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Inspiring Participatory Democracy: Student Movements from Port Huron to Today
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Published by Tom Hayden, The Peace Exchange Bulletin is a reader-supported journal, critically following the Pentagon's Long War in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, as well as the failed U.S. wars on drugs and gangs, and U.S. military responses to nationalism and poverty around the world.
The Canadian commander of Canada’s largest airbase has been imprisoned for life after the rape-murders of two women and 82 incidents of “fetish break-and-enters” in which he dressed up in stolen women’s undergarments.
While it is significant that Canada will end its combat role in Afghanistan next year [unlike the U.S. commitment until 2014], it is disheartening that both the Conservative and Liberal parties have agreed to stay in a “training” role indefinitely.
Please read, sign and circulate this petition against the Afghanistan War. This is urgent because peace groups in America, Canada and Europe want to state our opposition to the plan being proposed by President Obama to NATO on Friday in Lisbon. The plan for four more years of combat has been called “a victory for the military” by the New York Times. Only public opposition and pressure may cause the President and NATO to shorten their timelines for withdrawing our troops and launching a diplomatic exit strategy.
Persistent waffling on dates for American troop withdrawals has eroded any remaining patience with the Obama White House among peace activists and voters, a majority of whom favors a timeline for US troop withdrawals.
As a result of the Republican takeover of the House, hard-line right-wingers like Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Connie Mack will lead key committees and sub-committees for the next two years. Any hopes to improve US relations with the new nationalist and democratic regimes of Latin America have dimmed sharply.
President Obama’s visit to India last week further cemented the US alliance with Hindu-dominated India in its long proxy war over Afghanistan against Muslim Pakistan.
It depends on many factors – message, morale at the base, candidates, the economy – but results of the November 4 election strongly suggest that Barack Obama might win the popular vote but lose the Presidency in the electoral college in 2012.
The results from California make me proud to be a progressive Democrat.
The November election was a setback for the peace movement, not only because of the defeat of Sen. Russ Feingold but for deeper reasons. Both parties collaborated in keeping Afghanistan out of the national election debate and media coverage – while during the period June-November alone, 274 American soldiers were killed and 2,911 were wounded on the battlefield.
In a sharp blow to the Western alliance, the hawkish French government of Nicolas Sarkozy announced it would withdraw all 3,500 troops from Afghanistan beginning in 2011. [CSM, Oct. 28] The Sarkozy withdrawal announcement came after a taped threat from Osama bin Laden to pull out of Afghanistan and stop oppressing Muslims in France.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 2:29PM