[Peace-discuss] Kathy Kelly update

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

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> Something Ended Jan. 1, but Not the Afghanistan War
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> KATHY KELLY IS FREE AWAITING A PHONE CALL FROM HER PROBATION OFFICER INDICATING WHERE SHE IS TO REPORT ON JANUARY 23. MAILING ADDRESS INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED TO THIS LIST AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY.
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> Terrorism "Insurance" Expires
> by Buddy Bell
> January 1, 2015
> In 2002, at a time when insurance providers were unwilling to provide coverage for losses resulting from acts of terrorism, and when construction and utility companies were stalling in their development projects, Congress passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA). They decided to socialize some of the financial risk, giving a federal government guarantee on insurance payouts exceeding 100 million dollars.
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> Over the next 12 years, Presidents Bush and Obama and six different Congresses made countless decisions to increase the risk of terrorism (and of a bailout under TRIA). Of course, the most brutally profound effects of those decisions were imposed on children, women, and men in other parts of the world. Likely the least affected people were the ones complaining in the business sections of major papers last month...
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> ...In the span of the past 12 years, the Afghanistan War did not end. The Iraq War was started, ended, and then started again. Torture became commonplace, with prisoners indefinitely held at Bagram, Guantánamo Bay, and a network of secret CIA prisons; some prisoners were rendered to third countries such as Egypt, Libya, and Syria to be tortured there. Israel, Egypt, and many other brutal regimes conducted wars of choice and campaigns of repression while making use of U.S. weaponry, vehicles, and diplomatic support. And then a systematic drone war attacked people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia; the ‘targets’ were chosen by Obama in consultation with the Pentagon or by secret algorithm...
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> Kathy Kelly, you were just in Afghanistan. What is the significance of saying the formal war is over, but in fact the formal war continues with U.S. troops fighting?
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