"Waar we hier mee te maken hebben, is een zeer ernstig probleem. Het is radicalisering en extremisme dat zich in onze academische instellingen heeft geïnstitutionaliseerd, Ze worden betaald door de belastingbetaler, ze zijn bedoeld voor algemeen onderwijs en onderzoek, ze worden nu gekaapt door geradicaliseerde groepen". - interview met Laurens Buijs (Engels gesproken)
Read More“By and large the system functions or so I thought. But when I started scratching the surface of this case, That to me was profoundly shocking: to see how much dirt was coming to the surface”.
Nils Melzer in 2016 was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on Torture for the United nations. In 2019 he assessed that Julian Assange showed all signs of being a victim of psychological torture. Shortly after Melzer started his investigation, Assange was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and transferred to Belmarsh prison where he remains to this day fighting extradition to the United States.
Bailey Lamon and Rico Brouwer talk to Melzer in this 90 minute interview for a chapter in their own upcoming book; ‘the Whistleblowers Book of Courage’. How can it be that the United Nations rapporteur on torture, appointed by the countries of the world to report on torture is now considered a whistle-blower for just doing his job?
Read MoreReturning guest John Kiriakou is a former CIA Counterterrorism Officer and former Senior Investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He blew the whistle on the CIA torture programme (waterboarding). John comments on the first day of the extradition trial of Julian Assange in London.
Read MoreLisa Ling is a whistleblowers on the US drone programme: ‘The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth’. She comments on the extradition trial of Julian Assange about to begin and on ‘hostile non-state actors’.
Read MoreIn this 90 minute interview we talked to Reality Winners mom Billy Winner-Davis, her sister Brittany Winner and her friend Wendy Meer. They talk about what happens when someone tells the truth about Russian interference in the American elections and gets prosecuted under the espionage act. What happened to their loved one.
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