{"article":{"id":221644,"heading":"NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST (11.02.08)","author":"NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War","created":"2008-11-03 20:29:17","modified":"2008-11-03 20:29:17","last_modified":"Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:29:17","article":"
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NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War<\/span>
<\/div>NYCLAW<\/span> Antiwar<\/span><\/span> Digest<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n
\r\nNovember 2, 2008<\/b>
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CONTENTS<\/span><\/b><\/u>
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\r\n*Overview
\r\n*Afghanistan & Pakistan
*Iraq & Syria
\r\n*Palestine
*Africa
*Latin America
*Domestic Repression & Injustice
*Antiwar Movement<\/b>
*NYCLAW Links<\/b>



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<\/div>\r\nOVERVIEW<\/b><\/u>

Note to progressives for Obama: What happens after Election Day?<\/b><\/u>
[A]ntiwar\r\nactivists have exchanged their slogans for pro-Obama refrains, despite\r\nthe fact that their candidate inflates the alleged threat of Iran,\r\nwants to put more troops in Afghanistan and won't pull out of Iraq\r\nanytime soon. . . .  Imagine if he had to earn our votes, instead of\r\nreceiving our support without having to do a thing for it?
http:\/\/onlinejournal.com\/artman\/publish\/article_3938.shtml

Obama, the first-rate Republican<\/b><\/u>
\r\nObama's\r\nrun has been the negation of almost every decent progressive principle,\r\nwith scarcely a bleat of protest from the progressives seeking to hold\r\nhim to account.
http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/alexander-cockburn-obama-the-firstrate-republican-973691.html
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Two parties, one imperial mission<\/b><\/u>
Democrats\r\nand Republicans are of one mind in their resolve to step up undercover\r\noperations in Iran backed by the threat of a full-scale economic\r\nblockade or military action.
http:\/\/counterpunch.org\/mayer10292008.html

The U.S. election, viewed from Baghdad<\/b><\/u>
\"There is one agenda, and whoever holds the [president's] chair will continue the other's job.\"
\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iraqelect2-2008nov02,0,7502362.story

Troops split on next commander-in-chief<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"To tell you the truth, I don't care so much, I just want to leave.\"
http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/nov\/01\/es-elections-obama-mccain-army
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\r\nAFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN<\/b><\/u>
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U.S. kills 25 in Afghanistan<\/b><\/u>
All those killed in late Friday's attack were civilians and belonged to one family.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/world\/international-us-afghan-violence.html?ref=world

U.S. kills 27 in Pakistan<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\r\nThe\r\nnew strikes raised the number of such attacks to at least 17 since\r\nAugust. . . . Residents frequently contend that civilians, sometimes\r\nwomen and children, are among the dead.
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/01\/world\/asia\/01drone.html?ref=world

In Afghanistan, the loudest sound is the clock ticking<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"I don't think that even the little kids like us.\"
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/28\/arts\/television\/28fron.html?ref=television
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Afghanistan is resistance magnet<\/b><\/u>
'If you want to join the jihad, go to Afghanistan.'
http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-taliban29-2008oct29,0,1646596.story
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U.S. goal: domination<\/b><\/u>
Like\r\nthe Clinton administration before it, and an Obama administration after\r\nit, the Bush team sought a strategic placement in an energy-rich region\r\nwhere the U.S. is squaring off against such rivals as Russia, Iran and\r\nChina.
http:\/\/socialistworker.org\/2008\/10\/30\/when-peace-talks-are-war-strategy



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\r\n\r\nIRAQ & SYRIA<\/b><\/u>
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U.S. raid on Syria emulates Israel<\/b><\/u>
[T]he\r\nconcept behind the raid appears to have borrowed from Israel, which\r\nlast September bombed the alleged site of a nuclear reactor in northern\r\nSyria.
http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/oct\/27\/syria-us-raid

Ordinary Syrians protest U.S. raid<\/b><\/u>
\"We want the Americans to stop their acts of terrorism in Syria, in Iraq and the rest of the world.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/10\/20081030101832817729.html

Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq denounces SOFA<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"[T]he\r\noccupiers will leave, therefore we consider the approval of this\r\nagreement and signature on it by any party will be considered as\r\ntreason and illegal because this agreement is coercive and humiliating.\"
http:\/\/www.uruknet.info\/?p=m48327&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Marines rely on police death squads in Ramadi<\/b><\/u>
Never\r\nmind that he wears a hatchet on his belt, a powerful reminder of the\r\nlegend of how the commander of the North Ramadi police district\r\nattained his post -- reportedly hacking to death members of Al Qaeda in\r\nIraq in the streets.
http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/usnews\/20081031\/ts_usnews\/iniraqusmarinesrelyonallieslikeahatchetwieldingcoloneltokeepthepeace
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Military's burn pit at Balad poisons thousands<\/b><\/u>
An\r\nopen-air \"burn pit\" at the largest U.S. base in Iraq may have exposed\r\ntens of thousands of troops, contractors and Iraqis to cancer-causing\r\ndioxins, poisons such as arsenic and carbon monoxide, and hazardous\r\nmedical waste. . . . Most large U.S. installations in Iraq, as well as\r\nAfghanistan, have burn pits.
http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2008\/10\/military_burnpit_102708w\/



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\r\nPALESTINE<\/b><\/u>
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Gaza hospitals lack medicine<\/b><\/u>
A crisis-level shortage of\r\ndrugs and spare parts for medical equipment and a two-month-old strike\r\nby health care workers have combined to add more misery to the lives of\r\nthe 1.5 million inhabitants of the impoverished Gaza Strip.
http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUKTRE49Q56F20081027

Palestinians denied visit to villages of ancestors<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\r\nGovernment\r\nsources said allowing the visit risks encouraging hundreds of thousands\r\nof Palestinian refugees to claim a right to return to the villages from\r\nwhich they were expelled in 1948.
http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20081027\/FOREIGN\/323045339\/1002\/rss

A Freedom Rider in Gaza City<\/b><\/u>
\r\nToday, the Free Gaza Movement has a simple message for the rest of the world: What are you waiting for?
http:\/\/counterpunch.org\/kysia10292008.html

The Executions at Kafr Qassem<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"In\r\nthe 1948 war, many people fled when faced with the Israeli army,\r\nexpecting to return after the fighting. After Kafr Qassem, Palestinians\r\nlearnt that Israel did not play by the rules of war. We learnt that\r\nsumud [steadfastness] was our only defence.\"
http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/cook10302008.html

P.A. is at Israel's beck and call<\/b><\/u>
\r\nUnder\r\nthe manifestly false rubric of \"restoring law and order,\" hundreds of\r\nAmerican-trained Palestinian troops have been rounding up Islamic\r\npolitical activists and suspected Hamas sympathizers in the Hebron\r\nregion. . . . Last week, a well-informed Israeli journalist wrote in\r\nHa'aretz that \"we give them the lists, and they do the rest.\"
http:\/\/www.uruknet.info\/?p=m48331&hd=&size=1&l=e
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AFRICA<\/u>
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Nigeria: Trial gets underway in human rights case against Chevron<\/b><\/u>
San\r\nRamon, Calif.-based Chevron used company helicopters to fly\r\n\"notoriously brutal\" Nigerian troops to the oil platform, where they\r\nkilled and injured unarmed protesters. Other protesters were arrested\r\nand tortured.
http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-chevron29-2008oct29,0,693282.story

Somalia: Millions suffer from U.S.-backed invasion<\/b><\/u>
\r\nThe\r\nviolence has killed nearly 10,000 civilians and an unknown number of\r\ncombatants since the start of last year. More than a million people\r\nhave been driven from their homes.
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/world\/international-us-somalia-blasts.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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\r\nLATIN AMERICA<\/b><\/u>

Colombia: U.S. support sharply increases death squads' toll<\/b><\/u>
\"If\r\nwe are receiving aid and vetting from a government in Washington that\r\nvalidates torture, then what kind of results can one expect?\"
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/30\/world\/americas\/30colombia.html?hp
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Bolivia: Government suspends U.S.-backed \"antidrug\" espionage<\/b><\/u>
\"There were D.E.A. agents who worked to conduct political espionage and to fund criminal groups.\"
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/02\/world\/americas\/02bolivia.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
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\r\nDOMESTIC REPRESSION AND INJUSTICE<\/b><\/u>
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Inquiry targeted 2,000 foreign Muslims in 2004<\/b><\/u>
[N]ew guidelines\r\nwill allow federal investigators to make targets of Muslims, Middle\r\nEasterners and others without evidence of links to terrorist groups.
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/31\/us\/31inquire.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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Judge demands information on torture<\/b><\/u>
[A]ll\r\nhis confessions were made after \"he was tortured again and again and\r\nagain until he just parroted what his torturers wanted him to say.\"
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/31\/us\/31gitmo.html?ref=world

Citizenship often determines who gets medical care<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"We do not pay for chronic care for illegal immigrants.\"
http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-dialysis29-2008oct29,0,2166155.story
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U.S. prison-industrial complex<\/b><\/u>
About\r\n\"500,000 persons are locked up for drug offenses in any one day\" in\r\nthis country. . . . But the war has arguably had little discernible\r\neffect on either supply or demand.
http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/28\/AR2008102801352.html
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\r\nANTIWAR MOVEMENT<\/b><\/u>

GI Resistance: A soldier's conscience<\/b><\/u>
\"I\r\njoined because I was poor, to put it simply. . . . When a woman and\r\nchild are killed in Afghanistan, we pay them in rice and goats. A lot\r\nof humanitarian aid missions went like that.\"
http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/richmond_southdelta\/southdeltaleader\/lifestyles\/33070554.html
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GI Resistance: Iraq War resister details severe abuse as deportation date approaches<\/b><\/u>
\"I\r\nfeel that the army will be particularly harsh on me because I have\r\nspoken out about my opinions and because I am publicly on record as\r\nbeing a war resister.\"
http:\/\/www.londontopic.ca\/article.php?artid=11345

Antiwar Labor: Union locals embrace a call for a antiwar strike<\/b><\/u>
\r\nOne\r\nresolution was written for the national convention of the American\r\nFederation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). . . .\r\nThe second resolution was addressed to the annual convention of the\r\nWashington State Labor Council (WSLC).
http:\/\/www.socialism.com\/fsarticles\/vol29no5\/general_strike.html
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