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“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?”
-- Sylvia Plath
News and Opinion
Almost 2,500 Now Killed in Obama's Drone Murder Spree
At least 2,464 people have now been killed by US drone strikes outside the country’s declared war zones since President Barack Obama’s inauguration six years ago, the Bureau’s latest monthly report reveals.
Of the total killed since Obama took his oath of office on January 20 2009, at least 314 have been civilians, while the number of confirmed strikes under his administration now stands at 456.
Research by the Bureau also shows there have now been nearly nine times more strikes under Obama in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia than there were under his predecessor, George W Bush.
And the covert Obama strikes, the first of which hit Pakistan just three days after his inauguration, have killed almost six times more people and twice as many civilians than those ordered in the Bush years, the data shows.
UK Still Refuses to Answer Questions About Lobbying US over Torture Report
The declassification of the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report in December was supposed to lay bare the extent of UK cooperation in America's post-9/11 rendition program.
This heavily redacted document gave no clues about British complicity in torture, however. Now the UK is under further pressure to reveal the nature of any redactions it requested from the US, following an explosive public admission by a senior Bush administration official that a CIA "black site" operated on the British territory of Diego Garcia.
Colin Powell's former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson revealed to VICE News on Friday that interrogations did take place on the remote atoll. "It's difficult for me to think that we could do anything there of any duration to speak of without the British knowing — at least the British on the island — knowing what we were doing," Wilkerson added.
It has already been established that the UK lobbied the US over the contents of the report. Former foreign secretary William Hague admitted in July 2014 that the UK government "made representations" to the US over the report's contents.
It has now emerged that the UK Foreign Office refused to answer parliamentary questions about how the UK lobbied the US over redactions to the Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report, fueling concern that it is attempting to conceal its involvement in the CIA's post-9/11 program.
Is Ukraine a Proxy Western-Russia War? U.S. Weighs Arming Kiev as Violence Soars
‘Group-Thinking’ the World into a New War
If you wonder how the lethal “group think” on Iraq took shape in 2002, you might want to study what’s happening today with Ukraine. A misguided consensus has grabbed hold of Official Washington and has pulled in everyone who “matters” and tossed out almost anyone who disagrees.
Part of the problem, in both cases, has been that neocon propagandists understand that in the modern American media the personal is the political, that is, you don’t deal with the larger context of a dispute, you make it about some easily demonized figure. So, instead of understanding the complexities of Iraq, you focus on the unsavory Saddam Hussein. ...
From the start of the Ukraine crisis in fall 2013, the New York Times, the Washington Post and virtually every mainstream U.S. news outlet have behaved as dishonestly as they did during the run-up to war with Iraq. Objectivity and other principles of journalism have been thrown out the window. The larger context of both Ukrainian politics and Russia’s role has been ignored.
Again, it’s all been about demonized “bad guys” – in this case, Ukraine’s elected President Viktor Yanukovych and Russia’s elected President Vladimir Putin – versus the “pro-Western good guys” who are deemed model democrats even as they collaborated with neo-Nazis to overthrow a constitutional order.
Again, the political is made personal: Yanukovych had a pricy sauna in his mansion; Putin rides a horse shirtless and doesn’t favor gay rights. So, if you raise questions about U.S. support for last year’s coup in Ukraine, you somehow must favor pricy saunas, riding shirtless and holding bigoted opinions about gays.
Anyone who dares protest the unrelentingly one-sided coverage is deemed a “Putin apologist” or a “stooge of Moscow.” So, most Americans – in a position to influence public knowledge but who want to stay employable – stay silent, just as they did during the Iraq War stampede.
Ukraine: US considers military help for Kiev as separatists plan to mobilise army
The high-stakes poker game over east Ukraine continued on Monday, with US officials floating the idea of sending lethal military assistance to the government in Kiev, while Russia-backed separatists announced a plan to mobilise a 100,000-strong army.
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, is due in Kiev on Thursday, and while no major announcements are expected this week he will use the visit to take the temperature in the Ukrainian capital as the US administration weighs up the move.
Lt Col Vanessa Hillman, a Pentagon spokesperson, said the administration’s focus remains on pursuing a solution through diplomatic means, but added: “We are always evaluating other options that will help create space for a negotiated solution to the crisis.”
Hillman said the administration continues to assess how best to support Ukraine while declining to discuss what she called the details of internal policy discussions. A senior administration official told the Associated Press on Monday that President Barack Obama is reconsidering sending lethal assistance to Ukraine, but remains wary of the risks of provoking a proxy war between the US and Russia.
Ex-State Dept exec: US leadership is inept & incompetent, incl. president
The Real Reason the US Military Was So Secretive About Afghanistan
Last week, the New York Times broke a three-month old story on the classification by the American military of previously unclassified Afghan National Security Forces data. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) requested the information as part of an audit of Department of Defense expenditures on Afghan forces. SIGAR, which releases quarterly reports, was asking questions like how much money had been spent on literacy training for the Afghan army, or how many aircraft were currently in the Afghan air force.
In SIGAR's latest report, that information was moved to a classified index available only to officials with certain security clearances. Why? General John F. Campbell, commander of all foreign forces in Afghanistan, wrote in a latter responding to the report: "I cannot comment upon the precise reason why certain information was considered unclassified in the past. However, I am compelled to also protect the lives of those individuals who could be put at risk by the release of sensitive information."
Campbell doesn't want anyone to know how badly things are going in Afghanistan. So he's classified any information related to the capacity of Afghan forces, including how much money is being spent to build the Afghan army. Given the amount of taxpayer dollars that have been funneled into Afghan reconstruction over the years, decreased transparency on how it's being spent is worrisome.
But Campbell's main motivation isn't hiding money. It's hiding people.
Based on the numbers publicly reported last fall, by the end of this year there won't be an Afghan National Army (ANA) left to fight the insurgency. In their reporting on the ANA, the Americans define attrition as "killed in action, death, dropped from rolls, retirements, and separations." Dropped from rolls in this case means "Oh that guy? He quit showing up." The ANA has tended to lose almost 1/3 of its personnel every year to attrition. This isn't a new problem, and it's one that the US has admitted to publicly in the past. But it's getting worse.
Campbell doesn't care if people know how much America spent on literacy training, or how many planes are in the Afghan air force. What he cares about is people knowing that the army that's supposedly taking over for the US is disappearing. It's impossible for the ANA to miss troop strength goals this badly and survive.
These numbers are also why Campbell has been reticent to commit to timelines for withdrawal — it's not just because the Pentagon and the White House don't get along. He knows that soon there won't be an army left to defend Afghanistan, and the grand plans put together by the military to make the political plan work are a frightening failure.
The New Arab Cold War: U.S. Policy Sows Conflict, Unrest Across the Middle East and North Africa
Did Obama’s Drone War Help Cause Yemen’s Collapse?
It’s not unreasonable to ask whether U.S. attacks in the past six years, and particularly the civilian casualties they have caused, helped to hasten the Yemeni government’s fall, contributing to the headache now confronting U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
According to data collected by the New America Foundation, as of the end of 2014, the U.S. had launched 118 drone and air strikes on Yemen—all but one of them under the Obama administration—killing more than 800 people, including between 81 and 87 civilians. U.S. authorities have stressed that they do all they can to avoid civilian casualties, although the administration has also adopted a controversial method of counting casualties that essentially designates all military-aged males in a strike zone as military combatants.
There’s long been concern that the strikes have been driving sympathy and support for al-Qaida, particularly in predominantly Sunni southern Yemen. As the Washington Post’s Sudarsan Raghavan reported in 2012, “In 2009, when President Obama was first known to have authorized a missile strike on Yemen, U.S. officials said there were no more than 300 core AQAP members. That number has grown in recent years to 700 or more.” Locals told Raghavan, “These attacks are making people say, ‘We believe now that al-Qaeda is on the right side.’”
There’s no direct link between the al-Qaida sympathies prompted by drones and last week’s government collapse. The drone campaign has been concentrated in the country’s south while the Houthis—the Shiite militia that has now taken over the capital—come from the north and are enemies of al-Qaida. But al-Qaida’s growing strength was one reason that the Houthis portrayed themselves as an alternative to the pro-American stance of both ousted former presidents, Abd-Rabbu Mansur Hadi and Ali Abdullah Saleh, and their opposition to drone strikes only helps their cause.
Egypt Turns to France for Weapons With US Still Wary of Delivering Military Aid
Speaking at a political conference Sunday in Cairo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi unveiled a $1.31 billion budget for counterterrorism efforts in the eastern Sinai Peninsula, an area that has repeatedly been hit by militant attacks. Addressing politicians in the Egyptian capital, Sisi announced he is looking to France to supply Egypt with much-needed modern military equipment.
The US halted the delivery of 20 F-16 fighter jets, 125 M1-A1 battle tank kits, and 20 Harpoon cruise missiles to Egypt following the 2013 coup that ousted former President Mohammed Morsi, but 10 Apache helicopters included in the original deal were reportedly delivered last month. The US also suspended a portion of the $1.3 billion worth economic and military aid delivered annually to Egypt, though the withheld funds were released last June after Congress passed a law that requires the Egyptian government to take steps to improve human rights conditions in order to receive the aid.
Egypt has urged Western nations to provide military support to fight terrorism following the recent attacks in France. Sisi has already met French President François Hollande twice over the past few months to discuss Egypt's weapons needs. The two presidents first discussed a possible weapons contract when they were in New York last year for the UN General Assembly. The second meeting took place last week in Saudi Arabia, where heads of state gathered last week to pay their respects to late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. Egyptian army officials reportedly traveled to Paris in January to finalize the deal.
Real Time with Bill Maher: Laura Poitras
Cuba releases new photos of Fidel Castro amid rumours of declining health
Photographs of Fidel Castro, 88, have appeared in official media for the first time since August, showing the former Cuban leader slightly hunched while seated, but appearing animated as he spoke with a student leader.
Speculation over Castro’s health has intensified since the historic announcement on 17 December by his younger brother and current president, Raúl Castro, and the US president, Barack Obama, that the two longtime adversaries would restore diplomatic ties.
Fidel Castro, who periodically writes a column, went silent after the announcement until finally commenting a week ago, when he offered lukewarm support for the pact his brother reached with Obama.
Judge turns away Alberto Nisman's case against president of Argentina
An Argentinian judge has refused to pursue allegations that president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner conspired with Iran to cover up the nation’s deadliest terrorist attack – raising the prospect of the case dying along with the prosecutor who presented it.
The accusation was made in January by Alberto Nisman, who less than a week after presenting the indictment was found dead with a bullet in his head.
In a nearly 300-page legal document he had claimed that the president, her foreign minister Hector Timmerman and other aides plotted to shift the blame for the 1994 bombing of the Amia Jewish community centre so that Argentina could secure access to Iranian oil.
The allegations shocked Argentina, which has already seen one former president, Carlos Menem, indicted for trying to subvert the course of justice regarding the attack, which killed 85 people.
But many analysts said Nisman’s case was flawed because it relied too heavily on intelligence from wiretaps and appeared to have been contradicted by events. Argentina has not boosted trade with Iran and the former head of Interpol has denied that its government has ever requested the lifting of “red notice” warrants against Iranian officials who were allegedly involved in the bombing.
Far-Right French Politician Makes Electoral Gains in First Vote Since 'Charlie Hebdo' Attacks
France's far-right National Front party (FN) scored gains Sunday in the first round of by-elections to fill a parliamentary seat left vacant by socialist deputy Pierre Moscovici, recently appointed as the European Union's financial commissioner.
FN candidate Sophie Montel, who won 32.6 percent of the vote, will face Socialist Party (PS) candidate Frédéric Barbier, who came in second with 28.85 percent of the vote, in a two-candidate runoff next Sunday. ...
On January 11, nearly 4 million people gathered throughout the country under the banner of freedom of expression and in solidarity with the victims of the attacks. But three weeks later, the democratic fervor has started to show cracks, with attacks against Muslims and mosques and terrorism-related anxiety within the educational system.
Finance Minister of Greece Offers Debt Swap Options to the Europeans
PERIES: So, Dimitri, the finance minister, Yanis Varoufaki, announced that his government would no longer called for a write-off of the 315 billion euro foreign debt it has. Rather, he suggested a menu of debt swaps to ease the burden on his people. Do you think this is a good move?
LASCARIS: Well, I think ultimately the devil is going to be in the details. Let's step back and recall from a high level the crisis that Greece is currently confronting. Greece has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 175 percent. After it implemented the demands of the troika, its debt to GDP ratio, as many expected, soared, and its situation now is, frankly, that it is insolvent. It is not suffering from a liquidity crisis; it is suffering from an insolvency. And this is something that the leaders of SYRIZA and Mr. Varoufakis have made eminently clear, and rightly so. So the question is how to make that debt burden manageable and at the same time implement the program that has a realistic prospect of enabling the economy to grow and that, in particular, protects the most vulnerable, more vulnerable members of Greek society.
Up until now, SYRIZA has been adamant that it wanted a write-down of the debt, a very significant write-down. And it was supported in that initiative days before the election by 18 eminent economists, including Nobel laureates like Joseph Stiglitz, who called for a significant write-down of Greek debt, precisely for the reason that it is an unsustainable burden.
Today what Mr. Varoufakis said, I think it has to be parsed carefully. And what he said effectively was that they wouldn't call it a debt write-down, that it would be something more creative--I'm paraphrasing here; I'm not using his exact words--and that they would swap the--certain of the debt or loans that Greece has undertaken pursuant to the bailout for rather creative forms of debt, and bonds in particular.
One form of debt, one bond that he discussed was a GDP-linked bond. And effectively the principle there is that Greece would only be required to pay debt during periods of economic growth.
Another type of debt, a very interesting type of debt he discussed or put on the table was something he called perpetual bonds. What precisely that means is unclear, but the use of the word perpetual implies that there would be no effective deadline for the repayment of the principal. And if you extend the obligation to repay the principal out into infinity, then effectively you have written down the debt.
Whatever he has in mind, ultimately these proposals would ultimately result in a significant easing of Greece's debt burden, and it would come with a very significant cost to the holders of the debt relative to the terms that they now have under the loan agreements.
However, the question--and it is the key question--is whether or not this proposal, if accepted by the troika and Greece's creditors, would constitute a sufficient easing of the debt burden of Greece to enable it to escape from this depression into which it has been thrust by the austerity program.
Greece proposes debt swap
There’s a sense of calm in the markets this morning after the new Greek government laid out its plan to renegotiate its some of its debt pile.
And it’s a more nuanced stance than some expected; Athens is asking for “menu of debt swaps” to give it time and space to recover. That includes:
1) Growth Bonds, which would be linked to Greece’s nominal economic growth. They would replace some of the debt held by European partners, who would only be paid if the Greek economy was growing.
2) Perpetual Bonds, to replace the debt currently held by the European Central Bank.
Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who outlined the plan to City investors yesterday, is dubbing the plan “smart debt engineering”.
It won’t actually involve a headline cut to Greece’s debt, simply lift some of the burden of repaying it.
Bloomberg TV, though, are calling it the Greek Retreat – as it’s not the debt forgiveness that some voters hoped to see.
Greece vs. EU standoff a greater risk to global economy than Middle East conflict – UK Chancellor
Italy's Padoan says growth is key for Greek debt sustainability after meeting with Greek Finance Minister
"Attention to growth is paramount to guarantee the sustainability of Greece's debt," Padoan said in a statement after meeting with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.
Varoufakis is meeting his European counterparts this week to present the proposals of Greece's new government which wants to re-negotiate its public debt repayments and roll back austerity policies.
Varoufakis told reporters his meeting with Padoan had been "useful and constructive" and had addressed "all the main parameters for financial stability in the euro zone."
Syriza Official Vows to Kill EU-US Trade Deal as 'Gift to All European People'
An official with Greece's newly elected Syriza party may have sounded the death knell for a proposed EU-U.S. trade deal that has faced a mountain of opposition from civil society.
The deal is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), now facing its eighth round of talks between negotiators this week in Brussels.
The TTIP, which would be the biggest trade deal ever, has been criticized as a corporate-friendly deal that threatens food and environmental safety under the guise of "harmonization" of regulations.
Georgios Katrougkalos, now deputy minister for administrative reform, confirmed what he had told EurActiv Greece ahead of his Syriza party's victory last week: that his parliament would not ratify the trade deal.
"I can ensure you that a Parliament where Syriza holds the majority will never ratify the deal. And this will be a big gift not only to the Greek people but to all the European people," EurActiv reported Monday.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature a long interview with Mary Petrucci by Lucy Huffaker: "That the Sacrifice of Her Three Children's Lives May Count for Workers Betterment, Mary Petrucci Goes About Telling Ludlow's Story."
Tune in at 2pm!
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Obama Budget Plan Would 'Benefit the Worst Corporate Tax Dodgers'
President Barack Obama on Monday announceda new proposal as part of his 2016 budget to tax the trillions in offshore profits made by U.S.-based multinational corporations, but critics say the plan leaves in place a system that "encourages companies to game the system to avoid U.S. taxes."
The proposal would impose a 19 percent tax on the future overseas earnings of U.S.-based companies, as well as a one-time 14 percent tax on the trillions in offshore profits that those companies hold right now. The Obama administration said revenues from the one-time tax will go toward fixing the country's crumbling infrastructure and filling in a projected gap in the Highway Trust Fund—which has suffered chronic shortfalls as revenues from fuel taxes remain unchanged since 1993 while construction costs continue to rise.
"President Barack Obama's decision to challenge international tax avoidance is laudable, but his execution leaves a lot to be desired," said Robert McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice. "If companies were required to pay the same tax rate on their foreign profits as their domestic income, then they should owe 35 percent on their accumulated foreign profits, rather than the 14 percent that President Obama is proposing under his new transition tax."
"Such a low tax rate would disproportionately benefit the worst corporate tax dodgers and leave billions in tax revenue on the table that could be used to make critical public investments," McIntyre said.
"In principle, President Obama's international corporate minimum tax is a smart move because it would no longer allow corporations to defer paying U.S. taxes until they bring those foreign profits back to the United States," said McIntyre. "In practice however, the proposed 19 percent rate is far too low and would leave in a place a system that favors international over domestic investment and encourages companies to game the system to avoid U.S. taxes."
Top Three Things to Know About Obama's Proposed Corporate Off-Shore Profits Tax
HENRY: Obama's basically channeling his inner Republican here and trying coming up with something that this Congress can agree to. That shouldn't be the standard. The standard should be: is this sensible tax policy? If we do this again--we promised the first time, in 2004, that he would never again issue such an amnesty for offshore money. Now we're doing it again. Companies will come to believe that every five years or so they can bring back the money practically tax-free. Why will they ever comply with income taxation? And it's really fundamentally unfair to companies that are having to compete with these big multinationals. Anyone in small business is going to have a hard time making use of these offshore vehicles or this offshore tax break that is built into Obama's permanent proposal.
Donations for Detroit man who walks 21 miles to work and back every day
Hundreds of people have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to help a Detroit man who says he typically walks 21 miles (34kms) to get to and from work.
The Detroit Free Press reports that James Robertson rides buses part of the way to and from his factory job in suburban Rochester Hills.
But because they don’t cover the whole route, he ends up walking about eight miles (13 kms) before his shift starts at 2 pm and 13 miles (21 kms) more when it’s over at 10 pm.
After the newspaper wrote about the 56-year-old’s situation over the weekend, multiple people started crowdfunding efforts to help him buy a car and pay for insurance. Some have offered to drive him for free and others have offered to buy or give him cars.
Robertson began making the daily trek to the factory where he molds parts after his car stopped working ten years ago and bus service was cut back. He’s had perfect attendance for more than 12 years.
The Evening Greens
Republicans finally admitted climate change is real: so what will they do about it?
It seemed like a simple idea at first: ask Republicans what they would do about climate change.
Late last month, some Republicans in the Senate finally admitted climate change is real. A small minority of 15 Republican senators agreed with the rest of the world that it is caused by human activity.
So what were they going to do about it? The senators didn’t know, or they weren’t telling – yet. “You are going to find people very hesitant to talk about this,” an aide to one Republican senator said. The aide was right.
Only three of the 15 Republicans came forward with ideas for climate solutions, when asked by the Guardian.
Those three Republicans – Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee – suggested a range of measures from building more nuclear power stations, promoting energy efficiency, and encouraging investment in technological research.
Crucially, none of the Republicans proposed a target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions – which cause climate change.
Pittsburgh zoo ordered to stop stressing its elephants through use of dogs
The Pittsburgh zoo is defending its use of dogs to control its African elephants and protect their handlers, after officials with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordered it to stop stressing the animals through this practice.
Late last year, USDA officials with the animal and plant health inspection service agreed to investigate the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium’s use of herding dogs to shepherd the elephants after receiving a complaint from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta).
During the inspection, USDA officials reported that a dog exhibited “aggressive behavior” when a manager ordered it to create a barrier between a human handler and an elephant. The report, released on Monday by Peta, said the dog growled and lunged at one elephant, and entered the enclosure without being called.
A manager told officials dogs have bitten elephants, according to the report. Representatives from the zoo also verified a CBS News clip that showed an elephant in distress – flapping its ears, trumpeting and turning and running away – after being charged by the dogs. The report, dated 6 January, said the manager was “clear” that the dogs were being used for protecting staff. ...
The USDA report concluded that all animal handling must be “done in a manner that does not cause behavioral stress” and ordered the zoo to “correct” the practice immediately. ...
In a statement released on Monday the Pittsburgh zoo gave no indication it would change its practices.
As California Water Resources Dwindle, New Fears Over Drilling Waste Contamination
Situation described as 'unfolding catastrophe' as investigation finds oil drilling companies injected untold amounts of waste into protected groundwater reserves
With the blessing of California state regulators, drilling companies have injected an untold amount of toxic wastewater left over from fracking and other drilling operations into aquifers, according to an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle published on Sunday.
In October, it was confirmed that nearly 3 billion gallons of oil industry wastewater had been illegally dumped in aquifers through at least nine disposal wells. According to data reviewed by The Chronicle, it is now evident that more than 170 such wells injected a mix of "briny water, hydrocarbons and trace chemicals," including acid, into aquifers suitable for drinking and irrigation.
This information about the extent of the aquifer contamination comes as the state's historic drought continues to push many desperate municipalities to tap groundwater reserves for drinking water and agricultural irrigation.
"It is an unfolding catastrophe, and it’s essential that all oil and gas wastewater injection into underground drinking water stop immediately," Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity, told The Chronicle.
The practice first came to light in July 2014 when state regulators shut down 11 waste disposal wells in Kern County over fears of possible groundwater contamination.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
House of Cards: Tom Ridge’s Code Rich
Stop and frisk: NYPD's 'broken windows' policing 'criminalizes' young black men
Net neutrality battle pitches activists and FCC against Big Cable and GOP
DEA reveals "parallel construction" techniques the "taint team" uses to disguise its reliance on NSA surveillance data
Netanyahu’s Speech and the Politics of Iran Policy
Joseph Stiglitz: A Greek Morality Tale
Altruism
A Little Night Music
Tracy Nelson - Victim of the Blues
Tracy Nelson - Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
Bonnie Bramlett & Tracy Nelson - When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
Tracy Nelson - Living The Blues
Mother Earth and Tracy Nelson
Tracy Nelson, Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas - Come on in my kitchen
Tracy Nelson - Mother Earth
Tracy Nelson - Down So Low
Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth - Seven Bridges Road
Tracy Nelson - I feel so Good
Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth Tonight - The Sky Is About To Cry
Tracy Nelson - It's A Sad Situation
Tracy Nelson - You'll Be Mine
Tracy Nelson - It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth - Wait Wait Wait
Mannish Boys Revue with Tracy Nelson - One More Mile
Tracy Nelson - Backstage at Mountain Stage
Willie Nelson + Tracy Nelson - After the Fire Is Gone
Tracy Nelson - That´s All Right
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