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what's up guys i'm not a mark on the breaking the set so i just got back from boston where i had the opportunity to sit down with one of america's greatest minds noam chomsky but before we get into that interview i wanted to point out something and foreign that dr chomsky wrote recently really puts the boston tragedy in perspective and his op ed chomsky reminded all americans that these bombings gave us just a taste of the terrorism the u.s. inflicts a broad every day he writes it's rare for privileged westerners to see graphically what many others experience daily for example a remote village in yemen the same week as the marathon bombings chomsky's referring to the drone strikes in yemen near days after the boston bombings an attack that claimed the lives of five people in the u.s. claimed were suspected al qaeda militants of course later we learned that wasn't the case and in fact one yemeni far ryall muesli name went before a senate subcommittee hearing to counter that very claim. among them and i mean
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that was the fog of the strike many people and was no good to me and them any government could have found and that is. yes even though the targeted farmer could easily been arrested by local authorities the u.s. use their go to weapon a predator drone but that's all part of what chomsky calls obama's global terror operations in which the president attempts to remove anyone that could simply could pose a danger to america some day in the future and it wasn't just yemen the very same day of the attack in boston various bomb blast killed more than thirty people in iraq all injuring hundreds of others unfortunately that bloodshed which began in april is still escalating by the day and fact just hours ago iraq experience yet another wave of attacks leaving ninety five dead there by pushing the country's death toll to more than two hundred forty people just this past week and see what
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chomsky points out is something that should not be ignored what happened in boston should always be looked at in the prism of all the other violence being inflicted around the world particularly when that violence is a direct result of u.s. foreign policy because when you weigh one tragedy or the other you lose sight of the implications this war on terror really has on humanity and as much as i'd like to believe this baseless war will one day and reality constantly reminds me that it won't just this past week the senate armed services committee held a hearing on whether the statutory basis for the war should be expanded michael sheen hand the assistant secretary of defense for special ops was asked point blank how long the war on terrorism is going to last and he responded in the most simple of terms at least at least ten to twenty years ten to twenty years from now and there you have it folks explicitly said that this government has signed up for
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at least another thirty years of war and sadly that means more violence more bloodshed and yes more blowback if you find this is disturbing as i do join me now to break the set. how much do you know about malcolm x. man whose name alone can still invoke deep rooted emotions about class race unity and segregation even forty eight years after his death well may nineteenth would have been is eighty eighth birthday it's a day that's been declared malcolm x. day by a number of black organizations in this country which is why i want to take the opportunity to look at the legacy of one of the most controversial civil rights figures of the twentieth century before his assassination in one thousand nine hundred sixty five malcolm x. founded the organization of afro-american unity and when it opened he gave
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a famous speech in which he said quote education is an important element in the struggle for human rights it's the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self-respect educations our passport to the future for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today in a nutshell this was his message it was a culmination of years before you figure out his own identity reinventing himself from malcolm little of omaha nebraska to a young hustler known as detroit red to joining the nation of islam and taking on the name a lot as indeed discussion about the nation of islam movement goes hand in hand with the memory of malcolm x. it's a movement that promoted black self-reliance and equality separate from white americans and europeans and although some radical factions of the movement were violent it's a rony as to say that malcolm x.
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himself promoted their stand in the true context of his beliefs and in their review just weeks before his assassination not the max articulated his misunderstood philosophy take a look. in any way encourage black people to go out in this year. acts of aggression indiscriminately against whites but i do believe that the black man in the united states and any human being anywhere is well within his right to do whatever is necessary by any means necessary to protect his line and property especially in a in a country where the federal government itself has proven that it is either. unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of those human beings yes rights for everyone this fight may have been for the black struggle but his message was universal a message that transcends his time in fact his most famous quote has never been more relevant than it is today where he said i'm for truth no matter who tells it
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i'm for justice no matter who it is for or against i mean human being first and foremost and as of such i'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. you may remember these images of photos of the two boston bombing suspects that were captured with the help of a department store camera but they were taken by a private business police officials were easily able to access that footage in order to jumpstart their investigation and now in the aftermath the city of boston and police departments around the country are considering boosting their surveillance all in an effort to provide americans more safety but do more cameras mean more protection are going to set the mirror david has a story. this is boylston street home to such
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landmarks as the boston common and copley square. but now it's home to one more fixture a memorial commemorating the three people who died and two hundred sixty four injured in two bombings that struck the city just one month ago. and as the mourning process continues for the city of boston many are now reflecting and expressing concerns for safety and security going forward do you think we need more security and surveillance going forward in the wake of the boston bombing yeah obviously i mean i mean i should this security cameras we had i mean they did a good job on the people who did it you know and i mean so more can only help more definitely well you can't have too many security cameras but they were caught on camera obviously what we're living in now you're looking at this you know we need security so more cameras more everything it's a call for more surveillance cameras much like the one place to here at morgan taylor which authorities say was instrumental in identifying the boston bombing
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suspects but it's not just this city it's a sentiment that's quickly gaining traction across the country according to a recent c.b.s. news new york times poll seventy eight percent of americans support the increased use of surveillance cameras and now police departments in multiple cities are looking to do just that philadelphia chicago and l.a. have all made a recent push to install more cameras and regularly tap into the security footage of private businesses however boston is planning to take it one step further. officials say they will look to the n.y.p.d. for ideas a police department that has a thousand officers dedicated to counterterrorism efforts alone and they say they'll look to emulate new york's expansive surveillance network often referred to as the ring of steel boasting more than four thousand security cameras but that's not all boston police commissioner ed davis says they'll consider using surveillance drones over next year's marathon it's
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a buildup that mimics what was seen in the aftermath of september eleventh in fact i.m.s. research and electronic data aggregator as to means that thirty million surveillance cameras were sold in the u.s. in the decade after nine eleven but now with the prospect for increased security more and more civil liberty advocates are growing concerned the question that i think we should be asking. is how having more surveillance is really going to prevent a crime from happening if someone wants to do something wrong they always find a way to do it she says more cameras won't give us more protection but that it will mean less privacy are we really ok with the fog that. we are spy. all the time constantly or perhaps as a society we should take
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a step back and the if this is what that civilization really means how will this country reconcile more security with the protection of civil liberties it's a question on the minds of many here in boston and far beyond a mere a day that our team. america is we're taking a quick break when we get back we'll take a closer look at the post marathon bombing police state in boston and your sneak peek from my one on one interview with noam chomsky states. wealthy british style. expert on this let's play let's go. to. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy
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. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so poorly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't. charge is a big issue. so guys i just got back from reporting in boston where the chance to gauge public sentiment in the wake of the bombings a little more than one month ago boston was rocked by two explosions at one of most popular annual events in the city of boston marathon tragically
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a senseless act of violence claimed three lives and injured two hundred sixty four others in the days following the perpetrators a motive for the attack remain completely unknown yet the corporate media didn't hesitate to speculate wildly with twenty four seven on the ground coverage finally surveillance photos surfaced allegedly identifying two suspects assane of brothers what followed was the a largest manhunt this country has ever seen nine thousand law enforcement officers dawned in paramilitary gear were dispatched across the city dozens of swat teams and bomb squads were deployed and entire sections of the city and surrounding areas were cordoned off for police activities armored vehicles and tanks were sent of troll the streets of residential neighborhoods and militarized police officers moved door to door in the nearby city of watertown sometimes forcing entry into people's homes to search the premises
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being from d.c. and watching this all unfold from afar i had my own thoughts and questions about what happened and why but. one some boston i wanted to see what people who lived through it thought about the overwhelming show of force in response to the bombings and here's what they had to say. do you agree with the police response today to hunt down the brothers in the wake of the boston yes i really do i think they've been a really really good job i was i was amazed at how quickly everything came down i'm a student here i definitely think the place where it handled it very well i think the police response was absolutely fantastic the way they came in they did very well they came in real fast it was like a movie they had to make a choice and. they went with it one thousand paramilitary troops in the streets shutting down the city do you think that was an adequate response i think that's
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all they could do of course i mean it should have been done prior to that they should have been more security probably maybe next time they won't have to have nine thousand but i think the approach was right certainly was a studied approach did they come in and do the searches in your neighborhood we were a little bit away from but my brother was my brother's home was right in the neighborhood they did go in to search his home his backyard. they did a tremendous job and it seemed like we responded with overwhelming force and everybody did the job that they were supposed to do i mean obviously raises questions about. when and where we choose to show our force. raises questions indeed i did any of this activity violate the constitutional rights of boston residents and is this something that's going to be used as a blueprint nationwide while i had the opportunity to talk to the executive director of the national lawyers guild of boston ursula about just that and this is
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what she had to say. and everyone in the guild feels that the response of the city to this tragedy was. beyond anything that we should accept as a society. during the whole week after the marathon bombing. the city felt almost like being under martial law and especially thursday evening and friday a we feel bad that martial law was imposed on the city without going through regular procedure. so in our opinion and a search as that happened in that water town and locking down the city and getting people out of their homes very often a got gun point. we feel that all this was a necessary and violate the people's constitutional rights. you know it's
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interesting another point that she made is what happens if a legal drugs were found in a home during these door to door searches and what was found be used against innocent people where's the line drawn in a situation like this i completely understand the emotion of fear and what it can do to people and speaking directly to bostonians gave me more insight on their perspective however people die every day from senseless acts of violence and treat certain acts of violence with extreme disproportionality only feeds into that fear that fear breeds acquiescence in the relinquishing of our rights that our forefathers spent thousands of years trying to achieve but perhaps the even bigger picture is this as horrifically tragic as the boston bombings were it was a relatively small attack in comparison something like nine eleven so right now as in we should ask ourselves if what we saw in response to bombs was that what was
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the response be in the wake of something bigger is that we will see martial law take effect across the country and more importantly will people just accept it entirely out of fear i shudder to think. a letter or a membership or anything like that. last week and i had the great opportunity to sit down for an in-depth interview with one of most prolific philosophers of our jenner. dr noam chomsky he's a linguistics and philosophy professor at mit where he's worked for over fifty years he's also political critic activist and author of over one hundred books amazingly he still holds office hours at mit that he's scheduled for meetings every week a testament to how accessible chomsky is and sharing his viewpoints about the world
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with anyone who wishes to speak with him when i went into his office i couldn't help but notice the hundreds of stacked books plants and memorabilia he's collected from colleagues and events he's participated in over the years the one thing that was missing on his desk and that's the papers and books was a computer kind of a rare sight these days for someone so immersed in research and information but perhaps the thing that stood out the most to me it was a large photo of an address to palestine with a return stamp reading no such address being eighty four years old dr chomsky is still as sharp as ever he was able to maneuver between discussing everything from the war on terror to south vietnam and a concise and calm manner almost join a cup of hot coffee and while tomorrow i'll be playing the full interview today i'd like to highlight just a few parts of it a common theme throughout was the discussion of drones which he describes as
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weapons of terror. there was a drone strike in yemen. one of many but this one will happen because the young man from the village that was hit testified before the senate a couple of days later and described and right at the same time and that what he said is. interesting and relevant he said that his village which nicely they were trying to kill somebody in his village they said the man was perfectly well and i could have that brand. he was. a drone strike his terror weapon we don't talk about it but it is just imagine if you're walking down the street and you don't know whether in five minutes. there's going to be a explosion of the street. from some place in the sky that you
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can't see and. somebody will be killed and whoever else is around will be killed and maybe you'll maybe you'll be injured if you're there that's just this terror weapon it terrorizes. villages regions huge areas effects the met most massive terror campaign going on long. and what happened in the village is that according to the testimony senator just a money that he said that the jihadi had been trying for years to turn the villagers against the americans and had not succeeded because the only thing they knew about america that was what he told them was here he liked it here back it was like he said in one drone strike they turned the entire village against the americans that's you know maybe a couple hundred new people who will kill terrorists if they take revenge. by
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highlighting this man's testimony chomsky articulated the glaring reality of blowback after all if all you know about a country is that they're raining bombs on you and your family how would you feel now for all the criticisms of the bush administration on issues of torture and illegal war chomsky actually express that obama is taking it one step further take a look. bush is technique was to. capture people and torture them. obama's improved you just kill them and anybody else is around it's not that his hands are tied he's it i mean that's a much more. it's bad enough to capture them and torture them but just. murder on executive whim and as i say it's not just murder and suspect there are weapons there are as everyone knows indeed murder on executive women is away obama's
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avoided facing accountability and controversy even definitely detaining terror suspects according to his own drone architect and his ramping up of drone strikes raises the question over why so many of us here in america are unable or unwilling to empathize with the deaths of innocent people half a world away. the case you're too when a drone attack in yemen killed a couple of little girls and there was a discussion with. a well known liberal columnist joe klein he writes for time he was asked what he thought of this and he said something like . it's better that four of them are killed than four of four little girls who were. so because i mean the logic was mind boggling but if we have to kill people elsewhere who might conceivably. have
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him to harm us and it happens that a couple little girls get killed too that's fine we are in the moment suppose any other any country is doing that or to any anyone we regard as human. it's. credible. the truly is a standing to hear this type of rhetoric from public figures journalists and government officials it's no wonder americans are so isolated from the impacts of u.s. foreign policy around the world but that's just the latest exacerbation bush policies abroad dr chomsky also speaks out about the policies but profound implications for everyone including those here in the u.s. as a plaintiff on the national defense authorization act or n.d.a. court case he discusses why a lesser known case holder of humanitarian law takes this concept of terrorism affiliation one step further. the humanitarian look for
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a group new ground there was a concept of material support for terrorism already sort of a dubious concept because what's how to decide which terrorism well that's an executive women again there's a terrorist list created by the executive branch without review without anyone having any right to contest it and if you look at that list it's. it really tells you something so for example nelson mandela was on the terrorist list until three or four years ago and the reason was that the one nine hundred eighty eight when the reagan administration was strongly supporting the apartheid regime in south africa in fact the the ruling congressional legislation in order it they declared that the african national congress that was one of the more notorious
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terrorist groups in the world that's mandela that's nineteen eighty eight barely before apartheid finally collapsed and he was just on the terrorist list until that . or to take another case in the one nine hundred eighty two when you were acting invaded iran the u.s. was supporting iraq and one of the aid directly invasion so saddam hussein was taken off the earth's list it's not yours given that it's ok well it's you know it's it's it's executive women to begin with we should take it seriously but there was putting that aside material assistance meant you know you give them a gun or something like that under the obama administration it's a you give them a dual use. terrorism is completely subjective and this means that if you're simply in contact with anyone this government deems to be a terrorist and you are terrorist by affiliation this alone has tremendous
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implications not just for journalists but for everyone now these are just a few of the extraordinary insights i was able to gain in my one on one interview there's a horror lot more to be said so be sure to tune in tomorrow for the for interview and watch dr chomsky break the set. and if you're wondering about what i'm doing when i'm no longer checking out on twitter at abby martin you'll likely see you can follow me there you'll find all my tweets from linking the segments for the show as well as random thoughts i. throughout the day and also please help us get a break in the set lending on twitter. we can get on the twitter sphere but only with your help so twitter check me out at abby martin not that for tonight's show you guys will remember to come back tomorrow for the full interview with dr noam chomsky.
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