Chomsky’s Lectern: Unexceptional Americans — Why We Can’t See the Trees or the Forest

Prof. Noam Chomsky on the torture memos and ‘American exceptionalism’: this is nothing new for American policy.

The 21st Century ‘Military-Industrial-Media Complex’ (Video)

The NY Times investigative reporter who the mainstream media won’t interview, David Barstow, interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! (DN!) for the first time since winning the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for exposing the corporate war machine’s propaganda wing: the Pentagon.

Detainees Tortured to Link Saddam to al-Qa’ida (mp3)

AntiWar Radio host Scott Horton interviews Marjorie Cohn on the recent revelation that torture was not used to thwart attacks and gather intel, but to manufacture connections between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa’ida to justify the consciously illegal Iraq War.

Bush, Obama and the Torture of Morality

Freedomain Radio host Stefan Molyneux on Obama’s decision to “look toward the future” regarding torture.

ICRC Released Torture Report in 2007 — Not Yesterday

The only news is that this is news to the mainstream media.

Pentagon Papers II?

Wikileaks: Major RAND study with 300 interviews: Intelligence Operations and Metrics in Iraq and Afghanistan, Nov 2008.

Friday Docket (12/19/08)

American Foreign Policy:

• Karzai Submits List of Demands to US as Afghan Civilian Casualties Rise

• Russian Diplomat Criticizes US Over Arms Control
• Clinton Foundation Donor List a Who’s Who of Saudis, Private Defense Contractors, Elites
• “Prosecuting Bush and Cheney for Torture: No One Can be Above the Law” commentary by Dave Lindorff

World News:

• Israel-Hamas Six Month Truce in Gaza Ends

• NATO-Russia Beginning ‘Conditional and Graduated Re-Engagement
• “Gifts  from Iran and Russia to Lebanon?”
• Amnesty International Fires on Proposed Anti-Terror Laws in India
• Mugabe: “Zimbabwe is Mine”
• UNHCR Asking for $92M to Aid Somali Refugees in Kenya
• UN Declaration to Decriminalize Homosexuality Supported by 66 Countries

National News:

• Bush Bails Out Detroit for $17.4B

• Obama Team Brainstorming $850B Stimulus Plan of Borrowed Money that Doesn’t Exist that Can Never be Repaid
• “As 2008 Fades Away: The Federal Reserve Threat” commentary by Michael S. Rozeff
• “Excluded Democracy: Scholastic and the Two-Party System” commentary by Ralph Nader
• “Continuity We Can Believe In: Clinton III” commentary by Michael Donnelly
• The Raw Story on 9/11 Civil Suit Against Cheney and Rumsfeld
• “Battle Lines Being Drawn in Fight Over Fairness Doctrine” commentary by Brent Littlefield
• Chicago to Adopt Unconstitutional DC-esque Gun Laws?
• Madoff’s Scam Dated Back to the ’70’s
• “Getting Beyond Camelot” commentary by Judith Warner on Caroline Kennedy

Friday Docket (12/12/08)

American Foreign Policy:

• Obama to Offer Pact With Israel to Respond to Iran’s Non-Existent Nuclear Weapons

• “Enemy Combatants and Freedom of Speech“ commentary by Jacob G. Hornburger
• “Obama, Iraq and the Cyprus Solution“ commentary by Justin Raimondo
• Senate: Rumsfeld’s Torture Policies Inhibited National Security
• “Total Defeat for US in Iraq“ commentary by Patrick Cockburn

World News:

• Zimbabwe Prints a Z$500 Million Note Equal to About US$10

• “After Mumbai“ commentary by P. Sainath
• More than 40 Detained by Pakis

National News:

• White House Looks to Include Detroit in $8 Trillion Bailout Package After Bill Fails to Pass Senate

• Federal Reserve Hiding $2 Trillion in Loans

• EU Stocks and Dollar Falls
• “We All Need a Union“ commentary by Dave Lindorff
• Jesse Jackson, Jr. Held Fundraiser for Blago Saturday

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