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In this interview, Peter Kuznick discusses the United States' war crimes -- from the atomic bombings of Japan, to the Cold War, to today's "war on terror." Kuznick also looks ahead at the future.
Efforts to justify the killing of Dion Avila Damon by alleging he robbed a bank fail to recognize his right to due process. Protests are planned to bring attention to police conduct.
President Obama will theoretically be granting clemency to hundreds more prisoners before his term is over. But many in federal prisons do not fit the criteria of his Clemency Project, including more than 600 women. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)
Since 2008, President Obama has commuted the sentences of 248 federal prisoners. For many who are still incarcerated, including hundreds of mothers, executive clemency is their only chance to rejoin their families early, if at all. Many maintain hope for compassion before Obama leaves office.
On this special Mothers' Day edition of the Laura Flanders Show, Alexis Pauline Gumbs takes us on a journey to explore revolutionary mothering. She's a self-described queer, Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist. She's also the author of Spill: Fugitive Scenes, coming later this year from Duke University Press.
Robert McChesney, author with John Nichols of People Get Ready, discusses their new book, its challenge to the idea that technological advances always benefit humans and a framework to envision a digital age that will benefit workers over the super-rich.