Daniel Ellsberg wrote a book, published in 2002 called Secrets. He was the one who in 1971 leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post what came to be known as The Pentagon Papers which arguably led to the end of the war in Viet Nam and the Nixon Administration. In this book Ellsberg recalls a conversation he had with Henry Kissinger. In 1968, before Kissinger was promoted to be in the new upcoming Nixon Administration. Stunning. I found out about this via digby by David Adkins who was quoting an article in 2010 by Kevin Drum, published by Mother Jones. File under: What you don't know, you don't know.
Another great link, tells how well they 'knew', that is the bourgeoning free marketeers knew, in 1771 that the poor must be kept poor or they will never achieve anything on their own.
Pepe Escobar has a view about what some would call the competetive relationship between Obama and Putin.
While Obama won't talk about recent drone strikes in Yemen, the White House did give its legal justification for its 'three-hop' reach of communication searches. There was discussion with former press secretary Robert Gibbs and Spencer Ackerman on All In, this week with Ezra Klein. The debate begins anew? 12 min video.
Poverty increases in suburbs in US. This has non-obvious ramifications discussed on Diane Rehm. 52 min audio
Hooray for those who made it to Chicago for the protests there against ALEC. Some folks got roughed up. details to come
Also, but not lastly, Clark and Dawes on the legacy of Margaret Thatcher and on the Australian Immigration problem as only they can do it
and today's song of the day is Shiina Ringo's video for her song Izonsho with english translation...
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