Outis

NPR’s Linda Wertheimer gently tears Nic Harcourt a new one for his predictable anglophilia.

Other highlights include Harcourt listing the Oscar-winner Jorge Drexler as a Latin Alternative artist.

Via Metafilter:

Google Video of the fast and the fierce.

Boing Boing passes on the news that “Ignoring UK ban, bloggers publish leaked torture memos” which claim:

the use of torture is routine in Uzbekistan, that US policy there (which the UK supports) is focussed on oil, gas and hegemony rather than democracy or freedom, and that by knowingly receiving evidence obtained through torture the UK is in breach of the UN Convention on Torture.

From BBC News

Ten Sudanese migrants, including children, have died as Cairo police broke up a makeshift protest camp, Egypt’s interior ministry says.

Riot police fired water cannon at the Sudanese protesters, who had been refusing to leave the camp, set up in September near United Nations offices.

A stampede was reported as police forced hundreds of people onto buses.

The migrants had been demanding that the UN refugee agency place them in a country with better conditions.

But the UNHCR said it had no power to guarantee their demands were met.

Thousands of police armed with sticks and shields stormed the small park where the migrants had been camping, at about 0500 (0300 GMT).

Mark Weisbrot at TPM Cafe is filing posts in defense of Hugo Chávez and attacking his detractors with… aplomb.

I’m waiting for a Venezuelan (or two or three or 10) to respond but in the meantime, many of the comments from his American readers are fascinating — in the same way that I was fascinated by the movie “12 Monkeys” which I happened to catch again last night, dubbed.