Howard Zinn, Marilyn Young, and Jonathan Schell discuss the “legacy” of the Vietnam Warlord for the U.S., Robert McNamara, with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!
Archive for July, 2009
Howard Zinn on Robert McNamara (Video)
Posted: 8 July 2009 by Little Alex in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Butler Schafer, Democracy Now, fascism, Howard Zinn, human rights, international law, Iraq War, Japan, Jonathan Schell, Joseph Galloway, LBJ, Lew Rockwell, Marilyn young, nuclear weapons, Robert McNamara, terrorism, US, Vietnam War, War, WWII
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Daily Briefing — 8th-9th July 2009
Posted: 8 July 2009 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, American Empire, Bagram, China, cyber attacks, Cynthia McKinney, David David, Dennis Ross, executive order, G-8 Summit, Gareth Porter, Glenn Gr, Gulf of Tonkin, Hillary Clinton, human rights, indefinite detention, international law, Iran, Iraq War, Israel, Italy, Joe Biden, Jonathon Turley, Justin Raimondo, law, LBJ, Middle East, Newspeak, NY Times, Obama, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, police brutality, Robert McNamara, Roger Hatcher, Russell Leigh Moses, Russia, settlements, South Korea, South Waziristan, tasers, terrorism, Tom Englehardt, torture, Uighurs, UK, UN, US, Vietnam War, War, Wast Bank, Xinjiang, Zionism
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; and more…
Daily Briefing — 7th-8th July 2009
Posted: 7 July 2009 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Ali Gharib, Blackwater, Bob Herbert, Bolivia, China, Chinese Muslims, drug war, Evo Morales, exorcism, G-8 Summit, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Joe Biden, journalism, Jum DeMint, Korean Teacher's Union, KTU, law, libertarian, Manuel Zelaya, media, Middle East, New World Order, Newspeak, Obama, one world government, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, Pope Bendict, Robert McNamara, salons, settlements, Sheldon Whitehouse, South Korea, stimulus, The Atlantic, Uighurs, Vaitcan, Washington Post Salons, West Bank, Xe
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; and more…
China Using the American Wartime Newspeak Playbook
Posted: 7 July 2009 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: China, Chinese Muslims, internet media, journalism, media, Michael Wines, Newspeak, NY Times, terrorism, Twitter, Uighurs, Urumqi, US, Xinjiang
In China’s far western region of Xinjiang, Uighurs have continued to protest the gov’t land grabbing, violent segregation, mass kidnapping, and exile. Yesterday, at least 156 people were killed, over 1,000 injured, and at least 1,434 arrested.
John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, Newspeak, and the American Empire (Video)
Posted: 6 July 2009 by Sayyid in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, air strikes, Al Franken, Amy Goodman, Avigdor Lieberman, Bagram, Cairo Speech, coup, David Gregory, drones, fascism, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, George Bush, Gitmo, Guantanamo, healthcare, Honduras, human rights, international law, Iran, Iran election, Iraq, Israel, John Pilger, Manuel Zelaya, media, Middle East, Mohammed Mossadeq, MSM, NBC, Netanyahu, Newspeak, Obama, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, UN, UN Security Council, US, War, West Bank, Zionism
John Pilger interviewed by Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!, discussing coverage of the coup in Honduras in contrast with that of the Iran election, the Gaza Massacre, Obama’s warfare stimulus to expand the American Empire.
Daily Briefing — 6th-7th July 2009
Posted: 6 July 2009 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: bailout, banking, California, China, Chinese Muslims, climate change, corporatism, Cynthia McKinney, dollar hegemony, economic crisis, eminent domain, fascism, Federal Reserve, G-8, Gaza, Georgia, Glenn Greenwald, global warming, Henry Kissinger, Honduras, human rights, India, interest rates, international law, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jim Rogers, Joe Biden, Kurdistan, Kurds, law, libertarian, liberty, Mairead Maguire, Manuel Zelaya, market-anarchism, Michelle Bachmann, Middle East, national ID card, Netanyahu, Newspeak, nuclear weapons, Obama, Palestine, Pittsburgh G-20 Summit, police brutality, protests, renminbi, riots, Robert McNamara, Ron Paul, Russia, Saudi Arabia, settlements, Thomas Laubach, Thomas Woods, Uighurs, Urumqui, US, US dollar, War, West Bank, Wonkette, Xinjiang, yuan, Zionism
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; and more…
Daily Briefing — 4th-5th July 2009
Posted: 5 July 2009 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, al-Quds, BRIC, cap and trade, China, climate change, Cynthia McKi, East Jerusalem, fascism, G-8 Summit, Gaza, Glenn Greenwald, global warming, Honduras, human rights, IAEA, indefinite detention, India, international law, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Italy, Joe Biden, law, libertarian, liberty, Mairead Maguire, Manuel Zelaya, Maziar Bahari, Middle East, Mossad, Mousavi, Netanyahu, Newspeak, NPT, nuclear weapons, NYT, OAS, Obama, Pakistan, Palestine, pre-emptive war, Qum, Richard Falk, Roberto Micheletti, Saudi Arabia, South Waziristan, tariffs, terrorism, UN, US, War, West Bank, Yukiya Amano, Zionism
Obama interviewed about his executive order to police thought-crime; Saudi Arabia grants consent for a pre-emptive strike on Iran to Israel; U.N. envoy calls Free Gaza aid-delivering activists’ kidnapping by Israel ‘criminal’; Iran clerics declare gov’t illegitimate; Glenn Greenwald notes NYT hypocrisy in classifying Iran’s treatment of prisoners as “torture”; China and India protest the U.S. ‘cap-and-trade scheme’; and more…
Helen Thomas Calls Obama Press Treatment Worse Than Nixon; WaPo Selling ‘Off the Record’ White House Access to Lobbyists
Posted: 3 July 2009 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anti-Statism, corporatism, democracy, Helen Thomas, Huffington Post, Katharine Weymouth, libertarian, liberty, lobbyists, Newspeak, NY Times, NYT, Obama, Politico, Robert Gibbs, salons, US, Washington Post, Washington Post Salons
“President Barack Obama answered pre-selected questions Wednesday afternoon about health care sent in from emails, Facebook and Twitter. CBS’ Chip Reid and columnist Helen Thomas thought this reflected a lack of transparency at the White House,” reports The Raw Story, as The Washington Post gets busted selling secret access to the White House and Congress.
Two Detainees: One Recently Released Because His Detention ‘Defied Common Sense’ and Another Tortured to Link al-Qai’da to Iraq (mp3/Video)
Posted: 2 July 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al-Janko, Abdul Rahim al-Ginco, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Amy Goodman, Andy Worthington, AntiWar radio, Bagram, Bush Administration, Cheney, China, Chinese Muslims, CIA, Democracy Now, detainees, enemy combatants, fascism, George Bush, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, habeas corpus, human rights, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, law, liberty, Libya, Middle East, Newspeak, Obama, Omar Deghayes, Saddam Hussein, Scott Horton, Taliban, terrorism, Uighurs, US, War, War on Terror
One of the most informed journalists on Guantanamo Bay and those kidnapped by the Bush Administration in its “War on Terror”, Andy Worthington, interviewed by Democracy Now (DN!) and AntiWar Radio.
