Zinn on Obama, MLK

Howard Zinn: "I Wish Obama Would Listen to MLK"
Legendary historian Howard Zinn joins us to talk about war, torture and the teaching of history. Zinn says Obama had Obama heeded the lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he wouldn't be escalating US attacks abroad and increasing the size of the US military budget. We also play excerpts of the forthcoming documentary, The People Speak, featuring dramatic readings based on Zinn's A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People's History of the United States. http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/13/howard_zinn_i_wish_obama_would

Lawyers Urge Bush Be Arrested

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/17/lawyers_group_urges_bush_be_arrested

Assurances Notwithstanding

UK 'must check' US torture denial
The British government should no longer rely on US assurances it does not use torture, a parliamentary report says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7515517.stm

Hersh on Rumsfeld, Taguba

Seymour Hersh Reveals Rumsfeld Misled Congress over Abu Ghraib; How Gen. Taguba was Forced to Retire over his Critical Abu Ghraib Report; and the Site of Another Secret U.S. Prison (Mauritania)

Over three years ago, Seymour Hersh exposed the torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib in an article largely based on a leaked report by Major General Antonio Taguba. Now Taguba has spoken to Hersh in his first interview since being forced to retire. Taguba reveals that he was blocked from investigating who ordered the abuse at Abu Ghraib and how more pictures and video exist showing the torture.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1433252