Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, December 5, 2013

Source: democracynow.org



This is a summary of news headlines from the United States and around the world as reported by Democracy Now! on Thursday, December 5, 2013.

 
Jeremy Scahill on "Dirty Wars" and U.S. National Security: VICE Podcast 009

The VICE Podcast is a weekly unedited discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we know within the VICE universe. This week, we speak with Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for "The Nation," whose work covering America's special operations [forces] and targeted killings in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia is chronicled in the recently released documentary, "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield." As the U.S. continues to expand its use of covert counterterrorism measures worldwide, Scahill argues that far from making Americans safer, U.S. covert counterterrorism measures are in fact undermining national security.
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