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 however the missile also killed five civilians including two children and today just one day out of the tenth anniversary of this killer of 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 could continue talking about the failed policy and

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 anniversary 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 once someone is labeled as such the judge jury and executioner takes the form of a machine obama is officially the drone campaign he's ramped up the use of these unmanned killer robots dramatically since taking office as 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 walky 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 well the reality is civilians right here who have been impacted by us to 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 will 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 that we can avoid another ten years of judge jury and executioner by a robot. the past few weeks have seen the continued escalation of massacre. in iraq last

night fighters from the islamic state of iraq and syria or 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 dalia was to be a physician and iraqi american peace activist really big pleasure to have you want all the 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 we live as

a family in one nine hundred seventy seven when my father unbeknown 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 health care issue for communicable diseases and many displaced persons and 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 for. for. what

you've got. to. say it's government money going to put into place it's a very volatile part of the world and if you take down the central government of iraq you can easily end up seeing pieces of iraq 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 who's 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 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 provisional authority formed 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 all. orders 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 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 and even to just words 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 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. interest 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 now 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 use it for offensive purposes and there is nothing more offensive than the policies of israel or in 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 speak for this government to listen that. intervention is not the answer dalia 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 am 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 a year you've been taking a really really thorough count of what's going on people that you talk to i thank you so much to all the welcome 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 fawning over hillary's new book stay tuned. so we leave the meat. of the the bush and see your. plate your party there's a bill. that no one is there with to get that you deserve answers from. politics.

not it states for one's been left want to want to be the ramifications of its policies why should russia want a country called the united states because it's in russia's interests to do so because they want to be nice to the us but because. the state in iraq. is bad news for all the same countries in the region russia iran the united states do have a pretty common interest in stabilizing the situation. what is your. face.

a pleasure to have you with us here today i'm sure. the next presidential elections might be for two more years but that doesn't stop the corporate media from starting up the p.r. machine given hillary clinton the next and interview to promote her book. all your competitive juices flowing for the chance to be the.

you can see why she's inexperienced. and just in case the falling over hillary wasn't enough what look for out all the hard hitting post interview analysis you could want. she was greeted look at the video by a protester from the republican national committee the person was a squirrel costume wearing a t. shirt that read another clinton in the white. this is the god of the kurdish a generous with the so-called squirrel even some republicans think the squirrel is a tad goofy so she made the most of that moment she certainly did and lots of super pacs and pacs are going to be traveling around the country following her every event doing stunts like this she had the exact right. thing the better part of yesterday afternoon was dominated by the corporate media covering hillary being accosted by an activist in a squirrel suit and how gracefully she handled it so what do we miss while being distracted by c n n's bandwagon coverage promoting a woman who hasn't even announced her candidacy yet well for starters in

a far more important bridgegate scandal new york governor andrew cuomo is causing a stir after funneling state funds reserved for water safety in order to pay for a new city bridge yet according to the environmental facilities corporation cuomo withdrew five hundred eleven million dollars from the clean water fund to help cover the cost of the panzi bridge and while the plan has not been approved by the e.p.a. yet there is already a tremendous build up of discontent for example the organization environmental advocates of new york said recently that diverting funds meant for clean water to instead support the construction of a bridge such a deep troubling. there are already enormous unmet needs for sewage treatment clean ups in new york city that go unfunded because of the significant shift and resources indeed and according to alter net it's projected that the state's aging water systems require upgrades upwards of sixty billion dollars governor cuomo of course insists that the reallocated five hundred million dollars is only

a loan. and that it would be repaid. ironically not a single corporate media talking to head has made a peep about bridge gate two point zero but i guess that's because it deals with the future of clean water an issue that actually matters that have an overweight governor with a high school grudge anyway on to another big story that mainstream headlines seem to have missed suntrust bank has agreed to a massive legal settlement that could bring some relief to florida residents who are victims of the two thousand and nine mortgage crisis the d.o.j. settled with sun trust for nearly one billion dollars following a lengthy litigation which targeted to lenders and loan modifications and foreclosure abuses the settlement includes a fourteen million dollars cash payment that should provide some relief to sun trust borrowers who are forced out of their homes between two thousand and eight and two thousand and thirteen now this lawsuit is certainly a win for some borrowers but doesn't come close to correcting the wrongs and acted on the millions of americans directly affected by the mortgage crisis keep in mind

that between two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine there were over six million homes listed under foreclosure and while the billion dollar settlement might be a good first step slap in the wrist so these predatory lending agencies won't come close to the accountability regular people deserve. and speaking of deserved justice it looks like congress is finally doing something about the rampant backlog of rape kits in the u.s. lawmakers are expected to grant forty one million dollars in grants to process the more than one hundred thousand untested rape kits all across the country in some instances these kids sit and tested in evidence boxes for ten years or even longer that means that tens of thousands of women all across the country who went through the highly invasive and often traumatizing experience of a rape kit medical exam may never see their silence brought to justice according to police statistics compiled by the guardian cities like detroit and vegas have

literally thousands of backlog kits the city of memphis ally. recently discovered twelve thousand untested kits with some of them dating back even twenty years this is in addition to the discovery of another four thousand untested rape kits in dallas texas which were reported just today look these statistics are a clear indication of a massive national problem they also represent a mentality that doesn't take the issue of rape in america seriously enough i guess on accountability for rape just like wrong for wrongful i cannot speak today wrongful foreclosures and sidestep messing with hillary clinton. xavier otherwise known as sob who is a computer hacker who participated in cyber attacks amounting up to fifty million

dollars in damages according the government's i estimate but unlike other online hackers faced with in a scene the 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 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 represent andrew blake and motherboard journalist dan stuckey thanks so much for coming on the rise so we know that sauber 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 a. we find out first to back up saba never really infiltrated anonymous speaking with it all started off this this was a hacktivist himself he actually believed in hacking for a cause at one point and tried to do these politically motivated attacks that anonymous are doing raising awareness to situations different parts of the world the 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 according to documents that we have that many points the f.b.i. would that 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 against this company called mantic 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 a 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 yeah. and many many of these cases what happened was. didn't actually do the hack himself a 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 look 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 at 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 hanna now he's doing ten years in prison for a crime that month so you're literally encouraged him to tell you how many times

did he help orchestrate attacks a number to get you to give you a give you a strong integer i'm not sure how comfortable i'd 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 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 han 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 see if a back in two thousand and six he'd already served two years for that. so yeah there's a great disparity there with lots of your. what's really interesting to me about this whole thing is strapped for it 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 might show up in a warrant. so this company which is kind of like a smaller intelligence pond 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 and 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 going to have an informant and we're not good enough you know out of this after he's become an informant you know we see boxers saying hey you know if anything ever happened to me you know what he's already done so 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 someone had already breached man tech 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 lined hacktivists 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 world really

interesting thing about it is that it was cases where months ago it looked like he was 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 documentaries take these stolen government documents and sell the china so as being 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 blake really appreciate it that's our show you guys are going tomorrow and i break the set all over again and. try to. pull it out of. you like. it's a sure thing everybody. knows

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