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And poet, one of the founders of the Plowshares Movement against Nuclear Weapons. He became the first Catholic Priest to land on the fbis most wanted list. Then we remember the pioneering human rights attorney Michael Ratner. From attica to assange, the longtime head of the center for Constitutional Rights defended and spoke up for victims of human rights abuses across the world from haiti and guatemala to iraq and the palestinian territories. This is no time for compromise, no time for political calcululation. As howard zinn admonishes us, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the sid...

Constitutional rights defended, investigated, and spoke up for victims of human rights abuses across the world from haiti and guatemala to iraq and the palestinian territories. He used the law to sue some of the most powerful people in the world on behalf of some of the least powerful. In 2002, Michael Ratner filed the first lawsuit against george w. Bush on behalf of guantanamo prisoners. Six years later, he won a landmark case at the Supreme Court against the Bush Administration. Today we speak with his family and friends and hear michael in his own words. This is no time for compromise, no ...

Individuals and theyre not a function of one philosophy or another philosophy. Theyre a function of a worlds that has changed and thats the point i want to get across because those are the challenges i think in part we have to deal with. Host that is an inspiring note on which to end what you have told us is that all citizens, not only in america but around the world, really have an obligation to educate themselves about the constitution by listening to each other and to divergent points of view, and by bringing people together and respecting the argument on both sides youre suggesting they ca...

Economics, china, fire fighting, u. S. Military bases around the world and much more. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Now, we kick off the weekend with wikileaks editorinchief Julian Assange. He has a new book titled the Wikileaks Files the world according to u. S. Empire. [inaudible conversations] to invite all of you here. This is the launch of the Wikileaks Files. Im jacob stevens, im the director of verso books, and weve been working on this project with Julian Assange and with wikileaks for ...

Contract whos been to give me a special privilege and that is what Bernie Sanders says is popular right now. They see hillary as the queen of corruption and at least sanders is like a leftwing version of ron paul. Host some of the essays include the high ground for political liberty, the fourth revolution. We have been talking with the editor of the Republican Party civil war. Edward of the atlas society. With a discussion about the fire was a files a collection of the most important of the 2. 3 million state Department Cables released in 2010. Jeremy talks with julian who joined the conversat...