Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and attorney for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, discusses the declassified documents that show the US Military Designated Assange “Enemy of State;” the stalemate between the British government, Assange, Swedish prosecutors, the DOJ and the Ecuadorian embassy; the rumored grand jury indictment against Assange for espionage; Bradley Manning’s sham trial; and why WikiLeaks is a legitimate journalistic organization like the NY Times, not a conduit for passing information to Al Qaeda. (Duration: 21:09 — 4.8MB)
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Second interview Naureen Shah
Naureen Shah of the Human Rights Institute discusses the under-counting of deaths from US drone strikes; problems with applying “civilian” or “militant” labels to Pakistani tribesmen; the shortcomings in WWII-era laws of war; and how drones allow the Obama administration to start and escalate wars on the sly. (Duration: 29:25 — 6.7MB)
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