{"id":15760,"date":"2017-04-08T09:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15760"},"modified":"2017-04-08T09:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T23:33:43","slug":"peace-for-syria-and-the-rest-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15760","title":{"rendered":"Peace For Syria (And the Rest of the World)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US missile strikes in Syria are an unconstitutional and unwarranted act of aggression against a sovereign state to further geopolitical objectives justified by a false flag operation. This is terrorism.<br \/>\nIt also further increases the risk of war between the US and Russia. This benefits nobody long term.<br \/>\nWe need to replace this terrorism with sanity in government.<br \/>\nYanks, please insist your Congress reign in your military industrial complex controlled executive branch. Here is a petition to do so.<br \/>\nDear Tom,<br \/>\nLast night, President Trump launched a major missile strike against Syria, stating that the action was in retaliation for the deplorable chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians earlier this week.<br \/>\nAs The Nation\u2019s John Nichols points out, the Constitution requires authorization by Congress\u2014something Trump did not have\u2014to declare war. And Congress is about to leave Washington for its spring recess. Nichols quotes Representative Barbara Lee, the lone vote against President George W. Bush\u2019s 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force: \u201cat a time when President Trump stands on the verge of marching our nation into another war with unknown costs and consequences, Congress should not be on recess. I urge the Speaker to honor the Constitution and require a debate and vote on any further use of force in Syria.\u201d<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve launched a petition demanding that members of Congress cancel their spring recess to rein in Trump\u2019s illegal war. You can click here to sign,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/demand-that-congress-cancel-its-recess-to-rein-in-trumps-illegal-war-in-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/demand-that-congress-cancel-its-recess-to-rein-in-trumps-illegal-war-in-syria\/<\/a><br \/>\nbut don\u2019t stop there. Call your representatives with the same message. You can reach them at the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121 or find your senators\u2019 numbers here and representative\u2019s number here.<br \/>\nIt is vital that Congress feels the heat from constituents angry about yet another illegal war in the Middle East. Sign our petition, then call your members of Congress now and demand they rein in Trump\u2019s illegal war.<br \/>\nAll the best,<br \/>\nSarah Arnold<br \/>\nPS: Under the Trump administration, our watchdog journalism is going to be more important than ever. Click here to subscribe today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US missile strikes in Syria are an unconstitutional and unwarranted act of aggression against a sovereign state to further geopolitical objectives justified by a false flag operation. This is terrorism. It also further increases the risk of war between the US and Russia. This benefits nobody long term. We need to replace this terrorism &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peace For Syria (And the Rest of the World)!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}