NYCLAW Antiwar Bulletin -- 12.23.08

NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War

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49 DAYS AFTER


With the 4 billion in Afghanistan, the two main conflicts of the war on terror have proved to be 50 percent more expensive than Vietnam.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Report_Cost_of_wars_could_top_1216.html

Obama's Team of Rivals
[H]ow can he possibly expect to unite his antiwar base with his rightwing foreign policy team?
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp12222008.html



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AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN


Selling Afghan Children to Survive
"I sold a piece of my heart to stop my four other children dying of hunger."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/3901941/Afghan-parents-selling-their-sons-to-survive.html

U.S. Kills Eight More Pakistanis
A house and a vehicle were destroyed in the attacks, which killed four people at each location.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/21/AR2008122100364.html



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IRAQ


Al-Zaidi Tortured and Still Disappeared. . .
His whereabouts remained unknown four days after he became a hero to those who blame the US president for the tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths that followed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/12/20081222151452457599.html

. . .But Remains Defiant
"I will not apologise for what I did -- not now, not ever."
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iraq_shoe_thrower_to_go_on_trial_am_12222008.html

Blackwater is Bill Clinton Contributor
Blackwater Worldwide, which has the contract to protect State Department officials in Iraq, is listed as giving ,001 to ,000.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-clinton-donors19-2008dec19,0,3700004.story

'A Prison Full of Innocent Men'
"It's not any standard I learned in law school. You have to erase all that from your mind."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/05/AR2008120503906.html



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PALESTINE



Israeli Missiles Claim More Victims in Gaza
"His arm landed here in front of our window."
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10046.shtml

Israel Kicks Off PR Campaign for Escalated War on Gaza
"The state of Israel, and a government under me, will make it a strategic objective to topple the Hamas regime in Gaza."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1048606.html

Siege-Buster Neta Golan Arrested Leaving Gaza
"How can an act against the collective punishment of over 1.5 million people be a crime? The policies of the Israeli State towards the people of Gaza is the real crime."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0812/S00509.htm

Palestinian Homes Bulldozed In Jerusalem
[T]he Israeli government has given control of the archaeological park to radical Jewish settlers who explicitly state their aim as claiming the entire area for Jews.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Several-Arabs-Homes-In-East-Jerusalem-Have-Been-Bulldozed-To-Make-Way-For-Jewish-Settler-Families/Article/200812215178682?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15178682_Several_Arabs_Homes_In_East_Jerusalem_Have_Been_Bulldozed_To_Make_Way_For_Jewish_Settler_Families

To Gideon Levy: Talk Is Cheap, Human Life Is Not
If Levy is truly interested in justice and human rights, then call unequivocally and immediately for good faith measures: an internationally monitored cease-fire and peace, for Israel to be a single state with equal human rights for all its citizens, acceptance of the right of return, elimination of all racist laws, full reparations, and a sincere apology to the Palestinian people.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/talk-is-cheap-human-life-is-not/



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DOMESTIC RACISM, REPRESSION & INJUSTICE



Ft. Dix Convictions: Another Kangaroo Court Heard From
"This is not justice."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/nyregion/23fortdix.html?hp



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CLASS WAR AT HOME
Families in NYC Shelters Soar to Record Level
"The recession in New York is unfortunately just beginning, but already we have surpassed the all-time record high of family homelessness in New York City."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/nyregion/23homeless.html?ref=nyregion

Will Obama Fix the Economy?
[T]he depth of the economic crisis and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan mean that the scale of reforms necessary to end the suffering go well beyond anything that Obama is prepared to endorse.
http://socialistworker.org/2008/12/19/the-case-for-socialism



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