Will Civil Liberties Survive OWS Trial?
Feb 16, 2014 As an Occupy Wall Street activist goes to trial on charges of assaulting a police officer, author and lawyer Chase Madar asks what the rights to freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and freedom from warrantless search are worth in the United States today.
The Folly of Arming Israel
Feb 10, 2014 Consider that the top recipient of U.S. foreign aid over the past three decades isn’t some impoverished land filled with starving kids, but a wealthy nation with a per-head gross domestic product on par with the European Union average, and higher than that of Italy, Spain, or South Korea.
The Criminalization of Everyday Life
Dec 9, 2013 If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal.
Reza Aslan Finally Gets to Talk About His Book (Transcript Added)
Aug 2, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: He survived Fox News. Now the religions scholar discusses his new book, at last. Also: More revelations about the NSA, Bradley Manning's sentencing, and Oregon's alternative to student loans.
How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars
Jun 11, 2013 Bradley Manning, the young Army intelligence analyst who leaked thousands of public documents and passed them on to WikiLeaks, has done far more for U.S. national security than SEAL Team 6.
Terrorists Are Not Madmen
Apr 20, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Terrorism expert Audrey Kurth Cronin says terrorists are surprisingly logical. Also: Islamophobia in the U.S.A., Bradley Manning's secret trial, and Congress wants to share your Internet secrets.
How Schools Are Becoming Prisons
Mar 28, 2013 The school-to-prison pipeline is under fire for its over-the-top thuggishness, but officials are responding to massacres like the one in Newtown by pushing to make campuses more prison like. Bay Area journalist and author Annette Fuentes discusses the phenomenon she documented in her book "Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse."The school-to-prison pipeline is under fire for its over-the-top thuggishness, but officials are responding to massacres like the one in Newtown by pushing to make campuses more jail like.
Did Bradley Manning Harm American ‘Prestige’?
Mar 6, 2013 "If you look at the context of what he's done and the enormous damage he did to national security and our prestige around the world, throughout most of history someone like that would be executed," former Defense Department spokesman J.D. Gordon said of Pfc. Bradley Manning on Al-Jazeera this week.
