volved in multiple battlefields across the world ranging from major conflicts like the wars in afghanistan iraq and syria to an unknown number of small regional conflicts and special forces missions that the taxpaying u.s. public will never be away made aware of until long after the fact or if something horribly goes tragically wrong and currently tragically wrong often means the loss of civilian life who were unlucky enough to get caught in the crossfire of america's peacekeeping but how effective is the united states military when it comes to tracking assessing and investigating reports of civilian harm and casualties by its forces that is the question at the heart of a new report by the center for civilians and conflict and the columbia law school human rights institute after conducting an in-depth after conducting in-depth interviews in analyzing over $200.00 investigative reports into alleged civilian casualty incidents in afghanistan iraq and syria between the years of 2 $1002.20

the investigators discovered that quote the us military has shown it can investigate civilian harm but significant in inconsistent season when and how investigations are conducted has contributed to shortcomings including a failure to investigate incidents when a close look is warranted and missed opportunities to learn from incidents and make future corrections this includes the fact that according to journalist nick turse the standard practice is troubling because while u.s. investigators regularly interview military witnesses they almost totally ignore civilians victims survivors family members and bystanders because you know hey well how would i would civilians know anything about civilian casualties in a war zone. i mean it's almost my friends it's almost like they would rather pretend that civilian casualties don't exist when the u.s.

pulls the trigger which is impossible if you are truly watching the hawks. on a city street. or so you would see. joyce. gray's . systemic deception. which. you'll. want to watch. boy. suspicion this was the case whenever you see like you know reports come back from the u.s. government is opposed to like on the ground watch dogs would be always be this huge discrepancy but boy this is really the nuts and bolts of why it doesn't work absolutely i think that this was one of lot of people already thought when it comes to our military and the amount of information that we just don't know and in many

cases purposely so as it appears here the big thing that bothers me i think is that we know what the rules of war are and proportionality as well as discrimination discrimination and this is actually a good thing meaning that you are only attacking those who are responsible for the previous attack on you so you're only attacking combat you're not purposely going after or not purposely going after those who are civilians and i think that you know not being able to measure civilian casualties or not actually going in to investigate the civilian casualties is a huge problem one because it totally be legitimized. as a nation but also if we're going to continue carrying around this democracy everywhere all the time banner as a leader it's going to be extremely problematic for people to follow along and actually stand us in that when we're literally going in places not only creating graves but also literally maiming and. killing a lot of people women children all of these individuals who have absolutely nothing to do with the wars that we are actually taking part well and to me it's also one

of those self-perpetuating pigs like if you don't properly investigate and hold accountable for one civilians are killed in a manner that it is you know flip it for your lack of a better word worse kind of like well so what they're the mission took priority so some civilians were killed that just creates another generation of people who don't like you and when you're out there fighting supposedly a war on terror well that's a great recruitment tool and guess what the u.s. blew up your brother exactly and i think that that's you know but more of the long range view because you're also thinking about the individuals who are left behind so it's the families that are still surviving who have lost their children the families who are still surviving who have lost people who had absolutely nothing to do with the conflict they were in and it again it raises the ire of those individuals but now you have generations that are upset with you because you've literally taking out whole families and in many cases nothing is ever done about in these people aren't even acknowledged exactly i mean a little like this in 2070 new york new york times magazine investigation of nearly

$150.00 u.s. led coalition airstrikes targeting isis in just iraq just iraq they found that one in 5 of the coalition strikes resulted in civilian deaths that was a rate that was 30 times more than what was acknowledged by the coalition now that's a big discrepancy and i understand why this report was put together because it's like when you see discrepancies like that that's not like clerical errors that you know where you got 31 times it's just the new york times that's a big difference absolutely and in this case i would even call that a discrepancy like there are certain things are just flat out lies and i think that when you have a number that is that large and so different from what was originally reported it showcases a few things one lack of honesty and integrity in the reporting process but also it raises the ire of the fact that you're trying to hide something because any time when you know that the count is so much larger i think that it tells us something about what our military forces actually. below is required for us to know. that when these numbers come out and when you see these huge differences you also have

people that start to question the mission you have people that start to question the reality and you have people who start to question whether or not you're actually going in for the things that you said you were going in for especially if it was a mistake sometimes casualties do happen in war it happens more often than we would like to admit to but on that same token when they do happen for you to act as though they didn't or to diminish the amount i think is extremely wrong we often like to pretend that our hardware soldiers are capable of killing anything but the enemy that's ludicrous to think a smart bomb isn't actually about smart it's still dropping a missile on a building in the city there's going to be casualties especially when you're fighting the wars that we fight and you know in these skirmishes that we choose to put ourselves in at the end of the day i'm always about making money they don't want to know the civilian cost of casualties because event that actually gets in the way of the profiteering that you see in war and why a lot of these wars are started in the 1st place and increases the level of protest the level of people who are actually interested in the people who advocate against

it because most people cannot stand on the sidelines when they know that innocent people are dying no they cannot. cut because the food stamps housing medicaid welfare and social security are all parts of trump and the republicans were on the poor whether those on the right are creating work requirements literally taking food from the mouths of babies by attacking the program or creating script work wireman and mounds of id documentation just to maintain eligibility for public assistance it's clear being poor in trump's america is your fault and the government is not here to support you in any way. despite the truck administration's braggadocios rants about the strength of the economy there are still thousands of working poor living from paycheck to paycheck trump's answer figured out unless you're an american former president trump routinely flies in to rescue the farming industry meanwhile demonizing the working poor and families on

public assistance. ask yourselves why why is welfare bad for families but good for farmers after labeling obama the welfare and food stamp president a title laden with class and grace a new window it's no surprise trump implied harsh penalties for those already suffering but if you're going to be a hateful grinch at least be consistent president trump routinely flies in to rescue the farming industry and he's demonizing the poor and families on public assistance. and a long list of policy blunders trump the tasking levied billions on foreign products specifically goods from china the boomerang effect hit american farmers hard they raise holy hell and in states trump needs to win to secure the presidency in 2020 trump responded by giving direct payments to farmers truck farm aid is larger than the auto bailout during the great recession the total package comes to $28000000000.00 with a b.

meanwhile the president continues to nickel and dime public assistance programs while republicans keep amplifying the false welfare queen narrative and reserving their classes hatred towards low income people of color they have conveniently found a form of welfare they love and the white faces to go along with this movement that's powerful that's part that's interesting because to me this looks like one of those things and it's clearly you know. i want these people to vote for me i want to i want to brag about these regions i'm helping so that's what i'm going to dump a bunch of money into those regions and as we were talking about earlier today we're not talking about poor mom and pop farmers out there struggling to get by the . assistance you're talking about the money he is pouring into these areas we're talking about big corporate farming absolutely i think that that's a very important thing to know there are a lot of people self included who do feel for the individuals who are running family farms and we know what happens with a lot of the environmental issues that have caused their crops not to yield and it totally devastated entire communities those are. at the farm that this president is

saving he's saving large corporate farms and to the tune of billions of dollars because when we think about this in context of president obama working to bring back the automobile industry this is a lot higher in terms of the human than the form that we saw on that and that time frame the other thing is this president continues to demonize the poor specifically poor minorities but with that he does not often talk about the actual budget allocation that goes towards the social welfare program it is less than 8 percent of the overall federal budget while he continues to slash left right and sideways this is not really you know alleviating anything in terms of our budget crisis when we're looking at how much we spend on military spending which i think that you talked about several times but also just ensuring that our people who are the working poor people who are in between jobs people who are working multiple jobs in the good economy they are able to stay afloat it does not make sense that we would

have a president who continues to make sure that he is taking everything away from them at the same time a president who stands by and supports tries to win rhetoric motherhood but takes food out of the mouths of babies when he destroys the wic program i want to you know when you look at like this kind of corporate. called welfare but when you're pumping all this money into the big corporate farming industry isn't the basically welfare that's exactly what it is these are taxpayer dollars this is government assistance for a republican party and for conservatives who largely stand on the government should not help people who are going through troubles with situations this is a very interesting turn to take if you're going to have that stance where we help no one because we don't really care pull yourself up by the bootstraps we're not telling that to the large corporate farmers and i think that it goes back to the fact that a lot of those corporate farms are in areas where the president president trump definitely needs to win in 2020 he's making sure that the lobbyist of those large corporate farms and elected officials are. there had been backing and he has by and

large created this echo chamber that says it is ok to funnel money into these farms meanwhile neglecting many of the individuals who are also on food stamps medicaid in those same areas so he's acting like any any normal every day politician that he was supposedly ran against all those years ago because to me when you describe that sounds like every other like corporate sponsored politician give money to give a bunch of payouts and handouts and money to the people that get me elected the people that spend money on my campaigns and then ignore the people that can which is kind of the m.o. that we've seen in u.s. politics over the years the interesting thing about this too is that the farmers he's giving this to these big corporations they're now becoming super dependent on these handouts nearly 40 percent of projected farm profits last year came from the trade deal 40 percent of their profits are making that up i mean what are they going to do if that means they just lost 40 percent of their business exactly and

there's absolutely no way the president can keep it going about when the only reason that a huge influx came was on the back of something that he created himself in terms of the terrified with china so he decided that now you're going to shovel this money back in because there was so much pushback like they were threatening to not they were threatening to actually not take part in his reelection campaign and not to vote for him and i think that at that point he decided to dial it back see what he could do when he was willing to write checks and this is this is an example of gross welfare this is one that they don't think was was a necessity this is something that's not needed they are going to be fine again these are large corporate farms this is not the same as your mom and pop farm and by and large when we're taking this into context of a party and of a leader of a party who has demonize welfare and so many ways and even extending it to social security disability these are literally people who have been injured or people who have mental health and lots of people who have a lot of other issues who are able to work every day and he slashing their budget to budget to pay off the big corporate. course every time every time art as we go

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the atlantic alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 global security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington in brussels by virtue of important foreign policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. i 1st heard about wiki leaks. from the helicopter footage in iraq. and i think that down to the people who do you mean i mean us military who have never forgiven. this guy's a traitor a treasonous and and he has broken every law the united states illegally shoot son of a. story to have. independent journalist with his computer exposing

you is a lot of crimes and. the idea of developing an anonymous box and applying it to a media organization is because. that was the 1st. i didn't good toy interest because he would be for a short while world and one of the world's most powerful news organizations. founder julian assange in the sun over your son and there was a great deal of jealous in the mainstream towards him particularly why won't he be more like that you seem. mean feces on the walls. we have julia. in solitary confinement in the prison for terrorists. and we have

a lot of history there are. the ones to die in prison. and i think that's what he's facing the elian. it looks like our old nemesis the dakota access pipeline is back in the headlines again hog watchers yes and landing in our news feeds like a bad case of got rocked reading today old white castle hamburgers energy transfer partners the dallas texas based owner of the over 1100 mile long underground oil pipeline is now hoping to get this to double the capacity of the pipeline to as much as 1100000 barrels daily to meet the growing demand for oil shipments from north dakota and is seeking permission for additional pump stations and not only

dakota but i want to illinois to do it and they believe that they can do all this using the have a just trust us it'll be foreign technique of environmental safety testing. i heard b.p. use that same technique back in the gulf oil spill this comes on the heels of a new white house proposal to revamp and rollback the national environmental policy act or netbook which generally requires environmental reviews when industries decide to discharge potential pollutants into the air or water or more major proposed projects like highways or pipelines pipelines you say joining us now to discuss these stories and more is environmental journalist extraordinary steve horn steve thank you as always. good to be back thanks for having me so to break it down what is an energy transfer partners up to now regarding the dakota access pipeline that we saw so many protests and so much controversy over the last time it was lines. yes so this news got

a little bit buried because $29000.00 was so much about introducing the american public to the presidential candidates and of that the hoopla around that but as that happened in the middle of 2019 energy chancer partners and now it's as you introduced that whole notion of doubling the capacity of the pipeline they call it quote unquote optimization and so that will be as you said $1100000.00 barrels per day of oil moving through that pipeline and just to talk about how significant that is. back in shape our that oil comes from the north dakota right now it's producing $1500000.00 barrels per day so we're talking about over 2 thirds of the capacity of that field would go through that single pipeline and you also mention it but that's an interesting side note it's not clear if the federal government will make this company go through another neighbor you are not right now all that's happening is at the state level in those various states due to the pump stations it's going

through a similar process through the different public utilities commission and i will say that it's not for lack of trying that activists try to get this on their radar and for example i was my piece pointed out 8. teen different candidates were approached about their thoughts in the democratic party about the dakota access assem as a sion and what if they thought this is something or important what optimization if they thought there's something i should go through the candidates all responded in various ways what happened though is that video wasn't really picked up by very much of the broadcast media and so in my piece that is sort of reviewed that and also the big find of my piece is a look at this pipeline is 1st and foremost an export pipeline and that's pretty clear from looking at the documentary record in the pipeline crosses over 4 different states the dakotas i was an illinois what's been the reaction to this proposal from the state governments and their constituents. well it's still under review in all of the states except for one of i think it's i believe it's south

dakota which gave it the green light and so in iowa in particular what's interesting is the county in which the pump station pump stations i should say are based that that county basically said look if this is a completely new proposal you had to come back and explain the totality of the impacts of this could have the what the what's interesting is any chance a project came to that county called story county iowa and they said we're just notifying you that this thing could will go through there as a courtesy they use that word in their letter with their attorney saying there doesn't need to be any further review but we're letting you know as a courtesy that count the county turned around and said actually there has to be a holistic review of this so that's a big sticking point right now in iowa and i think that hopefully my piece will be informative and in regards to talking about hey this is an export pipeline right now they're in discussions with the maritime administration through the trump ministration they're also lobbying at the disclosure show and are talking about in

their investor calls that this is definitely an export project in the making and i think that has all kinds of. things different. well we were sold about this pipeline at the beginning correct of that there wasn't supposed to be an export pipeline in them in the sense that they're they want to use it now. right except for you know the thing that was interesting the timing of the code access tipline of course even the original one is it came one year after the obama administration did the export ban on oil and of course even the original one it connects to the dakota access connect another pipeline that brings it all the way to the gulf coast very close to where exports could take place so i think already exports are happening there although a lot of is being refined down in the gulf coast where by the way there's all kinds of environmental justice and packs for refining that oil in those frontline communities so it's already happening a little bit i think but i think what analyses show i just look at the documents is

the rest of the oil that would go to this pipeline would be 4 x. 4 and the way that they sell it is the new narrative for the industry is that they used to say energy independence now for example energy has a partners calls it quote unquote energy security so they don't even i don't even know like what how what that means for exports and but i think there we're talking about it this is for there's all kinds of geo political purposes for the oil above and the just what you speak all the energy and the time in the of the moment you call something security that everyone gets on board who keeps a safe you know. i want to talk about there's not a thing in regards to the national environmental policy act what exactly is the trumpet ministrations seeking to change and how how was the trip to the station suddenly able to accomplish this you know kind of out of the blue zones are going to was quite expecting them to do so we jump in and say our role in this back. yeah well that was a nice 5050th anniversary of need to celebrate the birthday of this bedrock

environmental law the tribe of ministration said we're gonna basically this to raise the law and get rid of analyses of climate impacts of different projects like potentially the one that we're talking about right now or as you mentioned highways other pipelines and right now this month there already last week was hearing in denver and which many environmentalists showed up climate activists showed up and voiced their concerns about that and then next week in washington d.c. on tuesday the 25th there will be another hearing and those are the 2 hearings that are scheduled to kind of for people to engage in this actually the reason why they're able to engage on this ruling is because of need but it is well v a public hearing process but potentially there will be a lot less of these public hearings in public outreach on projects going forward if this rule proposal by jump in this ration goes through but it doesn't there's still

a long way to go and it could still be court court challenges to it and all that so it's still a long way from coming to fruition and steve how would these changes affect poor communities here in the u.s. and is there any opposition in congress. yeah well i think that that's really crucial so underneath one big component of it is an environmental justice review and it's as a source told me for some reporting that i'm doing sometimes it's the only chance for poor communities or people of color to really engage with the federal government on the impacts that projects could have and sort of without this this is just a key avenue that would no longer exist maybe they can still go to congress and voice their concerns about it but in terms of in terms of the regulatory apparatus provides that one avenue where both through public comments they're written and through public hearings that people of color and all kinds of people people impacted by projects can come forward. voice their concerns and those concerns

under federal law under that law have to be taken under consideration as the regulatory process plays itself out well steve i got to say thank you so much for being diligent in your reporting on these issues because without people like you would never even know about them and they just keep rolling through thank you so much for coming on and illuminating our audiences to these to these issues always a pleasure absolutely thanks a lot for having me. have you ever wanted to your friend partner or family member have more feeling be able to empathize share your pain or even recognize that you have it. the folks closest to us might not ever get there but thanks to the wonderful world of technology robots will that's right folks robots are currently being developed that can feel both physical pain and empathize with the pain of their human counterparts as side by as it sounds this is not a drill an engineer at a soccer university in japan has design touch sensors and a robot system name that this robot resembles

a small child it can convert emotional expressions just like humans essentially shift this robot see its full potential it could allow for a new wave of engagement and intelligent design you're ready for that you're ready for emotional robots who are we don't have enough emotional human so we're going on the road and it's well what i found fascinating too is that they're doing this because they feel that if they can figure out how a robot can feel pain that it might choose to obliterate us unlike a robot apocalypse basically that could be very true but also like one of the things that we recently come to know is that robots are being used more and more in terms of medical advance mistral so they're taking in place of in certain instances a lot of doctor procedures so it would help for them to be able to recognize that somebody is a good boy well regarded i guess that is our show for you today emotional robots remember everyone in this world about told that we are loved enough so i tell you all i love you tyrone and i'm going to keep on watching all those hawks never great day and night everybody.

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