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Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman and Two Producers Arrested At RNC
Amy Goodman, a world-renowned journalist and host of syndicated radio broadcast Democracy Now! was arrested today outside of the Republican National Convention while attempting to secure the release of two of the show’s producers from detainment by St. Paul police. Goodman and the producers, Nicole Salazar and Sharif Abdel Kouddous were arrested on suspiscion of rioting.
You be the judge.
To be clear, the same kind of thing was happening en masse in Denver as well, so we ought to be careful to not assign blame for this horrible exhibition of police authority on a political party or candidate. What it is, however, is another demonstration of paramilitary impropriety, and intimidation tactics against the independent media.
Visit the Democracy Now! website to get involved with the release of the Democracy Now! crew, and you can always check in at Jarrett-Carter.com for the latest developments on this case. Bloggers, journalists, and everybody seeking the truth, this is the kind of B.S. we can longer afford to let ride.
Proof of American Lies on Iraq’s WMDs?
It’s hard to listen to Democracy Now! and not become a depressed, cynical conspiracist against the American government. But it appears cyncism and consipracist ideology might have a reasonable place in the discussion of America’s current war, as a new book recently profiled on the radio show might have the proof of American corruption and its resulting consequences.
Ron Suskind’s “The Way of the World” outlines alleged instructions from vice-president Dick Cheney to forge a letter linking the Iraqi government to al-Qaida. The supposed author of this letter, former head of Iraqi intelligence Tahir Jalil Habbush, is also alleged to have received $5 million dollars from the U.S. government to keep quiet about the letter that launched the world’s most ambiguous war.
To be clear, this book isn’t a collection of personal theoretical frame work as inspired and influenced by American media. The information contained in the work was collected through in depth, verifiable interviews with intelligence officials from the United States and Great Britain, officials with first hand knowledge of the deceptive measures taken to sway the United States’ fears and spur us to action.
Since the early days of the global war on terror, it’s certain that plenty of information has come out with the ability to indict the Bush Administration on a number of war crimes, false statements, and murder. The question is and always has been, what are we going to do about it?
The way of the today’s world is to do absolutely nothing.
