Antiwar.com Newsletter <\/i>| January 27, 2011<\/b><\/p>\n
IN THIS ISSUE<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n No War on Iran: National Day of Action Feb. 4<\/b><\/p>\n On Feb. 4, activists in cities across the country will call for a national day of action nationwide to say no to war against Iran. NO WAR, NO SANCTIONS, NO INTERVENTION, NO ASSASSINATIONS! See here<\/a> for what\u2019s going on in your city.<\/p>\n This Week\u2019s Top News Stories<\/b><\/p>\n Aid Groups Find Evidence of Widespread Torture in Libya<\/a>: <\/b>Aid groups in Libya found evidence that detainees had suffered cigarette burns, heavy bruising, bone fractures, tissue burns from electric shocks, and renal failure from beatings. Several prisoners have been killed while in custody. <\/p>\n GCC Nations to Withdraw Monitors, Push for U.N. Intervention Against Syria<\/a>: The Arab League member nations from the Gulf Cooperation Council have announced they are withdrawing all monitors from Syria and shifting their focus to pressing the United Nations Security Council for intervention against the Assad regime.<\/p>\n Israeli Finance Minister Pushes Naval, Aerial Blockade of Iran<\/a>: Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz rejected the European Union\u2019s ban on importation of Iranian crude oil, insisting it doesn\u2019t go nearly far enough and arguing for the international community to impose a full naval and aerial blockade across all of Iran so that "no one can even go out."<\/p>\n U.S. Warns Iraq: "Don\u2019t Blow This Opportunity<\/a>"<\/b>: After Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki\u2019s sharp turn toward dictatorship, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned the government to "act like a democracy."<\/p>\n Columns and Viewpoints<\/b><\/p>\n Events<\/b><\/p>\n A group of grassroots activists are putting together a billboard advertisement campaign against war with Iran. D.J. Schanz, a director for the Campaign for Liberty and the 10th Amendment Center in Utah and the founder of the Austrian Economics Society of Utah; Darcy Van Orden, national board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus and director of RLC Utah; and Connor Boyack, the most followed blogger in Utah (www.connorboyack.com<\/a>) and director of the 10th Amendment Center of Utah, have started a site to help support the campaign. 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