By Susan B. Glasser From The New Yorker | Original Article Born in derision and remade in flattery, the relationship between Trump and Pompeo has proved surprisingly durable. Illustration by Paul Rogers….
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8/2/19 Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo
With David Remnick From The New Yorker | Original Article To hear the program on The New Yorker Radio Hour, click here. When Mohamedou Salahi arrived at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp,…
6/30/19 What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know
By Lesley Stahl From CBS 60 Minutes | Original Article Watch video here. It is not often you get the chance to meet a man who holds a place in history like…
5/24/19 Assange Is Indicted for Exposing War Crimes While Trump Considers Pardons for War Criminals
From Democracy Now | Original Article Daniel Ellsberg and Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept discuss the Justice Department’s decision to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on 17 charges of violating the Espionage…
5/24/19 Jeremy Scahill: New Indictment of Assange Is Part of a Broader War on Journalism & Whistleblowers
From Democracy Now | Original Article The Espionage Act charges filed against Julian Assange mark just the latest attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize journalism and whistleblowers. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning…
5/24/19 Daniel Ellsberg: Espionage Charges Against Assange Are Most Significant Attack on Press in Decades
From Democracy Now | Original Article As the Justice Department charges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act, we speak to Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. In…
5/24/19 Julian Assange’s Attorney Decries Espionage Charges as “Grave Threat to Press Freedom”
From Democracy Now | Original Article In an unprecedented move, the Justice Department has indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on 17 charges of violating the Espionage Act for his role in publishing…
4/17/19 ICC Makes “Dangerous Decision” to Drop Probe into U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan After U.S. Pressure
From Democracy Now | Original Article The International Criminal Court has announced it will not investigate possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the United States and other actors…
4/8/19 Sec. of State Pompeo Protecting Bush Jr. from War Crimes Prosecution
From The Real News | Original Article With the revocation of the ICC Chief Prosecutor’s US visa, Pompeo and Bolton are trying to make sure that high-level US government officials are never…
3/15/19 ‘Blatant Effort to Intimidate and Retaliate’: Pompeo Imposes Visa Ban on ICC Staff Probing US War Crimes
By Jessica Corbett From Common Dreams | Original Article “It reeks of the very totalitarian practices that are characteristic of the worst human rights abusers.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced new…
3/5/19 “How to Hide an Empire”: Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States
From Democracy Now | Original Article AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: How to Hide an Empire: A…
2/6/19 U.S.: Guantánamo still an option for ISIS captives in Syria who can’t go home
By Carol Rosenberg From McClatchy | Original Article Holding Islamic State suspects at Guantánamo is still a viable option, Trump administration officials say on the heels of a U.S. appeal to other…
1/30/19 Allan Nairn: Trump’s Venezuela Envoy Elliott Abrams Is a War Criminal Who Has Abetted Genocide
From Democracy Now | Original Article In an ongoing effort to topple Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Vice President Mike Pence met with members of the Venezuelan opposition at the White House Tuesday…
1/24/19 Lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck: Bush, Rumsfeld & Cheney Are a Troika of Tyranny & Should Be in Prison
From Democracy Now | Original Article As Venezuela faces an attempted coup supported by the U.S., Brazil and the European Union, we speak with human rights attorney Wolfgang Kaleck. In November, John…