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NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.11.08
by NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the Wa
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 at 3:49 PM
nyclaw01@gmail.com
We believe that veterans and active-duty GIs are in a key position to stop illegal and unjust war, and we are inspired by the resistance of troops who stood against the war in Vietnam.
NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War
NYCLAW Antiwar Digest
November 11, 2008
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*OVERVIEW
*SEVEN DAYS AFTER
*AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN
*IRAQ
*PALESTINE
*NYCLAW LINKS
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OVERVIEW
This Veterans Day, U.S. Soldiers Say 'Stop the War'
We
believe that veterans and active-duty GIs are in a key position to stop
illegal and unjust war, and we are inspired by the resistance of troops
who stood against the war in Vietnam. . . . It is in this vein that we
turn to organizations like Courage to Resist, Iraq Veterans Against the
War.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/106404/this_veterans_day,_u.s._soldiers_say_%27stop_the_war%27/
Antiwar Protesters As Obama and Michelle Tour White House
Before
the president-elect's arrival, spectators three rows deep pressed
against the north gate of the White House, eager for a glimpse. Farther
back, antiwar protesters chanted, "No more war!"
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-transition11-2008nov11,0,5420171.story
MFSO Opposes Delayed "Withdrawal"
[L]eaving
U.S. combat troops in Iraq well into 2010, and leaving tens of
thousands of additional troops in Iraq indefinitely, is not ending this
war -- it is continuing it.
http://www.nbc25online.com/news/story.aspx?id=219763
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SEVEN DAYS AFTER
Secret Order Lets U.S. Attack Many Countries
The Pentagon has exercised its authority frequently, dispatching commandos to countries including Pakistan and Somalia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/washington/10military.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Leading Democrat: Sometimes Continuity Trumps Change
"You're going to see a lot more sympathy than you might expect between Obama and his chief military advisers."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902555.html
Obama's Death Squads?
[D]eath squads will probably continue to play a central role in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan under an Obama administration.
http://counterpunch.org/lee11102008.html
Obama Silent While IVAW Was Beaten
[W]hile
Matthis Chiroux and Nick Morgan and the other members of IVAW were
being beaten by the police outside of the presidential debate, inside
the presidential debate John McCain and Barack Obama didn't even use
the word "Iraq" or the word "Afghanistan."
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/11/on_veterans_day_15_vets_of
Will Obama "Change" U.S. Foreign Policy?
[B]efore
we get too excited, like many Americans have, about the "change" he
will bring to America, let's look at his first two presidential
appointments.
http://www.nolanchart.com/article5437.html
Will Obama Stand Up For the Righteous Cause?
[A]n uncritical level of support of Obama is as much 4 more years as one can imagine.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/298/298_st_righteous_cause.html
Symbolism: Yes. Change: ?
We
should understand the difference between the symbolism of a black man
winning the presidency of the United States and the reality of a
moderate liberal free marketeer who believes that there is a war on
terror and that it can be won by killing Afghanis and other people
whose religion and culture are used to define them as the enemy.
http://counterpunch.org/jacobs11122008.html
Progressives for Obama: Still Intoxicated
With
a general absence of criticism during his campaign from Hayden and
company, one would be hard put to imagine much of it taking place from
now on.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2008/11/101364.html
Struggle in the Obama-Era: What Next?
The
great challenge for the small bands of the left is to anticipate this
mass disillusionment, understanding that our task is not "how to move
Obama leftward", but to salvage and reorganise shattered hopes.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/774/39910
Grassroots Must Avoid Hibernation
Despite
the rhetoric for change, Obama's foreign and domestic policies, for
those who bothered to listen, offer little that we haven't heard before.
http://www.newuniversity.org/main/article?slug=grassroots_must_avoid_hibernation169
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AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN
Obama and Generals Morphing on Afghanistan
The
emerging broad strokes of Obama's approach are likely to be welcomed by
a number of senior U.S. military officials who advocate a more
aggressive and creative course for the deteriorating conflict.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/10/AR2008111002897.html?sub=AR
G.I.'s in Remote Afghan Post Drawing Fire
"Basically, we're the bullet sponge."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/world/asia/10outpost.html?ref=world
Occupation Forces Kill 14 More Afghani Civilians
President
Hamid Karzai and a provincial governor accused the U.S.-led coalition
of killing 14 Afghans who were guarding a road construction project. .
. . Later, a 12-year-old boy was reported killed when Pakistani
helicopter gunships attacked
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan11-2008nov11,0,2457145.story
Occupation Breeds Resistance
The
perceived poison of a foreign occupation, the rampant corruption, the
all-too-frequent desecration of Islam by the occupiers, the sheer folly
of the US/NATO seeking to extend the writ of a central government into
the Pashtun tribal regions, the spiraling count of civilian deaths has
shifted the Afghan struggle towards being a war of national liberation.
http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=47790&s2=08
The Case for U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
[I]t's
not just that the Afghan population believes that the Taliban
resistance is legitimate; that resistance is legitimate under
international law.
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5658
Pakistani Forces Mired in Battle to Oust Taliban
To save Loe Sam, the army has destroyed it. . . . "You keep killing them," Colonel Saeed said, "but you still have them around."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/asia/11pstan.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
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IRAQ
What "Self-Sufficiency"?
"Everyone knows the Iraqi security forces are not going to be self-sufficient by 2011."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/08/AR2008110801029.html
Will Obama Adjust His Timetable?
The
hope among senior officers in Iraq is that President-elect Obama will
make good on another promise he's made over an over again from the
stump: "We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless
getting in."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20081107/us_time/willobamahavetoadjusthistimetableoniraq
Change on the Way?
"Most
of Obama's speeches were only for campaigning," said foreign affairs
official Abd al-Barie Zebari. "The likelihood that Washington will
change its Iraq policies is limited."
http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/11/07/iraq_wary_over_troops_despite_obama_plans/85f0/
New Gulf War Syndrome
Thousands
of soldiers coming home from the war may have been exposed to chemicals
that are known to cause cancers and neurological problems.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/11/cia-rendition-raids-al-qaida
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PALESTINE
Palestinian Village Turning Into Ghetto
Encircled
by half a dozen Jewish settlements like Hashmonaim -- all illegal under
international law -- the village is slowly being sealed off in a
fashion that may soon make its isolation almost as complete as Gaza's.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081110/FOREIGN/137859693/1011
Army Escalates Attack on Nonviolent Resistance
[T]he
army has focused on a number of activists protesting the security
fence, those who help Palestinians harvest their olives, and others.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035176.html
Israel Boycott Isn't Limited to '67 Occupation
Ignoring
Israel's denial of refugee rights and its own system of racial
discrimination against its "non-Jewish" citizens, the two other
fundamental injustices listed in the BDS Call, is tantamount to
accepting these two grave -- certainly not any less evil -- violations
of human rights and international law as a given, or something that "we
can live with." Well, we cannot.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14369
Israeli Apartheid Institutions: The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra & the Batsheva Dance Company
The
Middle East Task Force of Ann Arbor, Michigan is organizing a
nonviolent protest outside the Hill Auditorium on Sunday, November 16,
2008, at 3:00 PM in support of the boycott of two Israeli cultural
organizations touring the US.
http://nextyearinalquds.blogspot.com/2008/11/israeli-apartheid-institutions.html
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