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BLACK SUNDAY SPECIAL Okay raise yer hand if you went to the local shopping mall last Friday at some unbelievably early hour to get "deals" on crap you don't need! If you read last week's missive you would have known to BUY SILVER & CRASH JPMORGAN instead of all that junk. Speaking of last week, did you miss PBC Podcast 194 The History of Imperialism, with Prof. Tony Hall? Well go listen NOW and then buy the book Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism, also a great stocking stuffer! As an aid to our readers here's a nice list of Top Propagandists: Salon's Hack 30 We're listing the worst columnists and cable news commentators America has to offer. Think of this as our all-star team -- of the most predictable, dishonest and just plain stupid pundits in the media. Keep this handy going forward and tell yer friends, too! Know when you're being bamboozled by Corporate Media (see Tony Hall above on how it's happening). And speaking of BAMBOOZLEMENT we go to SCARECROW at FireDogLake.com for Et tu, Sheila Bair? For pity’s sake! How is it possible for a senior federal financial regulator to suggest that the US, with it’s own currency and ability to directly affect exchange rates, is like Ireland or Greece which lack either? And how can someone with a history of acknowledging the risks to consumers manage to write an entire column about phantom risks that might materialize if, at some point in the future, the US insanely behaved as though it were Ireland and Greece, while dismissing the very real immediate crisis we have of 15 million people unemployed with record numbers in poverty, foreclosure and without health insurance and the worst income inequality since the Gilded Age? Please go to the link to read the entirety of the FRAUD being played on the people that somehow Social Security is broke and needs FIXED NOW! It's all so much hogwash but to see one of the O!'s admin push this illogic is well... OH THAT'S RIGHT it's O!'s own Catfood Commission that has all those Petersen-Institute-types who've been working on trying to STEAL the SS $$ for decades! What were WE thinking? If you've never written yer Congresscritter, NOW would be an especially good time! In a related item scroll down to the Max Keiser section to see what MIKE SHEDLOCK has to say about the IMF's "austerity measures" in Ireland and Krugman's response. HINT: if the Catfood Commission gets its way those SAME "austerity measures" will begin in the U.S. That is: SOCIALIZE the TBTF Banks' losses and let them write MASSIVE bonus checks for the BILLIONS they defrauded the government! Going back to last week who listened to NICK TURSE on AntiWar Radio? Well go back and LISTEN already! Then read this from TOMDISPATCH: Tomgram: Nick Turse, Off-Base America : The strangest aspect of America’s global garrisons is that, while millions of Americans -- soldiers, spies, private contractors, Defense Department civilians, and civilian officials of every sort -- cycle through them each year, most Americans know next to nothing about them and could care less. By the way, surprising numbers of American journalists pass through them, too, and yet, looking for a little “kinetic action” out in our war zones, they almost never bother to focus on and report on these colossi of our imperial world. Yet, if you don’t pay attention to them, you know remarkably little about what our country actually means in, and to, the world. TomDispatch considers them an essential beat, and Associate Editor Nick Turse, who has only recently produced the single (must-read!) book available on how to actually get out of our war in Afghanistan -- The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan -- has been covering them for years at this site and it looks as if he, like the Globetrotters, has years to go. In journalistic terms, they are -- or should be -- the gift that just keeps giving. Twenty-First Century Blowback? As Prospects Dim in Iraq, the Pentagon Digs in Deeper Around the Middle East by Nick Turse. More Tom Engelhardt below in the AntiWar Radio section! Of course one of the most critical of U.S. Imperialism was Chalmers Johnson in writing his trilogy Blowback, Sorrow of Empire and Nemesis who passed last week-end. See Democracy Now below for a great interview. Our heartfelt condolences to his family. To read his last thoughts we urge you to get Dismantling the Empire : America's Last Best Hope On a happy note we find Hammer, Hammered: Jury convicts Tom DeLay in money laundering trial: DeLay has chosen to have Senior Judge Pat Priest sentence him. He faces five years to life in prison on the money laundering charge and two to 20 years on the conspiracy charge. He also would be eligible for probation. Also see MAX KEISER below who shows vids of RT Correspondent KAELYN FORDE getting arrested at the annual SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS protest. yes a REPORTER who SHOULD be protected under the First Amendment was ARRESTED. Chilling. And the ACLU reports Passengers' Stories of Recent Travel The ACLU has received over 900 complaints from travelers in the United States about the TSA's new pat-downs, providing a unique vantage point on what is taking place at airports around the nation. What Police State? Your Best Bet for throwing bricks this week is THIS WEEK with BILL GATES and WARREN BUFFET who will make their case they're not being taxed ENOUGH (haha) while their corporations and hedge funds pay LITTLE or NO TAXES as they off-shore ALL their ill-gotten gains. Next you get a three-for-one with JOHN "Crazy Train" MCCAIN & The BU$H Bros. on State of the Candy. We hope you had a nice Turkey Day Weekend, stayed clear of the mass-consumption malls and spent time with your friends and family instead. If you don't have any family or friends then stop by the Brick TeeVee compound and have a beer and some excellent turkey soup! Or get out more! And have a great week!

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»»» Wendell Potter @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW The Fear of Sicko: CIGNA Whistleblower Wendell Potter Apologizes to Michael Moore for PR Smear Campaign; Moore Says Industry Was Afraid Film Would Cause A 'Tipping Point' for Healthcare Reform Moore accepted his apology, but acknowledged to Potter that, “I think we both know this is much larger then what was done to me or in the movie.”
»»» John le Carré @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, "Our Kind of Traitor"
»»» Derrick Jensen @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: "The Dominant Culture is Killing the Planet...It’s Very Important for Us to Start to Build a Culture of Resistance"
»»» Manfred Max-Neef @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef on Barefoot Economics, Poverty and Why The U.S. is Becoming an "Underdeveloping Nation"

»»» GRITtv @ www.grittv.org with Laura Flanders
»»» FEATURED SHOW @ GRITtv WATCH Mark Bittman: Thinking About Food
»»» GRITtv's Danya Abt and Zac Halberd report from Ithica, NY @ GRITtv WATCH The Harvest: Farming Sustainably in New York
»»» Student Protests in London @ GRITtv WATCH Student Protests in London
»»» NBA on TNT THURSDAY DOUBLEHEADER! Heat @ CAVS 8 pm et then Suns @ Warriors 10:30 pm et
Offshore Drilling is Not The Answer: Restore the Moratorium
from Surfrider Foundation (h/t jen)

The tragic and devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a stark reminder that offshore oil drilling is not the answer.
The Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank has spilled millions of gallons of oil into the ecologically rich waters in the Gulf of Mexico and continues to gush 210,000 gallons of oil into the sea every day. The spill remains unabated and now has the potential to become one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. The unfolding catastrophe clearly illustrates that offshore drilling is not safe and new technology is not fool proof.
Tell the Obama Administration new drilling is NOT THE ANSWER. Our coasts and the economy they support cannot withstand anymore!
We are reminded why the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara and the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill led to state and federal moratoriums on offshore oil drilling. The tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico makes it clear that it is time once again time to restore those moratoriums.
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  This Week on Ring of Fire Radio! November 26th, 2010
  • Stepping into the Ring of Fire this week: Congressman Jerrold Nadler will be joining us to discuss the recent war crimes admissions of George W Bush, and he’ll tell us why he thinks we need to move forward with prosecutions.
  • We’ll be taking a look at what the Tea Party is planning to do with itself now that they’ve actually got some of their own in Congress – Mother Jones’s investigative reporter Stephanie Mencimer warns us that they won’t be sitting quietly until the next election.
  • Speaking of the Liptonites, GRITtv’s Laura Flanders stops by to talk about the new book she’s just edited: “At the Tea Party – The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right… And Why We Should Take It Seriously.”
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  • VIDEO! Papantonio: Tom DeLay – The Roach Killer is Convicted! Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz discuss the breaking news about Tom DeLay being convicted for money laundering, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Will he spend the rest of his life in prison?
  • VIDEO! The Great American Stickup When you look at the root causes of our current financial disaster, they can all be traced back to the disastrous policies put in place by Ronald Reagan in his never-ending quest to appease Wall Street. But the truth is that since the day Reagan took office, we haven’t had an American president that was willing to stand up to the corrupt bankers on Wall Street, and each of Reagan’s predecessors has managed to grant every wish they made. Mike Papantonio discuss what has happened to our financial sector with Robert Scheer, author of the new book “The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street.”
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  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
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  • Welcome to Gulag-Casino American Style! by maxkeiser THREE videos with RT Correspondent Kaelyn Forde talking about her being arrested at the annual protest at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, GA! Absolutely STUNNING!
  • UK military weighs in against wikileaks by maxkeiser Hi guys, A very troubling issue has come up. The UK military have issued a D notice to news editors that leaked info from wikileaks should not be published. This means that the info will go around the blogs. At the same time Nominet which runs .uk domains is letting the police remove 'illegal' domains from the net. Today, one of the most respected bloggers on the UK scene http://order-order.com/ has advised bloggers to use hosts outside the UK and not use .uk domain. Here is the Nominet briefing: http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/45676_Dealing-with-domains-associated-with-criminal-activity.pdf I think this may be used as a pretext to close down some political blogs. I am the economy editor of a new site www.newsnetscotland.com and we are very concerned about this. Can you please warn people. I'm sure Alex at inforwars would be interested in this development too.
  • After Ireland was finally forced this week to ask for financial help from the European Union and International Monetary Fund, Barclays analysts now say it is possible that a similar fate could await Spain by maxkeiser READ Spain could be forced to seek a bail-out within months, warns Barclays @ Telegraph UK
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  • Guest Post – The Giant Cover Up by Michael Krieger "An end to “banking as we know it” is fine with us. The “banking” in today’s Western economies is simply a monopoly-distribution point for the dissemination of fiat currency. Central banks have got to distribute money through banks because the alternative – simply distributing it to people – would reveal the scam for what it is. By filtering the money-printed-from-nothing through banks, the process retains a mysterious quality. It is also rendered more complex, which is necessary when one is promoting a Ponzi scheme. Finally, bank distribution allows for a debt add-on that further controls the process. The situation is incredibly destructive, ruinous and benefits, essentially, on a very people who are the most direct beneficiaries of central bank funding stream." – The Daily Bell, Staff Report [Read more...]
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  • Tom Engelhardt Nov 22, 2010: Tom Engelhardt, author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, discusses the legacy of Blowback author Chalmers Johnson who died November 20, how Johnson changed from a self-described “spear carrier for empire” to a sharp and authoritative critic of US foreign policy, learning from Blowback that covert ops have real consequences even if Americans don’t realize what is being done in their names, how positive initial book reviews of The Sorrows of Empire somehow failed to mention the US empire of bases (which is the central focus of book), how Johnson spent the last few months of his life thinking about dismantling the US empire and wondering what a bankrupt superpower would look like and why Americans are facing a stark choice: either give up your empire or live under it. LISTEN HERE (mp3) 18:38
  • Grant F. Smith Nov 24, 2010: Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses Steve Rosen’s $20 million defamation lawsuit against AIPAC, a reminder that the whole Larry Franklin/Rosen/AIPAC cloak and dagger operation was to determine (and front-run) the Bush administration’s internal deliberations on Iran policy, how Rosen’s frenzied rush to warn Israel’s embassy about his FBI encounter shows where AIPAC’s loyalties are and why all the pretrial mudslinging is probably a fight for leverage in an eventual out-of-court settlement that will leave AIPAC unscathed – apart from its declining financial fortunes.. LISTEN HERE (mp3) 19:50
  • Becky Akers Nov 24, 2010: Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses the Transportation Security Administration’s dual purpose: to give air travelers a good show of security theater and to inure Americans to a police state, why engaging in protest is the only good reason left to visit an airport, the superficial proposals to “privatize” TSA screeners without changing their operating methods and why it isn’t possible to prevent terrorism in a free society (but the threat can be decreased with a peaceful foreign policy). LISTEN HERE (mp3) 19:44
  • Charles K. Armstrong Nov 25, 2010: Charles K. Armstrong, Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University, discusses the heavily militarized Korean DMZ and disputed borders that make North/South conflicts unavoidable; how the N. Korean bombardment was a response (justified or not) to provocative S. Korean war games; how US interference – including a significant military presence in the South – hobbles reunification talks; Seoul’s risk of annihilation by an artillery barrage from the North and why N. Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is not nearly as crazy as Western media would have us believe. LISTEN HERE (mp3) 9:32
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Brick TeeVee Deathly Hallows Special!

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DEATHLY HALLOWS Well just NEVER MIND about TORTURE and WAR CRIMES. That was LAST WEEK. The White House Limo gets Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON and swings by the Pentagon to get Joint Chief MIKE MULLEN, the former on Face the Bob, Meet the David and FAKE SNOOZE and the latter on This Amanpout & State of the Candy, no doubt to explain how the U.S. is "winning hearts and minds" in Afghanistan. State of Candy also rounds up TSA biggie John Pistole, the "Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration" (TSA) (Minister of Floo Network. -Ed.) and "Florida Rep. John Mica, the ranking member on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure" (Floo Network critic. -Ed.) No doubt you've seen too many videos of TSA GROPING by now. As we always recommend: FOLLOW THE MONEY. We join DailyPaul.com in progress TSA's Nude Scanners, Former Homeland Security Head Chertoff, and How Our Government Works Michael Chertoff, while he was the Head of Homeland Security under Bush, advocated and pushed for installation and implementation of these new full-body scanners at our airports. Once he was out of "public service", Chertoff's consulting company (Read: Lobbying Company) landed as a client (Surprise!), Rapsican, the company that makes the scanners. He is now a much richer person, I'm sure. There are multiple links to info about Chertoff and the scanner company. No! Happy Holiday Traveling! We think everyone should show up in their bath robes and fuzzy bunny slippers. As a Public Service we remind you of the Fourth Amendment The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Meanwhile the Flat Earth MILLIONAIRES in the House decided all those UNEMPLOYED SLACKERS should stop sucking off the "government teet". In a 258-154 vote on H.R.6419 - Emergency Unemployment Compensation Continuation Act the US House fails to extend jobless benefits Even as the US Congress was refusing to provide aid to the long-term unemployed—a total of 6.2 million people in October, according to the Labor Department—Wall Street was staging another spectacle of unvarnished greed. All of the major US indexes soared in response to General Motors’ $20 billion initial public stock offering and signs that the European Union and the International Monetary Fund are about to loan Ireland tens of billions of euros to insure the investments of major banks in the country’s failing banking system, in return for assurances that the Irish government will impose a new round of savage austerity measures on the working class. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 173 points, an increase of nearly 1.6 percent. Well, there are laws then there DIFFERENT LAWS for those interested in TREASON: Eric Cantor Assures Netanyahu the GOP Majority Will Undermine Obama on Israel but in fine form Cantor Recants on Netanyahu Pledge no doubt to save his ass: Of course, Cantor was just being honest. Although he does oppose virtually all of President Obama's policies (he's a Republican and that is what Republicans do), he supports 100% of Israeli policies. And although an extreme partisan domestically, when it comes to Israel, he supports whichever government is in power. He believes in the right to criticize this government, just not that one. Cantor's mistake was not telling Prime Minister Netanyahu what everyone knows is true anyway, but telling the world what he said. Lastly, we hope you caught Max Keiser's CRASH JP MORGAN BUY SILVER campaign from last week! Read his 500 Dollar Silver Manisfesto Go buy one or two ounces (or more at this bargain-basement price!) of physical silver to support Max's initiative! Go to Max's website to see all the "BUY SILVER" videos too! The Brick TeeVee crew enjoyed "The Deathly Hallows Part One" on a midnight-full-moon showing. Four 'plexes SOLD OUT in our neighborhood and no doubt "The Deathly Hallows Part One" will set yet another box office record. "I open at the close." Direct your Muggle activism to The Harry Potter Alliance. "Expelliarmus!"

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»»» Rep. John Lewis @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Rep. John Lewis on Congress After GOP Victory, Closing Gitmo, Afghan War and Ethics Conviction of Charles Rangel
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»»» Derrick Jensen @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: "The Dominant Culture is Killing the Planet...It’s Very Important for Us to Start to Build a Culture of Resistance"
»»» Ha-Joon Chang @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Economist Ha-Joon Chang on Currency Wars, the G20, and Why "There’s No Such Thing As a Free Market" Broadcasting from Buenos Aires.
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Offshore Drilling is Not The Answer: Restore the Moratorium
from Surfrider Foundation (h/t jen)

The tragic and devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a stark reminder that offshore oil drilling is not the answer.
The Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank has spilled millions of gallons of oil into the ecologically rich waters in the Gulf of Mexico and continues to gush 210,000 gallons of oil into the sea every day. The spill remains unabated and now has the potential to become one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. The unfolding catastrophe clearly illustrates that offshore drilling is not safe and new technology is not fool proof.
Tell the Obama Administration new drilling is NOT THE ANSWER. Our coasts and the economy they support cannot withstand anymore!
We are reminded why the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara and the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill led to state and federal moratoriums on offshore oil drilling. The tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico makes it clear that it is time once again time to restore those moratoriums.
GO HERE NOW!
MOVE TO AMEND! www.movetoamend.org
SIGN HERE NOW!
Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site www.savedemocracy.net

B R I C K T E E V E E
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The essential guide for watching government propaganda
IRAQ: 4,427 US Military Dead as of Nov 11, 2010
AFGHANISTAN: 1,384 US Military Dead as of Nov 11, 2010
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises
Considering Democracy: 8 Things to ask your Representative

• This Week (ABC) with Christiane Amanpour
  • Fact Checking ABC's "This Week" at NPR "On the Media" - Jake Tapper, interim host of ABC's "This Week," liked the idea of fact-checking his guests' comments, so he set up a partnership with Politifact, a non-partisan fact-checking organization. Tapper explains that as a host, you can only do so much fact-checking during the interview.
  • Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen.
  • ROUNDTABLE: George Will, Donna Brazile, Ed Luce and Robert Reich

• Face The Nation (CBS) Host Bob Schiefer
  • Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Leader (Exclusive)
  • U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • THE MERCHANT OF DEATH - The Drug Enforcement Administration agents who caught the alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout explain how they lured and then captured the suspect one of them calls "one of the most dangerous men on the face of the Earth." Armen Keteyian reports. Robert Anderson and Pat Milton are the producers
  • DESIGNING LIFE - Steve Kroft profiles famous microbiologist J. Craig Venter, whose scientists have already mapped the human genome and created what he calls "the first synthetic species." Andy Court is the producer

• Meet the Press (NBC) Host David Gregory
  • Meet the Facts at NPR "On the Media" - Last December, NYU professor Jay Rosen proposed something simple yet revolutionary: why don't the Sunday morning chat shows fact check their guests? After "Meet the Press" host David Gregory declined, two college students launched a website to do it for him. One of them, Chas Danner, explains what they're trying to accomplish.
  • Sec. of State Hillary Clinton
  • ROUNDTABLE: Robert Draper, who takes us "Inside Sarah Palin's Inner Circle" in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine; The Wall Street Journal's Paul Gigot; Tea Party-backed Rep.-elect Allen West (R-FL); and Richard Wolffe

• State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)
  At 9 AM ET, Candy talks to the power players: politicians, business leaders and international newsmakers who will make Monday morning's headlines. At NOON ET, Candy wraps it all up with fresh interviews and the best of the earlier hours.
  • Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • John Pistole, the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration
  • Congressmen James Clyburn of South Carolina
  • Florida Rep. John Mica, the ranking member on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

• HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid
  
  Headon Radio with Bob Kincaid 6 PM Eastern, 3 PM Pacific, 2300 GMT. Duration: 3 hrs. To be part of the conversation on Head-on Radio, call toll-free (877) 443-2366, or use our Liberal community line at 304-658-3333. Email: bob [at] headonradio [dot] com.
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  Go see greennews.bradblog.com!
  • 'Green News Report' - November 18, 2010 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: BP made 'poor decisions' in the Gulf, says the National Obvious Commission; GM is back, baby!; Lame ducks and Lame Dems: No food safety bill for you, but BPA stays in your food supply...PLUS: A Republican blasts --- blasts --- Republican climate change deniers ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
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  GONE TO MIAMI - Your humble host is taking the next 2 weeks off for a long-delayed vacation in Maui. He’s gonna unplug from the grid, read some trashy novels, and recharge for the battles ahead. Look for the next podcast before Thanksgiving.
  • PBC Podcast 194 The History of Imperialism, with Prof. Tony Hall Anthony Hall is a leading expert on empires and imperialism, and joins PBC and Sibel Edmonds for this new edition of the Boiling Frogs interview series.
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• Ring of Fire Radio
  
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  This Week on Ring of Fire Radio! November 19th, 2010
  • Stepping into the Ring of Fire this week: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who will discuss the growing problem of home foreclosures in America, and he’ll tell us what he is doing to help solve this epidemic.
  • The brilliant and controversial author, Sam Harris, surveys the topography of right and wrong in his provocative new book, “The Moral Landscape,” – and you’ll be amazed at what he’s discovered.
  • Author Frank Schaeffer will give us the inside story on how the corporatist wing of the GOP managed to convince evangelical voters that major corporations are actually living the words of Jesus Christ better than political candidates.
  • And author Ari Berman will be here to talk about how the Democratic Party has abandoned the great organizing campaigns that Howard Dean crafted over the last few years, and why we won’t be able to win elections if we don’t reconstruct it.
  • You Can Listen to Ring of Fire on These Stations HERE.
  • VIDEO! Papantonio: Republicans Digging Their Own Grave The GOP wants to ban earmarks in Congress, while extending the trillion-dollar tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. They don’t seem to realize that earmark projects are already fully funded, and that they help create local jobs and businesses throughout America. Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz talk about how the GOP will self destruct under their own proposals.
  • VIDEO! Midterm Elections Demonstrate Need for Revolution This year’s midterm election results didn’t come as a surprise to many people, but what is surprising is that the Tea Party Republicans were able to convince so many people to vote against their own interests. What’s even worse is that President Obama has now decided that instead of fighting the GOP majority, he’s going to just go along with them and let their disastrous economic and social policies be resurrected. It’s becoming clear that average US citizens have no allies in our federal government, so the question now is “what do we do?” Mike Papantonio talks with blogger and author David DeGraw, who says that the first step we can take in reclaiming America is to educate ourselves and others about what is really happening in our country.
  • Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the “Podcast” tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up!
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio with David Bender: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm (4 pm on XM 167) featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  
  "HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • VISIT PirateMyFilm.com!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!
  • Gold porn king Jim Sinclair: “This is Late 1979, Gold Will Rise Violently” by maxkeiser READ This is really the first time since we came off of the high, that it’s starting to show a character of wanting to make a new high. @ kingworldnews.com
  • $500 Silver & Imminent Price Explosion! Max Keiser (500 dollar silver) by maxkeiser MK: JP Morgan also holds the largest derivatives positions of any banks, at $69 Trillion (not 1.5 trillion that I mention in my conversation with Alex), according to the US OCC. Thus, it is likely that JP Morgan also holds the largest short position in silver derivatives, too, as a matter of course, since they dominate derivatives trading in general. So, to them, a $100 billion short position in silver would be “chump change” compared to their other derivatives positions, and may, in actual fact, be a part of a larger overall strategy to maintain the value of their other derivatives, (including the US dollar) to keep interest rates low.
  • It is the buy one ounce of silver drive. If every person in America bought just one ounce of physical silver (current spot price is at $26.06), it would put a massive squeeze on the banks, and force them to cover and end the manipulation by maxkeiser READ The buy one ounce of physical silver drive @ examiner.com
  • Is Max Keiser’s attempt to put JP Morgan out of business working following the mother of all silver physical squeezes? by maxkeiser Zerohedge: “Is Max Keiser’s attempt to put JP Morgan out of business working following the mother of all silver physical squeezes? The price of silver has been stable in the past few days, but if the US official precious metal seller is to be trusted, this will not last long. According to the US Mint, sales of 1-ounce American Eagle silver coins are headed for the strongest month since at least May, Bloomberg reports.” READ US Mint Reports Soaring November Month-To-Date Silver Coin Sales Surpass 2010 High Following Massive Rush Into Precious Metal @ zerohedge
  • MUST WATCH!!!! More patents are issued relating to inventions involving Silver than all other metals combined by maxkeiser READ @ ausbullion
  • Guest Post – The Giant Cover Up by Michael Krieger "An end to “banking as we know it” is fine with us. The “banking” in today’s Western economies is simply a monopoly-distribution point for the dissemination of fiat currency. Central banks have got to distribute money through banks because the alternative – simply distributing it to people – would reveal the scam for what it is. By filtering the money-printed-from-nothing through banks, the process retains a mysterious quality. It is also rendered more complex, which is necessary when one is promoting a Ponzi scheme. Finally, bank distribution allows for a debt add-on that further controls the process. The situation is incredibly destructive, ruinous and benefits, essentially, on a very people who are the most direct beneficiaries of central bank funding stream." – The Daily Bell, Staff Report [Read more...]
  • KEISER REPORT Keiser Report: ‘Crash JP Morgan’ guest: Alex Jones
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS - no new broadcasts
  • ON THE EDGE On the Edge with Max Keiser-World Oil Production-11-19-2010-(Part1)

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton
  LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • Nick Turse Nov 17, 2010: Nick Turse, author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives and editor of The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan, discusses US contingency plans to maintain a large Persian Gulf regional influence should the Iraq occupation ever end, Qatar’s successful $1 billion “if you build it, he will come” gambit that the US military would be drawn to an unused air base (Qatar has no air force) and the current estimate that the US military now has over 1000 bases worldwide. LISTEN HERE (mp3) 10:58
  • Jacob Hornberger Nov 17, 2010: Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the history of FFF.org and the reading materials behind his conversion from liberal Democrat to Libertarian, the forewarning from Chalmers Johnson’s prescient book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire that was written before 9/11, why Americans must choose to either abandon their empire or live under it, the mostly-unseen inflation tax that disproportionately effects the poor and the ongoing struggle between libertarians and statists. LISTEN HERE (mp3) 26:47
  • Nick Hankoff Nov 20, 2010: Nick Hankoff, member of Year of Youth and Young Americans for Liberty, discusses the November 24th We Won’t Fly protest against TSA body scanners and groping searches, how former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff’s enthusiastic promotion of body scanners has become a conflict of interest and the growing outrage among people of all political persuasions against government attacks on their dignity and liberty. LISTEN HERE (mp3) 8:29
  • Daphne Eviatar Nov 20, 2010: Daphne Eviatar, Senior Associate in Law and Security for Human Rights First, discusses the relatively fair federal trial that ended in Ahmed Ghailani‘s conviction of a conspiracy charge related to the 1998 (US) Africa embassy bombings, another example of a civilian terrorism trial with a guilty verdict and no security threats (despite the fear-mongering of Liz Cheney’s Keep America Safe group), the far harsher sentences given in federal terrorism trials than in Guantanamo’s military commissions and why the prosecution of child-soldier Omar Khadr for war crimes is itself a war crime. LISTEN HERE (mp3) 20:04
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CAT FOOD COMMISSION You might recall a year ago nearly to the day an item from Chris Bowers @ OpenLeft Bayh, Conrad, Feinstein, Lieberman and Warner form national suicide pact Currently, these five Democrats are demanding that Speaker Pelosi hand over all relevant Congressional power to an independent commission that will be allowed to slash and partially privatize Social Security and Medicare, or else they will allow the United States to default on its debt. I am not kidding: (see link for the whole story). Shortly after that it died but President Not Sure made his OWN Catfood Commission with nary a progressive/liberal on it featuring arch-neolibs ERSKINE BOLWES & ALAN SIMPSON (link) and they sent up a trial balloon this week. Mahablog points out in The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Seriously? These clowns meet for eight something months, and the plan they come up with is to cut Social Security, Medicare, eliminate tax breaks for mortgage interest and child care, but cut income tax rates? Including tax rates for corporations? Seriously? Well, OK, not seriously. Aptly she points to PAUL KRUGMAN who shoots holes in the "trial balloon": OK, let’s say goodbye to the deficit commission. If you’re sincerely worried about the US fiscal future — and there’s good reason to be — you don’t propose a plan that involves large cuts in income taxes. Even if those cuts are offset by supposed elimination of tax breaks elsewhere, balancing the budget is hard enough without giving out a lot of goodies — goodies that fairly obviously, even without having the details, would go largely to the very affluent. I mean, what’s this about? There is no — zero — evidence that income taxes at current rates are an important drag on growth. Oh, and they’re talking about raising the retirement age, because people live longer — except that the people who really depend on Social Security, those in the bottom half of the distribution, aren’t living much longer. So you’re going to tell janitors to work until they’re 70 because lawyers are living longer than ever. HA! But this Nobel Laureate is isn't finished! In Saturday's NYT The Soft Bigotry of Low Deficit Commission Expectations Krugman emphasizes Or put it another way: what on earth are people who say things like, “This proposal can be a starting point for discussion” thinking? We’ve been discussing and discussing, ad nauseam; the commission was supposed to provide a finishing point for discussion. Instead, it produced a PowerPoint that is one part stuff that has long been on the table, one part conservative wish-list, and one part just weirdly ill-considered. The kindest thing we can do now is pretend the whole thing never happened. Look for KRUGMAN beating up always-clueless Mr. Talking Points GEORGE WILL on This Anampout, also featuring LINDSEY GRAHAM and MADELINE "We think the price is worth it" ALBRIGHT. So as the QE2 we reported about begins soon and President Not Sure gets drubbed by the international G20 the spectre of massive inflation may rear its ugly head. A fine h/t to taozen @ samseder.com for A loaf of wheat bread may soon cost $23 due to skyrocketing food price inflation: "For every economic problem the U.S. government tries to solve, it always creates two or three much larger catastrophes in the process," said Adams. "Just like we predicted this past December, the U.S. dollar index bounced in early 2010 and has been in free-fall ever since. Bernanke's QE2 will likely accelerate this free-fall into a complete U.S. dollar rout." As Prairie2 reminds us "BUY CANNED GOODS!" Speaking of a US$ rout, recall JPMC & HPMC price-fixing SILVER, which MAX KEISER is covering in depth (see below and ref. his website) and ALAN GREENSPAN will BAFFLE you on Meet the David with sidekick NEWT "Contract ON America" GINGRICH. Meanwhile the Mortgage Robo-signing mess continues. Go to Rolling Stone NOW before this item goes behind their pay-for firewall Matt Taibbi: Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners: Why don't the banks want us to see the paperwork on all these mortgages? Because the documents represent a death sentence for them. According to the rules of the mortgage trusts, a lender like Bank of America, which controls all the Countrywide loans, is required by law to buy back from investors every faulty loan the crooks at Countrywide ever issued. Of course pRezident Dim Son released some kind of memoir and went on teevee to brag about AUTHORIZING TORTURE. ConsortiumNews.com contributor RAY MCGOVERN explains in Bush Boasts About Waterboarding "Sadly, it is now clear that U.S. officials do not believe they should be held to that universal standard, and that the Nuremberg principles and other international laws need not apply to decisions emanating from the White House" while JASON LEOPOLD digs deeper in truthout Special Prosecutor Declines to File Criminal Charges Over Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes: Department of Justice (DOJ) spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement Tuesday that Durham, a US Attorney from Connecticut, has "concluded that he will not pursue criminal charges for the destruction of interrogation videotapes." The statute of limitations for bringing criminal charges related to the destruction of the tapes ran out Tuesday. (NOTE: Curiously, this is the SAME DAY gwb's book came out! -Ed.) Truthout contacted Durham's spokesman, Tom Carson, late Monday evening raising questions about whether Durham's investigation was ongoing in light of the statute of limitations expiring or whether he had concluded his probe. Carson, in an email sent to Truthout hours before Miller issued a statement, said Durham's investigation is still an "open matter." Catch an interview with Leopold and BradBlog's BRAD FRIEDMAN subbing for Mike Malloy HOUR 3: Jason Leopold in studio with me to party like it's 2005, Bush is in office, and nobody's facing any accountability. Hmm... (mp3) Lastly Spend 87 minutes of your life Vietnam: American Holocaust narrated by Martin Sheen, written, produced and directed by Clay Claiborn. See below for the Sunday Funnies Beltway Bubalas line-up with this note: What is JEFF "The Dude" BRIDGES doing on FAKE SNOOZE SUNDAY? The Brick TeeVee crew has been dealing with the Attack of the Killer Leaves all week! We rake, they come back! We rake some more, more leaves! 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»»» Arundhati Roy @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Acclaimed Indian Author Arundhati Roy on Obama’s Wars, Poverty and India’s Maoist Rebels
»»» Activist Allan Nairn @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW EXCLUSIVE: As Obama Arrives in Jakarta, Secret Docs Show U.S.-backed Indonesian Special Forces Unit Targets Papuan Churches, Civilians We go to Jakarta to speak with investigative journalist and activist Allan Nairn, who has just released secret documents from Kopassus—the feared Indonesian special forces—which has been responsible for human rights abuses since the 1950s.
»»» Nir Rosen @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Nir Rosen on "Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World"
»»» Deficit Commission @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Obama Deficit Commission Criticized for Proposals to Slash Social Security, Medicare
»»» London Student Protests @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW Over 50,000 Students Protest in London over Planned Cuts to Education Funding
»»» Argentina since 2001 Default @ Democracy NOW! WATCH NOW A Look at Argentina’s Economic Rebellion and the Social Movements that Led It Broadcasting from Buenos Aires.
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Offshore Drilling is Not The Answer: Restore the Moratorium
from Surfrider Foundation (h/t jen)

The tragic and devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a stark reminder that offshore oil drilling is not the answer.
The Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank has spilled millions of gallons of oil into the ecologically rich waters in the Gulf of Mexico and continues to gush 210,000 gallons of oil into the sea every day. The spill remains unabated and now has the potential to become one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. The unfolding catastrophe clearly illustrates that offshore drilling is not safe and new technology is not fool proof.
Tell the Obama Administration new drilling is NOT THE ANSWER. Our coasts and the economy they support cannot withstand anymore!
We are reminded why the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara and the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill led to state and federal moratoriums on offshore oil drilling. The tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico makes it clear that it is time once again time to restore those moratoriums.
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• This Week (ABC) with Christiane Amanpour
  • Fact Checking ABC's "This Week" at NPR "On the Media" - Jake Tapper, interim host of ABC's "This Week," liked the idea of fact-checking his guests' comments, so he set up a partnership with Politifact, a non-partisan fact-checking organization. Tapper explains that as a host, you can only do so much fact-checking during the interview.
  • former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham
  • Sen. Kent Conrad
  • Honeywell CEO David Cote
  • ROUNDTABLE: George Will, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus and Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institution

• Face The Nation (CBS) Host Bob Schiefer
  • Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y
  • Sen.-elect Rand Paul, R-Ky

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • SHALEIONAIRES - While some complain that extracting natural gas from shale rock formations is tainting their water supply, others who have allowed drilling on their property are getting wealthy and becoming "shaleionaires." Lesley Stahl reports. Shachar Bar-On and Meghan Frank are the producers.
  • HAITI - The earthquake made things in already-poor Haiti bad enough, but now a cholera epidemic is threatening to kill more Haitians, whose living conditions after the quake help to spread the water-borne infection. Byron Pitts reports. Harry Radliffe and Magalie Laguerre Wilkinson are the producers.

• Meet the Press (NBC) Host David Gregory
  • Meet the Facts at NPR "On the Media" - Last December, NYU professor Jay Rosen proposed something simple yet revolutionary: why don't the Sunday morning chat shows fact check their guests? After "Meet the Press" host David Gregory declined, two college students launched a website to do it for him. One of them, Chas Danner, explains what they're trying to accomplish.
  • Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod
  • Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
  • ROUNDTABLE: Fmr. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Fmr. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA), Fmr. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN) and Bethany McLean of Vanity Fair.

• State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)
  At 9 AM ET, Candy talks to the power players: politicians, business leaders and international newsmakers who will make Monday morning's headlines. At NOON ET, Candy wraps it all up with fresh interviews and the best of the earlier hours.
  • Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas
  • Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia
  • Congressmen James Clyburn of South Carolina
  • Heath Shuler of North Carolina.
  • former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn
  • former Republican Congressman Tom Davis

• HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid
  
  Headon Radio with Bob Kincaid 6 PM Eastern, 3 PM Pacific, 2300 GMT. Duration: 3 hrs. To be part of the conversation on Head-on Radio, call toll-free (877) 443-2366, or use our Liberal community line at 304-658-3333. Email: bob [at] headonradio [dot] com.
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  The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen: 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment!
  Go see greennews.bradblog.com!
  • 'Green News Report' - November 11, 2010 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Limbaugh continues to hoax America; Vets get Senate help for chemical exposure; Cholera spreads in Haiti; Halliburton in the fracking hot seat (again); Mother Jones wins for BP Oil Spill reporting... PLUS: Sexy, sexy energy efficiency with Joe Biden ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  Visit BradBlog.com to see who counts yer votes! Reference yer background/research at Who's Counting? too.

• The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!
  
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  The Peter B. Collins Show covers American news and politics from the Left Coast. Veteran talk radio personality Peter B. Collins, based in San Francisco, delivers fresh interviews, commentary and analysis on a range of important topics, with views and voices you don’t often find in the corporate media.
  GONE TO MIAMI - Your humble host is taking the next 2 weeks off for a long-delayed vacation in Maui. He’s gonna unplug from the grid, read some trashy novels, and recharge for the battles ahead. Look for the next podcast before Thanksgiving.
  • PBC Podcast 191 Midterm Morning After: Left Coast Perspective In this brief, single-topic podcast, PBC recaps the midterm election from his Left and Left Coast perspective: Californians rejected corporate tool candidates and initiatives!
  • PBC Podcast 192 Midterm Election Analysis: Robert Parry and Prof. David Coates Midterm Election Analysis, Part 1. Robert Parry of ConsortiumNews sees the election as a continuation of Reaganism; Prof. David Coates of Wake Forest has 3 points of advice for Democrats.
  • PBC Podcast 193 Election Analysis, Part 2: Jeffrey Feldman on Dems’ Weak Narratives, Tim Carpenter of PDA on Progressive Strategies
  • PBC Podcast 194 The History of Imperialism, with Prof. Tony Hall Anthony Hall is a leading expert on empires and imperialism, and joins PBC and Sibel Edmonds for this new edition of the Boiling Frogs interview series.
  More podcasts at PeterBCollins.com!

• Ring of Fire Radio
  
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and David Bender
  Ring of Fire is now syndicated by Westwood One. Stay tuned for more info.
  Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, David Bender - Politics, Commentary, and News.
  This Week on Ring of Fire Radio! November 12th, 2010
  • This week on Ring of Fire Radio, Paul Schrade, friend and former advisor to Senator Robert F. Kennedy, joins us on the day when the RFK Community Schools will be dedicated in Los Angeles. He’ll tell us about his 25 year effort to build a meaningful legacy to Senator Kennedy that’s based on teaching social justice to future generations.
  • Rolling Stone Magazine political correspondent Tim Dickinson will be here to tell us why President Obama deserves much more credit than he is receiving from his progressive critics, and why his first two years in office should be considered very successful.
  • Author Robert Scheer enters the Ring to explain how the disastrous policies of Ronald Reagan and his economic advisors led to the downfall of the entire US economy more than a quarter of a century after they we enacted.
  • And blogger David DeGraw will tell us how we can take back our democracy by arming ourselves with the proper tools – not with firearms and belligerence – but with knowledge and activism.
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  • VIDEO! Papantonio: Obama Has Lost His Backbone He caved in on the Bush tax cuts; He’s considering slashing Social Security and Medicare; The question now is whether or not he will stand and fight the Republicans who are trying to dismantle his greatest legislative accomplishment – Healthcare reform. Mike Papantonio talks with Ed Schultz about Obama’s seemingly missing backbone, and what we can do to once again get him fighting.
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  • God has a plan for global bleaching of coral and it doesn’t include R&D by stacyherbert This chart proves that despite all the public claims otherwise by various US administrations, the only plan they have for energy is war. And it also demonstrates a major flaw in the thinking of those tens of thousands of scientists allegedly hoaxing the entire world with their fake research proving that temperatures are rising and the climate is the changing. What f*&^ing morons for scamming a field of research with DECLINING research dollars going toward it. Don’t these morons see that if they are so hell bent on securing research funding they should head into health research? Money is pouring into that field.
  • Guest Post – The Giant Cover Up by Michael Krieger "An end to “banking as we know it” is fine with us. The “banking” in today’s Western economies is simply a monopoly-distribution point for the dissemination of fiat currency. Central banks have got to distribute money through banks because the alternative – simply distributing it to people – would reveal the scam for what it is. By filtering the money-printed-from-nothing through banks, the process retains a mysterious quality. It is also rendered more complex, which is necessary when one is promoting a Ponzi scheme. Finally, bank distribution allows for a debt add-on that further controls the process. The situation is incredibly destructive, ruinous and benefits, essentially, on a very people who are the most direct beneficiaries of central bank funding stream." – The Daily Bell, Staff Report [Read more...]
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  • Andy Worthington Nov 9, 2010: Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses George W. Bush’s admission that he emphatically approved of waterboarding – with the unsupported caveat that it saved lives, the post-9/11 US torture regime designed to extract “evidence” linking al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, tracing DHS orange alerts back to false confessions of torture victims, how Congress essentially jails scheduled-for-release Guantanamo prisoners for 2 weeks while vetting their releases, the abolition of accountable and limited government thanks to Obama’s refusal to “look back” at the Bush administration’s lawlessness and how the British got their own Abu Ghraib-type scandal. LISTEN HERE (mp3) 38:54
  • Katherine Gallagher Nov 11, 2010: Katherine Gallagher, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the disappointing end to John Durham’s multi-year investigation into CIA torture tape destruction (coinciding exactly with the expiring statute of limitations), why half-assed limited investigations may not be enough to placate European judges from prosecuting US government officials under universal jurisdiction, low expectations for Durham’s remaining preliminary investigation into “unauthorized” torture practices, the Justice Department’s shilling for unlimited executive power without judicial oversight, Attorney General Eric Holder’s inaction over Bush’s “damn right” boast of waterboarding approval despite Holder’s clear statement that waterboarding amounts to torture and the mounting evidence that the US is no longer governed by the rule of law. LISTEN HERE (mp3) 27:59
  • Mike Gogulski Nov 11, 2010: Mike Gogulski, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, discusses Bradley Manning friend and website supporter David House’s detainment and questioning by FBI and DHS officials who also confiscated his laptop, nearly complete fundraising efforts for Manning’s legal defense, chances the new Congress will draft legislation similar to the UK’s law against withholding encryption passwords from law enforcement and proof that WikiLeaks doesn’t only pick on the US government: upcoming releases bound to embarrass Russia and Lebanon, among others. LISTEN HERE (mp3) 15:38 20:02
  • Jim Powell Nov 11, 2010: Jim Powell, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Wilson’s War: How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and World War II, discusses how US entry into WWI broke a three year stalemate and gave the allied forces a decisive victory, how the punitive Treaty of Versailles and crippling hyperinflation from war reparations provoked a defiant German nationalist reaction creating an environment receptive to Hitler’s rise to power, Woodrow Wilson’s arrogant creation of new national boundaries that are still sources of conflict today,how disparate cultures newly lumped together fighting for control over public schools can be seen as a microcosm of inherently problematic centralized government, how Wilson dissuaded Russia from negotiating a ceasefire with Germany – enabling Lenin and the Bolsheviks to seize power while the Russian army collapsed and why government power is inversely related to its functionality.LISTEN HERE (mp3) 27:50
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