individual rights and perpetual state of war has meant for the country i'll talk to colonel lawrence wilkerson about that his former chief of staff to colin powell and also jake hugo he's host of the young turks but first what is the mainstream media miss. so as the anniversary of nine eleven years on sunday we are seeing mainstream media coverage all over focused on the events of that tragic day and the memorials for the lives lost as a nation prepares to remember its worst attack ever new york at the pentagon the pennsylvania things here in new york are moving along toward what will be a day to remember as they formally unveiled the relocation here two of these sites where the towers used to stand at that ship naval ship was built from steel that was taken from the former towers in new york city what was formerly known as the freedom tower but it's now called one of the world trade center. and in honor of the tenth anniversary of being in war started in response to nine eleven the mainstream media decided now would be a good and appropriate time to drop a correspondent into afghanistan to sh

the most profound overreactions in military history to talk about that i'm joined by colonel lawrence wilkerson whose service call in powell as chief of staff colin powell secretary of state under george w. bush colonel wilkerson thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me more than six thousand american servicemen have died in the last decade of war spawned by the nine eleven attack. tragedy worth remembering and knowing no doubt but why in all those speeches delivered by american officials i never hear about hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians dead in the wars waged by the united states and other countries like iraq as a collective entity we seem to think were exceptional and so exceptional that we don't have to think about other people or as i said that's a position you can maintain as long as you are as powerful as we were powerful as rome in its day post world war two but we're no longer that powerful when our powerful recedes even as we speak here today some of the people who were at the helm back then are now writing books saying everything they did was right including

policy former chief of staff lawrence wilkerson not enough you know this is also weighed in and he says that you're worried about being tried as a war criminal. that's news to me. i don't pay a lot of attention mr wilkerson i don't know him as far as i know i've never met the gentleman i know he speaks out from time to time and it strikes me as. a cheap shot. your head's up. that's right cheney labs were crimes he last saw people he laughs off line this nation into a war that is still raging today is that cheney's trying to outdo himself when it comes to how evil someone and that's a very very. after the break the battle lines are being drawn in america in my daily take i'll tell you about the dark days ahead for america as the all of guards begin their bombing raids on the new deal. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to predict through through to convey who can you trust no one who is you know you do with it global machinery see where we had it state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do you r t question more. my

colonel lawrence wilkerson was collin powell chief of staff when he was the secretary of state under george w. bush he says some of the bush administration members deserve to be put on trial and he would be ready to testify george tenet told dick cheney what cheney wanted to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information and we're stopping terrorist attacks there is order. the fact that there hasn't been a terrorist attack on the scale of nine eleven on the u.s. soil is often attributed to the harsh methods used in the last decade of war on terror but counterterrorism experts say the fact that terrorists are successfully recruiting thousands of new members these days does not add to security in the u.s. and the whole world for that matter we've also seen other extremist networks like. us well in response. to that. so in some ways with the patient and the other organization in pakistan u.s. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and made it only a handful of actual terrorists. many of the victims' loved ones seek revenge by joining radical groups

with the right to prove colonel lawrence wilkerson was collin powell chief of staff when he was the secretary of state under george w. bush he says some of the bush administration members deserve to be put on trial and he would be ready to testify george tenet told dick cheney what they cheney wanted to hear oh yes it's working mr vice president we're getting great information there more stopping terrorist attacks that is order. in pakistan u.s. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and maybe it only a handful of actual terrorists and many of the victims' loved ones secret venge by joining radical groups. others like this young man who lost both of his legs and three family members in a drone strike gather in protest asking when will the killing stop we have made much more than a cottage industry out of what my former boss colin powell has called the terrorist industrial complex lots of people are making lots of money off of this so-called global war on terror our war on terror. begins with al qaeda. but it does not in there listening to george bush's declaration of war on terror f

slim disguise of keeping the homeland safe this week former chief of staff to colin powell lawrence wilkerson told a.b.c. news that cheney was president for practical purposes for the first term of the bush administration and for years being tried as a war criminal last night things got a little heated here in the big picture when i asked two conservative commentators whether we should try to cheney for war crimes here and get money or let the world try him and to hey. nine eleven happened because this guy refused to do anything for eight months how can you go out summit itself out if this is the america islamic extremism is going to go in america and a muslim group islamic extremists attacked america you're the one who did this in charge of the counterterrorism task force that never met until september of two thousand and eleven. tell me how could this be just a. moment the change he has for us didn't even meet once until september two thousand and one all the while our allies in england france israel and russia were warning us of something big was coming all the while richard clarke and oth

viewers who watched our interview last night with former chief of staff to colin powell colonel lawrence wilkerson even webster the senior editor story tweeted to us hey at below to show great wilkerson interview keep it up so i want to thank stephen for the comma and for posting our interview on raw story are huge fans of the site and are constantly turning there for news the mainstream media doesn't cover and that my rantings today have been have more for you next week as usual. the sky. the light will come and. so lest you can i or others will be singing. today we have a glimmer of hope and it comes from the financial world i know there's still corruption on wall street but it does look like the guy at all times has put its foot down over the slimy methods that apple uses with its app store is when companies agree to make their applications available on apple's products in-store a rule put in place by steve jobs requires those companies to sell their apps of scription throughout was well oh and they also take thirty percent of the revenue but in this instance if you wanted a subscription to the