links for 2009-04-23 Greg Sargent: Obama Begins Mocking GOP’s National Security Attacks John Judis: Barack Vs. The Banks Glenn Greenwald: Politico, Mike Allen, and "Journalistic" "Anonymity" Elspeth Reeve: Serving Under the Army's Most Ruthless Soldier John Quiggin: The ideology that dare not speak its name Josh Friedland: The New York Times Ate My Slogan Eric Alterman: I.F. Stone Was No Spy Cold War International History Project: Documents : The Vassiliev Notebooks Dan Froomkin: Torturing for Propaganda Purposes - Torturing for Propaganda Purposes Gene Healy: Of Course It Was Torture Nouriel Roubini: End of Economic Gloom? Not as Early as You Wish Mohamed El-Erian: Bank tests we should get stressed about Robert Higgs: Hummel, Henderson, the Fed, and the Housing Bubble Charlie Stross: Death March Stephen Suh: I never really imagined in all of my 49 years on the planet that there would seriously be a debate in the United States about whether it is alright to torture a prisoner... Marcy Wheeler: The SASC Smoking Gun on Waterboarding Lionel Barber: A flawed first draft of history Saskia Scholtes and Simone Baribeau: Freddie Mac’s Kellermann found dead: apparent suicide...