well. with all the concert reminders about nine eleven there is one crucial element consistently left out of the conversation the sick and dying first responders who risked their lives on that fateful day emergency responders right now of a fifteen percent higher rate of contracting cancer than the general population and already more than a thousand people who rushed to ground zero to help have tragically died according to the c.d.c. sadly the nine eleven heroes you would expect the government to be helping the most have been left in the dust talk more about the struggle for medical care i'm joined now by john feal first responder founder and president of the feel good foundation john of the pleasure to have you on thank you for having me talk about the most pressing medical issues facing nine eleven first responders right now. cancer in the beginning in the first few years it was respiratory but now it's cancer and this is just the first wave of kids is the blood cancer is the leukemia is the you

all but in five years you're going to see dispenses cancers they'll be into the way bill cancer and like i tell everybody this is a generation long issue what a generation long illness. what's the status of the droga act right now and how many victims has it compensated but so far. i could tell you a really important date is october third of this year which is about i believe seventeen days from now if you were affected by nine eleven if you would bear even if you're sick or not sick you should register with the b.c.f. . to get compensated because you have to october third you'll be left out and this is a bill that we passed three years ago and healthcare has been up and running for two years now and doing a great job in the compensation part of the bill is slowly catching up to health care. keep in mind this is only a five year bill which. is in october of two thousand and sixteen. and we're going

to have to go back to congress and walk the halls of congress again and get this bill we knew so there's a lot of obstacles and a lot more hurdles and all way absolutely as you mentioned there's been multiple waves and there's to be more to come as well waves of cancer as i understand has been quite a difficulty even getting congress to cover all of the cancer cases thus far what's been the delay on that. well you know let me let me take everybody back in time you know for years they said we weren't sick and we were crying wolf the fact of the matter is is the will feed us in the world being cancer and right now nyasha diminish the health care party to build this is a two part bill the james zadroga health and compensation act is over fifteen hundred people that have been certified now by niosh and there's still thousands of others went non eleven related cancer. you know for years they told us this was a new york issue just four hundred thirty five congressional districts in the united states four hundred thirty of them were represented at ground zero somebody

from every state came to new york during the cleanup of the recovery in one home and a lot of people got sick and the national mana levon program now treats over twelve thousand people from across the country that is sick from their heroic actions at ground zero the days and weeks after. and you mentioned how it expires what happens when it does expire and is the four billion dollars a lot of dust far enough to cover everyone's expenses and how is the money allocated i just threw a lot of questions at you well now it's a good question four point three billion dollars one point five billion of that is for the health care and there's plenty of money to treat everybody for five years when we go to renew the bill the health care part of this bill will be renewed i will bet my one kidney on that that confident that even congress as paul the job they don't now will not renew this bill the compensation part is two point seven billion and change. they're waiting till october third in see how many people they have on october fourth that have registered and file claims and then

they'll be able to make a determination on how people are going to start to be compensated right now there's about twenty seven thousand people that have registered and i'm going to say a third of that have legitimate claims because the ill from nine eleven and its aftermath you know if you took every toxin that was in the air that day in the following days . you put it in a bottle you have a scone chorused bones saying home full of swallow consult a physician then you have the toxic soup combined and that was something that no doctor in those scientists has ever seen before and the absorption due to nose mouth and skin has made these men women and i say these men and women i'm one of them has made these people sick and you know for years they said we had a proof that nine eleven got to say we don't have to prove it anymore they have to prove that nine eleven didn't get us sick. good point and sadly so many people have already lost their lives john and we can't wait any longer speaking of the toxic flu seven days after nine eleven christine todd whitman of course the former head

of the p.a. issued the statement that she's glad to reassure the people of new york they're safe to breathe the water safe to drink the concentrations are such that they don't pose a health hazard we're going to make sure everyone's safe john do you think that her and other government employees should be held criminally culpable for falsely assuring people that they were safe. well listen christie todd whitman. she's going to be god one day god will be judge she can live what her reaction and her words i remember that you know on september seventeenth which is tomorrow is my anniversary when i was horribly injured i remember christie todd whitman coming out on the sixteenth and saying the air was safe to breathe the water was safe to drink she took what she took her orders from the white house and listened they wanted wall street up and running and they had to do what they had to do do i understand that yes do i agree with it now thousands of good innocent people got sick and many have passed away we lost about close to fourteen hundred people since nine eleven from

their own losses and this year alone we lost forty two that we know of that we're keeping track of forty two people taken from us too soon and close to fourteen hundred you know nine eleven twenty seven hundred fifty one innocent lives were lost to senseless violence we're halfway to them now because of poor leadership and bad politics and basically corruption and you know i've said this a million times a circus monkey could have been more compassionate and done a better job politicking at the nine eleven between congress albany and city hall a lot of people dropped the ball on helping people and you know when you're when you have a position of power and leadership you have a moral responsibility to help you can stay in joints and you know a lot of people they have to look themselves in the mirror and say you know what i did i failed absolutely john feel feel good foundation everyone check it out we got to put the pressure on congress fun the nine eleven first responders thank you so much for everything you do god bless you.

think back to twelve years ago to how you felt right after the attacks of september eleventh two thousand and one was a national climate of fear sadness despair and anger from paris to duran u.s. allies and enemies held candlelight vigils and solidarity world leaders presented a unique opportunity for understanding reconciliation and peace that amidst the chaotic aftermath of the attacks too many were already calling for blood and just seventy two hours later lawmakers were already voting on a resolution that would take this country to war but it wasn't just any war declaration it was an unprecedented measure that would come to redefine the role of america's intelligence and armed forces in the twenty first century the two thousand and one authorization for use of military force or the math is a broadly worded piece of legislation that gives any president authority under the

law to preemptively attack any country organization or individual deemed either a threat to the u.s. or an associated force to terrorism it was a codified step toward perpetual war which sadly still continues today yet in the deliberating moments toward such unprecedented power there was a lone voice that warned us of what these actions could lead to and september fourteenth two thousand and one barber leave a congresswoman from berkeley california stood alone on the floor to cast the only no vote against the. wall four hundred twenty eight other representatives voted to give the president a blank check. september eleventh changed the world our deepest fears now. yet i am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the united states this is

a very complex and complicated matter. a complicated matter indeed not only would america be waging a war against an invisible enemy in the name of national security and lawmakers recklessly abandon their responsibility to uphold the values of the constitution. however difficult this vote may be. some of us must urge the use of restraint our country is in a state of mourning some of us must say let's step back for a moment let's just pause just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control yes we should have taken that moment to consider the logic of fighting a tactic and every corner of the world see bar world we understood the consequences that go along with military action. that hate begets hate and violence begets

violence. as a member of the clergy so eloquently said. as we act. let us not become the evil that we deplore the millions dead as a result of the brutal u.s. occupation of iraq and afghanistan thousands lost in the series of shadow wars worldwide the rise of drone bombings extrajudicial fascination of indefinite detention and the unchecked growth of entire industry devoted to bloodshed unfortunately barbara lee's warning has become reality and the process of fighting a global war on terror the us has become the greatest purveyor of terror in the world but. wealthy british style sun it's time to right on. target.

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of the the. code of the. it's rare to find a government insider that not only recognizes america's system of two tiered justice but is actively working to expose it ramsey clark served as attorney general overseeing the department of justice under president lyndon b. johnson from one hundred sixty five to one thousand nine hundred sixty seven during his term clarke was instrumental in passing to the most significant bills of our time civil rights act and voting rights act since leaving the administration ramsey has been one of the most prominent figures leading the charge against us militarism this troubled everywhere from vietnam to iraq where he studied the devastating effects of western sanctions on local populations he documented his findings in a two thousand and two book called impact of sanctions on iraq but children are dying joined me earlier to discuss his research on iraqi sanctions evolution of the

rule of law since his time as attorney general and why he represented saddam hussein i first asked him what iraq was like before western intervention in one thousand nine hundred one. iraq was. the most prosperous. arab country in the world. instead of living it was highest infrastructure was. there the most part the united states. had good education good health care. that's before nine hundred ninety one before. we go for the invasion ninety period between after nine hundred ninety one january one thousand nine hundred one who invaded who started bombing them and you know head. to one hundred thousand sorties you were on every few minutes to bomb the new each other who country in one thousand nine hundred one in the before that it was very prosperous and. progressive and. since then it's suffered enormously

nobody feels safe any day in iraq they haven't since. two thousand and three you know if you had. hundred ninety one. hundred. thousands more often than not. in countries. been crushed in a unique way for unique a long period of time with. riots enduring and then. talk about how many children died as a direct result of these sanctions and why specifically children. who should know i'm a big supporter of you and it's the hope of one of the major hope at least of peace on earth the. un sanctions were imposed on iraq in august of ninety. impacted severely on a sample or choice they couldn't get infant formula for instance. and by the late

fall of that year forty seven thousand five hundred children under the age of five died as a direct result of the sanctions within three or four years four hundred seventy five thousand could be counted who had died as a direct result of the sanctions i was going into iraq every year during that period and i'd always go through maternity wards and you were lucky if you spent thirty minutes in there to get out. and die be on the bed with your mother that's your custom there and mother just start wailing when the baby die. we try to take him from former then but it's takes a lot of different for me to feed the infants of the countries of iraq and. they couldn't get it for all their wealth because of the sanctions and because of the military threat the military action against them constantly one of the great crimes against humanity. since world war two. have sanctions ever

work without having devastating effects on the pov on the people of certain countries instead of the regime. if you think about it for she mentioned sanctions impact the. just the poorest. those with less power actually the necessities of life and the pleasures of life. and influence are somebody's got to help them they can't make it by themselves and. their parents are poor and he can't import infant formula the mothers are malnourished and mother's milk is. well below normal production and if they were all in a particular mother. information i. just famous incident which our secretary of state. was asked. on one of our major interview programs four hundred seventy five hundred seventy five thousand children under the age of five dead as a direct result of the sanctions is the price worth it and she looked at the

cameron said difficult question but yes the price is worth it listen. there's no morality. and anyone who can say that anything is worth his life at five hundred seventy five thousand children. ramsay you were talking about the bombing campaign that was going on at the same time as these harsh economic sanctions were being applied to iraq what were the targets of those. at that time and they were hitting infrastructure primarily from one end to the other from. the border with turkey to the. city. to basra and blow. and they were hitting bridges. in baghdad they hit so many places i remember the justice ministry was a place i frequented. that badly hit. but it was intended to.

you know hit agriculture even trying to burn fields and destroy crops and things like anything that would nourish the people. who had genocidal purpose. to strategically determine it's not just military targets i mean obviously this is a lot of civilian infrastructure targeted on purpose as you just mentioned given what you've seen and how sanctions that firstly affect the population of these countries the most how do you feel about this administration using humanitarianism as the justification for a strike on syria. it would it's pretty in humanitarian to put it mildly it's also. the chair of a violation of human rights and international law. and one country can take it upon itself to be punishment for the whole world think it can bomb

people where they are. that anywhere for any. state around stated purpose their purpose the unstated in the state something that they fame is your purpose in your real purpose. the real purpose in changing of syria is driving and endangering the entire christian population there which is a very large population for the largest middle east countries we need integration religious and otherwise if we're going to peace with each other. which it is time i've been very close to both of people i love those people over there good news for their strength and their courage but we have to live at peace with them. and i couldn't agree more with alan ramsay you've taken a lot of heat for. choosing to be part of saddam hussein's legal representation why did you choose to represent a brutal dictator. who i didn't. see i was

shocked and. i felt. an absolute duty to do it if i was requested. right she belong to everyone we don't have equal rights we don't have rights we have privileges and underprivileged as you know. and i believe in rights of my adult life struggling for people's rights as a lawyer and otherwise. and he got no fair trial a fair trial wouldn't. possible perhaps under the circumstances but certainly turning him over to people who've been trying to assassinate him for twenty years. and trying to did that for the trial it was a farce. but asked to stand there with him and try to enter sheed interest in truth and justice. i would have had a hard time reading this myself if i had agreed to do it do it again in a minute. i could not do it. while put considering how this week marked the

twelfth anniversary of the horrific nine eleven terrorist attacks what's your take on how the government decided to kill and throw bin laden's body in the ocean instead of giving a trial at that instant any answers to the american people. are very muddy we don't . practice what we preach. to them or directly. we totally ignore. fundamental human rights international. standards. when it comes to international affairs. our government i mean you know i just came back here from the sixtieth anniversary of the war in. korea and the fortieth anniversary is war. we have no. millions killed. the only good thing is the people who are thriving it's beautiful to see it shows that there is a future after hill the war on terror is now carried out by the executive being

judge jury and executioner especially in these drone wars telling people that they claim are terrorists that any fair trial at all how dangerous of a precedent are we setting for the rest of the world with this policy. who are showing that. the powerful leaders they will in the weeks know for is a must. and that's the crudest most immoral thing that you can say to. show id. powerful should try to uplift the poor should know. if you are better about themselves if they did not talk about their aid that is so darn polluted we. strengthen the shrinking themselves. in the violence that. we are as dr martin luther king said it really hurt him to say it's. the greatest provider purveyor of violence on earth it's my own country one thousand nine hundred seventy three which

i here in new york the greatest purveyor of violence in the united states of america someone like you who was served in the administration decades ago seen it out on the outside now when you were serving in government was it more transparent and accountable to itself and the people than it is today or is the level of deceit and corruption kind of all relative as attorney general to a free hand to. i wouldn't state i hadn't. rendered justice is i so if it is possible to make a difference but it's it's a struggle and it's. not sure that any different you may will long endure. and what we try what would you tell people who just feel like it's hopeless and. you know look i'm looking at the world and say how can we get out of these of this policy of bellicose militarism the harder it gets the more important it is that we stand up and struggle. i watched in the sixty's and the pain and

misery and dangers in the african-american population a lot of time in the early sixty's and it's working primarily in the area and i was young i was in the south and i compassion. for the african americans who are facing danger and humiliation of deprivation all the time and. they sang and they marched and they said we shall overcome. we got there you had we. not better off than we were and we were sure of margin and show believing that we should overcome if you don't believe that you much will crawl in a hole in the. struggles to cope with her purpose of life. it is indeed a ramsey and we definitely have seen change happen albeit slowly it does happen and it takes the struggle in the streets thank you so much for being a voice of the people representing justice and truth ramsey clark former u.s. attorney general. so far how do our you tube channel at youtube dot com slash

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