hundred civilians during the entire obama presidency joining me now for more on this story is medea benjamin co-founder of global exchange in code pink and author of the new book kingdom of the unjust behind the u.s. saudi connection would be a welcome back thank you good to be with you thanks so much for joining us so what's going on here is this just the result of isis the war moving into more top populated territories that it got cranked up and i guess the larger question all of these civilian casualty numbers seem just frankly surprisingly low to me for a war that's been going on with this kind of for aussie well let's take that piece by piece i think the tremendous increase in the number of civilian casualties is due to a number of factors one yes the war has ramped up as the fighting got into heavily populated zones in the case of iraq in syria and mosul in iraq but i think there's other factors involved in a big one is that trump has basically said to the pentagon do what you want and you don't have to check with anybody else just decide where you want to bomb when you want to bomb wh

and god bless medea benjamin for standing behind john kerry when he tries to get he uses every dirty discussed you mean standing behind him in holding up her bloody hands when he hears senate testimony he literally said during senate testimony he's trying to get them to convince the code pink and everybody to go along with bombing isis and he said you know if you're for educating women you'd be for bombing isis because isis doesn't educate their women and i'm like oh my god you invented pro women education . for all to educate them they. floatin book white house. oh it's considering the amount of money we spent a military i think we should on the side of each bomb we should put like health care these are the things we have had our health care is our fame money yeah i would love to see one of those pro education program in education oh and thanks to america i've learned math and about imperialism not just freedom bombs now and says ok as well yeah when they were behind mccain was there for this one of the well when they showed up behind kissinger to arrest him a citizen's arrest of th

to medium range weapons and is being supplied to south korea by washington until war activist medea benjamin explains what the locals think about the situation. well know and one has to wonder why hundreds and hundreds of people would come out to protest a system that is supposedly going to make them so safe for i was in that village just a few weeks ago and it's a very conservative village and these protests are being led mostly by the elders of the village who say we don't want to be in the eye of the storm we know that president trump has just said he's going to allow more highly sophisticated weaponry to go to south korea taking billions of dollars of people's money there this is a cycle of militarism that is extremely dangerous and the opposite of what people on the plane peninsula need and want. well with concern growing over the crisis almost korean peninsula the possibility of global disaster president trump is yet to our strategy for talking the situation. reports and the like the u.s. could be said to make billions of dollars selling arms to its allies in the region . the north kor

to medium range weapons and is being supplied to south korea by washington antiwar activists medea benjamin recently visited the site in south korea and told his wife is a ploy meant is causing you so much anger well no and one has to wonder why hundreds and hundreds of people would come out to protest a system that is supposedly going to make them so safe for i was in that village just a few weeks ago and it's a very conservative village and these protests are being led mostly by the elders of the village who say we don't want to be in the eye of the storm we know that president trump has just said he's going to allow more highly sophisticated weaponry to go to south korea taking billions of dollars of people's money there this is a cycle of militarism that is extremely dangerous and the opposite of what people on the plane peninsula need and want. and the north korea crisis is also being discussed at the eastern economic forum in russia's thought east at the moment hawkins is that for ways and he joins us live now and daniel good to see you so what have you heard today. well let me just b

short to medium range weapons and is being supplied to south korea by washington antiwar activist medea benjamin recently visited the site in south korea and told those why the deployment is causing so much anger. well know and one has to wonder why hundreds and hundreds of people would come out to protest a system that is supposedly going to make them so safe for i was in that village just a few weeks ago and it's a very conservative village and these protests are being led mostly by the elders of the village who say we don't want to be in the eye of the storm we know that president trump has just said he's going to allow more highly sophisticated weaponry to go to south korea taking billions of dollars of people's money there this is a cycle of militarism that is extremely dangerous and the opposite of what people on the plane peninsula need and want meanwhile senior north korean officials have said that america's pressure on pyongyang go against the idea of peace independence you know. the u.s. neglects the international community's will to establish peace on the korean peninsula. against the

hundred civilians during the entire obama presidency joining me now for more on this story is medea benjamin co-founder of global exchange and code pink author of the new book kingdom of the unjust behind the u.s. saudi connection media welcome back thank you good to be with you tell thanks so much for joining us so what's going on here is this just the result of isis the war moving into more top populated territories that it got cranked up and i guess the larger question all of these civilian casualty numbers seem just frankly surprisingly low to me for a war that's been going on with this kind of philosophy well let's take that piece by piece i think the tremendous increase in the number of civilian casualties is due to a number of factors one yes the war has ramped up as the fighting got into heavily populated zones in the case of iraq in syria and mosul in iraq but i think there's other factors involved in a big one is that trump has basically said to the pentagon do what you want and you don't have to check with anybody else just decide where you want to bomb when you want to bomb who y

which the trumpet ministration is now actively trying to sabotage joining me for more on this is medea benjamin co-founder of global exchange and code bank and author of the new book kingdom of the unjust and the u.s. saudi connection medea welcome back good to be on the show to read haven't you with us so the administration is supposed to certify every not ninety days this is the congressional law that iran is complying with the deal and the i.a.e.a. every month i guess reports and says yes they're comply yes they're complying yes they're complying and yet. there is this debate the next deadline is next month about whether we're going to certify their compliance why. well the administration is trying to invent some excuse to say they're not complying the i.a.e.a. has said eight different times now iran is complying the trump administration has had to admit to congress now twice because they have this every ninety day deadline that yes iran is complying as you said the next one comes up mid october and yet trump and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley have said no we don't think they're rea