welcome to break in this i'm out in martin so two days ago israel launched a bombing campaign dubbed operation protective edge against gaza that's still ongoing but despite the horrors on the ground the mainstream media seems to only be telling one side of the story take a look at this from the wall street journal israeli air defense intercepts more rockets as fighting continues and the l.a. times goes on have a clear that palestinian rockets reach farther into israel and lastly the new york times makes it seem like there's an equal playing field by stating israel and hamas simply exchange fire oh i guess i really can expect more from the media apparatus

that essentially works us to nod refers for the us government let's take a listen to what the issue is being framed by the white house. and we strongly condemn the continuing rocket fire into israel and the deliberate targeting of civilians by terrorist organizations in gaza no country can accept rocket fire aimed at civilians and we support israel's right to defend itself against these vicious attacks. at the at the same time we appreciate the call that prime minister netanyahu himself has made publicly to act responsibly what acting responsibility i must be in the twilight zone because to me the collective punishment of an entire population is the opposite of responsibles so what's the reality on the ground just in the last twenty four hours israeli forces have conducted air strikes that have struck one hundred sixty sites in gaza according to

the i.d.f. in total five hundred fifty sites have been bombed and considering the fact that gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth with over a million habitants and the aerial strike conducted in the region almost certainly means civilian deaths in fact at the time of this broadcast the strikes have killed at least fifty three palestinians including eight children and an eighty year old woman according to palestinian minister of public works and housing at least fifty homes have been destroyed so far and seven hundred damaged so when the i.d.f. talks about hitting quote hamas targets remember that a mosque is the democratically elected leadership of gaza which could mean any government building or social services for palestinians so while the u.s. government can go on and on about israel's right to defend itself take heed of the increasing death toll in gaza and the fact that no israelis have yet died as a result of hamas rockets look i denounce deadly force on both sides but it's

important not frame this as a cycle of violence that's cool one of the colonizer oppressor the other a colonized oppressed as i.d.f. general's son may go people had said just yesterday on the show there are two choices for palestinians in occupied territories to completely surrender or resist and resistance is what we're seeing now i'm sick of my palestinian friends losing their friends and family every time is. israel goes on the off ends against innocent people living in an open air prison so demolishing homes conducting mass arrests and bombing civilians as quote responsible i shudder to think how many people have to die in order to define irresponsibility. the please. please take the you very hard to take that leap to. a lot better how exactly would that

hurt there are those. that are like. the little. league. the little. league. when it comes to domestic surveillance of warrants for monitoring the communications of americans are only allowed to be granted when there is probable cause that the individual in question is engaged in espionage sabotage or terrorism thanks to a new article by journalists glenn greenwald and murtaza the same for the intercept that notion is now shattered in the peats greenwald outlines five prominent muslim

american americans i'm sorry muslim american individuals that were targeted first surveillance according to the documents provided by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden these people include an attorney that represented clients and terrorism cases a former department of homeland security official and the executive director of the council on american islamic relations none of these five men have ever been charged with a crime among them is dr who shang amirahmadi and iranian american professor. rocker's university and the founder of the american iranian council dr amirahmadi joined me earlier to discuss these revelations and his reaction to discovering that he was being monitored i started by asking him how he first found out about his surveillance. first time i heard was about a little bit over that month but haps a mistake get in of all the men who put that article. they could use. that told me that called me over deploying and told me that my name is has been

on the surveillance list and i say and he asked me pooler meeting and i had met him in new york and he asked me to put on a t.v. you reach i did not give. and i told him that i would wait until my name is public. regarding this matter. but we did to speak on that use matters but all off that i could i guess if you feel your rights were being violated when you found out what was your reaction you sleep in this matter does not come as a surprise to me but does calm i say disappointment i doesn't come as a surprise because. i have been involved in a very contest that relationship between u.s. and aid on almost a quarter century. us you don't elation has been and then because throughout that

time i have been active in this relationship trying to mend in distillation trying to create better understanding could you get by that dialogue and i have taken messages back and forth and my activities as high profile have been dealing with patients high operations back in iran high operations back in this country and been a vocal critic of u.s. foreign policy toward iran and you've said that hamas and hezbollah are not terrorist organizations do you think that merely have. in this alternative foreign policy view from the mainstream it made you a target it is possible that my views as been seen are sometimes a little bit too could told radical or critical and i think however what really made me. a target of the sun valences. activity on us you don't elations on my high profile and going back and forth between washington and tehran and i think that the u.s.

government intelligence services want to just find out who really i am and what it is that i am trying to do and particularly perhaps who is in touch with me and who is talking to me right now it's it is not just i was the target maybe dippy put who voted with me on the e-mail with part but also that the target or at least they wanted to identify people what i so she read me i want to get your reaction to the statement on the intercept by the n.s.a. that said that warrants you must demonstrate probable cause that targets are or maybe engage in certain criminal activity on behalf of foreign power what's your response to that claim. but this is not the first time that the n.s.a. gets its start a good strong. ties done it in the past the approach is only unfortunate they don't have the day they cannot get their i think in place using.

tax money. for no reason and that is abuse your united states of america is a national security state that's a national security state i can understand that they are suspicious of people like me with high level activities. so that relations that are very top and and activities that are not a combination are. but at the same time i was abseiled what i know but my concern is this now i feel like this in this country we are moving into data. national security too much in that direction. and that time it conflicts with out of a core value of democratic rights up to citizens and others so so i think i would advise and moving forward that please do not just use cooking could you know all. you know it's an

activity justification for an activity but also charge that activity against other democratic values that the united states is supposed to be the most democratic country on the right and here is what it does that really jeopardizes that value said darter you said that you weren't surprised you're disappointed i mean why are you surprised you're doing anything wrong you're not a criminal you were engaging in criminal activity do you think that this whole view the national security state is actually normalizing surveillance where at this point i guess all muslims should not be surprised that their brains fight on the first let me say i don't believe i mean again the five people the five prominent people that have been on the list and but they've been you know their name is exposed now or all muslim there's no question it's sounds like the profiling of muslim obviously is. a bottom up this but in my case in particular i don't

believe that i was only targeted because of my muslim ness you know i am a muslim yes i'm very proud of it but i the same time you know the u.s. government knows where all the american agencies know read that i'm not to brag. that i'm not that only just muslim that i am a muslim i am a church democrat i'm a liberal and. so therefore i don't believe that they targeted me because i was muslim i think that targeted me because. up my activities in us you don't elation they just want to know what it is that i'm doing and perhaps to know who is in relation with me. and in the process i think they obviously did things that they shouldn't have done and i again i said that i would advise and i said to really stay with our democratic value and god said what it is out there we have

a minute left but what's next for you i mean do you plan on taking any legal action here. when i was president obama says everything is on the table. so. you know whatever he you know i think everything is on the table at this point i'm not sure what it is that i will be doing but it depends on what happens and i want to talk after all ideally i don't have any information as to what it is that being collected and what it is that is there and you know so for me that's one thing to find out i hope that the n.s.a. one day bill called me to say we shan't come yet and we will open your fine and tell you what it is in it and then you know what it has been done or not and that's that's what i would expect and he said to do that number one second i want also to make sure that you know i have not i'm a professor and what the bothers me is that they put my ear not because he made on the watch list and that really bothered me i have personally e-mails that they could have done that but not because i have the students do this my students didn't

have i can teach could you say have administrators and university administrators and others and i don't think that doctors should be right because the image that means that i mean this is a lot of things that shouldn't happen unless they prey on i have my e-mail and i have got i mean i did dot com i have hooshang got i mean i might be a g.-man dot com i have my best site i mean i did dot com then on i'll go back and putting the not because he made under surveillance is that really is is breaching the deadline ok because. this is an academic institution these are young right you know sent people they shouldn't be getting get e-mail there's a lot of people getting swept up in this dragnet you can attest to that more than anyone thank you for breaking it down dr amin roddie really appreciate it. coming up i'll talk about why the media isn't paying attention the benghazi for once stay tuned. or you like me you want your comedy news and some t.

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in the history of breaking the set is mostly about alternatives to the status quo but when i gave you all those points to the working poor the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers in washington to wake up and start talking about the real causes of poverty. oh almost two years now the g.o.p. and mainstream media have been solely focused on one of them and that they say has tarnished obama's legacy and no i'm not talking about the i.r.s. or obamacare i'm talking about bengazi of course time bill o'reilly thanks for watching it does benghazi really matter now the fox news alert there is continued outrage over the newly released senate report on benghazi the attacks on the u.s.

mission in benghazi were likely preventable that of those attacks killed a u.s. ambassador and three other americans who should be held responsible for what clearly was a failure i think the benghazi episode from from start to finish is an example of a lack of leadership this is part of the sort of lawsuit fever bengazi fever this is all an electoral strategy at this point is it not yes it seems like every time a pin drops in libya the corporate media finds a way to twist it into the never ending scandal but a matter how much hysteria is riled up around the event you'll rarely hear deeper analysis concerning libya like for instance the fact that the current failed state is a direct result of nato intervention and as political as this event has become no one seems to care about the actual litigation related to the attack case in point just this week on that tal of the alleged mastermind behind the benghazi attack one

before u.s. district court right here in d.c. with barely a mention from the media and he's due back in court in less than a month the fact of the trial for khattala is already quickly and seamlessly underway goes to show that u.s. federal courts are only capable of processing cases of alleged terrorists which is more than we can say for the hundred forty nine men still being detained in guantanamo bay. seventy eight of whom have been cleared for release years ago this is largely thanks to gross ineptitude by the white house as well as fear mongering by extremist politicians that trying these people on u.s. soil is for some reason off the table but unlike a tall of the government doesn't seem to be in any hurry to expedite the processing of these cleared men men like shock here amr a british resident who was sent to get mon two thousand and two and has been cleared for release since two thousand and seven according to armors attorney quote my client suggested he and the scores of other cleared prisoners should plead

guilty to being some random employee of bin laden's since that appeared to be the only way they could escape without charge or trial sad commentary indeed so what about the rest of the inmates the supposedly guilty ones well it turns out that we have no idea what they're guilty of considering how there's been ciro charges leveled against them in the decade plus they've languished in their cells but perhaps the biggest irony of all is that the five of the alleged worst of the worst to get no inmates were already released in a prisoner exchange for american hostages bo bergdahl only weeks ago doesn't seem like processing prisoners is that hard to do when there's a will between congress hell bent on keeping the criminal trials of these inmates off u.s. soil and the white house on willing to act on closing down the facility there's no sign of even a trial for these men until after two thousand and sixteen according to one get more prosecutor. look at far past time for every single detainee at guantanamo bay to have their day in court just like the tala otherwise we're allowing the

government to sign a life sentence without charges for every single one of these men regardless of their innocence. back in may i talked about a letter signed by over one hundred academics including two nobel prize. it's a u.n. officials to the nonprofit organization human rights watch the letter condemning the organizations for evolving relationship with the u.s. government after response from h r w this group of signatories has now released another letter doubling down on its claims in it they write concrete evidence of a revolving door phenomenon between a w. and us government renders crucially incomplete because that mission but it is true that some serve in the u.s. government before or after their involvement with human rights watch we provided examples of those who served in the u.s. government both before and after their involvement with h r w a normal widely

recognized generate perverse incentives and undermine institutions reputation for independence so to talk about this ongoing feud between the two parties i'm joined now by signatory writer and activist thank you so much for coming on keen for you to be so really quickly remind our audience why initially two months ago you as well as so many others wrote this letter and what you were calling the organization to do what the importance of this letter is to strengthen and to reemphasize the stated claim of human rights watch which is. a claim of independence and if it wants to maintain that pretense of independence it must address this question of this revolving door phenomenon if it wants to have it both ways that's simply untenable either it remains a credible internationally respected organization or it maintains a revolving door into human rights violating arms of the us government namely of

the foreign policy divisions and talk really briefly about what happened since their response and now your new responds with with all these people as a follow up will their response really avoids a completely of a core issue and that's what you showed as that snippet we present is an example for for melanau ski who worked. as the senior director of the national security council in the white house under bill clinton when bill clinton illegally bombed yugoslavia committing human rights violations violations of international humanitarian law war crimes then he went into human rights watch as its senior lobbyist to washington and i think everyone and your viewers will really clearly understand this when the lobbyist off an organization then goes to work for the very people that he's lobbying that immediately creates

a conflict of interest and now he's the assistant secretary of state to president obama unbelievable and ironically a week after the initial letter was signed talk about what happened at the senior researcher it george w. and where they ended up with human rights watch agreed to debate me on democracy now and the spokesperson reed brody insisted that it was limited to just one person and then when i brought up another case maybe two people and now here's another core you know problem which is that nick steinberg who is their senior researcher for the americas division up until may sent out a letter expressing his new transition into the office of the u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power and that raises really serious questions because this is somebody who has said it repeatedly that the united states is the greatest country on earth that it has nothing to apologize for and of her that it's the record on afghanistan is completely clean and the united states

has nothing to apologize for there recently she actually engaged in a coordinated media event with henry kissinger whom reed brody himself referred to as a war criminal previously so that proximity to power that proximity to the lone military superpower in the world is indicative of this lack if independence of what we're doing is what we're saying is you need to reinforce your credibility in the world community given. that the united states is considered the greatest threat to peace what's your response to read brodie's response to that debate saying you know we don't overly criticize the u.s. we criticize the u.s. equally to every other country in the world so there's two points one is that the criticisms seem to change in tenor and in terms of their ultimate objectives when it comes to different administrations so when melanau skee once worked under bill clinton human rights watch never asked for criminal prosecutions or investigations to be undertaken against president bill clinton even though as i mentioned earlier

he presided over war crimes then under the obama administration viewers of your show understand very clearly that obama has continued the practices of bush now h r w continuously points to its claim that it demanded investigations for bush but what i'm asking is that it is obviously raising serious suspicions when their former lobbyist is now working for obama obama is committing the same crimes as bush and yet human rights watch has never asked for criminal prosecutions or even investigations and war crimes include double trapdoor the continuation of torture you know maintaining a global terrorist campaign that with these you know these unlawful drones throughout the planet you're making an extremely good point right now which is that yes it's easy to kind of go after the bush administration were criminals do you think that it was kind of because it was easy because it was kind of going with the

grain of the rest of the international community or do you think that they just have an inherent democratic bias or is it because these people who have gone to work for it happen to be within the democratic establishment i think it's both i think one is an internal ization of the idea of u.s. exceptionalism so melanau skier immediately after leaving human rights watch went in front of the senate and said that our debate in congress about syria. showed how exceptional we are he said that if there is a bipartisan consensus first for spreading liberty around the world and so this is the kind of internalization of that mentality us exceptionalism basically eviscerating from memory the war crimes that the united states is culpable for then the second point is what you state which is that human rights watch is very closely allied allied with the democratic party and so its board of director member susan molinari she describes herself as a close friend of bill clinton and an active in you know an active participant in

the democratic party so i think that both of those those two components cohere into this really serious blind spot for principled advocacy around crimes no matter who does that and i think it's important for people to realize that this comes in a lot of framing and bias as well it's not that human rights watch has never condemned america or israel and bringing to that point just today our george w. made a statement against the israeli and palestinian violence however the headline of this article says palestine israel indiscriminate palestinian rocket attacks and then of course in fine print later on it talks about the collective punishment very outweighed by condemning palestinian rocket attacks doesn't this demonstrate that despite the fact that yes they do condemn american allies sometimes they still alternately do toe the western and. that's really human rights watch and it's criticisms are never commensurate for the gravity of the crimes that we're talking

about particularly in the case of the united states and its allies so in one case the the terms of battle are so disproportionate you have u.s. made f. fifteen s flying over gaza right now as we speak blowing up people and then you have zero civilian casualties based on the rockets that are that are fired out of gaza but because h. o. w. clings to. this pretense that the u.n. charter doesn't apply that it is not concerned about the un charter and what that means is that the u.s. and its allies are free to commit the bus serious crimes in the international law which are wars of aggression considered the supreme international crime by the nuremberg tribunal and basically as they commit these constantly human rights watch because it frames itself as narrowly interested in only the terms of war basically says that it has no real purview and that it can actually comment on that kane

unfortunately out of time incredible incredibly important work thank you so much for staying on the skin bought writer activist really pretty common all right thanks for watching you guys be sure to follow me on twitter at adding martin got me going tomorrow to break the set all over again in the.

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