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The Pakistan Taliban (Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)) launched an attack on a school in Peshawar that killed at least 132 people.   The brutality of the attack was without precedent in Pakistani history, and many analysts suspect that this attack will precipitate a backlash against the radical group and strengthen the government’s efforts to isolate the extremists.  The attack was in response to government efforts to eradicate the strongholds of the group in some of the frontier areas of the country.

There is still no hard information on the 43 student teachers that went missing in the town of Iguala in Mexico.  However, those missing students are just the tip of the iceberg in a terrible situation in Mexico where an average of 8 people a day “disappear.”   Sadly, the country suffers from drug wars between various cartels and innocent people (invariably) are the primary victims of this chaos.

Jon Stewart’s brilliance is the perfect antidote to the pablum being spewed by news media all over the world.  In this episode he eviscerates those who doubt that the US tortured human beings in the “Global War on Terror.”