and today he's still in jail but the mainstream media they don't care then when jeremy scahill story first came out and they'll continue to not care now because unlike a diplomatic debacle with china when it comes to get men there is nothing to lose and the white house knows it and the mainstream media knows it and helps keep it that way by ignoring it that they choose to miss. it is time for our weekly financial check up and boy do we have a lot to talk about today jobs numbers were released by the bureau of labor statistics for the month of april and they're not so good the economy created a measly hundred fifteen thousand jobs the unemployment rate fell to eight point one percent but only because the size of the overall label labor force dropped by three hundred forty two thousand meaning the people decided to give up looking for work altogether so now that means of labor force participation rate is at sixty three point six percent which is the lowest mark since one nine hundred eighty one stock good news for anybody out there except maybe mitt romney and so looking at the electio

wage our shadow wars and this is what everyone should be pointing to and it's not new either jeremy scahill report. on this months ago we had him here on the show but then the washington post yesterday reported on how drone strikes have become a root recruiting tool as if it was brand new and i guess i should at least give morning joe and m.s.m. d.c. a little credit for talking about that washington post report this morning but come on people we all know better we all know there's a lot more to it there are a lot of voices out there speaking the truth and the not enough people are listening and a large part of that is thanks to the mainstream media doesn't see it as a priority but tonight i'd like to particularly call out the so-called left i wouldn't embarrass them and it is the greatest crimes of the obama administration they choose to miss. now since the financial crash we've been reminded time and time again the practices on wall street haven't changed the proper regulations have been put into place for example you remember that recent j.p. morgan debacle and we all know that no crimina

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 warned 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 us off the fiscal cliff and i

the interesting thing is that they've included american citizens they're going to people like jeremy scahill has done a lot of reporting from yemen was talking about this on twitter today and saying he didn't realize there was an exception for americans in the first amendment when it comes to yemen. right i think you know there was a quote in the washing post henri that that laid this out which basically said this was a to put a chill on anyone who felt that they might want to go to yemen or anyone who might want to get involved in political activities in yemen it doesn't specify just terrorism i mean it's a very broad i mean look any any good citizen should is often engaged in disrupting you know what their government what the current government wants to do you know it does that count is does germany stories amazing stories just for the nation does that count it's going to get detained next time he tries to return from yemen probably not but you never know lesser known journalist or journalist who kind of on that line between human rights activists could easily be vulnerable to this let's t

the pakistani attorney who represents victims of drone strikes who finally was given a visa and jeremy scahill one of the few reporters that's actually gone to get me gone to somalia to see the situation is like from the ground of our shadow wars and here's just a little bit of what he had to say. the real. world. says . we're going to talk about this with president obama's quote it's already a secret that. you know this is and already this is the best authority to rome world war i don't know if this is. oh yeah this is a government that's killed us citizens via drone strike without any due process that little detail that a press corps of the government watchdog would be outraged and can fleetly disturbed by it but it's so much more fun to just ignore that right to get to keep partying with government officials and celebs and so that's what the mainstream media chooses to miss. right so it's only monday but there is a lot to talk about because the news does not stop over the weekend even though the entire press corps did nothing but party at events surrounding the white house correspondents di