2/10/2009: Daily Digest

Afghanistan:

• Former UN Human Rights Investigator Cherif Bassiouni:  Despite Obama Claims, No Military Solution for Afghanistan (Democracy Now!)

Gaza/Palestine/Israel:

• US Lawyers report on Israeli crimes in Gaza (Electronic Intifada)
• BBC’s “impartiality” anything but (Electronic Intifada)
• Gaza shakes American Arab and Muslim youth (Electronic Intifada)
• Israel and the politics of friendship (Electronic Intifada)
• Aid worker:  Gaza an “apocalypse” (Electronic Intifada)
• Palestinian boycott committee salutes S. African dock workers (Electronic Intifada)
• Hamas’ political victory (Electronic Intifada)
• Israeli army “subcontracted” by extremist settlers (Electronic Intifada)
• A real Arab peace initiative (Electronic Intifada)
• Report:  Palestinian groups executed, abused opponents (Electronic Intifada)
• The resistance option (Electronic Intifada)
• Hamas is not going away (Electronic Intifada)
• Israeli closures prevent import of aid, cement to Gaza (Electronic Intifada)
• After ceasefire, Gazans still don’t feel safe (Electronic Intifada)

Iraq:

• US-Backed Iraqi Security Gains Forged on Mass Death and Heightened Sectarian Divide (Democracy Now!)

War on Terror:

• Pratap Chatterjee on “Halliburton’s Army:  How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America makes War” (Democracy Now!)
• “Wired for War:  The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century” (Democracy Now!)
• Despite Celebrated Orders Closing Gitmo and Banning Torture, has Obama Kept Rendition Intact? (Democracy Now!)

U.S.:

• Economist James Galbraith:  Bailed-Out Banks Should Be Declared Insolvent (Democracy Now!)
• Ahead of Senate Vote, Obama Warns of “Catastrophe” Without Economic Stimulus (Democracy Now!)
• Utah Student Who Thwarted Auction of Utah Wildnerness Hails Cencellation of bush Admin Selloff (Democracy Now!)
• Should Economic Stimulus Bill Include Billions for Nuclear Power? (Democracy now!)

~ by peaceseeker99 on February 11, 2009.