{"id":10997,"date":"2015-01-07T21:33:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T05:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10997"},"modified":"2015-01-07T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T05:32:23","slug":"torture-still-a-war-crime-kpfk-bradcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10997","title":{"rendered":"Torture Still a War Crime: KPFK &#8216;BradCast&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BushCheney_HongKongWarCrimesTrials_010715.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We were back live today for the first <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/kpfk.org\">KPFK<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/pacificanetwork.org\">Pacifica Radio<\/a> since the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>First up, a few incomplete words on the breaking news of today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30710883\">horrific terror attacks<\/a> at the satirical <i>Charlie Hebdo<\/i> newspaper in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Then, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10990\">BRAD BLOG&#8217;s<\/a> legal analyst Ernest A. Canning joined us to discuss his own father&#8217;s detention and torture (including water-boarding) under the Japanese Kempetai at the notorious Shanghai Bridge House during WWII. After the war, his father, James Robert Canning, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Docs\/Senate_CIATorture_Report_120914.pdf\">testified against his captors [PDF]<\/a> at the Hong Kong War Crimes Trials, where some members of the Japanese Imperial Army received life sentences &#8212; and, some, the death penalty &#8212; for many of the same crimes against humanity <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Docs\/Senate_CIATorture_Report_120914.pdf\">carried out by the U.S. in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks<\/a> [PDF], as <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10990\">Ernie wrote about here recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we cover what we <i>hope<\/i> might be the last report of the 2014 election, the (good news on several accounts) <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10979\">solution to the great Maine Ballot Mystery<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as ever, Desi Doyen joins us for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10996\">latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> to quickly cover all that happened in the green news world while we were off for holiday break at the end of the warmest year for the planet in recorded history&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audiop\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ErnestCanning_CIATortureJapaneseTorture_010715.mp3\">Download MP3 here<\/a> or listen online below&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audiop\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ErnestCanning_CIATortureJapaneseTorture_010715.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were back live today for the first BradCast on KPFK\/Pacifica Radio since the holidays. First up, a few incomplete words on the breaking news of today&#8217;s horrific terror attacks at the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris. Then, BRAD BLOG&#8217;s legal analyst Ernest A. Canning joined us to discuss his own father&#8217;s detention and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,89,675,405,596,6,242,477,350,366,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-bush-legacy","category-election-2014","category-election-irregularities","category-france","category-kpfk","category-maine","category-torture","category-war-on-terror","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}