This week Alexa brings into focus how the charges Bradley Manning did not plead to are as important as what he did plead to. She explains how the details are significant regarding the Garani video and why it has become a pivotal point in the case. Alexa also helps us to to measure the effectiveness of government’s forensic experts in establishing their case as well as what the comparative evidence says about prosecutorial powers. We encourage listeners to read Alexa’s full transcripts of the pre-trial and trial or use the searchable archive of documents and timeline.
Chris Hedges - Award Wnning War Correspondent & NDAA Plaintiff
Chris Hedges spent almost two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, the Balkans and Africa. He has reported from more than (…)
22 February 2013
Barrett Brown - Activist and writer
Barrett Brown is an activist and writer who evolved from reporting about Anonymous to becoming involved with information leaked through hacks. He talks (…)
18 May 2012
Stacy Phillips - Occupy Salem #OWS Anniversary
Stacey Phillips describes himself as a pragmatic activist wizened in the ways the wheels of commerce turn. He is an organizer of the Occupy movement in (…)
28 September 2012
Leah Bolger Veterans for Peace - Where the Bombs Land
Leah Bolger is a retired Navy Commander with 20 years of US Military Service, a full time Peace Activist and President of Veterans for Peace. Her (…)
20 October 2012
Travis McCrea & Charles Sheehan Miles - Great Copyright Debate
Charles Sheehan Miles is a writer and activist who traveled throughout the Middle East on his own in the 1980’s and returned with the US Army, Gulf War (…)
3 May 2013
Claire Robinson - GMO Prop 37 & Seralini Study
Claire Robinson is research director at Earth Open Source, a platform for collaborative science and editor at GMWatch which tracks the global news about gmo (…)
23 November 2012
Alexa O’Brien - Introduction to Wikileaks & Manning
Alexa O’Brein is a writer, researcher and activist. She was the founder of US Day of Rage that redefined the connection between social media and activism (…)
17 October 2012
Peter Phillips - Project Censored - Least Reported News
Peter Phillips is a professor & Director of Project Censored; since 1976 they have made a broad academic investigation of stories edited and (…)
10 August 2012