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Law and Disorder: Marjorie Cohn, John Pilger

Jan 08, 2024: 7pm - 8pm
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Hosted by Michael Ratner, Heidi Boghosian, Michael Steven Smith, Jim Lafferty, Maria Hall, and Stephen Rohde.

South Africa Files Case Against Israel In World Court
Guest: Marjorie Cohn, who is a Law & Disorder co-host, is Dean of the Peoples Academy of International Law and a member of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. She is Professor of Law Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and former president of the National Lawyers Guild and she has written extensively about the Israeli genocide in Gaza for Truthout.

Remembering Australian Journalist John Pilger
Also featured is a re-broadcast of a recent interview with the great Australian journalist John Pilger about his film titled The Coming War On China. With the exception of a short break at the conclusion in 1975 of the Vietnamese war, the United States has been at war continually. The momentum of what President Eisenhower warned us against and described as being led by, the military industrial complex has been going on with successive wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now the American proxy war in Ukraine. The military industrial complex has been augmented by support from the CIA, Congress, and the corporate media.

Co-hosts Heidi Boghosian, Michael Smith, Marjorie Cohn, Jim Lafferty and Julie Huriwitz are activists and attorneys. Each show features two or three interview segments with brief introductory host exchanges or editorials on current affairs. Each segment ends with a way that listeners can learn more about, or even get involved in, the issue at hand. Show focuses on civil liberties, civil rights and human rights, and is produced at WBAI New York. Go to https://lawanddisorder.org/ for more information.

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