real life. hello hello hello i'm abby martin and this is breaking that the set since obama took office there's been a total of eight people charged under the hc espionage act the world war one piece of legislation that was designed to prosecute. this is an unprecedented number in fact more americans have been persecuted for exposing information under obama than all other presidents combined i'm sure obama's war on whistleblowers investigative journalism is nothing new what is new though is a report released by the committee to protect journalists who are going to highlights how obama's aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers along with the broad surveillance of journalists makes the current administration the absolute worst on press freedom since nixon now i know i report on this issue ad nauseum

you're probably sick of hearing about it but just to show you the broad agreement with this viewpoint the seed p.j. cites dozens of journalists from across the media sphere that concur take for instance david sanger of the new york times who said quote this is the most closed control freak administration i have ever covered or jane mayer of the new yorker's said it's a huge impediment to reporting and so chilling isn't quite strong enough it's more like freezing the whole process into a standstill order james goodall former general counsel to the times who noted that quote president obama will surely pass president richard nixon as the worst president ever on issues of national security and press freedom look i could go on but i think you get the idea person who once promised transparency on a path to accountability has failed miserably at the livery in either so i think it's about time that we break that. the peaceably they

are looking very hard to take a little while to get along well have you ever had sex with that hurt their feelings. for that belief. the two. little. the little. guys so it is a sad day for breaking the set because it looks like the drone king might be retiring his crown in the sun i'm worried about the future of drone strikes after

cia director john brennan indicated that targeted assassinations may be decreasing over the next few months according to brennan there might not only be a significant reduction in the amount of strikes but that the army might be taking over the kill switch from the cia surprising words coming from the architect of the entire drone program. don't get too excited folks there's still plenty of evidence that drone strikes aren't going anywhere obama's far from calling for an end to the use of drones altogether so those good old signature strikes are still in the military's deck of cards every tear tuesday because but because put in an unfavorable light beam shot of the drone wars there is an initiative to make them more precise and prove that pesky two percent success rate cancer autonomous killer robots of course yes you heard me right making these already killer robots completely autonomous meaning that drones will be able to make decisions on who lives or dies without human control because you know if there's one thing that we

can trust it's robots. you know here's what this is. do the pentagon learn anything from i robot the do you do you believe that lethal autonomous robots or early hours should be able to out then get out performing human driver better protection from potential hackers seriously seriously look forgive me for being skeptical but i don't know if it's a good idea to put one hundred percent trust into a computer to differentiate between killing good guys and killing bad guys over drone strikes are executed based on mathematical patterns hardly a failsafe method to determine who is a terrorist worthy of being assassinated don't you think if anything i worry that the opposite is true without that human element autumn eyes drones could be even

more deadly and less precise so before we go bowling too much credit i'd say it's pretty clear that he's still sitting tall on that drone their own but regardless of this fact people seem to be stoked about the baseless rhetoric promising to scale back the drone program and this is all due to obama bringing back some of bush's old. techniques to sort of reign hellfire missiles on civilians there is now more emphasis being put on cia black bag case in point this past weekend u.s. forces carried out extraordinary rendition raids in somalia and libya to pick up high value targets and by high value targets i mean to targets that currently pose no threat to americans yes it's amazing that people are actually celebrating the return of the bush policy of extraordinary rendition exporting interrogation and torture but it's not surprising because in america false choice is all we have

obama or bush kidnapping or sasa nation. and that's the ongoing us government shutdown egyptian officials are criticizing the u.s. decision to cut low portion of its one point five billion dollar annual aid package to cairo now secretary of state john kerry has said that full aid could resume on the basis that egypt's interim government provide a clear road map to democracy aside from withholding a pittance of its cash allowance to egypt the us is also withholding deliveries of tanks military aircraft and weapons shipments interestingly enough israel is also expressing frustration over the u.s. cutting aid to cairo citing concerns over to stabilization of the region. yes it's a big mess and the involvement of so many international players and interest is only complicating the situation at home

a break down these latest updates on how the global chess game ultimately affects the people i'm joined by gyptian american political activist dina darwish thank you so much ground thank you so do you left to egypt your egypt egypt an american you left there almost a year before the who to protest against the muslim brotherhood why actually a few months before the coup i spend five and a half months in egypt this year. i was part of the what i what we called the revolutionary activist. i was hoping that would help i would be able to help the process continue during morsi this time with a legitimate stepping down instead of yes we saw all obviously we had a massive setback. on july third. because we we were hoping people like me that we would get rid of the islamist government which we considered as a right wing reactionary government and instead we got

a military backed fascist government in my opinion and were you surprised by just being there i mean in seeing all this unfold resupplies the audacity of the military to take over in the way they did and how do you respond to the justification that the military gave of why they did. well actually this brings in the so-called egyptian liberal elite who turned out to be neither liberal nor elite they used a very short sighted strategy to. get rid of the islamists using the enemy of my enemy is my friend type of thing but the truth is the enemy of my enemy at this time is the ultimate enemy of social justice and genuine representation of the demands of january twenty fifth. which is are you out of the military has been extremely brutal and shocking in fact and what i was really appalled by is you know i wrote got to see the headlines about the u.s. cutting its aid but then when you read further you realize that it's a very small amount of the one point five billion dollars that it gives annually

saudi arabia is not cutting anything israel is criticizing the u.s. for its this isn't even a cut that small two hundred sixty million of the one point five billion what do all these different players reveal about kind of the whole the push and pull of the region all saudi arabia backing a government is that fanatically not a step forward towards democracy. saudi arabia has been a historic opponent of marcus in the region democratization in general and israel is also interested in that military aid continuing because israel is friends with the elite of the military establishment in egypt so of course there would be opposed to. unfortunately the military aid actually benefits mostly the us military industrial complex also benefits a few elite and their gyptian military it hurts the u.s. taxpayer because it doesn't really help egypt there are a lot of military experts and even the egyptian military who complain that they

don't need a lot of the military equipment that the u.s. sends so who's benefiting from this the egyptian the egyptian people are actually her hurting from this because. they you ask the government gets access to the soil . now gets access to the. the air to fly over egypt. very cheap one point three billion dollars is really only zero point five percent of the egyptian g.d.p. and people don't benefit from that it seems like a no brainer to just cut all these human rights atrocities are going on and you really realize there are other vested interests at play that don't have anything to do with the egyptian people pretty much which is really unfortunate how much effect will i mean yeah i guess you just answered how much effect will this reduction of aid really have i guess not that much when you look at over it well it will hurt the elite in the egyptian military. which is that which is not

a bad thing i think it's a good thing that the u.s. is doing sort of the right thing for a change. while the interim government of course i've received have done this massive round up of egyptian muslim brotherhood members and supporters get at the same time they say that they're moving toward a democracy a roadmap to democracy what's i mean how do you respond to this glaring contradiction here you know this is this is a full return of the security state in egypt this is a fascist puppet military backed government which is committing atrocities against journalists against massive massacres against thousands of civilians. really. military tribunals against civilians i mean this is this if if the january twenty fifth revolution was point zero where minus stand now so unfortunate at what point i mean how much hope is there for a real democratic process as this military is still in control of the country well

i i have faith that the egyptian people are going to wake up and want to realize that the current government and the future governments which are probably going to be military backed as well because they're controlling the process right now i'm sure the people and they don't see results they're definitely. we're going to wake up and continue with their with their uprising on their revolution and i know that you have a lot of contacts on the ground of course it's hard to gauge egyptian people's public opinion from the u.s. there's a lot of conflicting sources right now of course at the end of the day as you just said the egyptians are suffering what do you think the opinion is i guess of people on the ground about the situation while there is massive media propaganda that's fueling jingoism hyper nationalism. they're really spending a lot of money and effort to try to brainwash the egyptian public but eventually everybody is going to see that there are no results the media is spreading lies rumors. anybody who represents dissent in egypt is now either a terrorist

a fifth column or a muslim brotherhood or a traitor really there's no possibility of dissent without consequences in egypt now which is which is very sad wow so the military is actually you know it's kind of painting a broad brush on anyone who's really dissenting in the media and they're pretty much controlling the media sources have great influence on the media also the media the state the state meet us controlled by the military and the current government the. private media is controlled by the elite of the old regime and their friends and people with a lot of money who would who is not it's not in their interest to actually have a successful revolution under foreman in egypt that's why they're actually acting as apologists and propaganda spokespeople for the current regime on the military well i have no doubt that the people will rise up again it seems are rife with

revolution and i will area dina darwish thank you so much for coming on breaking down some of this complicated issue thank you for shit. amid the ongoing egypt coverage shut down sorry you did some online egyptian officials or criticize me as decision but you know what and when coming up next we'll talk to mike rupert about the collapse of civilization and they tend. to think. i would rather i asked questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question.

the fact that. they would like to do the job did you know the press is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy correct albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked by handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers but once i'm tom are in on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem to try rational debate in a real discussion critical issues facing america if i ever feel ready to join the movement then welcome there.

at the risk of sounding alarmist we're facing a cataclysmic environmental crisis guys someone even said that we're on the brink of a complete collapse of industrial from the as a nation as we know it think about it the world is the pentagon contaminating fossil fuels and despite efforts they made introduce alternative energy seems like whales and dominate the market until every last drop is gone from the earth so why aren't more people sounding the alarm help answer that question and gain some more insight on the energy problems we face earlier i spoke to my group or is a former l.a. police officer an investigative journalist and author of the book crossing the rubicon a decline of the american empire at the end of the age of peak oil i first asked for his predictions if we do not change our current course of energy consumption.

the basically everything that we're looking at right now. major economic dislocations population die off is inevitable because there are ten calories of fossil fuel energy every calorie of food on the planet we have six billion people on the planet now that weren't here before we discovered oil and natural gas. and we're also looking at other answer and for put genic changes to the climate we're looking at climate collapse all of this century follows a model if you will and predictions that i made going back to two thousand and three two thousand and four and in the documentary collapse ever sense that there is no recovery to anything like what we knew as a normal for us now that we have to find new normals and adapt to those and lot of the reports coming out of fukushima really now hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive water has been sitting at the civic for the last two years what do you see as the best case scenario for the end game there. the only thing that i

see that can make a. at this point is for all seven billion humans who occupy this planet to realize a couple of things first of all that everybody's life is in danger from this the pacific ocean is polluted the food chain is polluted and we are looking at a rapidly deteriorating situation at fukushima where there are there are eleven spent fuel pools two of which are in immediate jeopardy and where these leaks continued that the only thing is going to make a difference is if all seven billion of us drop everything and also shed any preconceived notions about money or how money works or what needs to happen or any ideas of national power or responsibility this is not a japanese problem this is a human problem and that's the only way we're ever going to be able to approach any kind of a solution from fukushima right i mean given i mean this disaster aside this latest one can nuclear energy ever be harnessed safely given the fact that it's like

a waste can even be securely stored. absolutely not there is and a former prime minister not a con who was privatised or when the earthquake hit japan has come out in new york city read it just recently and said every nuclear reactor must be shut down now there are about four hundred fifty commercial reactors on the planet that is an imperative because we cannot maintain all of them and many of them are failing already indian point just about twenty six miles north of new york has five times more fuel rods than fukushima it is a g.e. mark one reactor and it has serious structural and maintenance issues right now and that's just one example of many if if we want to leave anything for our children for our grandchildren any life on this planet the imperative is to safely shut down put into cold storage all reactors right now i couldn't agree more i think one solution happened i realize i'm twenty three is this the reactors here in the u.s. almost identical design terrifying there's no initiative to really shut those down

and there should be a mike let's talk about fracking in the new craze the cross. the us reports are coming out now that show that fracking may not only be causing earthquakes but are potentially unlocking pockets of radiation what else can you tell me about this and other dangers that fracking poses of that has been confirmed multiple cases there's a news story that just appeared today that i have a been able to read but it's a third story now confirming that the injection of frac chemicals deep into specific substrata in the soil is releasing stored pockets of radiation that are three hundred times above what is an acceptable limit and that's a fundamental issue about our whole relationship with mother earth she has stored. elements that are harmful to life like carbon which she is now releasing in massive quantities and radiation and our pursuit of infinite growth on a finite planet is opening and has opened pandora's box and unleashing all of these

plagues pestilences and all of these diseases it has to stop fracking is is destroying the fresh water tables and aquifers all over this country and freshwater is in serious shortage not only here but around the world right even the term fossil fuel when you really think about what it is fossil fossilize matter compressed over billions of years were blowing it i mean it is magical resources i cannot believe who are doing the short side as a thousand in mike i know that you've studied a lot about peak resources can you explain what that concept means and which ones have already peaked. well the first and foremost and i was i've been very active in the peak oil movement since two thousand and one and traveled the world wrote more than one hundred articles on peak oil and peak energy at my former newsletter from the wilderness and basically we we have we are a civilization that has gotten drunk on cheap abundant energy which which is disappearing rapidly planet earth past peak oil in late two thousand and five

that's conventional oil all these things called oil now. like tar sands which is bitumen. shale oil which is karajan none of these provide the energy return for energy investment and they are extremely destructive of the environment they are not ordeal and yet we chase those that's the same issue with fracking which provides us so-called cheap and abundant natural gas which is absolutely ridiculous when our tap water catches on fire it causes earthquakes it sets sets loose radiation and it boys it's us right i think he said we need to stop this infinite growth in a finite planet and i mean really there is a peak to every resource when you're looking at everything on the planet today mike and given the news that i just saw a couple hours ago unprecedented heat will reach the u.s. in thirty years why do you think that us policy makers are more concerned with obamacare and is this other political squabbling partisanship in the systematic destruction of the globe especially with the u.s.

just becoming number one in oil and gas production. well it's not just for that reason it's that they are incapable they are sociopaths they are psychopaths and they are completely and utterly disconnected from the fact that we only have one planet on which to live and we all live here together and if we don't save our ecosystem our habitat well there's no hope for anything in the future there it's not just extreme shortsightedness this this i would call evil but i think in a broader philosophical sense looking back across the whole history of the earth in all of human civilization this is truly the death of me my. mindset is what you think about before you think about something it's all the stuff that most people accept as being a given before they try to analyze and that mean is dying and it's breaking free from that me so war for consciousness of which you are so much a part and so many of us are it's to break free from that to see and live in

a new me where shuman energy is not constrained by. lies we have been told i would say now for a good five six thousand years mike there seen the same trends these obvious trends that you're articulating right now where. they're looking at these same things. well it depends upon where you measure the alarmism. if you're looking for it from mainstream media from c.n.n. new york times you're not going to find it because they are incapable of sounding the alarm however i'm in a very unique position as a result of my longevity two books on a very successful movie through facebook and through my own radio show to be in touch with the fact that all over the world there is a mass awakening occurring right now many people are getting this they are not only just dissatisfied they are aware of the fact that that there are priorities for ourselves and for our children that we're not addressing and i think this awakening

is very much underway and i'm doing everything i can to fan the fires underneath it i know you are it's a beautiful thing about a minute left but what can we do to ensure that we're not just passive players watching everything collapse around us. i have a saying that i use called fire your weapon and it has nothing to do with guns and firearms it has to do with whether your expression of dissatisfaction desire for change is an e-mail a letter to your congressman carrying a picket sign being a blockade in front of a coca-cola ramp or a railroad line shipping weapons find a weapon and fire it we saw amazingly successful results with that in the recent. prevention of the united states. attack on syria and regime change the united states had said which we've determined this is the only way where the and the whole world stood up to seven billion people on this planet my guess is six point nine

billion did not want to see that invasion of president putin and russia played a played a very important role in that but he's a politician and the world itself was pushing behind and he knew that the wind was at his back and we must not believe that we are helpless victims we must act as if we make a difference now because the only alternative is to lay down give up and die and i'm not like that and i know you're not and i know all the people who are watching shows like this deeply want to be involved in this shift in consciousness life is about the struggle to about the fight thank you for being such an integral part of that my group or author investigative journalist. lifeboat our thanks so much. it was my pleasure see you soon. if you're wondering what i'm doing when i'm not on air check me out on that at abby martin. you can go and you can follow me there you can find all my tween thinking to thank you nischelle as moses turns out to have been they like photos that i put up of my cat so please help us at breaking us that

trending on twitter hash tag we can get credit on the twitter sphere but only if you're helping out of twitter check me out and having mine i think you guys have a great healthy my thank you miles. i know c.n.n. the m s n.b.c. and fox news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close in for the truth and might think. it's because one fall attention and the mainstream media work side by side with you is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different thread. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not i.

got a sense of the jokes while handling this stuff that. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question for. wealthy british style. time to write.

down. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. i know c.n.n. the m s m b c news have taken some lot slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be. true. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because one full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on we're going to come up. at our teen

years we have to print pretty. good because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not happy. with. you guys sort of jokes well handled stuff that i'm. down to you know did you give consent for your child to eat golden rice. i'm still thinking about we didn't know it at the time they didn't tell us it was g.m. food was it maybe if i had known it at the time i wouldn't have allowed it and it. looks as though the flour many of the parents now regrets. that. for the tanit they said the food.