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President Bush defends record in final news conference
(Alison King, NECN) - President Bush held a farewell news conference at the White House Monday. He had generous words for his successor, and talked about his eight-year record, defending his handling of the war and Hurricane Katrina. He also admit...
Video|Mon, 12 Jan 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…of mass destruction significant to disappoint me also called what happened with Abu Ghraib. . Big disappointment. And here's a little bit more on what bush had to say down almost 9/11. …”
Here and Now for Wednesday, November 19, 2008
On today's podcast — piracy in Africa, a look back at one architect of the New Deal, the idea of 'dignity' in ethical debates, and potato dishes for Thanksgiving.
Audio|Wed, 19 Nov 2008|More from PRI: Here & Now Podcast
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“…I found quite telling. People referred to of that horrible incident in Abu Ghraib. . Prison when the prisoners there were treated so very badly and they say well their dignity was quietly. My response to that …”
Slavoj Zizek: What is the Question?
The Elvis of the intelligensia, Slavoj Zizek, hot-links in our one-way conversation… …from nominating George W. Bush (for his trillion-dollar bail-out) to the Communist Party to Kung-Fu Panda, …from John McCain (”Bush with lipstick”) to Naomi Klein, …from Barack Obama’s risk of the “John Kerry syndrome” to the experience we’re all having of putting on the reality sunglasses [...]
Audio|Tue, 23 Sep 2008|More from Open Source
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“…it's in the media to it despite it's the basic. The probably Abu Ghraib as a few bad apples. So so -- Turn the page and keep on. It is it's exactly exactly exactly but didn't hit him especially by -- reaching. The problem for Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo intro for me is not the effect of doctor as a doctor -- name -- syndicate but he at least …”
Torture, Part 3: the Philip Gourevitch version
In our third go at this miserable business of sanctioned American torture, Philip Gourevitch turns it around, Pogo-style. We have met the victims, he says in effect, and they are us. Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Philip Gourevitch (58 minutes, 27 mb mp3) Philip Gourevitch (photo: Andrew Brucker) Even if you want to put it [...]
Audio|Thu, 18 Sep 2008|More from Open Source
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“…team we talked about it two days ago. Including his argument that. Abu Ghraib was really Guantanamo writ large to -- with the migration. After the suspension -- Geneva conventions. And the experience of interrogation at Guantanamo a migration of all that steps to Abu Ghraib. . But let's plunged Phillip how would you describe what you try to contribute to our understanding. Are coming to terms are contrition are healing. Our recovery. From Abu Ghraib and what more lies ahead. …”
“…the third in the classroom series on torture American style. Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib the right of -- the rate which turned one obvious response -- around. After immersing himself in the awful record of Abu Ghraib. . But it -- it says maybe the question to ask is not how did we dehumanize them and do these things to …”
Philippe Sands’ Torture Team
First, the Spencer Tracy “verdict” from “Judgement at Nuremberg” (1961). Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Philippe Sands (45 minutes, 21 mb mp3) Who will pay for the illegal abuse of detainees at Guantanamo? If violations of the Geneva Conventions — and specifically of Common Article 3, against torture, cruelty and “outrages upon personal dignity” [...]
Audio|Wed, 17 Sep 2008|More from Open Source
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“…of abuse would would leak and spread as it did indeed to Abu Ghraib. . Also that puts American troops at risk when they're captured also that it. It lacks the reputation of the country. In huge …”
Profile: Joe Biden on terrorism
Joe Biden gives his view on terrorism in an Feb., 2007 interview. By Thushan Amarasiriwardena, Globe Staff
Video|Sat, 23 Aug 2008|More from Boston.com
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“…Change radically the president's policy. Empty Guantanamo closed it down. Bulldozed down Abu Ghraib they produced terrorists they don't get us -- they -- identified terrorist. Make a firm commitment to Iraq surge troops in Afghanistan. …”
Podcast of the Day 080708
We'll start things off today with an email about Townie Tunes and play one for you too. Loren ran across an amazing quote from Robert Downey Jr. Sue has some interesting news stories for you. A brand new epidode of Men from Maine. It's time for your Bob Ryan Report and Bob is live from China. A Wallyology report on what men hate to hear women say and Loren will also tell us why women live longer than men. PJ gives us a review of the latest chick flick. Wally got a sneak peak of the new Showcase Theaters down at Patriot Place. Loren has an expiriment to try with your pet. We'll wrap things up with a great way to try some of the great restaurants around town, Restaurant Week!
Audio|Thu, 7 Aug 2008|More from 105.7 WROR
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“…You are different from Abu Ghraib and the horses can put him right. …”
The American Exception, Again
Barack Obama at the Victory Column in Berlin just now marks another stage of "rejoining the world" and "rebranding" the American voice out there on the globe. It's an astonishingly rapid transition in these dog days of July, 2008. Obama on tour is becoming "the cause of all mankind," as Thomas Paine once said of our country. What would it mean, or require, for Americans to see ourselves this way again? This is the puzzle Ted Widmer sets himself in Ark of the Liberties , whose title comes with express irony from lines that Herman Melville wrote with irony as well, in White Jacket : "And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people -- the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world... We are the pioneers of untried things, to break a new path in the New World that is ours." Click to listen to Chris's conversation with Ted Widmer (38 minutes, 17 mb p3) Ted Widmer     Ted Widmer, curator of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown, is a connoisseur of political rhetoric -- an American historian and, among other things, editor of the Library of America's compendium of great speeches. I put it to him in conversation: who thinks we're "the last best hope of earth" after the war in Iraq? Who looks at our pretty lowly rank in international measures of equality and life expectancy, and says: "lead on, America!" What is it that is still exceptional about this world nation of ours? Do we even want to be exceptional anymore? And would a President Obama make us feel more comfortable with the neighbors, more like them, or yet rarer, more blessedly peculiar? The world has become a lot more like us. We are more like the world and the world is more like us. Democracy is successful on every continent, immigration exists everywhere, most countries have constitutions and very few monarchies are left on earth. One hundred years ago, it was still a relatively rare thing to have a self-sustaining democracy with its own constitution. So our model has won. We won in a million ways in the 20th century and other countries are like us. I'm hopeful that if [Obama] is elected, it will lead to the latest American renaissance and that it will inspire people again in our capacity to lead. I think that was badly damaged, but I now object to a lot of books by liberals, even though I am a democrat. There's this huge wave of pessimism crashing over the marketplace and you can't walk into a bookstore without seeing 20 books about how we blew it... Ted Widmer in conversation with Chris Lydon at Brown University, July, 2008. I reminded Ted Widmer, and myself, that the great William James thought we'd blown it, and exposed the fraud of "exceptionalism," in the occupation of the Philippines a century ago. "God dam the U.S. for its vile conduct," James fulminated (anticipating Reverend Jeremiah Wright in the taking of prophetic liberties with his language). James went to the heart of the "exceptional" question: We used to believe... that we were of a different clay from other nations, that there was something deep in the American heart that answered to our happy birth, free from that hereditary burden which the nations of Europe bear, and which obliges them to grow by preying on their neighbors. Idle dream! pure Fourth of July fancy, scattered in five minutes by the first temptation. In every national soul there lie potentialities of the most barefaced piracy, and our own American soul is no exception to the rule. Angelic impulses and predatory lusts divide our heart exactly as they divide the hearts of other countries. It is good to rid ourselves of cant and humbug, and to know the truth about ourselves. Political virtue does not follow geographical divisions. It follows the eternal division inside of each country between the tory and the liberal tendencies, the jingoism and animal instinct that would run things by main force and brute possession, and the critical conscience that believes in educational methods and in rational rules of right. William James, "Address on the Philippine Question" in William James: Writings 1902 - 1910, Library of America. Ted Widmer remembered that Mark Twain, too, went volcanic about the Philippines and the imperial transformation of the American eagle. Twain's revision of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" began, "Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword / He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger's wealth is stored..." Mark Twain was very angry about the Philippines. America's most beloved writer in many ways, and yet he had a most acute political conscience… He might have had to explain to a judge in 2008 why he was writing the anti-governmental things that he was writing around the time of the Philippines insurrection, which was the ugly aftermath to the Spanish American War. Those guys are brilliant and, I think, with William James you get something closer to what the Puritans would have said, which I find a more honest message, and it's what Lincoln was saying too, which is that if you believe that God is favoring you more highly, then you also have further to fall and you have a higher accountability. It seems to me that we're lacking the accountability. We're trying to take the good part of this and we're rejecting the other part that comes with it. Lincoln, many of the Puritans and William James all felt that if we're failing to live up to our incredible, special position in the world - we're so lucky, we live far from all these other wars, we have so many natural resources, we have this great system of government - if we're screwing it up, God's going to be very angry at us. And that I just find a more honest way of looking at it. There's a dark side of exceptionalism as well as a light side. Ted Widmer in conversation with Chris Lydon at Brown University, July, 2008.
Audio|Thu, 24 Jul 2008|More from Open Source
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“…But I have to say. McCain is also pretty effective. Spokesman against Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo because he he was tortured. And everybody knows that I think he he could be very eloquent. Statesman in the …”
My WBZ Afternoon Headlines 6/30/08
Why did David Woodman die, smokers about to get pinched, travelling expected to be way down this July fourth, these stories and more in the WBZ Afternoon News.
Audio|Mon, 30 Jun 2008|More from WBZ NewsRadio Headlines
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“…60s83 right now in Boston. The first complaint regarding alleged torture at Abu Ghraib in Iraq has been filed today in a federal court in Seattle. Former detainees at the infamous prison are suing US contractors claiming that innocent people were arrested and taken to Abu Ghraib. . Where they were forced to take off their clothes and undergo electrical shocks and mock executions. With the fourth of July holiday …”
5/21/08:Ralph Peters
You won't read it in the newspapers or see it on most news channels but there has been incredible progress made in Iraq. Bringing us the news from the front is Colonel Ralph Peters, author of "Looking for Trouble."
Audio|Wed, 21 May 2008|More from Michael Graham, WTKK, Boston, MA
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“…but that's sent. Double standard here are -- immediate desperately want another Abu Ghraib and are trying to turn this. This school shooting which is over in Iraq but the media is trying to keep alive …”