NSN Daily Update 1/14/09
Posted by The National Security Network
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What We're Reading
A key Bush administration official who was “in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial” confirms that a detainee was tortured at Guantanamo Bay.
The Russia-Ukraine-EU gas dispute continues. Though Russia resumed limited gas shipments to the Ukraine intended for Europe, the Ukraine says it will not send the fuel to Europe due to unacceptable Russian conditions on the shipments. The EU says it may sue Russia and/or the Ukraine over gas flow interruptions.
Georgia’s Parliament criticizes its energy minister, who struck a quiet deal with a Russian company allowing it joint control over the hydroelectric plant that provides almost half of Georgia’s electricity. The plant is on the border between Georgia and the separatist province of Abkhazia.
Security intensifies in Zimbabwe as Robert Mugabe prepares to set up a new government. The humanitarian crisis worsens.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will try again to end term limits. A national referendum is expected next month that would allow Chavez and others to run for reelection an unlimited number of times.
Commentary of the Day
Wei Jingsheng, a former Chinese political prisoner, argues that the financial crisis has evoked such discontent in China that the Communist Party will fall in the next few years.
Jonathan Finer discusses Israel’s “losing media strategy” in Gaza as opposed to how it approached journalism in the 2006 war with Hezbollah.
The LA Times reviews the Bush administration’s legacy of secrecy.
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