A luxury/horror of my work is that I read about a dozen newspapers a day. I’ve discovered that these headlines could be from any indiscriminate period and are repeated weekly as if it was new news.
“Greenhouse gas emissions reach record highs”
“Climate change is occurring more quickly than expected”
“Price of oil reaches record high”
“Income inequality [...]
This is the second of a series of posts on free culture and podcasting. I’ll be pulling out some of my favourite podcasts for discussion and highlighting some of the best podcasting available in the commons. [One: Canada's Robert J. Sawyer on TVO's Big Ideas]
Free Culture Podcasts: Two
Linda McQuaig on Canadian Voices 3: Holding the [...]
Trailer for Standard Operating Procedure a new Abu Ghraib documentary by award-winning Fog of War director Errol Morris.
When Omar Khadr was 15, he was kidnapped and illegally imprisoned (pardon, extra-judicially detained) by the United States military. He has been held in Guantanamo Bay, as the last Westerner, since 2002 — after his seizure at an Afghanistan firefight between militants and U.S. troops. The (then) young Khadr was accused of throwing a grenade [...]
If you only read corporatist media or have been kidnapped and illegally detained and tortured by the American government you’ve
likely missed this story. If the Globe and Mail or any of the dozens of CanWest media outlets mentioned this, it was not readily available today.
Here’s a summary of what you’ve missed from a legitimate [...]
Nowhere in the corporate news today, unsurprisingly, but today is the sixth anniversary of the U.S. illegal detention of men and boys, including Canadian citizens, at Guantanamo. Worldwide protests are going on today to mark it.
There’s a transcript and audio stream of an interview this morning discussing the anniversary and the protests at Democracy [...]
They talk about sleep deprivation. I mean, on that theory, I’m getting tortured running for president of the United States. That’s plain silly. That’s silly.
Rudy Giuliani on Torture [From NYT]
Q Thank you, sir. A simple question.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. It may require a simple answer.
Q What’s your definition of the word “torture”?
THE PRESIDENT: Of what?
Q The word “torture.” What’s your definition?
THE PRESIDENT: That’s defined in U.S. law, and we don’t torture.
Q Can you give me your version of it, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Whatever the law says.
October 17, 2007 Press Conference [...]