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CONTENTS
*FOUR DAYS AFTER
*AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN
*PALESTINE
*IRAN
*IRAQ
*SAUDI ARABIA
*GEORGIA
*ISLAMOPHOBIA
*LABOR AND ECONOMY
*ANTIWAR MOVEMENT
*NYCLAW LINKS
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FOUR DAYS AFTER Our Obama Problem
The only hope is that people will take him, not at his word, because he
has not promised anything, but at what they think his word is, and will
react furiously when he betrays their (unfounded) hopes.
http://counterpunch.org/bricmont11072008.html
Obama's Limits Are KeyBarack Obama will be the
catalyst for a new movement, away from false hope and false promises,
not because he will deliver to the people of this country anything
worthwhile, but because he won't. . . .
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21167.htm
Rising Popular Expectations The people by the tens of millions have awakened and they have desperate expectations.
http://www.workers.org/2008/us/presidential_election_1113/
What People WantTens of millions of people want a new direction. The question is whether they can be organized to fight for it.
http://socialistworker.org/2008/11/07/new-shape-of-US-politic
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AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTANU.S. Missile Kills 10+ More PakistanisScores
of people have been killed in missile strikes and a Sept. 3
cross-border commando raid, but no top al Qaeda or Taliban leaders have
been reported to have died. . . . The United States has shrugged off
Pakistani protests.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-pakistan-violence-missile.html?ref=world
A Certain Path to Self-Destruction
War has destroyed five presidencies in the last 90 years, those of
Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George
W. Bush. History says it will destroy Obama's too if he really meant it
when he said he will fight in Afghanistan, that graveyard for empires.
http://counterpunch.org/velvel11072008.html
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PALESTINEObama and Gaza[P]rogressive people across this
country, you know, instead of basking in the euphoria, need to pick
themselves up today and start demanding that the Obama administration
immediately end the siege of Gaza.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/106196/why_iraqis%2C_afghans%2C_palestinians%2C_and_others_might_be_nervous_about_president_obama/
Emanuel's Proud, Racist Father "Obviously he will
influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn't he be? What is
he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1225910047157
New "Tolerance" Museum on Stolen Palestinian Land
The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre is the main promoter of the museum, designed by renowned US architect Frank Gehry.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gWXdcL0vC644PKsedJ83z6us8XpQ
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IRANObama's New Threats"Iran's
development of a nuclear weapon, I believe, is unacceptable. And we
have to mount an international effort to prevent that from happening."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/08/AR2008110801154.html
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IRAQObama's Real PlansThe
campaign was very vague about describing troops' withdrawal, all the
troops, within 16 months. Now, the fine print of the campaign suggests
the opposite, actually.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/106196/why_iraqis%2C_afghans%2C_palestinians%2C_and_others_might_be_nervous_about_president_obama/
About That TimetableMichael O'Hanlon, a national
security expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said that
Obama has enough political capital to free him from "pleasing the left"
of the Democratic Party as he presses forward with his strategy for
Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-iraq-troops_madhani_07nov07,0,1270759.story
Emanuel Defends War
"I still believe that getting rid of Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do, OK?"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80411
Following U.S. Election, Puppet Regime More Openly Tolerant of OccupationThe
Iraqi government, made up of exiles who were able to rise to power only
as a result of the American invasion, has been looking for a way to
support the pact without appearing to be kowtowing to Americans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/world/middleeast/07iraq.html?hp
But Iraqis Are Still Opposed"We will continue to condemn the Iraqi-American pact because it will legislate the American presence in Iraq."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/world/middleeast/08iraq.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
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SAUDI ARABIAHunger Strike for Real Democracy
Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy that does not tolerate dissent,
political parties or nongovernmental civil and human rights groups. The
strike's organizers could face arrest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110603243.html
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GEORGIAGeorgia Waged Indiscriminate War
Georgia's inexperienced military attacked the isolated separatist
capital of Tskhinvali on Aug. 7 with indiscriminate artillery and
rocket fire, exposing civilians, Russian peacekeepers and unarmed
monitors to harm.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/world/europe/07georgia.html?hp
And Killed Civilians With Israeli Cluster Bombs
[R]esearchers
from Human Rights Watch found wreckage from Israeli-supplied rockets
with bomblets that had been used by Georgia, suggesting a "massive
technical failure."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/world/europe/06cluster.html?ref=world
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ISLAMOPHOBIAYoung Muslims' Mixed Emotions on Obama"In
my community, people were saying to me, 'Who do we support?' The person
who is making the stereotype? Or the person who is not defending us?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/nyregion/07muslims.html?ref=nyregion
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LABOR AND ECONOMYEmanuel -- Free Trade Champion[H]e was a point
man in the White House in the fight to pass the North American Free
Trade Agreement and similar deals that have been passionately opposed
by the very labor, environmental and farm groups that were essential
players in electing Obama.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/nichols2?rel=rightsideaccordian
Emanuel Was Director of Freddie Mac During Scandal
The oversight report said the board had been apprised of the suspect
accounting tactics but "failed to make reasonable inquiries of
management."
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6201900&page=1
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ANTIWAR MOVEMENTIVAW Challenges Obama
Our message remains the same: it is time to immediately withdraw all
occupying forces from Iraq; it is time to end the death and destruction
facing the people of Iraq and address the needs of the Iraqi people;
and it is time to provide our veterans with the care and benefits that
they need and have earned through their service to our country.
http://ivaw.org/node/4524
But UFPJ Remains EnthralledIn
his speech on Tuesday night, Barack Obama said, "This victory alone is
not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that
change." Obama has put forth the challenge and United For Peace and
Justice is ready to meet that challenge as we work to change our
nation's path from militarism and greed to peace and justice.
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3974
Nader Speaks Truth to Power . . .[W]e're really talking about just more of the same, in terms of the corporate domination of Washington.
http://i3.democracynow.org/2008/11/5/melissa_harris_lacewell_on_president_elect
And Smeared For It, Left and Right
[T]he fatuously hypocritical liberal left, after eight years of railing
against Fox News for its Bush worship, is now applauding Fox News for
its smears against Nader because Nader had the temerity not to
immediately bow down and worship the new messiah.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m48569&hd=&size=1&l=e
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