NYCLAW Antiwar Digest CONTENTS

*Overview
*Afghanistan
*Iraq
*Palestine
*GI Resistance
*Cash for Trash
*Domestic Repression

OVERVIEW

Obama embraces war criminal's endorsement
By the time he made his shameless UN appearance, Powell had already spent almost four decades as a bagman -- and frontman -- for some of the most vicious and ugly elements in American politics and government.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd84.html

Obama's new advisor stands by his war crimes
Yes, the original invasion just wasn't tough enough, didn't kill and dispossess nearly enough people -- not for a moderate, steady figure of enduring moral authority like Colin Powell.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m48109&hd=&size=1&l=e

Democrats and war criminals
[I]f your going to support a candidate who doesn't represent any of the values you believe in, then you can't have too many bloodthirsty war criminals endorsing him.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/hitler-endorses-obama/

Yeah, but
Powell has masterminded the deaths of three million Arabs. The reasons for the left to say, "Yeah, but," are quickly running out.
http://www.malcomlagauche.com/id1.html

The Democrats: A Critical History
The lesser-evil strategy has been and will always be a complete disaster, allowing both parties the freedom to become more and more "evil" as time goes on so long as they don't become equally "evil."
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/pham211008.html



AFGHANISTAN

What "good war"?
While one reason given for the war in Afghanistan is the terror attack of September 11, 2001, that war, along with Iraq War are wars of imperialist aggression to extend the military power of the U.S. and its control over oil supplies in the Middle East and Central Asia.  
http://www.counterpunch.org/lisnoff10202008.html

Tory M.P.: What democracy?
The regime we are defending is corrupt from top to bottom.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/david-davis-we-are-losing-taliban-battle-966926.html

Russian lessons
"We abused human rights, including the use of aggressive bombardment. Now it's the same, absolutely the same."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/world/europe/20russian.html?ref=world

Occupation kills 17 more civilians
With public anger running high over civilian deaths in airstrikes by Western troops, Afghan authorities said Friday that at least 17 civilians had been killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan18-2008oct18,0,4750906.story

Resistance to occupation's barbarity
"So long as there is just one 40-day-old boy remaining alive, Afghans will fight against the people who do this to us."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/16/afghanistan-nato

Antiwar protesters take to streets across Canada
Antiwar demonstrations in a dozen Canadian cities on Saturday protested the military mission in Afghanistan, beginning a weekend of action organizers hope will raise awareness of Canada's involvement in the U.S.-led "War on Terror."
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=b5349c1e-469d-4a00-aa07-389e1f988e0b



IRAQ

Obama's war
"Nobody is talking about losing this war. What we are talking about is recognizing that the next president has to have broader strategic vision."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102102477.html

Biden's war
There's no record that Biden ever opposed an Iraq invasion.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/54369.html

Iraqis rally against occupation pact
''We refuse the existence of the U.S. in Iraq.''
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ML-Iraq.html

Ex-MI5 chief: Bombs dropped in Iraq explode at home
[L]ook at what those people who've been arrested or have left suicide videos say about their motivation. And most of them, as far as I'm aware, say that the war in Iraq played a significant part in persuading them that this is the right course of action to take."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/18/stella-rimington-9-11-mi5

Violence against Christians spreads panic
"These attacks have never been seen in Mosul city. Centuries and centuries we were living together."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101200586.html

The tragedy of Iraq's Communists
When the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 brought the Baathist regime crashing down, the ICP-CC's leaders threw their lot in with the occupying powers, following the path chosen by numerous other exiled opposition groups. . . . [M]any of the individuals engaging in active resistance came to see the members of the governing council, including the ICP, as 'collaborators'."
http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=492&issue=120



PALESTINE

Witch-Hunter Dershowitz: Why I support Israel and Obama
The election of Barack Obama -- a liberal supporter of Israel -- will enhance Israel's position among wavering liberals.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359815127&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Why boycott
[T]he only true fighters for peace in Israel are those who support our three fundamental rights: the right of return for Palestinian refugees; full equality for the Palestinian citizens of Israel; and ending the occupation and colonial rule.  
http://counterpunch.org/barghouti10212008.html

Most Palestinians reject two-state solution
54.3 per cent of respondents oppose the so-called two-state solution, while 42.5 per cent support it. . . . Hundreds of thousands of refugees from the war and their descendants still live in shantytown camps.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/most_palestinians_reject_two_state_solution/

Genuine peace movement cannot be Zionist
Liberal Zionists who insist that a two-state solution along the 1967 borders is a reasonable compromise are really only in disagreement with hard-line Zionists over how much stolen Palestinian land should be kept for Jews' exclusive use.
http://zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18478

Israeli academic: "Jewish nation" is recent invention
[T]he idea of a Jewish nation -- whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the founding of the state of Israel -- is a myth invented little more than a century ago.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9884.shtml

Haredi pogrom v. Arab taxi drivers in Jerusalem
Ultra-Orthodox youths rioted in Jerusalem overnight, throwing stones at passing cars and beating Arab taxi drivers.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1030418.html



AFRICA

Pentagon establishes "Africa command"
[T]his work to complement and support American security and development policies would include missions like deploying military trainers to improve the abilities of local counterterrorism forces.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/africa/05command.html?hp

Somalis resist occupation
[T]he Washington-organized intervention in Somalia [is] a further manifestation of the bogus "global war on terrorism."
http://www.workers.org/2008/world/somalia_1009/



GI RESISTANCE

From the frontlines
The number of anti-war soldiers is increasing rapidly.
http://campusprogress.org/asktheexpert/3264/from-the-frontlines

Winter soldiers and Washington's wars
There is an ongoing discussion within the essentially moribund antiwar movement of today and among antiwar veterans themselves regarding the roles vets should play in rebuilding that movement.
http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs10062008.html

Bush lied, G.I.s paid
Anti-war veterans have reached the conclusion that, perhaps with the exception of the Iraqis themselves, they have suffered more than anyone from the war in Iraq.
http://badgerherald.com/oped/2008/10/02/anti-war_vets_fight_.php

G.I. movement against the war
"The actions of these young veterans show that anyone can change."
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20081003135303723

Excerpt from 'Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan'
"I tried hard to be proud of my service, but all I could feel was shame."
http://www.alternet.org/story/102352/



CASH-FOR-TRASH

Number of low-wage working families rises
The ranks of low-wage working families increased by 350,000 between 2002 and 2006, to nearly 9.6 million -- more than one in four of the nation's working families with children.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-families15-2008oct15,0,502608.story

Poverty boosts military recruitment
"We do benefit when things look less positive in civil society."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-recruit11-2008oct11,0,4964808.story



DOMESTIC REPRESSION

Despite ruling, detainee cases delayed
"Every day of delay is one more day our clients are in prison without a hearing."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/us/05gitmo.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Guantanamo prosecutor had 'grave misgivings'
Vandeveld is at least the fourth prosecutor to resign under protest.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmo12-2008oct12,0,5392481.story

Detainees near insanity
They were deprived of natural light for months and for years were forbidden even minor distractions such as a soccer ball or a dictionary.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702296.html

U.S. drops charges for 5 Guantanamo detainees
None of the detainees were to be released.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/washington/22gitmo.html?hp

Bush keeps Guantanamo open
Bush adopted the view of his most hawkish advisers that closing Guantanamo would involve too many legal and political risks to be acceptable, now or any time soon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/washington/21gitmo.html?hp

Don't let them kill an innocent man
Troy Davis' case illustrates the fact that nothing has changed -- that the system is infected by racism and bias against the poor.
http://socialistworker.org/2008/10/20/dont-let-them-kill-troy-davis


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