Posts Tagged ‘Kenya’

Daily Briefing—6th Sept 2010

Posted: 6 September 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, Alcoholic beverage control states, ANSF, Avigdor Lieberman, DPRK, drones, drug war, election fraud, EU, general strike, housing crisis, ICC, IMF, India, infrastructure, Iran, Iraq, Islamophobia, Israel, Kabul Bank, Kashmir, Kenya, marijuana, Mexico, Mexico City, Middle East, NATO, NPT, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, NWFP, Obama, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Russ Wellen, settlement expansion, South Africa, suicide bombing, Taliabn, Taliban, UIDAI, US, Warfare and Conflict

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Weekend Briefing—20th-22nd Aug 2010

Posted: 22 August 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Alexander Cockburn, Blackwater, BP, Bushehr, Colombia, Constanza Vieira, Daphne Eviatar, David Sirota, drones, economic crisis, general strike, George Donnelly, Gulf oil spill, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Iraq, Iraq election, Iraq War, Israel, Jason Ditz, Kenya, Lebanon, Middle East, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, peace process, public opinion, Scott Horton, Somalia, South Africa, Stephen Walt, tea party movement, TF 121, TF 373, TF 42, TSA, Wikipedia, Xe, Zionism

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Julian Assange on AntiWar Radio (Video)

Posted: 2 August 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political Science
Tags: Adrian Lamo, Afghanistan War Logs, AntiWar radio, Bradley Manning, COIN, counterinsurgency, Ethiopia, Farah Massacre, Garani Massacre, Granai Massacre, insurgenct, ISI, JSOC, Julian Assange, Kenya, Pakistan, Philip Shenon, rendition, Scott Horton, Seymour Hersh, Somalia, US, US military, War, War on Terror, Wikileaks

Last week, the WikiLeaks editor-in-chief discussed the video footage of the Garani Massacre committed by the Obama Administration in May 2009, the U.S. government hunting him down, the ‘rendition’ of alleged leak-source PFC Bradley Manning, the effects of Collateral Murder leading to more leaks, renditions from Somalia to Kenya and Ethiopia, and the recently leaked Afghanistan War Logs with Scott Horton at AntiWar Radio (14:46):

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WikiLeaks Counters Government’s ‘Religion of Secrecy’ (Video)

Posted: 26 July 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political Science
Tags: Afghanistan War Logs, Albania, Bradley Manning, Chris Anderson, Collateral Murder, ecrecy, Glenn Greenwald, human rights, Iceland, journalism, journalist-source privileges, Julian Assange, Kenya, libertarian, media, multinationals, oil spills, state secrets, US, War, War on Terror, Wikileaks

Glenn Greenwald, constitutional lawyer and contributing editor at Salon, said today that secrecy is a “religion” of governments. The consent for such secrecy by the masses is a faithful example of conscientious ignorance, but a free society is no institution is immune to scrutiny and WikiLeaks, a site for whistleblowers to confidentially shed light on institutional secrets, is a crucial barrier between freedom and slavery.

Earlier this month, the site’s heroic founder, Julian Assange, spoke with TED.com’s Chris Anderson about the vital role his site has to play in society, the organization’s methods, the line between legitimate and illegitimate secrecy (19:34):

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Evening Briefing—17th June 2010

Posted: 17 June 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Afghanistan, Andy Worthington, banking, Bashar Assad, Big Brother, Birmingham, border fence, BP, BP Gulf oil spill, Chicago Police, China, Darian Worden, DHS, domestic surveillance, drones, Egypt, Ehud Barak, eminent domain, EU, Federal Reserve, G20, Gaza, Gaza blockade, global bank tax, gold, Guantanamo Bay, Hamas, Hinde Capital, human rights, ICC, Illinois, immigration, Israel, Jacob Hornberger, Joe Barton, Jon Burge, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, labor unions, Lebanon, Lockheed MArtin, Marc Lynch, media, Mexico, Middle East, military industrial complex, Obama Administration, police brutality, property rights, propganda, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, SCOTUS, secret prisons, settlements, Somali refugees, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Taliban, TARP, Tony Hayward, torutre, UK, UN, UN Secret Detention Report, unemployment, USD, Uzbek refugees, war crimes, Washington's Blog, West Bank

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Daily Briefing–31st March 2010

Posted: 31 March 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Alex Jones, AllanNairn, Arctic Conference, Argentina, banking, black widows, Bush Administration, Chechnya, corporate personhood, corporatism, drug war, fascism, FOX News, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, Hamid Karzai, healthcare, human rights, Hutaree, ICC, immigration, Indonesia, intellectual property, international law, Iran, Iraq War, Israel, JC Penney, Karl Rove, Kenya, law, Linux, military aid, militias, Moqtada al-Sadr, mutual funds, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, Pentagon, progressives, Robert Dreyfuss, Russia, SCOTUS, SEI, Somalia, terrorism, truancy courts, UK, unemployment, Unix, US, Wal-Mart, War, war crimies, War on Terror, West Bank, Zionism

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Daily Briefing — 5th-6th August 2009

Posted: 5 August 2009 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Abkhazia, Af-Pak, air strikes, Alexander Vershbow, bailout, Baitullah Mehsud, banking, corporatism, economy, Edgar Rodriguez, fascism, Federal Reserve, Five-Day War, Georgia, Gitmo, Goldman Sachs, Haaretz, Hillary Clinton, human rights, inflation, international law, Kandahar, Kenya, Lex, Middle East, Mohammed Jawad, Newspeak, Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Russia, settlements, South Ossetia, tasers, terrorism, Tet, torture, US, War, war crimes, War on Terror, Zionism

U.S. pushes ‘rule of law’ and accountability in Africa as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. enjoy the sunshine; U.S. bribed Afghan witnesses against teenager detainee; Afghans protests most recent U.S. air raid which killed three children; Ha’aretz calls out Israel’s morality for stealing Palestinian homes; Goldman Sachs has a second consecutive quarter of record-setting profits on the back of the rest of us; and more… (more…)

Daily Briefing – 9th June 2009

Posted: 9 June 2009 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Af-Pak War, Afghan surge, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Amnesty International, bailout, Ban Ki-moon, banking, Cairo Speech, Chechnya, Chicago Police, CIA, corporatism, Dennis Kucinich, Dmitry Medvedev, economy, Egypt, fascism, Federal Reserve, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, George Bush, George Mitchell, Georgia, Gitmo, Hamas, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, HR 1207, Hugo Chavez, human rights, IMF, international law, Iran, Israel, Joe Lieberman, Jordan, Judge Napolitano, Kenya, Khaled Meshal, King Abdullah, Lebanon, Leon Panneta, libertarian, liberty, Lindsey Graham, Middle East, Mubarak, Nasrallah, Netanyahu, Newspeak, Nigeria, Obama, Pakistan, Peru, police state, Ron Paul, Royal Dutch Shell, Russia, Saakashvili, Somalia, TARP, The Boston Globe, torture photos, UN, UN Security Council, US, Venezuela, War, WWII, Yossi Peled, Zionism

Israel hints at ‘broader regional war’, Pakistan criticizes Obama surge, Congress subpoenas the Fed, U.N. tells Israel to ‘fundamentally change policies’, first Gitmo trial to begin, Hizbollah responds to losing election, South African study calls Israel’s policies ‘apartheid’ and colonial’, Venezuela uses military to silence critics. (more…)