Daily Briefing — 29th-30th June 2009

More on Obama’s plans to declare an executive order allowing him to detain anyone indefinitely; Bernie Madoff and GE robbery; Israel’s nuclear weapons; Israel erecting more settlements in the West Bank; Ahmadinejad declared the official winner of Iran’s highly disputed presidential election; SCOTUS rejects 9/11 survivors’ claim against the Saudis for funneling money to al-Qa’ida.

Daily Briefing — 27th-28th June 2009

U.S. military out of Iraqi cities by Tuesday; “The Scramble for Iraq’s ‘Sweet Oil’”; More violent protests in Iran; Israel intends to annex over 34,000 acres in the West Bank; Atheist youth camp in the U.K.; and more…

Daily Briefing — 26th-27th June 2009

Obama drafting executive order for prolonged, indefinite detention; A ridiculously tragic Gitmo story from Andy Worthington; Spain greatly curbs “universal jurisdiction” law to protect U.S torturers; Gareth Porter on the B.S. report from the U.S. military “investigation into the Farah Massacre it carried out May 4; Torture in Israel; Sheldon Richman on healthcare, democracy, and American politics; and more…

Obama is Wall Street’s Favorite Crony

Gerald Celente and Webster Tarpley on the new powers granted to the Federal Reserve and the cult of personality making it easy for banksters to use him as their puppet…. and they are.

Daily Briefing — 24th-25th June 2009

Iran protests described as a “massacre” today; Gareth Porter on the Saudis protecting bin Laden; BBC interview with former detainees at Bagram describe being tortured; $48.8 bn more money that doesn’t exist for international state cronyism; U.N. report on drugs; and more…

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

The BBC interviewed 27 former detainees of the U.S. that were held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, almost all described being tortured.

Socialism: A Perfectly Good Word Rehabilitated

Is ’socialism’ a word to be reserved for the voluntary society?

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

The president continued: “And I think that anybody who sees it knows that there’s something fundamentally unjust about that.”

What does he think when he sees this?:

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

Prof. Noam Chomsky interviewed by Said and Dari on WorldStreams Radio – 17 June 09 (60:00):

Daily Briefing — 23rd-24th June 2009

Obama drone strike kills 65 at a funeral in Pakistan; Another man released from Gitmo; International collaborators look to attack “tax havens” like Switzerland; The Ayatollah’s tactics to crush dissent are biting him in the ass; Russia supports East Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital; Cigarettes, whiskey, and wild money in the life of the world’s oldest man; and more…

U.S. Funding ‘Regime Change’ in Iran

Brian Ross for ABC News in 2007 and Seymour Hersh for The New Yorker in 2008 reported the Bush Administration’s Presidential Finding enacting a C.I.A. plan to use propaganda to push regime change in Iran. Democrats in Congress backed the $400 million dollar appropriation. The July ‘08 article by Mr. Hersh quotes a member of the House Appropriations Committee: “[I]t will take another year before we get the intelligence activities under control…. We control the money and they can’t do anything without the money. Money is what it’s all about. But I’m very leery of this Administration.”

Daily Briefing — 22nd June 2009

Jeremy Scahill on “Obama’s undeclared war against Pakistan”; The end of Western hegemony?; Deaths in Iraq on the rise;  Admitting fraud, Iran denies nullifying vote; Mousavi calls for rally on Thursday, Iran judiciary threatens force; Somalia announces “state of emergency”; U.K. thugs arrest women for asking their badge numbers; Scientology leader beats his staff.

Obama Embracing Bush Secrecy Policy After Campaigning on Transparency

‘Civil libertarian’ constutional rights attorney and Salon.com blogger, Glenn Greenwald, runs through the list of Pres. Obama’s enhancement and preservation of the Bush Administration’s “state secrets privilege” with Scott Horton on AntiWar Radio and Amy Goodman/Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now! (DN!).

Daily Briefing — 21st June 2009

Thousands of government stormtroopers confront protesters in Iran; Netanyahu’s Newspeak on “Meet the Press”; Foreign intervention in Lebanon’s recent elections; NAACP rallies for Troy Davis; Maureen Dowd wastes more space in the “paper of record.

Video From a Woman in Iran Before Saturday’s Resistance

A woman in Iran relays a message to the world Friday night.

Daily Briefing — 20th June 2009

David Gordon’s review of Killing in War; 19 to 150 dead in Iranian resistance Saturday; Mousavi ‘prepared for martyrdom’; U.S. put the ‘Green’ in ‘Green Revolution’; Gordon Prather on Israel’s nukes; Thomas Woods on Paul Krugman FAIL!; Did the CIA kill RFK?

Daily Briefing — 18th-19th June 2009

Israel beats and tortures children; U.S. tries to spin mass murder of civilians in the Obama-led Farah Massacre; Democrats’ consent makes these Obama’s wars; Gleen Greenwald on “state secrets” and Obama’s rhetoric against secrecy conflicting; Iran protests continue despite orders from Supreme Leader to cease; John Dugard blasts Obama’s silence on the Gaza Massacre; Chicago Police to ‘celebrate’ 1968 brutality next week.

SCOTUS: The State Possesses an Inherit ‘Right’ to Deny DNA Testing to Exonerate Inmates

Total WTF? on District Attorney’s Office for the Third Judicial District et al v. Osbourne.

Daily Briefing — 16th-17th June 2009

Dennis Ross gets a bump up in the Obama Administration to manufacture consent for war with Iran; Obama to grant more power to the Federal [sic] Reserve; the ACLU releases a report analyzing the effects of racist anti-terror [sic] laws on private charities; Democrats unite to fund more war out of ‘loyalty to the president’; Russia, China, India, and Brazil begin talks to end dollar hegemony.

Iran Election Recount (Video)

al Jazeera English’s (AJE) “Inside Story” takes a look at Iran’s controversial elections, the protests that have followed, and the potential recount.

Russian President Calls for the End of Dollar Hegemony

Brazil, India, and China meet in Russia as the four contries begin talks to break away from dollar hegemony — an ambition strongly pursued by Russia lately.

The Poison of Racist Collectivism (mp3)

Anthony Gregory, Campaign for Liberty (C4L) editor-in-chief and research analyst at The Independent Institute discusses his recent article in response to the neo-Nazi deadly shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum and “right-wing extremism” last week titled, “James W. Von Brunn and the Poison of Racist Collectivism,” on AntiWar Radio.

Daily Briefing — 15th-16th Jun 2009

Iran’s LOL-ection, wasteful war spending with Jeremy Scahill, more torture documents uncovered, U.N. calls for probe into U.S.-led air strikes in the Af-Pak War, analysis of Bibi Netanyahu’s speech of nothingness, and more…

Daily Briefing — 11th June 2009

Violence highest in Afghanistan since 2001, Dennis Ross says talks with Iran before war are a ‘easier sell”, Ismael Hossein-Zadeh on Obama’s ‘doublespeak’ regarding Iran, “U.S. Troops Out of Iraqi Cities? Think Again”, The ACLU sues the gov’t to release torture docs, Gitmo detainee kidnapped as a teenager released to his home, Iraq VP declares ‘no statehood for Kurds’, the U.S. dollar falls more.

Daily Briefing — 10th June 2009

Kansas Fed head blows the whistle on it serving an ‘oligarchy of itnerests’, the significance of Iran’s elections on U.S. policy, Justin Raimondo responds to an Israeli Minister calling for sanctions on the U.S., the U.S. military holding over 11,000 kidnapped Iraqis, Russia calls out the U.S. double standard on nuclear disarmament, and more…