Judge Richard Goldstone on the Gaza War

From October 23, 2009, Bill Moyers talks with Judge Richard Goldstone, who headed up the controversial UN Human Rights Council investigation into the fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. The Gaza War started December 2008 and ended January 18, 2009 just two days before President George W. Bush was to leave office. 13 Israelis and about 1400 Gazans were kill. 518 Israelis and 5303 Gazans were wounded.
Source: Bill Moyers Journal with Judge Richard J. Goldstone on October 23, 2009

Scott Horton Interviews Cindy Sheehan on October 16, 2009

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan discusses her plans for continuous civil disobedience in Washington D.C. until the Iraq and Afghanistan wars end.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Cindy Sheehan

Scott Ritter on Afghanistan on November 03, 2009

Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Scott Ritter publicly argued that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Is the war in Afghanistan worth the sacrifice of even one American life? Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter says, "No! ... We are allowing the battle in Afghanistan to be defined by a domestic American political imperative. There is no urgency in Afghanistan, there is urgency in Washington, D.C."
Source: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype



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Human Rights in the Age of Environmental Devastation and Climate Chaos

From March 16, 2009, Chief of the Cardiology Division of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Richmond, California Jeffrey Ritterman explores the consequences of climate change and environmental destruction on our health.
Source: Human Rights in the Age of Environmental Devastation and Climate Chaos

Scott Horton Interviews Chris Calabrese on November 1st, 2008

ACLU lawyer Chris Calabrese discusses the government-defined 100 mile wide "Constitution-free zone" border area that extends inland from the U.S. boundary and covers nearly 2/3 of the U.S. Population, and why the current system ought to feel like home to anyone who lived in Communist East Germany.
Source: Antiwar Radio: Chris Calabrese

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US Torture and Consequences?

From Bill Moyers' Journal of May 1st, 2009, US Torture and Consequences?

Bill Moyers sits down with Bruce Fein, former deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and chairman of the American Freedom Agenda, and Mark Danner, who has been reporting on the US treatment and interrogation of detainees for the New York Review of Books. Also on the program, the Journal profiles Steve Meacham, a Massachusetts community organizer fighting to keep working people in their homes.
Source: US TORTURE AND CONSEQUENCES?

From March 24th, 2009, Scott Horton Interviews Juan Cole

Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, discusses the humanitarian crisis caused by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the misinformation at the heart of most anti-Islam rhetoric.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Juan Cole



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