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| Pyramid and Sphinx, remnants of once great super-culture (geekword.net) |
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| Burning down one of the cradles of civilization to save it from military tyranny |
Egyptian security forces killed dozens of people when they moved in to clear a camp of Cairo protesters demanding the reinstatement of the successful Muslim Brotherhood candidate, now the deposed democratically-elected president. The military coup, armed and funded by the US/MIC, silenced and arrested Morsi for threatening to benefit Egyptians over the comfortable military ruling class.
Torturing US prisoners in the US
DemocracyNow.org, Aug. 23. 2013
- U.N. seeks Syria chemical weapons probe
- U.N.: Syria has created 1 million child refugees
- Israel bombs Lebanon after alleged rocket fire
- Egypt's Mubarak under arrest in military hospital
- Egypt detains Canadians on way to Gaza
- U.K. opens probe of Miranda documents
- Obama takes up student debt, calls for school ranking
- Manning supporters heckle Obama in Syracuse
- Justice Dept. sues Texas over voter ID law
- Colin Powell chides NC Governor on ID Law
- Appeals Court upholds overruling of AZ Planned Parenthood ban
- Planned Parenthood challenges Indiana law
- Protesters stage White House rally for fracking ban
- NYC Council overrules Bloomberg veto of police oversight
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| Prisoners suffer torture, inhumane conditions |
Days after a federal judge
approved the force-feeding of hunger-striking California prisoners
protesting unjustified long-term solitary confinement, an exclusive audio recording
of a prisoner who has not eaten since the protest began on July 8 is made public. Todd
Ashker, one of the authors of the call to hunger strike, has been held
for years in supermax solitary in the "Secure" Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay Prison after he
received a life sentence for killing an inmate in 1987. California Correctional Health Care Services spokesperson Joyce
Hayhoe is questioned by Democracy Now!'s Renée Feltz. Azadeh Zohrabi, a member of both the Prisoners Mediation Team, the
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, and a Soros Justice
Fellow at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, joins the discussion.
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| War crimes: dead bodies everywhere |
The Syrian government is facing
growing pressure to allow an international probe of a chemical
weapons (WMD) poison gas attack on the outskirts of Damascus. The Syrian opposition says
government forces fired it into rebel-held neighborhoods of
Ghouta, killing hundreds of people. Video posted on YouTube this week
shows frantic scenes of overwhelmed hospitals, dead children, and
countless bodies. If confirmed, it would stand to be the most violent
incident in Syria since the police state began cracking down on a citizen's uprising two years ago and one
of the worst toxic attacks in decades. It occurred
days after U.N. inspectors arrived in the country to investigate
previous attacks. From Syria Razan Zaitouneh, a lawyer
and human rights activist who works with the Human Rights Violation
Documentation Center, joins in. "We couldn’t believe our eyes," Zaitouneh says of
witnessing the attack’s aftermath. "I haven’t seen such death in my
whole life." Patrick Cockburn, a longtime Middle East
correspondent for the London Independent who recently returned from
reporting in Syria, also joins. His latest article is "The evidence of chemical
attack seems compelling — but remember — there’s a propaganda war on."
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| The former Pfc. Bradley Manning |
One day after a military judge
handed down a 35-year sentence to make an example of Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning for leaking classified U.S. files to
Julian Assange's WikiLeaks, she announced a gender transition to female under
the name Chelsea. "As I transition into this next phase of my
life, I want everyone to know the real me," Manning said. "I am Chelsea
Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since
childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope
that you will support me in this transition." The announcement has
raised many issues about how Manning will be treated in military prison,
whether she will have access to hormone therapy and broader issues
about transgender rights. Guests: Lauren McNamara, a
transgender activist in Florida who became an online confidant of
Manning in 2009 and later testified at the military trial; Chase
Strangio, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU’s
Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Project.
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