Archive for the 'Mass Media' Category

Generation

16Jul08

Today saw the release of the first ever footage from inside Guantanamo bay: a rather innocuous but still haunting interrogation of a 16 year old Canadian boy.

Interrogator: You know I’m not a doctor but I think you’re getting good medical care.
Boy: No I’m not, you’re not here. (Sobbing) I lost my eyes. I lost my [...]

Review - Tuesday - 7.1

30Oct07

Normally around lunchtime at Yamura I’ll either have paid for and be semi enjoying my school lunch or on my way to 7-11 where I pick up some tasty pre-prepared lunchtime rice+meat thing. Every day I walk to the 7-11 is a day I pass a curious Italian Trattoria. Today I didn’t just pass it, [...]

Confidential to any citizen of the United States.

08Sep07

If my Japanese students were to ask me why United States troops are in Iraq, or why we bombed the country and sent troops there, what should I tell them?
How would you answer if I asked the question? It’s an important question. Why did my country instigate an unnecessary war that has killed (conservatively) 71,000 [...]

Blogger to show waterboard is not the same thing as surfing.

18Oct06

Brad Spangler writes:
I want to get waterboarded. In order to call attention to this heinous practice and make it the subject of broader public condemnation, I believe it needs to be shown to people. I’m volunteering in order for it to be so shown — online, as a video. These are the sort of dark [...]

Lawyer gets put in prison for aiding terrorists

18Oct06

Lynne F Stewart put a lot on the line by helping an accused terrorist communicate with his followers in Egypt. How long before people like Stewart are labeled enemy combataints and disappeared?
Full text:
October 17, 2006
Lawyer, Facing 30 Years, Gets 28 Months, to Dismay of U.S.
By JULIA PRESTON
Lynne F. Stewart, the radical defense lawyer, was sentenced [...]