democracy now dot org, the war and peace report. i am amy goodman. has authorized airstrikes in iraq to halt the sweeping advance of militants now known as the islamic state. the group has captured large swathes of northern iraq, including the country's largest dam near mosul, and its largest christian town. the militants have advanced to a half hour drive from the kurdish regional capital, air vo, where the united states has a consulate and military personnel. -- united states military the united states has also begun rubbing really supplies to iraqis forced to flee their homes. about 40,000 numbers of the yazidi religious minority remain on mount sinjar near the border with syria. obama said airstrikes may be needed to halt what he said was a potential genocide. >> when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. weekend act -- we can act carefully a response bleacher prevent a potential genocide. fighting has resumed in gaza after the expiration of a 72

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this unraveling is the subject of a recent article by journalists staff reporter with the truth out dot org and one of the very few on and that a journalist to report from the ground in iraq during the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three or earlier dars joined me and i first asked him to break down exactly what events have taken place since the u.s. withdrawal that have led to iraq becoming a near failed state. really all started with maliki took power because since that time all he has really been launching organized ongoing attack against the minority sunni population there's been reports on massive amounts of torture detainees being he's been seen in government forces and apparently primarily sunni neighborhoods in baghdad as well as in towns like allusion to detain sudanese and holding them in secret prisons a lot of this is come out over the years many years since he's been in power human rights watch is reports on it as has endings and this international on his secret detention facilities around baghdad and this escalated to a point where beginning in late two thousand and twelve

dot org dot gov actually and it says based on data compiled from quarterly reports for the year ending march thirty first two thousand and fourteen cash from operations for one hundred twenty seven major oil and natural gas companies totaled five hundred sixty eight billion dollars and major uses of cash totaled six hundred seven.

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more on this is one of the people who organized that petition jeff cohen co-founder of it's action dot org founding director of the park center for independent media to figure college and founder of fairness and accuracy in reporting and author of cable news confidential jeff cohen great to see you again nice to be with you thanks for joining us so break this down for me why is the rise in case important well it's crucial because there's a war on journalism happening in the united states yes they were all over the world yes well obama has intensified the war on journalists and whistleblowers. under the obama administration you've had more than twice as many whistleblowers prosecuted under the espionage act than under all previous presidents combined and so the war on whistleblowers whether you know edward snowden tom drake all these people at the n.s.a. people at the cia who talked about cia torture all those people have been prosecuted under the obama administration and now it's inevitable that the war on whistleblowers goes after the journalists who use them and james risin is an award w

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they can simply push it to congress and require congress to vote on and that's what move to amend dot org is working on with an amendment that would say corporations are people and money is not speech that's that's an article five convention without actually calling a convention the way that the republicans are talking about doing it is that two thirds of the straights could also say let's all just have a convention where we physically get together and we sit in a room and just like james madison and those guys did back in seven hundred eighty seven we're going to rewrite the constitution that's in my mind. a damn scary scenario so you know using the article five method to push a single constitutional amendment up great idea using article five to call for a convention really bad idea and let me finally add that the allegan republicans they're all talking about a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget that would be insane we are a sovereign nation we issue our own currency we can issue our own debt and that's what countries do to get them through tough times. we have always

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dot org dot gov actually and it says based on data compiled from quarterly reports for the year ending march thirty first two thousand and fourteen cash from operations for one hundred twenty seven major oil and natural gas companies totaled five hundred sixty eight billion dollars and major uses of cash totaled six hundred seventy seven billion a difference of almost one hundred ten billion dollar. well we've been saying this for a couple of years about the fracking hoax essentially fracking is a hoax that's not an economically viable way to explore for energy the upfront costs are so enormous that the possibility of making a net profit from this business is zero it does so ever cause incalculable environmental damage it does in fact add to the indebtedness of the country whether it's the united states or now the united kingdom which is going into fracking they've opened up half the country to fracking and the people in the u.k. are not being told that their energy prices will not go down their debt will go up and there is no profitable scenario. and any in any scenario relating to fr

to keep the expense down, but anybody interested in having one, can go to the san francisco police dot org it is on the website, and you can look at it and if you want a copy you can download it but it is worth looking at and the pictures in it are unbelievable and of course, that has made the cover. >> great. >> thank you, chief it is a great job and thank you to everybody who has been involved in that. >> just before get on to the presentation by the captain and are there any commission reports? >> actually one. >> sure. >> just this is a follow up. and to the state about the jobs and i just want to commend the mayor's office, and you, and anybody else who has been created or put these kids to work. and actually i see more kids just working and it is just great to see. and internships and jobs, and some of the things turning into it and there is no better way for the people to spend the time during the summer, than working. and so, just kutos to the mayor's office and to you chief and it is great to see all of these young people doing it. >> yeah. >> commissioners? >> anything else? >> o

international call to action says it's it is the ferguson have launched a website called hands up united dot org that is where you can see dozens of events planned for embassies around the world while the death of michael brown of course caught the media's attention the international story came when it was the police's heavy handed tactics against protesters that were seen on television screens all over the world so while the michael brown's family and friends are finally getting their opportunity to say goodbye to to make peace with what has happened they are still waiting for answers surrounding the events of his death and of course most importantly accountability. fighters from the islamic state have reportedly executed almost seven hundred inmates of a prison in the iraqi city of mosul the un human rights watchdog has already said this could amount to a crime against humanity mosul is a major city in iraq's north that's been serving as a launch pad for the extremists and found some civilians have been desperately trying to flee but to have a stronghold. the islamic state radicals are also ma

this something people can do to keep fighting for net neutrality now yes go to a popular resistance dot org and sign the petition demanding that the f.c.c. hold regional hearings so that people can be heard this is the free speech issue of our time and i'd like to sum up my feelings for the situation of a. damn right a corporation. and their government crony no. her. dad. these are your news headlines from the future or let's see this coming sunday you'll read this headline lie parents open carry option for movie ted nugent testify daughter. in georgia this will be on the front phase next week walmart shoppers pants camouflaged yet but crack obvious. and my that hit close to home for some of you than others some sad international news actually what has thursday diplomatic relations sour between shark nato and lizard people not good but there is some good news coming up later in august. police can't corp stock searches a surrounding post-i office find a high five me shift the pope's and lastly in september we'll learn gingerbread factory found to be employing children paying only gumdrops ho

laughable almost it's a shambolic your thoughts well we have a petition on our website digital chamber dot org and it aspecific lee asked ben lawsky to extend the comment period in the end of the year to allow the end of story to put forward other proposals besides that license that would be in the industry would like and what we're looking at are more self regulatory applications eighty percent a bit license could be put on the block chain and that's the beauty of this technology is the entire community can monitor and see what's going on with. cutting into that entrenched all the copley called wall street they don't want competition they don't want the point they don't want the anyone moving in on their turf so they're going to do everything they can to keep competition out and that's where the grassroots efforts come in we're also putting together a grassroots coalition we have a petition going around that anybody can sign and dissipate and i mean at the end of the day our public servants they work for the people that elect out so if we are successful in getting as many people to express th

right for the border that's one of the things we put forward one hundred dot org has a series of recommendations we made to congress one of those actually putting together a nato type organization which consists of jordan turkey egypt saudi arabia which actually will go in there and deal with what we need down isis the others remember that isis is a sunni organization you can organize the sunni nations which we've helped train and equip to go take care of this nobody wants isis to be successful even a sunni muslim so you've got to look at this realistically and frankly the american people are tired of war i'm not saying we should be the ones doing all the heavy lifting we can do or support we can do logistical support but those folks we've trained militarily can go in and do the hard work to secure the the country yeah of course they're in the neighborhood writer well it appears you know isis has taken over the model dam and we spoke yesterday with middle east expert daniel pipes that that's what the snow he says about the strategic importance of the democrats' health if you control the dams in

anonymous group of activists and writers and academics and it's a combined effort between strike dead dot org and occupy wall street and it was it was written in response to the two thousand and eight economic collapse. and it really explains what's going on with all of these different types of debt and gives a lot of pointers and tips on how to stay out of debt how to repair it if you're in it and it really explains kind of context and history in this stuff and we don't understand all the ins and outs of what's going on but we do know as a country we're largely in debt and it is you know some say undermining democracy and hurting us interest in the you'd say that. being up here in terms of the types of debt that. can you go through look what kind of debt are we talking about absolutely well obviously it covers a lot about number five their housing debt and stuff like that and and the mortgage situation and give some context and history and that was really interesting i don't know student medical debt credit card and the credit score and consumer reporting agencies these organizations are ver

having cameras or more importantly individuals having cameras i mean i've done a lot with cup block dot org over the years one of the early the founders and kind of funders of that and i've seen a lot of police encounters and i've seen how cameras have changed those police encounters for the better in most instances it's certainly true that there have been instances of police freaking out about cameras becoming more violent as a result of that but i think overall it's a good policy to report police in and the police can have their own cameras that the public can access video from then all for the better now can you tell us what do you think are the concerns regarding the police officers having control over her over when to turn these cameras on and off when they feel like i mean what if they know they're getting in a sticky situation i mean when that affected because they can control absolutely i mean no you know the war control they have the war likely it's going to be that if you get into a situation with one of them that the video didn't record oracle claim that he did turn it on but the