
Martina Moritz, Germany
Nancy Muir, California, USA
Claus Oehler, Essen, Germany
Jürgen Marquardt, Werdau, Germany
S. Hendra
Rod Prosser, New Zealand
Kim Cater, Louisbourg, Canada
Ralph Tuscher, Michigan, USA
Marion Pke, Daylesford, Australia
Eleni Gourgou, Michigan, USA
Andrea Poole, North Carolina, USA
Albrecht Schmiedel, Berlin, Germany
Mary Lynn Cramer
Paul Siemering, Massachusetts, USA
Pamela Natal, Connecticut, USA
Randy Christense
Timothea Papas, Illinois, USA
Patricia Ulin, Connecticut, USA
Gerhard Bauer, Germany
Lara Biebricher, Germany
Wendy LaRiviere, Retired Lawyer, California, USA
Hannelore Blättermann, Berlin, Germany
Armin Christ, Liebenberg, Germany
Beate Rauschert, Germany
Gerhard Lowak, Chieming, Germany
Jürgen Schopp, Munich, Germany
Raija Kontturi, Helsinki, finland
Rayk Horn, Berlin, Germany
Christopher Franc, Austria
Madhu Ahrens, Isen, Germany
Hartmut Patz, Hoppegarten, Germany
Tiina Arasola, Kotka, Finland
Burkhard Nauschüt, Böhlendorf, Germany
Uwe Schrön, Neumarkt, Germany
Hans Helffer, Capelle aan den IJssel, Holland
Dieter Deicke, Klein Wanzleben, Germany
Lisa Mateu, Welchenberg, Germany
Gisela Vogel, Bochum, Germany
Stefan Meißner, Bremen, Germany
Thomas Lindlein, Coburg, Germany
Peter Lorscheidt, Monheim am Rhein, Germany
Christian Kumbier, Wetzlar, Germany
Anja Böttcher, Bochum, Germany
Stephan Haeger, Berlin, Germany
Jürgen Masuch, Germany
Sozan Iftikhar
Andreas Pulch, Malaysia
John Northerner, Indiana, USA
Emily Chiappinelli
Gudrun Chatterjee, Detmold, Germany
Stefan Brügemann, Rheinbach, Germany
Uwe Kah
I. Nödinger, Düsseldorf, Germany
Paul Georg Lisztewink, Soest, Germany
Freddy Prill, Germany
Ralf Krueger, Lehre, Germany
Dana Dodd, Florida, USA
Alfred Martin Bucher
Andreas Seel, Boizenburg, Germany
Rudolf Weissmueller, Germany
Lutz Lippke, Berlin, Germany
Marlis Reimannn, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hellmuth Kaiser, Nürnberg, Germany
Gloria Reiser, Illinois, USA
F. Thienel, Germany
Elke Zwinge-Makamizile, Berlin, Germany
Jonas Bauarten, Berlin, Germany
Niranjan Chatterjee, Detmold, Germany
Joan McDonald, Colorado, USA
Heidemarie Brühns, Berlin, Germany
Ulla Moussa-Lambrecht, Germany
Falk Lepschi, Neuhaus, Germany
Ludwig Schönenbach, Bremen, Germany
Rosalie Riegle, Illinois, USA
Ingo Rudolph, Berlin, Germany
Thomas Peter, Germany
Hakan Gonendik, M.D., Ankara, Turkey
Uwe Jetter, Halle, Germany
Kenneth Charles, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Walter Ranßweiler, Germany
Rainer Braus, Pècsm, Hungary
Baldauf Kurt, Lugau, Germany
Reni Sentana-Ries, Ryley, Canada
Kari Fjørtoft, Norway
Arianna Garofalo, Pennsylvania, USA
Emil Brütsch, Berg. Gladbach, Germany
Jerzy Krawczuk, Bonn, Germany
Lamia El abdellaoui
Greg Firmstone, Gympie, Australia
Silvan Kräuter, Dresden, Germany
Blanka Münzberg, Alt Tellin, Germany
Volker Andreas, Schwanefeld, Germany
Esen Zafer, Wien, Austria
Gundolf Hambrock, Frankfurt Main, Germany
Elke Schreiber, Software Engineer, Hergiswil, Switzerland
Pat O’Connor, Surrey, Canada
Steve Shapiro, Maryland, USA
Dr. Rajaa Nadler, Germany
Vukovic Ivica, Luzern, Switzerland
Brigitte Jaschke, Germany
Daniel Nawka, Leipzig, Germany
Sonja Brentjes
Phyllis Arist, Illinois, USA
Martha Sabin, Neudorf, Österreich
Yvonne Martin, Freiburg, Germany
Claudia Puhlmann
Christoph Geyer, Gosen-Neu Zitau, Germany
Helmut Nater, Leipzig, Germany
Monika Münch, Berlin, Germany
James Stengle, Oregon, USA
Martin Kußmann, Berlin, Germany
Jutta Glässing, Lübeck, Germany
Haimo Grebenstein, Königstein, Germany
Peter Schettina, Köln, Germany
Selcuk Demirci, Lüneburg, Germany
Winfried Gerum, Roettenbach, Germany
Helge Brinkmann, Oldenburg, Germany
Gerrit Junghans, Gera, Germany
Fridonka Stefan, Berlin, Germany
Monika Asmus, Wuppertal, Germany
Alexander Nadler M.A., Germany
Sharon Erb, Oregon, USA
Navid Madani, Hamburg, Germany
Sabine M. Gruber, Kierling, Österreich
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US-backed Kurdish militia announces assault on ISIS capital in Syria

By James Cogan

7 November 2016

On Sunday, just two days before the US presidential election, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-armed faction comprised largely of ethnic Kurdish militia, called a press conference to announce that it had begun “a major battle” to retake Raqqa from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Raqqa, a city of some 200,000 in central Syria, is often referred to as ISIS’s “capital.”

The SDF, one of several US-backed Syrian “rebel” coalitions seeking to overthrow the Russian- and Iranian-backed Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, said at the press conference that it will eventually deploy 30,000 fighters for the assault on Raqqa. With next to no mention in the America media, let alone in the election campaign, at least 300 US Special Forces personnel are already on the ground with the SDF, training and “advising” its fighters and targeting air strikes on ISIS by US, British, Australian and French aircraft.

The press conference was held in Ain Issa, a Kurdish-controlled town 50 kilometres to the north of Raqqa. A US military spokesperson in Iraq, Colonel John Dorrian, admitted to journalists via email that it “may be some time” before the SDF actually attacks Raqqa. Whether it begins in weeks or months, the offensive is expected to consist of increased air strikes and attempts to isolate the city by surrounding it and cutting off supply lines.

The largely rhetorical announcement appears primarily aimed at bolstering, in the final days of the election campaign, the claim of the Obama administration and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton that they have a plan to deal with ISIS in Syria. The campaign of Republican Donald Trump has attempted to gain mileage by blaming the policies of Obama and Clinton, who served as Obama’s secretary of state during his first term, for the ability of ISIS to seize large areas of Syria and Iraq since 2013.

In the final weeks of the election campaign, the Obama administration has directed a massive escalation of military violence in the Middle East. In mid-October, tens of thousands of US-backed Iraqi forces launched an assault on the ISIS-held city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

Three weeks later, Iraqi government troops are bogged down fighting street-to-street battles in the eastern suburbs and are still more than four kilometres from the southern districts of the city. As many as 1.5 million civilians, including hundreds of thousands of children, are believed to be trapped in Mosul, under constant US aerial bombardment and lacking food and medical services.

The Syrian regime, as well as the Russian government, have publicly raised questions about the Mosul operation, accusing US and Iraqi forces of deliberately leaving open escape routes to the west. They allege that ISIS fighters and supporters are being allowed to make their way unimpeded to Raqqa, where they can join operations against the Syrian government.

Sections of the US media have substantiated the Syrian and Russian claims. On November 3, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News, which is sympathetic to Trump, ran a prominent report that stated: “As bullets fly in Mosul, the rural roads leading west are choked with traffic—much of which is believed to be ISIS fighters fleeing to the terrorist army’s Syrian stronghold some 275 miles away in Raqqa.”

Fox asserted that “some experts” in the US “blame a premature pullout of US troops [from Iraq under Obama] for giving rise to the black-clad jihadist army now seen moving along the backroads that span its twin strongholds.”

The announcement that the US-backed Kurdish militia will launch an attack on ISIS in Raqqa has implications far beyond any claims the Obama administration may make about confronting the Islamist extremists or any impact it might have on the US election.

SDF advances toward Raqqa will heighten the danger of US and allied forces clashing with Syrian government troops. Since June, the Syrian army has been preparing to launch its own offensive on the ISIS capital, backed by Russian air power. If the rival forces converge on the city at the same time, the prospect of conflict will be considerable.

Under conditions where the primary aim of the US intervention in Syria is to install a US client state, a clash over control of Raqqa could easily become the pretext for a wholesale attack on the Assad regime, risking a confrontation with Russia and other backers of the Syrian regime, such as Iran and Iraqi Shiite militias.

The reliance of Washington on the SDF could also worsen already volatile relations with Turkey. The bulk of the SDF fighters belong to the Popular Protection Units (YPG), which are based in the self-declared autonomous region of Rojava in the majority-Kurdish areas of northern Syria that border Turkey. The Turkish government asserts that the YPG is a front for the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey, and has labelled the Syrian militia a “terrorist organisation.”

As the YPG has gained control over more territory in northern Syria, the Turkish military has carried out at least 22 artillery bombardments or air strikes against its forces. The most recent attack was in early October, against YPG fighters who drove ISIS out of Tel Abyad, a town some 90 kilometres from Raqqa.

The SDF underscored the tensions at its press conference. Its spokesperson warned that Turkey should “not interfere in internal Syrian affairs.” Several days earlier, the SDF had declared that there could be “no Turkish participation” in operations in Raqqa.

The Obama administration is making high-profile efforts to ensure that Turkey collaborates in its plans to utilise the Kurdish forces as Washington’s proxy in the offensive. The day the SDF announced its plans, Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in Turkey’s capital Ankara for a one-on-one meeting with the country’s top military officer, General Hulusi Akar.

Dunford told journalists: “The coalition and Turkey will work together on the long-term plan for seizing, holding and governing Raqqa. Obviously, as a close ally, we really just want to make sure that we’re completely tight as we work through some challenging issues.”

The assurance that has been given by the US to Turkey is that ethnic Arab fighters of the SDF, not Kurdish militia, will “hold” and “govern” Raqqa after it is taken from ISIS. Under conditions in which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has launched a brutal crackdown on Kurdish political parties within Turkey, and with ethnic tensions soaring, the situation could easily spiral out of Washington’s control.

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