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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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Daily Briefing—8th Sept 2010
Posted: 8 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, airport body scanners, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Aleksander Kwasniewski, AMISOM, banking, black sites, Blake Hounshell, BP, Bush tax cuts, Charles Hugh Smith, China, CIA, cognitive science, counterterrorism, credit unions, Deepwater Horizon, DR Congo, drones, drug war, experimental philosophy, extrajudicial assassination, for-profit universities, France, free press, Gareth Porter, general strike, gold, Goldman Sachs, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Hillary Clinton, IDF, IFEX, India, Iran, Iraq War, ISAF, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Joe Biden, Kabul Bank, Kandahar Surge, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, land grabbing, Lebanon, Liz Pulliam Weston, Macondo oil spill, Mahmood Karzai, Mexico, military industrial complex, missile defense, Mullah Omar, NATO, neoliberalism, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philosophy, Poland, PTSD, Robert Fisk, Rwanda, secret prisons, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Stephen Walt, student loans, Sudan, suicide bombings, Taiwan, Taliban, Transocean, TSA, Uganda, UN, Yemen
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Daily Briefing—25th-26th Aug 2010
Posted: 26 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, biometrics, BP, CIA, Cordoba House, David Petraeus, drones, extrajudicial assassination, general strike, Ground Zero Mosque, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Hamid Karzai, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, Iraq War, Jack Hunter, Jeremy Scahill, JSOC, Mossad, NOLA, Pakistan, Park51, Ronald Bailey, SCOTUS, South Africa, Spencer Ackerman, Stephen Walt, Taliban, UN, Wal-Mart, whistleblowers, Wikileaks, Yemen
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Daily Briefing—19th Aug 2010
Posted: 19 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Afghanistan, Arianna Huffington, AU, BlackBerry, BP, Central African Republic, Colombia, Corboda House, David Petraeus, food insecurity, France, Gaza, Ground Zero Mosque, Gulf oil spill, Haiti, IDF, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Jason Ditz, Latin America, Mavi Marmara, middle class, Obama Administration, odious debt, Park 51, privacy rights, public education, RIM, Scott Horton, torture, Uganda, UJ, UN, UN Security Council, United States, universal jurisdiction, World Food Programme
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Daily Briefing—17th Aug 2010
Posted: 17 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, arms trading, Blackwater, Bob Herbert, BP, Bretigne Shaffer, China, Chris Hayes, CNN, Cordoba House, David Finkel, David Paterson, David Petraeus, economic crisis, electoral politics, Ethan McCord, Ethiopia, Federal Reserve, Gareth Porter, gay marriage, GOP, Ground Zero Mosque, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, healthcare, Horn of Africa, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq elections, Iraqiya, ISI, Israel, John Bolton, media, Middle East, military contractors, military industrial complex, MP Nunan, News Corp, Nick Clegg, Norman Solomon, nuclear weapons, Obama, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, PSCs, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Ramzi Binalshibh, Republican Party, Republicans, Scott Horton, Somalia, State of Law, Taiwan, three strike statutes, TTP, UK, UN, Wikileaks, Xe
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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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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.
Weekend Briefing—30th July-1st Aug 2010
Posted: 1 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Aegis System, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, arms trading, ballistic missiles, BP, Charlie Rangel, China, Congo, counterterrorism, CT, Death Penalty, DRC, drug war, economic sanctions, EU, extrajudicial assassinations, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, Hamid Karzai, human rights, Iran, Iraq War, Israel, Justin Raimondo, media, Mike Mullen, missile defense, NATO, oil, Pakistan, parenting, Robert Fisk, Romania, Spain, Spencer Ackerman, Stefan Molyneux, Taliban, UN, UN Security Council, universal jurisdiction, UNSC, war games, Wikileaks
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Watered-Down ‘Regurgitated Pulitzer Campaign’ Called ‘Top Secret America’ and ‘Blowback’ in Somalia (mp3)
Posted: 27 July 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political Science, SomaliaTags: 9/11, Al Shabaab, AMISOM, AntiWar radio, arms trading, blowback, CIA, corporatism, Costa Rica, domestic surveillance, drug war, extrajudicial assassination, Horn of Africa, human rights, humanitarian crisis, Islamic Courts Union, Israel, Jeremy Scahill, Latin America, libertarian, Mohammed Atta, National Surveillance State, Osama bin Laden, Palestine, Ramsey Yousef, Scott Horton, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Somalia, South America, TFG, think tanks, Top Secret America, Transitional Federal Government, Uganda, UN, UN food aid, US, WaPo, War, Washington Post
Jeremy Scahill, leading journalist on the Pentagon’s military contracting, discussed the “incredibly disappointing” Washington Post series on giant system of ‘top secret’ operations of the U.S. government with AntiWar Radio host Scott Horton at Pacifica. He discussed “preparing the battlefield” operations, the WaPo as a “dumping ground” for the C.I.A. and the ‘system intended to give cover to clandestine operators in the private sector acting on behalf of the government’.
Later, Mr. Horton discussed blowback in Somalia against foreign intervention in Somali society perpetuating the horror in the Horn of Africa, giving a great summary of the recent history that led to the current state of affairs in the territory from the Bush Administration’s invasion to the Obama Administration shipping in arms, but blocking food entry. He also discussed 9/11 as blowback for Washington’s enabling of Israel’s ‘war crimes’ (25:50):
