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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern critical of Obama war strategy listen

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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern was among over 130 people arrested at a White House peace protest and WikiLeaks rally Thursday. It was organized by Veterans For Peace.

McGovern was a guest today on WMNF’s True Talk program.

"You wouldn't know it from the mainstream press, particularly the Washington Post which really didn't cover it, but 135 of us Veterans for Peace were arrested, briefly imprisoned, and let out because they didn't want to keep us overnight. Only to come back for tria...

Pacifica radio will carry some Al Jazeera English news stories listen

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You might not be able to watch it on cable television yet, but soon, you could hear it on community radio.

The international news channel Al Jazeera English and Pacifica radio announced a partnership today where news from Al Jazeera reporters will be broadcast on the five Pacifica stations and soon, on Pacifica affiliates like WMNF. Today we spoke with Pacifica Foundation executive director Arlene Engelhardt, who used to be a program...

Castor says she needs to know more before calling for Wikileaks abuse probe listen

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Tags: Kathy Castor, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Iraq War

A key UN human rights official is calling for an investigation into detainee abuse allegations contained among the pages online whistleblower Wikileaks published Friday. But such a task may be on the backburner for US lawmakers.

It would be up to the US Congress to launch an investigation into alleged detainee abuses in Iraq that, prior to Friday’s Wikileaks report, had apparently been under the radar for many. But the local economy has been at the forefront for many, as have next week’s e...

Wikileaks releases video of 2007 US massacre in Iraq listen

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Today the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks released a classified video from the U.S. military that shows the killing of over a dozen people in a suburb of Baghdad in July 2007. Two news employees from Reuters were among those killed by the U.S. during the video shot from an Apache helicopter.

“Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.”

“Oh, yeah, look at those dead bastards.”

In the nearly three years since the attack, Reuters has been using the Freedom of Information Act to obtain th...