[Peace-discuss] AWARE ON THE AIR for December 10, 2013

[Carl G. Estabrook]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKr5rLHv7g

It's what White House Aides call "Terror Tuesday," the day each week when President Obama picks out some people to be murdered by drones or US death squads - the US "Joint Special Operations Command."

The president's underlings - notably CIA Director John Brennan - compile a list of who should be executed, and the president then chooses from "baseball cards" who will die.

The assassinations are carried out in secrecy: the administration doesn't release accounts of the people they kill, but the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London estimates that the president has killed 2,500-4,000 people with drones alone - including over 200 children.

Most Americans don't know that the US is running this terrorist program. This week we have to wonder if Obama made his selections before leaving for South Africa, where he's attending Nelson Mandela's funeral (the prophet of reconciliation), or did he make his choices en route?

Ron Szoke discusses "The Full Nelson"; Karen Aram, "The Drone War."

(H/t producer-director Jason Liggett of Urbana Public Television.)