see stop stories people believe didn't count until tripoli remain defiant in the face of the always daily nato airstrikes and he'll shortage or is that paralyzing life in the city. bigger west presses ahead with plans to build a base in the persian gulf militants again and the cia has been tasked with launching their tocs just why they key so they undermine their prompt being blamed for the deaths of hundreds of civilians in afghanistan and pakistan. major details emerging seventy thousand people arrested in the country since president mubarak was toppled. those are the headlines then you want to show is up next with a report on how big a role the launch oil corporations played in the run up to the need to intervention

. we've got to. the biggest issues get voice ceased to face with the news makers. welcome to the lower show we'll get the real headlines with none of them or say right here live in washington d.c. now today i will take a look at how big of a role to play and leading up to the war in libya will analyze the g.o.p. presidential debate from last night and we'll talk to an author who claims that your favorite t.v. shows are all being used by hollywood liberals to shape america in their own leftist image scary i know but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has been devoting their time to instead of covering the real stories.

you know it's not like there's a whole lot going on in this country to be worried about right now right around the recessions taking a double dip we have over nine percent unemployment and that's just the official number that doesn't include all of those discouraged and underemployed workers housing prices continue to fall millions of americans have lost their homes the middle class is disappearing the top one percent of the nation holds forty percent of the wealth we're fighting three wars one of which has now become the longest in american history and we also have two shadow wars going on then thousands of americans have lost their lives in these wars that have no end in sight and serve no purpose to us thousands more have committed suicide once returning home now thousands more are suffering from physical injuries and from p.t.s.d. congress is in a battle over reducing the deficit in which it seems that we may just falls on our debt as a nation if they don't make up their minds and while defense spending remains untouched in this budget battle programs that help lower income americans and

revive them with heating assistance or health assistance to the young. as for being cut so taking all of that into account if you have a chance to sit down with president obama one on one you got to ask him any question that you like where would you start the economy war education i know it's a really tough choice so it's a good thing that we have professional journalists in this country that have mastered their craft to do that work for us and curry side down with the president in an exclusive one on one interview and she shared tidbits of it with chuck todd this morning on m.s.n. b.c. and here's what chuck todd wanted to know about first to incur it was it was fascinating to hear him talk about everything in particular his first blunt reaction i'd say to congressman anthony weiner's indiscretions let's say for a look at what he told you. well obviously what he did was highly inappropriate i can tell you that if it was me i would resign and i could tell you house

democrats relieved to hear the president say the r word resign i was surprised at how much sound he gave you on where it was surprising as well to me yeah not really we were expecting him to your colleague just sat down with the president during the worst economic recession since the great depression and the first thing you ask about is what he thinks of anthony weiner i mean this is just getting out of hand but ok let's move on so you gloss over the interview with the president you take the time out to hear his opinion on wiener gate and the what do you report next check. cia is expected to start sending armed drones to seek al-qaeda targets inside yemen according to the washington post u.s. military ran all previous covert action in yemen the change is significant because the cia operates under different legal authority than the military the decision reflects fears of a growing political instability in yemen. that kind of

a big deal you see we're not officially at war with or in yemen and our military has been illegally hitting the place with drone strikes and bombs for the last couple of years something that the media never really asks about now because we want to keep it legally hitting the place with drone strikes the decision has been made to just give that responsibility over the cia so you can expand the entire campaign and there's less publicity about it and so congress doesn't ask any questions and you give that thirty seconds of your coverage we never gave deserve a question from the president but shadow wars being fought on our behalf paid for by our tax dollars in ways without asking anyone not getting congressional approval that isn't. that's what i call a mainstream this. now is move on from one non declared war to another today the house of representatives voted on and passed an amendment to the defense appropriations bill to prohibit the

use of funds for american military operations in libya invoking the war powers resolution now aside from the fact that it's about damn time they did that the sixty day mark was fast weeks ago it still has to go through the senate and it's probably more of a symbolic show but while congress takes their sweet time let's return to asking why were in libya to begin with so you wiki leaks state department cable as reported by the washington post has shown us of the relationship between major us oil companies and will market off we have been souring for a time prior to the beginning of the war coffee wanted tougher contract terms higher payments he pressured the oil companies to influence u.s. policies and even threaten to expel u.s. oil and gas companies from the country and a salon dot com glenn greenwald brilliantly pointed out what a coincidence it is that we didn't treat bahrain or syria or yemen well the same intervention on behalf of their people as we take it off so here to discuss this with me is john glasser assistant editor and blogger for antiwar dot com john

thanks so much for being here tonight and now of course i think anybody who does real analysis of why we go to war would have said this before obviously you can look at the situation in libya as i said it comparison to bahrain or to syria or our to yemen and we know that libya's oil rich country we know that's in our interest but we see something like a wiki leaks cable that shows you know the stuff being written down at the state department about these negotiations about the relationship souring between get off and the oil companies do you think that that adds more power to the lunch yeah of course i mean any analysis of u.s. poultry towards the middle east needs to include oil but we sort of forgot about that would be. for a while. and now these wiki leaks cables show us that not only was the relationship between the us corporations and. but. there with the u.s. department had its eyes on a oil deal between an italian company and

a russian company who both wanted a giant stake in libyan oil and it was going to undercut u.s. efforts to do to do the same and so naturally they had their eyes on it and they were literally plotting ways to prevent the deal from going down and then fast forward a little bit and we were in libya the cables themselves didn't mention anything about war or going to war but since the libyan intervention has started that war has been that deal has been abandoned and so i think it's a legitimate question to be asking ourselves you know did the rebel uprising in libya present the obama administration with a perfect opportunity to go in with force and secure their own oil interests in libya as opposed to waiting around and how much money every talking about that was already invested at least specifically by u.s. oil companies after the sanctions were lifted in two thousand and four i mean it wasn't a small chunk there conoco phillips and marathon and others invested on the order

of seven hundred to eight hundred million dollars in libya's oil not to mention the fact that after we normalize relations during the bush administration with qaddafi we were paying him for an a that was on the order of about five million dollars a year so yeah there's a giant stakes here you know one of the things too i think that we have to talk about is this isn't the first time that we've seen this happen a lot of people could argue that the war in iraq was for oil too although at the end of the day i guess it wasn't really the u.s. oil companies that got the biggest stake there but how many other times have we seen this exact situation play out where you won't ever hear a politician allow the thoughts of oil come into play it's almost hard to pick. because this is actually been the primary driver of u.s. foreign policy for over a century the most dramatic parallel that i could think of is back in the one nine hundred fifty s. with iran in one nine hundred fifty one the iranian prime minister mohammad most of that started making calls about nationalization of the oil industry and that was

previously dominated by a british oil company but in response to this in one nine hundred fifty three the cia orchestrated the coup overthrew the democratically elected government of iran and then installed the shah who gave us priority in terms of business interests the motivations here are the same namely to use force to get money power and influence and perhaps more importantly to prevent any other what are called global competitors from gaining any gains that we might want to get we want to maintain our high germany and we don't want anyone else stepping on our toes it's it's basically ruling the world through force if somebody else was doing this and maybe on a smaller scale people would call it terrorism but since the u.s. is doing it it's the foreign policy you know one of the things that i think we've noticed from a lot of the way to me is cables that came out is the u.s. government essentially doing the bidding of many corporations of private business we just had a story on this show last week when we can fix cable show the and haiti actually the u.s. government was intervening to keep the factory wages low so companies like levis

and haynes and for the loom could all keep getting their goods produced there so we could all keep buying our cheap jeans you know and i think that makes you start asking a lot of questions obviously the war in libya doesn't have anything to do with americans who at this point the majority of whom do not support the war effort there doesn't do anything to fix our economy to bring jobs into the mix but why do corporations have so much power over the u.s. government and you know obviously geopolitics plays a role here and you mentioned certain deals like the italian and russian deal if they wanted to kick out but a lot of this is about businesses and about companies. yeah i mean big government is a business unto itself and when other giant interests get involved they have a giant interest themselves in colluding with them and doing their bidding. us foreign policy a big leg of it is trying to benefit the rent seeking corporations that we see another big leg as i mentioned is to prevent any other global competitors but they

work together pretty seriously do you think of that has anything to do with why they're going after wiki leaks with such faery yeah obviously i mean it's clear especially since this wiki leaks stuff that the government does not keep things secret for national security they keep things secret to hide them from the population because of the population knows about them they'll be pretty angry. to protect themselves from their own democratic populations that they keep these things secret so that's no surprise how do you look at this vote by congress or at least by the house of representatives today they just attached it on to the larger defense appropriations bill and i'm just not really sure if that's going to go anywhere if it's going to get passed the senate i'm going to be kind of neutral on this i could be pessimistic but it's a step in the right direction as you said better late than never i suppose but yeah you're right they just attached it to the broader military appropriations bill it has still has to be voted upon by the senate still has to be voted upon by the house and so you know we should wait and see but what would that actually take

place because in the meantime they've been funding this war just the pentagon they haven't been going to congress at all so would this actually even affect that they just keep trying for the pentagon's conference for a while it wouldn't be the first time in history however given the fact that this war is sort of very much in the headlines and congress has been putting some pressure despite how much i hate congress some pressure on mr obama boehner today even wrote a sort of strong e-mail letter to president obama to. you know i find himself within the war powers resolution very very soon so it could come to a head with the next couple of weeks maybe not i don't know something that we saw a lot of the republican candidates or the potential republican candidates saying last night to have a g.o.p. debate was they were all pretty fervently against what was going on in libya right now but surprisingly i haven't really heard anybody talking about expanding our cia drone campaign in yemen and every time that the media happens to report on it to

you never hear any legal language as to what world this is allowed and see this is what's amazing to me about the expansion of the drone program in yemen history seems to have presented us with a bit of a controlled experiment we have the libya situation that was had the support of nato had the support of the u.n. was done with the military and then on the other side we have pakistan where there's a secret drone program going on it's headed by the cia not by the military there's no accountability. and so over in libya we have the congress actually has some recourse they have to actually have some ability to put pressure on the president for some accountability and stop him getting us into all these wars and in pakistan that's not the case and pakistan though at least you could argue has something to do with the war in afghanistan obviously since who we're trying to find is located in pakistan or at least along the border region yemen is a whole different ballgame i got to wrap it up john thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you. all right now let's take

a look at the oil situation in libya from another perspective on the ground the fire for fuel is about more than just politics so fight for a highly sought after a necessity. the notion that tells us how the libyan people have adapted to this oil crisis. it's may have some of the laws just reserves on the planet but these days the base also got some of the longest at its pastoral stations the international sanctions imposed on the colonel's regime does not include a few and. but. if this. back to the fuel might be used by gadhafi as military forces with roads closed factories at a stop and foreign workers long since gone from the war stricken country is facing its worst energy crisis ever the new reality is ordinarily been drivers now spend vast amounts of time queuing for fuel two months ago this became a common theme here maybe in a rich country people have been lining up to fill up their cars for hours even days

but this line is a little different compared to the gas station at the end of this here is women only and barker is a university student and has volunteered here to help organize the process she stamps few russian books which allow individuals thirty five liters a week she believes it's a great idea to have women only stations. or less names that women have too many things to do they don't fight each other world queuing and never shoot into the year is men often do so we're able to serve up to nine hundred cars day don't have to look at me this line is long but others are moving longer petrol still cheaper than the water here just a few cents for litter it's just that is often in short supply. if there is no fuel we have to lug cars and return reentry piers that could be days. women only

gas stations is one of many innovations supposed to ease people's lives in a country that has there are also special problems for ambulances and police cars. the needle surrounded us but we should move on so we try to do our best to help people get by if we give up will die a lot of those seeking to oust colonel gadhafi may have been hoping the hardships will incite people to rise up against their leader but instead it only seems to be fueling people's hatred towards what they feel is western imperially. and they do damaged our city destroyed our life they told us they want to save people is that the way to save the people tell me this is just a crime. while the warring sides try to find a way out of months of devastating conflict ordinary people looking for a way to just leave their every day lives dreaming of all times when they. would be

with a distant memory. tripoli. time for a break when we come back a look at a spanish website that isn't taking ice seizing their domain lying down and all sorts out the good the bad and ugly for last night's presidential debate with a katniss from politico. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've got the future of covered. could the u.s. government finally be up against a challenge here for how u.s.

immigrations and customs enforcement has been seizing internet domains all the name of combat and piracy that includes foreign websites well it looks like there's one domain that's actually fighting back director based in spain has lost a third of its traffic after i seized their entire domain they're not too happy about it in fact rover directors parent company puerto eighty has filed what many think is the first courthouse challenge to quote operation in our sites that's the official name but for the project that's responsible for seizing all these domains and it turns out this site is not in fact a bit torrent file sharing website see it's just a discussion board for the eight hundred sixty five thousand registered users but some users have links to pirated sports streams within the discussion boards so as we told you in the past ice considers just linking to pirated material grounds for overtaking internet domains which is absolutely absurd so eighty is fighting to get those two hundred eight domains back because the company says that it hasn't

committed any copyright infringement and in their legal filing eighty seven government has not shown and cannot show the site ever was used to commit a criminal act much less that it will be in the future by hosting discussion forums and linking to existing material on the internet portal eighty is not committing copyright infringement let alone criminal copyright infringement now the company goes on to explain the us government took it upon themselves to shut down an entire website over a few arguably very questionable links there were added to it so you know what i really hope this lawsuit actually gained some national attention because ro direct is right the government continues to arbitrarily shut down for and web sites with very little rhyme or reason let alone jurisdiction especially considering the website has been declared illegal in spain where it's from now critics in the us have already cited the problems with the way the government categorizes categorizes a mere link as a reasonable cause to shut down any don't. or websites and that would be a domestic site but to do this on a forum that discussion board where it's open to discussion links and images from

about everyone and anyone that seems to be crossing the line so let's hope this lawsuit will force the government to rein in isis methods of civil seizure and allow the internet to remain a place where people can engage in open discussion of all kinds otherwise a lot of web sites going to find themselves in the same screwed up situation as the one who directed even if they aren't located here on u.s. soil. well last night we saw seven g.o.p. presidential contenders a face off in a c.n.n. debate in new hampshire it was less of a faceoff and more of a love fest centered around the one evil in this world president obama and his policies obama and the gays in the muslims that is but the majority of the debate did center on the economy and the need to create jobs which for republicans means continuing to lower taxes and getting the government out of the picture as far as calling this the depression and tim pawlenty said that obama has a defeatist and decline in attitude about our exceptionalism and the prospects for our competitive economic growth but if you are playing

a drinking game to the word obama last night something tells me you got so hammered you just didn't show up to work this morning let's get into what really stood out and what was completely left out and more importantly what this country would look like if any of the seven did become the president of the united states joining me to discuss it all is politico's david thanks so much for being here tonight. oh no these debates are always entertaining gives us a little glimpse into how these presidential contenders really hold themselves did you was there a winner for you and winner or loser i think the winner was mitt romney was he's the presumptive front runner this is the guy who ran last time a republican seemed to go with the next guy in line as you mentioned nobody went after the guy i thought he was going to take some hits people are going to throw stones at him for for health care for romney care for his past flip flop on abortion the old basically gave him a pass once he was a winner and joe bachmann pretty. made herself look pretty good i think everybody had to admit that what yet totally was going after mitt romney and at the moment

it's all obama obama obama i don't know what they're going to start turning on each other but i think there was a loser last night and you know forgive me if i'm being really really mean but good lord john king was just the worst a moderator of all time and he was so awkward you are you. seeing everybody why do i say that every second. they have to keep moving i want to think that i'm going to have a little bit go for it jump it don't just have your voice in the background so i can hear everybody answer and this is what really got me into a little fun segment let's take a let's take a look at this clip. elvis or johnny cash advance for coke or pepsi coke leno or conan i'm probably one of them blackberry or i phone blackberry blackberry it is deep dish or thin crust. spicy or miles oh spicy dancing with the stores or american idol american idol maybe we'll have to have an

american idol contest with something. shiny and fun it's fine they've got to give you a little dessert with your broccoli and your state quote i read dessert though we had a big debate about this in our editorial meeting this morning where some people thought that it was fine it was great it really gave you a look into their personalities which i don't think that coke or pepsi tells you anything about a person's personality another thought that was a bad distraction considering that comic situation in the country i think they were given a better way to do it one word thing i see what they were trying to do conceptually but it sort of fell flat i mean colker pepsi spike they gave mitt romney who's known for a very calculated they gave him spicy or hot when i mean it was just like home only give us something a little bit more and i think to insert it and for it to go that quickly is a little tact to you but you know c.n.n. was trying and it's early and this is not a little lame how about defense or medicare if that had a better better question and i don't have more of a point but so obviously the economy was issue number one and this is what's on

a lot of americans minds right now but i still i was personally a little bit by the fact that not until an hour and a half into the debate did they get into any foreign policy questions that you find that surprising at all no because i mean. to give the republicans you know some credit they are just getting they're receiving the questions right at c.n.n. . questions they have to take the questions but usually in these debate i mean they believe domestic issues are going to drive what people care about and what do people care about right now more than anything but nine percent unemployment rate the jobless numbers that come out every month and that's the bread and butter issues that they think are going to be the most important now barring a foreign catastrophe that is a couple months before the election sure they completely change the dynamic but usually presidential elections will turn on the economy well one thing i really liked ron paul's answer when they're being asked about whether it's time to take out troops out of afghanistan after all it's been ten years us on bin laden's dead and the rest of the cabinet all of deferred and said that i would let the generals

decide and i think ron paul did a good job of reminding us what being a president is all about let's take a look at that clip ok you know i served five years in the military of had a little experience i've spent a little bit time over in the pakistan afghanistan area as well as in iran but i wouldn't wait for my journals i'm the commander in chief i make the decisions i tell the generals what to do and i bring them home as quickly as possible and get them on of iraq as well and i wouldn't start a war in libya i'd quit bombing yemen and i'd quit bombing pakistan i'd start taking care of people here at home because we could save hundreds of billions of dollars our national security is not enhanced by our prisons over there we have no purpose there we should learn the lessons of history and the longer we're there the worse things they're all are and the more danger we're in as well because our presence there is not making friends let me tell you. i love the cutaway of mitt

romney just sort of glaring at larry when and how dare you inject reason into this political debate but i will say that i think that the foreign policy component of the republican primary field is changing if you listen what mitt romney said last night about afghanistan he said i think we should try to get troops out as soon as possible that's different than what they've been saying in previous months i think you're seeing more of an. isolationist bringing the troops home and tally not as strong as ron paul granted but i think in their answers you did see some nuance that is new that's a that's a change usually it's you know support the troops whatever the generals while we're going to stay in there we're going to when we go to fight you know we're the united states of america you're not seeing that harsh of a rhetoric as much at least that's what i know that's why i dislike the ron paul at least admits hey guess what we're not going to win this actually endangers us because it makes more people hate america when you start bombing a million countries abroad and it's part of the reason that we're going broke because defense spending is absolutely completely out of whack right now and john

king didn't even ask them about defense spending considering that i'm only time that they spent on the economy and give ron paul credit for this right he said the president always say i defer to the generals you know if you don't ask don't tell they said well so would you repeal it would you would you bring it back to previous what it was and they said no i go to the generals where the generals want to run paulson the president i told the generals what to do and that's you know sort of a big debate the republicans i like that now do we have time for a religious cliff or is that too long you guys. ok i don't think we can fit in a religious claim but obviously we saw a lot of i believe in the right of everybody to practice whatever faith they want and then herman cain being asked about not wanting muslims in the white house and essentially everyone saying why i believe everyone should practice their religion but i think that we should be skeptical of muslims and. even went on the whole like mccarthyism was right rant. you know this is a tough issue that herman cain was on the defensive on because he said you know i wouldn't put a muslim in my cabinet and sort of had.