video for your media projects a free media don carty dot com. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the less bad luck. i mean . i know that i'm still really messed up. in the all very sort of silly. it's. worse if you're going to go lie down for the. radio guy and for a minute. they want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. hey guys i'm having martin and this is breaking news that it's no secret that auburn grave is one of the worst scars left on america's moral legacy the prison

was host to the brutal torture and aggravation of hundreds of detainees few months ago four of those torture victims came forward with a lawsuit against the cia international a defense contractor who was running the prison they were hoping for some sort of compensation for the torture humiliation and abuse say incurred while there when the without lawsuit was filed i spoke to a.t.c. legal director robert are you who is assisting the case right here in breaking the set. theory and everything from having dogs sit there on the experience having bit of bodily harm emotional harm so these these individuals were the victims these individuals were the victims in the pictures the ones that we've seen in the images that have been plastered across the world that's who these individuals represent the spite their efforts of federal judge eventually dismissed the lawsuit citing that obvious graves overseas and therefore outside of u.s. jurisdiction interesting logic considering how is the u.s. military prison but it's a complete dismissal of this case is not. bad enough it gets much worse because you

see now the defense contractors ca c.i. is turning around and sue even then yup the giant corporation is trying to sue the four victims for compensation for a series of legal fees associated with their original lawsuit are you kidding me apparently it wasn't good enough to get away scot free after running a torture chamber now corporations trying to take away even more from these victims than it already has if this doesn't show the utter disregard these contractors have for human life i don't really know what does but should we expect anything more than the u.s. government gives them complete immunity for the war crimes that this trust of justice pisses you off to join me it's time to break the set. a little. or should i be like. oh. yesterday marked forty years since the u.s.

flew its final bombing mission over southeast asia officially ending the country's direct military involvement in vietnam but even though the war is long over its memory lingers on unjustified invasion resulted in hundreds of thousands if not millions of innocent civilians dead but those statistics don't account for the millions more that are still suffering today as a result i'm talking about the countless individuals who have fallen victim to a heinous tactic employed by the u.s. during the war the use of the chemical agent orange between one thousand nine hundred to one nine hundred seventy one the us military sprayed nearly twenty thousand gallons of agent orange over vietnam an effort to deform it forced of land and deprive the viet cong from hiding within but unfortunately since the chemical is also deprived many have a healthy life with the substance causing extensive birth defects and diseases for years to all who have come in its path to talk about the disastrous effect this chemical has had on the us double standard on the matter i spoke earlier with

margaret cohn professor of human rights of thomas jefferson school of law i first asked her how widespread the use of agent orange was during the war and this is what she had to say. the u.s. military sprayed about twelve percent of the land of the from about nine hundred sixty one to nine hundred seventy one and it's estimated that millions of the enemies and americans as well in these americans now vietnamese americans were exposed to agent orange and particularly the most egregious chemical in. in agent orange which is dioxin one of the most dangerous chemicals known to science you talk about how the use of agent orange was actually a violation of the geneva conventions why. well the geneva conventions and the hague convention prohibit weapons that target civilians and the

landmass was sprayed with no distinction between. troops and to end this and civilians and certainly millions of civilians were affected and so that is a violation of the geneva conventions in the hague convention prohibits the use of poisoned weapons obviously agent orange decimated the entire land can you talk about the kinds of health of facts that were seen and actually be needed aftermath of its use was not just immediate aftermath actually the children and grandchildren of both vietnamese and americans exposed to agent orange continue to be born with horrific birth defects when i was in vietnam i saw children with no limbs i heard reports of children born babies born with no brain cavity people who were exposed to agent orange or are victims of very aggressive forms of cancer live lymphoma diabetes and and the list goes on and on right i wanted to

actually have you comment on you know immediately after what did we see and now of course the timeline decades later what kind of diseases and cancers exist today in the region because of the chemical sprayed. well the reason i say that it's not that much different is because all over vietnam there are what are called hot spots which are still poisoned by dioxin in in the soil and many of them are located around former u.s. military bases agent orange were used as a default to get rid of the. brush and trees so that they could find the enemy more easily and so people who live near these hot spots are also continually being affected by this toxic chemical has there been any sort of accountability of using this chemical on the people from the government or pressure

for compensation. there was a lawsuit brought by the veterans against two of the major chemical companies dow and monsanto it manufactured agent orange and they arrived at a settlement and in federal court in new york and they get about one point five two billion dollars a year which sounds like a lot of money but it's very little for the number of u.s. soldiers who were affected by agent orange and whose offspring continue to be affected by agent orange but when that was suits settled the judge jack weinstein assured the chemical companies that their liability was over so when the vietnamese victims the intended victims of agent orange sued in federal court they were thrown out of court but that lawsuit spawned a movement to try to get compensation for the victims of agent orange and in fact

i do the peace accords signed in paris in one nine hundred seventy three the nixon administration promised three billion dollars toward healing the wounds of war and for post-war reconstruction of vietnam and none of that money has been forthcoming but this movement has led to organizations like mine the vietnam agent orange relief and responsibility campaign. which helped draft legislation that is now pending in the u.s. congress it's called the victims of agent orange relief act of twenty thirteen and that below would provide medical rehabilitative and social service compensation to the vietnamese victims of agent orange remediation of dioxin contaminated hotspots and medical services for the children of u.s. vietnam veterans and the enemies americans who have been born with the same diseases and deformities and it's called h r two five one. that bill of agent

orange relief act of twenty thirty ok so right now there hasn't been really any accountability inside the government i mean we just same kind of this lawsuit gets told not even one from from dow chemical and monsanto and since the effects are still felt today it's still a factor in extreme weather large amount of vietnamese people what would you say that the attitude of the vietnamese is toward the west for kind of this neglect over the last fifty years. well during the vietnam war and i was i was very active in the anti-war movement and i remember being very surprised that the vietnamese people did not hate the american people they understood that it was the american government not the american people that that was raining bombs and chemicals down on them and in fact there was a very strong anti-war movement the problem now and since the vietnam war the end of vietnam war one nine hundred seventy five is that people don't know that the

land and the people of vietnam continued to be poisoned by this chemical that was dropped by the u.s. military and when people do find out such as reading my op ed on huffy to post and other pieces like that they feel very responsible they feel like they want to do something about it i have been to vietnam recently there is not resentment against the. americans they understand that there are many americans who are trying to achieve compensation to to get some recompense for the victims and their one thing i want to make clear is that although the u.s. veterans get some compensation not nearly enough there has been no compensation at all whatsoever for the vietnamese victims there has been some u.s. assistance in remediating to have the worst hot spots near to army bases but there are still many many other hotspots in vietnam that still have dioxin in the soil i

think your head on the head it's the lack of knowledge that this is happening i think it's kind of out of sight out of mind and we don't really understand the consequences of the vietnam war still to this day and unfortunately i wasn't the last time we saw the u.s. military using chemical weapons against international law during wartime as we know that military use white phosphorus in depleted uranium in iraq which will be around for years and years some say millions of years i mean as a constitutional lawyer do you think that there's a double standard that exists between the u.s. using chemical warfare and. other countries that use them kind of using out of the logic to preemptively years military strikes against countries you hit it right on the head absolutely there is a double standard united states criticizes syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons and may use that as a pretext to invade syria and it certainly is the weapons of mass destruction rationale was the pretext for bush to invade iraq even though they really knew

there weren't any chemical weapons left weapons inspectors had been there recently and said there were none left and yet the the united states continues to use as you said depleted uranium white phosphorous which burns to the bomb cluster bombs which are little bomb threats that explode when children pick them up we continue to use these devastating weapons that that just proportionately affects civilians which are illegal under international law but of course this is not the only double standard you see horrific killing going on by the military in egypt you see the obama administration making some weak kind of protest but you don't see them withdrawing the one point three billion dollars in aid that we give to to the egyptian government so there is a long history of double standards when it comes to u.s. foreign policy or the time to reinstate the moral compass of this government and its actions around the world thank you so much margaret conley professor of human

rights at thomas jefferson law school my pleasure abbi thank you. all right guys we're taking a quick break but when we come back we'll take a look back at the highlights of season one. technology innovation it's all the list of the elements from around russia. the huge earth covered lead. that was a new alert animation scripts scare me a little. there is breaking news tonight and they are continuing to follow

the breaking news the. alexander family cry tears of the war you and your great things other than. the ever read or get a quart of water found alive is a story made sort of movies playing out in real life. the more.

the a. leg guys it's hard to believe but in just one year we've done two two hundred. twenty six episodes of breaking the set it's been a lot of fun it's also been a lot of work and i definitely could not have done it without the help of my awesome production team christine connecticut in the control of marriage david and many of the low having said that i want to take a quick look back at some of our most memorable and favorite moments of the show you guys there were a lot of them but i picked out some that stick out the most to me terror tuesday when we first heard the news about obama having baseball's going to kill on terror tuesday and we invented the drone king hash tag but take a look. obama is officially the drone king he's ramped

up the use of these unmanned killer robots dramatically since taking office drone warfare in yemen somalia pakistan and elsewhere. and it's crazy you would have never thought of that at the time but that hash tag blew up hash tag drone and actually we went to it today to see what some people were saying they're still using it to this day even though that segment was just so long ago but there was one tweet that caught my eye asher wolf wrote a drone by any other name is still a war crime and that is just so epic and basically he was referring to what you were talking about the other day which is that the drone industry is trying to rebrand the word drone there just basically to disassociate it from the predator drones that obama is using abroad but i think we all know that there are. as well and who could forget calling out israel as well for their targeting of journalists in gaza and speaking to the spokesperson for prime minister netanyahu let's check

it out. i do apologise for a. given we didn't target jordan it was we just wanted to target we didn't target journalists and again if anybody was we apologize we apologize and you personally are invited to come to israel believe me you will be the best guest in israel. no. i love this guy alex look oh it's yes we will take. you there as soon as we can give us a little bit of time no you know what i love that we did that interview that was the first time that we actually got an official whatever you want to call it was an apology for what happened and it was at the height of the conflict a lot was going on journalists had been killed and we you know we just wanted some answers and this guy came on and gave us you know his honest perspective and you know what we will definitely take you. there alex i will see you very soon and of course the most bizarre thing of all was nestle's android replicant response to the

video calling that say out for the privatization of water let's take a look at that. kind of chairman doesn't believe it's a human right that's wrong. the whole company we've no recognized the human right to water and we ensure people respect it. of course peter brady back the chairman did say that he doesn't want water to be a human right that's extreme so you know of course no matter what the slow robot lady says we all know we heard it from his mouth but you know what we also got to take break in the set on the road to some amazing trips manny you and i went to haiti we're able to speak to jimmy carter president jimmy carter we're also going to travel to new york to cover exclusively the n.d.a. hearing and unfortunately do you want to give an update about what's happening with that case for you know actually it was very very timely whenever we were covering because it was it was right after that that hearing in the second circuit court in

new york and unfortunately you know the. lawsuit as we know it has been struck down so right now what we can expect is maybe they'll go to supreme court maybe not but really that interview that you did with with chris hedges was really telling because and it's very important because one of the things that you mentioned was how little attention it's getting from the mainstream media you don't hear about it and it's a deterioration of our of our information systems here here in the united states then it's unfortunate that our t.v. this network as well as the show is one of the only alternative media outlets that a person can turn to to learn about what's really going on with the n.b.a. and da that specific provision about indefinite detention is so crucial for people to know about because it is you know one of those the last it's a monumental case and yes we were it was really amazing be able to talk to the plaintiffs on the case and we're we've got to travel to boston today to now and no matter. what it's now you know it was an amazing it was amazing to be not in this office i think it was amazing just to be in his presence i mean this is a man who's eighty four years old he's still sharp he's

a student diver and he spoke really candidly with us so i it was just an honor his office is so amazing it stacks of books he's authored over one hundred books and all of them are going to believe it and it's in the same and you know it was just so cool to see all the memorabilia and to really witness that and we were there actually really close to when the boston bombing happened we actually had dinner right outside the finish line of. boston marathon and you're actually able to get public opinion about what people were thinking in terms of safety versus security that's there's a really interesting. 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 said this security cameras we had i mean they did a good job find 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. the harsh military crackdown one thousand paramilitary terry

troops people are very very fearful and i think we're really you know capitalizing on that fear to you know build the surveillance and security state and boston and it's going to be accurate in cities across that you absolutely and you know i think the most interesting moment was having rubble on break in the stands and i think everyone to see everyone in the studio hated us nobody could get any work done and we were wrong and we out in the middle you know really surprised we didn't get a noise violation it was even i was. told you know they were also taken so people need to go check that i don't have to go the way they killed it and manny i know that you and i have a lot of interesting discussions on the show as i understand you put together some of your yeah but a couple little clips together if we could take a look. see we're going to be talking about today u.s. foreign policy national is when populism cyberwarfare current events and you think of the world the face or ambiguously just saying we're going to be talking about current events yeah what if someone hacked into this arm and started killing people

i mean they're like it's my arm it's not you need to explode and this is like talking from spider man many is that is that something to respect the muslim faith and throwing a body in the ocean and i have my own theory behind this i think honestly but you know this is just because there are thirty needs a sequel just like transformers megatron into the ocean that came back and you have another transformers movie like you said injecting our pets with these tracking chips it's only a matter of time before we start doing it to our children to every child or cat all manny let's talk about the taser drugs surveillance handcuffs i couldn't even make this up if i wanted to it's a handcuff they can administer a drug they can also tase you i mean seriously seriously you guys have your favorite out of it a very moment was the show that was jam packed with two spoken word artist remy cannot be an epic show favorite moment we went to haiti you go in the face by some crazy bug and it's sold out for like a week now there's also the studio you guys. thank you so much the show would be

nothing without you guys i love you so much and you guys there are people amazing workers and if you guys notice their bust you know they're breaking today because martino's from the lab in l.a. is awesome he has a bunch of stuff that he's made for us and we're going to have it available next season you guys everyone stay tuned and thank you so much for being amazing. well recently i put together a little best of montage of my favorite interviews and monologues on the show take a look. at the media candidates corporatocracy i can't wait for this. to be over word new york times welcome to that this administration has no credibility club remind me again why it is that people are worshipping kings and queens in their twenty thirty five a novel idea of blaming the whistleblower for trying to evade death by way of the espionage act he actually talked about with the n.s.a. revelations are in a constant republican marker so you this is not informed concern by those who are

offering this is manufactured concern and are actually of course concerned in secret you guys this is not about safety it's not about terrorism this is about showing dissent and controlling society. die die die isn't dead already you can't conduct these kinds of wars around the world killing innocent people in the pursuit of a few bad guys and pretend that it's not going to come back to you did you find the logic flawed now looking back do you regret your vote to invade and occupy a country to find one man so we ought to be critical highly concentrated form the apollo where we find it because of that kind of paul was usually the plan a club you know i'm stephanie from that's right we saw the video you post on you tube criticizing us over. so he's overspending. wal-mart's also been described as an economic death star destroying everything in its path. we did nothing more than

to modernise the wasteland so the heartless activist is not a criminal yet actual criminal thanks to run free i'm glad this government has its priorities straight so do you shop all down your mine and subscribe to old school paradigms or do liberate yourself by of knowledge and reality show the world would lose its innocence what if your brother know the truth. little. and yes it has been a great first year but there is a whole lot more to look forward to you guys here's a little sneak peek at what you can expect to see in season two. submit a. very hard to kill. list elite and

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they are opportunity i've been given to talk about all the issues that are important to me but this show would be nothing if it weren't for you the viewer supporting and sharing my work so thank you all for watching for the next two weeks while we working hard making the next season kick ass in the meantime you can find all two hundred and twenty six episodes we've done including every interview and every segment on breaking the set on you tube at youtube dot com slash break in the set under our videos tab or on hulu hulu dot com slash break in the set also on our facebook page facebook dot com slash breaking the set and do not forget to hit me up on trader at abby martin let me know you thought about the show over the last year and guys that's it for us tonight he's out.

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 that everything you thought you knew you don't. charge was a big. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are old today.

plus i was a new alert animation scripts scared me a little. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news. alexander's family cry tears of joy and great things that had been rendered in a court of law around oh my god there's a story made sort of movies playing out in real life.

so i'm john marburger washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. new revelations about the national security agency's spying program show that the agency regularly breaks its own privacy rules and doesn't really even bother to report violations to regulators even now little surveillance state seems to care about the privacy of everyday americans can we really trust it to reform itself and in the lead up to the iraq war the mainstream media stood side by side with the bush administration as it sold its allies to the american people but ten years later in one president later it really changed its warmongering ways.