The first of Sheldon's two appearances on Roderick Long's Agoric Cafe is now posted. They discuss a variety of issues. Part two will be posted next Sunday.
Scott talks to Nicolas Davies about America's continuing role in the war in Yemen. Although the Trump administration has ended some of the more direct involvement like mid-air refueling of Saudi bombers, Saudi Arabia still very much relies on our help to wage its war against the people of Yemen, not least because of the fact that all of their weapons and equipment come from the U.S. Scott reminds us that Trump could end this war with a single phone call. Davies also describes Congress' efforts to stop American support for the war, all of which Trump has stymied. Discussed on the show: "Two...
Scott interviews the great Patrick Cockburn about his written testimony in Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Cockburn argued, as have many other witnesses for the defense, that Assange's activities with WikiLeaks amount to the very best kind of journalism: the exposure of government misdeeds to the people. Far more journalists, in fact, should be doing what Assange does. Cockburn also reminds us that the information Chelsea Manning leaked and Assange published was not even all that secret. It was on a server that millions of soldiers and government employees had access to, a far cry from...
Kevin Gosztola discusses two major points from the recent round of testimony in the Assange hearing. First, the defense has been trying to emphasize the deplorable conditions Assange would be likely to face in an American supermax prison. This is something a judge must consider under British extradition law. Gosztola also brings up the bizarre story of UC Global, a security firm employed by American billionaire and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson. Two former UC Global employees testified that American intelligence had tasked them with surveilling Assange in the Ecuadorean embassy—this...
Trevor Timm is back with an update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Timm was a witness for the defense, where he argued against the idea that what Assange and WikiLeaks do is categorically different than the activity of other journalists. The prosecution has argued that Assange's solicitation of classified documents amounts to collaboration in an illegal activity—Timm explained that this is no different whatsoever from what any mainstream journalistic outlet does. Just because some people don't consider Assange to be a journalist, that has nothing to do with his legal status when it...
Okay, well it was 2019. I sure don't mean to shame the victim for that. It's easy to say you would rather die than submit to some pig in such an undignified manner, but she very well could have died, and surely has other people that she's responsible for. 100% of the responsibility is on the criminal, Officer Levi Huffine, who of course, is not being charged with any crime at all. Matt Agorist at the FTP: Aurora, CO — A video released this week was so disturbing that even Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson is speaking out about it, referring to what happened to a woman in it as “torture.”...
The president is a terrible person and a terrible president. But boy does he have the right enemies.
He should be imprisoned for the rest of his life along with his co-conspirators, the trigger-men, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove. New York magazine: It’s getting harder to deny the likelihood that Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron lied, and lied multiple times, when he explained why a grand jury decided not to charge any police officer with a crime for killing Breonna Taylor. Cameron’s office presented evidence to the jury, but the only criminal charges he announced last week were against Brett Hankison, the Louisville officer who fired blindly into Taylor’s apartment on March...
