Scott Horton of Harper's on Gitmo homicides; Ziad Abbas on humanitarian crisis in Gaza; PBC on the State of the Union address. Horton has done an incredible reporting job with credible eywitness accounts of the events of June 9, 2006 at the black site "Camp No" just outside the main prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, as 3 prisoners were transferred to Camp No and returned, dead, hours later. The incredible cover story is that these men stuffed cloths down their throats and hanged themselves in "acts of asymmetrical warfare". Horton details the events, and the coverup that continues under Obama. Abbas is a Palestinian refugee who works for Middle East Children's Alliance, and he describes the man-made humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where 56% of the population is under 18 and the water is too polluted to drink. Your humble host points out the critical issues that slipped Obama's mind and were not mentioned in the speech; he objects to Obama's embrace of the McCain-Hoover gimmick of a "spending freeze" that excludes military spending and energy proposals that include nuke power plants, the lie of "clean coal" and more offshore drilling.
