Reason Morning Links: Musicians Demand List of Torture Songs, Pay Czar Makes Deep Slashes at Bailout Firms, Drought Looms in Africa

Radley Balko | October 22, 2009

• Economy showing signs of recovery, but not when it comes to employment.

• Pay czar to slash executive salaries at bailed out firms by average of 50 percent, some as high as 90 percent.

• Recording artists demanding the federal government release list of songs used to torture prisoners in Guantanamo.

• East African drought has 23 million facing famine.

• New bill would give FDA broad power to oversee the food supply.