{"id":81729,"date":"2016-10-24T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=81729"},"modified":"2016-10-24T12:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:34:29","slug":"war-or-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/10\/war-or-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"War or Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dennis-kucinich-121413.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-37614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dennis-kucinich-121413-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dennis-kucinich-121413\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>20 Oct 2016 &#8211; <\/em>The most consequential statement by Secretary Clinton in last night\u2019s debate was her pronouncement that a no-fly zone over Syria could \u201csave lives and hasten the end of the conflict,\u201d that a no-fly zone would provide \u201csafe zones on the ground\u201d was in \u201cthe best interests of the people on the ground in Syria\u201d and would \u201chelp us with our fight against ISIS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would do none of the above. A US attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Syria would, as Secretary Clinton once cautioned a Goldman Sachs audience, \u201ckill a lot of Syrians,\u201d and, according to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dunford, lead to a war with Russia. If the US has not been invited into a country to establish a \u201cno-fly zone\u201d such an action is, in fact, an invasion, an act of war.<\/p>\n<p>It is abundantly clear from our dark alliance with Saudi Arabia and our conduct in support of jihadists in Syria that our current leaders have learned nothing from Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya as we prepare to plunge head-long into the abyss of a world war.<\/p>\n<p>Our international relations are built upon lies to promote regime changes, the fantasy of a unipolar world ruled by America, and a blank check for the national security state.<\/p>\n<p>As others prepare for war, we must prepare for peace. We must answer the mindless call to arms with a thoughtful, soulful call to resist the coming build up for war. A new, resolute peace movement must arise, become visible and challenge those who would make war inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>We must not wait until the Inauguration to begin to build a new peace movement in America.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Dennis Kucinich is a former congressman from Ohio,<\/em> 1997-2013,<em> and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 Oct 2016 &#8211; The most consequential statement by Secretary Clinton in last night\u2019s debate was her pronouncement that a no-fly zone over Syria could \u201csave lives and hasten the end of the conflict,\u201d that a no-fly zone would provide \u201csafe zones on the ground\u201d was in \u201cthe best interests of the people on the ground in Syria\u201d and would \u201chelp us with our fight against ISIS.\u201d It would do none of the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}