that one day we will see a video of drone pilots laughing about the murders they are committing david swanson author and campaigner roots action dot org thank you for being with us here and i'll take thank you. the world's most controversial prisoners turn ten years old the anniversary of guantanamo bay was met with protests around the world with fresh calls and obama to keep his election promise and shut it down but today that's a fading fantasy off to washington and not to the new nor among the military to indefinitely detain anyone it deems hostile ati's or smith as this report. one zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one zero zero zero abdel moneim am absolutely today is probably just another day for the inmates of guantanamo bay they may not even know that people around the world are campaigning for them but as far afield as london demonstrations are held to demand the release of the hundred seventy one men still held without trial in the cuban camp after ten years one of those men is shaka omer who's earned the dubious distinction of being the last british resident held in guantanam

too many people telling the whole story so we want to try to do that for you author and activist david swanson is here to help us out is that new book our older book but the new one coming out soon this one is called when the world outlawed at war david let's talk about these unemployment numbers and what they mean what do you what do you see these numbers as what story do they tell well i noticed that economists dean baker pointed out that about a quarter of those jobs are seasonal jobs for couriers for the christmas season a majority of them are couriers that like messenger and needless to say you exceed expectations by having very low expectations but you know these were better than the expectations and they were better than nothing but all of these numbers this year and last year are very phony numbers you're leaving out people who have been unemployed for a long time you're leaving out people who are underemployed who have a part time job wish they had a full time job you're talking about twenty five thirty million people who are seriously unemployed or underemployed and then you have ten

joining me now is david swanson. welcome david so not even a month later the government is already using the law to justify the indefinite detention of a prisoner is this a preview of things to come. i think it is i think it's also not a complete change that the united states has as you know long been detaining prisoners under various legal justifications and court rulings and executive orders no one has been released without the government's decision through sheer stalling and various arguments this has been the policy and the hypocrisy could not be more stark as that as the president of yemen guilty of similar offenses is brought here on the claim that it's for medical treatment as this resolution on syria argues among other things that they must release arbitrarily detained prisoners as if the united states were going to do that and of course bigger than guantanamo is bob graham where the president worsened this bill with a signing statement declaring he needed no legal process whatsoever to detain people forever a

disaster for the people of iran and for the people of charlottesville and the rest of our country david swansonis the co-author of the resolution adopted by the charlottesville city council. for the popular will as always been against wars unless pushed in dragged by very manipulative propaganda and they have been trying those who want war on iran have been trying unsuccessfully for years to get the american people on board i went out on the street to see how many people i would meet who want the u.s. to attack iran. do you think the u.s. should attack iran no no not at all the last thing we should do well it's a terrible idea one of the worst ideas i think i have heard a while yeah that would be horrible yeah because they're good guys but because. i think another war is just a horrific idea but look on the republican side you've got certain ones over there now who want to just can't wait to get us a war it really doesn't look good at all do you think the u.s. should attack iran yes just one out of more than a dozen interviews and it's not just people on the street but many experts in the secur

defense has launched an investigation with reports that two of the marines have been identified david swanson author and campaigner at roots action dot org has told me that he thinks this latest scandal is a byproduct of a force being made to fight a war it doesn't believe in. the fact that these soldiers have apparently referred these people and the the scandal is that they are urinating on their prey i mean the hate sure is that is necessary to get people to do such a thing is necessary to motivate soldiers to fight in a war that has no other credible rationale for the war itself is an atrocity and so we pick out these particular atrocities and we get outraged but we don't look at the underlying fact and we end up with this incredibly bizarre phenomenon of being upset that someone is peanut on a body that he has killed. john glaser from antiwar dot com told r.t. that the real issues of being sidelined as the u.s. military brass attempts to cover for its failure in afghanistan the problem is that in the past when things like this have come up say like abu ghraib photos of you know naked men