. -- chart looksks at the functionality. you can see it is off to its best start.s is the last 10 years of old i am looking at on this chart. each one starts at zero, and you have it percentage change. gold is off to, far and away, its best time since may. going back to last december, people absolutely loath to -- loathed gold. but it has been climbing. this is a good year for the gold. scarlet: and small signs of inflation. is holding off, the brexit, nervousness. scarlet: coming up, we'll be hearing from jeff currie, the head of commodities research at goldman sachs. we will ask him why he thinks oil is headed higher. his call for $50 a barrel. ♪ mark: i am mark crumpton, let's get the first word news. the u.s. senate has blocked forident obama's request $1.9 billion to combat the zika virus. 47, with six 50- votes needed to proceed. from thebe offset preventive health care funds. the white house has threatened to veto the bill. donald trump is about to get his first real attack from the clinton campaign. tomorrow, a pro-clinton the super pac will begin airing it

it looksks like anany other cit. you can see ethnic antntagonism, but nothing terribly out of the orordinary. that's the way to o deal with these issues. incidentally, what's happening inin syria right now is horrendodous, but we shouldn't'- useful to remember that it's not the first time. if you go back a century, almost exactly a century, the end of the first world war, there were hundreds of thousands of people starving to death in syria. proportionally, proportional to the population, it's likely that more syrians died d in the firit world war than any other belligerent. syria did revive, and it can revive a again. amy: we will continue with noam chomsky, world-rerenowned political dissident, author, his latest book "who rules the after break. ♪ [music break] amy: sinead o'connor, "black boys on mopeds." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are the road in chicago, illinois. we continue part two of our conversation with world-renowned political dissident, linguis

it looksks good enough, looks ususeful enoh, for the movement. >> so there were s some, what, fofour months that they looked for dan everywhere. and he was everywhere and available to everyone, except the fbi. amy: an excerpt from the documentary, "hit & s stay." ththat last voice was peace activist liz mcalister, phil berrigan's wife. on may 6, , liz gave the eulogy at dan berrigan's funeral. we return now to my 2006 interview with fatather berrigan. after the e trial, you went underground. why did you decide to do that? >> well, the war had worsened, and the spring of 1970, the campuses were aflame. nixon had invaded laos. there was secret bombing going on. the war had widened. it was a bad t time to turn oneself in, and d we were comparing g that r to military induction. it was like saying, "well, i'm going off to war. i'm going to obey them and go off to war. i'm going to take the penalty for what w we did toto make the war evevidently,y, evidently unwinnabable and ununwageable." so a group of us said, "no go," and went underground. amy: and what does that mean when you go underg