just two. days. welcome to break into said i'm abby martin so we're almost on the brink of war with syria yes that seems like just yesterday that obama was about to drop cruise missiles over the basket because assad allegedly crossed the red line just days after the august twenty first sarin gas attack killed nearly fifteen hundred syrians the administration released an intelligence brief place in seoul blame on assad of the deadly assault even secretary of state john kerry well aware of the fabrications told by the u.s. to get into iraq assured us that quote we will not repeat that moment we've taken unprecedented steps to declassify and make facts available to people who can judge

for themselves and although those facts were never laid bare mounting pressure forced obama into diplomacy the legendary investigative journalist seymour hersh just wrote an article that tells a different story take a listen to what he said about the real reason obama decided to back down from a military strike. i'm telling you he didn't do it because the american people said no he knew it because he didn't have a case. that there was a credible opposition that will be one of these days written about his maybe history books it was a credible operation from some very very strong minded constitutionally minded people in the pentagon amazing and hersh went on to write obama failed to acknowledge that the syrian army is not the only party in the country's civil war with access to sarin and the months before the attack the american intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports citing evidence that al nusra a jihadi group affiliated with al qaeda had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it and quantity. listen we may not know

exactly what happened syria on that fateful day but we do know that this war's have been based on lives before and we can't afford to let that happen again now it's back to set. the little. people. are very hard to take that are. you ever had sex with the terror threat there.

but. it seems like in today's society it's almost impossible to address government conspiracies without being painted as a lunatic but history proves conspiracies do exist and in fact many that have gone down in the store or record would shock people to the core if only they knew about them. this lack of context regarding events that have shaped this country is a detriment to an open and honest society which is why i was so disappointed to see an article in new york magazine that ridiculed a well documented government conspiracy the iran contra cocaine connection and reference to this scandal the article says quote this episode soon became fuel for perhaps the last great conspiracy of the twentieth century that the cia had spread to crack through america's inner cities the cia's shipping trucks well.

but before i get ahead of myself let me remind you what the wrong contre was all about between one thousand nine hundred five and one thousand nine hundred six the us sort of weapons of the iranian government despite an existing embargo that specifically for bade them from doing so what happened next was a set of secret operations aimed at swapping american hostages for these weapons and the knavery in those funds to arm a group of anti communist rebels and called the contras but as president reagan once put it those contras were the moral equivalent of our founding fathers yeah if our founding fathers were also international drug traffickers see according to close to a classified document the cia had not only allowed the trafficking of cocaine might nicaraguan contras but actually protected the drugs meanwhile in the reagan doctrine the cia was training and assisting their operations see the late journalist gary webb publish an investigative series on cocaine trafficking and the congress in the one nine hundred ninety s. his findings were attacked of course by the u.s.

government as well as several mainstream publications and eventually cost him his job but not without some glaring evidence coming to light his report led to admissions by top officials on the relationship between the u.s. backed rebels and the and well known drug cartels of wishing to traffic cocaine to the u.s. these allegations are only reinforced when l.a.p.d. detective michael rupert confronted former cia director john deutch about the cia's connection to narco trafficking. i can tell you you're going to the former los angeles these are going to thank you if you have to go through out there are a lot. yes that was an l.a.p.d. p.d. called testifying about cocaine being filtered through america's inner cities and if you just can't comprehend that the same government which is fighting a multi-billion dollar drug war is partially responsible for spreading the drugs want to look no further than the cultivation protection that the u.s. military is supplying for opium and afghanistan. the war torn country had nearly

eradicated the crop prior to the occupation and now ninety percent of the world's heroin comes from afghanistan so the next time you hear something dismissed as just a conspiracy theory maybe take a second to dig a little deeper than what's presented because you might be surprised at what you find. i. i. look all of us already know what the extent of government surveillance and infiltration of activist groups across the country what will decepticons government spying is on the rise there is another aspect of the trying to constantly overlooked corporate espionage think about it the corporatocracy that we live in governments are merely outsourcing to private entities to collect all of our information and these corporations about in really good at it they know operating independently from government when it comes to

undermining opposition forces perfecting a laundry list of dirty tricks some of the biggest corporations on the planet have managed to stay one step ahead of the activists who are trying to expose their corruption so they go over the top five craziest corporate tactics used against these groups activists and whistleblowers and i b.t.s. producer emanuel rob below what i get out of the i'm still getting over your lindsey graham. well i've never heard a story like this many let's go over it you know what's really amazing is of course we don't trust the government but at least the government has some sort of constitutional limitations at least we can vote these people out of all. we really want to do people really woke up why should we trust corporations i mean we're talking about private entities who are just trying to protect their bottom line and act pretty much with total impunity here i think that's a totally valid question i have no idea what what is worse is a government spying any worse than corporate spying but what we are learning now through this amazing report put forward by the center for corporate policy is all

this all these cases of corporate espionage that they've uncovered over the course of decades that are now shows that the same tactics that are implemented by the intelligence agencies here in the united states are now being adopted by corporations and then these corporations use them in the same way as the government does except you know they're not doing it for any patriotic reasons they're doing it for reasons like you said to me that corporate bottom line and keep whatever corporate secrets they have to themselves and you're telling me earlier that this is actually not really happening worldwide it's kind of just i mean there's a lot more oversight on this kind of activity worldwide i mean i feel like it's broken your home and eggs and stole your computer actually knew it there would be some sort of legal repercussions exactly no that's one of the things that this that this report highlights in places like england and france i mean these are crimes that some of the tactics that we're talking about here are committed by really big corporations wal-mart monsanto chemical chevron are you surprised with any of those

you know right ok with wal-mart right and they're targeting mainly progressive groups and g.m.o. activists animal rights groups. form groups a cross you know or say people who are threatening their profit margin and like you're saying like some of the things that they're doing breaking into offices wiretapping phones these are very illegal but there is no congressional oversight in the united states so when other countries like france or england when this is when this is found out these people are made of mockery of in the media that prosecuted these do jail time for these things but here in the united states this is the way it is it's the cold as i call it but doctors say man you know. i can information that's not too shocking to me talk a little bit about really briefly on how they collect information generally right well we want to do kind of a top five list of tactics and i think probably dumpster diving is the most common but it's also the one that isn't illegal i mean there's and there's nothing in the books that keeps you from you know going to some activist organization going

through their trash and this happens a lot in example paperwork everyone yeah i mean peace is involved in a in a lawsuit right now related to you know people going through the trash dow chemicals involved in a lawsuit regarding the tapping of phone calls kraft was involved in in another series of allegations related to them snooping on on organizers and activists who opposed to most so these are these are just a few the tactics and like i said like the dumpster diving it's. seems more innocuous because it's not illegal but it's you know one of those like superficial things that a dirty trick. and i'm sorry about hacking into computers just like i mentioned before i mean that's insane they agree just then and here's another really crazy one higher cops i mean we're talk about corporations actually outsourcing now back to taxpayer funded police to do what exactly right i mean this is the report actually puts this in a really good way just like very clear way and what you can do when you have

a law enforcement understand it kind of adds that extra layer of the community right so there's nothing that keeps a corporation from being able to hire an active duty cop versus just a retired marine or a retired cia agent and you know in the report they even say even active duty cia operatives are allowed to sell their expertise corporations are now able to replicate a miniature service of a private cia employing active duty and retired officers from intelligence and or law enforcement so that kind of gives you that added layer of protection if you're a corporation that wants to hide something it doesn't matter if it's. you know it's an oil spill in ecuador like chevron's you know constantly trying to. kind of a way to get get around ways of people finding out the truth there or or anything else when you have the law you know law enforcement on your side that kind of when you have a private army of the one percent nanny let's talk about impersonating others which is really a common tactic used by government agencies infiltration of groups yet impersonating others and saying they are and part of it and we talk about this in terms of

whenever the government whenever we hear about police officers that have infiltrated an activist group or when you have the whenever you hear about the n.y.p.d. doing surveillance of muslim communities these are the exact same tactics used by corporations now chevron in two thousand and ten i'm going to use the ecuadorian spill because it's very relevant there's this this case is still going on right now in new york but in two thousand and ten chevron had tried to recruit a journalist to kind of provide information that wasn't really factual that didn't reflect what was actually going on in ecuador and so the constantly looking for new ways to do this whether it's infiltrating an organization through activists or whether or not it's hiring people to do so and we only have about forty seconds left but the most crazy one is blackmailing outright blackmail and using it against these communities right groups or another and blackmail is illegal anywhere you can do this but i think that the best case that i can remember again from two thousand and ten is when we queue leaks and julian had announced that they were going to.

take down this major u.s. bank because they had all this damning information they didn't announce what bank it was going to be but they need only start getting the threats immediately started getting the cyber attacks and then journalists affiliated with wiki leaks many of whom we've had here on our show and glenn greenwald for example the guardian they were receiving threats saying you know we're going to ruin your career if you continue to support us in an effort to take them down and this is rampant and this report really shows that so i really encourage anyone to check out that report by the center for corporate policy thank you so much for breaking down these agree just corporate crimes that go completely out of radar. i have a break you guys i talk to a young man who is well on his way to becoming an agricultural expert and he's not even old enough to drive yet stick around.

because i think. everybody. should you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy track all those years. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and i was proud seven we've been a hydrogen handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers but once i'm job market it 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 and rational debate a real discussion critical issues facing america if i feel ready to join the movement then welcome to the big. three years ago an eleven year old stunned an audience at a ted talk about and asheville north carolina his name was burton bear and he gave an impassioned speech about why he's against genetically modified foods take a listen. i discovered the dark side of the industrialized food system. first there's genetically engineered seeds in organisms that is what a seed is manipulated in a laboratory to do something not into my nature like taking the d.n.a. of the fish and putting it into the d.n.a. of a tomato yuk don't get me wrong i like fish and tomatoes but this is just creepy.

the seeds the seeds of them find and then grow the food they produce them improve and cause cancer and other problems and that in people of many food produces places they like to mind most folks don't even know they exist burke is now. in the fight against big agriculture he joined me earlier to talk more in depth about the dangers that g.m. could pose i started by asking him what troubled me tackled the issue at such a young age. i really fell over the years as i learned more and more about this subject that i was especially as a little kid that i've been. tricked by all these come in these cartoon characters that i grew up with like you know tony the tiger on t.v. and sam and i just i felt like to myself that i. to me i think food is one of the most underrated subjects and our culture these

days because something so important that we have to eat three times a day or you know we starve and eventually die without it and that nobody really knows what's in their food or where it comes from it's very true talk about what you have learned throughout the years what do you think the biggest danger is of consuming g.m.o. this. well showing from a lot of the studies that i've read internal studies from monsanto other gmo producing companies and also from any articles i've read from the institute for responsible technology. said most can lead to many things from kidney and liver disease kidney liver toxicity tumors in cancer and infertility in get in most situations in many of these ninety day forty day rest from all sorts of scientific. sources even the doctor said early in the report it was very interesting reading that and if you notice many of the ones that come out from

independent studies. you see that there quickly discredited by the people who hire them and that's because they're getting funding from g.m.o. companies themselves. what is your response to critics who say that g.m.o. foods maximize crop yields conserve resources. my my view on that is that if you read the fine print on most packages or contracts that may actually say that you will get better. better humans if you have proper irrigation but isn't that sure with all crops that if you get we have proper irrigation you have better and better heels than without it and if you really look the majority of the time you don't see much of a difference in. meals from both crops and i think that many and inorganic. inorganic crops are g.m.o. crops that you'll actually see more of a nutrition density and again accidents than if you take

a organic squash the same size as nutrient in soil versus g.m.o. of crops and you put them on the scales right next to each other again expression that same size of the g.m.o. will actually weigh more than the more than the notoriety and that's because as more nutrient dense qualities and more has more minerals and more micronutrients in the gmo in. amman across cultures what happened. do you think that there's any good to come out of genetic modification of. as of right now from what i've seen of how the how of the gene those are being sold and marketed i don't think i don't think there is because of the way that there's not there's not enough testing done on them by the companies who used these g.m.o. some on up less food industry and that just from my observation that our farming does not have we don't have the technology to really make them safe for

people's consumption i don't think there's any good that will be able to cannot from geno's in a long time you know work what about the banning g.m.o. is versus just pushing to label that because i feel like we're pushing to ban them at such a huge endeavor there and will be seventy percent of the food in our grocery stores right now in the u.s. and of course all over the world what's your response to that. my response to that is that trying to get gene most banned here in the united states is sort of like trying to go across the country and one day without making any stops you know you're trying to take and they're such such a big undertaking that really we're not prepared for and we don't have the power or the fuel to do it but i think that we can by giving them a label it can start. it's the first place. so we can start start actually start the conversation and have hopes of getting chemos banned in the future and. there's multiple. stages i find in banning g m o's like i was just in russia earlier this

year and. they have they have g m o's in there but they ban them from production but not from importation so we'll see. g m o's there's different ways of you can allow them in your food system i think there's so much opposition to labeling them as we know we saw prop thirty seven fail in california and the proposition just failed in washington. i feel like it's not so much biting against it i think it's more of the money in the power coming from the companies who have it in their best interest to keep g.m. most not labeled. i was in california a week or two right before proposition thirty seven was voted on and i was in san francisco and i was in some of the larger cities there and you know every. yard out of five yards at a label you know yes on props a proposition thirty seven yard sign and i didn't see any you know any dissent from ation or any of you know no no i'm thirty seven campaign ads and so i went to the

middle of the country and there were most people are not you know not the most educated they seem to have a a no on proposition thirty seven commercial every you know every commercial break or at least more or more than that to every commercial break and i felt that they were really trying to target a certain audience of people and a certain level. where that people wouldn't want to you know they use oh oh there's it's going to it's going to cost us an extra hundred dollars on our grocery bill in that we don't want to buy this because it's going to cost so much and they wouldn't the funny thing i thought about the. the commercials that they wouldn't even tell you what the food labeling was for another sort of good part of the last five years traveling to different organic farms you were just saying that you've been traveling all over russia i'm across the u.s. one of the main lessons that you've learned from. travel's i think one of the biggest lessons i've learned from going to different farms each farm everywhere in the united states has something innovative and unique to that farm in that place

whether it be the way that it will sell to moves around this you know chickens and cows or that you know just a little bit some something unique that somebody had done and i that's what i try to find in every farm is something different that is interesting and something with practice that i may want to use in the future and talk about your book in bourke on the farm what was the main message and why did you choose to convey the idea is that a picture book. that book was really started to have a reference for little kids and what farming is because i remember when i was you know a young kid five or six years old asking my parents oh mom dad what's a farm or where does food come from make all comes from a farm and you know that's the place out in the country where you know those big red wine or some cows grazing in the packs fashionable you know very conventional idea of where it comes from and i didn't really get much more than that other than just you know this very vague idea of what a farm is and where our food comes from what's your message to young people to care

about these issues and take an active role in protecting the food supply today. yeah i definitely think that anybody of any age can go out there make a difference and i have in i started out six years ago just talking with friends and family about what i was learning on the internet and after three years of doing that i was given a great opportunity to go out and talk about it but i think that we can all start you know coming the other with just in small groups and having dinners and maybe g.m.o. free friday sort of things and just you start sharing this with other people and so are these good grassroots efforts that we see like proposition thirty seven in the bill in washington that you know in small little campaigns can turn out to be something big. with people like you burke i have hope for the future of this plan. thank you so much for prayer speaker author youth food advocate really appreciate your time thank you very much a pleasure talking to you. regardless

of how much public support exists for the labeling of genetically modified foods commuters across the u.s. are facing an uphill battle against the monsanto's and some of the world this battle is exemplified far from the shores of the mainland u.s. i'm talking about the whole why an island of. this in a historic vote last october the quiet county council passed a measure to force agricultural companies to disclose their pesticide use and the type of g.m.o. crops they grow on the island in a surprising move the mayor of quite or not a carvel zero sided with big ag and vetoed the measure citing his concerns of the bill would undermine several state and federal laws and because public outrage at the mayor was so severe he released a legal document from his county attorney to prove his concerns and the problem is that releasing this confidential document gives these agricultural giants the exact

legal blueprint they'll need if he has to defend the long court now thankfully just a few weeks ago in a quiet county council over road america bellows vote veto rather and passed the bill no doubt paving the way for future legal fights but just a few islands away on the big island of hawaii a mayor who has not been brainwashed by corporate interest has stood up to big agricultural just last week hawaii county mayor billy can always signed a first of its kind bill into law that would prohibit biotech companies from operating on the big island and prevents farmers from growing any new genetically altered crops now notably the bill does exclude the island's g.m.o. papaya industry but this law goes further to promote community based farming and ranching than any other. law in the country can neuer promoted this controversial bill despite strong opposition from the majority of the items farmers. noise is on the right side of history here with the passage of this bill the big island joins

countries like mexico which banned all g.m.o. corn last month and italy which prohibited the planting of monsanto g.m.o. corn back in july because despite what these biotech companies would like us to believe there is absolutely no scientific consensus on the safety of g.m.o. foods in fact less than two months ago a group of two hundred thirty scientists from around the world including one of the scientists who helped develop their original g.m. tomato signed a statement criticizing the amount of disinformation about these foods so cudos took a noise for having the courage that mayor covello does not and helping further a real dialogue about these frankenstein crops. before i get out of here let me tell you i want you to check me out on twitter abby martin if you like what you see you can follow me there you'll find all my tweets linking to segments from the show including random thoughts i have throughout the day and also please help us get break into such trend mean on twitter rosenhaus dogs and we can get trending on the

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