the surprise really for the other. side to their confinement i've asked my team to review everything that's currently being done in guantanamo everything that we can do administratively and i'm going to reengage with congress to try to make the case that this is not something that's in the best interest of the american people. let me just reiterate that question a reporter says that is any surprise really that the prisoners would prefer death rather than to have no end in sight to their confinement and as it now before i continue let me just say kudos to c.b.s. is bill plante who is actually bold enough to do his job and asked the president the right question but to president obama who actually had the nerve to answer by projecting the blame on congress alone shame shame on you because we all know it's your fault before anyone else's and you know i think colonel morris davis who was the chief prosecutor guantanamo bay said it best right here in breaking the set. he

made in two thousand and eight and the first thing he did after the lilly ledbetter act in two thousand and nine when he took office was signed the order to close guantanamo but at the time the democrats controlled the house and the senate now certainly the right wingers the wing nuts have made it hard for him to close guantanamo down but he had kind of that sweetheart period where had he really been committed he could have done to me let the opportunity yes obama talk is cheap and you had a chance and you blew it because you chose to cater to the most extreme members of the g.o.p. instead of keeping the promise that you campaigned on one that valued human rights and justice in the rule of law so just remember if these prisoners die the blood is on your hands. or feet or anything like that.

today is may first better known to most people as may day to day commemorated by celebrations and protests by millions of people around the world demanding better workers' rights but unfortunately it's seldom recognized by americans began right here in the u.s. that's because those in power have done everything they can to race the real history of this day a day that's rich in significance it's to. almost one hundred thirty years ago when thousands of workers left work to march in the streets of chicago on a saturday because at that time people not only had to work on saturdays they were also expected to work ten to twelve hour days it was in the wake of the industrial revolution and capitalism was surging at the workers many of them immigrants were underpaid and overworked and that's why they decided to create a labor movement that had never existed before when they finally began organizing demonstrations to demand an eight hour work day they were met with resistance from authorities to haymarket affair was one such protest that and quite brutally

resulting in multiple deaths and dozens injured but this event is now considered an important historical pivot for the us workers' rights movement which at the time was influenced by marxist ideals during the cold war the establishment whitewash made an attempt to self as much as possible from the big scary beast of communism in fact president eisenhower actually read designated may first to law a day a day to respect the law and reaffirm americans look guilty to this country and just like that it was rebranded from day of rebellion to a day of obedience but they say to groups like occupy wall street the true meaning of may day has now been reinvigorated for example today in l.a. there's a massive mayday march and rally demanding rights for immigrants and all workers countless more demonstrations are being held around the country so joining me now to discuss state of workers' rights in this country and may day i'm joined by our two political correspondents sam sachs and what are up man i thought a happy day really good to be obedient to the state thank you eisenhower for that

you know it seems like the rest of the world gets it i mean they're all celebrating made in solidarity with americans why is it that we have still not reinstated may first as may day here we're exceptional you know but why haven't we used the metric system. now it seems strange that this holiday as you mentioned came out of the labor action here in the united states and that the rest of the world got behind. and devoted to this action in the united states hundred thirty years ago isn't celebrated by the united states you know we have labor day which is our sort of workers' day i think there was some sensitivity by grover cleveland you know early politicians and i think grover cleveland was president at the time about commemorating what happened at haymarket square since most of the ruling elite at the time thought what happened was there was very bad that this is what extreme politics leads to and it led to a major clampdown on extreme politics in extreme economic positions which in turn fueled more organization from labor communities and really drove the kind of the

progressive era at the beginning of twentieth century and even then led to the new deal and and everything like that but you know why does the united states not get involved in this you know maybe maybe it comes from the fact that we in the united states don't think we have like the sort of labor issues that the rest the world does when in reality we do have the same in a globalized labor market we have the very same trouble in work related issues that the rest the world has gotten fact you could argue that there are much worse than a lot of other industrialized countries and less vacation time less rights for workers you know it really started and yeah it was one of the first kind of political riots in the streets really set fear into the establishment like well we do not want this happening again the try to wash really quickly in la de la de so you know how there been any sort of significant milestone such as the eight hour workday and in fact a five hour work week since that and how crucial is organizing in general to really ensure workers' health and safety over the last century well it's really the only

way to get this stuff done i mean sure there's you know considerate corporate executives but for the vast majority of corporate executives who have to deliver higher and higher profits to their shareholders they don't just wake up one day and say hey i want to pay all my workers more or hey i want to go into the middle of all the safety conditions in my factory or i want to start giving health care to all my workers that doesn't happen workers have to fight for every the. itll bit that they did and that's what happened in the eighty's and they've been fighting ever since and they've been getting killed they've been getting beaten but out of that action we saw a real movement i mean the early twenty's they said the early twentieth century there was major movement for labor unions and then roosevelt signed in the wagner act which really great federal protection for unions over the next few decades we've got osha you know bringing more safety into the workplace but unionization is on decline shockingly i mean over twenty percent i think over the last fifty years i mean why are we seeing less workers unionize if it's good for workers well it's i

mean there's a strategy on the parts of the right and some on the left even that don't think that organized labor is as important as it used to be as unions have gone down so is the middle class a share of income there's a direct connection between union rates and the middle class and share of income in our in our economy but when it comes down to it unions fight for things like higher wages better benefits better hours and more work place safety and all those things . bite into c.e.o. salaries and corporate profits so there's a reason why you know the entities the corporate entities do not want unions they want more money i mean it's really that simple. and it seems like yes i mean the right to work laws are just so confusing to people who just hear the rhetoric it's kind of that you know no child left behind it's good for children but but the right to work laws are actually really convoluted and conflicting with really what their promise is can you explain what they really do because a lot of other

a lot more states actually want to pop a map while you're talking about it how many states have really an act of these right to work laws shirt well you know right to work it does sound like something that's reasonable but basically what it does is it splits apart unions and it bankrupts unions and by the way the way it works is you know if you're part of the union you pay dues to that union and in paying dues you're going to get better benefits you're going to get better wages and if you. look at states that don't have the right to work for less laws the workers do make more money there are fewer safe place safe workplace incidents and they have better benefits so what these laws do is they say look you can be a part of a union that's fine but you don't have to pay your union dues you can choose you have the right to not pay your union dues so what that creates is it creates a union of simply freeloaders it creates people who are getting all the benefits of the union but are don't have to pay their union dues so what that does is it could turn workers against each other you could see some workers are paying their dues doing the benefits saying hey why isn't this guy paying his dues you know that also

someone rests but also bankruptcy unions and of course unions traditionally have been a major political funder of the left so if you can starts rolling back how much money is coming in to unions your old black how much money is going into the political political left establishment and that ends up benefiting certain other politicians on the other side and that's a really good point kind of creating that strife among in and destabilizing the workforce let's talk about west texas plant explosion because this is somebody i work and they go right to work states and if that map that was up you know if you look at those right to work states the vast majority of other than a few outliers now up north were slave states i mean these are the same sort of states that have always looked to abuse. and same kind of thing going on in the west texas plan exposed i mean this plant was not inspected for years yet there were multiple multiple safety concerns cited in my question you know talking to gary johnson he said you know this really isn't an issue with oversight and regulation but it kind of is because when we're looking at the occupational safety

and health administration osha what you mentioned before why was it neglected for so long why is this administration so understaffed and underfunded well two things one i mean we are in this age of austerity which we have to cut as much government spending cut as much food safety inspectors chemical plant safety inspectors workplace safety inspectors there's just seems to be. this overwhelming. thought in america today in a lot of europe of deregulation factories of reaganism new liberalism this idea that is that if you get government out of the way shrink it that the market will police itself that these things will become less and less and less and we'll live in this perfect continuity and everything but of course that doesn't that doesn't hold any truth in fact what we get is what we see in west texas a plant that wasn't inspected in ninety i was one when that plant was inspected one thousand nine hundred five you get where you see the b.p. gulf disaster you get what you see in massey whether jinyan the massey mine you

know going back to international workers day i mean here we have workers dealing with violent workplaces unsafe workplaces and on the other side of the world in bangladesh you have the same thing going on and then you had workers standing up today across the world in bangladesh and indonesia and all these places that have become this kind of cheap labor hub globalized corporate america using this day to protest for workplace safety in the same way that people were protesting in the eighty's for better working conditions and when you see what happens in bangladesh a really calls into light that we're all connected and you know i feel so helpless seen this factory collapse in bangladesh but then seen things like the west texas explosion the thing in north carolina that i just read three times as many workplace deaths as a labor of parasitism is reported so it really is all connected we're all one human family until we start really allowing workers to organize for efficiently and efficiently in the workplace we're not going to see these things change because

corporations don't care about the safety they care about their bottom line and that's really a race to the bottom raising to the bottom and this needs to stop and i'm really happy that you were able to break down some of the disinfo and everything else sam sachs r.t. correspondent every shade it. if you like what you see had to our you tube channel you tube dot com breaking the set sure descrive so you're missing let us out all of our interview segments tad out there if you want to catch. those separately i encourage everyone to check out our likely interview from yesterday's show with former presidential candidate gary johnson you can also look at every segment we've done separately in the tab section on the top of the page from big brother watch the weapons of mass destruction check out all that and more at youtube dot com breaking the set now to break from my preaching for now but stay tuned for more updates from the boston bombings next. wealthy british style the sun it's time to rise on.

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i. i. think the boston bombings last month there's been a barrage of speculation and misinformation circulating the air waves and spreading

across the internet last week we learned that russian officials had asked the f.b.i. to investigate the saar knaves and two thousand and eleven under suspicion of extremism then just yesterday the daily mail published an article i mean that the saudi government had also warned u.s. officials going to wasn't told about this imminent attack and that tomorrow it was even denied a visa in the city arabia just a year prior but then today not surprisingly the story changes again saudi embassy in washington denied that their government had made any such warning it seems like the more information that's revealed by the media the more convoluted the story becomes and the less we all know what's really going on so help me cut through some of the corporate media's saturation of dissent from ation i'm joined now by firedoglake journalist covering the stolen kevin thanks for coming on thank you. so the boston bombing news just keeps getting poured in first the russians knew then the saudis knew than the saudis didn't know i mean what are we supposed to believe and how are you sorting through that this information as a trial as well and the other thing is that this story that the mail ran.

well kevin dropped off having technical difficulties but basically i want to read a quote really quickly that i read from an article that came out in salon it's an article basically covering a recent n.s.a. released documents related in an eleven and this all ties in the boston bombings and explained in a second but it says the white house received a truly remarkable amount of warnings that al qaeda was trying to attack the u.s. from june to september two thousand and two thousand and one a full seven cia senior intelligence brief detail that attacks were imminent and incredible amount of information from one intelligence agency so my point is that if this sort of thing was true i mean regarding nine eleven we've been fighting a decade plus long war on terror and still in a police state and surveillance state here at home for what i mean is this the same kind of thing if the saudi government warned. you know our government if the

russian government warned our government about an impending terrorist attack about this guy as a dangerous suspect he was on a terror watch list how is it that we've been repeating the same intelligence failures a decade plus later after pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the parliament security into all of these things it just seems quite odd that we keep seeing these things repeated so my kind of rhetorical question is what does all of this for i mean i mean really so kevin's back up that was my rant kevin let's talk about the question i initially asked you before you dropped off i mean how are you sorting this through all of this misinformation the speculation that's of them and the disinformation. well the quick answer is that you have to ask questions and just do your job as a journalist recognize that all of these media organizations have their own sources within governments that they're contacting and they're getting tips and they may be

confirmed or unconfirmed and you just have to be responsible and continue to ask questions based on what you know historically about counterterrorism and the way that the government handles these sorts of situations and where i was bringing up before was that you know it seems like we saw this kind of intelligence failure leading up to nine eleven and we see kind of the same thing being mimicked a decade plus later after pouring hundreds of billion dollars into a giant circus security surveillance police state what is it all for kevin i mary really doing this to fight terrorism. and that's the appropriate question to key examples is that sinai amps name terrilyn was in the database that feeds into the no fly list that the f.b.i. is supposed to have use for but apparently in the homeland security it's some times regarded as a database full of junk tips and you're not really sure whether you can trust the information the other issue is that his name was apparently misspelled

terrilyn saying i have and so the homeland security department got king when he went to travel to dagestan but f.b.i. didn't get any notification this happened with you mark baruch. the christmas day bomber this issue so apparently our software that the u.s. government is using is still doesn't have what richard clarke called in the p.b.s. frontline update a top secret america did you mean that's option there's no you know is there an alternative spelling that you might be looking for this person the software is apparently not that smart yet it is co-leading all of this data on us and and that is the problem that there is so much data that our government can't find the actual . you are plotting it's unbelievable yeah we don't really have an auto correct in the massive grid that set up tracking everyone and kevin that really calls into question if it's worth it i mean if this is not protecting us really from and pending attacks then why do we have it really does seem like just

a system of control and of course today the media is talking about these three new suspects arrested i mean everywhere i look all this projection all the speculation is it unfair to be covering these kids on the news all day without really knowing any evidence about their involvement or what really happened there seems like they're just kind of character assassination of these kids. we do have to be responsible and it's clear that they are only accused of obstructing justice right now and hopefully i'm not watching c.n.n. at the moment someone could be blaming them for being involved in the bombing but that's you know the defense lawyer doesn't think they had anything to do with that so this is a separate charge i think what we really need here is transparency and the obama administration has been more secretive than the bush administration about a lot of these so-called global war on terrorism policies and and what we're seeing in these instances where individuals do commit attacks is that as private citizens who are astute and aware and are able to prevent those individuals from doing

incredible harm like the faisal shazad the times square bomber someone knew that that was going to happen and why p.d.'s state of the art counterterrorism tactics infrastructure whatever you want to call it didn't detect it was a private citizen and i think what we really need is people to have our government share everything that it is doing as much as possible so that we can say well that's not working or yes ok i think that's a good idea but we should know wherever you have government is throwing transparency is definitely a key accountability is key thank you kevin just all i have to get you on a dock about civil liberties again and all of the wake of all this i really appreciate your time card i'd like. ten years ago today president george w.

bush don himself in a flight suit and landed on an aircraft carrier in front of a giant star spangled banner that read mission accomplished of course his claim that the u.s. forces had won the war in iraq happened only two months after the initial invasion now even though this image has come to symbolize a truly ludicrous premature declaration of the end of a war that lasted another decade but as we reflect on the ten years of occupation of a country that posed no immediate threat to the us this week marks yet another reminder of the failures of u.s. foreign policy that's right thirty eight years ago saigon capital city of south vietnam fell to north vietnamese forces affectively market and a decade long vietnam war the war in vietnam was more than just a quagmire it was one of the deadliest mistakes ever initiated by the us one that continues to haunt and affect millions of people so let's rewind just a little bit and draw some parallels so we can better understand why history repeats itself over and over again similar to the war on terror now in one thousand

nine hundred four the climate of the cold war gave fodder to the world powers to embark on their new goals this divided the world between communism and not the separation was especially evident in vietnam a country that was split into the communist north in the self originally planned as a temporary solution for the withdrawal of french troops from the country the international community promised to re unify vietnam through elections scheduled for nine hundred fifty six the us however the country had become all communist only allowed elections in south vietnam to occur the motivation for the interference of democracy was the us government's fear of a domino effect suggesting that if one country in the region felt the communism surrounding countries would follow suit after the elections in south vietnam years of political instability in the country followed violence broke out against the south vietnamese in the form. grella warfare and then in one nine hundred sixty

four there was the gulf of tonkin incident where north vietnamese forces allegedly fired upon a u.s. ship this event gave the johnson administration the precursor necessary before congress to send u.s. soldiers to fight and die for capitalism in the gulf of tonkin resolution however the event itself was marred in controversy and as of recently historians who have actually analyze declassified n.s.a. documents have come to a startling conclusion the gulf of tonkin attack on a u.s. ship never occurred to america that as was reported by the new york times in two thousand and five the gulf of tonkin attack never happened yet the u.s. military went in full force anyway and u.s. troops quickly found themselves outgunned and outsmarted in a complete stalemate with vietnamese forces. later the u.s. dropped napalm bombs that burned entire villages to the ground and sprayed agent orange across the landscape toxic chemical lifelong health effects for those who

came in contact with it and still result in birth defects generations later the vietnam war eventually claimed the lives of millions of people from all sides of the conflict only exacerbated by the u.s. government's legal bombing campaigns across laos and cambodia i had reconsider finally despite president nixon and secretary of state henry kissinger's efforts to extend the deadline the massive swell of antiwar resistance in this country and force congress to withdraw from vietnam on august fifteenth one thousand seventy three however there was no victory claimed in the war went on until april thirtieth nine hundred seventy five when the capital city of saigon fell in the north over took the weekend to south quickly announcing a unified vietnam under communist rule. ten years of bloody will. millions dead fighting an ideology for

a power elite sound familiar. ten years ago today we heard the infamous mission accomplished speech about iraq from bush on the aircraft carrier but as we already know military missions are not accomplished in mere weeks in the wars are not easily won they come at a great cost a loss of life the loss of innocence and the loss of moral integrity may hide in the uncomfortable truths that bring us to fight these wars will always be held captive to history's repetition.

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