Prospects in the Middle East + UK recognises China’s direct rule over Tibet

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6 November 2008

1) Prospects in the Middle East

2) UK recognises China’s direct rule over Tibet

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http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/?view=Speech&id=8620160

excerpt from ‘Prospects in the Middle East‘

Speech by UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband

Annual Lunch of Labour Friends of Israel, Whitehall, London, 4 November 2008

[W]hat we have not had before is an Iranian nuclear programme that poses a threat not just to Israel but to the stability of the entire Middle East. And that makes the case for a comprehensive approach that much more urgent. We must ensure that the unfinished business of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world is not a barrier to dealing properly with the Iranian nuclear issue.

We have made Iran serious offers of engagement, reintegration, and support with civilian nuclear capacity, if they halt their enrichment-related activities as required by five UN Security Council Resolutions. Tehran should be in no doubt that unless they stop enriching uranium we will continue to step-up the pressure. In this, we need to work closely with Israel, and we will, not least through the Strategic Dialogue established between our two countries. But we also need to work with Iran’s Arab neighbours. The rhetoric of President Ahmedinejad is directed against Israel. The support for Hamas and Hizbollah is directed against Israel. But there is a growing awareness that Iran’s nuclear programme poses a threat to regional stability and therefore to all countries in the region.

I don’t underestimate the scale of the challenge or the size of the task. As Prime Minister Olmert said recently this opportunity “is limited in time – a time so short as to cause terrible distress”. But the scale of the challenge is what makes our engagement – all of our engagement, in Government, in Parliament, in business, in civil society, in strong and proud organisations like LFI [Labour Friends of Israel] – all the more necessary.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/tibet/3385803/UK-recognises-Chinas-direct-rule-over-Tibet.html

excerpts from ‘UK recognises China’s direct rule over Tibet’

by Richard Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 5 November 2008

A historic change of position to recognise Chinese sovereignty [over Tibet] was announced in a little-noticed parliamentary statement by the Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

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Critics are already asking what Beijing offered – or was asked for – in return.

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* editorial note:  Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s statement to Parliament

Government black boxes will ‘collect every email’ (UK)

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By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Home Office says all data from web could be stored in giant government database

Internet “black boxes” will be used to collect every email and web visit in the UK under the Government’s plans for a giant “big brother” database, The Independent has learnt.

Home Office officials have told senior figures from the internet and telecommunications industries that the “black box” technology could automatically retain and store raw data from the web before transferring it to a giant central database controlled by the Government.

Plans to create a database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit made in the UK have provoked a huge public outcry. Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, described it as “step too far” and the Government’s own terrorism watchdog said that as a “raw idea” it was “awful”.

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“It was clear the ‘black box’ is the technology the Government will use to hold all the data. But what isn’t clear is what the Home Secretary, GCHQ and the security services intend to do with all this information in the future,” said a source close to the meeting.

He added: “They said they only wanted to return to a position they were in before the emergence of internet communication, when they were able to monitor all correspondence with a police suspect. The difference here is they will be in a much better position to spy on many more people on the basis of their internet behaviour. Also there’s a grey area between what is content and what is traffic. Is what is said in a chat room content or just traffic?”

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via Government black boxes will ‘collect every email’ – Home News, UK – The Independent

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Elite combat brigade for homeland security missions raises ire of ACLU

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By Erin Rosa
http://coloradoindependent.com
11/2/08

In the next three years the military plans to activate and train an estimated 4,700 service members for specialized domestic operations, according to Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of U.S. Northern Command, which was created in 2002 for homeland defense missions.

The comments, made at the annual National Homeland Defense and Security Symposium in Colorado Springs last week, reveal more details about the recent stationing of active military personnel inside United States borders for what officials say is a mission centering around responding to catastrophic emergencies.

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Military representatives claim that the unit, now referred to as the Consequence Management Response Force, is only supposed to assist in responding to terrorist attacks or natural disasters, but that hasn’t stopped numerous civil liberties advocates from speculating just how closely the military will be involved with law enforcement issues falling under a state’s jurisdiction.

“This isn’t a military police brigade or a civil affairs brigade. This is actually a combat brigade being assigned a domestic mission,” said Mike German, national security counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union’s legislative office in Washington., D.C.

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via Colorado Independent » Elite combat brigade for homeland security missions raises ire of ACLU

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ACLU Demands Information On Military Deployment Within U.S. Borders

Militarization of the American Homeland: Suppression of “Civil Disturbances” by Tom Burghardt

Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out “Crowd Control” by Naomi Wolf

Is Posse Comitatus Dead? US Troops on US Streets

Militarizing the “Homeland”: NORTHCOM’s Joint Task Force-Civil Support by Tom Burghardt

Pre-election Militarization of the North American Homeland. US Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to “help with civil unrest”

The End of America (full video; Naomi Wolf)

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A Look Under the Hood at the (Potential) Obama Administration

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by Joshua Frank
Dissident Voice
November 6th, 2008

Tuesday’s celebration hangovers have finally started to wear off, and the pieces are beginning to fall into place. Change will be coming to Washington in January, but it is difficult to decipher what form it will take. Early clues, however, suggest that Barack Obama’s administration will prove unlikely to alter the fundamental political machinery that has led us into war and economic turmoil. Below is a brief summary of Obama’s potential choices for a few key roles in his administration.

The Last Ride on the Straight Talk Express By Mike Whitney

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By Mike Whitney
November 06, 2008 “Information Clearinghouse”

In the end, all the fear-mongering and mud-slinging amounted to nothing. On Tuesday night, the McCain campaign fizzled out on the front lawn of the Biltmore Hotel in front of 7,000 downcast Republican loyalists. “Big Mac”–as the Arizona senator likes to call himself–made a gracious concession speech and offered congratulations to newly-elected President Barack Obama, but his words were drowned out by the boos and cat-calls rising from the crowd. The same acrimony and viciousness which characterized the entire campaign, dragged on to the very end. McCain ran the dirtiest campaign in recent memory and his attempt to cover it over with a few uplifting platitudes won’t save his reputation from lasting damage. At no point, did McCain try to stay above the fray or address the central issues of war, economic stagnation or the financial crisis. Instead, he chose the low road at every turn invoking Karl Rove’s Swift boat tactics by focusing all his attention on Reverend Jeremiah Wright, ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi—anything to avoid a real debate on the issues or exposing a party platform which features just two worn planks; tax cuts and war. That’s what made McCain the perfect choice for the GOP, because he embodies the ideologically-muddled worldview that pervades the party’s core doctrine. Today’s Republican party is a rudderless ship drifting in an open sea. Everything it once held dear–fiscal conservatism, small government, non intervention, civil liberties–has been jettisoned for the sake of staying in power and rewarding its constituents. McCain is just the last in a long line of Pharisees and opportunists who hide behind their lapel-pins and faux patriotism so they can smear their enemies with impunity while gorging themselves at the public trough. The 2008 campaign should prove, once and for all, that the only thing that really matters to McCain is winning. His attacks on Obama were sleazy and vindictive. But he lost anyway. He disgraced himself for nothing.

The Sarah Palin choice was a cynical attempt to trivialize the process by turning the election into a public relations scam. No one from either party thought that the shotgun-toting fundamentalist was the most qualified candidate. It was pure theater conjured by poll-driven advisers who were desperate to create some kind of “buzz” around the faltering campaign. Palin not only brought energy and charisma, but also the possibility of attracting angry Hillary Clinton supporters and independents, which was the original intention. But the whole matter was badly bungled. Instead of using Palin to reach out to centrist voters, she was dispatched to conservative backwaters where she served up hearty portions of red meat to the base. What a waste. An ABC survey showed that a significant number of independents and conservatives were turned off by Palin’s antics and shifted their votes from McCain to Obama after she was added to the ticket. Palin became just another albatross on a sinking ship.

Of course, McCain was a long-shot anyway given his voting record and his close ties to his ideological twin, George Bush. Dick Cheney’s endorsement didn’t help either; it just gave the Comedy Central gang more material for lambasting him and rehashing the last eight years of failed Republican policy. But what really killed McCain was his appalling lack of leadership on the economy, an area where he is clearly out of his depth. Instead of convening a group of experts who could help him improvise a plan for dealing with the growing unemployment, the rising foreclosures and the daily gyrations in the stock market; he decided to suspend his campaign and rush off to Washington to affix his signature to the most unpopular piece of legislation in the last half century, Paulson’s $700 billion banker’s bailout. McCain’s political gamesmanship cost him dearly; fiscal conservatives across the country vowed that they would never support any candidate who voted for the bill. From that point on, McCain’s ruminations on the economy were limited to attacks on Obama “the socialist” or sentimental palavering over the near-mythic Joe the plumber, who, oddly enough, became the centerpiece of McCain’s fight for the White House. McCain would have been better off making constructive recommendations for calming the markets or alleviating the suffering on Main Street, instead of trying to convince the public of his deep admiration for the proletariat. It just made him look like a phony.

In truth, McCain is simply out of touch with everyday Americans and the troubles they face. He doesn’t realize that the recession has changed the political landscape totally; that people don’t want to hear the usual demagoguery and character assassination. He’s just out of step with the times. Like the French poet Rimbaud said, “One must be absolutely contemporary.” McCain’s time has passed.

The saddest moment in the McCain campaign took place on the last day of a 9-city blitz; an ordeal that was clearly too much for the 72 year old veteran. McCain was at the podium, as usual, blasting away at Obama; waving his fist at the sky and fulminating in full-throat like Pentecostal preacher while his eyes flickered in their sockets like the shutters on a broken camera. It was quite a spectacle. All the while the crowd kept milling around nervously like they were watching their revered elderly uncle slip slowly into dementia. It was a bit like the closing scene in Stanley Kramer’s classic “Inherit the Wind” when the disoriented William Jennings Bryan exhorted his flock to join his struggle against pernicious liberalism and godless atheism and follow him to the promised land. There was clearly a touch of madness in McCain’s behavior; the old guy is losing it. Imagine a guy like that with his hand on the big Red Switch!

Less than 24 hours later, the Straight Talk Express ran aground in sun-baked Phoenix ending McCain’s life-long ambition to become the President of the United States.

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Election Returns (links) + Obama wins + McCain Concession Speech

The World After Bush

Is Redistribution Really All That Bad? Obama’s Little Red Book By Mike Whitney

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse

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Palin-Sarah

Obama-Barack

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I.O.U.S.A.: The 30-Minute Version

By now, you may have heard about our acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A., a film that boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. The film has been a huge hit, getting rave reviews from Roger Ebert and others.

Now, we proudly release a 30-minute condensed version of I.O.U.S.A. designed specifically for watching and sharing on the web – for free.

So if you haven’t had a chance to see the movie yet, watch the condensed I.O.U.S.A. today. If you’ve already seen it in a theater, check out the abbreviated version for a refresher. Then, tell your friends, your family, your Facebook friends and your Twitter followers about the staggering amount of money – $53 trillion – in financial obligations owed by the federal government to foreign investors and to every single American in the form of pensions, health benefits, Social Security and Medicare.

Then, visit www.IOUSAtheMovie.com and join us in our Fiscal Wake-Up Movement. Together, we can make American fiscal responsibility a reality.

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Kucinich debates O’Reilly

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Mosaic News – 11/5/08: World News from the Middle East

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“Obama: A View from the Middle East,” Link TV, USA
“Mixed Reactions in Iraq After Obama Wins,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“Obama’s Victory = Equality,” Dubai TV, UAE
“Syrians Reflect on U.S. Election,” Abu Dhabi TV, UAE
“Who is Barack Hussein Obama?” Al-Alam TV, Iran
“No Change From DC,’ Syria TV, Syria
“Will Obama Change Policy on Middle East?” Saudi TV, Saudi Arabia
“A Message to Obama,” IBA TV, Israel
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The World After Bush

Class divisions begin to emerge in Obama coalition

Obama advisers discuss preparations for war on Iran

US air raid kills Afghan civilians + Afghanistan’s expectations of Obama

WIBDI: What If Bush Did It? A Prism for the New Paradigm by Chris Floyd

Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech Nov. 4, 2008

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World Economic Crisis

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By Alan Woods
In Defence of Marxism
Tuesday, 04 November 2008

Alan Woods speaks to a meeting of Socialist Appeal supporters on the financial crisis that is spreading across the globe like an epidemic. He points out that while there is a swing to the right at the top, there is a swing to the left at the bottom of society. Governments have rallied round to defend the banks while they continue to cut living standards. All this is having a profound effect on consciousness.

Part 1 mp3

Part 2 mp3

Or listen at In Defence of Marxism – [Audio] World Economic Crisis

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Turkey, Lebanon sign cooperation deal on terrorism and crime

compiled by Cem Ertür
featured writer
Dandelion Salad
6 November 2008

1) Turkey, Lebanon sign cooperation deal on terrorism and crime

2) Welcoming new UNSC members: Turkey

3) Livni to Turkish minister: Security Council’s activity on Iran; not enough

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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10275918.asp?scr=1

excerpt from ‘Turkey, Lebanon sign cooperation deal on terrorism and crime’

Hurriyet, 4 November 2008

The deal, details of which were not disclosed, was inked after talks between prime ministers, Fuad Siniora of Lebanon, and Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.

Siniora thanked Ankara for its recently intensified efforts to resolve long-standing conflicts in the Middle East.

“Turkey has a very important role to play in the Middle East. Turkey is already doing that by encouraging cooperation in the region,” the Anatolian Agency quoted him as saying.

“We want to see a Middle East that has been denuclearized. Nuclear energy should be utilized for peaceful goals,” Siniora said.

“Supporting terror will hurt the whole region and not just a single geographic location. The support of terror can not be justified with any religion,” he added.

“Relations between Lebanon and Syria must take place by respecting the mutual independence of each other. Based on such understanding, Lebanese ministers may visit their counterparts in Syria,” Siniora said when asked whether he will pay a visit to Syria.

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http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=157719

excerpts from ‘Welcoming new UNSC members: Turkey’

by Ross Wilson (*), Today’s Zaman, 4 November 2008

People worldwide are wondering right now how a new administration will affect US foreign policy. But even as we await the results of the election, there is no doubt that the United States will continue to bring the most pressing issues facing international security to the UN Security Council. It is in that context that we welcome Turkey’s recent election for a two-year term on the council.

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While we cannot predict where crises might arise, several issues of recent concern will clearly be important. Perhaps most urgent among those issues is Iran’s continuing defiance of the council’s will regarding its nuclear program… We look forward to continued close work with Turkey to maintain the international focus on this issue.

*Ross Wilson is the ambassador of the United States of America to Turkey.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3615347,00.html

Livni to Turkish minister: Security Council’s activity on Iran; not enough

by Roni Sofer, Jerusalem Post, 30 October 2008

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met with Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül on Thursday. She praised the strategic cooperation between the two countries and emphasized the importance of international treatment of the Iranian threat.

Livni said that the United Nations Security Council’s activity regarding Iran is not enough and expressed her discontentment with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Turkey.

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The World After Bush

Obama advisers discuss preparations for war on Iran

The End of International Law? By Robert Dreyfuss

Turkey wins race for seat on UN Security Council

President Gul: Turkey is nobody’s launching pad

Class divisions begin to emerge in Obama coalition

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by Jerry White, Socialist Equality Party 2008 Presidential Candidate
http://www.wsws.org
6 November 2008

Barack Obama won the US presidential election Tuesday riding a wave of popular opposition to the Bush administration and the Republican Party. Tens of millions of voters delivered a massive repudiation of the politics of social reaction that have dominated America for decades.

The “Obama coalition,” however, is fraught with contradictions. The majority of those who voted for Obama want an end to social inequality, the erosion of democratic rights and militarism. Yet, despite Obama’s rhetoric about uniting “Main Street and Wall Street” and “the rich and the poor,” he is committed to defending the interests of the most powerful sections of the American corporate elite.

The Democratic Party is already seeking to dampen popular expectations about the incoming administration. Obama suggested this himself in his victory speech in Chicago, when he said, “The road ahead will be long…We may not get there in one year or even one term…There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as president, and we know that government can’t solve every problem.”

Leading Democrats have lined up to insist that it would be wrong to interpret the election as a mandate for substantial changes in policy. Instead, they are saying the next administration will have to rule from the “center” and rely on a bipartisan alliance with the Republicans.

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Obama’s selection for White House chief of staff—Rahm Emanuel, the chairman of the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives—gives an indication of the reactionary social types he is assembling for his administration. As a senior advisor to former President Bill Clinton, he championed law-and-order, “welfare reform” and other reactionary measures aimed at disassociating the Democrats from the liberal reforms of the past.

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via Class divisions begin to emerge in Obama coalition

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The World After Bush

Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech Nov. 4, 2008

WIBDI: What If Bush Did It? A Prism for the New Paradigm by Chris Floyd

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse

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Obama advisers discuss preparations for war on Iran

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By Peter Symonds
http://www.wsws.org
6 November 2008

On the eve of the US elections, the New York Times cautiously pointed on Monday to the emergence of a bipartisan consensus in Washington for an aggressive new strategy towards Iran. While virtually nothing was said in the course of the election campaign, behind-the-scenes top advisers from the Obama and McCain camps have been discussing the rapid escalation of diplomatic pressure and punitive sanctions against Iran, backed by preparations for military strikes.

The article entitled “New Beltway Debate: What to do about Iran” noted with a degree of alarm: “It is a frightening notion, but it not just the trigger-happy Bush administration discussing—if only theoretically—the possibility of military action to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program… [R]easonable people from both parties are examining the so-called military option, along with new diplomatic initiatives.”

Behind the backs of American voters, top advisers for President-elect Barack Obama have been setting the stage for a dramatic escalation of confrontation with Iran as soon as the new administration takes office. A report released in September from the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington-based think tank, argued that a nuclear weapons capable Iran was “strategically untenable” and detailed a robust approach, “incorporating new diplomatic, economic and military tools in an integrated fashion”.

A key member of the Center’s task force was Obama’s top Middle East adviser, Dennis Ross, who is well known for his hawkish views. He backed the US invasion of Iraq and is closely associated with neo-cons such as Paul Wolfowitz. Ross worked under Wolfowitz in the Carter and Reagan administrations before becoming the chief Middle East envoy under presidents Bush senior and Clinton. After leaving the State Department in 2000, he joined the right-wing, pro-Israel think tank—the Washington Institute for Near East Policy—and signed up as a foreign policy analyst for Fox News.

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via Obama advisers discuss preparations for war on Iran

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Pakistan’s secret cooperation with America

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By David Ignatius
ICH
November 05, 2008 “Daily Star”

Pakistan is publicly complaining about US air strikes. But the country’s new chief of intelligence, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, visited Washington last week for talks with America’s top military and spy chiefs, and everyone seemed to come away smiling.

They could pat themselves on the back, for starters, with the assassination of Khalid Habib, Al-Qaeda’s deputy chief of operations. According to Pakistani officials, he was killed on October 16 by a Predator strike in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan. Habib, reckoned by some to be the No. 4 leader in Al-Qaeda, was involved in recruiting operatives for future terror attacks against the United States.

The successful hit on Habib attests to the growing cooperation – in secret – between the US and Pakistan in the high-stakes war along the Afghanistan border, which US intelligence officials regard as the crucial front in the war on terrorism.

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via Pakistan’s secret cooperation with America      : Information Clearing House – ICH

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US air raid kills Afghan civilians + Afghanistan’s expectations of Obama

AlJazeeraEnglish

6 Nov 08

Afghan officials have condemned an air raid by US forces that they say killed civilians attending a wedding ceremony in Kandahar province.

Al Jazeera’s Dan Nolan reports on the rising number of civilian casualties from US attacks in Afghanistan.

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Inside Story – Afghanistan’s expectations of Obama

Afghans are expecting the new White House occupant will change the US approach when it comes to dealing with their country.

So, does a change in the White House mean a change in Afghanistan? And what does Afghanistan expect from Obama?

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The World After Bush

The World After Bush

AlJazeeraEnglish

5 Nov 08

In a special one-hour show, Al Jazeeras senior political analyst, Marwan Bishara and guests look at what impact Obama’s foreign policy will have on the world.

We review the Bush legacy and its consequences for Obama’s presidency, and question how much of a departure from Bushs policies or doctrine will be possible.

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Bush on the results of the election

WIBDI: What If Bush Did It? A Prism for the New Paradigm by Chris Floyd

A Day Of Rejoicing For The Empire By Gaither Stewart

Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech Nov. 4, 2008

The End of International Law? By Robert Dreyfuss

Election Returns (links) + Obama wins + McCain Concession Speech

Dr. J.’s Commentary: What Certain Folks Will Miss About George Bush