welcome to the alone the show will get the real headlines with none of the mercy becoming live out of washington d.c. and i'm lucy kept enough in for alone now last night the united nations security council declared a no fly zone over libya with the weight of the united states behind the resolution so are we now witnessing the march to yet another war with a middle eastern country all in the name of a humanitarian crisis and then switching gears to the ongoing catastrophe in japan health concerns continue to rise up to the head of to tokyo power company admitted

that the radiation could in fact be harmful to the public but the more we learn about this new nuclear crisis we have to ask could this whole situation have been prevented and then move over to the opera bird there could be a bright young beautiful female filling in your shoes going to tell you about the lead us through shell networking site and just why it may be so successful it could soon be facebook and then of course protests are planned for this weekend which our team will be covering to call out the united states over there on ethical treatment of private private bradley manning so as that is that as the case for the possible leaker continues to haunt the government going to get some perspective on this issue from daniel ellsberg that famous man who leaked the pentagon papers back in the one nine hundred seventy s. . and then let's be honest this week has been kind of tactics a lineup take a little break with today's happy hour we're going to bring you all the stories making the biggest buzz on the web with producer jenny churchill and the daily callers mike riggs details on all of this and much more on tonight's show but first

our top story. now last night the u.n. security council declared a no fly zone over libya along with an arms embargo in its declaration that the united nations security council calls for a nest all the necessary measures to stop gadhafi brutal response to libya's rebellion and short it's a declaration of war now the effort is being described as a humanitarian mission to liberate the people of libya from a terrible tyler tyrant and most people would probably find get off his attacks on his own armed population to be repulsive but of course the same could be said and in fact was constantly said about saddam hussein and the taleban look at how well those efforts have turned out for the united states so is humanitarianism simply of the beautiful package in which every new war is wrapped or is this the good of the just war as president obama himself said today and here to discuss this is jordan secular human rights attorney and director of international operations for the

american center for law and justice and joining us from our new york studios is scott horton he's a contributing editor on legal and national security and matters for harper's magazine gentlemen thank you both so much for being here now we do know of course that. there has been a ceasefire declared at the moment and we don't know exactly how the situation is going to play out but jordan i want to start with you is this potential intervention i just cause as president obama said today i do think it's a just cause maybe a little bit too late for those of us who were been following the story closely and work in international law and human rights law were hoping that when the rebels really had tripoli were coming into tripoli and khadafi forces were not yet really well organized in response to this popular uprising that was going on with military equipment so a bit different what happened in egypt and what we noticed is that. women could

offer was the weakest the you would get stuck in these discussions and unfortunately this does point to some of the problems with this. curity council taking too long now what we're concerned about is that if we if we do if this goes forward if there's airstrikes on tripoli and air strikes on military bases what happens after gadhafi is military is or is he just going to keep control of eighty percent of the country which he's been able to get back because we've done nothing the past a month march third president obama said he needs to go and it took until today some more than two weeks to finally ok any action and no one is saying by the way make it clear to all the viewers u.s. troops should be on the ground there absolutely not we're not supporting that either. as this i just cause as our guests here in the studio. but i think that there's no question whatsoever that the security council at the united nations has a right under the united nations charter to authorize intervention to protect the civilian population from being attacked so that's that's an appropriate use of

power i think the big question is how this is going to play out in fact and you know with this resolution we see an expansion of the scope of the authority beyond the prior resolutions that were issued with respect to bosnia and iraq so this is not just the no fly zone that's been established it is also authorized. hostilities against the naval ships and a land forces as well so it's a considerable broadening now i think what jason's talking about clearly wouldn't be authorized that is a military intervention on the side of one of the combatant parties that would not be a humanitarian intervention that would be a direct engagement in the civil war and what i was saying was what what happens to the rebel side that the world is kind of rally to that are reading with people at the u.n. during the cease fire they're not allowed to keep progressing could off is not allowed to keep progressing they've got control maybe of still one city though his

troops are supposedly still firing on it and just miles away as we speak right now the second part i think is different from afghanistan or iraq is the broad very broad coalition here you had lebannon predominantly muslim arab countries voting yes on this intervention you have the arab league supporting this intervention you have europe supporting the intervention so certainly this is different than iraq or afghanistan in the past to turn in numbers don't necessarily justify a cause i mean you have the arab resolution arab league constantly pushing for tougher action against israel and what israel is doing and for example of a palestinian in gaza and the other areas and you don't see the united states stepping up and that in fact we've consistently abstained or voted against any sort of action on that so how do you just. i had one no country i mean you had countries that could have done that. russia and china could have done that if they felt that way and i think listen you have to base some of this on the leader's remarks as crazy as people may believe khadafi is on either side of this issue he said and made a threat to the people in benghazi specifically and said you know we will not spare

anyone and when you make a threat like that in all the world leaders are meeting at the united nations it puts a lot of pressure on them to step in before there's a genocide kind of activity and certainly the u.n. has a record of not stepping in quickly enough to force the civilian populations are completely decimated and i think they're concerned about it but we're talking every now is airstrikes not ground troops not blackhawk down kind of scenarios and if things go well maybe we can still stop gadhafi and ultimately get him out of power there and i think people will be have their country and i'll stick with your heart and what does going well what does that look like i mean if the rebels set up a government that ends up being some sort of islamic hardline called the fundamentalist government would that have justified what was there a way i think we're far away from that note in those different representatives and that's certainly been an issue here is no one is exactly sure who is the leader of this movement there's not one single person has come forward but i'd say that we had one when a dictator threatens to start killing his own population that's not the first

decision we need to make and we make that decision after we dismantle his ability to kill that population so if we take out us what happens we take out his military capabilities so he cannot strike the civilians which means he could not survive if those attacks well he wants survive there and then we have to start working with democracy building organizations civil society organizations the united nations the world community has to come together and establish these governments just like what's happening in egypt in places like that i mean this is a little too reminiscent to me there are going to remain during the iraq war you know i mean are we going to be here and leslie how do you decide when democracy building is somehow just especially when you don't know who the rebels exactly are and what a potential new government would look like. well i think precisely but let's go back to the question of who does jordan mean when he says we is we the united states is the united states going to intervene here and take out coffee and install a new government that government would have no legitimacy and i think here the

legitimacy of what the security council has done will rest in the large measure on the even handedness of the implementation and also one who does it in this case the u.s. is already engaged in two wars on the ground in the middle east it's overtax at this point this effort really should be led by the arab world by the arab league and we have two arab powers certainly have the air ability to do it egypt and saudi arabia the question is where and where they what we see right now is the arab league or the arab league is of importing this and the europeans by the u.k. for france know how into order for they also have an issue where they're much closer to libya they have to deal with various security american people we have a poll that came out that fifty five percent of the american people were not for any sort of military i will say that i don't think president obama has sold this well and explained this wasn't very long i thought congress has not even been

a part of this you had made maybe next week and we may see them having to pass some kind of resolutions but i peacetime i don't think one there's any indication that the united states is going to be setting up some government there primarily it looks like the u.k. and france are taking the lead role on this second we were asked by these opposition leaders and we saw that happen from the groups that are at the united nations so we're not in voluntarily just inserting ourself in a place like iraq where wasn't some kind of outcry from who said come fight for us and we see it as an enemy and we're here for the people not because of some greater interest in fact the united states had normalized a lot of relations with moammar gadhafi and this was another situation like what happened in egypt where it's not necessarily great for our foreign policy that we're having to deal with it but we have to deal with what's happening today which . and does that mean we're going to have to go and intervene on behalf of the saudi arabian people in a box raney people should we go and extend it to china that united nations where you're trying i graciously i think the united nations may have to i mean that's part of their mission that's part of the security council's mission if people are

being massacred anywhere that's why we have a security council that's why we have article forty two of the in the security in the you in charter it says you can authorize that means forty one people who were killed in yemen today for instance i drive by the exactly the same sort of measures in yemen as well as bahrain is one of saudi arabia soon we're going to be deeply enmeshed through out the middle east but i think the big question we really have to come back and look at is a question of process within the united states within the united states there's all this happened because barack obama goes to the security council and gets a resolution and the united states under the u.s. constitution the war powers are very carefully divided between congress and the united states and following not only the law but our historical practice the president has sold the case for going to war and no make no mistake about it that's what we're talking about here he sold the case to the american public gotten the support of the public and they've gotten congress' support what is happened to this effect forty eight hours ago we have the national security adviser saying the

united states had no imperative because it is not about this we're going to have a civilian population we're not trying for it so that's why there's a massive. and i think that term is wrong and misleading to the people i think there's a lot left resonator here it's use that term i think there's a lot to be debated here but unfortunately that's all the time we have right now the only thing that i will say is that a lot of questions remain and i don't know if we can really justify going around and deciding who's right and who's wrong and that's matching our military hours in this instance and how we're going to have to have to take a quick break but right afterwards i'm going to switch from the crisis in libya to the catastrophe in japan artie's i heard bennett reports from outside the evacuees . so the president struggle to figure out what if that's the nuclear catastrophe is going to happen that country and of course on a much lighter note is she the next big internet logo we need a college student who is cashing in with her new social networking site that in just a bit. let's

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long response is going to play your voice be heard. now the desperate situation continues to escalate at the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan as water is dropped on the unstable reactors officials seem to be exhausting all options to keep from all out nuclear meltdown but they've also asked for help from the international resources to provide aid in this nuclear mass but nevertheless radiation levels at the plant are at record levels and each new report seems to bring more bad news for the people of japan and add to all this growing distrust in their government and it's really become clear that the people of japan seem to fear for their health their homes their livelihood but how far does this devastation spread artie's ivor bennett is in japan and brings us the latest. this is the town of o.-r. i-a around halfway between tokyo and fukushima i'm still one hundred fifty kilometers south of the nuclear power plant but already the radiation levels here

over double back to those in tokyo they're going to counter i've got just started beating wildly short circuits in your point five months even still around it's not harmful to one's health especially just yet but it is certainly a concern so much so that the army has started to hand out these face masks here that people are wearing you know that they were going to were very afraid of the radiation but who can do very much about it all we can do is call the media and trust the government is. the tsunami didn't actually coming this far inland with the town escaped most of the damage however since the earthquake they've been without drinking water here in the residence of the common fill up water they need from points like this in the town set up by the army further up the coast it's a similar story we've been travelling along this road for the last ten fifteen kilometers looking for a place to have lunch but none of the restaurants are open all of the. truth so you

can have the we can to we can loop and with this we can do anything. this is the start of japan's ravaged east coast norene life the other day bridges lie strewn all over the place here a wall collapsed over here thousands of fallen down such as the force of the tsunami this is also what we don't turn back because your county is reading the highest it has been all day one point zero four might receive it's how. my fear is that i won't be able to live here anymore and this is my home obviously i feared for my health with the radiation but it's not just about that i'm afraid i will be able to come back here we're only around a hundred and twenty kilometers south of fukushima power plant now if the wind blows this way and even worse if the rain comes and the radiation to arrive to inform. the authorities i heard bennett reporting from japan well the nuclear crisis there continues to unfold as authorities scramble to prevent

a total net meltdown of a power plant and the boss of the tokyo electric power company today broke down in tears as you pan finally acknowledged that the way the asian spewing from the nuclear complex was enough to actually kill from citizens but could this entire crisis happen prevented well this is a success this is investigative journalist chipchura thank you so much for joining us now before we get to the issues with the tokyo power plant i want to ask very quickly authorities have raised the threat level from four to five which is the same as the three mile island disaster is this the situation is getting worse or should the higher level been there in the first. place probably should have been there in the first place not a nuclear expert but when i've been following the events of the last couple days it's clear that this was a growing disaster from a few days ago and it's i think they should have been raising it pretty high levels as soon as this car broke and it seems it started looking like a meltdown right well now that tepco the tokyo electric power company has been known for some shady practices in the past and i know that you've grown up and ok

you've lived there as a journalist based on your understanding of the nuclear industries relationship with the japanese government is there something to indicate that this crisis perhaps could have been prevented is there this trend of corporate and government interests sort of stepping in line together well it's hard to say this could have been prevented because of the disaster is such a bad one i mean this is a terrible earthquake a once in a thousand iran to be knocked out the power supplies but yes this particular company has had a very bad record on safety it's had a terrible record of actually covering up safety problems actually rewriting reports to make it look like things weren't quite as bad why obfuscation and the government has kind of you know sometimes taken action against this company and against some of the other nuclear utilities there but there has been a very. very cozy arrangement between the government and the utilities there and you know nuclear power has grown there by leaps and bounds it's fifty four plants

so that's an interesting thing because i mean in some ways you can argue that the nuclear industry was born out of this terrible tremendous crisis in japan right i mean we would drop a bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki you would think that a country with such a painful history with nuclear power would be even more adverse towards relying on it how do you think the nuclear industry was sort of able to overcome those that's a stretch they're not here well this industry grew so large during that period of very rapid growth which started in the one nine hundred sixty s. through the one nine hundred seventy s. unbelievable growth of various you know industries huge industries on the coast. true chemicals steel automobiles all over the all over the country and so you know there was a lot of the way things grew was there was this post relationship between business and the government where there wasn't that much oversight people going back and forth there's a system they call him daddy which refers to officials leaving their government posts after they retire and going and getting hired by either companies or industry

group sounds like a street in washington around just like washington but worry that you know the problem is there where you had these people that were supposed to be regulating utilities or various companies been going to them right after they quit yes it's the same kind of problem you have here where you don't have this complete independence and so much or you know when you have oversight over a dangerous industry like this you have to have that kind of independence and i wouldn't even see it completely exists here we know the situation in lots of our industries and frankly i find it a little hypocritical for our government the united states government to be criticizing japan when we had the corps of engineers completely fail to protect the people who are leaning out and built levees that collapsed that had drowned hundreds of people and there's been no justice there's been there's been no you know oversight about that there's nothing and that's the telcos hasn't been hit hard enough we found out that the obama administration actually offered four

million dollars to tap to bill two potential reactors in the gulf coast area which mr bush is not going to happen after this disaster but what lessons can we draw as parallels between our own industry corporate government relationship and that in japan when it comes to is that dangerous industries well i think that it's not accurate to say that the japanese government reaction has been the same all this time i mean this government there was a ruling party the liberal democratic party which ruled for almost fifty years which was heavily funded at the beginning of its of its time in power by the us cia you can. look it up in the new york times there's an old story in japan this government was kept in power for reasons of the cold war and japan as a bastion against the soviet union against china against north korea and so on and they supported this this government for years and knowing they had this very close relationship with the industry and i think you know that's that's the kind of system we definitely don't want to have but unfortunately i think we have

a lot of signs of it in this country here over the last two or three months that your craft a grassroots push right now that's sort of been co-opted by certain forces where regulation is bad regulation is bad for business and bad for our economy so do you think in the wake of this crisis maybe some of those forces will be rethought here in the states could we see maybe more regulation of nuclear industry one would certainly hope so and i think it's going to be very hard for any utility to build a new new new nuclear reactor i don't know how long it's been it's been least thirty years it's been a new reactor built here three and you know it's just not going to happen and i think now you know people are looking at these places near the coast of they're going to be close to the tsunami earthquake. zones in years fault lines and that kind of thing there's a lot of questions going to be really all right well a lot of questions remain thank you so much that was course our guest now she's been called she's been called the female mark zuckerberg breaking through the glass ceiling in a field that's been mostly dominated by well young guys who i guess are really good at computers and stuff now along with her brother kathryn cook launched the social

networking web site my yearbook dot com in her bedroom while she was still in just high school and today the twenty one year old is at the helm of the successful company which is now worth more than some twenty million dollars she joins us now to talk about her success thank you so much for being here and people not me i just want to understand how is that you watch this company in two thousand and five yet another fifteen how in the world is it that you know you have one of the top most visited one of the top twenty five most visited sites twenty five million unique users how is it that you were able to see. excede when you have such intense competition from facebook my space friends circled i guess. well i really think that a huge part of that is just well my yearbook was founded to meet new people and we have since then just trying to become the best way to meet new people and we try to be very innovative ways of doing so for instance live which is our synchronous gaming platform we just launched the end of january is allows users to do

a lot of video chats or playing games and it's a great way to be because you know when you're playing chess or some online you want to see that and interact with them in different ways and actually been enormously successful with over half a dozen developers already developing on the platform and the average member already. uses it has fifteen video chats per day now what are the issues that we talk a lot about on the show is the issue of privacy which of course facebook has struggled with google has struggled with we saw both mark zuckerberg schmidt of google sort of putting out this message that you know what privacy is really in the hands of the users and that these companies should not be held liable for releasing information because people should be responsible about what they put out there as someone who has this social networking site what's your stance on that i mean whose responsibility is of to protect users privacy well it's really a shared responsibility i mean we but really the responsibility is on the company to make sure that people know exactly what they're sharing by having very simple

privacy controls for instance on my yearbook you can go into your settings and have only friends only can view your can view your profile friends only can view your close friends like your messages or you can have everyone and you know different degrees in between and i mean that we also have a quarter our headcount is actually dedicated to moderation in member safety so we see privacy and safety concerns very seriously i mean your book and we we would never sell rent or otherwise provide. my you books members informations to third parties without their explicit permission and i'm just curious have you guys ever experience. any issues with for example the federal government coming in to try to get information on somebody i mean we know that twitter has been subpoenaed for records of certain wiki leaks related users and and other sites have issues have you ever. actually worked with the new jersey attorney general to come up with our report abuse links just to make sure that our members are. and to work with our entire state you programs to make sure every. we use best practices

and happily the same report on every page is very helpful to members just to understand what they're doing and what they're sharing and you think you can maybe use this privacy issue as a way of capitalizing to surpass mark zuckerberg and facebook certainly has been hit out hard for its privacy. i think that privacy will always be an issue because i mean it's hard to know. how your sharing will really but i do think that it's something like europe as well we do warner members you know don't push things and we allow members to view who actually view their profile which obviously facebook doesn't do it so i mean that helps with that issue as well as we have. messages we have notices and every message about the fold but i have to ask i mean it's such a male dominated field how does it feel as a woman is it difficult to sort of succeed and get up there. well i don't think so

i mean i mean obviously you know the exemption sort of. i mean i guess i was actually entrepreneurship is very limited for women it's not really but there are definitely aren't a lot oh we're not sure if i know in fact i was actually at a organization that i was competing for an entrepreneur at work very young student right and you know i mean it is the final rounds top five and so my prize for having there was a man's watch and cologne very very. i do hope that more women will go into the field i hope to be a mentor to some hopefully my peers will have more women on the show talking about just this now we have much more ahead on the show you thought that you thought that she was just a political pundit but we see that and culture is now a nuclear scientist and the message from dr culture is that radiation me actually be good for you we're going to tackle her claims that are actual times that of course what makes daniel ellsberg and hero and bradley manning and all the

unpatriotic villains and i'm going to ask that very question to the man himself mr holdsworth leaked the pentagon papers back in one nine hundred seventy one and showed the world what was actually going on in vietnam we're going to hear from him perhaps just right after this break. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through that sort of people who can you trust no one who is you would be able machinery see where are we heading state controls capital city schools sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more.