From RR

• Congo: UN-backed troops killing civilians.
• CIA drone attacks may be expanded in Pakistan.
• Credit cards getting their licks in now.
• Some Gitmo detainees headed to Illinois prison.
• What does it take to get out of Obama’s Guantánamo?
• Maybe Obama will do the right thing and stop the war on drugs.
• From dazzle to drone. People are realising what I did when I heard the man in person: he has nothing to say really. “There are those who say there is no evil in the world. There are others who argue that pink fluffy bunnies are the spawn of Satan and conspiring to overthrow civilization. Let me be clear: I believe people of goodwill on all sides can find common ground between the absurdly implausible caricatures I attribute to them on a daily basis. We must begin by finding the courage to acknowledge the hard truth that I am living testimony to the power of nuance to triumph over hard truth and come to the end of the sentence on a note of sonorous, polysyllabic if somewhat hollow uplift. Pause for applause.”
• Thou shalt not steal. I am profoundly disappointed in Caritas in Veritate, the encyclical issued on June 29, 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI. It contains no fewer than six endorsements of wealth redistribution by government.
• Ron Paul: the Fed’s money monopoly.
• For Palestinians every day is Kristallnacht.

Labels: libertarianism, Palestine, politics