March 28
GUEST: Philippe Diaz, award
winning French screenwriter, film director and producer with
over 20 documentaries to his credit, talks about his latest
project: I Am Gitmo,
a movie that follows the travails of a Muslim schoolteacher
sold to a CIA black site and transported to Guantanamo.
Cinema
Libre Studio
Most countries have parts of their history they would like to forget. Shameful periods when their citizens acted like wild beasts instead of people. Think of the IDF forces in Gaza. How those sharp shooters must love putting a US made bullet between the eyes of a six year old. That will be a story to tell back at the barracks.
The US has more of these shameful periods than most, however. The horrors of slavery and lynching can still be seen in the embedded racism of our economic and criminal justice systems. The ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples can still be seen in their squalid concentration camps called reservations. And victims of US war crimes are still remembered in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Guantanamo is a similar boil on the ass of our nation. It hurts every time we sit down to join other nations that don't waterboard prisoners, anal rape them, and hold them for 20 years without charges.
Gaza, however, is different. Our country stands with Israel as it commits another holocaust. As it starves Palestinian children to death, and obliterates the lives of two million parents. No, that is more like a terminal cancer that has spread from Israel to its only ally in the world, the United States. Neither country deserves to survive, just like the Third Reich had to be taken apart to stop its war crimes and crimes against humanity. Israel and the US are no longer viable states, given the extent of their barbarism and slaughter. Their continued existence threatens the entire human race.
