One of the leading political and legal bloggers in the country, Glenn Greenwald, joins us to talk about about the war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration’s use of state secrets, the healthcare debate, the renewed military commissions at Guantanamo, and the coverage of it all by the corporate media. Greenwald is a constitutional law attorney who writes for Salon.com and is the author of three books.
The main challenger to Afghanistan's incumbent president is expected to announce on Sunday whether he will participate or withdraw from next week's election runoff.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has refused to re-launch peace talks with Israel without a complete freeze on Israeli settlement construction, a senior Palestinian negotiator has said.
The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Budddhists, says he is surprised at China's protest against his planned visit to an area of India claimed by Beijing.
US consumer spending fell for the first time in five months in September, official data has shown, in a sign that a recovery from the recession is likely to be sluggish.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has defended her comment that it was "hard to believe" that no one in the Pakistani government knew where al-Qaeda leaders were hiding.
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