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Evening Briefing—19th July 2010
Posted: 19 July 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Andy Worthington, Bhopal, BP, class war, covert operations, Danny Schechter, dirty bombs, domestic surveillance, Failed States, Fareed Zakaria, FinReg, Glenn Greenwald, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, Hillary Clinton, Hopes and Prospects, illegal immigration, Iran, Jeff Stein, JeM, Joe Biden, Johann Hari, media, Mexico, Muhammed Abdullah Gul, Nancy Pelosi, Netanyahu, Noam Chomsky, Omar Khadr, Oslo Accords, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Sudan, torture, Turkey, UN, USAID, Vandana Shiva, Wall Street
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The ‘Failed State’ Boogeyman
Posted: 19 July 2010 by Editors in Political Science, SomaliaTags: AFRICOM, Ahmed Hassan, Al Shabaab, AMISOM, anarchism, anarchy, AQN ExOrd, Awil Salah Osman, Bush Administration, CENTCOM, child soldiers, CIA, civilian casualties, Clinton Administration, covert operations, Defense Department, Donald Rumsfeld, Ethiopia, failed state, failed states index, Fareed Zakaria, fascism, Greg Jaffe, Horn of Africa, human rights, humanitarian aid, humanitarian crisis, Jeffrey Gettleman, Jeremy Scahill, Kampala, Karen DeYoung, Lord’s Resistance Army, Mark Fineman, military welfare, Mogadishu, Mohamed Abdi Godane, Mohamed Siad Barre, Newspeak, oil, Paul Wolfowitz, Pentagon, SOF, Somalia, Special Ops, Stefan Molyneux, Stephen Cambone, Suzanne Goldberg, terrorism, Uganda, UN, UN Security Council, UNSC, USAID, War, War on Terror, Xan Rice
Highlighting U.S. intervention in the further destruction of Somalia and as Ugandans mourn a terrorist attack from Somali militants and Fareed Zakaria noting the non-threat of ‘failed states’ and the imminent blowback induced by the failed missions of nation building.
Evening Briefing—6th July 2010
Posted: 6 July 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Abkhazia, Adri Nieuwhof, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Ahmad Walid Fazly, Ahmedis, airstrikes, anarchism, Anna Morgenstern, apartheid, Avigdor Lieberman, Azerbaijan, bailouts, banking, Big Brother, Bill Keller, BP, Bradley Manning, China, CIA, Collateral Murder, David Cronin, David Petraeus, Dian Chu, domestic surveillance, drones, eminent domain, Eric Holder, EU, Fareed Zakaria, Federal Reserve, Five-Day War, Ford, Gareth Porter, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gaza Massacre, Georgia, Glenn Greenwald, Gulf oil spill, habeas corpus, Helmand Province, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Mann Leverett, IKEA, India, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi Kurdistan, ISI, Israel, Jesse Walker, Kevin Carson, Lawrence Wilkerson, libertarian, military industrial complex, Mitt Romney, national debt, Nigeria, night raids, NWFP, Operation Cast lead, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, Pentagon, Ray Odierno, revolution, Russia, Scott Horton, settlements, SOF, South Korea, South Ossetia, Sri Lanka, Stanley McChrystal, START, Stephan Salisbury, Stephen Walt, Sudan, Taliban, Tony Hayward, torture, UAW, Uighurs, UK, UN, Venezuela, Wall Street Journal, war crimes, War on Terror, West Bank, Wikileaks, Will Grigg, women's rights, Xue Feng
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Daily Briefing—22nd June 2010
Posted: 22 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: activism, Africa, al-Quds, Alastair MacDonald, Amira Hass, Andy Worthington, arsenic, Bangladesh, Blackwater, BP, Bush Administration, cap and trade, carbon tax, CCR, Chicago Police, China, Citigroup, CNY, Colombia, direct action, DPRK, East Jerusalem, Faisal Shahzad, Fareed Zakaria, Federal Reserve, flotilla, G20, Gaza blockade, Glenn Greenwald, gold, Google, Green Revolution, Gregory White, Gulf oil spill, habeas corpus, IAEA, indefinite detention, India, Iran, Israel, Jeff Stein, journalism, JPMorgan Chase, Juan Manuel Santos, Julian Assange, Kashmir, Kelley Vlahos, Lebanon, Mika Brzezinski, mining, Monsanto, MSNBC, North Korea, Obama Administration, Palestine-Israel, Paul Joseph Waton, police brutality, renminbi, SCOTUS, settlements, Sheldon Richman, Steve Watson, Syria, torture, tuberculosis, Turkey, UNRWA, USDCNY, Wendy McElroy, West Bank, Wikileaks, Will Grigg, William Fisher, Xe, yuan
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Obama ‘Leaning Toward’ 34,000 U.S. Troop Increase in Afghanistan
Posted: 8 November 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghan surge, Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Bernard Kouchner, Bush Amdinistration, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, Craig Murray, David Ignatius, drug trafficking, Fareed Zakaria, fascism, human rights, international law, ISAF, James Jones, Jonathan Landay, Kandahar Strike Force, law, libertarian, McClatchy, Middle East, Nancy Youssef, NATO, natural gas, Newspeak, Obama, opium, Pakistan, PNAC, Stanley McChrystal, terrorism, Thomas Friedman, Thomas Ricks, UNODC, US, War, War on Terror, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Against the assessment of his national security adviser, the president will reportedly increase the U.S. military footprint in Afghanistan by 34,000 in 2010.
Israel’s U.S.-Aided Missile ‘Defense’ System Manufactures Threats and Targets Civilians
Posted: 20 September 2009 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Alan Dershowitz, CNN, David Harris, David Landau, Dmitry Medvedev, Eastern Europe, Ehud Barak, Fareed Zakaria, fascism, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, Gordon Prather, Hamas, Howard Schneider, human rights, IAEA, international law, Iran, Israel, Juniper Cobra, Likudniks, Middle East, missile defense, neoconservatives, Netanyahu, Newspeak, NPT, Obama, Palestine, Qassam rockets, Richard Goldstone, Russia, Sderot, Shimon Peres, terrorism, UN, UN Security Council, US, War, Zionism
The Obama Administration’s intentions to relocate plans for “missile defense systems” from along the Russian border in Eastern Europe in order to aid Israel’s systems in intimidating Iran comes as an influential “bipartisan report” from Likudniks recommends an aggressive U.S.-Israel strike on Iran and secret U.S. intelligence reports to the White House say there are ‘no nukes in Iran’.
