NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War NYCLAW Antiwar Digest December 10, 2008 NYCLAW Website <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/> http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/ <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/> Subscribe to NYCLAW Listserv <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/subscribe-to-nyclaw-listserv/> http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/subscribe-to-nyclaw-listserv/ <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/subscribe-to-nyclaw-listserv/> Past Editions <http://nyclawantiwarbulletin.wordpress.com/> http://nyclawantiwarbulletin.wordpress.com/ <http://nyclawantiwarbulletin.wordpress.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------\ ---------- CONTENTS *36 DAYS AFTER *AFGHANISTAN *IRAQ *PALESTINE ------------------------------------------------------------------------\ ---------- 36 DAYS AFTER Real Lessons of the New Deal The bold reforms of Roosevelt's New Deal were spurred by widespread labor strikes and other militant actions soon after the honeymoon period was over. http://counterpunch.org/blum12032008.html <http://counterpunch.org/blum12032008.html> A Change of Tone, But Policy is Likely to Stay A difference in tone, then. But in policies, not a million miles from the chastened and cautious Bush Administration of the past year. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/bronwen_maddox/artic\ le5269766.ece <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/bronwen_maddox/arti\ cle5269766.ece> Is Barack a Secret Centrist? It's not that Obama, despite his unswervingly liberal record in the Senate, turns out to be a pragmatist. The point is he's pragmatic (so far) in one direction-rightward. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/856nzk\ tr.asp <http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/856nz\ ktr.asp> Rightwing Columnist David Brooks: Continuity We Can Believe In [H]e used all the right code words, speaking of integrating and rebalancing the nation's foreign policy capacities. . . . Obama and his team didn't invent this approach. But if they can put it into action, that would be continuity we can believe in. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/opinion/02brooks.html?ref=opinion <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/opinion/02brooks.html?ref=opinion> Playing Catch-Up with Barack Obama His two-phase strategy was simple: tantalise liberals with a prospect of real change and play centrist to the rest. . . . Such was the consistent message he bears responsibility for. Bear yours by organising and holding him to account. Whether Obama is angelic, demonic or human, we are still the change we seek, and it has an electoral mandate. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21352.htm <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21352.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------\ ---------- AFGHANISTAN Stratfor: Gates and Afghanistan "The most important aspect of keeping Gates on is . . . to try to replicate in Afghanistan what they did in Iraq." http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1201/p03s05-usfp.html <http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1201/p03s05-usfp.html> IVAW Member: Afghanistan Matters "I'm actively campaigning to include Afghanistan as part of IVAW's points of unity, but if the organization as a whole doesn't vote that through, I'm of course going to continue my organizing against the war in Iraq. But we have to understand that there are a lot of Afghanistan veterans who want to see immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan and reparations for the Afghan people, just as in Iraq." http://socialistworker.org/2008/12/04/challenging-myths-good-war <http://socialistworker.org/2008/12/04/challenging-myths-good-war> ------------------------------------------------------------------------\ ---------- IRAQ Common Ground for Defense Chief and Obama [W]hile Mr. Obama's most heartfelt supporters in the antiwar movement may have heard "end the war" as a promise to end the American troop presence in Iraq in 16 months. . . . [A]s many as 70,000 -- American troops will remain in support and training missions well into late 2011, and beyond, should the Iraqis invite them. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/washington/27gates.html?ref=worldspeci\ al <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/washington/27gates.html?ref=worldspec\ ial> SOFA So Disastrous [T]he 29 Sadrists, holding placards and chanting anti-occupation slogans inside parliament, represented the sentiments of most of the Iraqi people, who were not even shown a copy of the pacts before parliament approved them. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/28/iraq-middleeast <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/28/iraq-middleeast> Iraqis v. SOFA "The vast majority of Iraqis are against it," Ali al-Fadhily, an independent correspondent living in Baghdad, told Truthout. "But those in power realize that it is the US existence in Iraq that keeps them in power, and so they [were] keen on signing it as soon as possible regardless of its conflict with the interests of Iraq and its people." http://www.truthout.org/112808Z <http://www.truthout.org/112808Z> Muslim Scholars: Puppert Politicians Sold Out Iraq The vote yesterday was enough to assure the Iraqi people that the members who voted for the Convention has sold the people of Iraq to the occupier, but thank to God the sale was invalid, because they sold what they do not possess. http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m49433&hd=&size=1&l=e <http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m49433&hd=&size=1&l=e> US: Blackwater Used Grenades on unarmed Iraqis "None of the victims of this shooting was armed. None of them was an insurgent." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jtLfZVVNZF72Pzftxt21yz\ a9lVwAD94UPNKG1 <http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jtLfZVVNZF72Pzftxt21y\ za9lVwAD94UPNKG1> ------------------------------------------------------------------------\ ---------- PALESTINE Jewish settlers in Hebron shoot Palestinian men The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has released graphic video footage showing settlers fighting with Palestinians in Hebron and shooting two men at close range in the hours after a settler house was evacuated by police yesterday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/05/hebron-settlers-shooting-isr\ ael-palestinians <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/05/hebron-settlers-shooting-is\ rael-palestinians> Hebron Settler Riots Were Out and Out Pogroms An innocent Palestinian family, numbering close to 20 people. All of them women and children, save for three men. Surrounding them are a few dozen masked Jews seeking to lynch them. A pogrom. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043795.html <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043795.html> Israeli Police, Soldiers "Deeply Involved" in Hebron Settler Attacks When Israeli border police and soldiers in riot gear surprised the settlers occupying the Rajabi family house, only a handful were arrested. The rest of the 250 right-wing Israelis were turned loose into Hebron streets. They turned their rage on the Palestinians in the neighborhood. http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=33807 <http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=33807> Israeli Military Praises P.A. Commander's Collaboration in Hebron "He's a very serious guy. I'd happily take him into our army. . . . Any place near an Israeli settlement, we put a line on a map and they don't cross it." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/middleeast/26hebron.html?ref=wor\ ld <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/middleeast/26hebron.html?ref=wo\ rld> Livni: Mumbai Attackers Aren't Civilized Like Us Livni, without elaboration, blamed "Islamic extremists who don't accept our existence or Western values." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-indiaisrael29-2008no\ v29,0,440564.story <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-indiaisrael29-2008n\ ov29,0,440564.story> ------------------------------------------------------------------------\ ---------- NYCLAW LINKS NYCLAW Website <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/> http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/ <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/> About NYCLAW <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/about-nyclaw/> http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/about-nyclaw/ <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/about-nyclaw/> Contact NYCLAW <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/contact-nyclaw/> <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/nyclaw-button-end-the-occupation-of-iraq-\ bring-the-troops-home-now/> http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/contact-nyclaw/ <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/contact-nyclaw/> End the Occupation of Iraq -- Bring the Troops Home Now <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/nyclaw-button-end-the-occupation-of-iraq-\ bring-the-troops-home-now/> http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/nyclaw-button-end-the-occupation-of-iraq-b\ ring-the-troops-home-now/ <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/nyclaw-button-end-the-occupation-of-iraq-\ bring-the-troops-home-now/> Labor for Palestine <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/labor-for-palestine-logo/> http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/labor-for-palestine-logo/ <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/labor-for-palestine-logo/> Subscribe to NYCLAW Listserv <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/subscribe-to-nyclaw-listserv/> http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/subscribe-to-nyclaw-listserv/ <http://nyclaw01.wordpress.com/subscribe-to-nyclaw-listserv/> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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