afghanistan papers the secret history of the war in their article the post craig whitlock writes that the trove of confidential government documents obtained by the newspaper through the freedom of information act after a 3 year long legal battle reveal that senior u.s. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in afghanistan throughout the 18 year campaign making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unlist a couple evidence the war had become unwinnable. in other words exactly what many whistleblowers activists analysts and all of us independent journalists have been saying and writing about the war since the long of writing about the longest war in u.s. history since a little after it actually began back in 2001 but that doesn't mean that this latest release of documents by the post is important because it is incredibly damning to the credibility of the u.s. government and the pentagon the post reports that the documents were in fact generated as part of a federal project examining the failures of the longest armed conflict in u.s.

history and that they include more than 2000 pages of previously unpublished notes from interviews of the were $400.00 afghanistan war insiders everyone from generals to diplomats to aide workers even afghan officials and what do all these interviews and transcripts ultimately reveal well as john sop told the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction told the post the american people have constantly been lied to lies my friends that have cost us more than a trillion dollars caused more than 2000 u.s. soldiers to be killed and snuffed out of existence over 100000 afghanistan souls. and that is at the very core of why it's time to start watching the hawks. what. it looks like. it's with.

the politics if you. like you know what i got. with that we. would. love a little in watching the hawks i am tyrrell but for joining us today discuss the latest on the washington post afghanistan papers hug that is about turns out a good political consulting consultant rory reilly topping roy thank you for joining me. thank you as an advocate for u.s. military veterans what has been the impact of the washington post release of these documents for you and a lot of the veterans you care for from that war. sure so a lot of veterans do not support the war in afghanistan i think one of the most recent polls done showed that over 60 percent of that are and feel that we should

no longer be in the country and that perhaps we shouldn't have been there at all so veterans not supporting this war that's been a sentiment that's been out there for a while so i think a lot of veterans feel vindicated in some ways particularly those that deployed to afghanistan and got to witness some of these failures firsthand on the ground they've been articulating a lot of things that were in the washington post report for years literally years and i think again vindication is the best word to describe how some of them are feeling because after what they have witnessed and the fact that over a majority of our veterans don't support this conflict maybe people are finally going to start listening to the folks on the ground who had direct experience there the because that's usually the 1st people they stop listening to especially in wast washington policymakers and people like you know bob crowley an army colonel who served as a senior counterinsurgency advisor to u.s. military commanders in 2013 and 14 he told interviewers as part of this report every data point was altered to present the best picture possible surveys for

instance were totally unreliable but reinforce that everything we were doing was right and we became a self licking ice cream cone can the american people in your opinion or the world for that matter even trust what a current or former u.s. official tied to the afghanistan war says today now that we have it in writing that they got everything wrong and were all white lying to us. well i think that unfortunately this is a pattern of behavior so when you talked about some of the altering of statistics and foreign policy professionals in the hawks just kind of floundering to present a more favorable picture than exists in this rings very familiar to a lot of us citizens and a lot of veterans in particular vietnam to your point about we often stop listening to the folks on the ground 1st when those are the folks that we should be listening to this is a classic example of history repeating itself we saw this with the vietnam conflict

as well as far as the level of trust i think this gets at a much bigger picture for the u.s. government this isn't just about the department of defense and what we're seeing in afghanistan but we're seeing this type of issue with all sorts of things that ties into the impeachment proceedings the government isn't always the good guys and for years we're taught at school children that we trust our institutions and that they can do no wrong and we're just seeing over and over again that this isn't necessarily the case so i think you raise an important point for both citizens of this country and citizens of the world they do need to question more when they see some of these foreign policy interventions and statistics that are being put up there because at their core bureaucracies are self-serving and the department of defense is a very large bureaucracy it's the largest government agency that we have in the united states so they have a vested interest in making it look like everything that they're doing is legitimate and unfortunately again we've seen throughout history not just with this

recent report about what's going on in afghanistan that they have their own self-preservation at heart as opposed to truthful reporting and transparency on the types of things that they're doing it's interesting too because a lot of the a lot of the people that this report you know when covering news interviews rob people you know didn't ever accept expect the bees interviews would ever be made public internal documents internal communications. the light. i also want to get to a little bit of something you're too in just that i understand the washington post i understand this is a big story but it does feel like a lot of us both journalists veterans people of that you know people who were kind of speaking out against this war for a long time and saying hey not all is that it is as it seems this is i think you mentioned earlier this is a pretty good vindication of everything that a lot of these journalists independent journalist a lot of these veterans and one else has been saying over the years why do you think it took the u.s. mainstream media mainstream corporate media so long to catch on what everyone else

has been saying. well i think that we've seen and again you know we see this in a context outside of just this report but with a lot of current events that are going on lately the mainstream media is kind of its own elite club and they're almost in their own echo chamber where they believe what they want to believe in they have people that they go to and they're still trusting a lot of these government institutions as being truthful and we've just seen over and over again that this isn't the case and addition to the media i think a lot of the blame here lies with congress i mean congress has oversight authority as well as the ability to allocate funding for these types of kong conflicts where's the oversight i mean congress should be the ones asking the hard questions and getting this information so the washington post doesn't have to i think it's a really big failure of the congressional committees that had oversight over these sorts of things because if they had been doing their job this information would have gotten out there and it wouldn't have taken

a 3 year legal battle for the washington post to get it so i think in addition to the media we have to look at the fact that yet another government institution congress has failed us in this context as well i could not agree with you more about it you are right on point with i want to say roy thank you so much for coming on today hopefully we will see some accountability for these lives in the future i'm not holding my breath we're going to hope thank you so much for coming on today roy roy toppling over topping always a pleasure to have you on thank you. thanks for having me. since the 2016 election of donald trump as president of the united states many have remarked that his presidency is assured in a new era of unbridled ego and disrespectful crammed or by modern politicians that we are now living in the era of the political juvenile delinquent mind set when it comes to taking questions from the press and us citizens here is our to america. with an in-depth look. it's no news that president donald trump is

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up we build in the some of the causes and failed solutions to the problem homelessness to the park to cities across the country. studies of troops so had a boss of the program director for street medicine who will join us straight to the watchable. to globalization day dollars ation you know it's happening as the world is kind of drifting apart in a lot of different ois we look into it because there's an economic force behind it as always. the world is driven

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we are in the season of giving hawk watchers so between now and christmas day mark my words you will see countless feel good stories on the local and national news about how individuals and groups are helping those less fortunate than themselves and while those good samaritans are definitely worthy of praise and news coverage a 1000000 kind acts for television cameras are not going to solve the problem of homelessness here in the united states and elsewhere around the world currently in just the u.s. alone more than 550000 souls will go to sleep on any given day without a place to call home or have a roof over their head and while some cities try to solve their problem of homelessness through food and shelter programs other major u.s. cities are instead closing the social services these people so vitally need the

allana journal constitution recently reported that at least 18 almost people died from hypothermia since atlanta's infamous homeless shelter known as peach tree pine officially closed in august of 2017 according to an internal city report meanwhile other cities are simply shipping their problems of homelessness off to their neighbors in fact the city of newark new jersey is now suing new york city for the big apple's big policy of coercing their homeless shelter residents into moving to various other cities across the country as part of their special one time assistant programs and don't even my friends don't even get me started on the numerous laws cities and states have a knack to make homelessness essentially illegal. well joining us today to discuss some of the causes and see how students taking action together so we have a big who is the program director for street medicine i want to thank you both for coming on today it's an honor ave thank you. thank you for having us on let's start with atlanta where you where you both reside ties or why did atlanta decide to

close one of its biggest homeless shelters the peach tree pine and did up play a part in the recent hypothermia does to some or as some are saying. yes so the closure of peace and homeless shelter was absolutely i think a cause of a lot of the hypothermia deaths that have been happening peachtree in pine was a shelter that pretty much didn't turn anyone away they didn't have a lot of barriers to entry and they had about 800 beds on any given night willing to accept you know whoever needed who ever needed shelter on a cold night. i think that the city closed the shelter especially after years of spending millions of dollars actively seeking to shut it down because of the capitalist interest in the land i think the shelter sits in a pivotal place in midtown atlanta and the fact that it has been bought by him or a hospital a private institution to sort of a way to turn around the neighborhood to make the neighborhood more palatable for

capital investment are definitely driving factors as to why they want to displace the shelters. sue of your you're involved in you're involved in medicine you're your medical student what i want to ask you is what are the common maladies that we're seeing in the homeless folks in atlanta and then the rest of the united states could be fixed if we actually put the time and effort in to truly take care of these people. right that's a good question so partially what you want to magine is that a lot of the people who are living on the street are dealing with chronic medical conditions that require very close fall of the crowd require very close medical management and so you can imagine how life on the street makes that difficult even for someone who's living in very stable housing they are confused by their medications at times it requires you know the help of a caregiver even sometimes and so you can imagine how life on the street could make that even worse you know whether it's diabetes or hypertension that requires that

close monitoring or even something like inhaling the irritants from a barrel fire in the winter to try to stay warm these are all some of the social determinants and physical determinants of the health of folks experiencing homelessness started in the city of atlanta or other cities like your close virtually all of the public homeless shelters it leaves it up to the private sector like nonprofits churches and even businesses to take responsibility for helping homeless people is that a good thing does that actually help you know alleviate this problem in the in the long run. absolutely not i think neoliberal management of any social service provision especially something so necessary as like outreach for homeless individuals and shelter for people without homes should not be handled by private entities is absolutely not more a fish and a more efficient way to get our resources i think it creates infighting between

interests and sort of institutions to say you know we need a bigger chunk of funding to provide. our services are to provide services for very particular groups of people so for example instead of having one large or a few large shelters that do not have barriers to entry you get a lot of small splintered shelters scattered about the city especially in a place like atlanta where transportation is not easy to come by especially public transit so you can imagine just the difficulty of getting people into shelters when they are scattered this way not to mention if this shelter only serves women or only serves mothers or only serves children or only serve single men you know losing somewhere like they did not have these sort of barriers to entry are is just it's an atrocity to a city like this and so i think when they do these things and they rely on the private sector. edges it does a lot to not only impact the folks who need the services but also the people who

sort of go out and do hands on outreach on the streets it's difficult to find folks to connect folks to the resources that they need and to continue to take care of people on a sort of continuous round the clock schedule. perfectly thank you. i don't see how anyone could say like the blues things are in the long run helping the way by the way you know real policy from cities could actually help and government funded you know which is ultimately i think what we need here i want to ask what you're the program director for something called street medicine it's really fascinating and i want you to tell our viewers what exactly is st medicine. of course so street medicine originally was born out of a need you see folks experiencing homelessness don't receive traditional care in the way that you or i might whether it's due to a lack of transportation communication not having a phone lack of insurance or just overall poor access to primary care services

folks experiencing homelessness largely elicit their primary care needs in fact their their entire medical needs are listed from the. emergency department and so this kind of puts emergency departments in a sticky situation do you practice compassion and allow someone who would have otherwise been out in the cold to take up a bed in the emergency department is safe if in fact an emergency it's terribly cold outside or do you open up that bed for someone who might be having an acute medical problem in the waiting room longer and overcrowded waits in the waiting room are associated with poor health outcomes. a longer time to treat pain etc so basically from that came the more the more fair and comprehensive care that homeless folks require which is an overall intervention through street medicine and so street medicine operates on a couple of fronts it's a mobile medical care unit composed of physicians nurses social workers health

practitioners from all over the spectrum including researchers and medical students that go directly to the site concentrations of folks living outdoors to treat them right there and connect them more broadly with the resources and continuity of care that they need. i want to ask you both what what do you feel is some of the biggest solutions that we are overlooking right now in order to not only help homeless people but also get them on their feet to help these people in any way we care and that we're just not we're ignoring or withdrawing to the side you know what do you feel is the most you know what do you feel you should be done. i think one of the biggest issues especially here in atlanta is the overall access to low income housing and affordable housing so you can't divorce the homelessness crisis from atlanta being the 1st city in the country to completely eliminate all of these public housing public housing apartments i think not having this crucial sort of

space for people who make between 0 to 30 percent of the area median income people with special needs people who used to be served by. public state funded hospitals people who you know what used to access like state funded mental health services people who were able to more readily access sort of subsidized prescriptions and medical care i think breakdowns in the overall public service system around housing public health and health care together and sort of putting all of these things in the hands of the private sector has all tamil a lead us to this place where even a homeless shelter is not absent from the sort of land grabbing that happens in an urban environment. that is very true that is very true sue of what do you what do you feel. right so i like what i had to say in just to add to that there are specific ordinances which the city has that disproportionately target the homeless some of these are bans against urban camping which allow police officers to

straight up season toss out the belongings of homeless folks in their absence or even while they're right there this includes stuff like their identification their personal belongings like prescriptions referrals medications these are all things that we regularly see on the street medicine unit that are simply lost because they'll tell you someone threw it out of than that there are also what they call moving your goods at night this is a maybe you know a little bit more about this ordinance but basically. this allows folks who are largely living outdoors from arranging their living situation or even moving about at night and so some of these ordinances are ways that we can help repeal the criminalization of homelessness that's a great other one that i would have that's a great point you bring up is that criminalization of homelessness i've tragically run out of time but i want to thank you so much for coming on and given your $0.02 into this very important issue because i think of something to you both or exceedingly excelling at in terms of bringing awareness and also to helping solve

the problems that you see in your city thank you so much for coming on taser trouble in sioux hype always a pleasure please come back and keep up the great work out there. thank you thank you. and finally i got some truly disturbing news for you biggins among those some afraid your plants are screaming yes my green loving herbivores a new study by researchers at the television butyl bursty have found that microphones placed near stress to made on tobacco plants recorded ultrasonic squeals from the plants these quills were made of within a range of 20 to 100 kilo heard some volume that is well out of the human range of hearing and apparently there are variables to the sounds researchers discovered the drought stressed tomato plants average about $35.00 ultrasonic squeals per hour while those with cut stems $25.00 in comparison the average number of sounds a minute by on touch plants well below one per hour so let that be a lesson the next time you forget the water your plants or decide to cut down the tree in your back property because plants in your garden no one can hear them scream and that my friends are still free to day remember when in this world we are

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