Hold the Torturers Accountable

by | May 26, 2009 |

Or else we'll all be held accountable by Rep. Ron Paul, May 26, 2009 While Congress is sidetracked by who said what to whom and when, our nation finds itself at a crossroads on the issue of torture. We are at a point where we must decide if torture is something that is now going to be considered justifiable and reasonable under certain circumstances, or is America better than that? "Enhanced interrogation" as some prefer to call it, has been used throughout history, usually by despotic...

McChrystal, Copper Green, Torture and Assassination

by | May 13, 2009 |

Check out this great Esquire article about the torture occupation of Iraq and new Afghan boss McChrystal's role. How'd I miss this in '06? Muriel Kane wonders whether McChrystal ran Cheney's global assassination hit squads. Hersh: "...let’s say Yemen, let’s say Peru, let’s say Colombia, let’s say Eritrea, let’s say Madagascar, let’s say Kenya, countries like that..." Thanks to Douglas Valentine.

Antiwar Radio: Burton Folsom

by | May 10, 2009 | ,

Burton Folsom, professor of history at Hillsdale College and author of the book New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, discusses the disastrous legacy of America's Great Dictator, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Listen here.