John Stockwell: The Dark Side of US Foreign Policy - 1 Hour : 55 Minutes
John Stockwell speaks in 1987.

US Post-9/11 Wars Caused 4.5 Million Deaths, Displaced 38-60 Million People, Study Shows – By Ben Norton– 30 Minutes
Wars the U.S. waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University.

Sources and more information here: geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/18/us…aths-displace  

This is the most important talk I have heard about what the U.S. has been doing since 9-11. It is also the most horrifying talk I have heard.
It is hard to listen to, as it is so devastating. Ben very clearly puts the terrible, horrible truth out there.  – Frank Dorrel

 Martin Luther King Jr: Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence – 1967 – Audio Only – 57 Minutes
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 speech in New York. In this speech, he opposes violence and militarism, particularly the war in Vietnam.

S. Brian Wilson - Going AWOL from The American Way of Life – 2011 – 50 Minutes
S. Brian Wilson shares on his newly published book: BLOOD ON THE TRACKS: The Life & Times of S. Brian Willson. Brian is Introduced by His Good friend Mike Hastie, also a Vietnam Veteran at the 2011 Veterans For Peace Convention in Portland, Oregon.

Ramsey Clark - Plutocracy: Wealth Governs This Country    -  9 Minute Edited Talk from 1998 at The Holman Methodist Church in Los Angeles.
Former Attorney General of the United States, Ramsey Clark. From: “What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy”

Howard Zinn: The Interpretation of History – 1992 – On C-SPAN2 Book TV - 52 Minutes
Historian, Professor and political activist Howard Zinn talks about the interpretation of history and how our understanding of it affects the future. He discusses getting personal experience of the world and questioning teachers and other institutional authority. He also talked about income disparity in the U.S. and the failure to alleviate poverty.

Father Roy Bourgeois - Shut Down The School of The Americas! - 2008 - 87 Minutes (Including Q&A)
Founder of The School of The Americas Watch (SOAW) -  https://soaw.org/home

Blase Bonpane is Interviewed by Sonali Kolhatkar on His Autobiography: Imagine No Religion –  2011 - 47 Minutes
This is the best interview I have ever heard. Do not miss it. - Frank Dorrel
Acclaimed activist, former priest, Director of Office of The Americas & author of IMAGINE NO RELIGION, Blase Bonpane, speaks with RISING UP host Sonali Kolhatkar about his life's work. Blase hosted his program WORLD FOCUS on KPFK 90.7 FM Pacifica Radio for 40 years.

Arundhati Roy: Instant Mix Imperial Democracy Speech - May, 2003 – 53 Minutes - What a Brilliant Speech!
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel: THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS - and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays. Speech given by Arundhati Roy at the Riverside Church in New York City in May, 2003.

Biography: www.britannica.com/biography/Arundhati-Roy

Philip Agee – The War Against The Third World – 22 Minutes
Agee’s segment from my film: “What I’ve Learned About US Foreign Policy” 
Former CIA case officer, Phillip Agee, talks about the CIA and U.S. foreign policy.

Chris Hedges: "THE GREATEST EVIL IS WAR"
“Chris Hedges returned to The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on October 21, 2022 to speak on the subject of his latest book, titled “The Greatest Evil Is War” (Seven Stories Press). This unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war draws from experience and interviews for a book that looks at the hidden costs of war, what it does to individuals, families, communities, and nations.”

Abby Martin - "We Must Band Together in This Age of Repression" - On Resistance and CovertAction Magazine - 2022 – 12 minutes
Independent investigative journalist and activist, Abby Martin, speaks at the CovertAction44 Celebration and Fundraiser on June 25, 2022, about the urgent need for international solidarity to defeat the US empire. Her website is: Empire Files: http://theempirefiles.tv/ . CovertAction’s Magazine’s website is: https://covertactionmagazine.com/

Book Launch of The 2015 Updated Edition of ADDICTED To WAR – 24 Minutes
January 24th, 2015 - At The Peace Center in Culver City. IMAGINE was played by Dennis Davis.  Introduction by ADDICTED To WAR Publisher and Distributor Frank Dorrel.  
Talk by Joel Andreas, Author and Illustrator of ADDICTED To WAR. This Event Was Filmed and Put On-Line by Paul Hunt.

Harold Pinter: Nobel Prize Speech - 2005 – 33 Minutes
Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded and shown on video on December 7th, 2005, at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. He talks about U.S. foreign policy in the most direct and truthful way. What a great speech!  Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years

Cole Miller Talks about NO MORE VICTIMS - 2 Minutes: 15 Seconds
Cole Miller talks about the important and life changing work of No More Victims ABOUT BRAVE NEW FILMS Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films (BNF) are at the forefront of the fight to create a just America. Greenwald and BNF create free documentary films that inform the public, challenge corporate media and motivate people to take action on social issues nationwide. Brave New Films’ investigative films have shined a light on the Trump administration, voter suppression, U.S. drone strikes, the prosecution of whistleblowers, and Wal Mart’s corporate practices. BNF's mission is to champion social justice issues by using a model of media, education, and grassroots volunteer involvement that inspires, empowers, motivates and teaches civic participation and makes a difference.

No More Victims: Stop The Wars and Bring The Troops Home - Do Not Miss this 4-Minute Video with a Young Iraqi Girl, Who Was Shot by An American Sniper
Narrated by Steve Ballantine. Since 2003, No More Victims: www.nomorevictims.org has secured treatment for children injured by US forces. After ten years of war, it's time for Americans to act decisively: we must end the wars and commit our resources to creating jobs and rebuilding the ramshackle infrastructure of our own country. As Eisenhower said: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed."

Iraqi Child Receives Medical Care in US Through NO MORE VICTIMS - 11 Minutes
Salee Allawi lost her brother, her best friend and two limbs in a US air strike. NO MORE VICTIMS evacuated her to the United States for medical care at Shriners Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. This video chronicles her arrival and medical treatment. Salee and her father spent some time in our home in Culver City, California. We hosted an event for them and Cole Miller.

Abdul Hakeem / Noam Chomsky - NO MORE VICTIMS - 5 Minutes
Abdul Hakeem was injured by US forces during the April 2004 siege of Fallujah.

John Perkins: Confessions of An Economic Hitman  –  24 Minutes
John Perkins about his book: 'Confessions of An Economic Hit Man'. Perkins talks from his own experience as an economic hitman. His function was to convince the political and financial leadership of underdeveloped countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID. Saddled with debts they could not hope to pay, those countries were forced to acquiesce to political pressure from the United States on a variety of issues. Perkins argues in his book that developing nations were effectively neutralized politically, had their wealth gaps driven wider and economies crippled in the long run. In this capacity Perkins recounts his meetings with some prominent individuals, including Graham Greene and Omar Torrijos. Perkins describes the role of an EHM as follows: Economic Hit Man (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. Perkins charges that the proposed conditions for this debt forgiveness require countries to privatize their health, education, electric, water and other public services. Those countries would also have to discontinue subsidies and trade restrictions that support local business, but accept the continued subsidization of certain G8 businesses by the US and other G8 countries, and the erection of trade barriers on imports that threaten G8 industries. In the book, Perkins repeatedly denies the existence of a "conspiracy." Instead, Perkins carefully discusses the role of corporatocracy.

Daniel Ellsberg - Pentagon Papers at 50: On Risking His Life in Jail to Expose U.S. Lies About Vietnam War – Interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now – June, 2021 – 30 Minutes 
Fifty years ago this week, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers — 7,000 pages of top-secret documents outlining the Pentagon’s secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam since the 1940s. The leak exposed years of government lies about the war, revealed that even top officials believed it was unwinnable, and would end up helping to end the Vietnam War and lead to a major victory for press freedom. The Times exposé was based on documents secretly photocopied by Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, who both worked as Pentagon consultants at the RAND Corporation. Ellsberg, who had been deeply involved in the Vietnam War as a defense analyst, decided to risk life imprisonment to reveal the truth about Vietnam. “I’d been lied to. The whole country had been lied to. The Congress had been lied to as to what the situation was,” Ellsberg says.


Democracy Now! Turns 25: Celebrating a Quarter-Century of Independent News on The Frontlines with Amy Goodman - FEBRUARY 19, 2021  
Democracy Now, hosted by Amy Goodman, first aired on nine community radio stations on February 19, 1996, on the eve of the New Hampshire presidential primary. In the 25 years since that initial broadcast, the program has greatly expanded, airing today on more than 1,500 television and radio stations around the globe and reaching millions of people online. We celebrate 25 years of the War and Peace Report with an hour-long retrospective, including highlights from the show’s early years, some of the most controversial interviews, and groundbreaking reports from East Timor, Standing Rock, Western Sahara and more.

Dr. Helen Caldicott - The New Nuclear Danger: Bush's Military-Industrial Complex  
- January, 2003 - 59 Minutes – At UC Berkeley’s School of Public Policy
Antinuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott looks at the indebtedness of the current Bush administration to the nuclear arms industry and warns of the enormous dangers inherent in allowing weapons manufacturers to dictate foreign policy. Helen Caldicott is the author of five books: Nuclear Madness (1979), Missile Envy] (1984), If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth (1992), A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography (1996), and The New Nuclear Danger: George Bush’s Military Industrial Complex (2001). Helen Caldicott was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, and she was named one of the most influential women of the 20th century by the Smithsonian Institute. Physicians for Social Responsibility, which she co-founded in 1977, was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She has been the subject of several films, including Eight Minutes to Midnight and If You Love This Planet, which won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1982.

Medea Benjamin - TALKS ON DRONE WARFARE – 2012 – 57 Minutes
Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder of CODEPINK, Discusses Her Book: “DRONE WARFARE: Killing by Remote Control”
www.codepink.org - www.codepink.org/medea_benjamin


Bruce Gagnon and Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space – Interviewed by Karl Grossman - November 22, 2021 – 29 Minutes
The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space is the leading group internationally working to keep space for peace. In this Enviro Close-Up, Bruce Gagnon, its coordinator since it was established in 1992, details his impetus in challenging the turning of space into a war zone. He tells of hearing Lt. General Daniel O. Graham, head of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed “Star Wars,” declaring as nearly a million people protested in New York City against nuclear weapons, “we are moving into space. They don’t have a clue.” With now the U.S. Space Force having been formed, the push by the U.S. to “control space and dominate space” continues intensely, says Gagnon. And this despite the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, put together by the U.S., the former Soviet Union and Great Britain, setting aside space for peaceful purposes. Gagnon speaks of the aerospace industry seeking to get the money to pay for the U.S. moving into space militarily by taking it from “entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and what’s left of the social safety net.” He speaks of the links between space weaponization and the use of nuclear power in space. He discusses the many activities of the Global Network and how people can join in. And although from a military family, he tells of how he became an organizer for the United Farm Workers Union under Cesar Chavez leading to his decades as a peace advocate and organizer.

Bruce Gagnon - Is Russia Truly Our Enemy? – April, 2021 – 62 Minutes 
A Presentation by Bruce Gagnon - Aired on Pirate TV on Free Speech TV

According to Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, the corporate oligarchs who rule the United States and now control most NATO countries would like nothing more than to return the world to the good old days of the Cold War arms race where they could feast endlessly off the bottomless pit of cost plus military contracts and lucrative arms deals. This is a major reason why the government and corporate media has been bombarding us with a non-stop propaganda barrage of disinformation accusing Putin and Russia of everything from interfering in US Elections to outright aggression in Ukraine and Crimea. –The opposite of the truth. And of course the US public whom Noam Chomsky once called “the most highly indoctrinated population on earth”, is buying it, according to recent polls. Recently back from a fact finding tour he organized of Russia and Ukraine with Veterans for Peace and other peace activists, Gagnon deconstructs the propaganda narrative and demonstrates once again why he is the go-to guy for exposing the real agendas behind US military strategic planning. Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space: http://space4peace.org/

Kathy Kelly - On U.S. Wars: Blood Does Not Wash Away Blood -  6 Minutes: 20 Seconds  - “Never Forget 9/11 and The 20 Year War On Terror” – September 11th, 2021

Kathy Kelly - Talks About the Afghanistan Hospital Bombing – 2015 - 11 Minutes - Co-Founder of Voices In The Wilderness

Kathy Kelly – Speaking in 2002 at an Event Called Peace in Iraq: A State of the Movement
Participants talked about the situation Iraq, the impact of international sanctions on the people of Iraq, the ineffectiveness of weapons inspections, and plans for peace activism in the event of a U.S. attack on Iraq. Following their remarks they answered questions from the audience. 

Rev. James Lawson: Our Country Is Based on Plantation Capitalism– 4 Minutes: 20 Seconds
Civil Rights veteran, Rev. James Lawson addressed the AFL-CIO's Diversity Conference in Los Angeles September of 2013.
In a brief interview with GRITtv's Laura Flanders, he described what he believes labor is up against: "plantation capitalism."

Noam Chomsky on Foreign Policy, Global Order & State Terrorism – 59 Minutes
Analysis of states in general and an overview of American foreign policy since World War II

Michael Parenti: The U.S. War on Yugoslavia – 1999 – 77 Minutes
Michael Parenti is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at several universities and written many books. He is a very engaging speaker.

Miko Peled: An Honest Israeli Jew Tells the Real Truth About Israel
Miko Peled, Author of: The General's Son: Journey of An Israeli In Palestine - 2012 - 68 Minutes

Miko Peled was born in Jerusalem into a famous and influential Israeli Zionist family. His father was a famous General in the Israeli Army, of which Miko also served his time. When Miko's niece was killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, you may have expected the family to put Palestinians at fault, but surprisingly they blamed the state of Israel and their violent torturing and persecution for driving people to such sadness that they would take their own lives. Through his father's deep knowledge of the Israeli war of terror, together with his own research, Miko Peled ruins the myths surrounding the Israel and Palestine situation, and delivers a truth so damning that many Jews and Israel supporters will not be able to bear it. He reveals facts such as the original expelled Jews are not the ones returning, and they are not their descendants either, covers the double standards regarding the right of return, which doesn't apply to Palestinians, and dispels the myth that there has been a conflict for ages by producing proof that it was peaceful up until 1947 when Israel launched their illegal attacks. Miko is just one of the many modern day Jews against Zionism and the state of Israel, and with the information he delivers in this astounding talk, it is not difficult to see why more and more Jews are rejecting Zionism and calling for the dismantling of Israel. It is a true eye-opener for anyone who has for too long been blinded by the fake misinformation given by the mainstream media, and the truths come straight from the heartland where he has spent many years documenting the real story.
www.thegeneralsson.com

Abby Martin - An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela with UN Rapporteur, Alfred De Zayas - Expose Coup -  February, 2019 – 39 Minutes
On the eve of another US war for oil, Abby Martin debunks the most repeated myths about Venezuela and uncovers how US sanctions are crimes against humanity with UN Investigator and Human Rights Rapporteur Alfred De Zayas.

Margaret Prescod Speaks in Solidarity with Maduro and Venezuela – 2019 - 9 Minutes
At the Los Angeles City Hall on 3/16/19, Margaret Prescod of Sojourner Truth stood firm with Venezuelans and the Maduro Government against U.S. intervention. She compared the people-oriented government of Venezuela with the tyrannical government of Haiti. Her speech began with the crowd cheering for the late Hugo Chavez, who raised the status of the poor in Venezuela and allowed his people to share in the wealth of the country's resources. Video by E. Storm of the Justice Gazette

Vietnam Veteran Ron Kovic - Salutes U.S. Iraq War Resisters in Canada on 7th Anniversary of Invasion – March, 2010 – 5 Minutes
Ron is a disabled Vietnam veteran, a celebrated anti-war activist and author of: “Born On The 4th of July”. BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY is one of the best anti-war films I have ever seen. It is the story of Ron Kovic, starring Tom Cruise as Ron and directed by Oliver Stone.

 Fernando Suarez del Solar – At The Never Forget: 9/11 and the 20 Year War on Terror Webinar
His son Jesus, was one of the first Marines killed in Iraq. After that, Fernando became a very well-known anti-war activist.

Dr. Sami Al Arian – A Kuwaiti Born Islamist, Political Activist of Palestinian Origin, Computer Engineering Professor and an Innocent Political Prisoner, Held for Many Years -  12 Minutes
Sami Al Arian talks at the “Never Forget: 9/11 and the 20 Year War on Terror” Webinar – September 11th, 2021

David Swanson - What the War of Terror Has Cost Us - September 11th, 2021 - 9 Minutes
Author, activist, journalist, radio host, David Swanson spoke at the "Never Forget: 9/11 and the 20 Year War on Terror" event. David Swanson is executive director of World Beyond War and campaign coordinator of Roots Action. And he is the Author of: WAR IS A LIE and Co-Founder of: WORLD BEYOND WAR – www.worldbeyondwar.org


Jim Lafferty: Why We Need This Truth Commission to Expose ‘Cold War’ Lies – From the COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION - 13 Minutes
Jim Lafferty is the President Emeritus of The National Lawyers Guild. He hosts The Lawyers Guild Show on KPFK.

Mickey Huff – Censoring of the Truth During The US Cold War to Today – 13 Minutes
Professor and Director of Project Censored, Mickey Huff spoke at THE COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION in March of 2021.

Jeff Cohen – U.S. News Media: The Enduring Cold War Legacy – 14 Minutes
Jeff Cohen, Professor, founder of FAIR and RootsAction, Talks at The COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION in March of 2021

S. Brian Willson - Blood On The Tracks: Memoir of Transformation from Vietnam Vet to Radical Pacifist – On Democracy Now with Amy Goodman – October, 2011 – 40 Minutes

S. Brian Willson - “We Are Not Worth More, They Are Not Worth Less”    - 10 Minutes –From: “What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy

Noam Chomsky Interview with Bill Moyers – A World of Ideas - Part 1 – 1988 - 26 Minutes

Also - Part 2: - 27 Minutes

Mumia Abu-Jamal Remembers Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Visit on Death Row - “His Spirit Reflected a Giant”  - December 28th, 2021 – 6 Minutes
Mumia Abu-Jamal remembers South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on Sunday, December 26th at the age of 90. Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting to end apartheid in South Africa. In 2007, Tutu visited Mumia when he was still on death row. “His spirit reflected a giant,” says Abu-Jamal. “He struggled for change with his prophetic voice, his sweet humor, his deep love and his boundless sense of compassion.”

Matthew Hoh - Describes "The Lies I Told Myself" & How He Participated in US Wars – Speaking at “Never Forget: 9-11 and The War On Terror” Webinar 
September 11th, 2021 – 10 Minutes - A Former Disabled Combat Veteran and Former State Department Official who resigned over Afghan War in 2009. He says much of the U.S. media coverage has been filled with “complete lies and fabrications,” despite decades of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

Erik Edstrom being Interviewed by Sonali Kolhatkar, Host of Rising Up With Sonali
UN-AMERICAN: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War - 2021 - 24 Minutes
GUEST: Erik Edstrom, a West Point graduate and a veteran of the Afghanistan war, author of Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War

BACKGROUND: Just as there is a national conversation around defunding the police as we see the human toll of a domestic war by law enforcement against people of color, some have begun linking that idea to defunding the US military. After all, we spend a massive chunk of our federal tax dollars to outfit troops and purchase weapons of mass destruction which are mostly used to terrorize and bomb people of color in other nations – nations like Afghanistan where the US’s longest war continues - slipping in and out of the American public’s consciousness.

Now a veteran of the longest official war in US history has written a scathing indictment of that never-ending battle. Writing in his new book Un-American author Erik Edstrom says, “In American parlance, ‘Never Forget’ is tacitly—and exclusively—reserved for Americans to serve in their role as righteous victims, never as aggressors. Instead, let us ‘Never Forget’ the far larger costs of America’s permanent war posture and realize that humanity’s greatest problems will not be solved by the military.” www.RisingUpWithSonali.com

David Vine – There Was Nothing ‘COLD’ About the Cold War – 8 Minutes - Professor David Vine Spoke at “THE COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION” in March of 2021.
Vine is the Author of THE UNITED STATES OF WAR and BASE NATION.

Joel Andreas – The Rise of Aerial Bombardment Throughout the Cold War – 9 Minutes
ADDICTED To WAR Author Joel Andreas talks at “The COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION” – March, 2021

William Hartung - “An Outrage”: House Passes Largest Military Budget in Generations Despite End of Afghanistan War - On Democracy Now with Amy Goodman & NERMEEN SHAIKH – December 9, 2021
President Biden may soon approve the largest military spending bill since World War II, which ramps up spending to counter China and Russia. Separately, the Senate voted down a bipartisan bid by Senators Bernie Sanders, Rand Paul and Mike Lee to halt $650 million in U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia amid the devastating ongoing war in Yemen. “The last thing we need to do is be throwing more money at the Pentagon,” says William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy. “This whole idea that China and Russia are military threats to the United States has primarily been manufactured to jump up the military budget.”

Free Julian Assange: Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing with Edward Snowden, Tariq Ali, Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn, Selay Ghaffar, Ewen MacAskill and Stella Morris – On Democracy Now with Amy Goodman – October 25th, 2021 – 27 Minutes
As jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces an extradition hearing Wednesday in London, supporters gathered Friday for the Belmarsh Tribunal, named for the Belmarsh maximum security prison where Assange is being held. The mock trial highlighted major WikiLeaks revelations of U.S. war crimes and demanded Assange’s freedom. Assange faces up to 175 years in prison in the U.S. under the Espionage Act for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. Though a British judge blocked his extradition in January, the U.S. appealed the decision. We feature speakers from the tribunal, including writer Tariq Ali, Afghan political activist Selay Ghaffar, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn. “Julian, far from being indicted, should actually be a hero,” said Ali. “He should never have been kept in prison for bail. He should not be in prison now awaiting a trial for extradition. He should be released.” We also hear from Srećko Horvat, philosopher and Belmarsh Tribunal chair; Ewen MacAskill, former Guardian journalist and Stella Morris, partner of Julian Assange

“Committing The Truth”: Whistleblower Daniel Hale to Be Sentenced Tuesday for Drone Program Leaks – Democracy Now – July, 2021 – 16 Minutes
At a sentencing hearing Tuesday, whistleblower Daniel Hale faces at least nine years in prison for leaking classified information about the U.S. drone and targeted assassination program. During his time in the Air Force from 2009 to 2013, Hale worked with the National Security Agency and the Joint Special Operations Task Force at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where he helped identify targets for assassination. He later worked as a contractor for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. In March, Hale pleaded guilty to one count of violating the World War I-era Espionage Act for leaking documents exposing the drone program. “This has been an odyssey that has occupied most of the better part of his adult life for basically committing the truth,” says Jesselyn Radack, an attorney for Daniel Hale. “The U.S. has never contested any of Daniel’s disclosures,” Radack adds. We also speak with Noor Mir, Daniel Hale’s close friend and part of his support team, who describes him as a compassionate person willing to make sacrifices to do the right thing. “I know that when he’s out, he will remain committed to ending suffering in all forms,” Mir says.

Charlie Clements, The Rebel Doctor
Dr. Charlie Clements, who grew up in Austin, Texas, tells us why he joined the US Air Force, subsequently flying non-combat missions over Viet Nam. Clements explains why he refused to participate further in the Viet Nam War and describes the Air Force's response--giving him a psychiatric discharge. He then tells how he became a Quaker pacifist, went to medical school, and decided to go to El Salvador to give medical assistance to the rebels. Clements' discussion of the new form of society evolving in the "liberated areas" of El Salvador is particularly interesting, and he provides sharp criticisms of the Reagan administration's Central American policy.

 
Hector Aristizábal - Transform Your Wound Into The Medicine The World Needs – January, 2019 – 18 Minutes
Hector Aristizabal talks about his life growing up in the most dangerous city in the world at the time, Medellín, Colombia, during times of unrest and the value of turning experiences and personal wounds into medicine to transform your life. Hector was born and raised in Medellin, Colombia when it was the most dangerous city in the world. As he witnessed many of his friends being killed by the different armed fashions: military, guerrillas, paramilitaries and cocaine traffickers, Hector's path was different. He worked his way out of poverty to become a theatre artist and pioneering psychologist with a Master’s degree from Antioquia University, then survived civil war, arrest and torture at the hands of the US-supported military. In '1989, violence and death threats forced him to leave his homeland. In exile, in Los Angeles, Hector struggled to overcome his rage and desire for vengeance and to channel these energies instead into constructive social action. For years he worked as a therapist and developed original plays with immigrants, torture survivors, incarcerated youth, gang members, AIDS/HIV infected people and people in Hospice care. Hector was honored with the prestigious Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre and he is co-author with Diane Lefer of: The Blessing Next To The Wound: A Story of Art, Activism and Transformation. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Hector’s website is: https://imaginaction.org/artists/hector

Chris Hedges Talks about The Uncivil War with Max Blumenthal & Ben Norton - 2017 – 28 Minutes
Chris Hedges is joined by Max Blumenthal, author and senior editor of Alternet’s Grayzone Project and Ben Norton, reporter for Alternet. Following the US missile on a Syrian airbase in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack, they discuss the US’ role in the Syrian conflict. 

Eva Bartlett - Everything You've Heard About Syria Is a Lie - On Press TV - February 18th, 2018 – 8 Minutes
Eva Bartlett, independent Canadian journalist, gives a hard-hitting interview to press TV after speaking in London, with Joti Brar, at the public anti-war meeting "Imperialism on Trial" organized by the CPGB-ML on 31 Jan 2018. Eva relates her first- hand experience of the conflict in Syria, which she contrasts with the war reports of the BBC, the Guardian and Channel 4. Drawing on her first-hand knowledge, her eye-witness experiences and her discussions and interviews with civilians on the ground across Syria, she points out that our mainstream 'unbiased and objective' media give a totally false impression of the conflict in Syria - as indeed in many other countries. The war in Syria is not a civil war. President Assad is not a brutal dictator, but a popular and democratically elected leader & head of state. Eva's site: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/about-me  

Vanessa Beeley - Sanctions Against Syria Are War Crimes  - June, 2021 – 13 Minutes
Economic sanctions are an increasingly popular foreign policy instrument in Western countries, deployed alone or in conjunction with military and/or diplomatic interventions. They have been used to deadly effect in Syria says Vanessa Beeley. Beeley is an independent journalist and photographer who has worked extensively in the Middle East in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Palestine, while also covering Yemen since 2015. Beeley's presentation was part of a webinar entitled "The Violence of Nonviolence: The Impact of Sanctions on Health" which is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2w74

Mumia Abu-Jamal & Danny Glover Speak for First Time Ever on Democracy Now!   - April, 2012 – 12 Minutes
Actor and activist Danny Glover speaks to prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal for the first time after supporting him for more than two decades. "I just want to tell you -- and I'm really emotional because I didn't expect to hear your voice this morning right there -- that we will continue to struggle to fight for your release. We love you, brother," Glover tells Abu-Jamal. "I am as pleased as punch and thrilled to hear you there," Abu-Jamal responds. On Occupy Wall Street, Abu-Jamal calls the protests "one of the greatest advances in the democracy movement in our modern period," but one that is only in its nascent stages. "They have something more important to do and that's to connect with other people's movements and build a kind of resistance that can transform this country." – To Learn More about Mumia go to Prison Radio – www.prisonradio.com  

Mumia Abu-Jamal: The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth - With Amy Goodman of Democracy Now  - February, 2013 – 12 Minutes
In a rare live interview, Mumia Abu-Jamal calls into Democracy Now! as the new film, "Long Distance Revolutionary," about his life premieres in New York City this weekend. After 29 years on death row, he is now being held in general population at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution -- Mahanoy. "How free are we today, for those who claim to be non-prisoners? Your computers are being read by others in government. Your letters and phone calls are being intercepted," says Mumia Abu-Jamal. "We live now in a national security state, where the United States is fast becoming one of the biggest open-air prisons on Earth. We can speak about freedom, and the United States has a long and distinguished history of talking about freedom, but have we sampled freedom? I think the answer should be very clear: We have not." In 1982, Mumia was sentenced to die for killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He has always maintained his innocence and is perhaps America's most famous political prisoner. In 2011, an appeals court upheld his conviction, but also vacated his death sentence it found jurors were given confusing instructions. MURDER INCORPORATED: www.prisonradiostore.com/shop-2

Allan Nairn Exposes Role of U.S. - New Guatemalan President in Indigenous Massacres On Democracy Now with Amy Goodman – April 19, 2013 – 23 Minutes Also See–  Part 2:
In 1982, investigative journalist Allan Nairn interviewed a Guatemalan general named "Tito" on camera during the height of the indigenous massacres. It turns out the man was actually Otto Pérez Molina, the current Guatemalan president. We air the original interview footage and speak to Nairn about the U.S. role backing the Guatemalan dictatorship. Last week, Nairn flew to Guatemala where he had been scheduled to testify in the trial of former U.S.-backed dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, the first head of state in the Americas to stand trial for genocide. Ríos Montt was charged in connection with the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala's Ixil region after he seized power in 1982. His 17-month rule is seen as one of the bloodiest chapters in Guatemala's decades-long campaign against Maya indigenous people, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. The trial took a surprising turn last week when Guatemala President Gen. Otto Pérez Molina was directly accused of ordering executions. A former military mechanic named Hugo Reyes told the court that Pérez Molina, then serving as an army major and using the name Tito Arias, ordered soldiers to burn and pillage a Maya Ixil area in the 1980s.

The Legacy of I.F. Stone – 12 Minutes - From the Documentary ALL GOVERNMENTS LIE.
I.F. Stone’s Official Website - I. F. Stone was an investigative journalist, a reporter and a writer who told the truth.  Born in 1907 - Died in 1989


Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored, Interviewed on RISING UP with Sonali Kolhatkar - January 18th, 2022 - 21 Minutes
Mickey Huff is the Director of Project Censored and President of the Media Freedom Foundation. He is also the co-author with Nolan Higdon of United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America: www.projectcensored.org. Project Censored mission is to, “Expose and oppose news censorship and … promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy and critical thinking”.

Ray McGovern, CIA Whistleblower Brutally Assaulted by Police at Haspel Hearing - May 9th, 2018 – 4 Minutes
78-year-old CIA whistleblower Ray McGovern had his arm dislocated by Capitol Hill police as he was brutally dragged out of the confirmation hearing for Trump CIA Chief nominee Gina Haspel today.
Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years. Video from The Real News.   

Ray McGovern - Testimony on The Lies - At The People’s Tribunal on The Iraq War – Produced by CODEPINK - 8 Minutes

Raymond McGovern (born August 25, 1939) is a veteran CIA officer turned political activist. McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990 and in the 1980s chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President's Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 to protest the CIA's involvement in torture. McGovern's post-retirement work includes commentating on intelligence issues and in 2003 co-founding Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

 Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Interviewed by Abby Martin - The Empire Files –'This Ship is Sinking' Says Former Bush Official  –  2015 - 24 Minutes
Abby Martin interviews retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations. Today, he is honest about the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and the corporate interests driving foreign policy.  

Oliver Stone on The History of U.S. Intervention – Interviewed by On The Heat - April, 2021 – 28 Minutes
In a one-on-one interview with The Heat, film director Oliver Stone talks about United States foreign policy and the history of U.S. intervention. Stone directed the mainstream movies: JFK, “Born On The 4th of July” and PLATOON.

Peter Kuznick – Talking about The Untold History of The United States - 2019 – 40 Minutes
In this exclusive interview with author, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American, Peter Kuznick, we introduce the book “The Untold History of the United States” and bring up facts that seldom appear in mainstream discourse. Peter co-authored this book with film director and producer Oliver Stone. In addition, we talk about the history of nuclear weapons and the treaties that were signed to prevent mutual destruction, the state in which these treaties find themselves today and how close we are to nuclear annihilation, as well as what individuals can do to raise more awareness of this topic.

Col. Ann Wright - The Common Thing Is That No One Wants War – Audio Only - 29 Minutes - Courage To Resist  Podcast  – October, 2021
Ann Wright is a former colonel and foreign service officer who resigned her commission in protest of the second U.S. invasion of Iraq. After decades of a career in international diplomacy, she raised her concerns about U.S. foreign policy and met indifference. She now devotes those honed skills as an experienced diplomat to directly advocate and promote international peace. She is also the co-author of “Dissent: Voices of Conscience.

Paul Robeson Speaks! 1958 KPFA Radio Interview – 31 Minutes
Paul Robeson Speaks! KPFA Radio Interview. Paul Robeson covers a wide range of subjects, including his views on socialism and the Soviet Union, African liberation and his personal history being born the son of a man born into slavery. Elsa Knight Thompson and Harold Winkler of Pacifica Radio are the interviewers. February 8, 1958.

Gore Vidal – Talks About The American Empire – 2009 - 10 Minutes
Gore Vidal Explains how the pillars of the constitution are GONE & they're gone forever until we force a revolution. There has been a coup in America. In 1 decade we witnessed the destruction of the constitution & due process of law. The fall of our republic will be followed by a police state, Marshall law, rationing & 3rd world status.

Aaron Maté and Gabor Maté – Talk about RussiaGate – May, 2021 – 27 Minutes
The Grayzone‘s Aaron Maté has done an interview with his father titled “America In Denial: Gabor Maté on the Psychology of Russiagate”. In 27 minutes it essentially describes the fundamental problems of our times, not just with Russiagate, but with world politics as a whole, from the overarching behaviors of globe-dominating forces all the way down to the ways our own inner reluctance to face reality objectively helps to prop up those forces.

David Hartsough – Author of: Waging Peace: The Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist - 2014 – 63 Minutes
Talk by David Hartsough, author of: "Waging Peace: The Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist" Recorded October 24, 2014 at University Temple United Methodist Church in Seattle, WA.  Hartsough is Co-Founder of World BEYOND War.

 Jeremy Scahill - Inside America's Secret Wars - On Pirate Television – 2014 – 58 Minutes
Jeremy Scahill was a special correspondent for DEMOCRACY NOW. He now writes for 'THE INTERCEPT. He is the best-selling author of 'Blackwater' and 'Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield'.

Gary Webb: In His Own Words (2004) – 9 Minutes
Gary Webb was the journalist who wrote a famous–or infamous–1996 series for the San Jose Mercury News that maintained a CIA-supported drug ring based in Los Angeles had triggered the crack epidemic of the 1980s. The 49-year-old Webb, who won a Pulitzer Prize for other work, apparently shot himself. His “Dark Alliances” articles spurred outrage and controversy. Leaders of the African-American community demanded investigations. Mainstream newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times – questioned his findings. And nearly a year after the pieces appeared, the Mercury News published a criticism of the series. Webb was demoted and soon left the newspaper. Two years later, he published a book titled DARK ALLIANCE - based on the series. Many people do not believe that Gary Webb shot himself. "Kill The Messenger" is a mainstream movie that came out in 2014, starring Jeremy Renner, that tells the story of Gary Webb and what happened to him.

Aris Anagnos Interviewed by Eric Mann – On KPFK’s Voices From The Frontlines – 2013 – 47 Minutes - Audio Only
Aris Anagnos discusses his work as a long time peace and social activist, including discussions on his political activities in Greece, Latin America and their impact on social justice.

Aris Anagnos was born in Athens, Greece in 1923. In 1941, during the Nazi occupation of Greece, he escaped to the Middle East and joined the exile Greek army of the Middle East to fight the Nazis. After the war, he traveled to the U.S. to study at UCLA and has lived here ever since. He has maintained Strong ties to Greece, helping support Greek resistance against the 1967-1974 military dictatorship in Greece for example. And for many decades he has been a very active supporter of the revolutions in Nicaragua and El Salvador. In Los Angeles, Aris was on the Board of the ACLU of Southern California for over 25 years, was president of the Southern California Americans for Democratic Action and in 1988 he helped established the Peace Center in Los Angeles. Aris died in 2018.

Norman Solomon - War Made Easy - In Depth on C-SPAN2 Book TV – 2005 – 1 Hour: 20 Minutes
Norman Solomon talked about his book War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, published by John Wiley and Sons. The book examines the tactics used by the U.S. government to gain public support for military interventions. The author explains that the method of formulating messages for the media began in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to the Dominican Republic. He argues that similar pre-war messages played a major part in obtaining support for the current war in Iraq. Mr. Solomon also talked about Iran, from where he had just returned, and the recent presidential elections there. After his presentation he answered questions submitted by members of the audience. 


Steven Kinser Talks about His Book - OVERTHROW: America's Century of Regime Change on C-SPAN2 Book TV - 2006 – 83 Minutes
Mr. Kinzer talked about his book OVERTHROW: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, published by Times Books. He discussed the U.S.'s long history of regime change and proposed that the U.S. invasion of Iraq had historical roots going back to the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893. He said that while the policy of direct military involvement to achieve regime change was put on hold during the Cold War, it had been reestablished since the fall of the Soviet Union. Mr. Kinzer also talked about fourteen episodes of regime change contained in his book, including America’s involvement in Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Iran. He answered questions from members of the audience following his remarks.

Michael Moore - In Depth on C-SPAN2 Book TV – 2011 – 3 Hours
Political activist and filmmaker Michael Moore talked about his life and career. Video clips were shown from three of his films and his television show, “TV Nation.” He also reacted to a video clip of his controversial March 23, 2003, Academy Award acceptance speech. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Michael Moore is the author of eight non-fiction books: Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American (1996); Adventures in a TV Nation (1998); Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! (2002); Dude, Where’s My Country? (2003); Will They Ever Trust Us Again? (2004); The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader (2004); Mike’s Election Guide 2008; Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life (2011). His films include the Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine, Roger and Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko and Capitalism: A Love Story. 

Medea Benjamin - In Depth on C-SPAN2 Book TV – 2015 – 3 Hours
Medea Benjamin talked about her life and career and responded to viewer calls and questions. Her most recent book is Drone Warfare. Her other books include Stop the Next War and The Greening of the Revolution. She is co-founder of CODEPINK.

Amy Goodman - In Depth on C-SPAN2 Book TV – 2013 – 3 Hours
“Democracy Now!” host and executive producer Amy Goodman responded to viewers' calls, Facebook comments, emails and tweets on topics such as war, politics and grass-roots activism, among others. Ms. Goodman has authored or co-authored five non-fiction books, including The Exception to the Rulers, Standing Up to the Madness and The Silenced Majority. 

Noam Chomsky - In Depth on C-SPAN2 Book TV – 2003 – 3 Hours
Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT University in Cambridge, MA, talked about his life and career as a political activist and critic of U.S. foreign policy. Among the topics he addressed were efforts to combat terrorism, war with Iraq, and Bush administration economic and foreign policy. He also responded to questions from viewers on the telephone and submitted by fax and electronic mail. Mr. Chomsky’s books included: Language and Mind. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1968. American Power and the New Mandarins. New York: Pantheon Books and London: Chatto & Windus, 1969. At War with Asia. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1970. For Reasons of State. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. Chomsky: Selected Readings, edited by J. Allen and P. Van Buren. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom. New York: Pantheon, 1971. Language and Responsibility.

Howard Zinn - In Depth on C-SPAN2 Book TV – 2002 – 3 Hours
Professor Zinn talked about his writings and career, and he responded to calls from viewers during the course of the program.

He was a former history professor at Spelman College and a former political science professor at Boston University. Some of his more than twenty books include The Politics of History, published by Beacon; Postwar America, 1945-1971, published by Bobbs-Merrill; A People’s History of the United States, published by Harper and Row; You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times, published by Beacon Press; Marx in Soho: A Play on History, published by South End Press; and Terrorism and War, published by Seven Stories Press. 



Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Candidate for President on C-SPAN - 2008 – 60 Minutes

Oliver Stone Talks about His Film JFK at The National Press Club - C-SPAN - 1992 – 56 Minutes
In My Opinion, Oliver Stone’s JFK is the Most Important Mainstream Movie Ever Made. – Frank Dorrel

Jim Marrs Talks about His Book - CROSSFIRE: The Plot That Killed Kennedy - 2015 – 75 Minutes
CROSSFIRE is one of the best books I have ever read. Years after reading it, I met Jim Marrs at an event where he was the main speaker. He came over to my table and told me he loved ADDICTED To WAR. His book CROSSFIRE was one of the two main books Oliver Stone used as a reference in making JFK. My old friend Bob Breall gave the book to Oliver and also connected him to L. Fletcher Prouty. Bob died many years ago. He is listed in the credits of the film as an advisor. - Frank Dorrel

Col. L. Fletcher Prouty - Discusses the JFK Assassination and America's Clandestine History – Interviewed by John Judge – 1992 – 79 Minutes
Col. Prouty was a high level, military insider who saw what was going on behind the curtain. Definitely worth watching (or listening to) if you want to hear some REAL history. He talks about JFK, 'Murder, Inc.', the Vietnam War, the Korean War, how they smuggled Nazi intelligence officers into our military to help us start the cold war and lots more. Plenty of eye openers here. Oh, the 'high cabal' is talked about, too. Sorry about the quality. I pulled it off an old VHS tape. But don't let that stop you. You definitely want to hear Col. Prouty talk about how the Kennedy assassination was planned at the highest levels -- and why Lee Harvey Oswald, a highly trained double agent paid by the CIA, was set up.

Daniel Sheehan Presents: JFK Assassination Overview – 2016 – 2 Hours: 38 Minutes
Daniel Sheehan is a Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School–trained Constitutional Litigation and Appellate Attorney. For close to five decades, Danny’s work as a Federal Civil Rights Attorney, Author, Public Speaker and College and Law School Professor has helped expose the structural sources of injustice in our country and around the world. Complete Biography of Daniel Sheehan at:  https://danielpsheehan.com/biography/  - His website is: https://danielpsheehan.com/

George Carlin: We Are a Warlike People – X Rated – 7-Minutes
George Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author. Regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comics of all time, he was dubbed "the dean of counterculture comedians"