10/17/16 Ryan Reilly
“Sandra Bland died one year ago Today: And since then, at least 810 people have lost their lives in jail” Ryan Reilly discusses dying in police custody. “Deaths inside American jails frequently go...
View Article10/14/16 Mario Murillo
Mario Murillo, Professor and Chair of the Radio, Television, Film department in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, discusses why the FARC peace agreement failed a...
View Article10/14/16 Jordan Smith
Jordan Smith, an award-winning investigative journalist with The Intercept, discusses why the FBI and DOJ are determined to continue using certain controversial forensic practices like bite-mark...
View Article10/19/16 Sandy Tolan
Sandy Tolan, author of Children of the Stone, discusses why the $38 billion US military aid package to Israel marks the end of both Washington’s role in an Israel-Palestinian peace process and any hope...
View Article10/19/16 Martha Mundy
Martha Mundy, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria, discusses how...
View Article10/19/16 Gilbert Doctorow
Gilbert Doctorow, the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord, discusses why the US-Russia confrontation in Ukraine and Syria is far more serious than generally understood,...
View Article10/21/16 Daniel Davis
Retired US Army colonel Daniel L. Davis discusses his article “Why the Battle for Mosul Could Become a Total Disaster;” and how US military intervention is paving the way for Al Qaeda/ISIS control of...
View Article10/21/16 Jason MacLeod
Jason MacLeod, author of Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua, discusses the brutal 50-year Indonesian occupation of West Papua; motivated by racial superiority, natural...
View Article10/21/16 Eric Schuler
Eric Schuler, author of The Daily Face Palm, discusses whether Hillary Clinton’s Syria policy is due to stupidity or “something worse;” and how the terrible presidential debates have made libertarian...
View Article10/26/16 Grant F. Smith
Grant F. Smith, director of research at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the longstanding US government policy of feigning ignorance of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, why...
View Article10/26/16 Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, discusses his two-part investigative series on the organizations running a sophisticated PR campaign to win Western public...
View Article10/26/16 Daniel Lazare
Daniel Lazare, author of The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution is Paralyzing Democracy, discusses Hillary Clinton’s bifurcated policy on ISIS, as she proposes fighting the group in Iraq and...
View Article11/2/16 Liza Goitein
Liza Goitein, Co-Director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, discusses her report on “The New Era of Secret Law” in the US, including the DOJ’s Office of Legal...
View Article11/2/16 James Carden
James Carden, a contributing writer for The Nation and former advisor on Russia at the US State Department, discusses how the Washington DC foreign policy consensus, locked down by neoconservatives and...
View Article11/2/16 Jeffrey Kaye
Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist and writer on torture, discusses the latest developments in the ACLU’s lawsuit (on behalf of former Guantanamo detainees) against James Elmer Mitchell and John “Bruce”...
View Article11/4/16 Sandy Tolan
Sandy Tolan, author of Children of the Stone, discusses why Native Americans and activists across the country are demonstrating against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, and the crackdown against them by...
View Article11/4/16 Philip Giraldi
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses how Turkey has become a destabilizing force in the Near East under increasingly-authoritarian president Erdogan, creating a risk of military entanglement for...
View Article11/7/16 Ted Snider
Ted Snider, a writer on US foreign policy and history, discusses his article “The End of Obama’s Term: A Report Card on Latin America;” and why the lone bright spot, despite Obama’s promise to change...
View Article11/7/16 David Swanson
David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, discusses his article “How Drone Pilots Talk;” and the RootsAction.org initiative to tell the next president “No more war!”
View Article11/11/16 Gareth Porter
Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses the similarities between the Russian/Syrian bombing of Aleppo, the 2003 US bombing of Iraq, and...
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