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The whole archive of theanarchistlibrary.org
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The Columbine Cause: An Examination of the April 20, 1999 Attack on Columbine High School

Category: Documentary
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Evan Long's "The Columbine Cause" is a feature-length video presentation based on public domain government records related to the official "investigation" of the Columbine High School shootings of April 20, 1999. It includes quotations from suspect interrogations and witness interviews as recorded in little before publicized police files, 911 recordings and other rare items. The documents reveal that many corroborating reports from Columbine High School students, faculty and others directly conflicted with the conclusions presented in the Sheriff's Office Final Report concerning the attack timeline, the weapons used and more: "[Columbine High School cafeteria witness Brandi Wiseman] said that they could hear the gunmen reloading their shotguns and other guns in front of the door and then begin shooting at what she thought were the appliances in the kitchen. [...] She said that she had her watch on and that this occurred at approximately 1230 hours." "[Columbine High School student Kristen Schoenhoff's] two best friends were out in the senior parking lot retrieving something from one of the girls' cars. They saw two gunmen, both of which were neither Dylan or Eric. [One of them ...] later identified one of [the gunmen] in the yearbook [...]. She looked in the back in the [Trench Coat] Mafia Dedication and found him in the picture." "[Columbine High School] class of 2001 and one-time [Trench Coat Mafia] member Alex Marsh said she left the group in about December of '98 because of their propensity for violence. Specifically, Marsh told classmates that she knew of the attack having been planned since at least that time, and was overheard stating that if she hadn't left the group, she probably would have been in on it with them." Were these discrepancies merely the result of chaos and confusion or did the witnesses experience something very different than the authorities presented as their findings? With "The Columbine Cause", you can listen to some of those who were at the scene and inform yourself more fully about what happened before, during and after this most infamous of school shootings. http://www.EvanLong.tk/ http://www.TheColumbineCause.tk/
Seeders: 8
Leeches: 1

Democracy Now! Monday, August 24, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Report Details New Evidence of CIA Torture Justice Dept. Advises Reopening Prisoner Abuse Cases New Interrogation Unit to Question Foreign Prisoners Report: Blackwater Involved in CIA Renditions US Begins Disclosing Prisoner Identities to Red Cross Generals: More US Troops Needed in Afghanistan Census: Contractors Outnumber Troops in Afghanistan Honduran Supreme Court Rejects Zelaya Return Native American Activist Peltier Denied Parole Ex-Soldier Convicted in My Lai Massacre Issues Public Apology Dems Could Pass Health Legislation by Simple Majority Study: Insurance Premiums to Rise 94% by 2020 State Dept. Approves Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Dozens Mark 20th Anniversary of Slaying of Yusuf Hawkins Newsweek: Inspector General Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions The Justice Department is scheduled today to disclose a long-suppressed 2004 report by the CIA’s inspector general detailing prisoner abuse. Among the findings are that CIA interrogators staged mock executions on prisoners. The report also describes how one detainee was threatened with a handgun and an electric power drill during the course of CIA interrogation. Newsweek magazine first reported details from the report on its website on Friday night. We speak with Michael Isikoff, investigative correspondent for Newsweek. [includes rush transcript] Youssef Megahed Freed After Immigration Judge Throws Out Government's Deportation Case A Florida immigration judge on Friday dismissed the government’s deportation case against Youssef Megahed and released him from the detention center in South Florida where he had spent the last four months. Youssef was arrested by federal immigration agents outside a Wal-Mart in Tampa this April, just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. We speak to Youssef in his first extended broadcast interview since his release and with his attorney, Charles Kuck. [includes rush transcript] Imprisoned Native American Activist Leonard Peltier Again Denied Parole The imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been denied parole again. The US Parole Commission told the sixty-four-year-old Peltier on Friday that his release would “depreciate the seriousness of [his] offenses” and “promote disrespect for the law.” It was Peltier’s first full parole hearing in fifteen years, and he will not be eligible for parole again until July 2024, at the age of seventy-nine. We speak with Eric Seitz, Leonard Peltier’s attorney. [includes rush transcript] Calley Apologizes for 1968 My Lai Massacre Over forty-one years after the My Lai Massacre, when US troops killed more than 500 men, women and children in Vietnam, the former Army lieutenant who was convicted for his role in the killings has publicly apologized. William Calley was the only US soldier held legally responsible for the slayings. He was convicted on twenty-two counts of murder, and his sentence was later commuted by President Reagan. Last week, William Calley publicly apologized for the first time, saying, “There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai." He added that he had been following orders. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 67
Leeches: 5

Legacy of Torture - The War Against the Black Liberation Movement

Category: Documentary
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--this is my own dvd rip of this great documentary--SNACH-- Legacy of Torture: The War Against the Black Liberation Movement Program Info "The same people who tried to kill me in 1973 are the same people who are here today, trying to destroy me. I mean it literally. I mean there were people from the forces of the San Francisco Police Department who participated in harrassment, torture and my interrogation in 1973 ...none of these people have ever been brought to trial. None of these people have ever been charged with anything. None of these people have ever been questioned about that." -John Bowman, former Black Panther, passed away December 2006 In 2005 several former members of the Black Panther Party were held in contempt and jailed for refusing to testify before a Sanc Francisco Grand Jury investigating a police shooting that took place in 1971. The government alleged that Black radical groups were involved in the 34-year old case in which two men armed with shotguns attacked the Ingleside Police Station resulting in the death of a police sergeant and the injuring of a civilian clerk. In 1973, 13 alleged "Black militants" were arrested in New Orleans, purportedly in connection with the San Francisco events. Some of them were tortured for several days by law enforcement authorities, in striking similarity to the horrors visited upon detainees in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. In 1975, a Federal Court in San Francisco threw out all of the evidence obtained in New Orleans. The two lead San Francisco Police Department investigators from over 30 years ago, along with FBI agents, have re-opened the case. Rather than submit to proceedings they felt were abusive of the law and the Constitution, five men chose to stand in contempt of court and were sent to jail. They were released when the Grand Jury term expired, but have been told by prosecutors that "ït isn't over yet." U.S/2006/Color/28 Minutes/4:3/English Directed, Produced and Edited by: Andres Alegria, Claude Marks & The Freedom Archives Interviewees: Ray Boudreaux, John Bowman (deceased), Richard Brown, Soffiyah Elijah, Hank Jones & Harold Taylor For more information contact: Committee for Defense of Human Rights (CDHR) PO Box 90221 Pasadena, CA 91109 www.CDHRsupport.org or The Freedom Archives www.freedomarchives.org 522 Valencia St. SF 94110 Video Info Legacy.of.Torture.2006.DVDrip.xvid.mp3-snach.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 368 MiB Duration : 28mn 18s Overall bit rate : 1 817 Kbps Movie name : LEGACY_OF_TORTURE.Title1.DVDRip Writing application : Lavf52.33.0 Original source form/Name : LEGACY_OF_TORTURE Video ID : 0 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Simple@L3 Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 28mn 18s Bit rate : 1 675 Kbps Width : 576 pixels Height : 432 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4/3 Frame rate : 29.970 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.225 Stream size : 339 MiB (92%) Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04) Audio ID : 1 Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 3 Codec ID : 55 Codec ID/Hint : MP3 Duration : 28mn 18s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 25.9 MiB (7%) Alignment : Aligned on interleaves Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.72 video frame)
Seeders: 11
Leeches: 1

Panorama – License to Torture 2009 07 13 BBC

Category: Documentary
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Panorama – License to Torture 2009 07 13 BBC 231.80 MB /28:55.920 The official line out of George W Bush's White House was that torture did not happen on America's watch. In License to Torture, Panorama looks behind the Bush government's line and finds a paper trail that questions the validity of that assertion. Previously classified papers released in Washington reveal both the path taken by the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies as they searched for interrogation techniques to employ in order to get information from al-Qaeda suspects, and the legal arguments used to validate them. One of those techniques was water boarding, which has since been classified as torture in breach of both US and international law. Reporter Hilary Andersson finds that debate over what was - or was not - legal when it came to interrogation, has permeated mainstream America. Declassified documents now show that both the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense borrowed techniques from a secretive US military training school which teaches members of the armed forces how to survive behind enemy lines and resist interrogation. "(It) was never meant to be reversed and turned into a model for actual interrogation," Hilary Andersson says in the program. The program is partly based on techniques used by the Chinese on American captives in Korea in the 1950s. The Department of Defense says these training techniques were never authorized, and that abuses have been fully investigated and punished. The program hears from one of the men arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and eventually taken to Guantanamo. Omar Deghayes, a British resident and Libyan citizen who was released in December 2007, tells Panorama about his treatment at the hands of the Americans. "We were left in for one year in the cage, very small cage like an animal," he says. "The mind starts to eat itself and you start to hear voices in your mind and you start to lose your head after, especially after a few months." Obama's choices Panorama investigates who gave approvals, when and for which techniques and asks who, if anyone, should end up in the dock. Even out of office, former vice-president Dick Cheney has vigorously defended the methods used, saying they worked in that they led to key information being revealed to authorities. For his part, President Barack Obama has said that CIA agents who used these harsh interrogation techniques will not be prosecuted. That said, he has not closed the door on the possibility of legal action against the very lawyers who approved them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8136000/8136768.stm No International Video Stream Source:http://www.thebox.bz/details.php?id=84047 Cap: eFrisky Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 46
Leeches: 14

Brazil: A Report on Torture (1971)

Category: Documentary
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sdtv xvid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066860/ Brazil: A Report on Torture Category: Documentaries Regions: South America Topics: Human Rights After the kidnapping of the Swiss Ambassador in Brazil in 1970, 70 political prisoners were released from Brazilian prisons and set free in Chile on an exchange agreement. The directors of this film, Haskell Wexler and Saul Landau, went to Chile and recorded first-hand interviews with the former prisoners, revealing the torture that was part of everyday routine interrogation in Brazilian prisons. The film shows reenactments of waterboarding, pau de arara and other medieval and modern "procedures" administered by Brazil's military government. LEARN MORE: Haskell Wexler's website Saul Landau's website Link's Accountability for Torture webpage ----------------------------- www.progressivetorrents.com
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Leeches: 8

La Révolution du Désir

Category: Documentary
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LA REVOLUTION DU DESIR de Alessandro Avellis est une exploration de la nébuleuse qui a donné vie aux mouvements de libération sexuelle en France dans les années 1970, aux côtés des mouvements féministes, et une interrogation sur le passage de la révolte à la normalisation des homosexuelles. Au travers des actions de commandos délirants et d'essais aux titres évocateurs (Le rapport contre la normalité, Trois milliards de pervers), s'esquissent les portraits de Guy Hocquenghem et de Françoise d'Eaubonne, intellectuelles étonnantes et partisanes inconditionnelles de la révolution du désir. Ce film est un document rare et précieux qui explore le passé et qui vient surtout questionner le présent. Un documentaire essentiel, des témoignages inestimables.
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Leeches: 4

Torturing Democracy - AVI - Godcanjudgeme

Category: Documentary
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Torturing Democracy - AVI - Godcanjudgeme ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- http://www.torturingdemocracy.org/ ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- In a riveting and dramatic narrative, Torturing Democracy - a major documentary film more than 18 months in the making - tells the inside story of how the U.S. government adopted torture as official policy in the aftermath of 9/11. With exclusive interviews, explosive documents and rare archival footage, Emmy and DuPont award-winning filmmaker Sherry Jones has crafted the definitive account of a deeply troubling chapter in recent American history. The 90-minute film relies on the documentary record to connect the dots in an investigation of interrogations of prisoners in U.S. custody that became “at a minimum, cruel and inhuman treatment and, at worst, torture,” in the words of the former general counsel of the United States Navy, Alberto Mora. Jones carefully presents the evidence that leads straight to the top of the chain of command - and so lays to rest the “rotten apple” defense for abusive interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage describes - for the first time on-camera - being waterboarded during military training before he was sent to Vietnam. When producer Jones asked Mr. Armitage if he considered waterboarding to be torture, he answered, “Absolutely. No question.” He added: “There is no question in my mind - there's no question in any reasonable human being, that this is torture. I'm ashamed we're even having this discussion.” Also for the first time on camera, the former chief Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army, Major General Thomas Romig, reveals the inside story of a Pentagon task force set up by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in early 2003. “He came in and gave us a pep talk. I thought it a little strange that we were getting a pep talk on something like this,” Romig says. After being presented a list of interrogation tactics, some of which he described as torture, General Romig concludes that, “The commander in chief does not have the power to make that which is illegal under the law of war, legal.” But the top military lawyers would not learn for more than a year that, in the end, they were deceived. Only in the aftermath of the revelations at Abu Ghraib would they discover that Secretary Rumsfeld had given the go-ahead a year earlier to use 24 harsh interrogation techniques that they had opposed. ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- With thanks to loninappleton. Size : 702 MB Video : XVid - 891 kbps Resolution : 720x512 Framerate : 25 fps Audio : MP3 - 192 kbps - vbr - stereo - English Sample : 48000 Hz Subtitles : N/A Runtime : 01:29:32 Producer : Sherry Jones Narrator : Peter Coyote ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- Please Seed x1/ x2 ..Keep Torrents Alive.. ..Godcanjudgeme..
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Democracy Now! Monday, June 8, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Two US Journalists Sentenced to 12 Years in North Korea US-Backed Coalition Wins in Lebanon Nation’s Unemployment Rate Surges to 9.4% Anti-Abortion Activist Warns of More Violent Acts More than 100 Killed in Somalia; Radio Journalist Assassinated Panel Finds Lax Oversight of Wartime Contracting Iraqi Government Arrests Five US Contractors Report: Global Military Spending Rose to $1.46 Trillion in 2008 Couple Accused of Spying for Cuba Nominee Linked to CIA Torture Declines Position Palestinian Protester Shot Dead by Israeli Troops Gay Rights Activist Cleve Jones Calls for March on Washington Civil Rights and AIDS Activist Dr. Alan Berkman Dies Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle. Authorities say up to twenty-two policemen have been killed, and two remain missing. The indigenous community says at least forty people, including three children, were killed by the police this weekend. [includes rush transcript] Obama's Pick to Lead Afghan War Linked to Abuse of Prisoners & Secret Assassination Unit Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal formerly served as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008. During that time, he oversaw a secretive program to hunt down and assassinate suspected terrorists around the globe. Last year, lawmakers delayed Stanley McChrystal’s nomination for a key position because of questions about prisoner abuse by forces under his command. Many of the reports of abuse center on Camp Nama, a US base near Baghdad’s airport where Special Operations troops ran an interrogation and detention center. [includes rush transcript] "Diary of Bergen-Belsen, 1944-1945": Amira Hass Discusses Her Mother's Concentration Camp Diary President Obama followed up his trip to Saudi Arabia and Egypt with a visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on Friday, where 56,000 were killed during World War II. Obama invoked his great-uncle who had helped liberate a Buchenwald prison camp and returned a haunted man. Israeli journalist Amira Hass, columnist for Ha’aretz newspaper, comes from a family of Holocaust survivors. Her mother, Hanna Levy-Hass, survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Amira Hass edited her mother’s diary from that period, and it’s being published this month from Haymarket Books. [includes rush transcript]
Seeders: 96
Leeches: 19

State of Siege (Costa Gavras, 1972, on Tupamaros)

Category: Misc
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Siege: In Uruguay in the early 1970s, before the military dictatorship, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) played by Montand, is kidnapped by a group of urban guerrillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas and expose the American intervention in Latin America Dictatorships and her central role in the violation of human rights on those dark times.
Seeders: 4
Leeches: 2