10/28/19 10/28/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracacy now! >> last night united states brought the world's number one terrorist t leader to justicice. baghghdadi is dead. he was the founder and leader of isis, the most rude was in viviolent terrorist ms. tatian

anywhere in the world. amy: the world's most wanted man has died during a raid u.s. special forces in northwestern syria. we w will look at t what the deh of baghdadi means for the future of isis in the middle east. then we go to chile were over one million people porting to the streets friday and midst a massive ongoing uprising over economic inequality and crippling austerity. at least 18 people h have died since the protest began. quote finally realize the people -- there's no justice for people in any sense. this is discrimination from the poorest to the richest. i have always been waiting for a moment like this in my life. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the leader of isis abu bakr

, al-baghdadi, was reportedly killed in a u.s. special forces raid in northwestern syria. baghdadi had led the so-called islamic state since 2010. atat its peak, i isis controllla large swath of land across syria and iraq and maintained a force of tens of thousands of fighters recruited from more than 100 countries. the e oup also c claimed responsibility for deadly attacks across five e continents some analylysts say al-baghdadi was radicalized after he was jailed by u.s. forces in iraq in 2004. he was held for 11 months, including reportedly at the notorious abu ghraib prison. on sunday morning, president trump announced al-baghdadi's death h in a televevised addres. tried s so hard to intimidatete others spent hiss t , in total utter fear panic and dread, terrified of the american forces bearing down on him. amy: during president trump

speech, he invoked the names of u.s. journalist and aid workers who were killed by isis, although the vast majority of civilians killed by isis were muslim. told "the newrs york times" that al-baghdadi's alleged killing by u.s. special forces saturday came largely in spitite of, not becacause of, president trumump's recent abrut withthdrawal of some u.s. troops from syria. baghdadi reportedly set off his suicide vest. we'll have more on al-baghdadi's alleged killing after headlines. california's governor has declared a state o of emergency, as climate-change-fueled wildfires sweep across the state, f from lolos angeles to northern california. strong winds lashed the bay y aa ovover the w weekend, , spreadie fires across mulultiple counties despite widespread m mandatory pg&e blackckouts intended to rereduce the fire e risk. the plan blackouts have left millions without power. nearly 200,000 people are under evacuation orders, mainly in sonoma county.

the san francisco chronicle reported that the latest spate of fires have "intensified fears ththat parts of califofornia cod become almost dangerous to inhabit." in chile, over a million people poured into the streets friday amid a massive ongoing uprising over economic inequality and crippling austerity in the south american country. chilean president sebastian pinera announced he will lift chile's state of emergency tonight and begin a major cabinet reshuffle following the historic protests. at least 18 people have been killed and hundreds more have been shot and wounded since protests erupted on october 19 amid mounting reports of brutality and torture by chilean authorities. the united nations is sending a team to chile to investigate allegations of human rights abuses against anti-government protesters. in iraq, dozens of people were killed friday and saturday as iraqis again took to the streets to protest corruption and lack of jobs. the major ananti-government prototests began earlier this month. over 150 protesters were killed

in the government's brutal crackdown against the first round of demonstrations. in lebanon, tens of thousands of people gathered sunday to form a human chain stretching north to south across lebanon, on the 11th day of nationwide anti-government protests. the 100-mile chain was intended to symbolize the protesters' unity and lack of sectarian divisions amid the ongoing massive demonstrations against corruption, lackck of jobs, and economicic inequality. argentina, right wing income but -- right-wing incumbent president mauricio macri resoundingly lost sunday's national elections, as voters cast their ballots for center-left opposition candidate alberto fernandez. the election was dominated by economic concerns. nearly one-third of argentines are currently living in poverty, after macri imposed sweeping austerity measures and laid off tens of thousands of unionized public sector workers. the election was as comeback for -- was also a comeback for former president cristina

fernandez de kirchner, who was running as vice-president. britain will not be leaving the european union thursday as plannened after european union leaders agreed to extend the brexit deadline until january 31. earlier this month, brbritish primime minister b boris johnson lolost a critical vote aimed at fast tracking a brexit deal. johnson had previously said he would rather be dead in a ditch than delay brexit -- britain's departure from the european union. in the united states, president trump was booed and taunted with chants of "lock him up" at the fifth game of the world series between the washington nationals and the houston astros sunday night. >> lock him up! lock him up! the astros be the nationals, giving them a 3-2 lead in the world series playoffs. the pentagon has awarded microsoft a $10 billion technology contract to work on the military's cloud computing systems, beating out its competitors, including amazon. president trump reportedly told former defense secretary james

mattis to "screw amazon" out of receiving the contract, according to a new book. president trump has repeatedly attacked amazon ceo jeff bezos,, who also owns "the washington post." chicago public schools have canceled classes for the eighth consecutive school days as the chicago teachers union continues to strike. chicago public schools and the seiu local 73, which represents 7500 school support staff, have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract. the support staff union's bargaining team is still reviewing the final terms of the deal before officially ending their strike. members of seiu 73 say they will be on the picket lines today in solidarity with the teachers. earlier this month, more than 30,000 chicago teachers and support staff went on strike to demand better pay and benefits, smaller class sizes and more nurses, counselors, social workers, and librarians. the historic strike brought the country's third largest school

system to a standstill. after a 40-day strike, a new four-year deal between the united auto workers and general motors was approved friday. the contract was supported by 57% of the labor union. it includes an $11,000 bonus per member, annual raises and more affordable health care costs. general motors still plans to close three factories in the united states. about 48,000 united auto workers walked off the job over one month ago, making it the longest national strike at gm by united auto workers in nearly 50 years. california democratic congressmember katie hill has admitted to having relationship with a campaign aide before coming into office. the house ethics committee has also opened an investigation into allegations that hill had a relationship with her legislative director. bill has denied that relationship. the allegation surfaced after red state.org and the daily mail published naked images of katie hill without her consent. hill it has accused her abusive husband of creating a "smear

campaign" built around cyber exploitation and that he enlisted the help of " hateful political operatives." in new york city, dozens of immigrants with deferred action for childhood arrivals and allies held a rally in lower manhattan saturday to kick off an 16-day march from new york city to washington d.c., where the supreme court will hear arguments next month from three lawsuits demanding the trump administration restore the obama-era program that grants temporary work permits and deportation relief to nearly 1 million undocumented people who were brought to the united states as children. this is one of the marchers, eliana fernandez, a 31-year-old daca recipient from ecuador. parent, the main reason why i'm here, i marching and in part of the movement is because of my kids. biggestren are my inspiration. i will do anything for them, including marching hundreds of miles. i want for them to one day look at this day and remember or feel proud,, like, that was my mommy

helping the immigrant community and helping herself. a lot of us come from mixed status families. i want to highlight that. amy: eliana fernandez is one of 200 people who will trek 230 miles to d.c. as they also hope to highlight the importance of long-term immigration relief to the 11 million undocumented people living in the u.s. the supreme court will hear arguments on the daca case november 12. the trump administration announced its plans to kill the program in september 2017. in pittsburgh, residents gathered sunday to m mark one-yr anniversary since the massacre at the tree of life synagogugue, one of the worst anti-semitic attacks in u.s. history. on october 27,7, a gunman armed with an ar-15 assault rifle opened fire inside the squirrel hill synagogue, killing 11 worshipers. just ahead of the shooting, the alleged gunman, robertrt bowers, posted a racist screed echoing president trump's language about an invasion of immigrants. he faceses a 63 count indictment

and the death penalty. former president barack obama praised longtime congressman elijah cummings at his funeral friday in baltltimore. after his body lay in state in the u.s. capitol. cummings spent decades championing the rights of african-american lawmaker to receive the honor. spent decades shepherding the rights of african-americans and the poor -- first as a civil rights activist and later as a maryland state legislator, before being elected to represent his baltimore didistrt in the h house of representatits 13 times. this is former president obabam. pres. obama: elijah cummings was . man of noble and good heart his parents and his faith planted the seeds of hope and love and compassion and thahat good soil of hisis.

of his has good soil harvested all of the crop that he could. for the lord has now called elijah home to give his humble, faithful servant rest. and it now falls on us to continue his work soso that othr young boys and girls in baltimore, across maryland, across the united states, and around the worldld might, , too, have a chance to grow and to flourish. amy: that was president obama, speaking friday in baltimore at the funeral of t the congress member elijah cummings. he died earlier this month at the age of 68. and longtime michigan commerce memory john conyers has died at the age of 90. conyers was the longest-serving african american in the history of the u.s. congress. throughout his more than five decades as a u.s.

congressmember, he co-sponsored the original voting rights act t the5, helped founund congngressional black caucus, oppose the vietnam war, the persian gulf war and the 2003 invasion of iraq. he also pushed for medicare for all for decades and legislation to study reparations for slavery. he spent 15 years fighting to mama martin luluther king day a national holiday. in 2017, conyers resigned from congress after multiple women accused him of sexually harassing or groping them. he denied d the charges. this is congressmember conyers speaking on democracy now! in 201010 about the out of afghanisistan caucus, a group of lawmakers who were fighting against the escalation of the u.s. war in afghanistan. >> it has never been clear to me that through war we can bring peace, especially when we are the invaders, we are the ones , we are causing

civilian deaths to manyy people who would otherwise be more friendly to us. we are creating the terrorists. on mostnot being lost of the people in the country now. amy: that was longtime michigan congressmemember john coconyerj. speaking on democracy now! back in 2010. he died sunday at his home in detroit at the agege of 90. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to the reported death of isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. on sunday, president trump announced baghdadi had blown himself up along with rivers children after u.s. special operations forces raided a compound in northwestern syria where he had been hiding. baghdadi had led the islamic state since 2010. in 2014, he proclaimed the creation of the islamic caliphate during a speech in

momosul. at its peak, isis controlled a large swath of land across syria and iraq and maintained a force of tens of thousands of fighters who carried out mass killings, rape, beheadings, and torture. the group also claimed responsibility for deadly attacks across five continents. the vast majority of civilians killed by isis for muslims. mostly and iraq and syria. some analysts say al-baghdadi was radicalized after he was jailed by u.s. forces in iraq in 2004. he was held for 11 months including reportedly at the notorious abu ghraib prison. on sunday, morning president trump announced al-baghdadi's death in a televised address. preses. trump: no personnel were lost in the operation, while a large number of baghdadi's fighteters and companionons were killed with him. he died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimperiring ad crying a and scrcreaming all the

way. ththe compound had been clearedy this time with people either surrenderiring or being shot a d killed. 11 young children were movoved t of the house and arere unininju. the only ones remaining were baghdadi in the tunnel and he had dragged three of his young children with him. they were led to certain death. he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. he ignited his vest, killing himself and the ththree childre. his body was mutilated by the blast. the tunnel had caved in on it in addition. but test results gave cerertain immediate and totallyy positive

identification. it was him. the thug who tried so hard to intimidate oththers spepent hist , in total utter fear papanic and dread, terrified of the american forces bearing down on him. amy: the raid began early susuny whenen eight u.s. mililitary helicopterers flew from a base near erbil, iriraq, to northwesternrn syria over airspe controlled b by syria and rurus. "the new york k times" reportsts syrian and iraraqi kurdsad provided more intelligence foror the raid than any singlele country. the raid comomes just weeks aftr president trump abandoned his support for the kurds in northern syria, greenlighting turkey's recent invasion. the u.s. named t the operation o target al-baghdadi after the late kayla mueller, an american aid worker who was taken hostage by isis after she crossed the turkish border intnto syria to visit a hospital in 2013. shshe died in 2015 but h body

was never found. she was raped by baghdadi himself. we are joined now by three guests. emma beals is an award-winning investigative journalist and researcher who has covered the syrian conflict since 2012. editor of syria in context. she joins us from london. juan cole is professor of history at the university of michigan. his blog "informed comment" is online at juancole.com. he's the author of many books, including "muhammad: prophet of peace amid the clash of empires" and "engaging the muslim world." and in boston, rami khouri, senior public policy fellow and journanalist-in-residence at the american university of beirut. he's a non-resident senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school's middle east initiative. he is a columnist at the new arab. , your response to the death of baghdadi? >> it should be remember the organization he led, isil, developed originally as al qaeda

and arose in reaction to the u.s. invasion and occupation of iraq. and so the same kinetic u.s. military that in some ways inadvertently created isil has .ow ended one of its leaders it certainly has not destroyed the organization or the impulse that lies behind it. thinkshink if anybody that kinetic military operations in this part of the world are going to solve all the proroble, they are sadly mistaken. amy: and the significance of baghdadi? while president trump talked about the killing of the u.s. aid workers and journalists, the rape of kayla mueller, who also syria wherembing in

she had been held captive -- the fact is that, and probably these journalists and aid workers would have been the first to point thisis out -- isis had killed thousands of muslims. >> yes. well, isil developed a strategy, a terrorist strategy, as a small group that wanted to emerge as a state of what it called acting like beasts. it was quite deliberate to terrorize people all around it into submission to convince the enemy that they were in -- invulnerable because they would act in such a beastly and violent way. in many ways, it worked. they intimidated large numbers of people at their height, millions come into submission. iraqi soldiers who fought them

talked about the horror of going into alleyways and facing men who would jump down from roofs onto them with suicide bomb belts and detonate them. it wasn't hand-to-hand combat, it was hand to bomb combat. this policy of beastliness was also a media strategy to attract followers. one of the advantages that they sought was to get highly trained former soldiers from europe who might join them. and their policies were designed to attract people with violent tendencies who had that training. this strategy, however, has severe drawbacks in that over time, especially if you were trying to run a state, it would make you extremely unpopular --

not only with your own population, but with all of the neighbors. contradiction in isil strategy that they try to continue to operate as a terrorist organization once they had a known address. the only way terrorism can be at all successful is if they can't find you, but if you have a capital, t then you are doomedd stop amy: : finally, c can you l us, juan cole, about the history come inakr al-baghdadi a nutshell, how he roro to power? what his background was? his captivity being in u.s. captivity back during the beginning of the iraq war of u.s. invasion of iraq? >> sure, baghdadi was not as he is being advertised in islamic scholar. he barely passed high school. he was shunted off to what was called the islamic university of baghdad, which was a low-level

in iraq.on he seems to have preached some mosque as a local volunteer. he got arrested in 2004 along with some associates. woulds. military in iraq arrest large numbers of people if they were simply in the vicinity of a bombing or an act of resistance against the u.s. occupation. at any one time, they had 25,5,0 iraqis, moststly sunni arabs, in captivity. these prisons served as an opportunity, however, for some iraqi oppositionists to network with others. baghdadi seems to have met some of the people who formed isil with him there in u.s. captivity. arose to oppose the u.s. occupation called al

qaeda in mesopotamia. in 2006.r was killed baghdadi joined that organization in 2010, emerged as the leader of it. he did innovate in the sense that he thought al qaeda was wrong to just engage in terrorism in hopes of weakening an eventualr revolution. he thought it was an opportunity because u.s. role in iraq was so weak and had destroyed the state, to actually take and hold territory under the americans knows. and that is what he started to do. and that was all along what distinguished his tactics, that he thought there was an opportunity here to create state structures. and in 2014, when the organization took 40% of iraq and made mozilla it's iraqi center of operations, he

declared himself a kind of muslim hope, much to the duration of most of the muslim world, but it did attract some violent activists. amy: was he held by u.s. forces? was he imprisoned by the u.s. either at abu ghraib or other places? prison as fars in as we know at the u.s. hands in 2004 for many months. certainly was one of the origins of his radicalization. although, the u.s. occupation of iraq was radicalizing enough. people forget now, 4 million iraqis out of 26 million at the time were displaced from their homes and made homeless -- not directly necessarily by the u.s. occupation, but as a result of it. died.ds of thousands

sunni arabs were suddenly viewed with suspicion by the new shiite-led government. many had worked for thebaath government of sudan hussein, fired from their jobs, 100 thousands were fired from state jobs, massive unemployment come as much as 75% unemployment developed in sunni arab areas. events was an apocalyptic for the sunni arabs of iraq. and over time, a radicalized millions of them. and because i think the u.s. destroyed the secular socialist alternative and erratic -- in iraq quite elaborately, one of the few avenues for their activism that was left was a hyper sunni fundamentalism, which was extremely rabid in its hatred of foreigners and

shiites. but this is a night and a transformation of sunni arab iraq, which i said, had largely been secular-minded and even islam as the state religionon. amy: we are going to come back to this discussion. we are speaking with juan cole, and we will bring in rami khouri and emma beals. stay with us. ♪ [musisic break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we discuss the death of abu bakr al-baghdadi, we go to president trump makining the announcement on sunday. pres. trump: we know the successors and we already have them in our sites. we know the successors. thin, butwas a bit this is the biggest there is. this is the worst ever. osama bin laden was big, but some a big one became big with the world trade center.

became big with the world trade center. this man was trying to do it again. and because that is president trump making the announcement about the death of abu bakr al-baghdadi on sunday morning, apparently he briefed russia before he briefed the was congressional leaders, particularly the house speaker nancy pelosi. , emmaests are juan cole beals and rami khouri. rami, if you could respond to the death of baghdadi and the significance of this, what this means, and what exactly president trump said yesterday. thing toportant recognize is the lononger trtrajectory of these kinds of radical terrorist and human movements across the arab world,

but also in other parts of the world in asia and other places in africa. but the core of these movements has been in the arab region. it tells us there really is a two-handed problem here. one is the nature of the small groups like al qaeda, like isis, and a few others that create groups and carry out terrorist acts and isis was so far as to create a so-called state that did not last very long. the other part of this, which is far more important and which the united states and arab countries and european countries and russia and virtually everybody in the world seems unwilling or unable to acknowledge is that these groups are symptomatic of a much deeper structural set of stresses, inequities, unmet needs, and distortions in the fabric of much of the arab world. not all of it, but much of it. that creates hundreds of millions, literally several

hundred mimillion arab men and women and families that are .esperate to live a normal life in a small number of them break off and go and join these groups. a very small number. but the biggest number of arabs who are in the situation or out in the streets. you see them today. turn on your tv or take her news need, lebanon, jordan, iraq, allcco, sudan, algeria -- across the arab world, you have literally millions of people demonstrating. and this is the deeper problem. al qaeda and isis are symptomatic of deeper problems. and if those deeper problems are not addressed by the arab countries themselves, the military-led leadership's predominantly, or by the foreign powers that have supported these autocratic arab leaderships for probably four or five decades -- if those issues are not addressed, we will just keep getting these kinds of movements

emerging over and over. remember, he started in the 1930's and 1940's with the nonviolent -- predominantly nonviolent muslim brotherhood in egypt. a few of them became violent later on. they assassinated sadat and did other things. and then you have hamas and hezbollah that emerged, mostly responding to the israeli occupation of arab lands. they became militarily very successful and did carry out some terrorism acts here and there. but for the most part, they were resistance move its. after that, got al qaeda and then you got isis and dozens and dozens of these movements in syria. so you can see the historical progression. this is really the big issue. killing baghdadi is an important short-term setback to a group that anticipated this would happen. it clearly has restructured its

organizational system and its operational methods so that it would not be destroyed when the leader was killed. and they expected this. you will still get isis trying to carry out some terror and military violent attacks here and there, but the bigger problem is that the overwhelming majority of people who are suffering in the arab world are suffering because of the authoritarian regimes they live under come the social and ececonomic political and equiti, the continuing problem effects of hundreds of years of the israeli conflict, continued colonization of arab lands, and the continued support of big powers around the world to this status quo. most recently exhibited in u.s. and british and french active involvement in the war in yemen, the war in libya, supporting sisi in egypt, and any other

situation you want to look at in the middle east. so that is the bigger picture. -- and theed states united states is not understanding it, nor are most or forarab leaderships leaderships. in this is a problem because it means we are going to continue on this trajectory with more radicalization, momore violence, and more suffering. mcu of the suffering is done by arabsh and muslims. amy: ♪ [music break] tweeted -- you "baghdadi's death will be fodder for u.s. news cycle in coming days, it's important to remember that the majority of isis victims are in syria and iraq. this is important for them. also, idlib is now probably in a more perilous situation than before, in particular, the civilians." baghdadi had reportedly y been hiding out in idlib, syria's last major opposition-held enclave. talk about what you fear might happen in idlib now. the delicious

good -- de-escalation areas where they were reduce hostilities in those areas, but what we've seen is the other three de-escalation areas have been subject to large electric syrianns and return to government control. that would probably happen in idlib in some way. yes, government and russia campaign against idlib over the last few months and there has been a cease-fire recently. the biggest argument that they have for conducting this operation in idlib is a former al q qda affiliate and designatat under the resolutions about the area regegarded as terrrrorists by everybody. from the u.s. to thehe governmet of syria and e everybody in between. the problem m is basicallyly tht thisse the presence of hts area, 3 million civilians who live there, manyny of whom havee been disacaced from m other ares

of syryria because of ththe cont and there hahas been displaced p to 10 times are now very vulnerable to this l large military campaign. at the moment, they have nowhere to go.o. the border to turkey i is close. asy a are not ablble to fullyly that campaign restarts. -- two fully as the campaign restarts. because baghdadi was found in idlib, hiding out in the area, which comes as somewhat of a surprise because the al qaeda affiliate former al qaeda affiliates have been very hostile to isis historically, the fear is that idlib becomes there hasely to -- been a tendency to do of late anyway. give 3 million civilians who are very disparate, -- desesperate. they are in a desperate humanitarian situation and now my found themselves even more at attacked because

of the sort of carolyn's people are looking through. it is very important to deal with those groups, be they isis or al qaeda affiliate or former al qaeda affiliates. however, it is import also view it as protection issue. when you're talking about those large number of civilians living there who do have nowhere else to go, and that is the real fear that i've had medially for the people of idlib when i heard the news. amy: emma, you worked hard to try to have some of these journalists released. you knew them. of course, kayla mueller, who himself, by baghdadi she would be the first to point out as a humanitarian aid worker, as a peace activist that so many more muslims had been killed under isis.

the ease women raped by isis. -- the yazidi women raped by isis. if you could talk about you knew that died? close community, those of us that work in these kinds of areas. so we knew of or new everybody that was detained, not just myself, but many of my colleagues that were working in the area werere perersonally affected by this. we did everything that we could within the sort of limited capacities that we had as individuals to try to help, to have them released, and that was ultimately kind of unsuccessful. i think what is important to remember, though, justice for those american hostages comes in several different ways. obviously, baghdadi's death is hugely important as a symbolic issue. he was the person in charge when they were held and murdered. he also did just appalling

things to all of the people living in the areas that he was in control of in both syria and iraq. even if you're just looking at the western hostages themselves, there are two of the people from the group known as the beatles who took part in the detention and killing of -- knowing amy: explain what you mean by the beatles. >> the group of isis fighters who were the ones who detain and then were part of killing the western hostages. two of them -- they were nicknamed the beatles by the hostages themselves. them was killed in a drone strike in 2015, jihadi john. two have been detained in northeastern syria for over two years now stop there's been an absolute cold marriage trying to terms ofto trial, in single justice done by bringing them to the u.k. or the u.s. to stand trial with evidence for

the things they have done. in terms of invoking the names of those hostages in the speech that trump gave, yes, there is honestly -- particularly with kayla, a direct link to baghdadi but it is important remember that justice isn't just about a military activity. it is also about making sure the rule of law, bringing isis fighters to justice for those western hostages, and also for the regional communities that were affected by themem is usuay important as well. amy: i want to go back to president trump. a lot of clips were taken just from the very first part of the announcement. but he then moved on, rambling wildly. pres. trump: you know, these people are very smart.

they are not into the use of cell phones anymore. they are very technically brilliant. they use the internet better than almost anybody in the world, perhaps other than donald trump. but they use the internet incredibly well. and what they have done with the internet through recruiting and everything -- that is why he died like a dog, he died like a coward. he was whimpering, screaming, and crying. amy: juan cole, president trump's comments from the dogs to the internet? is extremelyp disturbing leader in the sense that he basically gave us a snuff film, a film about somebody's violent death as a sort of entertainment, i think. that isil ironies is pioneered on the internet what

is called stochastic terrorism. most terrorism is conducted by organized cells within a certain amount of command and control. one of the things that isil did as part of its policy ofl beastiness was to call upon people to undertake violent actions as a destabilizing attempt. i think it appealed to people on the internet who were already angry and unstable, often in taleo, and they would go out and commit violence. and then what attribute it to isil even though isil didn't know anything about it. although not with fact,me systematic the

trump also is responsible for a certain amount of stochastic terrorism. drove 10so shooter who americansill latino was, by his own admission, at least somewhat inspired by memes coming out of the trump administration. we saw this in other attempted attacks on mosques in the united states.. invoking hispanic invaders was a year ago at the pittsburgh synagogue where 11 jewish worshipers were killed. >> yes. trump has adopted and people around him have used this language of replacement, which is a far-right conspiracy theory that the american jewish to bring innts

immigrants replace white people and so made the american jews a target -- a monstrous lie. these kinds of internet memes asch isil some was pioneered violence, have now been taken up by the american far-right, which is in itself a kind of less organized but still very deadly form of isis-like activity. amy: finalally, i want to go to rami khouri. ofk about the significance the protests taking place there another reactivated protest anorak where more than 150 iraqis were killed the massive number of people, the human chain across lebanon that was formed this weekend. protestsk to see these in the proper historical and human context, you have to see them as being the latest phase

of a pipe list street demonstrations, activism using the law, activism using elections, petitioning leaders, boycotting groups that are abusing you -- doing all kinds of things that arab men and women in groups, civil society groups have done for the last about 45 years. you can really trace the beginning of this movement of citizen activism for more decent life, for social justice, for equity, for opportunity, for accountability, for participation, for voice, for a decent life. they're not asking for power or wealth or revenge. they just want to live, lives, which they have not been able to do in recent years with about 66% of all arabs now well documented by many surveys, both arab and international, about 66% -- about two out of three arabs is poor and vulnerable. they are marginalized politically and they don't have any rights and they often don't

even have any voice. if you speak out now in places like the united arab emirates or egypt or other places, you are indicted, sent to jail or something. this is a long process that started 30, 40 years ago, never got anywhere because the autocratic authoritarian power structure was so strong and could be back any kind of rebellion. but now people have reached the limit. and you see in jordan and lebanon anorak, sudan, algeria, you see people can put up with it anymore. they kampeter children in many cases. they don't know what to do when they have four or five children and none of them have jobs, none of them have anything decent to eat. this is a process of public demonstrations representing people who reach the limit of their limit and their being treated by their own power structure. forget about israel and u.s., russia, iran from all of these

other people that are militarily and politically being involved in the middle east and abusing people, just the interernal disdain with which governments treat their own people. that is the driving force. and lebanon, people have tried this several times before, but never has it reached the intensity, the depth, the brbreath, and the sophistication of theheemonstratitions we see today where people are basically sitting in the streets playing chess, playing music, cooking food, demanding that the power structure that has d demeaned tm and has not served them for the last 30, 40 years, this whole power structure be change. ththat is what is so interestin. we're not talking about people asking like they did 20, 30, 40 years ago to lower the price of milk or take away the extra tax on gasoline. they are asking for a complete overhaul of the government system so it reflects the fact that sovereignty invested in the citizen and the citizen is the

driver of public policy. what you have and lebanon and most arab countries is a political elite. lebanon is sick-based rehab and oligarchy of religious and ethnic leaders that have been there for 30, 40 years and in other countries, not so sectarian based. it is based on other mechanisms. strong ideasve about exactly how to set of the government, but they are articulating principles that are very dear to them and alien to the real-life, which is justice, opportunity, equality, decency, dignity, and a normal life. , i want tohouri thank you for being with us. >> they are nonviolent, which is very important. the sudan example is probably -- amy: we have to leave it there as we have to move on to other .rotests taking place in chile

rami khouri is senior public policy fellow and journalist-in-residence at the american university of beirut. juan cole, professor of history at the university of michigan. his blog "informed comment" is online at juancole.com. emma beals is an award-winning investigative journalist and editor of syria in context. we come back, we go to chile. ♪ [music break]

amy: thousands of demonstrators in santiago gathered friday and this song in unison. his music has become a soundtrack of the current movement. he was murdered just after september 11, 1973, when the dictator pinochet rose to power in u.s.-backed coup. this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman. we turn now to chile, where president sebastian pinera has announced a major reshuffling in his cabinet after more than one million people flooded the streets friday in massive peaceful demonstrations over inequality, rising cost of health care and education. the protest drew more than 5% of chile's population, and followed days of widespread civil unrest that sparked a violent police and military crackdown across

chile. vowed toay, pinera ease the military-imposesed curfew. at least 18 people have been killed and hundreds more have been shot and wounded since protests erupted on october 19 amid mounting reports of brutality and torture by chilean authorities. the protest in chile began in response to a subway fare hike and have grown into a mass uprising against their liberalism. -- neoliberalism. pinera canceled the fee increase, but protests have continued. chile is one of the richest countries in latin america, but also one of the most unequal. for more, we are joined by professor macarena gomez-barris, founder and director of the global south center and chairperson of social science and cultural studies at the pratt institute. she's the author of several books, including "where memory dwells: culture and state violence in chile." her mother worked with the allende government. and we're joined in chile via

democracy now! video stream is alondra carrillo vidal, a spokeswoman for chile's largest feminist advocacy group, coordinadora feminista 8m. the group organized the largest feminist mobilization since the end of pinochet's dictatorship. welcome to democracy now! we are going to begin with alondra carrillo vidal in santiago. can you explain what happened this weekend, the massive protests that took place and whwhat your demanding? >> i can try to explain. i think it isis really not popossible right now, but i can try. was thesaw friday largest mobilizatioion since the end of dictatorship. to end thear in size dictatorship of pinera --pinochet. this inorganic tendency of

people to occupy the streets to protest in the streets, but it doesn't really have any demand. it doesn't really have any list of demands. it is almost about everything. it is about life. the way it is organized in chile , the way it has gotten worse with the years, and the way people fear it is going to be even worse in the future because the political measures that happened taken by all governments, not just pinera for ,he government that came before the centererleft governments coe has s also deepened t this polil measures that are neoliberal political measures that have made the condiditions of type really precarious for thee majoririty in chile. in n theo that are

structural violence like violence against women, against sexual dissidents, against beingts, against indigenous people. and all of that violence is part of day-to-day life in chile, i believe. that is why we have several demands, but a horizon for change deeply in chile. amy: can you talk about the significance of pinera dismissing his entire cabinet to form a new one? does that matter to you and to the protesters at this point? >> we are asasking him to o lea. people want t to overthrow t ths governrnment becausese they are responsible nonot only for the political measures that have made life p precarious in the lt years, but also he is responsible politically for the rapes come the sexual political

violence t that has been takekey the military and the police. he is responsible for the disappearance and murders of people in the last week. i think he has taken a desperate asking all his ministers to leave, but it is a desperate measure that will not alalm people. we don't want this government to reorganize itself. we want it on. amy: professor macarena gomez-barris, you have been involved in the struggle in chile back to your family working in the allende government and fled to this country after pinochet rose to power. miller burlison be -- neoliberalism? >> this is a powerful statement.

one of the things it says is the continuities that have happened since the pinochet dictatorship, as you know, chile was the birthplace of neoliberalism in many ways and structural adjustment in the lead to the washington consensus is strong. pressure been ongoing on people creatating precarious conditions for many, m my years. what is important to say here is the pinochet constitution of 1979 that was revived during the dictatorship is still in place so people are still living with a kind of legal apparatus that was put in place there. and the ongoing security apparatus stop there is much to be said about what is currently going on in chile. one thing that has now been not good -- document it in the news very directly is the connection with the indigenous, anti-indigenous legislation and the kind of terrorism, the discourses of terrorism that in the southern

territories. this has been going on for the last 30 years since the 1990's. we see this transference of what is happening in the deep south. now to santiago and other places. this is a really important discussion because it has served as a lab for the security apparatus. the human rights violations come the kinds of torture, the disappearances -- they have continuity with what happened before, but it is also continuity with what has been going on much more recently in indigenous chile. , do alondra carrillo vidal you see this growing? talk about the feminist leadership of this movement. 5% of the entire population coming out this weekend. >> yes. i don't know i if it has been a leadershship, but it has been an important participation in this because i say it isis not a leadership because this has no leadership role at all, i believe.

people are organizing from below. feminists, isone, we are encouraging people to organize local assemblies to take care of many things. one of them is collective care of children and the elderly, local assemblies to take care of sustainment, and also to open a discussion about what we want for the future and whwhat e wantnt as a country. withwe have done march 8 seveveral hundreds of thousandsf women in the streets is to put forward a program, a political manany -- thatront is been a horizon of the feminist movement in the last year. amy: we're going to