there's an old urban legend that says that the u.s. army stopped using circular targets for rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot at people on the battlefield the logic is that if you practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized about killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is to practice shooting at what you want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not hesitating the law enforcement targets incorporated has created a special line of paper targets for police called new more hesitation so it's on these targets well maybe mexican drug cartel members or l.a. street gangs nope children and pregnant women yeah law enforcement targets offers a product to desensitize police from hesitating to blow away women carrying the

unborn and innocent children and it's even sicker than that i bet law enforcement agencies are probably buying these things up by the thousands but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how badly when. i mean. really messed up. very slow motion. it's.

worse for the little thing the white house or the. radio guy. what. if you've never seen anything like this i'm so. happy monday guys are having martin and this is breaking the set so today began the long awaited trial of british petroleum or b.p. for the largest offshore oil spills in history and now of course the u.s. government blaming the corporation for the disaster that killed eleven rig workers and dumping four million barrels of crude oil into the gulf of mexico you know with even more interest even though the government is so quick to pass the buck and placed the blame on b.p. now they weren't so going to do that immediately following the disaster in fact they issued to the company even more oil and gas contracts and further solidify

their but in love with the corporation if you ask me it's all just a giant charade one smokescreen after the other culpable let's break that. coming from the largest military empire in the world it's a wonder how little the establishment discusses the implications of war the downtrodden economy has taken center stage in the discussion of us foreign policy has waned into a mere afterthought this is pose a challenge for many antiwar activists who've been forced to get creative looking for ways to engage and educate people about the perils of u.s. militarism one such person is a world renowned peace activist cindy sheehan who's a tourist for a day she's actions like camping out at george bush's ranch in crawford texas in two thousand and five now cindy is taking her activism on the road with a new proposal called torrent. cross-country bike tour starting on april fourth. in

vacaville california and in july third right here in washington d.c. so to talk about this ambitious initiative and what it hopes to achieve and joined by my friend cindy sheehan antiwar activist former vice presidential candidate for the peace and freedom party and author of peace mom a mother's journey through heartache to activism cindy thanks so much for coming on. it's always great to talk to you thank you for having me on of course this is an extremely ambitious initiative i commend you for what you're doing i think it's amazing talk about the demands that this tour has because i know it's not just about and in the war what other issues are you trying to call attention to. will return in a close attention to whistle blowers and the war economy and the money spent on who you are trying to call attention to the fact that there are war crimes happening right now but the previous administrations committed war crimes and crimes against humanity and the current administration is protecting those war

criminals while they're persecuting was of lowers and their social justice and peace activists also and so you know i am upset with obama i am upset with the empire as usual but i learned press straight and when. the movement or the lack of movement in the middle men and so d.c. is an important place but we learn to organize across the country we weren't to rally people together to say that these wars are still happening obama has expanded africa thirty five or thirty six countries where u.s. troops are drones are and it's just pitiful the lack of response to it we have been organized seeing peace i mean i'm sorry turn to peace now for several weeks we have a couple dozen people who are committed to helping us across the country but you can be assured if it were if it were. romney as president mccain or

bush we'd have a couple thousand people committed to it so it's very frustrating that so many people have situational principles is there against these things when a republican is in our office but not so much when a democrat is an office and obama of course like i said expanding the u.s. troop presence in africa he's barmy or has bombed about eight muslim countries and gives me just despicable that there is like you said there's very little test against we've been trying i've been trying since he's been president and i'm hoping more people will become involved and get excited about this trip because it's wrong no matter who's president of course and you know as president absolutely i mean as you know the antiwar movement of course has taken a big hit under obama despite the expansion of the drone wars like you just said

some say it's worse than ground troops because it detaches people from the ground of war you're one of the very few activists and he has remained steadfast despite the change in party leadership i mean but then again you're saying that you know we would have a couple thousand or from your president and doesn't signify though that liberals and democrats don't care about these issues i mean legitimately what else going to fix what else can it be. well that's what i said i said they have situational principles and and the situation that the pins are on is who is in office and so we want to we want to focus our in the movement or the liberals want to focus on the things that they think that the right republicans are responsible for like this current economic crisis when found out. attaching the fact that we're spending trillions of dollars a year on the empire and obama is responsible for that he's a commander in chief. so you know it's just and then the environmental movement is

not talking about how and we're very proud environment on this tour to we're taking bicycles instead what i call dynamo beals and so the establishment environmental movement isn't talking about the military industrial complex that sucks out more oil and fuel than any other institution in the world and pollutes everywhere it goes it was a rainy with all kinds of toxic so you know there's a lot of issues where dressin are mature absolutely of course it's all connected which is really so infuriating people don't see the connection of the economy the environment everything with the military i wanted to quickly look at a map right now of all the cities that are firmest so far you know that there might be some added on the tour we're looking at there right now city what are your plans for each city here. it's effort in. speaking talk about that. well the part that you have on is the first part of the tour that's taking route

sixty-six winches also the called the mother road which i think is very significant because women and mothers are the ones that suffer the most i think because of these wars for empire but what we're hoping to do is rally people in every city we have and you know many people who have signed to host we're going to new york has seen or in the people sponsor rally in the meeting and fundraise the answer get across the country and any money that we have left over is going to go to. groups that help people in iraq and afghanistan so we're helping the iranians a lot of money about what it's going to cost to go across the country and then the second part goes for chicago to washington d.c. and our full room is published on our website to work at p.s. so. you're on a route your little bit off our route we don't mind going there it

a little bit and get a hold of us at two hundred apiece oregon bar and chair to organize in your community because we just really want to you in two thousand and five when i camped out in george bush's right yard the antiwar movement was very demoralized very discouraging that rally people and we're hoping that this is going to rally people cross the country and we're going through the heart of america we're not you know we're not skipping the flyovers zone where most activism happens i want to close because the close are you know more progressive but we're going through the heart of america and we have a nonpartisan two are not blaming the republicans we're not blaming the democrats are blaming the system and it's going to take everybody no matter you know what your political identification is to change things for the better well thank you so much send it toward a piece everyone check it out i'm really looking forward to this happening let's definitely touch base the when you get here your end goal washington d.c.

i'm really looking forward to that cindy sheehan always also have you on thank you abby and see you in d.c. . you know i completely forgot about the oscars last night but when i checked out what had gone down in the blogosphere i realize that all of the really missed out on was a bunch of self adoration bad humor and military propaganda and i'll get out of that in a second but first i want to highlight a man who despite so many odds traveled all the way from palestine to the oscars to represent the plight of his people his name is emad burnat bought and he's the co-director of the oscar document nominated documentary five broken cameras check it out. just looked and looked at the.

well suited for. the show. it's a movie document in the struggle of palestinians living a day to day life under military occupation stricken with constant harassment and intimidation and a culture that by and large of voids the palestine issue it was great to see the academy given due to this film unfortunately being nominated wasn't enough to provide easy passage for imad to attend the ceremony because upon his arrival he and his family were detained by customs and border patrol who could not fathom that a palestinian muslim man would be given such an honor in a statement he made about the incident imad likened it to what palestinians encounter on a daily basis he said quote although this was an unpleasant experience this is a daily occurrence for palestinians every single day throughout the west bank there

are more than five hundred israeli checkpoints roadblocks and other barriers to moving across our land and not a single one of us has been spared the experience that my family and i experienced yesterday ours was a very minor example of what my people face every day. even though he eventually got there and surprisingly the film didn't win and i can't imagine what winning would have meant for the issue at large an issue for which we never hear or see the full story i truly hope that day will soon come until then for braving the injustice you made it home and here in the us you mad bernard you were my hero today. so now let's backtrack a little bit because there are a couple things i'd like to call out from last night and no it's not the fact that the onion crudely called the nine year old best actress nominee the four letter c. word although that was very odd well i do want to talk about as the first lady as i'm sure you know by now michelle obama was the presenter for the most coveted

award of the night best picture now. moment we have all been waiting. and osco goes to. argo. you might be wondering why in the hell white house official would take part in this hollywood ritual but if one looks at their tight relationship that's not the part that's surprising after all we know that hollywood has been one of obama's biggest campaign funders perhaps the most disturbing part of all of this is that michelle obama dressed like she was an oscar winner herself announce the award from the white house surrounded by military personnel don with war medals not to mention that the actual board went to argo a film why is the cia for its home roic wesco of americans from its evil iranian captors yes the film was captivating and it did give some context the hostile relations between the two countries but of course argos villain is the country most

vilified today by the government and media so how fitting it would come from the wife of the man who inherited the military empire in the war machine that's what i like to call very sophisticated propaganda less. of course the number one cia propaganda bestseller zero dark thirty so who's the villain won't let skopec how to me a group that's ninety four percent white and seventy seven percent male look in an age of such diversity in emerging ideas it's curious that the people making these decisions represent the demography of the twentieth century so the old white click of men who probably loves having the military and the president intimately involved in their precious award ceremony. you guys are the villains today. if you're wondering what i'm doing when i'm not on air you can follow me on twitter at abby martin like what you see by all my treats linking to segments from the show as well

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. download the official publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't sit well with your mobile device so you can watch your t.v. any time and you were. a little. have you ever seen anything like i'm telling. you. now i want to bring up one of the most significant and most secretive trade negotiations in history being dealt as we speak it's called the transpacific partnership where the t.p. p. currently trade negotiations are ongoing among the levin countries including australia. chile malaysia is the island her room singapore the u.s.

and a vietnam most recently canada and mexico join the talks with japan showing a strong possibility of coming on board as well the t.t.p. has been long criticized by activists and trade attorneys as a threat to national sovereignty he won rights internet freedoms and the environment so help me break down the t p p the two a.p. free trade versus fair trade i'm joined by mike dolan legislative representative for the international brotherhood of teamsters thank you so much for coming on the things are happening and thank you for your interest in the d.p.p. and trevor i want to should be interested in it because i understand that it has very serious implications but before you get into those breakdown what exactly is sure officially officially now the t p p the trans-pacific partnership is a set of. ongoing trade negotiations as you mentioned eleven countries including mexico and canada now that are that are in it they've just concluded the fifteenth round of those negotiations to auckland new zealand i had the great honor and

pleasure of representing the teamsters down there and all clear for that round of negotiations the next round coming up in singapore one important thing that your viewers need to know about these negotiations is that it's really the last time we're going to be negotiating a multilateral free trade agreement it's called a docking agreement and any other countries that want to get into a free trade deal with us have to just joining this thing after the fact so that's the kind of the official version on officially i have to say that it's really part of a larger geo political effort to marginalize china economically in the pacific rim so you think about that commercial japanese in the geopolitics of the pacific rim and it has as much to do with our diplomatic goals our political goals as it does to do with so-called trade policy and what are its implications i understand and maybe you can correct me on this but it instills an international court that

resides over u.s. law shared laws yeah that's one of the most controversial aspects of the t.t.p. you're referring to the investor in a state dispute settlement regime this is a legacy of nafta the mother of all trade fights the north american free trade agreement and it's chapter eleven which is the investment chapter in establishing investor to state and that's really an important thing for your viewers the investor corp investment only sue we. government federal and sub federal governments for and this is you know not a government to government solution he's in these tribunals they're like world. trade court and faceless trade bureaucrats who make decisions out of the public view. based on what the corporations think are there their commercial interests that are being violated by by governments you know democratically elected

governments that are impinging on their expectations of profits under this agreement very controversial and that's the part that you're talking about investors and as you just mention kind of beneath the public view i mean we're talking about over six hundred corporate advisors overseeing the negotiations but really huge lack of public involved here no i mean that's exactly right not only is the end result secretive those investors the state dispute mechanisms but the process by which they're getting to close this deal is also very secretive and that's for those of us who've been working on trade policy for a while one of the most concerning aspects that you know even members of congress don't have access to see this thing and of course and no wonder our constitution article one section eight it's the congress you know that has exclusive authority over the commerce among nations our trade policy and the congress right now with fifteen rounds of these negotiations completed still hasn't actually seen the text

of the agreement. and there's some reasons for that highly troubling mike i'm not on the prize and i also know that there was a leak to portion of the t.p. negotiations that kind of mimicked. on an international level which is not very comforting as well i mean what you're getting to was like who's going to benefit. who are the winners who are the losers sure i mean i've got easier when i mean you know when the easy answer is the one percent and then ninety nine percent lose but it's not just the ninety nine percent in the united states it's the ninety nine percent globally this is just another string of trade agreements under the nafta the sort of flawed and failed to model the nafta w t o model where the investment in corporate elites. given incentives to move production around the road to the places with the least labor laws the lowest wage rates and the least consumer and

environmental protections and creating that incentive system through the various chapters of the t.t.p. is the reason why barack obama's administration is u.s.t.r. is keeping these these negotiations secret from the congress and the american people. but you know we just heard about the state of the union talking about how great the t.p. would be also talks with the tea a.p.i. but you know let's get to solutions here your you represent an organization that talks about their trade versus free trade how do we get back to fair trade here so what a great question i have to say that you know the other trade agreement that you brought up in the in the state of the union other than the p.d.p. was the european union u.s. by lottery all right so it's an interesting problem for those of us who are fair trade activists in europe for example the wage rates and the labor laws are in many cases superior to what we have in the united states so i look at that agreement as a possibility of upward harmonization of standards rather than what is their

traditional model lowering those standards you know i'm cautiously optimistic that negotiations haven't started there yet but as far as the p.p. goes what obama promised us was what he called at the time in his first term at the beginning of his first term twenty first century haruhi and agreement and those of us who supported him the labor movement in particular in his alexion or really excited about that was you can i mean strong labor standards and for example environmental standards consumer protections and doesn't look like we're going barrier islands like we're going back thank you mike dolan the legislative representative for the teamsters i think that we still have hope we always have hope if we can just wake people up and alien thanks a lot for your time thanks abbi.

let's talk about what a nuclear waste does the environment on the friday washington state government officials announced just how much talk sick waste has made its way into kwame rivers subterranean basin from a nuclear site in southern washington the radioactive soup is leaking from six underground tanks at the hands of nuclear facility which has been regarded as the most contaminated site in the entire country it was developed as a nuclear weapons production facility in one thousand forty three as part of a manhattan project and has since held millions of leaders of radioactive leftovers this nuclear sludge is held in storage tanks that have long ago reached their twenty year lifespans now you heard me right these tanks that hold radioactive waste expire in just twenty years so not only is nuclear material being kept in containers that eventually deteriorate but leakage from the containers has been recorded the site since the sixty's since then nearly two hundred of these toxic

bins have already failed according to washington state officials the leaks produce between one hundred fifty to three hundred gallons every year meaning that thousands of tons of nuclear sewage of already been contaminating the environment at the site for decades now if you're feeling outraged about the criminal negligence allowing one of the most beautiful states in the country to have been poisoned for the last half century should be but you might want to hold on to that anger because it's about to get worse finally state and federal officials agree that a cleanup at the site must be made one small problem no nuclear waste doesn't really go away no matter how much money the robot the problem it's there to stay for centuries a new report by the department of energy said the lowest estimate of the clean up at one hundred and fifteen billion dollars and is expected to last until twenty ninety and of course the bill is for you and me the taxpayers to front but always.

falls in the backs of the people doesn't it even the location of these sites are designed to take advantage of the most vulnerable the hanford site was constructed in a sparsely populated mountain region other than the two hundred fifty thousand residents that are just downstream from the nuclear site there are also at least six native american reservations that are adverse to the affected hanford is just another example of what journalist chris hedges refers to as one of capitalisms sacrifice zones which he describes as quote areas that have been destroyed for quarterly profit and we're talking about environmentally destroyed communities destroyed human beings destroyed families destroyed and because there are no impediments left these sacrifices zones are just going to continue to spread outward. the idea here is just like human beings and human beings just like the natural resources of our planet have become commodities to be exploited and abused and result of which is collapse in the current trajectory this is unavoidable this exploitation is the

byproduct of predatory capitalism you just a look at the most and areas of the country where natural resources a bound and political influence is most scarce places like the coal mines about. where the profits made on the backs of the laborers fill the pockets of the rich coal barons who live far from the contaminated soils degradative waters and polluted air look the damage that hanford leaks have caused is a reparable but the remaining threat posed as we move forward is far worse these sacrifice sounds may seem far away from what you and i know now but what would you do if this was in your backyard because soon it might be but we don't halt the gears of this machine we become the gears for the machine.

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