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POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Sept. 6 2016 Obama Unlikely to Vow No First Use of Nuclear Weapons By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD President Obama, who has weighed ruling out a first use of a nuclear weapon in a conflict, appears likely to abandon the proposal after top national security advisers argued that it could undermine allies and embolden Russia and China, according to several senior administration officials. Mr. Obama considers a reduction in the role of nuclear weapons as critical to his legacy. But he has been chagrined to hear critics, including some former senior aides, argue that the administration’s second-term nuclear modernization plans, costing up to $1 trillion in coming decades, undermine commitments he made in 2009. For months, arms control advocates have argued for a series of steps to advance the pledge he made to pursue “a world without nuclear weapons.” An unequivocal no-first-use pledge would have been the boldest of those measures. They contend that as a practical matter no American president would use a nuclear weapon when so many other options are available. Former Defense Secretary William J. Perry said in a recent interview, “It’s the right time,” noting that the pledge would formalize what has been America’s unspoken policy for decades. But in the end, Mr. Obama seems to have sided with his current advisers, who warned in meetings culminating this summer that a no-first-use declaration would rattle allies like Japan and South Korea. Those nations are concerned about discussion of an American pullback from Asia prompted by comments made by the Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump. Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and Secretary of State John Kerry also expressed concern that new moves by Russia and China, from the Baltic to the South China Sea, made it the wrong time to issue the declaration, according to senior aides in the Defense and State Departments. Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz, whose department oversees the nuclear arsenal, joined in the objections, administration officials confirmed. The New York Times interviewed more than a half-dozen administration officials involved in or briefed on the nuclear debate. All insisted on anonymity to describe internal administration deliberations on nuclear strategy. The United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II in 1945 — the only example in history of a first use, or any use, of nuclear weapons in warfare. Almost every president since Harry S. Truman has made it clear that nuclear weapons would be used only as a last resort, so the pledge would have largely ratified unwritten policy. Administration officials confirmed that the question of changing the policy on first use had come up repeatedly this summer as a way for Mr. Obama to show that his commitment to reducing the role of nuclear weapons in American strategy — and thus the risk of nuclear exchanges — was more than rhetorical. But the arguments in front of the president himself were relatively brief, officials said, apparently because so many senior aides objected. Mr. Carter argued that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, could interpret a promise of no first use as a sign of American weakness, even though that was not the intent. The defense secretary’s position was supported by Mr. Kerry and Mr. Moniz, two architects of the Iran nuclear deal, who cautioned that such a declaration could unnerve American allies already fearful that America’s nuclear umbrella cannot be relied upon. Mr. Trump talked explicitly in interviews about withdrawing military forces from Asia unless Tokyo and Seoul paid more for their presence, and said in March that he was willing to see them build their own nuclear arsenals rather than depend on Washington. According to one senior administration official, Mr. Kerry told Mr. Obama that a no-first-use pledge would also weaken the nuclear deterrent while Russia is running practice bombing runs over Europe and China is expanding its reach in the South China Sea. Mr. Obama and his national security team have rejected a second option: “de-alerting” nuclear missiles ready to fire on short notice. The fear is that in a crisis, “re-alerting” the weapons could escalate a conflict. Earlier, Mr. Obama and his aides also decided against eliminating one element of the “triad” of land-, air- and submarine-launched weapons. The idea was to remove the missiles based in silos across the American West, which are considered outdated and vulnerable to a first strike.
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POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Apr. 13 2016 Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, Task Force Finds By MONICA DAVEY and MITCH SMITH CHICAGO — Racism has contributed to a long, systemic pattern of institutional failures by this city’s police department in which police officers have mistreated people, operated without sufficient oversight, and lost the trust of residents, a task force assigned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel has found. The report, issued on Wednesday, was blistering, blunt and backed up by devastating statistics. Coincidentally, it was released as city leaders were installing a new, permanent superintendent for the Chicago Police Department. “The community’s lack of trust in CPD is justified,” the task force wrote. “There is substantial evidence that people of color — particularly African-Americans — have had disproportionately negative experiences with the police over an extended period of time.” The report gives validation to complaints made for years by African-American residents here who have said they were unfairly targeted by officers without justification on a regular basis. It raises the pressure on Mr. Emanuel and other Chicago leaders to make significant changes at a pivotal time for the nation’s second largest municipal police force, which has been under intense fire from residents and under scrutiny from the federal authorities. It includes more than 100 recommendations for change. The task force amassed data that shows the extent to which African-Americans appear to have been targeted. In a city where whites, blacks and Hispanics each make up about one-third of the population, 74 percent of the 404 people shot by the Chicago police between 2008 and 2015 were black, the report said. Black people were targeted in 72 percent of thousands of investigative street stops that did not lead to arrests during a recent summer. Three out of four — 76 percent — of people on whom Chicago police officers used Taser guns between 2012 and 2015 were black. And black people made up 46 percent of police traffic stops in 2013. “CPD’s own data gives validity to the widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color,” according to the report, a draft summary of which was first reported in The Chicago Tribune on Tuesday afternoon. “Stopped without justification, verbally and physically abused, and in some instances arrested, and then detained without counsel — that is what we heard about over and over again,” the task force wrote. The stinging findings come at a particularly troublesome time here, as violent crimes have increased this year and as police morale is reported to have sunk. The task force was given its assignment late last year, after the release of a graphic dashcam video showing a white Chicago police officer, Jason Van Dyke, fatally shooting a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, along a Chicago street. Widespread protests followed, and Mr. Emanuel fired the city’s police superintendent, who was officially replaced on Wednesday by his choice, Eddie Johnson, a longtime officer who is black. The Justice Department has since announced an investigation into the department’s patterns and practices, which is still underway. The task force members — chosen by Mr. Emanuel — were racially diverse, with professional backgrounds in social work, law and government. Lori Lightfoot, the president of the Chicago Police Board, was chairwoman of the group, and the panel was advised by Deval Patrick, the former Massachusetts governor who spent part of his childhood in Chicago. The other members were Randolph Stone, a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago; Sergio E. Acosta, a former federal prosecutor; Victor Dickson, who leads an organization that helps former inmates; Joseph Ferguson, Chicago’s inspector general; Maurice Classen, a former prosecutor; Alexa James, a licensed clinical social worker; and Sybil Madison-Boyd, a psychologist who works with urban youth. On Wednesday, before the report was released, Mr. Emanuel said he had not yet seen it, but that his “general attitude” was to be “open to look at everything they say.” Mr. Emanuel said he was not surprised by the suggestion of racism, and that he wanted to work through those issues. “I don’t really think you need a task force to know that we have racism in America, we have racism in Illinois or that there’s racism that exists in the city of Chicago and obviously could be in our department,” Mr. Emanuel said. He added: “The question is: ‘what are we going to do to confront it and make the changes in
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POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Dec. 22 2014 Former Milwaukee Police Officer Won’t Be Charged in Death of Black Man in Park By MONICA DAVEY A former Milwaukee police officer will not face charges in the fatal shooting of a black man he encountered in a park earlier this year, a prosecutor announced on Monday. In recent demonstrations there, protesters asserted that the shooting was another example of needless force against black men by police officers. John T. Chisholm, the Milwaukee County district attorney, said the officer, Christopher Manney, who is white, was justified on April 30 when he shot at Dontre Hamilton, who, the prosecutor said, had grabbed the officer’s baton and was swinging it at him. The officer fired numerous times, killing Mr. Hamilton. “The use of deadly force against Dontre Hamilton was not a choice P.O. Manney made voluntarily, but was instead a defensive action forced upon him by Dontre Hamilton’s deadly attack with a police baton,” Mr. Chisholm wrote in a 25-page report released on Monday and quoting an independent “use of force” expert who reviewed the case for the prosecutor. For months, supporters in Milwaukee had called for charges against Officer Manney, who was fired from the city police force after the shooting. Anger over the case gained momentum in Milwaukee after the mounting protests that followed the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York City. Officials in Wisconsin have said the state’s National Guard have been alerted to the possibility of larger protests after more than 70 people were arrested during a weekend demonstration that blocked an Interstate highway. In the April shooting, Mr. Chisholm said that the officer appeared to have fired 13 or 14 shots in about three or four seconds, a point that many demonstrators decried as unnecessary. To that, Mr. Chisholm wrote in his report, again quoting from the independent expert, “The more difficult issue is whether P.O. Manney fired more shots than necessary, or continued firing after he could reasonably perceive that Hamilton was clearly no longer a threat.” Mr. Chisholm had turned to Emanuel Kapelsohn, of the Peregrine Corporation, who he described as a leading national expert in use of force reviews. According to Mr. Kapelsohn’s findings, “The wound locations and wound paths through the deceased’s body are consistent with shots fired at an attacker who is first advancing toward the officer, then turning and falling. While, as can be expected, the many witnesses to this event give varying accounts of what they saw and heard, several witnesses with the best, closest views of what occurred have stated that P.O. Manney stopped firing when Hamilton fell to the ground, and Manney did not continue firing after that point.” _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
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POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/nyregion/grand-jury-said-to-bring-no-charges-in-staten-island-chokehold-death-of-eric-garner.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
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POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 12/03/2014 03:37 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: U Albany students here are out blocking traffic. Big protest in Albany tomorrow. It strikes me that the ruling class may be approaching an Enron moment. They will have to make an example out some cop, hoping to quiet this growing movement. Jon Flanders http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/nyregion/grand-jury-said-to-bring-no-charges-in-staten-island-chokehold-death-of-eric-garner.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/jonathan.flanders%40verizon.net _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
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POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Another grand jury, this on in New York City, and another murderer goes uncharged. It doesn't matter what place, big city or small town, liberal town like Portland, OR or conservative town like Pittsburgh, whether a black person has a good job or a bad one, whether you are a criminal or not, whether you are young or old, the insidious white disease of racism goes on and on and on and on. Just like war. How can we expect this to end through the kinds of marginal changes the politicians and media keep recommending. It's all blah, blah, blah. But I have a feeling that the horrible heartbreak engendered by these killings is generating more and more rage, that we are seeing the resurgence of a black liberation struggle. One that will combine many different but connected tactics, build a cohesive strategy, encourage alliances with kindred spirits while maintaining its independence, learn from the successes and failures of the past, develop programs that benefit people in the here and now, including collective self-help economic programs, challenge the police forcefully, and many other things as well. And as this movement is built, I think we will see eyes opening to the connections between it and the sickening system of warmaking, imperialism, and profit obsession that is intimately connected to the oppression of black, Hispanic, and other minority peoples. Something to embrace and support as best we can. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
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POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * - Original Message -From: michael yates via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu But I have a feeling that the horrible heartbreak engendered by these killings is generating more and more rage, that we are seeing the resurgence of a black liberation struggle. One that will combine many different but connected tactics, build a cohesive strategy, encourage alliances with kindred spirits while maintaining its independence, learn from the successes and failures of the past, Sure hope so, but see this: http://www.beyondchron.org/local-ferguson-protests-effective/ SR _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
