Unrest spread to Yemen today – as an angry mob stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa – tearing down the American flag, burning it, pelting the building with rocks, and smashing windows. So far reports indicate that no one inside the embassy was injured. Just like the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Egypt and U.S. consulate in Libya on Tuesday, officials believe this attack in Yemen was prompted by the anti-Muslim film made here in the United States insulting the prophet Muhammad. However, new reports are suggesting that the attack in Libya that claimed the life of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other diplomats may have been pre-planned for 9/11 by a terrorist organization. These recent attacks against American diplomatic interests are straining ties between the United States and foreign leaders.

In an interview with Telemundo on Wednesday, President Obama said that he doesn’t consider the current government in Egypt an “ally.” And the U.S. military is deploying two warships, marines, and drones to Libya in response to the attack on the consulate. Egypt, Libya, and Yemen are all nations that got swept up in the Arab Spring and today are in the midst of revolution, which is never easy.

And decades of U.S. meddling in those nations – propping up kleptocrats, conducting military operations, and syphoning off resources – leaves our interests in the area vulnerable to these sorts of attacks. Let’s hope we as a nation don’t fall into the same trap of overreaction and military misadventure that characterized the Bush administration, and which Mitt Romney and his Neo-Con advisers are calling for today.

-Thom

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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Romney Accuses Obama Of Sympathizing With Attackers Who Killed U.S. Ambassador " by Igor Volsky and Ben Armbruster.

Article: "Mitt Romney's statement, translated: I'm not ready to be president" by Jed Lewison.

Article: "U.S. Says It Also Finds Cartoons of Muhammad Offensive" by Joel Brinkley and Ian Fisher.

Book: "500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars" by Kurt Eichenwald.

Article: "The Deafness Before the Storm" by Kurt Eichenwald.

Article: "A timeline of events surrounding attacks on US facilities in Mideast" by Matt Viser.

Article: "Declaration of Independence".

The Big Picture
- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator

Article: "The Worst Teacher in Chicago" by Greg Palast.

Book: "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" by Adam Hochschild.

Article: "Sociopathic Mitt Romney Smiles During and After Presser on Embassy Tragedies" by Sarah Jones.

Article: "U.S. official killed in Libya mourned in Eve Online game" by John Bowman.

Article: "Romney and Foreign Policy" by Mark Halperin.

Article: "Who is Pastor Terry Jones, the Man Promoting the Anti-Muslim Film?" by Matthew DeLuca.

30% is a bunch of BS
- Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Teachers Union Local 1

Hour Two: Egypt/Libya...how did we get here
- Rich Miniter, Independent Commentator / Journalist & Author, latest- Leading from Behind.

Book: "Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him" by Rich Miniter.

Article: "Thorstein Veblen" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Crane Brinton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Clinton calls Libya attack work of 'small and savage group'" by Reuters.

Book: "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer.

Book: "Epic of Gilgamesh".

Article: "Private purchasing of prisons locks in occupancy rates" by Kevin Johnson.

Article: "Private Prisons Cost Arizona $3.5 Million More Per Year Than State-Run Prisons" by Aviva Shen.

TV: "Swan Song" with Johnny Cash.

The good: John Archer: "GOP House Nominee Opposes The Death Penalty: ‘We Have Put Innocent People To Death’" by Scott Keyes.

The bad: "Rand Paul Compares U.S. Government To ‘Nazi Germany’" by Ian Millhiser.

The very, very ugly: "Romney Adviser Calls Foreign Policy A ‘Distraction’" by Ben Armbruster.

Article: "TRICARE For Life".

Article: "Muhammad-Film Consultant: 'Sam Bacile' Is Not Israeli, and Not a Real Name" by Jeffrey Goldberg.

Article: "ALEC Finds New Friends: Republican Study Committee a Quiet New Partner" by Janie Lorber.

Article: "Study Finds U.S. Trailing in Preschool Enrollment" by Lesli A. Maxwell.

Article: "Dead Guantánamo detainee won, then lost federal court-ordered release" by Carol Rosenberg.

Article: "Pakistan Factory Fires Kill Nearly 300 In Karachi" by Adil Jawad and Sebastian Abbot.

Article: "Japan to abandon nuclear power by 2030s: report" by Kyoko Hasegawa.

Poverty numbers
- Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-MD, 4th District)

Hour Three: Why did the media prefer Romney spin vs truth?
- Tommy Christopher, Mediaite.com

Democracy under fire in Michigan (Gov. Snyder's band of emg. mgr's is at it again)
- Rev. D. Alexander Bullock, Rainbow PUSH Coalition

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