Time to stop the next war now...

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It is time for the peace movement to re-organize, grow and mobilize. Hillary Clinton has a consistent record of supporting war and we should begin to organize to stop escalation with Syria, Ukraine and Russia. We have written about the need for #NoHoneymoon for Hillary protests. These should begin as soon as possible and continue through her inauguration. To stop her worst instincts of Wall Street and war policies her presidency must be engulfed in protest so these unpopular policies can be prevented.

Weapons makers are investing in the new "cold" war with Russia and are telling their investors that the threat of war with Russia is great for business. These weapons profiteers need to be exposed and protested as well. The peace movement should be demanding that the US stops selling weapons to the Saudis, who are supplying ISIS as well as to other countries, like Israel, who are using them to kill civilians.

Anyone who is paying the slightest attention should be under no illusions that Hillary Clinton will oppose war and militarism. Unlike President Obama she will not receive a Nobel Peace Prize � people know who she is and what she has stood for. As Andrew Levin writes "a vote for Clinton really is a vote for war � for intensifying the wars Obama inherited or initiated, for starting others, and for provoking Russia, and its vilified leader enough to advance the Doomsday Clock by a significant amount."

The peace movement must grow large enough and militant enough so that Hillary Clinton and the neocons, humanitarian warriors and other war hawks she has surrounded herself with cannot ignore the movement. She and the Democrats must see very quickly that supporting more militarism will cost them the mid-term elections and the next presidency. Her donors must be made to realize that a nuclear war with Russia is not something they will survive. The public is exhausted from 15 years of war under the banner of the Global War on Terrorism. People know that there is less stability in the world and less security at home because of the ongoing wars. The public is with us.

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