Will they ever close the School of the Americas?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Nico Udu-Gama, one of 15 human rights activists facing trial for nonviolent direct action to shut down the military training school. What legacy has the School of the Americas left on US foreign policy with Latin America? And what's happening there today? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want to know about the School of the Americas? On the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Nico Udu-Gama, one of 15 human rights activists facing trial for nonviolent direct action to close the School of the Americas

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, associate professor of Justice and Peace Studies at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and author of School of Assassins: Guns, Greed and Globalization

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Your Call 092707 Happy Birthday CIA!

It was 60 years ago that the National Security Act was passed. On the next Your Call we talk with former analysts at the CIA and outsider experts on the intelligence community about what we have learned from those 60 years living with the CIA and NSA. What do they do well? And where do they regularly fail? Do overestimations of the CIA’s capabilities lead to wild overreach and civil liberties violations? What should intelligence agencies actually do? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Sue McCloud, former CIA operations officer
Mel Goodman, former CIA analyst
John Prados, National Security Archive, and author of Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War

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