AntiWar Radio host Scott Horton interviews Marjorie Cohn on the recent revelation that torture was not used to thwart attacks and gather intel, but to manufacture connections between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda to justify the consciously illegal Iraq War.
Archive for May, 2009
Detainees Tortured to Link Saddam to al-Qa’ida (mp3)
Posted: 6 May 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Abu Zubaydah, Bagram, Cheney, Condi Rice, Convention Against Torture, fascism, Geneva Conventions, George Bush, Gitmo, Holder, human rights, international law, Iraq War, Israel, KSM, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, Newspeak, Obama, Rumsfeld, Saddam Hussein, Spain, terrorism, torture memos, UN, UN Charter, US, War, war crimes, waterboarding
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‘Government’ is Main Threat to a Free Press (Video)
Posted: 4 May 2009 by Little Alex in Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anti-Statism, bloggers, Burma, conflict zones, corporatism, Cuba, Eritrea, fascism, free press, Freedom House, Gaza, guerilla journalism, human rights, international law, internet media, Iran, Israel, journalism, libertarian, liberty, Libya, market-anarchism, Middle East, North Korea, NYT, Turkmenistan, UDHR, UN, US, War
The price of a free press and what hinders it.
Philip Weiss and The Israel Lobby’s Influence in Washington (mp3)
Posted: 4 May 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: AIPAC, Andrea Mitchell, anti-Statism, espionage, fascism, George Bush, George Mitchell, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Israel lobby, J Street, Jane Harman, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, MSNBC, Newspeak, Philip Weiss, US, War, West Bank, Zionism
AntiWar Radio host Scott Horton interviews Philip Weiss on the Jane Harman scandal, Israel espionage, and the lobby’s push for war with Iran.
