Update 12-4-14

Resolution was approved today: 411 for, 10 against. See 12/4 post —

BREAKING: U.S. Representatives approve resolution condemning Russia, with update

Two more sponsors joined yesterday — John Shimkus (IL), Steve Chabot (OH)

Update 12-2-14
The House did not vote on this resolution today (December 2), according to https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/758/.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL) did add two more sponsors to his resolution yesterday — Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (VA) and Rep. Paul Cook (CA). Rep. Steve Stockman (TX) is an original co-sponsor.

There is still time to lobby representatives with information and ask them to oppose this bill and refuse to co-sponsor it.

Many reps may rely on mainstream news and political leaders for their knowledge of a situation. Send them the documentation about American and Ukrainian aggression and the nature of the Kiev government. That’s critical.

Only Western citizens, especially Americans, can stop this. We can also educate military personnel about the situation. Many of them joined the services to protect and defend people, not to participate in genocide.

There are also major anti-Russian provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015. That has already passed the House and is in the Senate. That bill can be found here: http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/ndaa-home?p=ndaa. It is scheduled to be voted on this week or next. It’s well worth a read through the table of contents. There are many features of this bill that are troubling.

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H. Res. 758 is scheduled to be voted on December 2 in the U.S. Congress.

Call your congressional reps and tell them to vote “No”. Please tell them also to oppose American aggression in Ukraine and against Russia.

The bill begins

Strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring countries aimed at political and economic domination.

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This very dangerous bill is short on truth, and contains no mention of America interference, funding, and aggression in Ukraine and against Russia. It authorizes the President to pursue certain policies.

How many Congressional reps have done any research and asked probing questions? How many  get their information from the news media and the administration, and don’t even know about Victoria Nuland or the $5 billion in US aid to destabilize Ukraine? How many know there is no proof for any of the administration’s allegations about Russian invasion or the MH 17 crash? How  many even know about the neo-Nazis leading the government in Ukraine?

With Vice President Biden as another cheerleader of tension with Russia (and with his conflict-of-interest in Ukraine), it is easy to see how the picture can be skewed and what the pressure is to conform, especially with national leaders like Leon Panetta banging the cold war drum.

Additionally, how many are willing to go against the herd mentality in Congress to stand for truth?

Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich wrote today about this bill:

NATO encirclement, the US-backed coup in Ukraine, an attempt to use an agreement with the European Union to bring NATO into Ukraine at the Russian border, a US nuclear first-strike policy, are all policies which attempt to substitute force for diplomacy.

Russia’s response to the terror unleashed by western-backed neo-nazis in Crimea and Odessa came after the local population appealed to Russia to protect them from the violence. Russia then agreed to Crimea joining the Russian Federation, a reaffirmation of an historic relationship.

The Western press begins its narrative on the Crimea situation with the annexation, but completely ignores the provocations by the West and other causal factors which resulted in the annexation. This distortion of reality is artificially creating an hysteria about Russian aggressiveness, another distortion which could pose an exceptionally dangerous situation for the world, if acted upon by other nations. The US Congress is responding to the distortions, not to the reality. 

Similar distortions are developing now in the coverage of events in the eastern part of Ukraine, in Donetsk and Luhansk.

Tensions between Russia and the US are being fueled every day by players who would benefit financially from a resumption of the Cold War which, from 1948 to 1991 cost US taxpayers $20 TRILLION dollars (in 2014 dollars), an amount exceeding our $18 trillion National Debt.

With wars re-igniting in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Syria being a staging ground for an ongoing proxy war between the great powers, the US treasury is being drained for military adventures, our national debt is piling up, and we are demonstrably less safe. 

Tomorrow the US House will debate and vote on H. Res. 758 which is tantamount to a ‘Declaration of Cold War’ against Russia, reciting a host of grievances, old and new, against Russia which represent complaints that Russia could well make against the US, given our nation’s most recent military actions: Violating territorial integrity, violations of international law, violations of nuclear arms agreements.

Congress’ solution? Restart the Cold War!

Please take action today. Alert those you know who care about peace and creating a worldwide community of respect and good relationship.

We must stand for peace, or the forces of darkness will take us into war.