Brad Pitt: 'US War on Drugs is a charade'

Brad Pitt, Hollywood heartthrob and executive producer of the award-winning film "The House I Live In", has called on the US government to rethink its 40-year "War on Drugs" policies.

Pitt is the executive producer of Eugene Jarecki's documentary, "The House I Live In", which won a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and has just been released in the US.

The documentary covers the US drug policy in depth, and according to the film this policy has cost the US more than $1 trillion, and has resulted in over 45 million arrests since 1971... read more and watch preview.

Video: RT interviews Kristinn Hrafnsson, spokesman for WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks spokesman, Kristinn Hrafnsson, says the US naming Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as an enemy of the state, will see him treated as a terrorist if extradited there.

Kristinn Hrafnsson attended the UN General Assembly, and was available for questioning in the US, after Julian Assange spoke to the assembly via satellite video link.

On September 26, WikiLeaks released an official internal document from the US Military that refers to Assange and WikiLeaks as the "enemy". The document is from an internal investigation in the US Air Force, released under the Freedom of Information Act. The document adds to the large store of proof of the persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks by the United States government... read more and watch interview.

Cyber attack in progress against WikiLeaks

For just over a week, WikiLeaks websites have been hammered by DDoS attacks. The websites are often not available, or are extremely slow to access.

A group calling themselves AntiLeaks has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The group refers to Julian Assange as "a new breed of terrorist" and states that they launched the attack in response to Assange's attempt to seek political asylum in Ecuador... read more.

Whistleblower — NSA had secret deal with White House after 9/11

The video features an interview with a former National Security Agency executive in the U.S. who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrong-doings inside the NSA.

Gayane Chichakyan of RT interviews Thomas Andrews Drake. Drake was a senior executive of one of America's biggest intelligence agencies at the beginning of the 2000's.

He was an expert on electronic eavesdropping and had top secret security clearance. He was also a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, computer software expert, linguist, management and leadership specialist... read more and watch interview.