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“There is no avoidance in delay.”
-- Aeschylus
News and Opinion
Judge orders action over photographs depicting US military abuse
Defense Department officials given a week to explain lack of progress over images documenting treatment of detainees after 9/11 attacks
The US Department of Defense has been given a week to explain why it has not yet complied with a federal court order to list the individual exemptions for the disclosure of over 2,000 photographs depicting military abuse of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq.
At a district court hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, judge Alvin Hellerstein described the consequences of the government’s decade long court battle to suppress the photographs, as a way “to obtain a very substantial delay” on disclosure.
“I have a feeling where we are at this point – to make up a phrase – at a line in the sand,” Hellerstein said, instructing counsel for the Defense Department to submit in writing how long it would take to comply with the ruling made in August 2014, or to appeal the order.
The American Civil Liberties Union has been fighting a transparency case against the Defense Department since 2004. Some photographs, which document treatment of detainees in detention facilities after the September 11 attacks, are said to be more disturbing that the infamous images of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib uncovered in 2004. ...
The potential disclosure would follow the publication of a damning report into the CIA’s use of torture against high value detainees at ‘black sites’ following the September 11 attacks. The report found that the CIA’s use of torture – including waterboarding, rectal feeding, and the use of stress positions – was both brutal and ineffective, and that the CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the executive branch about its effectiveness.
Torture Advocates Outnumbered Critics 2-to-1 - FAIR survey finds torturers well-represented on TV news
A new FAIR study finds that torture defenders outnumbered critics of torture by nearly 2 to 1 in TV news coverage of the Senate Intelligence Committee report released on December 9.
FAIR surveyed the guests of nine news programs for the week of December 7 to December 14, when discussion of the torture report’s findings was most prominent. The programs included the Sunday talk shows (NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face the Nation, ABC's This Week, Fox News Sunday and CNN’s State of the Union) along with four weekday news shows (MSNBC's Hardball, Fox's Special Report, the first hour of CNN's Situation Room and the PBS NewsHour).
Of the 104 guests discussing the topic on these shows, 53 expressed a discernible opinion either for or against the use of torture. Thirty-five of those who took a position, or 66 percent, were supportive of torture. This included a few individuals who claimed to be against "torture," but defended interrogation methods such as waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques” that are recognized as torture under US and international law.
Only 18 guests (34 percent) articulated clear opposition to the CIA's torture practices--about half as many as spoke up in defense of torture.
Jordan’s Pledge to Escalate Fight with ISIS a Coup for US
From the moment the video emerged of ISIS executing Jordanian pilot Lt. Moaz al-Kasaesbeh, US officials were salivating at the prospect of Jordan being sucked deeper into their war. It looks like they may get their wish.
Jordan’s public policy is now officially centered on a Moby Dick-style quest for revenge, and US officials couldn’t be happier, seeing heedless escalation as something that can only benefit the war effort.
Jordan pilot's murder and the banality of evil
ISIL's previous executions of US and British citizens were designed to manipulate the leaders of the US and UK to react and acknowledge that despite their advanced militaries deployed against ISIL, the group had the means to retaliate.
The recent execution follows the same pathology, demonstrating how it could manipulate the King of Jordan. The use of immolation sent a particularly nasty and brutal message of revenge against a Muslim head of state. In the case of ISIL's recent execution, it has shown that it does not accord to Hannah Arendt's notion of the Banality of Evil, where the elimination of Europe's Jewish population was routinised and systemised in the Nazi bureaucracy managing the Holocaust.
ISIL seems to demonstrate that its violence is not banal, but that it escalates its acts of savagery, beginning with beheadings to burning a human being. The act of beheading by knife and sword, in ISIL's calculation, might give the impression to the publics it seeks to terrorise as something that ISIL has routinised.
Immolation in this case was designed for greater shock value. ISIL's execution demonstrates that it has become obsessed with crafting the spectacle of execution, seeking new ways to both inspire and shock publics, specifically the Jordanian public. ...
What killed Kassasbeh was not Islam. What killed him are the new dynamics of globalisation and transnational violence that have consumed the Middle East and the Islamic world, unleashed by the 2003 Iraq war and the 2011 Syrian civil war. ...
As I wrote in response to Obama's State of the Union speech, state-sanctioned violence in response to non-state actor violence will continue to produce an endless cycle of violence if not coupled with addressing the conditions - unemployment, humiliation, lack in governance - that produce terrorism in the first place.
Defense Secretary Nominee Supports Arming Ukraine
Defense Secretary nominee Ashton Carter says the US is committed to Ukraine’s independence. By that, of course, he means to start throwing large quantities of weapons at them for the sake of their ongoing civil war.
Carter says he isinclined to support plans to start arming Ukraine’s rebels,something which will likely speed his confirmation in the Senate, where a number of hawks hold powerful positions, and have been pushing for the US to get more involved in that nation’s civil war, and indeed all wars. ...
The Pentagon is arguing that giving Ukraine anti-tank weapons would shift the balance of the civil war, and would intimidate the eastern rebels into surrendering outright. Others have warned its more likely to coax Russia into arming the rebels and escalating the war.
Hollande, Merkel begin Kiev-Moscow 2-day Ukraine peace plan tour
Merkel and Hollande to fly to Moscow in new effort to resolve Ukraine crisis
Angela Merkel and François Hollande have announced a surprise European diplomatic intervention over east Ukraine, with the pair due in Kiev on Thursday and Moscow on Friday in an attempt to end the violence which has cost more than 5,000 lives.
“Together with Angela Merkel we have decided to take a new initiative,” Hollande told a news conference. “We will make a new proposal to solve the conflict which will be based on Ukraine’s territorial integrity.” It will be Merkel’s first trip to Russia since the outbreak of violence in eastern Ukraine began.
The intensification of diplomatic efforts came as the US secretary of state, John Kerry, arrived in Kiev to meet the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, and other top officials. Kerry, speaking in Kiev, said Russia needed to “demonstrate its commitment to ending the bloodshed once and for all”, and called on all sides to find a diplomatic solution. In recent days, a number of US officials have signalled that Washington may be open to providing Ukraine with direct military aid.
A diplomatic source in Kiev said a summit on east Ukraine planned for last month in Kazakhstan and due to involve Merkel, Hollande, Putin and Poroshenko, was cancelled mainly because the German chancellor said she would not attend unless there was a clear sign that progress could be made.
Friday’s joint mission may mean she now feels there is a deal acceptable to all sides to be made, or it may be a last-ditch attempt to force Putin to negotiations before a US arming of Ukraine leads to further escalation.
Sami Al-Arian, Professor Who Defeated Controversial Terrorism Charges, is Deported from U.S.
In 2003, Sami Al-Arian was a professor at the University of South Florida, a legal resident of the U.S. since 1975, and one of the most prominent Palestinian civil rights activists in the U.S. That year, the course of his life was altered irrevocably when he was indicted on highly controversial terrorism charges by then Attorney General John Ashcroft. These charges commenced a decade-long campaign of government persecution in which Al-Arian was systematically denied his freedom and saw his personal and professional life effectively destroyed.
Despite the personal harm he suffered and the intense surveillance to which he had been subjected since as early as 1993, the government ultimately failed to produce any evidence of Al-Arian’s involvement in terrorist activities, instead relying at trial overwhelmingly on the pro-Palestinian writing and speaking he had done over the years.
His ordeal finally ended last night, 12 years after it began, as Al-Arian was deported yesterday at midnight (EST) from the United States to Turkey. His deportation was part of a 2006 plea bargain to which he acquiesced in order, he told The Intercept last night while at the airport preparing to leave the U.S., to “conclude his case and bring an end to his family’s suffering.” Al-Arian added: “I came to the United States for freedom, but four decades later, I am leaving to gain my freedom.”
For most of the three years after his arrest, Al-Arian was kept in solitary confinement awaiting trial. During this time, he was regularly subjected to strip-searches, denied normal visitation rights with his family, and allegedly abused by prison staff. Amnesty International denounced the circumstances of his detention as “gratuitously punitive” and in violation of international standards on the treatment of prisoners.
When Al-Arian’s case did finally reach trial after years of harsh imprisonment, prosecutors failed to convict Al-Arian on even one charge brought against him. Jurors voted to acquit him on the most serious counts he faced and deadlocked on the remainder of the indictments.
The outcome was hugely embarrassing for the U.S. Government. Despite having amassed over 20,000 hours of phone conversations and hundreds of fax messages from over a decade of surveilling Al-Arian, the DOJ – even with all the advantages they enjoyed in terrorism cases in 2003 (and continue to enjoy today) – was unable to convince a jury Al-Arian was the arch-terrorist they had very publicly proclaimed him to be.
US Secrecy Slammed After New Claims That Saudi Royals Supported Al Qaeda
In October, French-born Zacarias Moussaoui talked to attorneys for family members of 9/11 victims suing the Saudi government for alleged complicity in the terrorist attack. He told the lawyers that he met with high-ranking members of the royal family, including the current king. This week, his testimony was introduced in the case at a Manhattan court.
Moussaoui, who is suspected of being the possible 20th 9/11 hijacker and currently locked up at the Federal Supermax Prison in Colorado, told the attorneys he was dispatched by Osama bin Laden in the late 1990s to keep tabs on who donated to al Qaeda. That list, he said, included Prince Turki al-Faisal, then Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief and Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to the US who was in Washington at the time of the attacks. ...
Much of Saudi Arabia's early involvement with Islamist militants is well known. Like the US, the Saudis supported and financed the mujahideen — who later would seed a nascent al Qaeda — that fought off a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. Once al Qaeda was formed, it is widely believed the Saudi government essentially paid the group for a number of years in order to ward off attacks inside its borders.
The point at which direct Saudi support for al Qaeda broke off remains one of the lingering questions surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Family members of victims and some members of Congress have long said evidence of such involvement is contained in the 28 pages of a 2002 intelligence report that have remained redacted for 13 years. ... Despite claims from family members that Obama promised to do so, the portion remains classified.
The Saudi government has always denied culpability and itself urged that the 28 pages be made public, a request that was denied by the Bush administration. However, members of Congress who have seen the pages say they show damning intelligence gathered on Saudi individuals. Made public, the redacted portions could prove that the Bush administration knew, perhaps not of a large scale conspiracy emanating from the royal family, but at least of significant Saudi involvement — even as they drew not so subtle links to 9/11 in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and Israel
The disclosure that convicted al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui has identified leading members of the Saudi government as financers of the terrorist network potentially reshapes how Americans will perceive events in the Middle East and creates a risk for Israel’s Likud government which has forged an unlikely alliance with some of these same Saudis. ...
Although Moussaoui’s credibility came under immediate attack from the Saudi kingdom, his assertions mesh with accounts from members of the U.S. Congress who have seen a secret portion of the 9/11 report that addresses alleged Saudi support for al-Qaeda.
Further complicating the predicament for Saudi Arabia is that, more recently, Saudi and other Persian Gulf oil sheikdoms have been identified as backers of Sunni militants fighting in Syria to overthrow the largely secular regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The major rebel force benefiting from this support is al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria.
In other words, the Saudis appear to have continued a covert relationship with al-Qaeda-connected jihadists to the present day. ...
The behind-the-scenes Israeli-Saudi alliance has put the two governments – uncomfortably at times – on the side of Sunni jihadists battling Shiite influence in Syria, Lebanon and even Iraq. On Jan. 18, 2015, for instance, Israel attacked Lebanese-Iranian advisers assisting Assad’s government in Syria, killing several members of Hezbollah and an Iranian general. These military advisors were engaged in operations against al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front.
Meanwhile, Israel has refrained from attacking Nusra Front militants who have seized Syrian territory near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. One source familiar with U.S. intelligence information on Syria told me that Israel has a “non-aggression pact” with these Nusra forces.
Western Spy Agencies Secretly Rely on Hackers for Intel and Expertise
The U.S., U.K. and Canadian governments characterize hackers as a criminal menace, warn of the threats they allegedly pose to critical infrastructure, and aggressively prosecute them, but they are also secretly exploiting their information and expertise, according to top secret documents.
In some cases, the surveillance agencies are obtaining the content of emails by monitoring hackers as they breach email accounts, often without notifying the hacking victims of these breaches. “Hackers are stealing the emails of some of our targets… by collecting the hackers’ ‘take,’ we . . . get access to the emails themselves,” reads one top secret 2010 National Security Agency document.
These and other revelations about the intelligence agencies’ reliance on hackers are contained in documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The documents—which come from the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters agency and NSA—shed new light on the various means used by intelligence agencies to exploit hackers’ successes and learn from their skills, while also raising questions about whether governments have overstated the threat posed by some hackers.
By looking out for hacking conducted “both by state-sponsored and freelance hackers” and riding on the coattails of hackers, Western intelligence agencies have gathered what they regard as valuable content:
If No Deal for Greece, Exit the Euro?
Greek-German rift laid bare at press conference
A showdown between the finance ministers of Greece and Germany on Thursday ended with the two sides as far apart as ever over solving Greece’s financial crisis.
In a terse opening to a press conference after a meeting in Berlin, Wolfgang Schäuble said he and Yanis Varoufakis “agreed to disagree” over the proposals of the Syriza-led anti-austerity government, in what he described as “long and intensive” discussions.
However, Mr Varoufakis rejected Mr Schäuble’s interpretation of the two-hour meeting, saying they did not “even agree to disagree”.
“We did not reach agreement because it was never on the cards that we would. We agreed to enter into deliberations as partners with the orientation of a joint solution to European problems that’s going to put the interests of Europe at the helm,” he said.
The stand-off leaves Athens and its eurozone partners facing great uncertainty over financing Greece after its current rescue programme expires at the end of February. ...
Mr Varoufakis argued that Greece needed time to prepare its proposals as well as bridging finance until the end of May to allow for talks between Greece and eurozone partners and to “give space for all of us to come to an agreement”.
He added that the ministers did not discuss details of possible solutions or talk about Greece’s debts.
New Greek Government Vows to End Raids Against Immigrants
Among the many radical changes promised by Greece's new government is an overhaul to the country's anti-immigration policies — including an end to deeply controversial raids against undocumented migrants in the capital, which rights groups have long condemned.
Tasia Christodoulopoulou, a lawyer and human rights activist who was recently sworn in as alternate interior minister for immigration policy, said on Wednesday that Greece's new leaders plan to do away with operation Xenios Zeus — sweeps intended to crack down on illegal immigration in Athens —Greek news website Left.gr reported.
A majority of migrants arriving in Greece over the last few years have been refugees of war, many of them Syrians. "We have to give these people asylum and protection," Christodoulopoulou said.
She added that the new government would also look into replacing the country's migrant reception centers, described as "squalid" by rights groups. "These camps are incompatible with humanitarianism, the rule of law, and any sense of reason," said Christodoulopoulou, adding that the new government would also seek a revision of the Dublin Regulation, which determines asylum procedures within the European Union.
Greece would like refugees to be distributed among European states. Currently, however, refugees are required to seek asylum in their first port of entry, a rule that has overwhelmed countries like Greece, Italy, and Spain, where most migrants first make landfall in Europe.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature the entire testimony of Mrs. Margaret Dominiski, Ludlow survivor, before the Commission on Industrial Relations.
Tune in at 2pm!
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The truth behind the secret TTIP trade deal
Brussels Rally Denounces Massive Trade Deal That Would Be 'Hijack of Democracy'
Hundreds of people rallied in Brussels on Wednesday, where negotiators are holding their latest round of talks on a proposed EU-U.S. trade deal criticized as a "Trojan treaty" that threatens democracy and puts corporate profits above people.
At issue is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which would be the biggest-ever trade deal, and is a proposal that has faced years of opposition over its secrecy as well as possible impacts on issues ranging from food safety to fracking to copyright. ...
Friends of the Earth Europe brought theirtouring "Trojan horse" to Brussels to urge negotiators to say not to what the environmental group says is a Trojan treaty. Magda Stoczkiewicz, director of Friends of the Earth Europe, stated previously, "Real people power can prevent irreversible damage being done by this Trojan treaty. Our Trojan Horse tour is about standing up for citizens and our right to decide our own laws and putting people and our planet before big business profits."
The President's Budget Proposal — Cuts to Spending, Cuts to Medicare
The Presidents budget accelerates the process of converting Medicare from insurance to welfare by expanded means-testing:
The president’s budget would collect $66 billion over 10 years by charging higher premiums to higher-income Medicare beneficiaries, for coverage of doctors’ services and prescription drugs. A relatively small number of high-income beneficiaries already pay more than three times the standard monthly premium.
If the powerful mainstream "left" — meaning people like Obama, Clinton and the broad swath of "centrists" (corporatists) in Congress — continue to convert social insurance programs into welfare, as this budget proposal does, it becomes far more easy for the right to insist these programs be reduced, privatized or cut entirely because the population they serve is no longer "us," but "them."The article mentions some good news for Medicare in the budget — small changes to drug pricing policy and continued support for CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program), for example. But overall, on the Medicare front, this budget offers more austerity for the many so the few won't have to pay taxes.
See what I mean? In this respect, the president is being true to his values, true to his 2006 self. As he said in the first clip at the link in this paragraph:
"Too many of us have been interested in defending programs the way they were written in 1938."
The dog-whistle reference is to Social Security, but as his new budget shows, he clearly means all social programs. An odd legacy for America's first black president, but there it is. Still, he's true to his values — I will give him that.
If we are killed as a nation by our billionaires, this is how they will do it, cynically using our Achilles Heel and appealing to our historical need to punish the "undeserving." Today, membership in the "undeserving" is much more broadly defined. No matter; as a nation we still want to "go there," to do the punishing.
Without saying so, the president's budget does much the same, if in a lighter way — it withholds from the modern "undeserving" to preserve the perqs of the wealthy. Punishing the "undeserving" is an odd legacy for America's first black president. Not a choice I would make if I were him, but there it is.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I would overturn supreme court's Citizens United ruling
If Ruth Bader Ginsburg could overturn any of the decisions made by America’s highest court in the past 10 years, it would be the sweeping 2010 decision that expanded corporate personhood.
While answering questions at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, the supreme court justice said that if she had to pick one case to undo, it would be the Citizens United decision. “I think our system is being polluted by money,” Ginsburg said.
Ginsburg said she is optimistic that “sensible restrictions” on campaign financing will one day be in place, quoting her late husband Martin Ginsburg to explain why: “The true symbol of the United States is not the eagle, it’s the pendulum – when it swings too far in one direction, it will swing back.”
The Evening Greens
Faulting EPA, Green Leaders Warn Obama: Bees Running Out of Time
A federal task force is moving too slow and the nation's pollinators and food supply are at perilous risk, environmental NGOs tell president in urgent letter
They speak for the bees.
In a letter destined for President Obama on Thursday, eleven of the nation's top environmental and public health advocacy groups, representing millions of Americans, are demanding the administration take much stronger and swifter action to end the perilous situation of the nation's most prolific pollinators, most prominently the honey bee, caused by the widespread use of neonicotinoids, a dangerous class of pesticide.
The letter (pdf) calls on Obama to instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to immediately suspend neonicotinoid use and take retroactive and proactive steps to curb their adverse impacts.
"Bees and other pollinators are essential to our nation’s food supply, farming system, economy, and environment," the letter states, "but they are in great peril and populations are dwindling worldwide. A growing body of scientific evidence points to the widespread and indiscriminate use of a class of neurotoxic pesticides called neonicotinoids (‘neonics’) as a key factor in bee die - offs ."
Specifically, the groups charge that although Obama appointed a special inter-agency panel, called the Pollinator Health Task Force, to study pollinator health last year, that effort is simply moving too slowly and time is running out. Mandated to assess the crisis of bee die-offs and offer recommendations after 180 days, the Task Force missed their deadline and have now indicated their report may not arrive until 2016.
Plan to Protect Arctic Wildlife Refuge Won't Halt Oil Drilling
'Historic' Vote As Wales Joins Scotland in Saying No to Fracking
Just one week after Scotland announced its moratorium on fracking, the Welsh government voted on Wednesday to block the toxic method of shale gas extraction until it is proven safe from environmental and public health standpoints.
The Plaid Cymru political party's motion calls for control over fracking to be fully devolved from Westminster—seat of the U.K. government—to the National Assembly for Wales. In addition, it "calls on the Welsh Government to do everything within its power to prevent fracking from taking place in Wales until it is proven to be safe in both an environmental and public health context."
In advance of the vote, the Welsh government had confirmed it would support the opposition party’s motion.
"It’s a historic day," North Wales assembly member Llyr Gruffyd, of the Plaid Cymru party. "This is a clear statement from the National Assembly for Wales that we want a frack-free Wales."
How Public Tax Dollars Are Subsidizing the Recklessness of US Corporations
Amid mounting outrage at corporate malfeasance, industry giants—from BP to Hyundai—are from time to time slapped with symbolic fines for the harm they inflict on people and the environment.
However, the payment of these damages is often subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, thanks to a tax loophole that has saved companies billions of dollars.
Patricia Cohen reported on this phenomenon in The New York Times on Tuesday. "Although the tax law forbids deductions for criminal fines and penalties owed to the government," she explains, "other kinds of payments — to compensate victims or correct damages — are eligible for a tax deduction."
Cohen's observations are not new. In January 2013, U.S. PIRG released a report entitled Subsidizing Bad Behavior, which tracks the process by which regulators systematically settle with "reckless" corporations out of court.
"Doing so allows both the company and the government to avoid going to trial and the agency gets to appear as if it is teaching the company a lesson for its misdeeds," the report states. "However, very often the corporations deduct the costs of the settlement on their taxes as an ordinary business expense, shifting a significant portion of the burden onto ordinary taxpayers to pick up the tab."
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Examining the Stasi, Seeing the NSA
A Tipping Point Toward Chaos
Oprah and Sharpton Attack Black Lives Matter Movement
Women-only space: who belongs?
What Gets Democrats Angry at Jerusalem?
Senator Ron Wyden On White House Domestic Surveillance “Reform”
A Little Night Music
Johnny Otis - Rock Me Baby
Marie Adams w/Johnny Otis Orchestra - I´m Gonna Latch On
Johnny Otis - Harlem Nocturne
Johnny Otis & Marci Lee - Telephone Baby
Johnny Otis - Barrelhouse Blues
Johnny Otis w/Shuggie Otis & Roy Buchanan - Sweet Home Chicago, Bye Bye Baby
Johnny Otis & Marci Lee - Castin' My Spell
Johnny Otis, Shuggie Otis, Delmar Evans - Country Girl
Johnny Otis - Signifying Monkey
Johnny Otis - Crazy Country Hop
Johnny Otis - Mambo Boogie
Johnny Otis & The Jayos - Tough Enough
Johnny Otis - The Midnite Creeper
Junior Ryder & the Peacocks w/Johnny Otis - Sad Story
Johnny Otis - Head Hunter
Joe Swift, Johnny Otis - Alligator Meat
The Johnny Otis Show - Willie Did The Cha Cha
Johnny Otis w/Marie Adams & Three Tons of Joy - Ma (He's Making Eyes At Me)
Johnny Otis - Court Room Blues
Johnny Otis - The Night Is Young
Johnny Otis - HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!
Johnny Otis Orch. w/ Jimmy Ryder - The Little Red Hen
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