Author Hank Albarelli joined Coy to discuss his book A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments .
Charlottesville Right Now: 5-4-10 David Swanson
David Swanson talked about the upcoming congressional vote to increase troops and funding to Afghanistan.
Charlottesville Right Now: 4-30-10 Rick Britton
Charlottesville Right Now: 4-12-10 Bob Holsworth
Bob Holsworth of Virginia Tomorrow joined Coy to discuss the fallout from Governor Bob McDonnell’s proclamation that April is Confederate History Month in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Charlottesville Right Now: 3-26-10 Joe Fab
Filmmaker Joe Fab joined Coy to discuss his movie Bedford The Town They Left Behind .
David Swanson at Barnes & Noble
David Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, recently spoke at Barnes & Noble in Charlottesville. He provided this recording.
Gitmo and “The Response”
In our previous show we reflected on several of the movies showcased at this year’s Virginia Film Festival. In today’s show, we will examine “The Response,” a short film about the Guantanamo Bay War Tribunals and the plight of Guantanamo detainees by Sig Libowitz, screened at this year’s Virginia Film Festival.
During the course of the seven years since 9-11, the United States and its elected representatives have made calculated moves to deal with the declared “War on Terror.” Because of the nature of this global war, which is based more in backrooms around the world than on battlefields, it has become increasingly difficult to have concrete ideas about whom and where we are, or should be fighting.
Because of the clandestine nature of the war, the measures to combat it have also taken a more covert form, including… Abu Ghraib… and more recently, Guantanamo Bay. These Prisoner Detentions Camps were set up in an effort to isolate suspected enemy combatants from battle regions and interrogate them so that the war in the Gulf, and on Terror could be mitigated.
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Vincent Bugliosi on the Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
Vincent Bugliosi, New York Times Bestselling author of Helter Skelter and The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder, joined Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!” to discuss the evidence and his conclusion that President George W. Bush is guilty of first degree murder.
Bugliosi discusses his role and methods as a true crime writer and lays out his case against George W. Bush for pursuing an illegal war for personal reasons that resulted in the deaths of over 4,000 American soldiers. Vermont Attorney General candidate Charlotte Dennett has pledged that, if elected, she will pursue this prosecution. Bugliosi firmly believes that, if brought to court, he will get a conviction.
The main issue is whether Mr. Bush brought the nation to war out of self defense. If it can be proven that the war was made based on false pretenses, as Mr. Bugliosi’s collected evidence appears to suggest, then murder can be proven. Mr. Bugliosi believes that the death penalty may be appopriate if Mr. Bush is convicted. Bugliosi spoke from Charlottesville, Virginia prior to his talk at the Albemarle County Office Building
CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier on Breathing the Fire
Covering the Middle East as a foreign correspondent for CBS News, U.Va graduate Kimberly Dozier earned a reputation for being on top of the story. But on Memorial Day 2006, Kimberly Dozier became the story as a car bomb took the lives of her crew, a U.S. Army captain an Iraqi interpreter, and left her in a pool of blood on the street fighting for her life. Her new book is Breathing the Fire, and it reconstructs her path from the bombing to recovery. She joined Coy Barefoot on the June 27th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot.
Author S. Paul Klein at the New Dominion Bookshop
S. Paul Klein developed his talent for creating images out of words in a career as a radio performer and a filmmaker. Now he has entered the literary world with a new novel, Accidents of Time and Place.
Hector Collin, the hero of the novel, is a veteran of the Korean War and a victim of the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s. Accidents of Time and Place tells the story of his journey from infamy to redemption. Join Paul Klein as he reads from his novel at the New Dominion Bookshop on April 10, 2008.