2/14/2009: Daily Digest

Action Alerts:

• Center for Constitutional Rights|  Stop the Abuse of the State Secrets Privilege!
• Center for Constitutional Rights|  Support the Freedom of 17 Innocent Men in Guantanamo!
• Amnesty International|  Ask Congress to find out how the U.S. became a nation that tortures.

U.S.:

• Guns and Butter – “9/11 Let’s Get Empirical” – February 4, 2009 (Audio Link)
• Harry Lewis:  “Blown to Bits:  Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion.” (Democracy Now!)
• Robert Kuttner and Michael Hudson on the Obama Administration’s $789 Billion Economic Stimulus Package and $2.5 Trillion Bank Recovery Plans (Democracy Now!)
• Guns and Butter – “9/11 and Nationalist Faith” with Dr. David Ray Griffin – January 7, 2009 (Audio Link)
• Guns and Butter – “Obama’s War Administration” with economic historian and author, Webster Tarpley (Audio Link)

War on Terror:

• Unredacted Documents Reveal Prisoners Tortured to Death (Information Clearing House)

Pakistan:

• ‘US strike’ kills 25 in Pakistan (BBC News)

Afghanistan:

• Russians warn of Afghan parallels (BBC News)

Gaza/Palestine/Israel:

• Former US President Jimmy Carter:  “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land:  A Plan that Will Work” (Democracy Now!)
• Israeli Professor Neve Gordon and Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouti on the Israeli Elections (Democracy Now!)
• Former Speaker of the Israeli Parliament Avraham Burg:  “The Holocaust Is Over:  We Must Rise from its Ashes” (Democracy Now!)
• Israel Lurches Into Fascism (Information Clearing House)

World:

• Conor Foley: “The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War” (Democracy Now!)

~ by peaceseeker99 on February 14, 2009.