Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs » Julien Mercille http://www.boilingfrogspost.com Politics, Civil Liberties, Media, Editorial, Activism Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:56:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Podcast Show #23 http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/02/12/podcast-show-23/ http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/02/12/podcast-show-23/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:58:27 +0000 admin http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/?p=1640
The Boiling Frogs Presents Julien Mercille

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Dr. Julien Mercille discusses the trail of Afghanistan’s drug money, the false impression given by the latest UN report on the effects of Afghanistan’s drug production, and the role of other nations and institutions including western banks. He talks about the predominant view of the US and NATO held by the majority in Afghanistan today, his interview with Malalai Joya, Afghanistan’s youngest Member of Parliament, who is well known for openly challenging the US, NATO, warlords and the Taliban, the current state of progressive movements in Afghanistan, and more.


Mercile Julien Mercille is a lecturer in US foreign policy at University College Dublin, where he moved after obtaining his PhD from UCLA. He teaches on US history and foreign policy and has published academic articles on Iran, Iraq and the Cold War, and is now researching the “War on Drugs” and Afghanistan. He has also written for various websites and magazines on those topics and others.


Here is our guest Julien Mercille unplugged!

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]]> http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/02/12/podcast-show-23/feed/ 7 Updates & Weekly Round Up for January 24 http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/01/24/updates-weekly-round-up-for-january-24/ http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/01/24/updates-weekly-round-up-for-january-24/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:13:06 +0000 Sibel Edmonds http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/?p=1527 This is going to be a short round up. I will spend this afternoon and a good part of the evening in meetings with Kristina Borjesson and Katrina Rill, during which we are planning to go over our first video series and discuss our upcoming projects.

Please welcome our new addition, Dr. Julien Mercille, to the Boiling Frogs analyst team. You can read his recent articles here, and here. Peter and I interviewed him last week, and will have that available to you in about 2 weeks. Here is Dr. Mercille’s bio:

DrJulienMercilleDr. Julien Mercille is a lecturer in US foreign policy at University College Dublin, where he moved after obtaining his PhD from UCLA. He teaches on US history and foreign policy and has published academic articles on Iran, Iraq and the Cold War and is now researching the “War on Drugs” and Afghanistan. He has also written for various websites and magazines on those topics and others.

I only had time to gather a few noteworthy articles and headlines for this weekend’s round up (a hectic week). Let’s start with this brief video (even though it predates the recent disastrous SC decision!):
 

Lobbyists cash in on Bruce Springsteen


 
And here are a few noteworthy articles:

Why Use A National Security Letter When You Have Post-It Notes
Jacob Sullum, Reason

CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones
Paul Lewis, Guardian

Shadowy Arms Deal Traced to Kazakhstan
Simon Shuster, AP
 
Afghans protest deaths of 4 in NATO-government raid
Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

More secrecy: Obama hides objections to laws
Watertown Daily Times

US continues to look the other way on ‘war on terror’ abuses
Amnesty International


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