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Evening Briefing—16th Sept 2010
Posted: 16 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: AEA, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Arab League, China, civil liberties, criminal justice system, Daniel Luban, DPRK, Futenma, Gaza, Glenn Greenwald, Guantanamo Bay, home foreclosures, IAEA, IMF, IRA, Iran, Israel, Japan, military aid, military industrial complex, NATO, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan, poverty, settlement expansion, Somalia, Syria, terrorism, UN, USDCNY, Venezuela, Warfare and Conflict, William Fisher
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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. Noam 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 (38:19):
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
Investigative journalist 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.
Daily Briefing—2nd-3rd Aug 2010
Posted: 3 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Ali Gharib, Andrew Bacevich, Arizona, bank fee, banking, Bashar Assad, BBP, CFR, Chris Hedges, CIA, electoral politics, FBI, France, Golan Herights, Guatemala, Gulf oil spill, Haqqani Network, Howard Zinn, immigration, India, Iraq War, ISI, Israel, Julian Assange, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, Marc Theissen, Maxine Waters, Middle East, miranda rights, Nabila Ramdani, Netherlands, Nicolas Sarkozy, Nida Khan, overdraft protection, Pakistan, Quetta Shura, Robert Gates, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taliban, Tamil refugees, Thailans, Wikileaks, Wikipedia
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Daily Briefing—19th July 2010
Posted: 19 July 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, African Union, Alistair Harris, ANSF, AU, Bagram, Bagram Air Base, BP, Carol Leonnig, CIA, civilian casualties, Colombia, Communism, Cuba, economic sanctions, FARC, G-20, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, HRW, human rights, Human Rights Watch, Ian Fletcher, illegal immigration, IMF, India, Iran, ISAF, Israel, Kashmir, Lockerbie bomber, military suicides, NATO, Netanyahu, Nick Schwellenbach, OAS, Omar Deghayes, Pakistan, Palestinian refugees, PTSD, right of return, settlements, Somalia, suicide bombing, Syria, Taliban, tax collectors, Taylor Long, TOEFL, Uganda, UN, unemployment, US Army, Venezuela, West Bank
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Daily Briefing—28th-29th June 2010
Posted: 28 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, Alexander Cockburn, ANA, Andy Worthington, Anthony Fenton, ASF, Behzad Yaghmaian, Blackwater, BP, Brazil, Burundi, Canada, Chicago Police, China, CIA, David Petraeus, Dennis Kucinich, espionage, France, G20, Germany, Glenn Greenwald, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, IMF, India, Iran, Israel, Jon Burge, journalism, Lara Logan, Leon Panetta, Manuel Noriega, media, Michael Hastings, Middle East, military industrial complex, Mississippi, Noah Shachtman, NYPD, Palestinians, Panama, Pierre Nkurunziza, police brutality, propaganda, renminbi, Right to Information Act, Russia, SCOTUS, Spencer Ackerman, Stanley McChrystal, Syria, Taiwan, terrorism, torture, Turkey, USS Harry Truman, Xe
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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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U.N. Secret Detention Report
Posted: 17 June 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Abdul Rahim al-Nashiri, Abu Zubaydah, Afghanistan, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Australia, Bagram, Binyam Mohamed, Bisher al-Rawi, Canada, CIA, Egypt, extraordinary rendition, FBI, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, human rights, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, international law, Iraq, Jamil El-Banna, Jordan, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KSM, Maher Arar, Majid Khan, Mamdouh Habib, Manfred Nowak, Moazzam Begg, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, Morocco, Murat Kurnaz, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, Obama, Obama Administration, Omar Deghayes, Pakistan, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Russia, Saifullah Paracha, secret prisons, Syria, torture, UK, UN, UNHRC, US, Walid bin Attash, War on Terror
The heroic Andy Worthington—leading journalist on the Kafka-esque U.S. military prisons at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan; the Bush-Obama Administrations’ policy and standard operating procedures regarding kidnapping, rendition and torture; and the ensuing legal processes—has outstandingly posted excerpts from the February report conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council, “Joint Study on Global Practices in Relation to Secret Detention in the Context of Counter-Terrorism” [.pdf].
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Finkelstein on Flotilla Attack and the Gaza Blockade by ‘Lunatic State’ of Israel (Video)
Posted: 1 June 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Abdul Karim, Ahmet Davutoglu, Al Jazeera, anti-Statism, bunker busters, Diego Gargia, fascism, Financial Times, Free Gaza Movement, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Goldstone Report, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, human rights, IDF, international law, Israel, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lebanon, Middle East, MOP, Netanyahu, Newspeak, Norman Finkelstein, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama, Obama Administration, Palestine-Israel, piracy, propaganda, Ra'anan Gissin, Roderick Long, Russia Today, scud missiles, Syria, terrorism, UN, UN 242, UN Security Council, UNSC, Uzi Mahnaimi, War, Washington Post, Zionism
Norman Finkelstein comments on the State of Israel’s unlawful blockade of Gaza, leading to its Navy’s aggressive invasion of a humanitarian aid convoy (5:23):
Daily Briefing—27th May 2010
Posted: 27 May 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, airstrikes, Amnesty International, black jails, Britain, Canada, Catholicism, Charles Davis, China, CIA, Colombia, DoD, drones, Dyncorp, Freedom Flotilla, Futenma, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gitmo, Guantanamo, habeas corpus, Hezbollah, IDF, IMF, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jeremy Scahill, Jonathan Cook, Kashmir, Kurt Nimmo, Middle East, military industrial complex, Nathan Hodge, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama Administration, Okinawa, Pakistan, Paul Joseph Watson, Pentagon, Philip Giraldi, POWs, PSYOPS, SDRs, Somalia, Syria, Thomas Friedman, torture, TTP, UK, USAF, USD, Vietnam War, William Pfaff
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Daily Briefing—20th May 2010
Posted: 20 May 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, al-Quds, Arizona, Bank of America, banking, border violence, BP, Brazil, Bush Administration, China, CIA, Coast Guard, corporatism, East Jerusalem, eminent domain, EUR, eurozone, FDA, FDIC, financial crisis, Gareth Porter, Gaza, general strike, Gitmo, Glenn Kessler, Greece, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, immigration, Iran, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, mortgage crisis, night raids, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Qatar, Red Shirts, renminbi, Roger Cohen, Russia, SB 1070, settlements, Syria, Texas, Thai protests, Thailand, Turkey, UN, UN Security Council, unemployment, US, WaMu, Wikileaks, yuan
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