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While there is a lot going on, this week our primary focus is on stopping the war with Syria. In the last paragraph we provide links to other active issues in the resistance movement – there is a lot going on.

A few days ago it looked like the United States would already be bombing Syria by now, but enough hurdles have been put in front of the Obama administration and the United Kingdom that the war has not yet started. People are organizing to stop the mad dash to another unnecessary war that will have unpredictable and dangerous repercussions. Here is a list of protests planned this weekend to stop the war.

US public opposes war despite media propaganda

The war is not popular with Americans.  In fact, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that only nine percent of Americans support a military attack on Syria. This makes a war on Syria even less popular than Congress. The poll was taken while reports of the chemical attack were in the news. There has been consistent propaganda for war on all the networks for months now, but the people are not buying it.

The corporate media is showing itself as a propaganda tool for the security state with its coverage of Syria. (Americans today are more aware of the long history of collusion between government and media.)  The media rarely asks obvious questions about why Assad would use chemical weapons while UN inspectors were in the country or what advantage the use of such chemical weapons would have?  On CNN’s new “Crossfire,” a program supposedly showing right and left political views, the two debaters both urged war with Syria.  Commentator Van Jones, supposedly from the left, was particularly bad urging people to support Obama’s plans to go to war and describing the 1953 coup of Mohammed Mossadegh as one that removed a dictator – when the CIA-led coup in fact ended Iran’s move toward secular democracy.