COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT GOES ON IN GAZA.(Electronic Intifada)
(Khaled Omar/Xinhua)
Israeli forces, in “retaliation” for rocket launches against Israel, apparently by individuals not associated with Hamas government, attack an alleged terrorist plotter on his motorcycle south of Gaza City, killing the man and one bystander. One international “humanitarian relief” convoy was allowed in the country, but human rights organizations claim that Israel is continuing to practice collective punishment against Gaza, a violation of international law.
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TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN HAS U.S. AND NATO FORCES EXACTLY WHERE IT WANTS THEM: IN A PROTRACTED WAR. (Counterpunch)
Rather than standing and fighting (and being defeated) as coalition forces had intended with their “surge” of operations, the Taliban uses mine warfare to create a battlefield atmosphere of terror and self-defensiveness among coalition troops. The increase in causalities (deaths but especially those wounded) is creating conditions of demoralization among counter-insurgency forces; and the longer the conflict goes on, the more severe this effect becomes.
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AUSTERITY MEASURES: SAME STORY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE POND. (The Independent)
As U.S. President freezes wages of federal workers and local governments throughout the country, faced with budget deficits, are laying off public service workers, the same dynamic is working its way out in the U.K. The city of the low-income city Manchester, faced with new level of stinginess of U.K. government in funding, is now threatening to reduce by 2000 the number of its “council” employees.
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“TENSIONS ARE VERY HIGH IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK CITY.” (In These Times)
Conflict is growing between public and private sector unions, as those in the public sector seek to preserve their employment and their benefits, while some in the construction unions oppose the aspirations of public sector employees, saying that public money spent on pensions and other benefits for public employers subtract from public treasuries the funds needed to make construction contracts to bring jobs for workers. There may yet be elements of labor solidarity in the city, but it is being severely tested by recessionary economic conditions.
MIKE CULLISON JUST WANTED TO BE ONE OF THE BOYS WHEN HE UTTERED THE N-WORD; INSTEAD HE BECAME ONE OF THE UNEMPLOYED. (Orlando Sentinel)
Seminole FL football coach put on indefinite suspension after he made an offhanded and uncharacteristic remark which was reported to school officials by an assistant coach.
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Quote of the day...
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted by article in which Glen Ford asserts that MLK could today challenge Barack Obama on issues such as war, education reform and mass black incarceration, rather than laying a “blanket of protection” around him.
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