Liberation Radio: May 13, 2013

Liberation Radio: May 13, 2013 The real role of the Obama administration in Syria | Assata Shakur is not a terrorist! PLUS: Support the Guantanamo hunger strikers! Richard Becker, Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, looks at the predicament faced by the Obama administration as the civil war in Syria continues. Does the agreement to sponsor a Peace Conference signal the possibility of a negotiated settlement ending this terrible conflict? Does it reflect a change in U.S. policy? Peta Lindsay, the 2012 presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, discusses the FBI's decision to make Assata Shakur the first woman to be added to its list of most wanted terrorists. What’s behind the agency's move to target the revolutionary freedom fighter while allowing true terrorists to operate freely in Miami? Eugene Puryear, a member of the editorial board of Liberation newspaper, looks at the heroic efforts of Guantanamo prisoners on a hunger strike against their indefinite detention, torture and other violations of basic human rights. As of May 8, an estimated that 100 of the 166 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility had joined the hunger strike, enduring brutal and painful force feedings in response to their act of resistance.