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i'm amy goodman. the new york times reporting president obama personally oversees a "kill list," containing the names and photos of individuals targeted for assassination in the secret u.s. drone war. according to the new york times, obama signs off on every targeted killing in yemen and somalia and more complex and risky strikes in pakistan. national ticketing adviser said "he is determined he will make these decisions about how far and wide these operations will go." obama is also said to personally improve every addition to the expanding kill list, individuals include u.s. citizens as well as teenage girls as young as 17 years old. the new york times quotes former white house chief of staff william daley about obama's decision to assassinate awlaki, a u.s. indocin in yemen. he called the decision to strike the u.s. born cleric "ntc 1." since april, the u.s. is carried out at least 14 drone strikes in yemen and six in pakistan. over the weekend, u.s. drone strike in yemen killed at least five people

i'm amy goodman. court hassupreme upheld the extradition of wikileaks founder julian assange to sweden after a more than yearlong legal fight. swedish authorities want to question him over accusations of rape and a sexual assault made by two women. he has been under house arrest in britain since december 2010. his lawyers had argued the swedish public prosecutor did not have legal authority to issue the arrest warrant, but earlier today the british judge sided with sweden in a 5-2 decision. supporters of voiced fears he will wind up in the hands of the u.s. should assange be deported. he has been given 14 days to return to sweden. the u.s. and 11 other countries have formally expelled syrian diplomats following a massacre of over 100 people in the village of houla. in a coordinated action, countries including germany, france, britain, canada, and japan ordered the departure of syrian ambassadors from their capitals. in washington, state department's spokesperson victoria nuland said syria's top diplom

i'm amy goodman. today, we bring you in memorial day special, honor the dead, and he'll the wounded, stop the wars. that was the demand of veterans who gathered in chicago may 20 that the side of the nato summit. the veterans of the iraq and afghanistan wars, as well as women from afghans for peace, led a peace march of thousand of people to the summit gates. iraq veterans against the war held a ceremony where more than 40 veterans hurled their war medals toward the gates of the nato summit. >> no nato, no war. we do not work for you know more. we do not kill for you know more. >> at this time, veterans of the boards will walk up on stage. they will tell us why they chose to return their medals to nato. i urge you to honor them by listening to their stories. nowhere else will you hear so many that thought these wars, from the journey of fighting the war is too demanding peace. some of those killed in a sense. some of us continue these wars from home. some of us watched our friends die. some of us are

information out there many of them have been guests of this show the names are glenn greenwald amy goodman kevin gusto lead jeremy scahill specifically as well as the nation julian assange and wiki leaks and chase mad are now notice that none of those names are personalities on your cable news channels that supposedly most trusted forward leaning fair and balanced channels these organizations have gone back and forth from either ignoring to demonizing wiki leaks and bradley manning but they've never stood for transparency no matter what your opinion of manning or wiki leaks is we should all have access to what's going on in the court proceedings so that we can see how the justice system works but the mainstream media are not really concerned about all that here they choose to miss. well the congressional budget office gave a pretty dire warning about the economy this week and a report released on tuesday the cvo warn that the combination of budget cuts set to go into effect in january and an expiration of bush tax cuts the payroll tax extended unemployment benefits that all that would take

. >> author of "wear this, toss that" amy goodman is here with personal gifts that you can get. and if you order tomorrow, express shipping, but everything you see before you is still available in time for mother's day. >> these are cool looking. >> from sea wonder, they're monogram plates and she can use them to store her tchotchkes. from brandstore.com, the customizable family pillows. so you get 74 different characters to choose from including the pets and animals. >> come on. >> isn't that so cute? >> that is really cute. >> and this starts at $134, and it's done by a mother and daughter team out of michigan. >> very cute idea. >> what do these run? >> $38. >> okay. >> and these are also our last personalized item from red envelope.com and these are brand new mother of pearl purse mirrors and there are little initials here that you can get personalized. we have one for your mother, klg and one for you. >> good, because i have been a little late this week. >> thank you. >> it's a great classic gift for the purse. >> yea. beautiful. >> a pop of color for the purse. so these ar

amy goodman of democracy now and msnbc contributor karen hunter.ivate equity. we are talking to marcellus, what are capital markets for? why do we have them? what do we want them to do? one thing that is fascinating about watching the politics of all of this is when you start looking, private equity people are everywhere. one of the things they've had to do is to say look, we're not going after private equity. we are going after specifically either bain capital and what bain capital did which i think doesn't quite hold water because from all that i've read, bain capital was no worse than other private equity firms. but when you start looking around, you see a lot of private equity firms after a government service. this is just a little -- just former reagan defensecarlucci, bush, vice president dan quail, president bill clinton, clinton energy secretary, it goes on, white house chiefs of staff. george stefanopolis, house speaker newt gingrich, new york city mayor, john snow, rod page. these -- here are public officials who work at private equity fi

style expert and author of "wear this, toss that" amy goodman is here with the hottest looks.ip in the pool. >> we were just saying that. >> next time, next time. let's get to the good part, the fashion that you brought. let's start off with hayley and dressy shorts are in. >> absolutely. you know hayley has an incredible look that we pulled from target. kind of like a boutique shop within target. and what she ends up wearing is a $24.99 shorts, right to the pool with her bikini top. then for what i call apres pool, just like apres-ski, the tank and the blazer which is also from the collection. a really sweet hat from banana republic. that great fedora there and also some two-tone wedges that are from two-lips shoes. >> i like the cut. it's not your traditional styled short. >> right. this just seems really dressy. i didn't even have to add any jewelry at all because the look has that dressiness too it. and she has the natural tresses to complete the look. and the shoes i love, they have mixed media, canvas and leather. >> separate or wear to the. you look amazing. thank you s

thank god tavis smiley amy goodman and the others, we don't want stimulation, we want information, lots elimination. we want analysis of what is going on. the only way to bring the jobs back is massive job creation programs. that's the only way you do it, rebuilding infrastructure, rebuilding the bridges, rebuilding housing across the border and providing jobs and it's not just public sector. he can be a combination that regard that is one of the reasons why it's so difficult to talk about jobs with a living wage and that is one of the reasons why it's so difficult or our leaders to really tell us the truth. the truth is -- steve jobs row four he died god bless us all. >> we believe destroying the middle class is really not an accident. the rich want to eliminate the poor and ignore policies and poverty, trying to understand this. they want to eliminate said they are using this in order to perpetuate the idea that there should be no middle class. that is not really an accident. it's a very conscious decision. can you comment on that? >> i just think it's greed run amok and i don't want

thank god tavis smiley amy goodman and the others, we don't want stimulation, we want information, lots elimination. we want analysis of what is going on. the only way to bring the jobs back is massive job creation programs. that's the only way you do it, rebuilding infrastructure, rebuilding the bridges, rebuilding housing across the border and providing jobs and it's not just public sector. he can be a combination that regard that is one of the reasons why it's so difficult to talk about jobs with a living wage and that is one of the reasons why it's so difficult or our leaders to really tell us the truth. the truth is -- steve jobs row four he died god bless us all. >> we believe destroying the middle class is really not an accident. the rich want to eliminate the poor and ignore policies and poverty, trying to understand this. they want to eliminate said they are using this in order to perpetuate the idea that there should be no middle class. that is not really an accident. it's a very conscious decision. can you comment on that? >> i just think it's greed run amok and i don't want

thank god tavis smiley amy goodman and the others, we don't want stimulation, we want information, lots elimination. we want analysis of what is going on. the only way to bring the jobs back is massive job creation programs. that's the only way you do it, rebuilding infrastructure, rebuilding the bridges, rebuilding housing across the border and providing jobs and it's not just public sector. he can be a combination that regard that is one of the reasons why it's so difficult to talk about jobs with a living wage and that is one of the reasons why it's so difficult or our leaders to really tell us the truth. the truth is -- steve jobs row four he died god bless us all. >> we believe destroying the middle class is really not an accident. the rich want to eliminate the poor and ignore policies and poverty, trying to understand this. they want to eliminate said they are using this in order to perpetuate the idea that there should be no middle class. that is not really an accident. it's a very conscious decision. can you comment on that? >> i just think it's greed run amok and i don't want

goodman will negotiate for first-timer, even second-timers. here to answer your question is real estate contributor barbara couric ran. barbara, good morning. >> good morning, amyrate is 3.83%. >> first-time home buyers focus on the price of the home. it's not as much as that lovely low interest rate. so for example, today right now with a $300,000 home, you would be paying $1,050 a month to finance 75% of it. if that interest rate just tips all little bit more than 1% of 5%, it's $1,200 a month. now's the great time to buy a home and get the cheap money. >> money is cheap. we like that. we're going to go out to the plaza for a question for you from jennifer. what's your question for barbara, jennifer? >> hi. how should first-time home buyers read the housing market right now? has it reached bottom? >> that's the million-dollar question, isn't it, that everybody's asking. my only question is it reached bottom two months ago. the reason for that is all the statistics are supporting it. when you look at all of the leading 25 markets in the united states. almost every one of thome has turned around and some of them with whopping increases over the last year. for e