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8th-9th July 2009: Daily Briefing

• Acquitted detainees could fall under Obama’s ‘indefinite, prolonged detention’ executive order
• U.K. outsourced torture to Pakistan
• Report: Obama OK’s more Israel settlements
• Obama Administration says Iran should be attacked and not attacked… at the same time
• Uighurs could face death penalty for demonstrations in China
• Cop tasers a epileptic girl 14-year-old girl, sending 50k volts to her head
• Documents show Robert McNamara deceived LBJ on the Gulf of Tonkin attack

The Blog

• Daniel Ellsberg and Gareth Porter on McNamara’s Gulf of Tonkin Scam (mp3)

  – AntiWar Radio – 7 Jul 09

• Howard Zinn on Robert McNamara (Video)

  – Democracy Now! – 7 Jul 09

• China Using the American Wartime Newspeak Playbook

  – Little Alex – 7 Jul 09

• John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, Newspeak, and the American Empire (Video)

  – Democracy Now! – 3 Jul 09

• The U.S.-Israel Gaza Massacre — 22 Days of Death and Destruction

  – Amnesty International – 3 Jul 09

• Helen Thomas Calls Obama Press Treatment Worse Than Nixon; WaPo Selling ‘Off the Record’ White House Access to Lobbyists

  – Little Alex – 3 Jul 09

• Two Detainees: One Recently Released Because His Detention ‘Defied Common Sense’ and Another Tortured to Link al-Qai’da to Iraq (mp3/Video)

  – Andy Worthington interviewed on AntiWar Radio and Democracy Now! – 2 Jul 09

• Obama is Wall Street’s Favorite Crony

  – Sayyid – 24 Jun 09

• Ex-Detainees Describe Abuse at ‘The Other Guantanamo’ (Video)

  – Little Alex – 24 Jun 09

• Socialism: A Perfectly Good Word Rehabilitated

  – Kevin Carson – 24 Jun 09

• Chomsky’s Lectern: Iran Election, Religion in Democracy, and ‘Neoliberal’ Globalization (mp3)

  – Noam Chomsky – 23 Jun 09

• Obama Calls Neda Soltani’s Death “Heartbreaking”… Who Cares?

  – Little Alex – 23 Jun 09

• U.S. Funding ‘Regime Change’ in Iran

  – Editors – 23 Jun 09

• Obama Embracing Bush Secrecy Policy After Campaigning on Transparency

  – Glenn Greenwald interviewed on AntiWar Radio and Democracy Now! – 22 Jun 09

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7th-8th July 2009: Daily Briefing

• Pope Benedict calls for a “world political authority”
• Global opinion poll says ‘U.S. abuses its power’
• Chinese gov’t clamp down on Muslims and media
• Israel blocks doctors from performing surgeries on Gazan children
• The Christian Science Monitor is becoming a gang of warmongerers
• Democrats block audit of the Federal [sic] Reserve

6th-7th July 2009: Daily Briefing

• Kissinger calls Iran a ‘weak and small country with inherent limits’
• Muslims and Han Chinese clash in Western China, killing 156+
• G-8 to dictate radically tyrannical “green” policies
• Fed economist warned of a collapse if interest rates didn’t raise in 2003
• Shanghai, HK, and Indonesia take steps away from dollar hegemony
• India to steal more land from the poor to multinational corporations
• Thomas Woods schools some mindless, so-called ‘progressive’ tyranny cheerleaders

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