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What we’re changing is a culture in an organisation within the youth detention system and I think we’ve come a long way in that time.
— Adam Giles, NT Chief Minister, ABC News, July 26, 2016

DNC Leaks, Turkish prisons and deglobalization + this day in history w/Afghan War Diary and our song of the day by The Frightnrs on your Morning Monarchy for July 25, 2016.

(MEE) Human rights group Amnesty International said on Sunday it had “credible evidence” of abuse and torture of people detained in sweeping arrests since Turkey’s July attempted military coup.

Robbie Martin is our final guest for this season as we dissect the 2012 docudrama Zero Dark Thirty. We discussed the difficulty in defining what kind of film this is – somewhere between a spy thriller, a documentary and a dry European art house movie. We get into the well-documented CIA support for the film and ask why this is the only major movie about the Abbottabad raid to get ‘Bin Laden’ and why it wasn’t particularly successful. Was the film meant to serve as a substitute for any real evidence of what happened in Abbottabad in 2011?

Olof Palme had just won his fourth term as Prime Minister when we spoke in Stockholm in the fall of 1985. Like Denmark’s Anker Joergensen, this stalwart social democrat opposed the “cold, egoistic new liberalism”. Unregulated capitalism threatens the Swedish model of social welfare, he said at his September 15 election victory.

(MINTPRESS) MUNICH — Despite being trapped for the past four years in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange still “stays strong” and makes plans for even more dramatic publications.

“Perception Management” was pioneered in the 1980’s under the Reagan administration in order to avoid the public opposition to future wars that was seen during the Vietnam War.
The United States Department of Defense defines perception management as:

Olympic body parts, Slender Man trial and Netflix mind control + this day in history w/the Tunguska event and our song of the day by Desdamona on your Morning Monarchy for June 30, 2016.

Brexit boogie, looting art and policing protests + this day in history w/Blair resigns and our song of the day by DJ Shadow on your Morning Monarchy for June 27, 2016.

Ethiopia is regularly cited as an African success story by donor nations; the economy is growing they cry, more children are attending school and health care is improving. Well GDP figures and millennium development statistics reveal only a tiny fraction of the corrupt and violent picture.