{"id":4982,"date":"2008-12-12T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T21:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2008-12-12T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T21:12:23","slug":"weekly-digest-121208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/12\/12\/weekly-digest-121208\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Digest – 12\/12\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our weekly edition<\/a> is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n

Audio Stream<\/a> | Podcast<\/a> | Mp3 Download<\/a> <\/p>\n

This week on Uprising<\/p>\n

* Afghanistan: Military Solution the Problem Not the Solution
\n* Empire Notes on the Real Victims of the Iraq War
\n* Jay Garner’s New Job: Securing Iraqi Oil Contracts
\n* Black Agenda Report on Black Colleges
\n* A History Lesson on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Sixty Years Later<\/p>\n

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Afghanistan: Military Solution the Problem Not the Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"USDefense Secretary Robert Gates has arrived in Afghanistan to further his case for 20,000 extra US troops by next Spring. The increase in troops has been a foreign policy center piece of the incoming Obama administration during the election campaign and after. There are currently 34,000 troops in the country, fighting alongside a similar number of troops from various NATO countries. Gates criticized the fact that US soldiers are present in greater proportion than any other NATO country. The US has for years been urging NATO nations to commit more troops. When asked how long US troops would be in the country, he responded, “I think that we are in many respects in an ideological conflict with violent extremists…The last ideological conflict we were in lasted about 45 years,” referring to the Cold War. But many experts on Afghanistan believe that rather than helping win the war in Afghanistan, military force is the problem itself. In fact, civilian deaths by US\/NATO forces rival those by the Taliban. Why then is Barack Obama opting for more troops?<\/p>\n

GUEST: Anand Gopal is a journalist focusing on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the “War on Terror.” He is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, based in Afghanistan. His website is anandgopal.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Empire Notes on the Real Victims of the Iraq War<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/a>Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on “The Real Victims of the Iraq War.”<\/p>\n

GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Visit www.empirenotes.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

Jay Garner’s New Job: Securing Iraqi Oil Contracts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember Jay Garner? The retired US Lieutenant General in Iraq is hardly in the news these days, despite the particulars of his new job. One of several former U.S. officials and lobbyists, Garner is now aiding Canadian corporations to secure oil agreements with the Kurdistan Regional Government or KRG in Iraq. Garner was the Bush Administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first appointed administrator of Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reconstruction in 2003, but since that time he has been active in assisting Canadian oil and gas companies do business in the Kurdish region of Iraq. As highlighted in a recent article in Mother Jones Magazine, Garner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s activities include advising the Toronto-based Forbes & Manhattan as well as sitting on the company board of Vast Exploration after they signed a potentially lucrative contract with the KRG. The agreements that Garner is helping to broker are pre-empting the passage of a national oil law in Iraq and are causing tension between Baghdad’s central government and the Kurds in the north. <\/p>\n

GUEST: Anthony Fenton, independent journalist currently co-writing a book about post-9\/11 U.S.-Canadian foreign policy integration. His first book, Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor, which he co-wrote with Yves Engler, was published in 2005.<\/em><\/p>\n

Black Agenda Report on Black Colleges<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GlenGlen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report<\/a>. This week’s commentary is about Black colleges.<\/p>\n

Visit www.blackagendareport.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

A History Lesson on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Sixty Years Later<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday December 10th was the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, known around the world as “International Human Rights Day.” On December 10th 1948, the United Nations General Assembly, representing the nations of the world, adopted the most far-reaching document enshrining the social and economic rights of all human beings. The anniversary is being marked by governments and social movements across the globe. In some cases, states guilty of violating human rights like the Philippines and here in the US, are commemorating the day. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights technically the law of the land in all member nations of the United Nations. And yet, the struggle to uphold even the most basic of human rights continues in many countries.<\/p>\n

GUEST: Wayne Glass, Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California<\/em><\/p>\n

Water rights activists are calling for the United Nations to amend the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Article 31, stating that “Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstance.” Today around the world, particularly in the Global South, many communities lack access to clean drinking water. From war zones, to rural farms, disease and malnutrition are a major fallout. Still, awareness of water as a right is increasing, with activists and artists contributing their efforts to making water accessible to all. The day after International Human Rights Day I spoke with Steven Starr, producer of the documentary, Flow, about a petition he presented to the UN General Assembly. <\/p>\n

GUEST: Steven Starr, producer of FLOW: For the Love of Water. <\/em><\/p>\n

Sign the petition to adopt Article 31 at www.article31.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n

To purchase DVDs of Flow: For the Love of Water, visit www.flowthefilm.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.” -\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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