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Howie Hawkins on War & Peace
Green Party Challenger for President
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Supports 2015 Iran nuclear deal
The Green Party supports the "joint comprehensive plan of action" signed in July, 2015 which confirms Iran's status as a zone free of nuclear weapons. The Green Party supports the swift elimination of economic sanctions on Iran and looks to
the normalization of relations between Iran and the United States. The Green Party also calls on Israel to dismantle its nuclear weapons program and sign on to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
Source: Green Party Platform adopted by 2020 presidential hopeful
, Jul 12, 2020
Goal: complete global nuclear disarmament
We demand the US honor its treaty obligations and restore the Intermediate Nuclear Force treaty and the Iran nuclear deal, that the US take its nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, adopt a No First Use policy, and unilaterally disarm to a minimum
credible nuclear deterrent. The US should then follow up with urgent negotiations for complete global nuclear disarmament as provided for in the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and demanded by the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Source: Declaration of Candidacy for the Green Party Nomination
, May 28, 2019
Endless war follows from capitalist competition
ENDLESS WAR: We will never have a secure peace as long as capitalism's competitive economic structure generates international conflicts and wars. Nuclear-armed capitalist states--including the US, Russia, and China--compete for resources,
markets, cheap labor, and geopolitical military positioning. If we don't replace capitalism's nationalistic competition with socialism's international cooperation, sooner or later these conflicts will end in nuclear annihilation.
Source: 2020 Presidential Campaign website HowieHawkins.us
, May 19, 2019
Immediate and unconditional withdrawal from Iraq
Q: Should the US support the creation of a Palestinian state?A: Yes.
Q: Should the US withdraw its troops from Iraq?
A: Yes.
Q: Discuss your proposals for an exit strategy in Iraq.
A: Immediate and unconditional withdrawal. The real US military mission was to establish military bases and control the oil, not WMDs, terrorism, and democracy as the politicians spun it. The mission was imperialistic. It was wrong and it should stop.
Source: 2006 Congressional National Political Awareness
, Nov 1, 2006
Replace Middle East occupation with peace
Q: What does Hawkins think of replacing US troops with UN in Iraq?A: Supports Peace, not occupation in the Middle East. Cease fire.
Source: Email interview on 2006 Senate race with OnTheIssues.org
, Aug 1, 2006
End the War in Iraq
End the War in Iraq. End the US commitment to decades of war trying to impose a military and corporate occupation of the Middle East and its oil.
Stop all illegal US-led wars and covert action to overthrow governments (Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Venezuela, etc.).
Source: 2006 Senate campaign website, hawkinsforsenate.org, “Issues”
, Jun 30, 2006
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