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Our Alternative Vision: A World of Equality, Peace and Justice _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-inti

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Peoples Summit: Our Alternative Vision
—- A World of Equality, Peace and Justice

Reiner Braun
A long time activist in the European Peace Movement, working as Executive Director for Scientists for Peace and Sustainability and the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility. He is a steering committee member of the International Peace Bureau and one of the leading speakers of the German peace movement.

Joe Lombardo
The Co-Coordinator of the United National Antiwar Coalition. He is also a founding member of Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, the CSEA, and the Troy Area Labor Council.

Mumia Abu-Jamal
A renowned journalist from Philadelphia who has been in prison since 1981 and was on death row since 1983 for allegedly shooting Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. After decades of appeals, he left death row in 2012. He is the author of many books, including Live From Death Row, Death Blossoms, All Things Censored, and We Want Freedom.

Suraia Sahar
A founding member of Afghans for Peace (AFP), an alliance of Afghans from various ethnic, religious, socio-economic, cultural, and political backgrounds with a united vision for a democratic, all-inclusive, just, and peaceful Afghanistan. Based in Toronto, she has spoken at antiwar events across North America.

Producer: Peoples Summit CANG8.org; Occupy Chicago. Recorded at the Peoples Summit- Chicago- May 13, 2012

The Anti-war Progressive Teach-in broaches upon some of the most highly charged subjects of our day—War & Peace, national healthcare, women’s rights, human rights, civil rights, torture, vets against the war, freedom, democracy, protest, demonstrations, etc. We scour the world to find and gather debates and presentations that are extremely informative and educational. Related subjects are also discussed. It provides key information for the uninitiated and the initiated alike.

Drone Summit: Killing and Spying by Remote control _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:36:40 +0000

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Drone Summit: Killing and Spying by Remote control
Panel Discussian on the Ethical/Political Issues of Drone Use & Targeted Killings. What are the human costs of drone strikes on Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Palestine? Panelists: Madiha Tahir (Journalist) @MadLHatter, Sheila Carapico (University of Richmond), Sadia Ali Aden (Activist) @SadiaAden, Jimmy Johnson (Against Arms), and Leili Kashani, Moderator (Center for Constitutional Rights). Producer for Pacifica Radio is Veronica Faisant at the Drone Summit in Washington DC on 2012-04-28.

2012 Presidential Alternative Candidates Debate

noliesradio — Sat, 05 May 2012 05:34:58 +0000

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2012 Presidential Alternative Candidates Debate
Panel debate with the 2012 Presidential candidates of Socialists and Justice Parties –This is a debate among four 2012 U.S. presidential candidates from different socialist parties and the Justice Party. Speakers: Stewart Alexander, Rocky Anderson, Stephan Durham, and Peta Lindsay. A Pacifica Radio Network Broadcast. See video below for more footage from the debate.

Published on Apr 22, 2012 by jeff4justice
A Jeff 4 Justice Exclusive.
The Alternative Party Debate hosted by Maggie Phair Institute.
Featuring:
Rocky Anderson
Justice Party nominee

http://www.voterocky.org/

Roseanne Barr
Green Party candidate

http://roseanneforpresident.com/

Stephen Durham
Freedom Socialist Party nominee

http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/

Peta Lindsay
Party for Socialism and Liberation nominee

http://pslweb.org/votepsl/2012/candidates/lindsay.html

Dr. Kent Mesplay
Green Party candidate

http://mesplay.org/

Dr. Jill Stein
Green Party candidate

http://www.jillstein.org/

The Time Out for Peace Plan–John M. O’Connell _ on Anti-War Teach-in

noliesradio — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:51:59 +0000

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The Time Out for Peace Plan–John M. O’Connell
John M. O’Connell first developed the concept of a “Time Out for Peace” in 1986. John had been facilitating strategy sessions for corporations and trainings for ‘New Games’ play events with thousands of players of all ages, bringing communities together. While working with the Institute for Conscious Evolution on a project to bring R. Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller to San Francisco for a series of programs he conceived of calling a global ‘time-out for peace,’ as a way to change the win/lose ‘War Game’ the world was playing.

Over the past twenty-five years, the Time Out for Peace Plan has evolved along with changing world conditions and input from colleagues. In 2010 John decided that our global situation was so dire that it was time to take the Time Out for Peace Project public, through the World Peace Campaign, a non-profit 501c3 organization. For more information visit Time Out for Peace Here.This is a No Lies News Radio Presentation recorded 4-9-2012 in Walnut Creek, California at a Friendly Favors Event.

Michael Parenti: The Face of Imperialism_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:23:45 +0000

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Michael Parenti: The Face of Imperialism
“The Face of Imperialism will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by people around the world – many of them indigenous peoples – who are defending themselves against the Empire.” That’s what the author Andre Vltchek wrote for the jacket of Dr. Michael Parenti’s most recent book.

Dr. Michael Parenti has written about empire, history, the media, theology, and socialism in his decades as an activist and teacher. However one topic has intrigued him more than others. He once wrote that “Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last five centuries, carving up whole continents, oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media, and political leaders.”

Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale, Parenti has taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. He wrote 23 books, among them: Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, Against Empire and God and His Demons. He risked and ended his promising academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam.

In 2 parts–part 2 immediately follows part 1–one hour total.
Recorded in Fall of 2011. From A TUC Radio Presentation.

Feminist Theology and Women in the Muslim World _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:28:50 +0000

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Feminist Theology and Women in the Muslim World

A rare 1993 recording updated in March 2012 for TUC Radio’s 20th anniversary celebration.
In 2 parts–part 2 immediately follows part 1–one hour total.

Recorded on April 1, 1993, at UC Berkeley, this is a two part program that begins with an moving account of her personal journey and ends, for this part ONE, with a painstakingly researched account of the story of Adam and Eve common to Islam, Christianity and Judaism. This myth has been used to declare women secondary, subservient to men, and sinful. As it turns out this is not the original story.

In this second part Dr. Hassan states that anti women statements are nowhere in the Koran but were added later by Companions of the Prophet. However questioning a Companion is a capital offense. This program ends with an interview with Dr. Hassan. She gives a most amazing answer to the question whether Eve’s quest for consciousness (the apple story) was good or bad.

Dr. Riffat Hassan, born in Pakistan and educated in England, taught theology in the US. Her feminist friends in Pakistan realized that they needed a theological argument to oppose anti woman legislation and asked her to help. She became, in the mid 1980s, the first trained theologian to take on, at personal risk, the misreading of the Koran with the explicit goal to help women’s liberation. From A TUC Radio Presentation.

Left Forum 2012: Michael Moore, with Richard Wolff_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:05:11 +0000

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Left Forum 2012: Michael Moore, with Richard Wolff
Michael Moore’s 2012 Left Forum speech, delivered Saturday, March 17, 2012 at Pace University in New York City. Features introduction by Marxist economist Richard Wolff. Of note, Moore rallies attendees at the end to march to and reoccupy Zuccotti Park. From A Pacifica Radio Presentation.

3-Hour Military Test Secretly Administered in Thousands of High Schools _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:02:15 +0000

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3-Hour Military Test Secretly Administered in Thousands of High Schools
Pat Elder of the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy (StudentPrivacy.org) explains how the U.S. military gets away with requiring students in thousands of U.S. high schools to take a 3-hour career inventory test with the results going straight to recruiters without students’ or parents’ knowledge. From A Talk Nation Radio Presentation.

Attorney General Eric Holder Defends Legality of Targeted Killings of U.S. Citizens Overseas_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:42:51 +0000

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Attorney General Eric Holder Defends Legality of Targeted Killings of U.S. Citizens Overseas
Using armed drones, President Obama has overseen the targeted killing of at least three U.S. civilians overseas — more than President Bush did in office. Are the killings legal? Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, says Attorney General Eric Holder’s defense on Monday March 5, 2012 of the Obama administration’s policy authorizing the assassination of U.S. citizens abroad “left open more questions than it answered.” She says Holder’s speech [click here for transcript of Holder's speech] amounted to a broad defense of the administration’s claimed expansive authority to kill its own citizens, far from any battlefield and without judicial review or oversight of legal standards. “While Holder acknowledges that the Constitution requires ‘due process’ before the government takes the life of one of its own citizens,” Shamsi argues, “he says it is up to the Executive Branch alone, without judicial review, to determine what process is due and to make that decision without any oversight — and that’s simply not the case in our constitutional system of checks and balances.” The ACLU is suing the White House to disclose its legal memos that justify targeted killings. [click here for the transcript of this program] From A Democracy Now Presentation 3-6-2012.

Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy on Bahrain, AIPAC, and Military Spending _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:40:40 +0000

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Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy on Bahrain, AIPAC, and Military Spending
Robert Naiman, just returned from Bahrain, discusses the popular uprising there, the upcoming conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its push for war with Iran, and the prospects for reducing U.S. military spending. From A Talk Nation Radio Production.

Author, Activist, War Veteran Paul Chappell on How We End War Forever_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:53:51 +0000

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Author, Activist, War Veteran Paul Chappell on How We End War Forever
Paul Chappell discusses the investigations into the making of war and of peace found in his books “Will War Ever End,” “The End of War,” and the just published “Peaceful Revolution: How We Can Create the Future Needed for Humanity’s Survival.” From A Talk Nation Radio Production.

Project Censored Special Broadcast: “Brought to Justice”? — The Indefinite Detention and Targeted Killing of the Rule of Law_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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“Brought to Justice”? — The Indefinite Detention and Targeted Killing of the Rule of Law
Welcome to a special broadcast by Project Censored on Pacifica Radio, I’m Mickey Huff, along with co-hosts Dr. Peter Phillips; Dr. Andy Roth, the associate director of Project Censored; and Abby Martin of Media Roots. Today’s program is “Brought to Justice”? — The Indefinite Detention and Targeted Killing of the Rule of Law. Joining us will be investigative journalist Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files and co-director of Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo; Pardiss Kebriaei, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, who has represented a number of the men detained at Guantanamo and is also counsel in Al-Aulaqi v. Obama, which concerns targeted killings by the executive in zones outside of armed conflict. We will also have music and commentary from one of the most notable political folk musicians of our time, the one and only David Rovics. We hear from Dr. Almerindo Ojeda, professor of linguistics and director of the Guantánamo Testimonials Project at University of California, Davis; and we round out today’s special with Stephanie Tang of World Can’t Wait. From a Project Censored Radio Presentation.

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CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY FOR ROSA PARKS AND MLK — Fred Gray_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY FOR ROSA PARKS AND MLK — Fred Gray
Who was the attorney for Rosa Parks and later Martin Luther King at the beginning of the Civil Rights struggle? Fred Gray, just out of law school, had made a commitment to destroy everything segregated in his home state of Alabama when he was just a teenager. Rosa Parks was only his second case, after Claudette Colvin, a teenager, who nine months earlier had been the first to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and in turn inspired Rosa Park.

The early story of the civil rights movement comes to life in this story of Fred Gray’s life and education, as he tells it to the Republican Roundtable in the summer of 2009. He brings that story up to date, from the symbolism of the election of Barack Obama to the resurgence of racism today.

Fred Gray won scores of civil rights cases in education, voting rights, transportation, and health. He represented the Freedom Riders, the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers, and the victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. From a TUC Radio Presentation.

Military Industrial Complex at 50, David Swanson _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Military Industrial Complex at 50, David Swanson
As he discusses co-authoring his new book MIC50, David Swanson provides context with recent US Military and foreign policy history in wars abroad. Iran, Congress, Corporate Power, and new energy to OWS movement, with dates for general strikes and protests. From a Talk Nation Radio Presentation.

Iran and the Globalization of War — Michel Chossudovsky _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Iran and the Globalization of War — Michel Chossudovsky
Recent developments in the Middle East including the wider implications of the destabilization of the entire area; the current global war as a different kind of conquest than that of World War I and II; US military deployment in the area; the role of Israel; Iranian Defenses; US war planning and war scenarios since 2003 concerning the nation of Iran, including Austere Challenge 12, Theatre Iran Near Term, Global Strike 2003, Concept Plan 8022, and Vigilant Shield; the effect of sanctions; and The Responsibility To Protect. From a Guns & Butter Presentation.

Christopher Hitchens: The Trial of Henry Kissinger_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Christopher Hitchens: The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Remembering Hitchens War Crime Indictment. “Hitchens investigates Kissinger’s involvement in the war in Indochina, planned assassinations in Santiago, Nicosia and Washington, D.C., and genocide in East Timor. Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation, and material released under the Freedom of Information Act, Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose (actions)resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.” (Verso Press)

Hitchens died on December 15, 2011. His work on the war crimes of Henry Kissinger may be his most enduring. In this recording he describes Kissinger as a “a one man rolling global crime wave.”

Acerbic, witty, fact and passion filled. Recorded in the Fall of 2001 in San Francisco at a book release party for: The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Updated in December 2011.
From a TUC Radio Presentation.

The 9/11 Hijackers That Weren’t — Jay Kolar_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:15:52 +0000

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The 9/11 Hijackers That Weren’t — Jay Kolar
Airline passenger manifests; examination of the Portland Jetport and Dullas Airport Videos, missing imprinted security data, faces smudged out, cover-up of evidence; FDIC evidence of hijacker alive after 9/11; analysis of passport photographs; the covert intelligence use of doubles to frame Ziad Jarrah. From a Guns & Butter Presentation. See transcript here.

Year of Global Uprisings, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street: A Special Look Back at 2011

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Year of Global Uprisings, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street: A Special Look Back at 2011
Today we look back at 2011, a year that saw the U.S. killing of Osama Bin Laden, the ouster of a dictator in Egypt and the death of one in Libya, the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, and the expansion of the secret U.S. drone war in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula. As U.S. troops leave Iraq, thousands of private security contractors remain to guard the U.S. embassy—the largest in the world. The Horn of Africa was hit by the region’s worst drought in decades as the devastating impact of extreme weather was felt across the globe, while the world’s most powerful countries continue to refuse to join in a pact to address climate change. However, 2011 may be most remembered as a year of global uprisings. From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, millions of people took to the streets to oppose repressive regimes and an unjust economic system. We spend the hour today looking back at the protest movements that shaped 2011.From a Democracy Now Presentation. See transcript here.

Earth at Risk Conference — Arundhati Roy _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:01:58 +0000

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Earth at Risk Conference — Arundhati Roy
Presentation from the Earth-At-Risk Conference, recently held at the University of California, Berkeley on November 13, 2011 with Featured Speaker Arundhati Roy. From a Flashpoints Presentation.

NATO’s Assault On Syria — Webster Griffin Tarpley _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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NATO’s Assault On Syria — Webster Griffin Tarpley
Foreign journalists trip to Syria; religions and ethnicities; cities of Damascus, Qara, Homs and its Zahra Neighborhood and Hospital, Baniyas, Tartus, and Beirut, Lebanon; Russian Naval Base; death squads/snipers/ambushes and kidnapping; Syrian Army; foreign intervention. From a Guns & Butter Presentation.

U.S. Imperialism or A Just Response To Terror? — Debate: Christopher Hitchens Vs Tariq Ali _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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U.S. Imperialism or A Just Response To Terror?
– Debate: Christopher Hitchens Vs Tariq Ali
U.S. Imperialism Or A Just Response To Terror?
– A Debate Between Christopher Hitchens And Tariq Ali. Hitchens and Ali debate whether the recent and past military actions of the U.S. around the world are just, or a meddling action of an Imperialist Power.

Recorded April 17, 2002 at the ICC Auditorium of Georgetown University, Wash. DC by Mark Torres, but still highly relevant today. Please remember to listen with historical perspective as this was recorded only a few months after the Sept 11th attacks and a few months after the Afghan war started and before the Invasion of Iraq. And it was before the 911 Truth Movement really got started. Christopher Hitchens passed away on December 15, 2011. He was was a British-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades.

Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
Alex Carey said that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. The 20th century, he wrote, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey’s unique view of US history goes back to World War I and ends with the Reagan era.

He uncovers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII. Carey also shows how the continued campaign against “Big Government” plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power. He also mentions the famous secret 1971 memo by Lewis Powell, later Supreme Court Justice, that set in motion what Bill Moyers today calls “the revolt of the rich.”

Noam Chomsky dedicated his book “Manufacturing Consent” to the memory of Alex Carey. Chomsky says that the Australian sociologist would have written the definitive history of propaganda in the US, had he lived to complete his work. This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995. From a TUC Radio Presentation.

Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terrorism _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terrorism
– Michel Chossudovsky
The broad consequences of 9/11 with regard to US military doctrine, and more broadly the pretext and justification which the lies surrounding 9/11 have given to waging a war of conquest under the banner of what we call the Global War on Terrorism; Libya, Syria; Q and A. From a Guns & Butter Presentation. Recorded September 9, 2011 in Toronto, Canada.

Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over Iran’s Nuke Program _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over Iran’s Nuke Program
While the United States, Britain and Canada are planning to announce a coordinated set of sanctions against Iran’s oil and petrochemical industry today, longtime investigative journalist Seymour Hersh questions the growing consensus on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. International pressure has been mounting on Iran since the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency revealed in a report the “possible military dimensions” to Iran’s nuclear activities, citing “credible” evidence that “indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device.” In his latest article for The New Yorker blog, titled “Iran and the IAEA,” Hersh argues the recent report is a “political document,” not a scientific study. “They [JSOC] found nothing. Nothing. No evidence of any weaponization,” Hersh says. “In other words, no evidence of a facility to build the bomb. They have facilities to enrich, but not separate facilities to build the bomb. This is simply a fact.” [see transcript here] From a Democracy Now Broadcast 11-21-2011.

Ali Abunimah on ‘Delegitimizing’ Israel _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Ali Abunimah on ‘Delegitimizing’ Israel
US government support for Israel has never been stronger. But now a consumer boycott of Israel [The BDS Movement] is gaining steam, and Israeli government officials are being openly confronted and denounced wherever they travel.

Author and activist Ali Abunimah says that this is evidence of a global movement against Israeli government policy breaking through. On this edition, Ali Abunimah explains why he thinks Israel has ‘lost the argument’ over who’s right and wrong…and where he thinks the movement to free Palestine is headed next.

Special thanks to the Middle East Children’s Alliance and KPFA radio.

This program was funded in part by Left Tilt. From a RadioProject.org Presentation.

Natural Process Farming — Bob Cannard _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:05:21 +0000

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Natural Process Farming — Bob Cannard
In the description of the Bioneers he is: “Iconoclast, piano player, great cook, and an incredible farmer”. Bob Cannard is a frequent guest at their annual conferences. His produce and fruit are so exquisite that they are used in the most expensive restaurants, including Chez Panisse in Berkeley. His farm store is open year round and sells vegetables and home-canned goods at affordable prices.

As the cities are taking over the land Cannard is taking back what he can. He is acknowledged by Michael Pollan as one of the important members of the sustainable food movement, creating solutions to the growing crisis of the loss of farmland – caused by urbanization and the techniques of industrial agriculture.

Bob Cannard is among the rare farmers who are snatching old wisdom, heirloom seeds and farmland from the edge of destruction. He can recover abundance where others have given up and has an immediate friendly rapport with those who want to restore their own relationship to earth and good food – be they gardener or urban dweller.

After explaining how to have fun restoring a compacted weedy piece of land or lawn, Cannard proposes to build the Garden Party and lays out the principles of taking responsibility for one’s food on a personal and local level to a cheering audience. Those are the criteria for membership in the Garden Party.

Cannard runs Green String Farm and Institute in Petaluma, CA. From a TUC Radio Presentation.

Vandana Shiva: The Seed at the Heart of Freedom_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Vandana Shiva: The Seed at the Heart of Freedom
Vandana Shiva came in September 2011 to the first national Heirloom Seed Expo held in Santa Rosa, CA, to give the keynote speech. 10,000 people had come on short notice to see plants and seeds that would already be extinct had not someone lovingly collected and bred them.

Shiva, trained in quantum physics, became a seed saver and ecologist in 1982. She and her organization Navdanya have done a huge part of the work limiting the spread of GMOs into India. For her the attempts to impose GMOs on India is a war on life and the most recent wave of colonialism. She and the members of Navdanya learned from Gandhi’s campaigns against the British – and as Gandhi chose the spinning wheel and salt, they chose the seed as the vessel of life and dedicated themselves to its protection.

Vandana Shiva explains how biotechnology creates super weeds, poisons beneficial insects and soil microbes and only brings high yields when fertilizers, pesticides and abundant water are applied. She reports on Monsanto’s intrusion into the Indian market by burning heirloom seeds, and locking farmers and seed vendors into exclusive agreements. Monsanto is using the patent rights they received via former Monsanto lawyer Clarence Thomas on the US Supreme Court to collect royalty payments and make it illegal to save and exchange seeds. She calls for the international abolition of GMOs and the removal of patents since seeds are a gift from nature to be shared freely.

Her books include Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest, Monocultures of the Mind, and Water Wars. Her many awards include the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.” She spoke in September 2011 at the Heirloom Seed Expo organized by Baker Creek Seeds along with many independent seed companies, farmers and schools. From a TUC Radio Presentation.

Smiley and West Poverty Tour in LA_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Smiley and West Poverty Tour in LA
The Poverty Tour: Call to Conscience Townhall in Los Angeles.
Join the townhall dialogue as Tavis Smiley & Cornel West highlight the plight of the poor of all races, colors, and creeds so they will not be forgotten, ignored or rendered invisible during this difficult and dangerous time of economic deprivation.
Recorded live on 10-9-2011 by KPFK & WBAI.

A Global Insurrection by the 99 Precenters; A Rebuttal of the Iranian Terror Plot; U.S. Troops in Uganda _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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A Global Insurrection by the 99 Precenters; A Rebuttal of the Iranian Terror Plot; U.S. Troops in Uganda
We begin with the 99% insurrection that began with the Occupy Wall Street movement and has now gone global with massive street protests in Spain and violent clashes in Italy with Stephany Griffith Jones.

Then we get a point by point rebuttal of the plausibility of the plot involving an Iranian/American used car salesman and a Mexican drug cartel hit man with Rasool Nafisi.

Then finally we look into the latest deployment of U.S. troops to a war zone, this time in Africa, with John Prendegast.

Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon

Van Jones Speaks at ‘The Take Back The American Dream Conference’_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Van Jones Speaks at ‘The Take Back The American Dream Conference’
Van Jones at the Take Back The American Dream Conference speaks about forging a new progressive movement. (October 3rd 2011, Washington DC) A Jon Almeleh Production.

9/11 Reclaiming our Future _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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9/11 Reclaiming our Future
With Kevin Danaher, Ed Asner, Richard Gage and others. This program begins with an excerpt from the trailer, followed by a talk by Kevin Danaher about reclaiming our future. He is the co-founder of Global Exchange and executive producer of the annual San Francisco Green Festival. Reclaiming our Future was the motto of the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 held in 2011 at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater. The event signaled a break through on 9/11 in two important areas. A trailer for an upcoming movie by Engineers and Architects for 9/11 Truth about the destruction of World Trade Center Building #7 has already gone viral on the internet. Narrated by Ed Asner, it shows the latest research that rebuts the government explanation that office furniture fire caused the free fall collapse of the 47 story building, that was not hit by an airplane. Of all the 9/11 issues the case of building #7 is the most compelling to-date to initiate a new investigation. Architects and engineers are joined by 9/11 family members and first responders who are supporting that demand. From a TUC Radio Presentation.

Obama Assassinates US Citizen–Michael Moore calls for new 911 Investigation_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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With Death of Anwar al-Awlaki, Has U.S. Launched New Era of Killing U.S. Citizens Without Charge?
The United States has confirmed the killing of the radical Yemeni-American cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, in northern Yemen. The Obama administration says Al-Awlaki is one of the most influential al-Qaeda operatives on its ‘most wanted’ list. In response to news of al-Awlaki’s death, constitutional scholar Glenn Greenwald and others argue the assassination of U.S. citizens without due process has now has become a reality. “One of the bizarre aspects of it is that media and government reports try to sell al-Awlaki as some grand terrorist mastermind … describing him as the new bin Laden. The United States government needs a terrorist mastermind to replace Osama bin Laden to justify this type of endless war … For a while, al-Awlaki was going to serve that function,” Greenwald says. “If you are somebody that believes the President of the United States has the power to order your fellow citizens murdered, assassinated, killed without a shred of due process … then you are really declaring yourself to be as pure of an authoritarian as it gets.” [see transcript here] From Democracy Now 9-30-2011.

Michael Moore: Man Interviewed by Democracy Now! on Troy Davis Execution Inspired My Georgia Boycott
Filmmaker Michael Moore was a part of the global audience tuning in for Democracy Now!’s live coverage from outside the Georgia prison where death row prisoner Troy Davis was executed on September 21. Moore describes how he was inspired by one of the people Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman interviewed on the scene after news of the execution was announced. The man, who introduced himself as Wesley Boyd, immediately called for a boycott of the state of Georgia in response to Davis’ execution. Moore says he then asked his publisher to recall all copies of his new book from stores in Georgia, saying, “I don’t want any commerce being done in my name in the state of Georgia.” When he was told the books were already on the shelves, Moore decided to donate proceeds from the sales in the state to the Innocence Project and a voter registration drive. He also discusses his previous work on the case of a death row prisoner who shares his name, a topic he writes about in the chapter, “The Execution of Michael Moore,” in his new memoir Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life. [see transcript here] From Democracy Now 9-29-2011.

Michael Moore: Health Insurers Use Costlier Premiums to Fund Campaigns Against Critics Like Me
Healthcare costs for insured working Americans continue to rise, with premiums increasing 9 percent for family plans over the past year. In this part of our interview with filmmaker and author Michael Moore, he discusses how health insurers have used the funds they receive from premiums to try to undermine their critics, including Moore himself. A health insurance company whistleblower, Wendell Potter, previously revealed in a Democracy Now! interview how industry executives plotted to undermine Moore’s 2007 film “SiCKO,” which took on the for-profit U.S. healthcare system. [see transcript here]From Democracy Now 9-29-2011.

Michael Moore Backs Call to Re-Open Investigation of 9/11 Attacks
In his film “Fahrenheit 9/11,” Michael Moore explored the complex ties between Bush administration officials and associates, the Saudi Royal family, and those believed to have carried out the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Today, Moore is backing former Florida governor and senator Bob Graham’s call for President Obama to reopen the investigation into 9/11 after new information emerged about the possible role of prominent Saudis. According to recent news reports, a wealthy young Saudi couple fled their home in a gated community in Sarasota, Florida, just a week or so before Sept. 11, 2001, leaving behind three cars and nearly all of their possessions. “There are many unanswered questions and they should be answered,” Moore says. He also was targeted by his critics for this film. Moore talks about how the Bush administration worried the movie would hurt Bush’s re-election chances, and how he found out that he ranked second behind then-President Bush on the number of discovered plots to attack him. [see transcript here] From Democracy Now 9-29-2011.

The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State
– Michael Parenti
Parenti criticizes the lone assassin theory and addresses the bitter question that haunts so many whether government agencies would do such a thing. He examines what he calls “the gangster nature of the state” and goes over details of the murder.

When Oliver Stone’s movie JFK opened in December 1991 a huge PR campaign was mobilized against the film. Even progressives spoke out. Noam Chomsky wrote in support of the Warren Commission’s findings – in contrast Michael Parenti gave one of his highly acclaimed talks criticizing the lone assassin theory. The bitter questions that haunted defenders and critics alike was whether government agencies of a democratic country would do such a thing as assassinate an elected President.

In this talk Michael Parenti turns to that question first – he examines, in part one, what he calls “the gangster nature of the state.” In part two he goes over details of the assassination and critiques The Nation, The Progressive, Chomsky and Cockburn. He spoke in Berkeley, CA, on the 30th anniversary of the JFK assassination. A TUC Radio Presentation. In two parts: part 2 follows part 1 immediately.

Troy Davis might be executed Wed Sept 21. 2011 _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Over 500,000 Sign Petition to Stop Georgia Execution of Troy Davis
Thousands of people who believe the state of Georgia is about to execute an innocent man are rallying behind the high-profile death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis. Davis was convicted of the 1989 killing of an off-duty Savannah police officer, Mark MacPhail, but has always maintained his innocence. His case has become a focal point for anti-death penalty activists in the United States and abroad, attracting supporters such as Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The Georgia Superior Court has scheduled Davis’s execution for next Wednesday, Sept. 21. Seven of the nine non-police witnesses who implicated Davis have recanted their testimony, and there is no physical evidence that ties him to the crime scene. With his legal appeals exhausted, the fate of Troy Davis rests largely in the hands of Georgia’s Board of Pardons and Parole, which could commute his death sentence and spare his life. Yesterday, supporters delivered a petition containing more than half a million signatures to a state parole board in support of clemency for Davis. We speak with Benjamin Jealous, president and CEO of NAACP, a leading organization in the campaign to stop Davis’s execution. “It’s been activism that has kept Troy alive to this point,” Jealous says. [see transcript here] From a Democracy Now Presentation 9-16-2011.

Troy Davis’s Sister: “The Fight for Troy Has Brought Us a Whole New Family All Over the World”
The campaign to stop the Sept. 21 execution of death row prisoner Troy Davis has been led by his sister, Martina Correia, who herself is fighting for her life in a bout with cancer. We’re joined by Troy Davis’s other sister, Kimberly Davis, from Savannah to talk about the global day of action to save her brother. “Even though Martina is sick now in the hospital, she is still fighting from her hospital bed,” Davis says. “We’re not only fighting for justice for Troy; we’re fighting for the Troy Davises that came before him, for the Troy Davises that are going to come after him. The fight for Troy Davis has brought a whole new family to us…all over the world.” [see transcript here] From a Democracy Now Presentation 9-16-2011.

When Innocence Isn’t Enough: An Audio Documentary About Troy Anthony Davis
Witnesses recanted, no DNA, no proof, yet innocent Troy Davis might be executed Wed Sept 21. 2011 @7pm!
Produced on 11-8-2007 and narrated by Naji Mujahid of the DC Radio Co-op/Peoples’ MEDIA Center, this work is a documentary about the plight of Troy Davis who has been on Death Row in Georgia since 1991; throughout this time he has maintained his innocence. He was convicted with no material evidence and solely on the testimony of 9 key witnesses by the State. However, since the recantation of 7 of them, his case garnered worldwide support and calls for a new trial. ‘US Judiciary Mess’ Series–From a WBIX Production.

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The 46 Exercises and Drills of 9/11 — Webster Tarpley _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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The 46 Exercises and Drills of 9/11 — Webster Tarpley
Military exercises and drills in the decade before September 11th, and on the day of; drills that then go live; MIHOP v. LIHOP; the goal of 9/11; the stand down order; lack of air defense; the Pentagon; Angel Is Next; Amalgam Virgo; Able Danger; Able Warrior; P2OG; Vigilant Guardian; Global Guardian; Amalgam Warrior; Doomsday Aircraft equipped with the Looking Glass Communication System, etc. From a Guns & Butter Presentation.

Civil War In Libya And The Rebel Racism against Afro-Libyans _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Civil War In Libya And The Rebel Racism against Afro-Libyans
Mohamed Hassan discusses the real story behind the Civil War in Libya. Hassan is a specialist in geopolitics and the Arab world. Born in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), he participated in the student movements of the 1974 socialist revolution in his country. He studied political science in Egypt before specializing in public administration in Brussels. A diplomat for his country of birth during the 1990s, he has worked in Washington, Beijing and Brussels. Co-author of ‘Iraq under the occupation’ (EPO, 2003), he has also participated in producing works on Arab nationalism and the Islamic movements, and on Flemish nationalism. He is one of the greatest contemporary experts on the Arab and Muslim world. From a Guns & Butter Presentation with Bonnie Faulkner.

Then, Robert Knight interviews Amnesty International’s Claudio Cordone on US- and NATO-supported Libyan “rebels’” racist or xenophobic abductions, murders and abuses of Afro-Libyans and black guest workers.
Amnesty says in a bulletin released this week that:
“People suspected of having fought for Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi, in particular black Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans, are at high risk of abuse by anti-Gaddafi forces, Amnesty International said today after witnessing black Libyans being targeted in Tripoli.”
From A “Five O’Clock Shadow” presentation with Robert Knight.

The Face of Imperialism & Tropic of Chaos–Michael & Christian Parenti_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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The Face of Imperialism — Michael Parenti
“Michael Parenti’s The Face of Imperialism is a powerful, frightening, and honest book. It will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by people who are searching for truth amidst the piles of garbage of Western propaganda. Above all, this book will be like a bright spark of hope for billions of men, women, and children who are fighting this very moment for survival, defending themselves against the Empire and against all monstrous faces and masks of imperialism.” —Andre Vltchek, author of Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad. From a Book Event at: MOE’S BOOKSTORE, August 23, 2011. Recorded by Brightpath Video.

Unstable Climate, Unstable People — Christian Parenti
Journalist Christian Parenti speaks about his new book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. He connects the effects of climate change to the increasing number of civil wars, ethnic violence, criminality and failed states in Kenya, Brazil and India, among others. Christian is the son of Michael Parenti. From A National Radio Project Production. Recorded 7-14-2011.

The Costs of War — Project Censored/KPFA Special _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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The Costs of War — Project Censored/KPFA Special
Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, Co-hosts of the Project Censored Show on Pacifica at KPFA, hosted a live three and half hour special on the Costs of War for the summer fund drive. The Program focused on the recent Brown University study on the socio-economic impacts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and related subjects from scholars worldwide.

Speakers and Guests included:
Catherine Lutz, Professor Anthropology, Brown University, Project Director, Soldiers and Contractors: Recommendations and Neta Crawford, Professor Political Science at Brown University, Cost of War Project Director.

Norah Niland: Former Director Human Rights: United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, social change and women, and Matthew Evangelista, Professor of History and Political Science, Cornell University, Alternatives to War.

Winslow Wheeler, of the Straus Military Reform Project of the Center for Defense Information Washington DC. Department of Defense Budget, Military Cost of War.

Dahr Jamail, Human Costs of War, Refugees, Life on the Ground and resistance in the military, Author: “The Will to Resist”.

John Tirman, MIT, Author of “The Deaths of Others” The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars, Topic: Civilian Civilian Deaths In War.

Linda Bilmes, Professor Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School, Topic: Costs of Veteran Care.

John Pilger, Journalist and Film Producer, covering his new documentary, “The War We Don’t See”.

A Project Censored/KPFA Radio Special Presentation originally broadcasted on 8-11-2011. For this version, the fund-raising pitches were mostly edited out.

THE ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR-Part 2 — Michael Parenti_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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THE ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR
– Michael Parenti
A People’s History of Ancient Rome. Who was Julius Caesar, a dictator or a populist? And who really was Brutus, who murdered him on the Ides of March? A young hero or a participant in a deep seated conspiracy? This intriguing lecture by the noted author, speaker, activist and scholar Michael Parenti provides surprising new insights and parallels to today that are both shocking and amusing. This rebroadcast is part of the very popular and ever expanding series on what Parenti calls Real History, a different and intriguing reading of a surprisingly large number all too familiar stories. Parenti spoke about his Pulitzer Price nominated book: The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a people’s history of ancient Rome. He was recorded by Brian Barry in the summer of 2003 in San Francisco. This is Part 2 of a TUC Radio Presentation. You can listen to Part 1 here.

THE ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR — Michael Parenti-Part 1_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Ellen Brown — Why Banks Don’t Lend_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Ellen Brown — Why Banks Don’t Lend
Why Banks Don’t Lend — Liquidity Crisis. We discuss how the bail out actually contributed to decisions the banks made not to lend, look at the discussion on the debt, and assess the difference a state banking system would make to cash strapped states. We reached Ellen Brown in London, she is en route to Malaysia where she was invited to speak at a conference. She will speak at the Global Table, the local money reform group in London, as they consider a bill pending in the British Parliament. Ellen Brown is Chair and President of the educational non-profit think tank, publicbankinginstitute.org. From A Talk Nation Radio Presentation

Connecting the Anthrax Attacks to September 11th–Dr. Graeme MacQueen _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Connecting the Anthrax Attacks to September 11th
–Dr. Graeme MacQueen
Forewarning of the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001; three different approaches to understanding the anthrax attacks of 2001: structural, historical and symbolic; the lone nut theory of perpetrators; connections between the anthrax attacks and the so-called 9/11 hijackers in Florida; Operation Dark Winter; the attempt to disconnect anthrax from 9/11; Mohamed Atta asks for a loan. From A Guns &Butter Presentation

Report From Tripoli — Webster Tarpley _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Report From Tripoli — Webster Tarpley
Eyewitness report on bombing targets in Tripoli and environs, the port; the rebels in Bengazi; government defectors; large-scale building projects in Libya; Italy’s involvement; indictment by International Criminal Court; the Lockerbie bombing; analysis of the US/NATO attack. From A Guns &Butter Presentation

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek With Amy Goodman _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek With Amy Goodman
In one of his first public events since being held under house arrest, WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange appeared in London Saturday (July 2, 2011) for a conversation with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, moderated by Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman. They discussed the impact of WikiLeaks on world politics, the release of the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, and Cablegate — the largest trove of classified U.S. government records in history.

“From being inside the center of the storm, I have learned not just about the structure of government, not just about how power flows in many governments around the world that we’ve dealt with, but rather how history is shaped and distorted by the media,” Assange said.

Assange also talked about his new defense team, as well as U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, the accused Army whistleblower who has been jailed for the past year. Assange is currently under house arrest in Norfolk, outside London, pending a July 12 appeals hearing on his pending extradition to Sweden for questioning in a sexual misconduct case. He has now spent six months under house arrest, despite not being charged with a crime in any country. Assange was wearing an ankle monitor under his boot and Saturday’s event concluded shortly after 6 p.m. so he could return to his bail address by his curfew.

The event also marked the publication of the paperback edition of Žižek’s “Living in the End Times,” in which he argues that new ways of using and sharing information, in particular WikiLeaks, are one of a number of harbingers of the end of global capitalism as we know it.

The discussion was sponsored by the Frontline Club, founded in part to remember journalists killed on the front lines of war. From A Democracy Now Presentation

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VAUGHAN SMITH: Good afternoon. Good afternoon, my name’s Vaughan Smith. I’m a founder of the Frontline Club, co-founder actually, co-founder with my wife Pranvera who is hidden somewhere amongst you somewhere. We are very excited to be doing this today. This is the last event we’ve done in at the Frontline Club. I’d like to thank Will of the Trotsky club. I’d like to thank all of you for coming. I’d like to thank Dan, our branding man because I’m standing in front of a hundred logos, which are all new, so thanks Dan. Our new look. We’re not shy of our new look. I’d like to thank the Frontline Club staff who has worked extremely hard to put this on, particularly Flora and Milly. So, thank you all. I’m extremely proud of you all.

The Frontline Club exists to promote what is best in journalism and to put on debates and discussions like us. We’re a social enterprise and, if you wish to support us, come to Paddington if you haven’t already been where we can feed and entertain you. We do 200 events a year. As a social enterprise, any money you spend tonight and any money you spend at the Frontline Club helps us do this work, so we’re very grateful for it.

If you want to help Julian or Slavoj or Democracy Now! you can buy some books or make donations at the end, that facility will be there. Now, it’s Julian’s 40th birthday tomorrow, so if you want to help him with those exorbitant legal fees, give generously at the end.

So, all that remains is for me to welcome Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Amy is a multiple award-winning journalist and the main presenter for Democracy Now! and has flown all the way from America to be here, and she’s a pretty fine person. I’m extremely glad to hand over to her now. Thank you very much.

AMY GOODMAN: It is a great honor to be with you this afternoon and a shout out to all of the people who are watching this broadcast all over the world. We are live streaming this at democracynow.org. By the way, how many of you watch, or listen to, or read Democracy Now!?

[loud applause]

AMY GOODMAN: We’ve given out about a thousand fliers of where we broadcast in Britain and also where you can watch, read and listen to the broadcast. We’re also live streaming, we’ve offered the embed for anyone to take to put on their website. The Nation is live streaming us, michaelmoore.com is live streaming us, Free Speech TV is broadcasting Democracy Now! across the United States and there are many others. I hope people Tweet in and Facebook and let us know what you are doing with this broadcast. It’s extremely important because information is power. Information is a matter of life and death.

We’ve learned that through these remarkable trove of documents that have been released in the last year. The Iraq War Logs, the Afghanistan War Logs, and what’s been called Cablegate, the U.S. state department documents that are continuing to be released. Why does it matter so much? Well, we’ll talk about that this afternoon, but let’s just take one example, that came out in the Iraq War Logs, February of 2007.

The war logs show that two men were standing under an Apache helicopter, the men have their hands up, they clearly are attempting to surrender, the Apache helicopter can see this. So, they are not rogue. The soldiers call back to the base and they say what should we do? These men have their hands up. The lawyer on the base says you cannot surrender to a helicopter and they blow the men, attempting to surrender, away—that was February 2007.
Now, we will fast forward to July 12, 2007, a video that has been released by WikiLeaks. This devastating video of an area of Baghdad called “New Baghdad”, where a group of men were showing around two Reuters journalists.

Well, one was a videographer, a young up-and-coming videographer named Namir Noor-Eldeen and one was his driver, Saeed Chmagh; he was 40 years old, he was the father of 4 and they were showing them around the area. The same Apache helicopter unit is hovering above. They open fire. The video is chilling. I am sure many of you have seen it. If you watch or listen to Democracy Now! we played it repeatedly discussing it with various people from Julian Assange to soldiers who were there on the ground, over time we dissected this.

The soldiers opened fire, you have the video of the target and you have the audio of the sounds of the soldiers cursing laughing, but not rogue, always going up the chain of command asking for permission to open fire. In the first explosion Namir Noor-Eldeen and the other men on the ground are killed. Saeed Chmagh, you can see him attempting to crawl away. And then a van pulls up from the neighborhood and they are attempting to pick up the wounded, there are children in the van and the Apache helicopter opens fire again and Saeed Chmagh, others in the van are killed. Two little children are critically injured inside.

Now, I dare say that if we had seen what came out in the Iraq War Logs in February of 2007, if we had learned the story at the time after it happened, of the men with their hands up trying to surrender, there would have been an outcry. People are good, people care, people are compassionate, they would have called for an investigation. Perhaps one would have begun, but it might well have saved the lives of so many. Certainly, months later, perhaps that same Apache helicopter unit under investigation would not have done what it did. And maybe Namir Noor-Eldeen, the young Reuters videographer and his driver Saeed Chmagh, not to mention the other men who were killed and the kids critically injured, none of that would have happened to them. That’s why information matters. It is important we know what is done in our name. And today we are going to talk about this new age of information.

We’re joined by two people, many of you know well. Earlier I asked a young man, who would come to the gathering, why he traveled so far. He said, “are you kidding, to be with two of the most dangerous people?” The National Review calls Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, the most dangerous political philosopher in the West and The New York Times says he’s the Elvis of cultural theory. Slavoj Žižek has written over 50 books on philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory. His latest book Living in the End Times—and we’ll talk about what he thinks and talks about around the world.

Now, we’re joined by another man who has published perhaps more than any one in the world. In fact he wrote a book on the underground computer information age called, “Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier.” But with the Iraq War Logs, the Afghanistan War Logs, and now the U.S. government cables that have yet to be fully released, I would say that perhaps Julian Assange is the most widely published person on earth.

Today we’re going to have a conversation about information and I’d like to ask Julian to begin by going back to that moment in 2007, as we talk about the Iraq War Logs. And talk about the significance of them for you and why you’ve chosen to release this information.

JULIAN ASSANGE: Amy, I suspect under that criteria perhaps Rupert Murdoch is the most widely published person on earth. Something people say Australia has given to the world Rupert Murdoch and me, big in publishing. Well, in some ways things are very easy for us and very easy for me in that we make a promise to sources that if they give us material that is of a certain type, that is a significant—of diplomatic, “cryptical”, ethical, or historical significance, not published and under some sort of threat, we will publish it. And that actually is enough. Of course, we have a goal with publishing in general.

It has been my long term belief that what advances us as a civilization is the entirety of our international record, the entirety of our understanding about what we are going through, what human institutions are actually like and how they behave. And if we are to make rational policy decisions in so far as any decision can be rational then we have to have information that is drawn from the real world, and a description of the real world. At the moment we are severely lacking in the information from the interior of big secretive organizations that have such a role in shaping how civilization evolves and how we all live.

Getting down in to Iraq, so that was 400 thousand documents. Each one written in military speak, on the other hand, each one having a geographic coordinate down often to 10 meters, a death count of civilians, U.S. military troops, Iraqi troops and suspected insurgents.

So, it was the first, rather the largest, because we also did the Afghan War Logs, the largest history of a war, the most detailed significant history of a war to have ever been published, probably at all, but definitely during the course of a war. And so it provided a picture of the every day squalor of war. From children being killed at road side blocks to over a thousand people being handed over to the Iraqi police for torture, to the reality of close air support and how modern military combat is done—linking up with other information such as this video that we discovered—men surrendering, being attacked.

So, as an archive of human history this is a beautiful and horrifying thing—both at the same time. It is the history of the nation of Iraq and most significant recording during its most significant development in the past 20 years. And while we always see newspaper stories reporting and revealing some individual, if we’re lucky, some individual event or some individual family dying. This provides the broad scope of the entire war and all the individual events. So, the details of over 104 thousand deaths.

And we worked together to statistically analyze this with various groups, around the world, such as Iraq Body Count, who became the specialists in these areas and lawyers here in the U.K. who represented Iraqi refugees—to pull out the stories of 15 thousand Iraqi civilians, labeled as civilians by the U.S. military, who were killed and were never before reported in the Iraqi press, never before reported in the U.S. press, world press even in aggregate—even saying today 1,000 people died. Not reported in any manner whatsoever. And, yeah just think about that—15 thousand people whose deaths were recorded by the U.S. military, but were completely unknown to the rest of the world—that’s a very significant thing.

I mean, compare that to 3,000 deaths on 9/11. Imagine the significance for Iraqis. That is something that we specialize in and that I like to do and that I always do is go from the small to the large, not just by abstraction or analogy, but actually by encompassing all of it together. And then trying to look at it and abstract, through mathematics or statistics. And so to try and sort of push both of these things at the same time, the individual relationship, plus the state relationship, plus the relationship that has to do with civilization as a whole.

AMY GOODMAN: Slavoj Žižek, the importance of WikiLeaks today in the world?

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: Wait a minute, to understand properly this question, this question is just, you can withdraw and just give me two hours. No, but we’ll try to condense it. First, let me say also how proud I am to be here and mention something, which maybe most of you don’t know—that, how difficult it was even to organize this event. Like, it had to be moved two times—out and more out from Central London and so on.

And so, what again, what I want to say is let me begin with the, uh, the significance of what you—Amy started with, this shots, I mean not shooting, but video shots of those Apache helicopters shooting on…You know why this is important? Because the way ideology functions today it’s not so much that—let’s not be naive, that people didn’t know about it. But I think the way those in power manipulate it. Yes, we all know dirty things are being done, but you are being informed about this obliquely in such a way that basically you are able to ignore it.

Can I make a terrible, maybe sexually offensive, but not that dirty don’t be afraid, remark? You know, like a husband, sorry for making male chauvinist, uh twist—a husband may know abstractly my wife is cheating on me and you can say, okay I’m modern, tolerant husband, but you know when you get the thought of your wife doing things it’s quite a different thing. And I would say with all respect, something similar, it’s very important because it, just say no, I’m not dreaming here.

The same thing happened about two years ago in Serbia. You know, people rationally accept that we did horrible things in Srebrenica and so on, but you know it was just abstract knowledge. Then by chance all the honor who served media, to publish this, they got hold of a video effectively showing a group of Serbs pushing to an X and shooting a couple of Bosnian prisoners. And the effect was a total shock, national shock, although again, strictly saying nobody learned anything new.

So here, so that I don’t get lost, if you allow me just a little bit more, here we should see the significance of WikiLeaks. Many of my friends who are skeptical about it are telling me. So, what did we really learn? Isn’t it clear that every power in order to function you have collateral damage—you have to have a certain discretion? What you say, what you don’t say, but to conclude I mean to propose a formula, what WikiLeaks is doing and it’s extremely important. Of course, I’m not a Utopian. Neither me nor Julian believes in this kind of pseudo-radical openness—everything should be clear and so on. But what are we dealing with here?

Another example from cinema, very short, Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka. You find there a wonderful joke where, I think towards the beginning of the film, the hero enters a cafeteria and says, “can I get some coffee with cream please?” And the waiter answers him, “sorry we run out of cream we only have milk. So, can I serve you coffee without milk?” That’s the trick here. When we learn something from the media, like, if I may repeat the metaphor, they behave as if they are serving coffee with cream.

That is to say of course we all know they are not telling the entire truth, but you know, that is the trick of ideology, even if they don’t lie directly the implication is the unsaid is a lie. And you bring this out. You are not so much putting them, catching them, as they put it, with their pants down and lying on behalf of what they explicitly say, but precisely on behalf of what they are implying. And I think this is an absolutely crucial mechanism in ideology. It doesn’t only matter what you say it matters what you implied to say.

So, just to make the last point, I think that—are we aware that what an important moment we are living today? On the one hand, as you said information is crucial and so on. We all know that it’s crucial economically. I claim that one of the main reasons capitalism will get in to crisis is intellectual property. In the long term it simply cannot deal with it. But what I’m saying is just take the phenomenon that media are trying to get us enthusiastic for clouds. Like you know, computers getting smaller and smaller and all is done for you up there in a cloud.

Okay, but the problems is that clouds are not up there in clouds—they are controlled and so on. For example, you rely on, maybe you have an iPhone, but you mentioned Murdoch. [His] name was mentioned here. Do you know, it’s good to know if you rely on your news through iPhone or whatever, that Apple signed an exclusive agreement with Murdoch. Murdoch’s corporation is again the exclusive provider of entire news and so on and so on. This is the danger today. It’s no longer this clear distinction, private space-public space. The public space itself gets, as it were, privatized in a whole series of invisible ways—like the model of it being clouds; which is why and again this involves new modes of censorship, repeat this.

That’s why you say, but what really did we learn new? Maybe we learned nothing new, but you know it’s the same as in that beautiful old innocent fairy-tale, the Emperor is Naked. The Emperor is Naked. We may all know that the emperor is naked, but the moment somebody publicly says, “the emperor is naked,” everything changes, but the moment somebody publicly says the emperor is naked everything changes. This is why even if we learned nothing new – but we did learn many new things – but even if nothing learned, the forum matters.

So, don’t confuse Julian and his gang – in a good sense not the way they accuse – don’t confuse them with this usual bourgeois heroism, fight for investigative journalism, free flow and so on. You are doing something much more radical. That’s why it aroused such an explosion of resentment. You are not only violating the rules, disclosing secrets and so on. Let me call it in the old Marxist way the bourgeois press today has its own way to be transgressive. Its ideology controls not only what you can say but also how you can violate what you are allowed to say. You are not only violating the rules, you are changing the very rules how we were allowed to violate the rules. This is maybe the most important thing you can do.

AMY GOODMAN: And, yet, Julian even as you were releasing information in all different ways, you then turn to the very gatekeepers who in some cases had kept back this information and you worked with the mainstream media throughout the world in releasing various documents. Talk about that experience and that level of cooperation and what has happened after that.

[Audience member interrupts – inaudible]

JULIAN ASSANGE: Volume for the balcony.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: Now they will again accuse you that he’s the authoritarian leader who commands. I’m not saying this is not true. I think this is the only way to keep things going.

JULIAN ASSANGE: If you want to have an impact and you promise an impact and you’re an organization which is very small where actually you have to co-opt or leverage the rest of the mainstream press. So, under our model of how you make and impact and get people to do things that you wouldn’t have been otherwise be able to do, unless you have an army that can physically go someplace and divisions that can roll over.

The only way you can easily make an impact is push information about the world to many, many people. So, the mainstream press has developed expertise for how to do that. And it’s competition also for people’s attention. So, if we had several billion dollars to spend on advertising across the world, if we could get our ads placed, we wouldn’t easily be able to make the same impact as we did. And we don’t have that kind of money.

So, instead we entered into partnership with over 80 media organizations all over the world, including many good ones that I wouldn’t want to disparage. To increase the impact and push our material into over 50 different countries endemically. That has been, yes, subverting the filters of the mainstream press.

But an interesting phenomena has developed amongst the journalists who work in these very large organization that are close to power and negotiate with power at the highest levels, which is the journalists having read our material and having been forced to go through it to pull out stories have themselves become educated and radicalize. And that is an ideological penetration of the truth into all these mainstream media organizations. And, that to some degree, may be one of the lasting legacies over the past year. Even Fox News, which is much disparaged, is an organization that wants viewers. It cannot do anything else without viewers. So, it will try and push news content.

So, for example, with collateral murder, CNN showed only the first few minutes and blanked out all the bullets going to the street, completely blanked it out – and said they did it out of respect for the families of the people who were killed, well there was no blood, there was no gore. And then they cut out all the most politically salient points. And the families had come forward and said that it was very important for us to have seen it. Fox actually displayed the first killing scene in full. Quite interesting. So, Fox not perceiving itself to be amenable to the threat of it not acting in a moral way actually gave people more of the truth than CNN did. So, Fox also motivated to grab in a hungry way this greater audience share as possible took this content and gave it to more people.

Afterwards, of course, they put in their commentators to talk against it but I think that the truth that we got out of Fox was often stronger than the truth we got out of CNN and similarly for many institution in the media that we think of as liberal – and perhaps Slavoj would like to talk more about that.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: I cannot emphasize, like, first I treated you not as an idiot out of politeness but I am more and more forced to admit that you are not an idiot. What you said now is extremely important. For all the respect that I have for, and I don’t mean this ironically, for honest liberals who really that people should be informed and so. But there are limits in there only mode of how they function so we should ruthlessly, not in an unethical way – we should ruthlessly use, as you pointed out in this example of CNN and Fox, every window of opportunity here. Let me add another example from a totally different domain, but from fiction, cinema and TV series, which I think reproduces the same duality. We have the usually Hollywood left. All this to raise our spirits, left liberal pseudo-Hollywood Marxist thrillers: Pelican’s Brief, All the President’s Men, which may appear very critical “Oh my God, the president himself is corrupted, connected to certain corporations and so on”.

But, nonetheless this is all ideology. Why? Why do you exit the movie theater in such high spirits after seeing, I don’t know —? The message is look at what a great country we are, an ordinary guy can topple the mightiest men in the world and so on and so on. On the other hand, let me take an equivalent in TV programming of Fox News . . . please don’t take me for being crazy, 24. Yeah, yeah, Jack Bauer and all that. The last series of 24, I watched it with pleasure. For me, my God, again I approach it as you approached those shots. It’s, for me, much more consequential in criticism.

You get Jack Bauer who is in total despair. His whole worth crumbles down. He has to admit this way what he tried do in previous seasons this idea of someone has to do this dirty job, torture the prisoners, I will do it. He says, no I cannot live with it. It has to come public. His liberal counter-part, Allison Taylor, the president, steps down. You know what the true message is? The message is simply that within the existing ethical, political coordinates, you are just stuck in a deadlock and there is no way. It’s a very pessimistic message, much more honest than all that uplifting Hollywood Marxism, what a great country we are and so on and so on.

So, yes, at all levels, not only in journalism as such, I agree with you and I’d even say that all leftist tradition knows this. For example, already Marx said, I’m no fetishist of Marx, but nonetheless — he said we can often learn more from honest conservatives than liberals, because what honest conservatives do is that they don’t sell you at the end some uplifting bullshit, they’re willing to confront some deadlock and that’s what’s important today.

AMY GOODMAN: I don’t want to look distracted looking down, but I want to get these quotes accurate so I have them on my phone. Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House in the United States, said: “Julian Assange is engaged in warfare . . . Information terrorism, which leads to people getting killed is terrorism. And Julian Assange is engaged in terrorism . . . He should be treated as an enemy combatant and WikiLeaks should be closed down permanently and decisively.”

Bill Keller of the New York Times said “arrogant, thin-skinned, conspiratorial”. Judith Miller who often wrote or co-wrote articles that appeared on the front page of New York Times alleging weapons of mass destruction without named sources said, “Julian Assange isn’t a good journalist . . . didn’t care at all about attempting to verify the information that he was putting out or determine whether or not it would hurt anyone.”

Joe Biden, vice-president of the United States, said: “Julian Assange is a high-tech terrorist”. Congress member Peter King of New York called for Assange to be charged under the Espionage Act and asked whether WikiLeaks can be designated a terrorist organization. Not to just focus on the U.S., Tom Flanagan, a former aide to the Canadian prime minister, has called for Assange’s assassination. And former Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, called you, Julian, an “anti-American operative with blood on his hands”. Can you respond to these charges?

JULIAN ASSANGE: Well, after Bill Keller said that I was thin-skinned it doesn’t really leave much ground for reply does it? Sarah Palin also, once on Twitter, complained about my grammar, which is really the biggest insult for me. Calling for a drone attack is perfectly understandable, correcting my grammar from Sarah Palin, that’s a real insult.

That event in the United States was very interesting. Obviously, the calls are wrong and outrageous and so on, but the social and political event in which they occurred were fascinating. So, within a few months, we saw a new McCarthyist hysteria arise in December, January – December last year, January this year. That is quite worrying that a new McCarthyism can come up so quickly.

On the other hand, yes, there are a lot of opportunistic politicians playing to their base, playing to their pals in the military-industrial complex. But, on the other hand, power that is completely unaccountable is silent. So, when you walk past a group of ants on the street and you accidentally crush a few, you do not turn to the others and say “Stop complaining or I’ll put a drone strike on your head”. You completely ignore them. And that is what happens to power that’s in a very dominant position. It does not even bother to respond, does not flinch for even an instance.

Yet we saw all these figures coming out and speaking very aggressively. Bill Keller, in a recent talk, as a way of perhaps legitimizing why he was speaking with me, said “if you have a dealing with Julian Assange, you’re fated to sit on panels for the rest of your life explaining what you did.” No, actually that’s a choice made by Bill Keller, a choice to twist history and whitewash history, and adjust history on a constant basis. Why? Why expend energy doing that? Why not just knock off another pager of the New York Times? Because, actually, these people are frightened of the true part of history coming about and coming forth. So, I see this as a very positive sign.

And, I’ve stated before, we should always see censorship, actually, as a very positive sign, and attempts towards censorship as a sign that society is not yet completely sewn up, not yet completely fiscalized but still has some political dimension to it. I.E: What people think and believe and feel and the words that they listen to actually matters. Because, in some areas, it doesn’t matter. And, in the United States, most of the time, actually it doesn’t matter what you say We managed to speak and give information at such volume and of such intensity, people were actually forced to respond. It is rare that they are forced to respond.

So, I think this is one of the first positive symptoms I’ve seen from the United States for a while. If you speak at this level, the cage can be rattled and people can be forced to respond. In China, the censorship is much more aggressive, which, to me, is a much more hopeful sign that it is still a political society, even though it is fiscalizing, even though it is being sewn up in contractual relationships and banking relationships as time has gone by. At the moment, the Chinese government and public security bureau are actually scared of what people to think.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: Again, I hate myself because I want that — what is that movie called? “There will be Blood”. But, unfortunately, there will not be a lot of blood between the two of us because, again, I agree. Speaking of China, let me tell you, maybe you know it – it is not an anecdote – it perfectly confirms your point. Did you know that about a 2 or 3 months ago, a Chinese government, I don’t know which agency, passed a law, which formally prohibits in public media – they mean press, books, comic, TV, movies – all stories that deal with time travel or alternative realities. Literally. I double-checked with my friends in China. The official justification was that history is a great matter and it shouldn’t be left to such trifling games and so on.

But, of course, it’s clear what they’re really afraid of: for people to even imagine alternate realities and so. Again, to repeat your point, I think this is a good sign. They, at least, need the prohibition. With us, we don’t even need the prohibition, most of the time. If somebody proposes a radical change, we simply accept this spontaneous everyday ideology but we all know what our economic realities are like. You propose to raise for 1% healthcare spending. No, it would mean lose of competition and so on and so on. So, again, I totally agree with you right here.

A final comment of the people who you, Amy, list. Newt Gingrich for me is — sorry to use this strong word – scum of the earth. I don’t have any great – no, no, no, I’ll be very precise. I don’t have any great sympathy for Bill Clinton, but I remember when there was this campaign, Monica Lewinsky campaign. Newt Gingrich was making all these moralistic attacks and then it was confirmed in media – I listened to interview with him where he confirmed it that when his wife was dying in cancer, Newt Gingrich visited her in hospital forcing her to sign – not even having the decency to let her die – forcing her to sign a divorce agreement, so that he could marry another woman. And he was, at the exact time of the Lewinsky affair, already cheating on her with the secretary there and so on and so on.

Listen, these are people who simply – my God, I become here a kind of moral conservative. There should be some kind of ethical committee that imply claims that people such as these are a threat to our youth and they should be prohibited from appearing in public, whatever. Now, I will make a more important point to this terrorism stuff. Let me make it clear — but I’m not crazy, I mean this in a positive sense – yes, in a sense, you are a terrorist. In which sense? In the sense that I like to repeat that Gandhi was a terrorist. What you are doing, let’s face the facts. It’s not just something that can be swallowed, oh look all the interesting news in the newspapers. Here this is happening, there Slavoj Zizek is dating Lady Gaga and here – totally not true. And here there’s Wikileaks. You effectively…

AMY GOODMAN: Do we have a denial – an official denial there on dating Lady Gaga?

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: Absolute denial on everything. I didn’t even listen to not one of her songs. My God, I listen to Schubert and Schumann songs. Sorry, I’m a conservative.

AMY GOODMAN: I don’t know her representatives were not that defiant. They just said no comment

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: My friends were telling me the same: “You stupid, you should have said ‘no comment’ then you will enjoy much more glory and so on”. Ok, let’s go on, No, no, no, I have a more serious point to make. What does this mean? In what sense was Gandhi a terrorist? He effectively tried to stop, interrupt the normal function of the British state in India. And, of course you are trying to disrupt the normal – which is very oppressive – of the information circulation and so on.

But the way that we should respond to this point is, I repeat myself here, I know. Endless paraphrase of that wonderful line from Brecht’s Beggar’s Opera: “What is robbing a bank compared to founding a new bank?” What is your, under quotation marks, “terrorism” compared to the terrorism, which we simply accept, which has to go on day by day so just things remain the way they are? That is where ideology helps us. When we think of violence, terrorism, we always think about acts, which interrupt the normal run of things, but what about violence that has to be here in order for things to function the way they are?

So, I think, if – I’m very skeptical about it – in my provocative spirit we should use the term “terrorism”, it’s strictly a reaction to a much stronger terrorism that is here. So, again, instead of engaging in this moralistic game “Oh, no, he’s a good guy”. Like Stalinists said of Lenin “You like small children, you play with cats, you wouldn’t . . .” – as Norman Bates says in Psycho – “you wouldn’t hurt even a fly”. No, you are, in this formal sense, a terrorist. But if you are a terrorist, but then, by God, what are they who accuse of you terrorism?

AMY GOODMAN: For that, we can be taken off the air. I wanted to ask you, Julian, about Bradley Manning. Mike Huckabee, who also was a presidential candidate, the governor of Arkansas, said that the person who leaked the information to Julian Assange should be tried for treason and executed. He said whoever in our government leaked that information is guilty of treason and I think anything less than execution is too kind a penalty.

Bradley Manning is a young U.S. soldier who was in Iraq, um, has been held for more than a year, much of that time in solitary confinement in Quantico in Virginia. Um it was exposed that his treatment was tantamount to torture. P.J. Crowley, the White House State Department spokesperson, spoke to a group of bloggers at MIT and said his treatment is stupid. For that he was forced out of the State Department. Bradley Manning was then moved to Fort Leavenworth because of the outcry, but he remains, uh, in prison. He remains, um, not tried. What are your comments on him

JULIAN ASSANGE: First of all, Amy, thanks for answering this question‚ asking this question, but it is difficult for me to speak in detail about that case, and but i can speak about why it is difficult for me to speak about it. So Bradley Manning is an alleged source of WikiLeaks who was detained in Baghdad, and then although there was very little ‚no mainstream press at the time, shipped off to Kuwait, where he was, if you like, held in an extrajudicial circumstance in Kuwait in a similar manner to which detainees are held in Guantanamo Bay.

Eventually, through some legal, creative legal methods, he was brought back to the United States, and he’s been imprisoned now for over year. He was being kept in Quantico for eight months under extremely adverse conditions. Quantico is not meant for long-term prisoners. Other prisoners, the maximum duration over the past year has been three months, and people that have been visiting Bradley Manning say, and we have other sources who say, that they were applying those conditions to him because they wanted him to confess that he was involved in a conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States with me. That pressure on Manning appears to have backfired.

So by all reports, this is a young man of high moral character and when people of high moral character are pressured in a way that is illegitimate, they become stronger and not weaker. And that seems to have been the case with Bradley Manning and he has told U.S. authorities, as far as we know, nothing about his involvement.

Now there has concurrently been a secret grand jury taking place six kilometers from the center of Washington. That grand jury involves nineteen to twenty-three people selected from that area. Now why was it in Alexandria, Virginia six kilometers [from] the center of Washington, that that grand jury was placed? And those people drawn? Well, it has the highest density of government employees anywhere in the United States.

The U.S. government was free to select the place, and they selected this place in order to bias the jury from the very beginning. This, is in fact, wrong to call a jury. This is a type of medieval star chamber. There are these nineteen to twenty-three individuals from the population that are sworn to secrecy. They cannot consult with anyone else. There is no judge, there is no defense council, and there are four prosecutors. So that is why people that are familiar with the grand jury the United States say that a grand jury would not only indict a ham sandwich; it would indict the ham and the sandwich. And that’s a real threat to us.

A grand jury, which was removed from U.K. jurisprudence because of abuses, combines the executive and the judiciary. So this old common lore notion of the separation of these branches of power is removed in a grand jury. U.S. government argues that these captive nineteen to twenty-three individuals are the branch of the judiciary, if they perform a judicial function, where of course, actually, they’re just captive patsies for the Department of Justice, United States and the FBI.

So they have been going out and they have coercive powers. They can force people to testify, and they have been pulling in all sorts of people that are connected to WikiLeaks and people that are not.

They have recently a number of individuals that have been pulled to the grand jury understand what is going on and they have refused to testify and have pleaded the First Amendment, Third Amendment‚ Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination to‚ well I’m not sure the purpose, I don’t have direct communication, but from the outside it appears to nullify that political witch hunt in the United States against us.

Now, in response, the grand jury has been instructed to send out immunity certificates. So these are certificates that go to subpoenaed individuals that say that if you come to the grand jury to testify, your testimony cannot be used against you and therefore you have no right to plead the Fifth. What this means in practice is coerced, compulsive interrogation in secret with no defense council. There’s not‚ not even lawyers for, for the subpoenaed witnesses are permitted into the grand jury. It is just the prosecutors and these people from six kilometers away from the center of Washington. That’s something that should be opposed.

There is another grand jury that has sprung up here in the United States and is investigating anti-war activists, engaged in the same sort of witch-hunt. So these are a really a classical device that was looked at very critically in the UK four hundred years ago, and the result in the UK’s concept of, the, if justice is to be done, it must be done publicly. And, that is being a concept that is way late. It’s interesting why or how it has been way late.

So on the surface this device of, well you want the police to have an investigation, an executive says it wants to conduct and investigation into some group of people. Well, we get people from the community, nineteen to twenty-three people from the community, and they monitor the investigation. They make sure it’s not overstepping and so on. But actually this has been turned on its head and used as a way to completely subvert the judicial system in the United States.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: First, again, I’d like to say again crucial are the terms that you both mentioned. All this extralegal space, unlawful combatants, and so on and so on. The paradox is that I think we should read these terms as strictly connected to universal human rights. I have nothing against universal human rights, what I’m opposed to is how the reference to universal human rights is de facto used in today’s ideological struggles. That, in order to sustain, support within the space of ruling ideology, universal human rights, you have to construct a space that is no longer the space of the enemy – in this sense enemy in terms of who the rules apply, Geneva convention or so on – but you have to create what the great American thinker and politician Dick Cheney referred to as the “Grey Zone” once. We have to do something discretely so don’t ask us about it and so on and on.

Here, I would say that things are even more complex than they may appear. What I find really terrifying is that concepts of “unlawful combatants” are becoming legal categories. I’m not a utopian here. And, maybe I’ll shock some of you here. Let me be brutally open. I can well imagine a situation where I could not promise you in advance that I will not torture someone. Let’s imagine this ridiculous situation where a bad guy has my young daughter and I have in my hands a guy who knows where my daughter is. Well, maybe, out of despair I would have tortured her, him, whatever. What I absolutely opposed to is to legalize this.

I think, if out of despair I do something like this, it should remain something unacceptable, you know, that I did out of despair. What I’m afraid of is that this system that gets institutionalized as it were because we know what’s at the end of the road. I had a polemic exchange in the New York Times with Alan Dershowitz who wants legalization of tortures. And I read one of his proposals — it’s an obscenity. You would have doctors – let’s say, just a friendly example to scare you a little bit – Amy Amy and me are the torturers and you – someone has to play this role – will be tortured. Let’s say we call a doctor who…

AMY GOODMAN: Speak for yourself, Slavoj. You are the sole torturer.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: Yeah, yeah, ok. You know what I’m saying. Who investigates and determines that you can torture him to that degree if, and so on and so on. For me what is horrible is, of course, torture at such. But it is even more obscene this normalization of torture, which is why even more than you — I mean this respectful — Manning is the hero. You had this certain moment of gory and so on and so, but that more guy who, for me, did something extraordinary. You know how difficult are these decisions when simple elementary morality prevails over legal considerations and so on.

I hope that I am not a utopian. Don’t you have any of these organs that propose candidates for Nobel Peace Prize? That would be a nice, crazy movement. If there is a person who deserves Nobel Peace prize today, it’s Manning and people like him. No, no, I’m not laughing, simple, ordinary people – and I’m not even idealizing him. There are many examples of people who I know who are not anything special, they are not saints. But, all of a sudden, they see something like probably – if he’s the one – he saw all these documents and something told him, “Sorry, I will not be pushed more, I have to do something here.”

This is so precious today because it also goes against a note, which is in a way true but exploited by our enemies, this idea today that ideology is cynical, people are totally duped and so on. No they are not, I prefer her to play a little bit of simple moralism. From time to time there are ethnical miracles. There are people that still care and so on and so on.

This is very important because, you know, let us not leave this domain of simple dignified, ethical acts to agencies such as Catholic church and so on. Who are they to talk about it? We, the left, should rehabilitate this – I don’t it doesn’t sound very post-modern or cynical — this idea that there are out there are quite ordinary guys who all of a sudden as if in a miracle do something wonderful. That’s almost, I would say, our only hope today.

JULIAN ASSANGE: Speaking on that, one of the difficulties for alleged sources – actually we have another one in prison, which has recognized very little attention. The case of Rudolph Elmer who is imprisoned in Switzerland for allegedly revealing banking information. There’s no trace to us, but that’s the allegation that’s being investigated. If they put up their hands and say, “yes, yes, it was me”, it makes it very easy to defend them in a moral way, and it makes it very easy to shower them with awards, but until they do it – there defense is that they didn’t do it, so it’s very hard for us to start praising people because inherent in that praise — we would be alleging they are guilty of the offense.

AMY GOODMAN: Speaking of banks, Julian, you mentioned a while ago that you had a good deal of information on the Bank of America. But they haven’t been released. Are you planning to release them

JULIAN ASSANGE: There’s a complication with those documents and another group of documents, so we are under a type of blackmail in relation to these document, which will be dealt with over time, but is quite difficult to deal with at this moment. I don’t want to specify what type of blackmail it is because it might make it harder to address the situation, but it is, perhaps, something like people might guess. You know, there’s a range of possibilities, and it’s probably the first or second possibility if you’re guessing at least..

AMY GOODMAN: Well, let’s talk about the beginning of Wikileaks. Tell us how you founded it, named it, and what your hopes were at the time, and if – at this point—you’ve been disappointed by what you’ve been able to accomplish or amazed by it? Wikileaks, how it started.

JULIAN ASSANGE: I think I’m amazed by it, of course. Who couldn’t be. It’s an extraordinary time I’ve lived through, and to see many of your dreams and ideals come into practice. That said, we’re only a hundredth of the way there in there in terms of what we need to release, and discover, and put into people’s hands, and solidify a historical record.

We need a Cablebate for the CIA, we need a Cablegate of the SVR, a Cablegate of the New York Times, actually. All the stories that have been suppressed and how they’ve been managed. Once we’ve gotten that type of volume and concretize and protect the rights of everyone to communicate with each other, which – to me – is the basic agreement of civilized life. It is not the right to speak. What does it mean to have the right to speak if you’re on the moon and nobody is around. It doesn’t matter. Rather the right to speak comes from our right to know.

The two of us together, someone’s right to speak and someone’s right to know, produce a right to communicate, so that is the grounding structure for all that we treasure about civilized life, and by civilized I don’t mean industrialized. I mean people collaborating not to do the dumb thing. To, instead, learn from previous experiences and pool with each other together to get through the life that we live in a less adverse way.

So, that quest to protect the historical record and enable everyone to be a contributor to the historical record is something that I’ve been involved in for 20 years in one way or another. So, that means protecting the people who contribute to our shared public record, and it also means protecting publishers and encouraging distribution of the historical record to everyone who needs to know about it. After all, a historical record that has something interesting in it that you can’t find is no record at all.

So, that long-term vision is something that I developed in various ways. And I saw, around 2006, that there was a way of achieving justice through this process that could be realized using the intellectual and social capital that I had available. That was quite a complex plan. You should read, perhaps, there’s a number of essays on Wikileaks that go into this in more detail.

So, to pull all of this together was a difficult thing to do, and to plan it out and marshal the resources and build an ideology that people could not only support and were encouraged by – and sources were encouraged by – but that people would defend. It’s one of the, I think that it’s extremely interesting that, although, twice this venue – not this venue, sorry – the venue we had rented was cancelled at the institute for education from the University of London on the basis that it would be too controversial.

That’s why we ended up at the Trotsky, at this venue. Despite that, actually, Slavoj Zizek, myself, and Amy Goodman have managed to pack out nearly 2,000 people in London on a Saturday at 25 pounds a seat. So, I see that as extremely encouraging. On the one hand, we have the everyday tawdry institutional censorship of saying that something is too controversial therefore you can’t hold it in an institute of education.

On the other hand, all of you came, and I’m not sure if that would have happened five years ago. In fact, I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t have happened 5 years ago. Both of those things wouldn’t have happened 5 years ago. So, when I said before that censorship is always an opportunity, and censorship reveals something that is positive about a society, and a society with no censorship is in a very bad state. If you like, the censorship of not giving us this venue so easily is also related to why you are all here, it’s the other side of the coin. That people are worried that change is possible.

And you’re all here because you thing change is possible, and you’re probably right. So, that’s been a pretty interesting journey to see that. And I thought I was pretty cynical and worldly 5 years ago and, of course, I was simply a very young and naïve fool in retrospect. And learning how to — from being inside the center of the storm, I’ve learned not only about the structure of government, not just about how power flows inside many countries around the world that we’ve dealt with, but rather how history is shaped and distorted by the media.

And, I think the distortion by the media of history, of all the things we should know so we can collaborate together as a civilization, is the worse thing. It is our single greatest impediment to advancement, but it’s changing. We are routing around media that is close to power in all sorts of ways, but it’s not a forgone conclusion, which is what makes this time so interesting.

That we can wrest the Internet, we can wrest communication mechanisms that we have with each other into the values of the new generation that has been educated by the Internet. Has been educated outside of the mainstream media distortion, and all those young people are becoming important inside those institutions.

So, maybe this is something I’ll speak with you about later Amy, but I do want to talk about what it means when institution — the most powerful institutions from the CIA to news corporation are all organized using computer programmers, system organizers, technical young people. What does that mean when all those technical young people adopt a certain value system and they’re in an institution where they do not agree with the value system and yet actually their hands are on the machinery.

Because, there has been moments in the past like that. And it is those technical young people who are the most Internet educated and have the greatest ability to receive the new values that are being spread and the new information and facts about reality that are being spread outside mainstream media distortions.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: I feel now like that Stalinst commentator, you know, “The leader has spoken; I provide the deeper meaning and so on with pleasure”. No, first I would like to begin with what you said – it’s really extremely important I have philosophical term for it when you moved from right to speak, right to know, communication and so on.

I think that, as many of you know, in the history of modern thought, the first one to formulate this was Immanuel Kant in his wonderful distinction between private and public use of reason. This distinction is wonderful because private use of reason is not I gather with my friends in a kitchen of my apartment or in a pub.

No, private use of reason is for Kant theological faculty, legal faculty, political sciences where what you are thinking, debating, developing serves a goal set up in advance by a power structure or ideological structure and so on. For Kant, we here, at a distance from a hierarchal political establishment, we are the public use of reason.

Why is this so important? What I see Wikileaks as part of a global struggle that doesn’t concern in the narrow sense the right to know as the right to information and so, but even education. You know – by you, I mean UK citizens — what horrors are made in the UK university reform. New privatizations and so on and so on.

This is all one concerted attack on the public use of reason. It goes on all over Europe and the name is Bologna Higher Education reform and the goal is very clear. It’s to make universities more responsive to social life, to social problems. It sounds nice, but what it means is that we should all become experts.

As a French guy later minister explained to me in a debate in Paris. For example, cars are burning in Paris what we need is psychologists who will tell us how to control the crowds; urbanist who will tell us how to restructure the streets to break up the crowd; whatever. We should be here ideological or specialist servicemen to resolve problems formulated by others. I think this is the end of intellectual life as we know it.

And we should go here to the end, you know when all those right-wing anti-immigrant bull-shitters are talking – I’m sorry, I used the word, I know I shouldn’t. Do it in a Stalin’s way and put some music of some heroic working class song. Sorry, no, but more seriously. When we hear about “Oh, immigrants, Pakistanis, Muslims are a threat to Judeo-Christian civilization.”

No, sorry, the greatest asset of Judeo-Christian civilization, which you can even detect it in those notions of the holy spirit as a community of believers outside established structures, it’s precisely this independent space of public reason. So, I’m saying, that if there’s something to really defend of the so-called — I hate the word also — Judeo-Christian legacy this idea of democracy not only as this masturbatory right to caste a vote totally isolated, but also — as you said public space of communication and so on – then that should be our answer to all those populist, anti-immigrant politicians and so on.

Not this white liberal guilt: Oh, you are defending Judeo-Christian legacy; no, we feel guilty; how many bad things we did – all the bad things in the world are a result of European imperialism. Ok, maybe, but what we should say to them is “who are you to even speak of Judeo-Christian legacy?” This university reform today in the U.K., this is the greatest threat to Judeo-Christian legacy and so on. Anti-immigrants, they are the nightmare. Imagine Le Pein in power in France and so on. That’s the end of Europe for me in the sense of what is progressive in Europe. So, again, this is for me, part of a much larger problem, especially with the problems — ecological problems for example.

Let me give you an example, which I think is so beautifully clear. Recently – I would like to ask you, if I may, through you – you in China – not you, but Wikileaks in China because Chinese people will pay such a price for precisely the suppression of public space of reason there. My Chinese friends told me this. In China now, a month or two ago, even the government admitted the catastrophic, ecological consequences of those three gorges dam. You know, it’s the greatest artificial lake in the world 250 miles, 400 kilometers long.

Now, they, the government, admitted that the problem is this one: that lake is just above some subterranean faults, which they move when there is an earthquake. SO they admitted that three years or so ago that the big sichuan earthquake was not triggered, but definitely rendered much stronger because of this. And this is not like some proverb you know, “after the battle everyone can be the wiser general.” No, friends when I visited Beijing 4-5 years ago, my friends there told me the majority of geologists were already warning the government about these dangers.

Second thing, because of this collection of water there, the affect of drought are much stronger felt. Point two, you know because, you know, the Yellow River is the main transportation line venue in China. The traffick there is practically stopped and so on and so on. Just to conclude, one more thing. This is not a critical point against you, but a point to clarify what Wikileaks can do.

We should not fetishize Truth as such. We live in times of incredible ideological investments, time when ideology is very strong precisely because it is not even experienced as ideology. What can happen? Let me tell you a story from Israel that my friends told me there.

Some 5-6 years ago, one of their historians wrote a more truthful account of how also in the independence ’48, ’49 war the Israeli army did burn some Palestinian villages and so on and so on — a more balanced view. First, all the lefty critics had a sort of intellectual orgasm. Wonderful, and so on. Then, they got a shock of the lifetime when this guy said “No, no, no, but what I meant was that this was necessary, we should have done it even more.” The line of this guy was “We should have thrown all of the Palestinians from the West Bank and we wouldn’t have any problems today.”

So, what I’m trying to say that I disagree not with you but, for example, another person who I have respect: Noam Chomsky. A friend of mine told me recently that he had lunch with Noam Chomsky in New York and he said that all of the obscenities are so clear that we don’t need any critique of ideology, we just need to tell to the people the truth. No, truth must be contextualized in the sense of what does it say, what does it justify, what does it deny, so on and so on?

So, to really conclude, this would be my point about Wikileaks. That you are not just simply telling the truth. You are telling the truth in a very precise way of confronting explicit line of justification, rationalization or whatever — the public discourse with its implicit prepositions.

It’s not just about telling the truth, and this is very important. Why? Now I conclude, don’t be afraid. You know this wonderful Marx brothers joke, which I think serves perfectly as a model of today’s ideology. Why? Because, like, if you have listened to someone – you know that failed businessman who then ruined the American army as a defense minister — Donald Rumpsfeld, he’s called, no? I read a biography of him and they prove it conclusively that, my God, he was a bad, stupid manager. It’s a total myth he was a business genius.

Ok, now, to the point. Basically, his cynical line about Iraq when it was discovered that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction and so on was that “Ok, we were lying, but we were lying in a truthful way with a good intention. We manipulated you, but this was part of a larger strategy and so on.” This is maybe the most intelligent but a tricky and effective and cynical defense of a liar. “Ok, I’m lying, but so what? I openly confess that I’m lying so I’m truthful.”

Here we should repeat that Marx brothers claim – and it is what I claim that you are doing. You know that wonderful phrase from Groucho Marx when he’s playing a lawyer defending his client, and he’s saying: “This guy looks as an idiot and acts as an idiot. This shouldn’t deceive you, this guy is an idiot.” We should say to Donald Rumpsfeld, “Ok, you admit that act as a liar and you are a cheater and liar, but this will not deceive us. You are effectively a cheater and a liar.” We should not allow them this space of selling their lies themselves as a deeper truth. This is how ideology today functions.

AMY GOODMAN: Julian Assange, I want to ask you about the Arab Spring and what you see as Wikileaks role as what started in Tunisia, and Egypt, what we’re seeing in Bahrain and Yemen, Syria, Libya. What role did Wikileaks play

JULIAN ASSANGE: It’s hard to disentangle, but the story that we have back from people who are back in Egypt and from the newspaper al-Akbar, one of the great newspapers published in the Middle East out of Lebanon.

AMY GOODMAN: You lived in Egypt for a time

JULIAN ASSANGE: I lived in Egypt during 2007, so I’m familiar with the Mubarak regime and the tensions within the Egyptian environment. Actually, I was staying at that time, in a rather unusual circumstance, where I was staying in Ms. Egypt’s house.

And, Ms. Egypt’s house – other than having paintings of Ms. Egypt all throughout – was clustered right between the U.S. Embassy and the U.N. High Commission with a van outside fueled with 24 soldiers in front of my front door. So, for the sort of work we were doing, this seemed to be the ultimate cover, if you like, to be nested right amongst this. But, you know, Egypt’s a very interesting place. At that time, you didn’t feel in most areas of Cairo the presence of a dictatorship.

In fact, if you look out on the streets, men go to work, they go to cafes to have shisha in the afternoon. The pigeon boys come out onto the roof and there’s weddings on a Saturday and Sunday. In fact, the economic and the technological basis to Cairo seems pretty much the same as London if you compare it to Australian aboriginals.

To my mind, actually, if we say that it is democracy that rules and manages the United States, or it is electoral democracy that manages and rules London, this is completely ridiculous. Because when we look at countries that are dictatorships, or soft dictatorships as in the case of Egypt, the day to day life and the technological activities and the patterns of behavior for most people are exactly the same.

But its when you stray into those areas of Egypt and areas of Cairo where the Interior Ministry is, or the Foreign Ministry is, that the level of paranoia and fear and the number of people guarding with submachine guns and so on increases. At that time there was around 20,000 political prisoners of different types in Egypt. But remember Egypt has a population of around 18 million.

This is always something that I am aware of when you have an inteligencia that writes and writes about its problems. Because this is a mirror image of the problem we have with the mainstream press, which is writers always write to their own favor and their own considerations and their own self interest. So a country can go from a position of not treating writers well, to treating writers well and not treating everyone else well. By writers I mean people who have the ability to project their voice.

So for those 20,000 political prisoners in Egypt, they could gain no traction in the Western press, and yet others such as in Iran we hear about all the time. It’s very interesting that Egypt was perceived to be a strong ally of Israel and strong ally of the United States in that region, so all the political and human rights abuses that were occurring every day in Egypt simply did not get traction.

There was one moment where, rather actually unusual for Egypt, but perhaps a sign of the cleverness that came to be represented in the Arab Spring, where these 20,000 prisoners started a strike demanding conjugal rights–demanding that their wives be permitted to visit them in prison for sex. And then they got some prominent muftis to come out and say look, ’Its bad enough these people are political agitators, let alone homosexual political agitators. And that is then something that was picked up by the Western press because it had this extra salacious flavor. So that was some of my experiences with Egypt when I lived there.

Later on, when we worked on Cablegate, we selected a French partner, Le Monde, in order to get the cables into, into French, because we knew they would have an effect in Francophone Africa. Also, cables were published in early December by Al Akbar in Arabic from Lebanon, and also Al-Masry al-Youm, uh, in Egypt, although the material that was published in Egypt, back in December, under Mubarak, was pretty soft, uh, because of the threats that that newspaper was under. But, Al-Masry al-Youm pushed hard, and there was, a number of critical cables came out about the Tunisian regime, and about Ben Ali. Now, of course, the, the argument that has often been used, including, for example, in the electoral result that we were involved in in Kenya in 2007 is you just tell the people what’s going on, and then they’ll be angry about it and they’ll oppose it.

But actually the real situation is much more rich and interesting than that. Rather, yes, the demos knows, the population starts to know, and they start to know in a way that’s undeniable, and they also start to know that the United States knows, and the United States can’t deny what was going on inside Tunisia. And then, the elites within the country and without the country also know what is going on, and they can’t’ deny it, so, a situation developed where it was not possible for the United States to support the Ben Ali regime, and intervene in a revolution, in the way that it might have. Similarly, it was not possible for France to support Ben Ali or other partners in the same way that they might have been able to.

Also, in our strategy in dealing with this region, uh, and, uh, our survival strategy for Cablegate, was to overwhelm, that is, we have Saudi Arabia, for example, propping up a number of states in the Middle East, and in fact invading Bahrain, to do this.

But, when these states have problems of their own to deal with and political crises of their own to deal with, they turn inwards, and they can’t be involved in this proper. So, Cablegate as a whole caused these elites that prop each other up into region within the Arab speaking countries, and, within, between Europe and these countries and between the United States and these countries, to have to deal with their own political crises, and not spend time giving intelligence briefings on activists, or sending in, um, the SAS, or other support, and activists within Tunisia saw this, very quickly, I think they started to see an opportunity, and that information, uh, our site, a number of Wikileaks sites, were then immediately, um, banned by the Tunisian government, Al Akbar was banned by the Tunisian government, a hacker attack was launched on Al Akbar, many had been launched at us but we had come to defend against them.

Al Akbar was taken down, their whole newspaper was redirected to a Saudi sex site, believe it or not, there is such a thing as a Saudi sex site, and they rested it back through involvement to the foreign, the foreign ministry back in Lebanon, and then, what I believe to be state-based computer hackers, cause of the degree, the sophistication of the attack, came in and wiped out all of Al Akbar’s cable publishing efforts.

The cables about Tunisia were then spread around, um, online, um, in other forms, uh, translated by a little internet group called Tunis Leaks, and, so, present, presented, a number of different f-facets that everyone could see and no one could deny that the Ben Ali regime was fundamentally corrupt, um, it’s not that the people didn’t know it before, but it became undeniable to everyone, including the United States. And that the United States, or at least the state department, could be read, that if it came down to supporting the army or Ben Ali, they would probably support the army, the military class, rather than the political class. So that gave activists and the army, uh, a belief that they could possibly pull it off.

But this wasn’t enough. So all that was intellectual. And, was, was making a difference and was stirring things up in Tunisia. Uh, and then, you had this action by a twenty-six year old, uh, computer technician, who set, um, afire, who self immolated, uh, on, er, in December, um, sixteenth, um, last year. (mumbling) Yeah. And was hospitalized and died on January fourth. And that taking a sort of intellectual frustration and irritation and hunger for change and undeniably to an emotional, physical act on the street, is then what changed the equation. There’s other things that sort of, uh, more of a systemic issue that was gradually breeding up, which is, you had aging rulers in the middle east that, who’s regimes to that extent were becoming weaker, that the intellectual management of them was decreasing, um, you also had the rise of satellite tv, and, the decision of Al Jazeera staff to film and broadcast protest scenes on the street.

So most revolutions kick off in a crowd situation like this one, where everyone can, you know, all the time the regime is saying, this voice is an outcast voice, this a minority, this is not popular opinion.

And what the media does is censor those voices and prevents people from understanding that actually, that what the state is saying is in the minority is in the majority. And once people realize that their view is in the majority, then they understand they physically have the numbers, and there’s no better way to do that then in some kind of public square, which is why Tahrir square in, uh, Egypt was so important, because everyone could see that they had the numbers.

Um, and that’s, you know, I often perceive that there are moments like that, politically, um, yes the Middle East was one that we might be going through, you know, you saw just before the Berlin Wall fell, everyone thought that it was impossible. Why? I mean, if, if it’s not that people suddenly received a lot of new information, rather what the information that they received is that everyone, a large majority of people, had the same belief’s that they’d had, and people became sure of that, and uh, and then you have a sudden switch, a sudden state change, and then, then you have a revolution.

So I often feel that we, we’re on the edge of that, and, that, alternative ways of people becoming aware of what their beliefs are, what each other’s beliefs are, is something that introduces that truly democratic shift. I’ve, I’ve often lambasted bloggers as people who just want to demonstrate peer value conformity, and who don’t actually do any original news, who don’t actually do any original work, uh, when we release original documentation on many things, although the situation is, very interestingly, improving. Uh, often we find that all of these left wing bloggers do not descend on a fresh cable from Panama revealing, as it did, today, that the United States has declared the right to board one-third of all ships in the world without any justification.

They do not descend on that, rather, they read the front page of the New York Times and go “I disagree” or “I agree” or “I agree in my categories” and that is something that sort of, that hypocrisy of saying that you care about a situation, um, but not actually doing the work is something that has angered me.

But, it does serve an important function. The function that it serves is the function of the square. It is to show the number of voices that are lining up, on one side or another.

‘AMY GOODMAN:’ Before you respond, I just wanted to ask, since you talked about what you released today, you also have just sued MasterCard and Visa, can you explain this weekend why you did that?

‘AUDIENCE:’ (Applause)

‘JULIAN ASSANGE:’ You know, when Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, actually I spoke to Daniel Ellsberg last night, he told me an incredible story about that, but did you know the New York Times had a thousand pages of the Pentagon Papers one month before Daniel Ellsberg gave the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times? Fresh news. Amazing stuff. Uh, yeah. I’ll leave that aside.

‘AUDIENCE:’ (Laughter)

Um, sorry, what was the question? Oh yes, MasterCard. So, when Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, did they suddenly change things? Actually, Nixon was re-elected, after Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, the Vietnam War didn’t stop, the information was very important in all sorts of ways, and its importance over time was very important. The most important thing to come out of the Pentagon Papers was the reaction to the Pentagon Papers, because the Pentagon Papers described a situation in the past, what the past was like, but the reaction to the Pentagon Papers described what was going on right now, and, it showed a tremendous overage by the Nixon administration, various attempts to cover things up, and actually the New York Times actually probably really wouldn’t have published the Pentagon Papers unless they thought it was going to be published anyway, which they did, it was scheduled to be published, um, in four months time, in a book, very, very interesting.

So, on December sixth last year, these, uh, MasterCard, PayPal, The Bank of America, uh, Western Union, all ganged up together to engage in an economic blockade against Wikileaks, and that economic blockade has continued since that point.

So it’s over six months now, we have been suffering from an extrajudicial economic blockade that is occurred without any process whatsoever. In fact, the only two formal investigations into this, one was on January thirteen last year, by Timothy C. Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, who found that there was no lawful excuse to conduct an economic blockade against Wikileaks. And other, was by a Visa subsidiary, who was handling our European payments, Teller, who found that we were not in breach of any of Visa’s bylines or regulations.

Those are the only two formal inquiries. And yet, the blockade continues, it’s an extraordinary thing, that we have seen that Visa, MasterCard, Western Union, and so on, are, instruments of U.S. foreign policy, but, instruments of U.S., of not U.S., as in a state operating under laws foreign policy, but rather instruments of Washington’s patronage network policy. So there was no due process at all. And so, over the past few months, you know we have a number of cases on, so we’ve been a bit distracted, but over the past few months we have build up the case against Visa, and MasterCard, under European law.

And, Visa and MasterCard together own about ninety-five percent of the credit card, um, payment industry in Europe, and therefore they have a sort of market dominance, and that means, under European law, they cannot engage in certain actions to, uh, unfairly remove people from the market.

AMY GOODMAN: Speaking of other legal cases I just wanted to ask you about what you face next week, the extradition case on July 12th. The Nationmagazine has done two pieces- one is forthcoming. And they quote your new lawyer, Gareth Peirce who is very well known for representing prisoners at Guantanamo, a renowned human rights attorney. And Tom Hayden, who writes the piece, interviewed many people in Sweden and the United States and sort of talks about a feeling in Sweden of an attack very much represented by your past lawyers on the Swedish justice system-and on the integrity of the women in Sweden. And he quotes Gareth Peirce saying…

JULLIAN ASSANGE: lawyers never attacked any integrity of women

AMY GOODMAN: Well, he quotes Gareth Peirce saying, “the history of this case is as unfortunate as it is possible to image. Each of the human beings involves deserves respect and consideration. And I just wanted to ask if you are seeing this as a change of approach with your legal team in dealing with your possible extradition to Sweden?

JULLIAN ASSANGE:Possibly, I mean the situation…. What is happened to Europe and what is happened to Sweden is fascinating. It is something I have come to learn because I’ve been embroiled in it. But it is intellectually extraordinary- so we see for example that- the European Union introduced an arrest warrant system. And that arrest warrant system to extradite from one state of the EU to another state of the EU was put in place in response to 9/11 to extradite terrorists- to have fast extradition of terrorists.

And it introduced this concept, or rather recycled a European Union concept of mutual recognition. This is sort of a very feel good phrase- that one state in the EU mutually recognizes another state in the EU- and that sunk down into mutual recognition between one court in the EU to another court in the EU. But actually what it seems to be talking about it, if you think about it, given the reality that three people a day are extradited from this country to the rest of Europe- is a mutual recognition of the elite in each country in the EU. It is a method of, um, of being at peace.

So the elite in each country in the EU, has, if you like, made literally a treaty with each other, to recognize each other and to not complain about the behavior. Now you might say that, well ok we have justice systems in the EU and various countries. Some are better some are worse depending on your values system- but we have sunk so low that it’s not even like that anymore.

The European arrest warrant talks about the mutual recognition of judicial authority- so courts. But it has permitted each country to define what they call a judicial authority, and Sweden has chosen to call policeman and prosecutors judicial authorities. And the whole basis of this term being used in the original introduction of the European Arrest Warrant was that you would keep the executive separated from the judicial system. That it was meant to be a natural and neutral party who would request extradition- and it’s not.

So there are many things like this that are going on in that case. I haven’t been charged. Is it right to extradite to a state where they do not speak the language? Where they do not have family, they do not know the lawyers, they do not know the legal system. If you don’t even have enough evidence to charge them, you won’t even come over as we have offered many times to speak to the people concerned.

So previous complaints about these sort of problems have lead to some inquires in Sweden. For instance, the biggest Swedish law magazine that goes out to all the lawyer had a survey on this and one third of the lawyers responding said that yes, these complaints about the Swedish judiciary system, they truly are a problem.

On the other hand, it has entered a situation where the Swedish Prime Minister and the Swedish Justice Minister have personally attacked me. Um, and said, the Swedish Prime Minister said that I had been charged to the Swedish public, when I hadn’t been.

So it is a delicate situation, Sweden- the Sweden we have now is not the Sweden of Olof Palme in the 1970s. Sweden recently sent troops, recently passed a bill to send marines in Libya. It was the fifth country out to send fighter jets into Libya.

This is a different dynamic, we have to be carful at dealing with it. It’s one thing to sort of be considerate of differences in the way various justice systems are administered- but it’s another to tolerate any difference. And I don’t think any difference should be tolerated in the EU.

You know, what is it that prevents the justice systems of EU states from fundamentally collapsing and decaying? You say there is mutual recognition. There’s mutual recognition between the UK and Romania, and what if the Romanian justice system collapses more and more and more? Who’s going to account for that? Who’s going to scrutinize it? Is it going to be some bureaucrats in the EC that are going to scrutinize the Romanian justice system? No. The only sustainable approach to scrutinizing the justice systems of the EU is the extradition process.

So it is extradition lawyers and defendants who have the highest motivation to scrutinize the quality of justice in the state that they are being extradited to. And that’s a healthy system that permits outside scrutiny?and so it can stop European states from decaying. But the European Arrest Warrant System removes that possibility; it’s not open to us to look at any of the facts in the case in the exerdition at all- that is completely removed. All we’re arguing about is whether the two page request that was filled out which literally has a box ticked rape, is a valid document.

AMY GOODMAN: We’ll end with Žižek.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: , first I am so sad I don’t have time to go into it because I found this again, yet another this, I mean by this- strange mutual recognition and this absolutely- think about it what you’ve heard. This properly Kafkaesque paradox of being extradited without even being trapped. I mean, are we aware where we are? But let’s not take that path first. I cannot but restrain from making an obscene remark of how you said when you were staying with the ms. of Egypt, no- I hope there will be some American from the Middle East who will say “ah, now everything is clear. There you were seduced by that ms. who was really Al Qaeda agent and then you were turned into a terrorist agent through her to do your terrorist activity, now things are clear now. Let’s go on with more…

AMY GOODMAN: We have one minute to go.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK . Yeah, yeah- but one minute in this broader Christian sense where time is eternity and so on. Very briefly, first I’ll …we admit it- we are doing bad thing on the West Bank but you cannot negotiate if they bomb you like- let’s just. If you, of course, examine Gaza on the West Bank there was practically total peace the last five, six, even more years. The image you get form this papers is that there was an incredibly compromising spirit from the Palestinian side- offering entire Jerusalem and so on. And it was absolutely clear that it’s Israel which is not interested in peace.

Second point, just a couple of points. I think it is so important the exact words you use- which make my point. Which confirm my point- mainly how undeniable- they could no longer deny and so one- that’s important. You know again we are in that situation where I know you know- I know that you know. But we can still play the cynical game, let’s act as of we don’t know. The function of Wiki leaks, even more important, I claim, in complete ideological and political situations —then learning through Wiki leaks— to push us to this point where you cannot pretend not to know.

Let me give you another example, again, I am not a total fan of Obama, although I still have certain respect for him- but…this is cynicism at its purist, you remember this outcry in Zionist circles where Obama made the simple point that the basis of peace should be the sixty seven boarders. My god. The critical reaction was as if Obama said something, I don’t know, following orders from Al Qaeda or what. But this was the official U.S. policy expect that the obscenity of the situation was that although this was part of the official U.S. policy it was part of the unwritten deal not to talk about it- to ignore it. That’s our situation here. Step further, Egypt. I know, you know what’s for me, and you have here a lot. The truth about Egypt.

We Western Europeans have this normal spontaneous racist attitude. No. We would love to see a secular democratic movement in Arab countries, unfortunately all they can do is some stupid anti fundamentalist, nationalist, whatever, outburst. Now, officially we got what we wanted. A purely secular uprising and so on and you know how we behaved?

My last obscene example. Did you see Francois Telfo Day and Night, where a guy wants to sleep with a girl- tries to convince her for a long time -then finally they are alone because of an accident by a lake and again, he starts, “please let’s do it quickly, we are alone here” and the girl says “ok, let’s do it” and starts to unbutton her trousers. And the guy says “my god, just like that?” he is shocked.

We were a little bit like that. Officially we wanted secular democracy, the Egyptians said, “OK, I pull down my trousers you can have your stupid secular democracy. And uh uh – you can’t get it just like that. It was such a clear example of hypocrisy. Now really to finish, maybe the most important thing- what you already said Amy – I think this is one of the ways if we are approaching the end to conclude it.

Even if you ignore Wiki leaks, it’s changed the entire field. It’s again, even at the level of publishing and spreading information you pushed things in a very formal way- to a point of undeniably. Nobody can pretend that Wiki leaks didn’t happen. And it would be very interesting to classify all reactions to Wiki leaks.

You know, in different form of in Chekhovian terms, repression, denial, whatever- some people say formally “yeah yeah” but try to neutralize it “ohh, another chapter of freedom of the press” “investigative journalism” others says “direct terrorism” I wonder the approach I would have followed if I were to be on the other side.

It would have been something like, it’s basically a good thing, it’s just misused by some extremists you know. And then you kind of say- to save the good core of Wiki leaks. So, what I am sayings is, again, to conclude, don’t worry. This is the moment of truth. Wiki leaks is an event, not only because of what it is in itself- because nobody can ignore it- it changed the entire field. The point is not to allow to be renormalized. To be faithful to it.

AMY GOODMAN: A note: Slavoj and I will be out signing books on the left in the lobby right afterwards and would love to talk to you. Yes you do. Defiantly pick up a flyer. And I want to end on this question Julian. Tomorrow, July 3rd, you turn forty years old. What are you hopes for the future?

JULIAN ASSANGE: There’s the big future, there’s the deep future that one can long for. So that is a future where we are all able to freely communicate our hopes and dreams, factual information about the world with each other and the historical record is an item that is completely sacrosanct. That would never be changed, never be modified, never be deleted, and that we will steer a course away from Orwell’s dictum of ‘he who controls the present controls the past.’

That is something that is my life long quest to do. And from all- from that justice flows because each, most of us have an instinct for justice and most of us are reasonably intelligent and if we can communicate with each other, organize, not be oppressed, and know what’s going on then pretty much the rest fall out. So that is my big hope. In the short term, it is that my staff stop hassling to tell me to go.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK What I wish you, all the best, is another, even more beautiful mischief.

[loud applause]

Guests

Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks.org.

Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. He is author of dozens of books, his latest is called Living in the End Times.

Libor Koznar on the Audacity of Hope to Gaza_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Libor Koznar on the Audacity of Hope to Gaza
Once again peace activists are challenging the Israeli stranglehold on Palestinians in Gaza, as ten more ships head to Gaza with humanitarian aid. Israelis threaten to board again. We speak with passenger Libor Koznar, who is reporting for Talk Nation Radio.

Zoznar may, however, wind up banned from Israel as a result of his efforts. The Foreign Press Association has accused the Israeli government of using “threats and intimidation” in an effort to try to stop media coverage of the 10-ship flotilla. They say the journalists traveling with the ships will be banned from Israel for ten years.

The U.S. is not supporting U.S. citizens on the flotilla, but has sided with Israeli security forces and the Israeli government instead. In this series we will be hearing from Connecticut residents on the Gaza flotilla who are traveling on the Audacity of Hope. We also hope to hear from passengers on other ships. From A Talk Nation Radio Presentation

The CIA and the Assassination of President Kennedy_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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The CIA and the Assassination of President Kennedy
With Professor Joan Mellen, author of A Farewell to Justice, we examine the evidence as to whether the CIA participated in the assassination of President Kennedy as alleged by New Orleans DA Jim Garrison in 1967. From A History Counts Radio Presentation

The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict
In the spring of 2009, South African judge Richard Goldstone set out on a mission to the Gaza Strip on assignment from the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate possible war crimes committed during “Operation Cast Lead,” Israel’s invasion of Gaza a few months earlier. Many other reports on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had come and gone, but the account Goldstone’s mission produced … became the report heard around the world. It is one of the most controversial and historic documents published in the century-long conflict in Israel and Palestine. Speakers: Prof. George Bisharat and Adam Horowitz. Horowitz and Weiss of the influential blog Mondoweiss, with Lizzy Ratner, produced a readable version of the voluminous Goldstone report and included luminaries, such as Bishop Desmond Tutu and Canadian writer Naomi Klein.

This is a recording of the appearance of Horowitz and Weiss at the First Congregational Church in Oakland, CA, on June 5, 2011. Introduction by UC Hastings law professor George Bisharat. From A TUC Radio Presentation

Earthquake, Fusion and New Energy Research — Dr. Steven Jones _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Earthquake, Fusion and New Energy Research — Dr. Steven Jones
Scientific research into instances of man-made earthquakes; HAARP; muon-catalyzed fusion; metal catalyzed fusion; a new kind of dynamic energy. From A Guns & Butter Presentation

Michael Parenti: THE BURNING OF BOOKS_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Michael Parenti: THE BURNING OF BOOKS
The burning of books creates a powerful symbol, to this day people kill and die over such an action. Everybody has at least one example in their minds, be is a pastor in Gainesville, FL, or the burning piles of books in Nazi Germany. In this reading from Michael Parenti’s History as Mystery a book burning story is told that is deeper, and maintained for centuries longer than any of these efforts before or after. Parenti discloses who the biggest purveyor of book burnings of the last two millennia was and how the real perpetrators and academics tried to shift the blame.

When Parenti’s book History as Mystery was published by City Lights in San Francisco Daniel Ellsberg, who made history by disclosing the Pentagon papers and the real causes of the war on Vietnam, wrote: Michael Parenti unveils the falsified history, from the early Christian church to the present, a fascinating, darkly revelatory tale. Others wrote that Parenti’s reading of history demonstrates how past and present can inform each other and how history can be a truly exciting and engaging subject. History as Mystery contains many more intriguing chapters from the Inquisition and Joan of Arc to the way present day text books distort labor history. From A TUC Radio Presentation

Michael Parenti: PSYCHO-HISTORY _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Michael Parenti: PSYCHO-HISTORY
A considerable number of historians, political scientists and psychologists have begun to rely on psychology to explain political phenomena. They treat individuals as driven by covert, personal emotions, distorting our understanding of political life. Using the examples of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and US President Herbert Hoover Parenti proves what is wrong with that analysis.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s opposition to the absolute monarch of Russia, the Tsar, psychohistorians say, came out of Lenin’s unresolved issues with parental authority. When Herbert Hoover, after administering food aid for Belgium and Central Europe denied it to the hungry at home during the depression, psychohistorians characterized him as an active-negative president due to his very bad childhood. Parenti writes that in spite of his bad childhood Hoover had become a multi-millionaire and stood firmly with his fellow millionaires. He opposed jobless benefits and public assistance as creeping socialism while giving tax breaks to corporation. Parenti present a very different and intriguing explanation for the actions of Lenin and Hoover. From A TUC Radio Presentation

TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL — Part 4 _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL — Part 4
Instead of honoring its victims at this time Chernobyl is referenced to minimize the impact of Fukuchima. Supposedly only 35 people died. The World Health Organization and the IAEA, whose mission is to promote nuclear power, claim that “there is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure from Chernobyl.”

That the reality on the ground is very different comes to life in a free e-book,
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment.

Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment was first published in 2009 in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences – and promptly ignored. After an original print run of only 700 copies the report is no longer available from the Academy. However, the authors and editor are now (April 2011) offering the book for free as pdf file – and they are placing a new print run back into circulation.
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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL — Part III _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL — Part III
Instead of honoring its victims at this time Chernobyl is referenced to minimize the impact of Fukuchima. Supposedly only 35 people died. The World Health Organization and the IAEA, whose mission is to promote nuclear power, claim that “there is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure from Chernobyl.”

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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL — Part II _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL — Part II
Instead of honoring its victims at this time Chernobyl is referenced to minimize the impact of Fukuchima. Supposedly only 35 people died. The World Health Organization and the IAEA, whose mission is to promote nuclear power, claim that “there is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure from Chernobyl.”

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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL — Part I_ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL — Part I
Instead of honoring its victims at this time Chernobyl is referenced to minimize the impact of Fukuchima. Supposedly only 35 people died. The World Health Organization and the IAEA, whose mission is to promote nuclear power, claim that “there is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure from Chernobyl.”

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IT WAS AND IS POSSIBLE TO STOP NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS _On Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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IT WAS AND IS POSSIBLE TO STOP NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Kay Drey speaks on Routine Releases by nuclear reactors. They emit dangerous gases and fission products during their day to day operations. Drey is former board member of Beyond Nuclear and the Nuclear Information & Resource Service. Now retired, she has worked for 30 years as an advocate for the protection of the general public, workers and the environment from the hazards of nuclear power and radioactive waste.

David Freeman states that no nuclear power plants should be built since they are dangerous, cost prohibitive, and can easily be replaced with renewable energy. He also says that we need a police state to live with them.

He closed down 8 nuclear reactors during his tenure as Chief Executive at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and one more when he was General Manager of the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD). From A TUC Radio Presentation

PLUTONIUM FUEL FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS? _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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PLUTONIUM FUEL FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS?
— MOX (mixed oxyde) and “spent” fuel
The disaster at Fukushima makes it apparent how little is known about the operation of a nuclear power plant. For example the so-called “spent” fuel in the cooling pools on the rooftops is many times more dangerous than the fresh, non irradiated fuel. The biggest danger from the Fukuchima nuclear accident comes from unit 3 that was stocked in September 2010 with MOX, a new mixed oxide reactor fuel that contains plutonium – not as a fission byproduct – but from the outset inside the fuel rods. MOX fuel is many times more lethal than uranium fuel.

This is conversation between Mary Olson from NIRS, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Jacqui Cabasso from the Western States Legal Foundation. It is a rare historic document of the origins of a campaign against MOX plutonium fuel for nuclear power, an analysis of the terrible pact of mutual support between utilities, weapons makers and bought off congress people.

President Obama says, after Fukushima, that nuclear power will remain quote “part of the overall energy plan”. Republicans – in their merciless budget cuts leave as yet a program untouched that funds the ongoing construction of a MOX fuel generating plant at Savannah River in South Carolina. From A TUC Radio Presentation

IMPACT OF RADIATION FROM NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS – Dr. Helen Caldicott_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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IMPACT OF RADIATION FROM NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
- Dr. Helen Caldicott
As world attention is focussed on the severely damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan it become apparent how little is known about the radioactive substances being released and their impacts on life. Helen Caldicott says that 200 new elements are made inside a nuclear reactor, all intensely radioactive, some lasting seconds, some 17 million years. Many of them are carcinogenic, some are mutagenic. In this speech she explains how radiation induces cancers and mutations, and describes the effects of the four most significant isotopes: Radioactive iodine-131, cesium-137, strontium-90, and plutonium-239.

This a an extremely timely excerpt of a one hour lecture given in 2009. Helen Caldicott was then campaigning against the pro-nuclear power stance of the Obama administration. She spoke to create awareness of the terrible danger from nuclear reactors and demanded that no new plants be built and the existing one’s be closed.

For almost 40 years the Australian physician Dr. Helen Caldicott has campaigned against nuclear weapons and nuclear power. In 1971 she led her first successful antinuclear campaign that stopped French atmospheric testing in the Pacific. She came to the US in 1977 and worked and taught at Harvard Medical School and Boston’s Children’s Hospital. Physicians for Social Responsibility, the organization that she founded, received a Nobel Peace Prize. From A TUC Radio Presentation

THE REAL CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II — Michael Parenti_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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THE REAL CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II — Michael Parenti
Who inside Germany was resisting the rise of Hitler and why were they not supported by Britain and France? Why did the Western Allies allow Hitler to take over Austria and Czechoslovakia? Why did Britain and France refuse to enter an anti fascist alliance with the Soviet Union? Why did Britain and France do nothing while Hitler conquered Denmark and Norway even though they had finally already declared war against Germany in 1939. The West, says Parenti, saw Hitler as a bulwark against communism and the Soviet Union and were hoping that the two countries would bleed each other white. From A TUC Radio Presentation

Nuclear Apocalypse In Japan — Keith Harmon Snow_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Nuclear Apocalypse In Japan — Keith Harmon Snow
Mark I Boiling Water Reactors; major safety issues; Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Public Document Rooms; absence of cooling water; Japanese society; Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO); spent fuel pools; Price Anderson Act of 1957. Read Keith’s informative article on this subject here. From A Guns & Butter Presentation

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Nuclear Experts Speak Out at the National Press Club in Washington, DC _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Nuclear Experts Speak Out at the National Press Club in Washington, DC
On Friday, March 18, 2011, several prominent nuclear experts gave a press briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. They discussed openly and frankly concerns about the Japanese Nuclear disaster and what its implications are for the US nuclear industry.

This program is RAW audio from news briefing held by nuclear experts at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Quotes of possible interest:

Peter Bradford: “This accident left Three Mile Island in the mirror several days ago”
(he gives a review of the regulatory events during and following the Three Mile Island accident). “There isn’t a family in America that has been looking at its TV screens in the last week and (is saying now is the time to take on) 100, 200, 300 thousand dollars worth of exposure to the risk of costs in new nuclear plants, forget the health and safety aspects.”

Bob Alvarez: “This is not a problem that is a surprise. In 2003 my colleagues and me produced a report that warned the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission that if water were to drain.” “Unlike the Japanese reactors, in the United States the spent (fuel is stored in places that are) … four times than their design intended. They are densely compacted. … on the order of 5 to 10 times more reactivity than in the reactor core.”
In the Questions: Alvarez: “Spent fuel pools in the United States are not required to have nuclear safety rated equipment, they are not required to have backup power generator.”

Peter Bradford is a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and former chair of the Maine and New York utility commissions. Bradford teaches energy policy and law at the Vermont Law School and has taught at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Robert Alvarez is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. Alvarez researches nuclear disarmament, environmental, and energy policies. He served as a senior policy adviser to the Energy Department’s secretary and deputy assistant secretary from 1993 to 1999. http://www.ips-dc.org/nuclear

Dr. Jeffrey Patterson is a radioactive exposure expert and a board member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Patterson is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin and Public Health. He maintains an active family practice and teaches residents in family medicine. He traveled to Chernobyl in 1986 with a delegation of physicians.

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REAL HISTORY: The Functions of Fascism — Dr. Michael Parenti _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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REAL HISTORY: The Functions of Fascism — Dr. Michael Parenti
Parenti says that fascism is a new order and consciousness that served the same old power structure and promised to solve the ills of the many while protecting the interests of the few. He answers in detail who financed the fascist parties and what services the fascists rendered in return. Many of the measures enacted by fascists were frighteningly similar to those enacted today: They include the privatization of state owned enterprises, reduction of corporate taxes and inheritance taxes, defeat of unions, and the suspension of civil liberties. Michael Parenti is among our leading progressive political analysts. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1962 and has taught at colleges in the US and abroad. The focus of his lectures is American democracy, US foreign policy, and the invented reality of the media. A TUC Radio Presentation. Part 3 of 5. The rest will be broadcast in this slot over the coming weeks.

REAL HISTORY: The Spanish American War — Dr. Michael Parenti _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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REAL HISTORY: The Spanish American War — Dr. Michael Parenti
Why did the US give verbal support to the Cuban liberation movements against Spain while selling weapons to Spain to fight the poplar movement? The Spanish American War was an important turning point in the transition of the US to an imperial power and many of the forces at work are eerily contemporary.

Who first expressed the desire to annex the island of Cuba – and when? The early African American emancipation movement inside the US was critical of US plans to attack Cuba. Why, their leaders asked, was the US government concerned about Spanish repression of the rights of Cubans while the repression of African Americans within the US was ignored. Why did the US attack the Philippines when it was Cuba that they wanted to take over? A TUC Radio Presentation. Part 2 of 5. The rest will be broadcast in this slot over the coming weeks.

REAL HISTORY: The Myth of the Founding Fathers–Michael Parenti_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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REAL HISTORY: The Myth of the Founding Fathers–Michael Parenti
As the US government claims to spread democracy around the world and is ghost writing constitutions for other countries, the spotlight falls back on this country. Is the current US system a democracy? Has it ever been one? In The Myth of the Founding Fathers Parenti takes us back to the early days of the republic. Who were the founding fathers, what were their goals in writing the US constitution? Who did they exclude and who did they favor? How many of them actually wanted to create a monarchy? And who, in the end, ratified the constitution after it was written? A TUC Radio Presentation. Part 1 of 5. The rest will be broadcast in this slot over the coming weeks.

Shades of Cointelpro – Your FBI At Work! _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Shades of Cointelpro – Your FBI At Work!
Carl Rosen of the UE recounts the union struggle against the U.S. government and capital during the McCarthy period of repression against workers. He relates a recent instance of FBI interference with the legitimate rights of workers and their supporters to demonstrate for their cause. He is followed by an update from NLG attorney Jim Fennerty and activists subpoenaed for their anti-war and international solidarity work with Palestine and Columbia.

Carl Rosen – United Electrical Workers , Jess Sundin – activist-raided and subpoeaned, Jim Fennerty – National Lawyers Guild, Sarah Smith – Sarah Smith-subpoeaned, Tracy Molm – activist raided and subpoeaned . All speakers in at the February 12, 2011 Midwest Regional Conference of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression.

FlashPoints Special Broadcast: Mubarak Resigns — Army Takes Over — People Power Wins! _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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FlashPoints Special Broadcast: Mubarak Resigns — Army Takes Over — People Power Wins!
The situation in Egypt on this Flashpoints special recorded upon the time of Mubarak’s resignation on Friday, February 12, 2011. With Dennis Burnstein & Shahram Aghamir. A Flashpoints Radio Production.

Militant Protests Continue Across Eqypt _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Militant Protests Continue Across Eqypt
Militant Protests across Egypt continue, as demonstrators ignore a government curfew, and apparently set fire to the Ruling Party Headquaters: Meanwhile President Hosni Mubarak addressed the country in the middle of the night, and announced he is sacking his entire government, but he will stay on as head of state. And acccording to remarks by President Obama today, The US of A is apparently standing by its Man. We’ll have a response to Mubarak’s speech, hear about the potential role unions in Egypt might play in the people’s uprising, and about a protest planned in support of the people of Egypt. A Flashpoints Radio Production.

Obama’s National Security State — Michael Ratner _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Obama’s National Security State — Michael Ratner
Michael Ratner discusses current law and practice regarding the writ of habeas corpus, the right to challenge detention; preventive detention; secret sites; Guantanamo and Bagram Air Base; extraordinary rendition; targeting of American citizens for assassination; surveillance and infiltration of political groups; Miranda. Michael Ratner is an attorney and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a non-profit human rights litigation organization based in New York, New York. A Guns & Butter Radio Production.

The Emerging Science Around the 9/11 World Trade Center Destruction — Kevin Ryan _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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The Emerging Science Around the 9/11 World Trade Center Destruction — Kevin Ryan
Kevin discusses 9/11 as a day of many unprecedented events, including events at the World Trade Center; the destruction of the WTC buildings; his own experiences speaking out about the official investigation; three mainstream scientific articles that he helped to produce. A Guns & Butter Radio Production.

US Could Enter Pakistan as Power Vacuum there Grows_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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US Could Enter Pakistan as Power Vacuum there Grows
The Punjab Governor of Pakistan is buried after being assassinated by his body guard. What are the political ramifications as the US is poised to send in troops? Clip: Al Jazeera, Richard Weitz of the Hudson Institute, interview where Ahmad was also a guest. Weitz explains the policy of military force to pressure the Taliban into agreeing to deal with the US. Ahmad says this is completely failed. Afghan War is lost he says. US in Pakistan, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad reports. Scholar Muhammad Idrees Ahmad is the co-editor at Pulse Magazine. A Talk Nation Radio Production. Produced by Dori Smith. Music by Fritz Heede.

RE-COLONIZATION: THE TRUTH ABOUT RWANDA _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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RE-COLONIZATION: THE TRUTH ABOUT RWANDA
Robin Philpot, the author of “RWANDA, 1994: COLONIALISM DIES HARD” gives a talk:

- Why did they want to hush up the recent UN report on Rwanda? Why did the Washington-backed government of Rwanda just indict Paul Rusesabagina (the hotel manager portrayed in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda)?

- Learn what the New York Times and Washington Post don’t want you to know about Rwanda–AND WHY!

*The OFFICIAL story:* The Rwandan tragedy was simply the work of horrible Hutu génocidaires who planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly a million Tutsis after a plane crashed in the heart of Africa on April 6, 1994.

*The OTHER story:* Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The “Rwandan genocide was 100 percent American responsibility.”

*BOTH OF THESE STORIES CANNOT BE TRUE!!! W H A T R E A L L Y H A P P E N E D T H E N a n d W H A T I S R E A L L Y H A P P E N I N G N O W?*

HE TRUTH ABOUT RWANDA, The Brecht Forum Manhattan, NY; a Talk by Robin Philpot, hosted by Wuyi Jacobs of WBAI’s AfroBeat Radio, WBAI99.5FM-NYC – www.wbai.org. broadcast date:2010-11-11

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The Proliferation of Wireless Devices _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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The Proliferation of Wireless Devices
Independent researchers say that radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers has been linked to DNA damage, cancer, immunological impairment, neurological diseases, reduced fertility and impacts on neurological function. The radiation is also harming animals and nature, and is as much an environmental as a human health issue.

Speakers: Eileen O’Connor, UK, Prof. Olle Johansson, Sweden.

Federal law, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, denies local communities the right to challenge cell tower sitings on health and environmental grounds. There is no government agency that studies the impact of an ever increasing electronic smog emitted by cell towers, cell phones, wifi’s, smart meters and new wireless electronic devices unheard of only last year. Most of us are now exposed to one or more of these emitter 24/7, even those who do not own or operate any of of them.

At the end of November 2010 a conference was held on The Health Effects of Electromagnetic Fields in the prestigious Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. Physicians, grassroots campaigners, and scientists from many countries had come together to address this urgent issue.

Eileen O’Connor, UK, was diagnosed with breast cancer when she discovered that she was living in a cancer cluster. Her village was dominated by a cell tower placed there in 1994. In 2003 the villagers forcefully removed the phone mast and prevented it from being put back up. Eileen is the director of the Radiation Research Trust.

Olle Johansson is Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and Professor, The Royal Institute of Technology. Dr. Johannson is a leading world authority in the field of EMF radiation and health effects. He has published more than 500 original articles, reviews, book chapters and conference reports within the field of neuroscience.

From a TUC Radio Presentation. Thanks to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco.

Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty — Russ Baker_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty — Russ Baker
Gore Vidal called Baker’s book about the Bush Dynasty and America’s invisible government one of the most important books of the past ten years. In Family of Secrets Baker asks the obvious, but unanswered question, how can “such a clan occupy the presidency or vice presidency of the US for 20 of the past 28 years” with yet another Bush, Jeb Bush waiting in the wings. Family of Secrets reads and was conceived as a detective story, based on more than 500 interviews and thousands of documents, backed up by more than a 1000 footnotes. And even though the book uncovers a secret political life for all Bushes it is much more than a family expose. In this interview Russ Baker describes the powers behind the scenes, with examples from the CIA, oil and banking, and how these institutions are created by, and make use of people like the Bush family.

Russ Baker is an investigative journalist and has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. From a TUC Radio Presentation.

Chalmers Johnson — Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Chalmers Johnson — Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
Chalmers Johnson died in Nov, 2010, after a full and amazing life as author, professor, historian and scholar on Asia’s political economy. This recording contains many of his most important ideas. Johnson said that the U.S. is on the verge of internal collapse, due in large part to the vast expenditures required to maintain its ever-expanding empire.

Chalmers Johnson said that nothing is more dangerous to democracy than military expansion and war: “The political system of the United States, history tells us, is one of the most unstable combination there is – that is domestic democracy and foreign empire – the choices are stark. A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can’t be both.” Johnson is the acclaimed author of Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis. He was a former analyst for the CIA and professor emeritus of the University of California San Diego. He was interviewed by the California based author of “Imperial San Francisco”, Gray Brechin, at an event hosted by KPFA radio and Global Exchange in March 2007. From a TUC Radio Presentation.

NYT Distorts Wikileak Doc on Iranian Missile — Gareth Porter _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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NYT Distorts Wikileak Doc on Iranian Missile — Gareth Porter
Gareth Porter Debunks Claims of Iranian Missile Threat to Europe.
‘We already have our Judith Miller aluminum tube story and that was the New York Times story of a couple of days ago.’ NYT David Sanger distorts document from Wikileak on Iranian missile supposedly able to hit Europe. Involvement of Israel and or Mossad..
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British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”
Today, we spend the hour with world-renowned British novelist John le Carré, the pen name of David Cornwell. Le Carré’s writing career spans half a century, during which he has established himself as a master spy writer. His latest novel, his twenty-second, is entitled Our Kind of Traitor. David Cornwell worked in the British Secret Services from the late 1950s until the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became an international bestseller. As the Cold War ended, le Carré continued to write prolifically, shifting focus to the inequities of globalization, unchecked multinational corporate power, and the role national spy services play in protecting corporate interests. “The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done—dare I say it—in the name of God,” le Carré tells Democracy Now! Perhaps best known among his many post-Cold War novels is The Constant Gardener, depicting a pharmaceutical company’s exploitation of unwitting Kenyans for dangerous, sometimes fatal, drug tests. In this rare US interview, le Carré also discusses Tony Blair’s role in the Iraq war, US policy toward Iran, and international money laundering. [includes rush transcript]
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Economy, Wall St., Corporations, Security, Mumia abu Jamal _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Economy, Wall St., Corporations, Security, Mumia abu Jamal
What is the state of America’s health? We take the national pulse with David Lindorff, author and journalist, and discuss the economy, security, Mumia Abu Jamal, national security, and corporate power. What should we expect from second half of Obama administration.

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Remembering “Granny D – and her fight to get money out of politics._on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Remembering “Granny D – and her fight to get money out of politics.
Granny D. was best known for walking, in her 90th year, from Los Angeles to Washington DC to tell those she met along the way that there is a way to restore democracy by removing the privilege of money. Among the many proposals for campaign finance reform that she pursued, one national piece of legislation was then under debate, the McCain Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act – and she is widely credited for galvanizing the public support that helped pass that Act in 2002.

She had worked on campaign finance reform on the state level before her walk and she continued to do so when she returned home in March 2000. For another decade she did vigils, was arrested, met with over half the Senators and about 100 House members. She walked 300 miles across Missouri with the Alliance for Democracy and founded a group that pushed the New Hampshire state legislature to create the Citizen Funded Election Task Force.

Granny D died early 2010 at age of 100. Just before her death, which came very suddenly, she had jokingly discussed with her friends and supporters what it would be like to walk across the country again to call attention to the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled corporations are persons and have First Amendment rights and that the government cannot impose restrictions on their political speech. That decision cleared the way for corporations and other special interest groups to spend the record amounts of money which we see in the 2010 midterm election.

Granny D. left behind a treasure of writings, recorded speeches, and an inspiring diary of her 1999/2000 walk across America – some of which you will be able to enjoy in this double program. Molly Ivins said about her her: Granny D, gives you “the strength, courage and optimism to keep fighting for change.”

Voices: Granny D, Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower & Dennis Burke

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The CIA and the Assassination of President Kennedy _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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The CIA and the Assassination of President Kennedy
We examine the evidence as to whether the CIA participated in the assassination of President Kennedy as alleged by New Orleans DA Jim Garrison in 1967. With Professor Joan Mellen, author of A Farewell to Justice From a History Counts Radio Presentation.

LIES, MISREPORTING AND CATASTROPHE IN THE MIDDLE EAST — Robert Fisk with Hatem Bazian _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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LIES, MISREPORTING AND CATASTROPHE IN THE MIDDLE EAST — Robert Fisk with Hatem Bazian
A talk and conversation on the role of the journalist in the misreporting on the Middle East. Fisk begins with a linguistic analysis and says that our language has become not just a debased ally but a full verbal partner in the language of governments, armies, generals and weapons makers. Journalists become participants in the unfolding catastrophe, particularly in Palestine, where peace has become almost impossible.

England’s most famous reporter for the Middle East, Robert Fisk, made his annual trip to Berkeley, CA, to speak at a benefit for MECA, the Middle East Childrens Alliance. He is an acclaimed author and Middle East correspondent for the London Independent. This time he had asked to be interviewed on stage by Hatem Bazian, the young Palestinian American lecturer at the University of CA Berkeley. Between Fisk and Bazian they filled the Berkeley Church to capacity.

Robert Fisk has lived in and reported on the Middle East since 1976. He says that every journalist in the Middle East needs to keep a history book in their pocket as reminder of why the injustices inflicted by the West on the Middle East are engraved in people’s minds and have a powerful influence on what happens next.

Hatem Bazian was born in Nablus in the West Bank, went to school in Amman, Jordan and came to the US to attend San Francisco State University. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Islamic Studies from UC Berkeley and is a well loved and politically engaged teacher. From a TUC Radio Presentation.

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Conversation with Legendary Native American Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie_on Anti-War Progressive Teachin

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Democracy Now! Special: An Hour of Music and Conversation with Legendary Native American Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie
In a Democracy Now! special, an hour of conversation and music with Cree Indian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. In the turbulent 1960s, she was just out of college but already famous for her beautiful voice and moving lyrics in songs like “Universal Soldier” and “Now that the Buffalo’s Gone.” Over the years, Buffy Sainte-Marie has worked with the American Indian Movement, but also with Sesame Street, and even Hollywood, winning an Academy Award for the song “Up Where We Belong” in 1982. She’s won international recognition for her music, has a PhD in fine arts, and began a foundation for American Indian Education that she remains closely involved with. We speak with the folk icon about her life, her music, censorship, and her singing and speaking out about the struggles of Native American peoples for the past four decades. She also performs live in the firehouse studio.A Democracy Now Production 10-12-2009 for transcript.

Censored 2011 — Mickey Huff & Peter Phillips_on Guns & Butter

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Censored 2011 — Mickey Huff & Peter Phillips
A discussion and overview of the new Project Censored book with an in-depth look at several of the twenty-five most censored news stories of the past year, including “Global Plans To Replace the Dollar”, “US DOD Is the Worst Polluter on the Planet”, “War Crimes of General Stanley McCrystal”, “Increased Tensions With Unresolved 9/11 Issues” among other stories.

Censored 2011 — Mickey Huff & Peter Phillips_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Censored 2011 — Mickey Huff & Peter Phillips
A discussion and overview of the new Project Censored book with an in-depth look at several of the twenty-five most censored news stories of the past year, including “Global Plans To Replace the Dollar”, “US DOD Is the Worst Polluter on the Planet”, “War Crimes of General Stanley McCrystal”, “Increased Tensions With Unresolved 9/11 Issues” among other stories. From a Guns & Butter Presentation.

FBI Setting Up Muslims and Targeting Peace Activists? _ Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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FBI Setting Up Muslims?
Entrapment or Foiling Terror? FBI’s Reliance on Paid Informants Raises Questions about Validity of Terrorism Cases
Prosecutors and defense attorneys made their final arguments this week in the trial of the Newburgh Four, a high-profile case that has made national headlines as a potent example of so-called “homegrown terror.” The defense has argued that the defendants were entrapped by government agents and not predisposed to commit a terrorist crime. For several months, Democracy Now!’s Anjali Kamat and Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise Films traveled through Muslim communities in New York and New Jersey to track the Newburgh case and two others. In all three, Muslim men were arrested on terrorism charges. In all three, no terrorist crime was actually committed. And all three cases relied heavily on hundreds of hours of surveillance recorded by a paid government informant. Today, a Democracy Now! special investigation. [From Democracy Now 10-6-2010--see transcript here]

FBI Targeting Peace Activists?
CT Activist Responds to FBI Raids
The FBI enters the homes of peace activists and union leaders in Chicago and Minneapolis targeting anti war activists one week prior to a planned demonstration in Washington, D.C. We discuss it as a politically motivated operation, peace groups promise to keep on. [From a Talk Nation Radio Presentation.]

Cognitive Infiltration — An Obama Appointee’s Plan To Undermine the 9/11 Truth Movement_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Cognitive Infiltration — An Obama Appointee’s Plan To Undermine the 9/11 Truth Movement
Interview with Tod Fletcher about David Ray Griffin’s newest book, Cognitive Infiltration, which is a deconstruction and debunking of Obama appointee, Cass Sunstein’s, paper, “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures”, in which Sunstein proposes a new government COINTELPRO type infiltration of groups which research and promote ideas and explanations that run contrary to US government narratives, most specifically about the events of September 11th. A Guns & Butter Presentation.

Did O’Donnell really win Delaware?_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Did O’Donnell really win Delaware?
Brad Friedman of bradblog.com troubleshoots Voting Systems. We go over problems with voting machines and systems in various states that showed up during Congressional primary races. Did O’Donnell really win Delaware? Not if you read the absentee ballots as meaningful. Much more as we approach Nov. 2nd, 2010. A Talk Nation Radio Presentation.

Pakistan Afghanistan Imbroglio — Pakistani General Hamid Gul _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:02:09 +0000

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Pakistan Afghanistan Imbroglio — Pakistani General Hamid Gul
We discuss the events of September 11th; Osama bin Laden; General Gul’s famous interview with Arnaud de Borchgrave; US invasion of Afghanistan; drone attacks; Pakistan’s military operations in the Northwest Frontier, US Special Forces; destabilization of Pakistan; the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. CLICK HERE FOR TRANSCRIPT. From A Guns & Butter Presentation.

DEBATE: Obama’s Challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons and the Fate of the Middle East _on Anti-war Progressive Teach-in

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DEBATE: Obama’s Challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons and the Fate of the Middle East
This is an abbreviated version of a debate on Iran, the U.S., and real causes and issues between the two countries. Also, the debate is a means to prevent an attack on Iran.
Iran’s nuclear enrichment program continues to be a thorny topic and a diplomatic challenge. What is the Obama administration doing to try and resolve this issue, or is it a smoke screen for another U.S. agenda? Is an attack on Iran inescapable, or are the fears and threats an elaborate rhetoric?

In this debate, Reese Erlich helps us better understand the real issues about Iran. He is an acclaimed investigative reporter, broadcast journalist, and bestselling author. Erlich has traveled to Iran many times and written several books including The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis.

Reese Erlich is the principal speaker in the debate: Obama’s Challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons and the Fate of the Middle East that took place at University of California, Riverside, in Riverside, California on April 1st, 2010. The other panelists are Larry Greenfield, Scott Horton, and Christopher Records. A Global Voices for Justice Presentation.

HURRICANE KATRINA and the War on the Poor _on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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HURRICANE KATRINA and the War on the Poor
Prevented, at gun point, from rescuing themselves.

Eyewitness report from two S.F. paramedics, Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Larry Bradshaw. ?Among their experiences: Gretna Sheriffs block the Greater New Orleans Bridge across the Mississippi and shoot when they and a large group of African Americans try to walk to safety. Later their temporary shelter is destroyed by police and their food and water taken. When they finally get picked up they and thousands of others sit in a dirty cage at the New Orleans airport, again without food and water, forced to wait for the George W. Bush photo opportunity to end.

As they arrive in San Antonio they are made to stand on a dark tarmac and are subjected to two dog sniffing ordeals. This and more in a 24 minute interview with Lorrie Beth and Larry by Maria Gilardin recorded on Sept. 9, 2005. A TUC Radio Production.

Julia Whitty: For Love and Protection of the Deep Ocean _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Julia Whitty: For Love and Protection of the Deep Ocean
Whitty investigated BP for Mother Jones and says that the underwater plumes endanger the foundation of life, the largest, richest, and last completely unprotected ecosystem left on Earth: the deep ocean. Toxic clouds are separating the creatures of the deep ocean from those in the twilight and sunlit zones. And wherever the clouds of oil, gas and methane move in, the creatures from above and below have to travel through the poisonous brew twice in one day to survive.

Julia Whitty is a diver, former nature documentary filmmaker, author and investigative journalist. As environmental correspondent for Mother Jones she had just returned from the Gulf Coast.

She wrote: “BP and its partners reckless quest has endangered and perhaps condemned not just the Gulf Coast, but the largest, richest, most pristine, most biologically important, and last completely unprotected ecosystem left on Earth: the deep ocean.”

Julia Whitty explains why the deep ocean is the foundation of life for the upper layer of the sunlit sea. Many whales, dolphins, seals, sea turtles, sharks, manta rays, and smaller predatory fish are nocturnal hunters, dependent on the movements of a vast community of organisms that live in the deep ocean. That community is known only since the 1920s as the Deep Scattering Layer.

And this Deep Scattering Layer that rises and falls with day and night and that is visited by the creatures of the sunlit sea is threatened by the invisible part of the gigantic outpour that never came to the surface because it was hit by chemical dispersant and now made doubly invisible by the White House climate and energy adviser, Carol Browner, who claims that 75% of the oil has already disappeared.

But researchers and divers report on huge clouds of dispersed oil, and of dissolved natural gas and methane that remain below the surface and now move around the gulf. These toxic clouds are separating the creatures of the deep ocean from those in the twilight and sunlit zones. And wherever the clouds of oil and gas move in, the creatures from above and below have to travel through the poisonous brew twice in one day to survive. A TUC Radio Production.

Michael Parenti: Ideology and Conspiracy_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Michael Parenti: Ideology and Conspiracy
The right-wing agenda to dismantle social democracy. In this entertaining talk, rich with historic references, Parenti describes the right-wing agenda of dismantling social democracy while calling anybody who describes this as a purposeful strategy a conspiracy theorist. He shows that this strategy began right after World War II but culminates now as powerful segment of right wing media and the GOP have moved so far to the right that they have overshot their popular base. Meanwhile democrats, including Obama, unable or unwilling to formulate the social democratic alternative, still talk of bipartisan approaches.

Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti has taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. Parenti grew up in a conservative, catholic, working class Italian community in New York city. He is a prolific author and an engaging speaker. He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and is the author of 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, and – most recently – God and His Demons. A TUC Radio Production from ‘Understanding Deep Politics Conference’, Santa Cruz, CA 2010

Michael Parenti: VOTING in the USA_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Michael Parenti: VOTING in the USA
How the vote was won and lost. If the right to vote is taken as a measure of a vibrant democracy, the United States came off to a bad start. Dr. Michael Parenti says that the most interesting list from the period of 1787 is the rather long one of people who were not allowed to vote – and he names all of them. He then discusses the ways in which – most recently – votes get rigged and elections stolen. See his article on the stolen Presidential Elections here.

This archival recording is a primer on the history of voting and the day to day efforts to make democracy come alive that shows Parenti at his best as historian and engaged political thinker.

Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. This is part one of his one hour lecture. He was introduced by the President of the University of Hartford, Walter Harrison.

After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti has taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad.

Parenti grew up in a conservative, catholic, working class Italian community in New York city. He is a prolific author and an engaging speaker. He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and is the author of 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, and – most recently – God and His Demons. From A TUC Radio Production.

Michael Parenti: Civil Liberties in the 21st Century_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Michael Parenti: Civil Liberties in the 21st Century
In his November 2009 lecture at the University of Hartford Dr. Michael Parenti answers intriguing questions about democracy. Is US democracy a result of capitalism as some claim – or does it exist – such as it is – in spite of the current economic system. And did the founding fathers even envision a democratic system.

Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. This is part one of his one hour lecture. He was introduced by the President of the University of Hartford, Walter Harrison.

After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti has taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad.

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange:
“Transparent Government Tends to Produce Just Government”
We spend the hour with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, talking about the biggest leak in US history: the release of more than 91,000 classified military records on the war in Afghanistan. As the Pentagon announces it is launching a criminal probe into who leaked the documents, Assange asks what about investigating the “war crimes” revealed in the leaked military records? He also talks about the media, why he isn’t coming to the US anytime soon, and what gives him hope. “What keeps us going is our sources. These are the people, presumably, who are inside these organizations, who want change,” Assange says. “They are both heroic figures taking much greater risks than I ever do, and they are pushing and showing that they want change in, in fact, an extremely effective way.” From A Democracy Now Production 7-28-2010.[see transcript]

Family of Secrets — The Bush Dynasty — Russ Baker_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Family of Secrets — The Bush Dynasty — Russ Baker
Gore Vidal called Baker’s book about the Bush Dynasty and America’s invisible government one of the most important books of the past ten years. In Family of Secrets Baker asks the obvious, but unanswered question, how can “such a clan occupy the presidency or vice presidency of the US for 20 of the past 28 years” with yet another Bush, Jeb Bush waiting in the wings. Family of Secrets reads and was conceived as a detective story, based on more than 500 interviews and thousands of documents, backed up by more than a 1000 footnotes. And even though the book uncovers a secret political life for all Bushes it is much more than a family expose.

In this interview Russ Baker describes the powers behind the scenes, with examples from the CIA, oil and banking, and how these institutions are created by, and make use of people like the Bush family.

Russ Baker is an investigative journalist and has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. From A TUC Radio Presentation.

State-Sponsored, Paramilitary Violence on Both Sides of the US Mexico Border _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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State-Sponsored, Paramilitary Violence on Both Sides of the US Mexico Border
Living with State-Sponsored, Paramilitary Violence on Both Sides of the US Mexico Border :Co-host Francisco Herrera talks about the Kidnapping, and torture of his brother-in-law last week in Chihuahua Mexico, as well as the shoot-in-the-back murder of his cousin six years ago by LA Sheriffs. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, same as Oscar Grant’s killer, Johannes Mehserle. From A Flashpoints Radio Presentation 7-16-2010.

Propaganda 101 _ on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Propaganda 101 — Professor Mark Crispin Miller
We examine the origins and techniques of modern propaganda from World War I to present including the seminal work of George Creel, Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays and the use of propaganda in the current U.S. wars. From A History Counts Presentation 6-25-2010.

G20 Progressive Speakers Spark Hope!_on Anti-War/Economic Collapse Teach-in

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G20 Progressive Speakers Spark Hope!
‘G20 Shout Out’ with Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, et al. On Friday, June 25, 2010…the night before the Toronto militarized police attacked the peaceful protesters at the G20, some of the most famous progressive and environmental speakers gave hope and a plan of action to a overflowing crowd at Massey Hall.

Speakers include Labour leader Leo Gerard, author and activist Amy Goodman, fair-trade advocate John Hilary, global corporate critic Naomi Klein, environmental activist Vandana Shiva, Bolivian ambassador to the UN Pablo Solon and Manitoba Cree activist Clayton Thomas-Muller.

These speakers spoke against a backdrop of the world leaders having started arriving for the G8 and G20 meetings amidst a massive security crackdown that marked the most expensive three days in Canadian history. Large swaths of Toronto’s downtown core had the appearance of a police state, with an estimated deployment of over 19,000 security personnel—nearly five times the number at the G20 in Pittsburgh last year. The security price tag was around $1 billion, and some predict the total summit cost will surpass $2 billion. Over 1000 protesters were arrested. Many were beaten. Among them were journalists.

Special Report on G20 on Democracy Now_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-n

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Special Report on G20 on Democracy Now
Fortress Toronto: Massive Security Clampdown for G8/G20 Meetings Most Expensive in Canadian History

World leaders have started arriving for the G8 and G20 meetings amidst a massive security crackdown that will mark the most expensive three days in Canadian history. Large swaths of Toronto’s downtown core have the appearance of a police state, with an estimated deployment of over 19,000 security personnel—nearly five times the number at the G20 in Pittsburgh last year. The security price tag is around $1 billion, and some predict the total summit cost will surpass $2 billion. From A Democracy Now Presentation 6-25-2010.

Was a deal struck to lighten the blockade of Gaza?_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

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Was a deal struck to lighten the blockade of Gaza?
Was a deal struck to lighten the blockade of Gaza in exchange for cooperation with investigation of flotilla killings? EU, UN, US, Turkey, and NGOs like Amnesty International and ICRC unify to demand Israel lift sanctions on Gaza. Plus, Israel appoints members of new Friends of Israel Initiative to sit on panel investigating flotilla killings. We hear, this is not independent or fair. With Amjad Shawa, Coordinator of PNGO, the Palestinian NGO Network, Cecelia Goin, ICRC spokesperson, Attorney Francis A. Boyle, University of Illinois School of Law. From A Talk Nation Radio Presentation.

The Great Warming_on Anti-War Progressive Teach-in

noliesradio — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:06:10 +0000

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The Great Warming
The Great Warming — Climate Change in History.
Global Warming. It’s happened before – during the Middle Ages. Who were the losers? Who were the winners? What can we learn from their experience? Speakers: Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming, Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations A History Counts Radio Presentation.