ISIS

The US Has A Responsibility To Resettle Refugees

November 20, 2015 Tom Jawetz and Ken Gude, www.americanprogress.org Educate! ISIS, Refugees, US

By Tom Jawetz and Ken Gude for Center For American Progress - The primary victims of the violence and chaos perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, are Syrian civilians. Millions of Syrians have either fled the country or are internally displaced by the fighting between the Assad regime, ISIS, and myriad opposition groups. The enormity of the humanitarian crisis involving 4 million Syrian refugees came into focus in September when photos emerged of a young boy, Aylan Kurdi, who drowned off the Greek island of Kos in a desperate attempt to reach safer shores. That individual episode galvanized Americans across the political spectrum to demand that more be done to help resettle vulnerable Syrian refugees.

Yemeni Genocide Proceeds Apace, Enjoying World’s Silence

July 13, 2015 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Genocide, ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By William Boardman - Turns out the United States and the Islamic State, ISIS, are de facto allies of Saudi Arabia and its alliance of dictator states, all bent on exterminating Yemeni Houthis and pretty much any other Yemeni in the neighborhood. This Yemenicide started in earnest in March 2015. After years of US drone strikes proved too slow and ineffective at wiping out people in the poorest country in the Arab world, it was time to expand the arsenal of war crimes. Rarely, in discussions of Yemen, does one hear much about the violations of international law that have reduced the country to its present war-torn and devastated condition. Failing to acknowledge a foreign policy disaster in Yemen, the Obama administration has chosen instead to trash international law by supporting the criminal, aggressive war that Saudi Arabia’s coalition of police states launched on Yemen on March 26.

On March 21, Be In Washington, Be In The Street

March 12, 2015 Nick Mottern, www.truth-out.org Resist! Iraq, ISIS, Refugees, Syria, usa, Wars and Militarism

It's estimated that the attack against Mosul in Iraq that the United States is hoping to launch to remove ISIS governance, using Iraq troops, will result in 1.5 million refugees. Two million people were already "displaced" in the fighting over Mosul last summer, according to McClatchy News. The warnings of the new refugee flood coming from the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross may have been a factor causing the Obama administration to back off from publicizing a spring assault on Mosul. But the US plan is apparently still in place to use Iraqis and Kurds to retake Mosul on behalf of the US puppet government in Baghdad. Clearly civilians will be the primary casualties in the slaughter that is now being engineered in Washington.

Coalition Urges Congress To Rein In Sweeping 2001 War Authorization

February 27, 2015 Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Human Rights, ISIS, Law, Wars and Militarism

As Congress turns its attention to President Barack Obama's request to use military force against the Islamic State, more than a dozen groups are urging lawmakers to rein in a sweeping 2001 war authorization that never expired and is being used to justify open-ended military operations. The American Civil Liberties Union, National Security Network and Constitution Project are among 16 groups that sent a letter to lawmakers on Tuesday demanding that they revise Obama's war authorization request to explicitly state that the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force does not apply to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIL or ISIS. Obama opted not to address the 2001 AUMF in his proposal, which he sent to Congress this month. The request seeks limits on levels of U.S. ground troops and duration of the campaign.

Newsletter: The Contagion Of Courage

February 14, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Blockades, Energy, Environment, fast track, FCC, Fracking, Free Trade Agreements, Internet, ISIS, Michael Brown, Net Neutrality, Pipelines, Racism, Tar Sands, TPP, Trade, Ukraine, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

When our colleagues take brave actions, others are inspired. George Lakey describes how courage develops in movements. He lists some key ingredients to overcome fear: people working in community to empower each other, envisioning a successful action and spreading the contagion of courage. Lakey describes courage as each of us expanding beyond our comfort zones and adds that our training for actions should include opportunities to step outside our comfort zone. He suggests we need to view the rapid heartbeat and adrenalin during an action not as fear, but as excitement. Envisioning the whole story - where the story starts, the action being taken and its successful impact - emboldens us and calms our fears of uncertainty. We learn courage in community because courage is contagious.

5 Reasons Congress Should Reject Obama’s ISIS War

February 13, 2015 Peter Certo, www.fpif.org Educate! Iraq, ISIS, Syria, Wars and Militarism

At long last, the Obama administration has submitted a draft resolution to Congress that would authorize the ongoing U.S.-led military intervention against the Islamic State, or ISIS. The effort comes more than six months after the U.S. began bombing targets in Iraq and Syria. Since then, some 3,000 U.S. troops have been ordered to Iraq, and coalition air forces have carried out over 2,000 bombing runs on both sides of the border. Better late than never? Maybe not. The language proposed by the White House would authorize the president to deploy the U.S. military against the Islamic State and “associated persons or forces” for a period of three years, at which point the authorization would have to be renewed.

Will Left-Right Alliance Stop Obama’s Grab For War Powers

February 12, 2015 Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com Organize! Congress, Iraq, ISIS, Syria, Wars and Militarism

enior Democrats have vowed to fight Barack Obama’s new plan for what they call a “carte blanche” expansion of military authority, claiming that proposals presented to Congress on Wednesday do almost nothing to constrain the White House’s ability wage war without approval. The California congressman Adam Schiff and Virginia senator Tim Kaine singled out the lack of any geographic limits in the proposed three-year authorisation for military force (AUMF) – as well as the failure to repeal a 2001 law previously used to justify attacks – as areas of major concern. Even as Obama said he was not interested in “perpetual” or “endless war”, leaders of his own party threatened to team up with “strange bedfellows” from the Republican opposition to combat sweeping future presidential power.

The Terror We Give Is The Terror We Get

February 10, 2015 Chris Hedges www.truthdig.com Educate! ISIS, Terrorism, Violence

We fire missiles from the sky that incinerate families huddled in their houses. They incinerate a pilot cowering in a cage. We torture hostages in our black sites and choke them to death by stuffing rags down their throats. They torture hostages in squalid hovels and behead them. We organize Shiite death squads to kill Sunnis. They organize Sunni death squads to kill Shiites. We produce high-budget films such as “American Sniper” to glorify our war crimes. They produce inspirational videos to glorify their twisted version of jihad. The barbarism we condemn is the barbarism we commit. The line that separates us from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is technological, not moral. We are those we fight.

Another Fake FBI ‘Terror Plot’: Informant Frames Cornell

January 16, 2015 21 Wire, www.21stcenturywire.com Educate! FBI, ISIS, Terrorism

This is potentially one of the most bogus and crass attempts yet, as the FBI rushes to grandstand over what appears to be another case of entrapment, joined by a media keen to push the fear envelope in America in the wake of last week’s international terror event in Paris. 1-Chris-Lee-Cornell-OhioEager to capitalize on the media wave generated by the Paris Attacks, jobsworth FBI agents decided to accelerate the frame-up of 20 year oldChristopher Lee Cornell (photo, left) from Cincinnati, Ohio, claiming the youth was planning a “pipe bomb attack” against the nation’s Capitol in Washington DC. Amazingly, US media jumped all over this story, trying to somehow tie it to Paris, and also claim that Cornell was “linked to ISIS”, and that this wassomehow an “ISIS-inspired attack”, only no attack actually took place.

Why Is A Comedy Show The Only One Covering This?

December 2, 2014 Russian Times, www.youtube.com Educate! ISIS, Journalism, Media, Syria, Wars and Militarism

Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) came out with a report showing that in the lead-up to our bombing in Syria and Iraq against ISIS, the mainstream media interviewed 205 guests about it. Of those all but SIX were either FOR bombing or neutral. Only SIX guests opposed more war. As Lee Camp details on this segment from his show Redacted Tonight - It seems Americans have to turn to comedy shows to hear the truth about the innocent civilians dying from our dirty wars! "The mainstream was questioning the war in Syria... Watch those mainstream news shows, watch them if you want to know nothing about peace, sustainability, or reality."

Hagel’s Departure Should Open Debate On Obama’s Wars

November 25, 2014 Medea Benjamin, www.commondreams.org Organize! ISIS, Wars and Militarism

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was supposed to steer the Pentagon away from a decade of war, including bringing US troops home from Afghanistan and paving the way for a reduction in the Pentagon budget. Instead, the Obama administration has opted for remaining in Afghanistan, continuing the disastrous drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen, and dragging our nation into another round of military involvement in Iraq, as well as Syria. The ISIL crises has also been used as a justification for not cutting the Pentagon budget, as required by sequestration. The issue facing this nation is not who replaces Hagel, but what policy decisions we want to Pentagon to implement.

The Bases Of War In The Middle East

November 15, 2014 David Vine, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! ISIS, usa, Wars and Militarism

With the launch of a new U.S.-led war in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State (IS), the United States has engaged in aggressive military action in at least 13 countries in the Greater Middle East since 1980. In that time, every American president has invaded, occupied, bombed, or gone to war in at least one country in the region. The total number of invasions, occupations, bombing operations, drone assassination campaigns, and cruise missile attacks easily runs into the dozens. As in prior military operations in the Greater Middle East, U.S. forces fighting IS have been aided by access to and the use of an unprecedented collection of military bases. They occupy a region sitting atop the world’s largest concentration of oil and natural gas reserves and has long been considered the most geopolitically important place on the planet. Indeed, since 1980, the U.S. military has gradually garrisoned the Greater Middle East in a fashion only rivaled by the Cold War garrisoning of Western Europe or, in terms of concentration, by the bases built to wage past wars in Korea and Vietnam.

Protestor Arrested During ISIL Hearing In Congress

November 14, 2014 Patreon, www.patreon.com Resist! CODE PINK, ISIS, Protest, Wars and Militarism

Code Pink activist Tighe Barry was arrested and charged with disruption of Congress today during an Armed Service Committee hearing on the subject of The Administration’s Strategy and Military Campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). “This is the first hearing since Obama announced that there are going to be 1,500 more troops sent to Iraq,” Medea Benjamin told me as we waited to enter the public hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building, and added: “let’s remember that it is months now since the (U.S.) bombing started in Syria and Iraq and Congress has never taken a position on this. In fact, Congress went off for the election season without fulfilling its duty, which is to declare war or give the President the authorization.

Drone-Strike Feminism

November 8, 2014 Rania Khalek, www.truth-out.org Educate! Feminism, ISIS, usa, Wars and Militarism

Of all the justifications the Obama administration has employed to sanctify yet another war on Iraq, none have been more disingenuous than the portrayal of the latest US bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS, aka ISIL) as a feminist rescue mission. Rather than challenge the obvious hypocrisy of this narrative, US corporate media outlets have acted as cheerleaders and stenographers, allowing the US government to hijack the deterioration of women’s rights as a selling point for perpetual war. Media have even published complaints that ISIS’s campaign of sexual violence is being ignored by the West. Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, complained in the Wall Street Journal (9/2/14) that ISIS’s brutality towards women is receiving “scant attention.” A similar article appeared in Foreign Policy (9/16/14) lamenting Washington’s supposed failure to even “talk about” sexual crimes committed by ISIS.

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