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and Iran
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A Call to Resist</span></b></p>
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font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: DotumChe; ">The Global imperialist wars
in Northern Africa and the Middle East - What's the truth
behind the so-called "free Syrian army” and
dirty, U.S. funded proxy wars in Libya, Syria and
Iran? Hear why the Republicans and Democrats - all
representatives of the ruling class, are hell-bent on
carrying out the dictates of the Pentagon and Corporate War
Makers in a period of intensifying global capitalist
crisis.</span></b></p>
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co-director, International Action
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of </span><br>
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Heel: </span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The
working class and oppressed everywhere are feeling the
harmful effects of dropping wages, intensifying racism,
sexism, LGBT oppression, unemployment, police brutality,
immigrant bashing, and repression. The
“wars of liberation" in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya
and Syria are meant to rape and pillage the peoples of these
countries, while stealing their resources, crippling their
independence and subordinating their interests to the
control of U.S Imperialism, NATO, Israel and the U.S. puppet
Kingdoms of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain.</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34,
34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">As
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taught us during the U.S. war on
Vietnam, every bomb dropped in Syria, Libya, Iraq,
Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan -- explodes on
cities and communities here at home - from Oakland and LA,
to Detroit, Brooklyn and Boston.<br>
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font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Join this
important discussion on the expanding US/Nato War Drive and
the global people's movement rising up to put a STOP to
imperialist wars for profit. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size:
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<h1 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; ">Turkey uses false pretext to attack Syria</h1>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">by John Catalinatto
October 14, 2012</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Mortar fire on the
Turkish-Syria border — likely a provocation by Syrian
rebels or at most an accident — has already
exacerbated the crisis caused by the reactionary armed
rebellion inside Syria. This event has awakened strong
anti-government reaction inside Turkey. It also threatens a
NATO-backed Turkish invasion of Syria and a wider war in the
region.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The incident setting off
these events was mortar fire from Syrian territory that
landed in the Turkish border town of Akçakale on Oct.
3, killing five Turkish citizens. A flurry of
super-patriotic bluster from Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Erdogan accompanied heavy Turkish artillery fire that killed
Syrian troops. The Syrian government regretted the deaths,
promised an investigation and said it would not happen
again.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">German state TV ZDF’s
first report was that Syrian rebels had fired the grenades
and took responsibility for them. (See article by R.
Teichmann at <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">globalresearch.ca</a>.) This scenario was gradually
altered until all the corporate media and NATO regimes
blamed the Syrian army for launching the mortars.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">NATO-member Turkey seized
upon this suspicious pretext to begin daily artillery fire
on Syrian army units close to the Turkish border. The U.S.,
German and NATO command backed Turkey’s actions,
charging the Syrian government — without evidence
— with “a flagrant breach of international
law.”</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Whipped up by militarist
chauvinism, the Turkish Parliament voted by about 3 to 1 to
authorize Turkey’s army to take whatever measures it
sees fit against Syria — much as the U.S. Congress
backed President Lyndon Johnson’s Bay of Tonkin
Resolution, which was the pretext for invading Vietnam in
1964.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-weight:
bold; ">Turkish people oppose new war</span></p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Turkey’s population,
which has opposed the government’s role in arming the
Syrian opposition and allowing them to stage attacks from
bases in Turkey, immediately came out to protest the new war
threats.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Tens of thousands of people
marched in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, and in Istanbul
on Oct. 4, according to a report in the British Telegraph.
The demonstrators “chanted slogans against the war and
carried banners against the ruling AK Party. … The
Turkish slogan ‘savasa havir’ (‘no to
war’) was the top trending item on Turkey’s
Twitter.”</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The Communist Party of Turkey
(TKP) took a strong position the next day against the
decision in Parliament. Here are some excerpts:</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">“The AKP Government is
doing its best to lead our country into a war. AKP is
primarily responsible for shooting of our town,
Akçakale, and thus for the death of five innocent
citizens.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">“AKP, which feeds,
protects and organizes reactionary gangs which carry out
armed attacks on Syria, is keeping on planting the seeds of
hostility between our country and Syria for the sake of
regional plans of imperialism.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">“Imperialism must be
kicked out of the region. Turkey must immediately abandon
supporting the reactionary armed gangs, and the camps, which
have turned into warfare headquarters, must immediately be
abolished.”</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">While anti-war sentiment
inside Turkey grows, the continued attacks have an immediate
impact on the struggle inside Syria, whose army has pulled
back 10 miles from the border to avoid new incidents. This
“buffer zone” creates the potential for a
staging area for the Syrian armed opposition — which
contains many non-Syrian fighters whose ideology threatens
people of many different religious beliefs inside Syria.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-weight:
bold; ">IAC warns of wider war</span></p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">From inside the U.S., the
International Action Center released on Oct. 5 a statement,
commenting that “this latest aggression by NATO-backed
Turkey can be the opening move to direct military
intervention from the imperialist powers. This is something
that NATO is looking for. The imperialists have fomented,
armed and financed the armed insurgency in Syria.”</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The IAC writes that despite
all the deaths and destruction, the anti-Syria insurgency
has begun to stall. The statement notes that even the Oct. 4
New York Times reports that almost no Syrian forces are
defecting any longer, and that the opposition of Russia and
China has prevented the U.N. Security Council from
authorizing aggression against Syria.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">“The lesson of this
latest event for the anti-war movement and the people of the
U.S. is clear,” says the IAC. <b>“Stay
alert!” for new lies and new aggression from the
imperialist powers in NATO.</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.workers.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">www.workers.org</a> </p>
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<h1 style="font-size: 34px; line-height: 40px; font-family:
Oswald, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;
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background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); ">On Turkey's
Grounding of Syrian Airliner - NATO MOVES CLOSER TO WAR</h1>
<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,
'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;
line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER STATEMENT – <a href="http://iacenter.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 68, 17);
text-decoration: none; " target="_blank">IACenter.org</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">ON TURKEY'S GROUNDING OF SYRIAN AIRLINER</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height:
21px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px;
color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; "> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height:
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color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Calibri; ">NATO MOVES CLOSER TO WAR ON
SYRIA</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height:
21px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px;
color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New
Roman'; "> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Turkey’s
war-jets forced down a civilian airliner, flying from Moscow
to Damascus. Thirty-five Russians and Syrians were
passengers. This aggressive act brings NATO another step
closer to open war against Syria as part of an imperialist
plan to take over the country.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">U.S.
spokesperson Victoria Nuland immediately supported Turkey's
Oct. 10 act of air piracy. Some 150 U.S. special troops had
moved into Syria's southern neighbor, Jordan. On Oct. 9 NATO
Secretary Gen. Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO would back up
Turkey. The British, French and German governments also
backed up Turkey and blamed Syria for the crisis.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Turkey had
continued shelling Syria, using as a pretext the charge that
Syrian forces had launched mortars into Turkey a week
earlier. To this day it is unclear who launched the mortars.
It might well have been the counterrevolutionary rebels that
the NATO countries and the Gulf oil monarchies have been
arming all along.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Turkey claimed
there were weapons aboard the airliner, along with 17
Russian and 18 Syrian passengers, whose lives were
endangered by the grounding. As of now Turkey has shown no
evidence that weapons were aboard, nor did it in any case
have the right to ground an airliner flying on a regular air
lane. It underlines the seriousness of the war threat that
Turkey risked its important trade and diplomatic
relationships with Russia to make this aggressive
move.</span></p>
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background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">It is
important to look at who are the forces now threatening to
intervene in Syria.</span></b><span style="font-family:
Calibri; "> The NATO powers are the former colonialist
powers that carved up Africa and Asia, and dominated Latin
America. They still monopolize military and economic power
in the world, they completely dominate the media and their
1% superrich are the exploiters of humanity. And
they are making war to make new colonies out of sovereign
states, with the U.S. leading the pack in the new colonial
wars.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">While they
pretend to be promoting "democracies," NATO's main
allies in the Middle East are monarchies</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> Jordanian monarchy.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been financing the Syrian
counterrevolution with their ruling family's oil billions.
NATO's front line is militarist Turkey, whose troops will
supply the main cannon fodder for the war against
Syria.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Each week
the civil war in Syria grows closer to a regional war into
which all the NATO powers will jump.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;
background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); margin: 0px; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Those anti-war
forces that exist in the United States and the other NATO
powers have the following responsibilities: to refuse to be
swept up in the war propaganda that demonizes Syria and its
leader; to argue and educate others to understand that
people in their countries can only lose from an intervention
against Syria; and to mobilize to stop the aggression from
NATO by whatever steps are possible.</span></p>
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