it was a little very hard to tell. you that the act that hurt their little. league. it's been ten long years since the cia carried out its first drone strike in pakistan the bombing which took place on june seventeenth two thousand and four in waziristan province allegedly targeted

a senior taliban official over the missile also killed five civilians including two children and today just one day out of the tenth anniversary of this killer warfare it was announced that a drone killed six people in that same problems today's strike marks the fifth just this month and although it can continue talking about the failed policy in disastrous repercussions of these flying robots like how they only have a two percent success rate i'll save myself the energy and point out that i've been covering the absurdity of drones in the very beginning of the show in fact on such a dark day a dark and a verse three i'll let that coverage speak for itself. so i woke up this morning to her respect to use the rest drone and killed another six human beings and yemen oh i'm sorry did i say human beings i meant al qaeda militants all apparently worthy of execution without trial as we know you have pulled military ages all the criteria necessary to be labeled as a militant or enemy combatant by the cia and one. someone is labeled as such the

judge jury and executioner takes the form of a machine 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 so for the past nine years pakistan has been hit by these killer robots at least three hundred and seventy six times killing anywhere between four hundred to a thousand civilians two hundred of which children and these numbers are a conservative estimate over the course of the last three days several u.s. drone strikes hit southern yemen killing as many as fifty five people and perhaps the deadliest weekend since the advent of drone warfare the white house is still denying requests to give any justification for one of the most inexplicable sasa nations that of sixteen year old american citizen. a walkie the drone that killed him literally blew apart his body along with at least five other civilians sixty

five percent of u.s. citizens continue to support the use of drones to fight terrorism according to latest gallup poll one reason for this level of support could be the level of extreme detachment people have with the program to many it's out of sight out of mind there was a poll earlier in the week that said that. you know the number drops dramatically in terms of approval way you look at whether they're killing civilians or not while the reality is. right here have been impacted by us. where innocent people and that we have done nothing wrong and hopefully hopefully by listening to my story and seeing my children and me and my hearing about my mother about being blown into pieces that still put some pressure on their politicians but that's something that i can't really speak about it's just something that i hope for. so let's heed the words of this man and hope that the cia's drone program is dismantled once and for all. so we can avoid another ten years of judge jury and

executioner by a robot. the past few weeks have seen that continue to escalate mass violence in iraq last night fighters from the islamic state of iraq and syria isis attacked the country's largest oil refinery in the city of beijing holding up fifty german contractors in the process this development comes on the heels of obama announcing that two hundred seventy five troops would be deployed to the country to protect u.s. interests in the region with all the talk in the western media about what the u.s. should do to respond to the crisis we've heard almost nothing from the iraqi people themselves about what's happening on the ground so to discuss the current devastation from an iraqi perspective i'm joined now by dr dollar waspy a physician and iraqi american peace activist really big pleasure to have you on dollar thank you so much for the opportunity so you grew up for part of your

childhood under saddam's rule in iraq moved to the u.s. and then you went back after the u.s. invasion i know that you were young but what kind of differences that you observed as a child as opposed to going back after the invasion well absolute devastation we lived there. as a family in one nine hundred seventy seven when my father on benoit's to me was actually escaping the regime and we came to the u.s. my mom was born and raised in the u.s. so i came back to our family here and when i returned in two thousand and four this is after the eight years of the iran iraq war the devastation of the six weeks of the one nine hundred ninety one gulf war thirteen years of sanctions and then shock and awe and there was just extensive devastation to roads infrastructure and when you just mantle of government and. civil society structure . and one thing that was noticeable to me it's very basic but garbage collection

and this then becomes an issue a health care issue for communicable diseases and many displaced persons so it was really it was a shock to go back and let's take a listen to a pretty stunning clip from mr dick cheney regarding the first gulf war. what you've got. to say is government money going to put into place it's a very volatile part of the world but if you take down the central government of iraq you can easily end up seeing pieces of iraq fly off it's a quagmire you know we see these same people actually being paraded around the mainstream media talking about we should invade again what do you think about the mainstream media mob and the political establishment it was a mistake when they knew exactly what was going to happen when they went in well i think they underestimated the strength of the iraqi resistance i think purposely in one thousand nine hundred one the civilian infrastructure was targeted and then the

sanctions were continued over the next thirteen years in order to weaken the iraqi people who have historically a very strong and resilient and resourceful people but even with a resistance and was able to oppose the most powerful military in the world now iraq is a difficult country to rule but this is over history of centuries and even millennia that you have various rulers and many other coups taking place so this is a long history of this kind of struggle for power in iraq and talk about how you think that sectarianism evolved after saddam fell. after we after we showed up sectarian is not native to iraq this was imported and forced down the throats of the iraqi people by the occupiers in two thousand and three we formed the coalition provision. all of the iraqi governing council which was hand selected

a certain number of ethnicities and religious sects and ultimately we brought nouri al maliki to power. conservative. and that sectarianism also with the poorest borders with iran and many religious militias cross those borders and entered into iraq and the south was pretty well dominated from that time on so it has been a sectarian stranglehold that the current government has on iraq and its people of course you know the syria wars bleeding into it it's just a complete disaster you know you you've actually talked about other militant groups that we're not hearing about from the corporate media of course there's more than just isis going on while we've been told the whole story but what's going on in northern iraq well this is kind of the we have a new book and they're even saying like isis is worse than al qaida so that's when they start talking like that it should be suspicious there is a presence of isis there is a presence of foreign fighters however a group of

a thousand or even several thousand fighters does not have the capacity to take a city the size of mosul one point four million people hold it and then move on to take other cities there's something bigger at place and one of the groups that has established itself is the general military council of iraqi revolutionaries this is essentially i think this is comparable to what happened in iraq in one nine hundred fifty eight when iraqis rose up and kicked the british colonialists out and declared their independence the military occupation from the u.s. and u.k. is gone but this stranglehold of the government that we put in place is still there and they want it out there driving the sectarianism out and of course obama just announced the two hundred seventy five troops to protect u.s. interests not even to. even out there do you think this is just an indication of what we can expect more of in the future. i think so we like nouri al maliki

because the multinational corporations have come back into iraq after saddam hussein nationalize the oil in the one nine hundred seventy s. and the oil companies as well as other western companies now it's a feeding frenzy on the dying carcass of iraq so we will do what we want to to defend our interests the funny thing is that we are now. collaborating with iran who also wants the sectarian maliki government to stay and so both of us are arming nouri al maliki and that's an interesting situation really is what do you see the future of the country ten years from no delay what will stop and the bloodshed and just utter destruction well i don't know whether it'll be ten years whether it be one year whether it'll be fifty years but this is the history of iraq and iraqis know their history very well they have seen the highs and the lows and they as i said unbelievable resilience to keep going and keep struggling for their families

their city and and their country there is no there was no. divisiveness before the occupation showed up and what they want to return is a secular government certainly without political repression but it's up to iraqis to decide their own future and what about antiwar activists and i guess just people who don't want to see the u.s. ball mean it again with airstrikes or sending troops in there what can we do to help the iraqi people without of course playing into these proxy wars from empires . well not a lot that we do has made a big impact but what we can do is raise our voices and say that we don't want drone strikes we don't want arming of the nouri al maliki government and it's very interesting that both states in that region who claim to be a democracy israel and the government of iraq are we are arming them in violation of the us arms export control act which says that we don't arm governments who attack their own people so who. so use it for offensive purposes and there is

nothing more offensive than the policies of israel or nouri al maliki and iraq absolutely and you know just we have about thirty seconds left but i just can't help but say that there was unprecedented protests in the street hundreds of millions of people to demand to not invade iraq and i just don't know what it's going to take for this government to listen that military intervention is not the answer to libya i think antiwar activism is trial and error unfortunately and we keep going we keep pushing forward to spread the information which is why i'm so glad for the opportunity to be with you here today thank you for sharing another side and are you can check me out on facebook where i have a lot more posts from the people on the ground not from the mainstream media you have at your you've been taking a really really thorough account of what's going on people that you talk to i thank you so much really appreciate coming on thanks for having me. coming up you guys will talk about all the stories that were missed or the amazon ones falling over hillary's new book stay tuned.

the united states for once beloved want to want to be there on the take a shot itself its policies why should russia want a country called rate when the united states there because it's in russia's interest to do so because they want to be nice to the u.s. but because the amount of the state in iraq. is bad news for all same countries in the rejoin russia iran the united states funnily enough have a pretty common interest in stabilizing the situation. we'll go to the. city full of could spend over billion euros that says

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xavier otherwise known as sob who is a computer hacker who participated in cyber attacks and mounting up to fifty million dollars in damages according the government's i estimate but unlike other online hackers faced with the seemingly disproportionate prosecution sob it was let off the hook scot free after a short jail sentence in a music twelve hundred dollar fine this is because shortly being after being arrested for it online activities quickly accepted the f.b.i.'s offer to become an informant and turn on his own community of an ounce more than a dozen times during a sentence and the f.b.i. applauded quote extraordinary cooperation with the agency and while saddam is most well known for facilitating the hack of intelligence firm stratfor took down hacktivists jeremy hammond according to

a newly released article on motherboard involvement goes much deeper and much darker the breakdown of the two authors of the expos they are to where producer andrew blake and motherboard journalist dan stuckey thanks so much for coming on the rise so we know that sobber obviously infiltrated anonymous before you know the whole jeremy hammond thing you guys just released an article released on based on newly released documents that actually says that he went much farther and what do we find out first to back up so i would never really infiltrated not to speak it with it all started off this this was a hacktivist himself he actually believed and hacking for a cause at one point and tried to do these politically motivated a tax that anonymous are doing raising awareness to the situation for parts of the world. arab spring stuff like that when he was caught in june two thousand and eleven you know that's when he did start cooperating and what we found out is it was more than just cooperating it seems like you know the documents that we have that many points the f.b.i. would. raise a bunch of questions i know we can't even get to it today but the really big is

that this involves the f.b.i. and and anonymous is so. in twined with all these really bizarre questions about how the f.b.i. can actually use an informant to conduct. surveillance on groups and to even perhaps give them feed them ideas on what to attack and that's what we saw in a couple cases and particularly this one and this company called mannatech and dad let's talk about man what was the real story behind the hack in that timeframe well i mean you know you look at this company which has thousands of contracts with a lot of different government agencies and you know when we first started researching this we thought oh you know maybe this is a scrimmage they're so close to the security company that helps the f.b.i. secure their communications. why would this hack even take place if some form of it was inside and knew about it. but you know the hacked itself was you know

volunteered by somebody that came along like in a handful of cases. hey look at this you know exploitable vulnerability to the cyber security contractor. and we gave it to him and then he you know it's kind of a conspirator along to other people that were able to exploit it so he was basically all manufactured yet very much and merry and many of these cases what happened was that months ago didn't actually do the hack himself the kind of orchestrated like a conspiracy as you said where someone would come to him and say here is a target i've already breached for example man tech in this case. what we can get from them and rather than. you know calling up the f.b.i. and the story ending right there what you would do is you know perhaps you would meet with the f.b.i. that day perhaps you would call up or have to be sitting right there with them but additionally he would also go into chat rooms with members of anonymous and say look what we found we got

a guy and he did this who wants it and he that's how you would net people and six months later we had actually found out it's another company called stratfor the same thing happened so it came to him with a vulnerability he passed along to a fellow named jeremy hammond and now he's doing ten years in prison for a crime that month so you're literally encouraged him to do you know many times did he help orchestrate attacks a number give you a give you a strong integer i'm not sure how comfortable i would be in saying that you know you actually did this many times but we've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of sealed chat logs and other court documents involved in the case against jeremy hammond and there is. many many instances where your quite literally urged other members of anonymous to you to participate in activities that range from mr mean errors to crimes that would be punishable by death and yet it's insane you know dan of course as we just mentioned six months after this initial

hack of man tak took place for jeremy hand and sitting in jail rotting away ten years this person disgusting f.b.i. informant you know you know gives up gives up so many other people just so he doesn't have to sit and languish in prison how does this sentence compare and why is it so disproportionate to these people facing up to one hundred year sentences in some cases i mean you know you have to look at him and he does have a criminal history he was convicted under stiff a back in two thousand and six he'd already served two years for that. so yeah there is a great disparity though with monsignor and what's really interesting to me about this whole thing is stratfor which everybody is fixated on because it's what everybody got in trouble for you know there's other things mentioned but hardly ever shows up in any indictment but show up in a warrant or. so this company which is kind of like a small intelligence punk publishing you know geopolitics subscription. becomes the

highlight that you know they're able to finally you know convict somebody in order to create a strong deterrent to other actors jeremy ament who are able to put away for a while and you know charge her brown that's just some of the screen to have you know these insane charges and then of course you threaten some of the charges then you're likely to have an informant and then you're not good enough you know i don't know why it's after he's become an informant you know we see lots of years saying hey you know if anything ever happened to me you know what he's already done you know i would have to you know just plead to everything and try to get a deal so. so what these crimes have been possible without this guy to a degree yes i don't want to call them crimes necessarily because in this case in particular if someone had already breached mannatech someone got into this company someone found a couple hundred megabytes worth of files what that person would have did with it i don't know but that person went to monster who went to anonymous and then had you

know this internationally dispersed collective of people all over the world all with different ideas of how they want to be line activists and political activists do all this and you know he fed them stuff like that and one really interesting thing i know we have to wrap it up is. we do know that the really interesting thing about it is cases where look like he's actually encourage people to commit like very outrageous crimes in the man tech story found evidence of him actually approaching other hackers and saying why don't we try to sell these stolen government doc my duties to these stolen government documents and some to china so as to be irish that's been a great killing for the yeah that it's insane you guys thank you so much for breaking it down and your break dance like i really appreciate it that's our show you guys are going tomorrow and i break the set all over again and.

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to be a man. on. a cry for help iraq's asking the u.s. to carry out airstrikes against sunni insurgents as your hardest the taking control at a faster pace than even the american troops managed during the two thousand and three invasion. the fighting in eastern ukraine leaves the city of slovyansk with no water electricity and almost all its hospitals close to me while the president's repeated vows of a cease fire get to be fulfilled. plus the fellow russian president left red faced up to alexander lukashenko fall victim to a phone prankster pretending to be the son of ukraine's ousted president.