CALENDAR: 'Digging Deeper XI' studies Abu Ghraib -- Oct. 24 & Nov. 7, 14
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On Oct. 24, UFPPC's Monday evening book discussion group will begin a new study circle on "The Road to Abu Ghraib," featuring three works on the background to this historic and ongoing scandal. -- The volumes: Mark Danner, Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York Review Books, 2004); Karen J. Greenberg & Joshua L. Dratel, eds., The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Seymour M. Hersh, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (HarperCollins, 2004; Harper Perennial 2005). -- See below for more information and a link to a flyer....
CALENDAR: Digging Deeper reads two books by Chris Hedges on Oct. 10 & 17
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Chris Hedges, author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (PublicAffairs, 2002; paperback, Anchor, 2003) and Losing Moses on the Freeway: America's Broken Covenant with the Ten Commandments (Free Press, 2005), will speak at the University of Puget Sound (Schneebeck Concert Hall) at 7:30 p.m. on Thurs., Oct. 13. -- To help prepare for and then digest what Hedges has to say, UFPPC's book discussion group, Digging Deeper, will read and discuss these two books on the two Mondays (Oct. 10 & 17) before and after Hedges speaks. -- Copies of the books are widely available; UFPPC also has a few copies to lend (or for purchase)....
COMMENTARY: Immanuel Wallerstein pronounces the Iraq war 'lost'
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Immanuel Wallerstein, who heads the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilization and is a noted historian and theorist of the global capitalist economy, posted last Monday an argument that "the war is lost." -- The U.S. can no longer attain any of its aims, he writes: "For the U.S. to win the Iraq war requires three things: defeating the Iraqi resistance; establishing a stable government in Iraq that is friendly to the U.S.; maintaining the support of the American people while the first two are being done. None of these three seem any longer possible. First, the U.S. military itself no longer believes it can defeat the resistance. Secondly, the likelihood that the Iraqi politicians can agree on a constitution is almost nil, and therefore the likelihood of a minimally stable central government is almost nil. Thirdly, the U.S. public is turning against the war." -- Consequently, "the Bush regime is in an impossible position." ...