What a sad, morally backwards world we live in.
Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded
In August, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder — under continuous, aggressive prodding by the Obama White House — announced that three categories of individuals responsible for Bush-era torture crimes would be fully immunized from any form of criminal investigation and prosecution: (1) Bush officials who ordered the torture (Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld); (2) Bush lawyers who legally approved it (Yoo, Bybee, Levin), and (3) those in the CIA and the military who tortured within the confines of the permission slips they were given by those officials and lawyers (i.e., “good-faith” torturers). The one exception to this sweeping immunity was that low-level CIA agents and servicemembers who went so far beyond the torture permission slips as to basically commit brutal, unauthorized murder would be subject to a “preliminary review” to determine if a full investigation was warranted — in other words, the Abu Ghraib model of justice was being applied, where only low-ranking scapegoats would be subject to possible punishment while high-level officials would be protected.
Yesterday, it was announced that this “preliminary review” by the prosecutor assigned to conduct it, U.S. Attorney John Durham, is now complete, and — exactly as one would expect — even this category of criminals has been almost entirely protected, meaning a total legal whitewash for the Bush torture regime:
Much respect to Tim. We’ll have Peaceful Uprising on the show this month.
Tim Dechristopher | Power Shift 2011 Keynote (by energyaction)
Check out our interview with David Cobb, founder of Move To Amend: http://bit.ly/wethecorps
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As the 37 activists aboard the US BOAT TO GAZA return home after being stopped by Greek authorities from sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid and solidarity letters: a revisit to our interview with Rebecca Vilkermerson of Jewish Voice for Peace, an organization dedicated to a peaceful ending to the seemingly eternal Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Radio Provocateur: (A) Jewish Voice For Peace
First aired June 13th, 2011
In the midst of the “Arab awakening,” we turn the spotlight on one of the seemingly eternal conflicts in the Middle East: the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Rebecca Vilkomerson, director of Jewish Voice for Peace, gives us a (brilliantly brief) history of the conflict and breaks down JVP’s strategy to make tangible change: boycott, divestment, and sanctions
As The Church of Earthalujah takes off for our European tour, Reverend Billy gets a lesson in hysterical revolution from British activists and his one-year-old daughter in the newest episode of Reverend Billy’s Freakstorm.
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Slavoj Žižek - The Spectator’s Malevolent Neutrality
