jeremy scahill is our guest. >> caller: yes, el low. i've followed jeremy's career for quite a while. i think his work is exemplary on blackwater and especially in the new book. earlier on the panel you had suggested that possibly we're in the reason that we're in the state we are now with obama was basically naive. he had no military experience, no foreign policy experience. if you could speak to him in light of what snowden has revealed, what could be done? because to my light, he's about the best kind of we're going to get. another bush or cheney would be a disaster. so here's a guy, a constitutional lawyer, a liberal, a good man. what could he do now to really make transparent and stop some of these abuses as you see them? >> host: thank you, carl. >> guest: appreciate the question. first of all, i don't think -- and if i gave that impression, i didn't mean to -- i don't think that president obama was knew brief. i think he's an incredibly brilliant figure. in fact, when he was in the senate, i worked with his office at times journal

right it's cook wars with jeremy scahill ok well stacy we got to go. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy everett i want to thank our guests the red pepper standing in for the journalists known as jerry scale and so much time oh by the way if you want to reach us on twitter you can use kaiser report. but you know . quite often countries rich in natural resources are the poorest africa as a colony it's a colony of the big corporations it's a colony of someone's home leaders who are under the thumbs of the big corporations so they have to beg from the world bank's development of social programs goes to pay back debts whole country is drowning under the amount of debt that they had and so every year they would borrow money. and they would use that same amount of money to pay back. all that money really. the wages of debts. torch is on its journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. really by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thous

jeremy scahill is our guest. >> caller: yes, el low. i've followed jeremy's career for quite a while. i think his work is exemplary on blackwater and especially in the new book. earlier on the panel you had suggested that possibly we're in the reason that we're in the state we are now with obama was basically naive. he had no military experience, no foreign policy experience. if you could speak to him in light of what snowden has revealed, what could be done? because to my light, he's about the best kind of we're going to get. another bush or cheney would be a disaster. so here's a guy, a constitutional lawyer, a liberal, a good man. what could he do now to really make transparent and stop some of these abuses as you see them? >> host: thank you, carl. >> guest: appreciate the question. first of all, i don't think -- and if i gave that impression, i didn't mean to -- i don't think that president obama was knew brief. i think he's an incredibly brilliant figure. in fact, when he was in the senate, i worked with his office at times journal

the media and i do know personally glenn greenwald and jeremy scahill who are going to have we are told the control of the new news organization that omidyar from e-bay is london and i have made that rain wall there and scahill feel muzzle far more than these reporters in their name in the you know that all were muslim for years and years and mainstream media if they're muzzle for a week or two i expect them to come out denounce the operation and what have you so i have a lot of faith in this new operation because glenn greenwald and jeremy scahill and laura poitras the filmmaker will be in charge of the new operation next year. jeff cohen journalism professor at ithaca college thanks so much thank you and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered including the breaking news coming out of the white house about n.s.a. reforms go to youtube dot com slash r t america check out our web site also r t dot com slash usa and you can follow me on twitter at seven sacks we'll be right back here at eight pm thanks for watching. syria in collapse western backed rebels have either been

[laughter] >> jeremy scahill this investigative journalist. jeremy has been a long-time contributor to the new program democracy now and correspondent for the nation magazine. as a journalist, jeremy is reported from all over the world, including afghanistan, iraq, somalia, yemen and the former lucas audio. he has twice won the prestigious george polk award for and reporting. in 1998 for his investigation in the chevron corp.'s role in the killing of two nigerians and environmental activist and in 2008 for his "new york times" best-selling book, blackwater, the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army, which exposes the private military contractor blackwater. jeremy's investigative work has led several congressional hearings and is also resulted in jeremy testifying before congress on u.s. covert military actions. jeremy's newest book, "dirty wars: the world is a battlefield" is a monumental book which takes the reader inside u.s. military covert action, worldwide and the consequences of those actions. "dirty wars" has also been made in

in "dirty wars," jeremy scahill, national security correspondent for the nation magazine, reports on america's covert operations. for an extended list and links to other publications' 2013 notable book selections, visit booktv's web site, booktv.org. >> now on booktv, historian william seale examines the transformation of washington, d.c.'s political and physical landscape between the spanish-american war and world war i. this program from the society of the cincinnati's anderson house in washington, d.c. is 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, emily, and good evening. it is a great pleasure to introduce william seale. i have known william for a very long time because he married my good friend and college classmate, lucinda smith. i married a brilliant historian, and so did she. [laughter] william seale is a charming and witty texas gentleman whose interest in history and buildings has fueled a long career in both. he is a native of beaumont, texas, holds a ba from southwestern university, an ma and a ph.d. from duke. he left texas in 1969 and spent two years in columbia, south carol

now creating a new media venture with laura poitras and jeremy scahill and ebay's founder.is is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. way, to our new year's day show. we will go through the major stories of 2013 -- of course, the story about the nsa is top of the list. we will be back in a minute. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on saturday, 1.3 million americans lost their last lifeline from the federal government -- an emergency unemployment insurance program. although long-term unemployment is still at its highest level since world war ii, congress failed to renew the program in the budget deal that passed just days before adjourning for winter recess. the program provided up to 47 weeks of supplemental unemployment insurance payments to jobless people looking for work. now, just a quarter of unemployed americans will receive jobless benefits -- the smallest proportion and half a century. along the program to sunset is expected to have widescale ramifications fo

in "dirty wars," jeremy scahill, national security correspondent for the nation magazine, reports onamerica's covert operations. for an extended list and links to other publications' 2013 notable book selections, visit booktv's web site, booktv.org. >> now on booktv, historian william seale examines the transformation of washington, d.c.'s political and physical landscape between the spanish-american war and world war i. this program from the society of the cincinnati's anderson house in washington, d.c. is 40 minutes. [applause]

that is jeremy scales brilliant research -- scahill's brilliant research, how halliburton was called during evacuation. the way violence is dealt with in this city is to keep it in the seventh ward and ninth ward. it is also true -- as long as you live in the south loop, the south side -- the question of changing these moral questions what i just heard in terms of the moral narrative, when that discourse comes out of the mouths of the right, what they are talking about is unborn children, which is not what they're talking about, but that is somehow what they're talking about when they say, we should care about every human. they are talking about fetuses, not black fetuses, certainly not black incarcerated fetuses. if i say something on television like, children belong to all of us, and i am even serrated for months because it is some sort of weird communist plot -- let me go to the next person. >> greetings. thank you all for the work you are doing. my first question, i'm an assistant professor. right now, i get a lot of black women wanting to do research on this subject. i am only o