The current crisis in Iraq exposes that the empire is not all-powerful. As Revolution wrote last week, "Despite its military might, the U.S. has failed to achieve its objectives in Iraq. The 13-year-long global so-called 'war on terror' (really a war for empire) has weakened their system and spawned new contradictions and difficulties, including the spread of reactionary Islamic jihadism across North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and elsewhere."
But these difficulties the U.S. is up against are their difficulties. What Bob Avakian says in Basics gets to the heart of how we should understand that:
"The interests, objectives, and grand designs of the imperialists are not our interests--they are not the interests of the great majority of people in the U.S. nor of the overwhelming majority of people in the world as a whole. And the difficulties the imperialists have gotten themselves into in pursuit of these interests must be seen, and responded to, not from the point of view of the imperialists and their interests, but from the point of view of the great majority of humanity and the basic and urgent need of humanity for a different and better world, for another way." (BAsics 3:8)
The rulers of this country have brought incalculable death, suffering, and oppression to the people of the world. How long will we tolerate a world like this!? What do we need to be doing now? Building the movement for revolution to end all this. Take on the lies. Spread the truth. Stay tuned to revcom.us, get into the work of the leader of this revolution--Bob Avakian.
In that light, when the rulers of this country come around with their lies about "helping" people in Iraq or anywhere else with MORE U.S. death, torture, and suffering, that our answer must be: HELL NO!
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World Can't Wait (worldcantwait.org) issued this important call:
IN THE EVENT of U.S. bombing of Iraq, choose the best protest location in your city/town, and call on people to go there at 5:00 pm the day of the attack, or, in the case of an evening attack, the next day at 5:00 pm.
The full call for these protests is at www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/organizingmaterials-mainmenu-6/materials-mainmenu-296/8530-no-more-war-on-iraq. Spread this article and that call in print and online.
(For sources, see "The U.S. Legacy 10 Years After Invading Iraq: Death, Disease, Devastation, Displacement".)
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The Calculations of a War Criminal... and a Criminal System
The debate over what to do in Iraq is being framed by the system by how much America has already "done for Iraq," how much the war has cost and any new moves will cost America.
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