Category: Shows
The return of the death penalty, an Iran-China partnership, Trump is coming for the elderly
The US federal government executed its first death row inmate in 17 years the other week after the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the case. Lee looks over the grotesque history of execution technology in the US, including Thomas Edison’s experiment with an electrified elephant, and the all-too-common experience of racist false convictions. …
Geoffrey Robertson QC: The US is trying to CRUSH Julian Assange to deter future whistleblowers
We speak to Julian Assange’s former lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC. He discusses the new indictments being brought by the US against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and why they have been brought at such a late stage, why the US is pushing so hard for his extradition, his belief that Julian Assange would get 50 years in prison if he is extradited to the US …
Grim body count at Fort Hood army base
Case details emerge after images of Mark and Patricia McCloskey spread like wildfire when they brandished firearms against BLM protesters who’d entered their gated community in St. Louis. Also, corporations like J.C. Penney issued massive bonuses to company executives just before filing for bankruptcy. Yet another body was recovered near Fort Hood army base in Texas. …
Rising far-right terrorism & Homeland Security defies Supreme Court
Police say they have identified a masked man who smashed windows at a Minneapolis store following George Floyd’s murder as having ties to a white supremacist group. Major League Baseball may remain halted due to Covid-19. Canada has declared the US ‘unsafe’ for asylum seekers. And Homeland Security has openly defied the Supreme Court. …