Tomorrow morning 8:30-9:00 Pacific Gareth Porter on Iraq, Iran and Syria. 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, KPFK.org.

The Independent: An Israeli human rights organisation has accused the government of torturing Palestinian children after it emerged some were kept for months in outdoor cages during winter. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) published a report which said children suspected of minor crimes were subjected to 'public caging', threats and acts of sexual violence and military trials without representation. It came as the government’s Public Petitions Committee held a hearing to...

Yeah, great slogan and everything, but not so much. Reuters: - Islamist militants stormed police stations in several cities of Iraq's western province of Anbar on Wednesday, seizing weapon caches and freeing prisoners after security forces dismantled a Sunni Muslim protest camp on Monday. The attacks on three police stations in Falluja, Ramadi and Tarmiya represent a serious escalation in the confrontation between Iraqi Sunni groups and the Shi'ite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri...

I guess I'll believe it when I see it -- in 3 years. From the right-wing Times of Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to continue peace talks for another year on the basis of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s 'framework' agreement, which provides for negotiations for Palestinian statehood on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, according to Likud sources quoted by Israel’s Channel 10 news Monday night. Netanyahu is prepared to view the framework agreement, including the...

When I was laid off from Antiwar.com in the summer of 2012 (due to illegal FBI police state persecution of that organization) there was a real question as to whether or not the show could survive. For an ideological libertarian, I'm a pretty lousy businessman, and job opportunities in the libertarian movement are incredibly scarce. But so I decided to just try to get a handful of advertisers from within the movement -- at incredibly reasonable rates -- and then fill in the gaps with monthly...

Today: Adam Morrow, news, year in review stuff. 3-5 eastern http://libertyexpressradio.com/

Der Spiegel has a new one out that seems like it must be based on Snowden docs, though I don't think it says that. Anyway, good stuff.

That's the 30th Chaos Communications Congress. Starts at 4:30

And that's assuming Obama and the Democrats succeed in convincing the regime to "invite" the SOCOM to stay. If they all pack up and go next year as promised, well: "The report predicts that Afghanistan would likely descend into chaos quickly if Washington and Kabul don't sign a security pact that would keep an international military contingent there beyond 2014 ”” a precondition for the delivery of billions of dollars in aid that the United States and its allies have pledged to spend in...

This morning on Antiwar Radio: Adam Morrow of InterPress Service reports from Cairo on the dictatorship's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. That's 8:30-9:00 on 90.7 FM KPFK in L.A., KPFK.org.

Via LibertyCrier, American history being written: "A new gun law coming in 2014 has gun owners stocking up on long guns before a new registry begins. "Even though the law is at least temporarily boosting his bottom line, Just Guns owner John Deaser isn't a fan. He says requiring people to register their rifles and shotguns is an unnecessary invasion of privacy. "In the last week of 2013, he says sales of long guns are up 30 to 50 percent. "The registry goes into effect on Jan. 1, and would...

Michael Lofti of the Washington Times: Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan signed Senate Bill No. 94 into law yesterday. The bill seeks to nullify section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). 'It is important to recall that indefinite detention first appeared in section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA, which provided warrant for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens,' said Snyder. Michigan State Senator Rick Jones says that no American citizen should fear being thrown in jail or...

Here's an interesting piece in the New York Review of Books about how 'nevermind al Nusra, these ISIS guys are the real ball busters. And the Americans don't know what to do.' The people of Syria can thank George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- as well as the Israelis and Saudis of course -- for their misery. Without the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would have just been the leader of crappy little Ansar al-Islam, terrorizing nothing and on the run. Instead an entire legion of Ayman...

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