Roger Waters, Larry Johnson, Gerald Celente and Joe Lauria joined Randy Credico’s Live on the Fly radio show on WBAI in New York Friday to discuss Trump’s cabinet nominations.
The next director of national intelligence needs courage, political smarts and strong presidential backing to fulfill her duty to oversee and provide advice on covert action.
Many countries with supposedly centre-left or left governments have joined the U.S. in proposals that seek to undermine Venezuelan democratic processes.
CNLive! speaks to Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files and WikiLeaks research collaborator on the ‘Detainee Assessment Briefs’, about the history of the U.S. torture camp and the suffering of its forever prisoners.
A hunger for genocide and ethnic cleansing colours senior Israeli officials’ statements and has influenced their conduct in this war. Talk of civilian casualties is brushed off, and so are calls for a ceasefire, writes Vijay Prashad.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies highlight a few of the numerous speeches urging diplomatic resolution of the war at this year’s General Assembly.
The grandson of Salvador Allende, the democratically-elected president of Chile who was overthrown by a U.S.-backed, fascist junta 50 years ago on Sept. 11, 1973, spoke with CN at a conference in Australia remembering the coup. (w/Spanish transcript).
UPDATED W/TRANSCRIPT: David Hicks took a so-called Alford Plea to get out of Guantanamo, pleading guilty to a single charge, but also allowed to assert his innocence. Such a plea could be offered to Assange.
A U.S. federal judge in Virginia this week refused to dismiss the torture suit against CACI Premier Technology, a military-industrial complex linchpin based in nearby Arlington.
Nineteen fifty-three was a peculiar year for The Washington Post to question the C.I.A.’s drift into activist intrigues, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his forthcoming book, Journalists and Their Shadows.