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Archive for August, 2010
Daily Briefing—17th Aug 2010
Posted: 17 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: India, Pakistan, ISI, Afghanistan, UN, Federal Reserve, China, Obama, UK, Blackwater, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Israel, Iran, Middle East, gay marriage, Gareth Porter, nuclear weapons, Somalia, economic crisis, media, CNN, Republicans, GOP, Scott Horton, military industrial complex, Wikileaks, Republican Party, News Corp, Xe, healthcare, Chris Hayes, Bob Herbert, BP, TTP, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, David Petraeus, electoral politics, Norman Solomon, three strike statutes, Iraq elections, arms trading, Pakistani Taliban, Gulf oil spill, Iraqiya, Taiwan, Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, military contractors, Nick Clegg, Ground Zero Mosque, PSCs, Ramzi Binalshibh, State of Law, David Finkel, MP Nunan, Ethan McCord, John Bolton, Cordoba House, Bretigne Shaffer, David Paterson
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Daily Briefing—16th Aug 2010
Posted: 16 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Adam Habib, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Afghanistan motherlode, Bangladesh, banking, China, civil liberties, double-dip recession, Federal Reserve, gay marriage, Hamid Karzai, home foreclosures, human rights, Human Rights Watch, IDF, India, Islam, Islamophobia, Jammu and Kashmir, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, labor unions, law, oil, Pakistan, Poland, private military contractors, Prop 8, PTSD, Riz Khan, Robert Gates, Robert Naiman, Stanley McChrystal, Stephen Lendman, Taliban, UJ, UK, universal jurisdiction, Uzbeks, war crimes, workers rights
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Chomsky’s Lectern: U.S.-Israel ‘Prefer Expansion Over Security’ (mp3)
Posted: 16 August 2010 by Noam Chomsky in Chomsky's Lectern, Palestine-IsraelTags: al-Quds, Arab nationalism, Black September, Bush Administration, Christian Zionism, Cuba, democracy, Democrats, Diego Garcia, East Jerusalem, electoral politics, Gaza, GOP, Guatemala, Hamas, Hezbollah, India, international law, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, Israel, Israel lobby, Jordan, journalism, Kathleen Wells, Latin America, Lebanon, media, Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood, neoconservatism, Newspeak, Nixon Doctrine, NPT, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, NWFZs, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, Palestinians, Reagan Administration, Republicans, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, settlement expansion, Shah of Iran, Syria, terrorism, UK, US, Wall Street Journal, War on Terror, West Bank, Zionism
Prof. Chomsky discussed the history of the ‘special relationship’ between the U.S. and Israel, how the mainstream media manufactures consent for it, how it relates to the manipulation of language regarding factions like Hamas and Hezbollah, the U.S.-Israel ‘preference for expansion over security’, and the history of U.S.-Israel active rejection of establishing the Middle East as a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone with Kathleen Wells at Race-Talk.
Man is Coward
Posted: 16 August 2010 by Little Alex in PhilosophyTags: culture, human rights, libertarian, Newspeak, War
The man who chooses to not stand against war chooses to stand for nothing and is the vilest coward of all mankind. He is the sociopath that plagues the zeitgeist.
Daily Briefing—11th Aug 2010
Posted: 11 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: 14th Amendment, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, ANC, ANP, Blackwater, Bush tax cuts, Calfornia, China, civil liberties, climate change, COIN, Colombia, counterinsurgency, Czech Republic, DPRK, economic crisis, FARC, fascism, Federal Reserve, fiat money, Flynt Leverett, free press, Freedom Flotilla, Gareth Porter, Gaza, Gaza blockade, global warming, Greenland, Guantanamo Bay, Hillary Mann Leverett, home foreclosures, HUD, humanitarian aid, IDF, illegal immigration, imperialism, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Ivan Eland, Japan, Jeff Stein, Jeffrey Goldberg, journalism, Justice Department, Kashmir, labor unions, Lebanon, Lew Rockwell, Manmohan Singh, Mavi Marmara, Mehdi Karroubi, national debt, North Korea, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, PCHR, private military contractors, right to strike, Ron Paul, solar energy, South Africa, State Department, Tim Arango, trade deficit, US citizenship, USD, Venezuela, War, War on Terror, West Bank, yen
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Khadr Show-’Trial’ Blacked Out of NY Times, So Obamaphiles Won’t Care (Video)
Posted: 10 August 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Asim Qureshi, Bagram Air Base, Bush Administration, civil liberties, criminal justice, electoral politics, fascism, Geneva Conventions, Guantanamo Bay, human rights, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, international law, law, libertarian, mainstream media, military commissions, MSM, Newspeak, NY Times, Obama, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, Osama bin Laden, rendition, Sunny Hundal, Teymoor Nabili, Todd Kent, torture, US, War, War on Terror
The first military commissioned trial of a detainee renditioned to the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay under the Obama Administration opened Tuesday. Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was kidnapped eight years ago in Afghanistan at the age of 15 by the U.S. military, threatened with rape in detention at the U.S. air base at Bagram, transferred to Guantánamo where he was tortured until he confessed that he threw a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier. Monday evening, Texas A&M at Qatar associate professor Todd Kent noted that it will likely not be a political issue for the Adminsitration because the mainstream media is downplaying it, though criminal justice is a large part of the president’s avatar, at Al Jazeera English’s “Inside Story”—which focused on the coming trial.
Dictatorship, War and the Federal Reserve (Video)
Posted: 10 August 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Andrew Napolitano, corporatism, fascism, Federal Reserve, fiat money, Iran, Iraq War, Lew Rockwell, libertarian, monetary policy, national debt, Newspeak, Ron Paul, US, War, War on Terror
Rep. Ron Paul and Mises Institute President Lew Rockwell, Jr., earlier today, discussed the connection between the U.S. government’s war and monetary policy with Judge Andrew Napolitano on his FOX Business Network program, “Freedom Watch.”
Daily Briefing—10th Aug 2010
Posted: 10 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: India, Afghanistan, Federal Reserve, Taliban, Chicago, Robert Gates, Kashmir, Israel, Iran, Zionism, USD, global warming, Somalia, democracy, Netanyahu, criminal justice, drug war, marijuana, Mexico, protectionism, ACLU, CCR, Wikileaks, civil liberties, Sharia Law, Af-Pak War, Mel Frykberg, euro, DNA, BP, climate change, civilian casualties, George Donnelly, ICE, Uganda, Leslie Lefkow, Los Angeles, Omar Khadr, Gulf oil spill, Carol Rosenberg, EUR, AMISOM, war spending, Ahmed Moor, Maria Burnett, sales tax, climate
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Daily Briefing—9th August 2010
Posted: 9 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Aisha, Albert Hunt, arms trading, atheism, Boeing, Damin Vrabel, David Petraeus, David Stockman, domestic surveillance, DPRK, Ethan Huff, Federal Reserve, fiat money, global currency, Gold standard, Goldman Sachs, Guantanamo Bay, Harakat-ul Jihad al-Islami, Hugo Chavez, HUJI, IMF, India, Iran, Islam, Israel, Justin Raimondo, Kibbutzim, Kunduz, Max Keiser, military industrial complex, North Korea, NPT, nuclear proliferation, OTC derivatives, privacy rights, protectionism, Ranjit Devraj, Saudi Arabia, SCOTUS, South Korea, Spencer Ackerman, Stefan Molyneux, Stoning, Taliban, UN, US, Venezuela, Vietnam, war games
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Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal That Isn’t (Video)
Posted: 3 August 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War Diary, Amy Goodman, Baghdad, Blackwater, Bush Administration, corporatism, covert operations, Dyncorp, economic sanctions, EPPs, fascism, Gareth Porter, Hillary Clinton, Horn of Africa, human rights, imperialism, Iraq War, Iraq withdrawal, Jeremy Scahill, JPEL, JSOC, Julian Assange, libertarian, Middle East, military industrial complex, Newspeak, Nuri al-Maliki, Obama, Obama Administration, oil, Saddam Hussein, SOF, SOFA, Special Operations Forces, State Department, Status of Forces Agreement, Take Force 714, Task Force 373, TF 373, TF 714, Triple Canopy, US, US military, War, War on Terror, war spending, Wikileaks, Xe
With 70,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, President Obama yesterday dropped his 2009 pledge to remove all combat troops before September, extending the target date 15 months, Gareth Porter reported today at Inter Press Services. The drawdown is intended by the Administration to leave 50,000 ‘residual troops’ indefinitely, but investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill notes the so-called “withdrawal” is a replacement of combat troops with ‘private’ mercenary firms. Earlier today, he spoke with Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!
New Evidence About Prisoners Held in Secret C.I.A. Prisons in Poland and Romania
Posted: 3 August 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Abdu Ali Sharqawi, Abdul Rahim al-Sharqawi, Abu Dhabi, Abu Zubaydah, Ahmed Khalfan, al-Qaeda, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Andy Worthington, Bagram Air Base, black sites, Bush Administration, CIA, Council of Europe, Dick Marty, Diego Garcia, Dubai, Egypt, Guantanamo Bay, Hassan Ghul Ghailani, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, high value detainees, Human Rights Watch, HVDs, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Indonesia, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Jordan, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Leszek Miller, lithuania, Mauritania, Mohamed Omar Abdel-Rahman, Morocco, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Pakistan, Poland, rendition, Romania, Salah Nasser Salim Ali, Sharqwi Abdu Ali al-Hajj, Stare Kiejkuty, Stephen Grey, Syria, terrorism, torture, UAE, UN, Waleed bin Attash, War on Terror
Andy Worthington dissects recently released documents shining more light on the Bush Administration’s dark rendition program and the complicity of collaborating governments in the mass-scale extrajudicial kidnapping program.
