what norman finkelstein found might surprise you.y with us. ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. our guest is norman finkelstein who has published two books this week. one, "knowing too much: why the american jewish romance with israel is coming to an end." his other is, "what gandhi says: about nonviolence, resistance and courage." before we go to gandhi, your views on a two-day solution and the whole boycott divestment sanctioned movement? >> one of the problems is the question is often incorrectly pose. the question is not what my personal views are. we're going to return to it in a moment did i agree with gandhi for did you do not start with what your opinion is. you start with where public opinion is at. the purpose of politics is to try to get people to act on the believes they already hold. i think it is often mistaken, do you support one state or two states, as if politics were questioned about what i support? politics to me is about the maxi

. >> abby's dad, norman, shot this video. >> there's a beaver. >> just last weekend.t the time they were camping out in the backyard. >> they are really cute. >> not everybody thinks so. >> they were chomping down their trees. >> reporter: last year, neighbors complained sot homeowner's association decided to reduce, remove the beaver population. virginia code says you can't relocate beavers, so the neighbors feared at least some of the beavers were killed. so abby went door to door. >> would you like to sign a petition? >> they even wrote a song. one year later, the homeowner's association still isn't answering our calls, but they did tell abby's mom they decided to let the beavers stay. >> i was really, really happy. >> homeowner's association has decided that rather than trap, they will wrap. wrap the trees of anybody who requests it. the idea is to make sure that people and beavers can peacefully coexist. >> people walk around this lake all evening long and just enjoying the nature of it. >> abby's parents, jen and norman, hope she learned a lesson. >> it's better

army staff sergeant norman bone.e to sergeant bone earlier tonight. >> if somebody is going to lie about what they have done in the military, that disrespects anybody and everybody who has ever put a uniform on to defend our country. ♪ gonna be enough to last last free mantle media, who produces "america's got talent" responded with this statement. well sincerely apologize to u.s. army staff sergeant norman bone for using a photo of him in our story on tim poe. it was supplied to us by tim and used on the show in good faith. it is now been removed and will not be used again. it's the same picture poe gave our abc affiliate in dallas. his fiance says that was just a mistake. >> it was just a complete mixup and he is totally, totallior ysy about that. >> reporter: but poe also told wfaa he was shot and injured in iraq in 2005. >> in the fire fight, i took a bullet in the leg. >> reporter: the national guard said sergeant poe was never even deployed to iraq. now poe is desperate to explain the unexplainable. >> everyone

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thomas mann and norman ornstein. hello. ( applause ) >> jon: you know, our audience loves their think-tankers. you two represent... this is remarkable. you work with the brookings institute, yes? >> that's correct jon: you work with the american enterprise institute. these are the hatfields and mccoys of think tanks. yet look at this. look. look what's happening here. i don't know what's going on under the table but look at this. a book. how did you two, you know, you're both very well respecked observers of the political scene. how did you two start working together? >> we actually started a graduate school together at the university of michigan 45 years ago. we came to washington. we worked on the hill for a year as fellows. basically formed a partnership that we've been doing now for more than 40 years. writing and doing projects. >> jon: this is a follow-up to your previous best seller about congress and how it... again i'm pair phrasing with my political analyst socks. why do you feel like congressional dysfunct

norman scott was in another ship. he was killed by friendly fire from the san francisco. oath and was killed in action on the night of friday the 13th the i don't think that's ever happened again. i think that might have been a first and last. is that right? so we have this incredible battle, which once again stops a japanese compartment for some hitting the air force do. and, therefore, stopped the convoy, for coming down and landing and striking its troops on the beaches. the significance of callahan sacrifice is that the following day cactus air force is able to fly. having been spared yet another compartment of 14-inch shells. they fly out and find a japanese transports circling in the northern part of the slot and he worked them over. they send out i think four of six large japanese transports, most of the entire japanese division. so by his sacrifice that night, guadalcanal is once again say. two nights later, the japanese gather the remnants of this massive multi-task force order of battle they've assembled and they try again. they circle back with the one battlesh

and starts with norman mailer. >> host: did you pick the title? >> he pic to the title and very, very deliberately chose not to use the word in the title and has a great piece at the end of his introduction why he did this . >> we are excited about our new book because she has not done a book says barack obama has been in office. although as an icon of the conservative movement a hero to those on the right to. she was very passionate to talk about the shutdown on religious freedom. obamacare requiring contraception, military cemeteries, military chaplains, the section of the federal government and her argument is the federal government is exercising overreach to intrude restitution as zero or individuals should be allowed to choose. but to practice and have religion not be excluded but part of the dialogue as long as everybody is allowed to practice what they want. religious freedom and tolerance is what she is concerned about. it is another hot topic that is why we rash it out also coming out at the end of july. no higher power. that there is no

police arrested norman last week. they say he stole about $60,000 worth of merchandise from the nordstrom warehouse where he worked at the upper mar borrow. they say he did it over a two-month span and said norman would then sell the stolen items he got online. >>> ten minutes before hour. dole fresh vegetables. this includes products sold in six states that includes virginia. on the recall, kroger flesh selections leafy romaine, kroger fresh selections greener supreme, and walmart market side leafy romaine. all of them have a use-by date of june 19th. dole says the veggies are at risk of listeria, a food born illness. but the company says there have been no reports of anyone getting sick. >>> a warning before you head outside. mosquitoes in northern virginia have tested positive for west nile virus. according to the washington examiner. prince william county officials say mosquitoes tested positive for the disease in wood binlg. they say they found four groups of mosquitos that also tested positive. maryland official

they arrested donnell norman after seeing this surveillance video. norman worked at a warehouse where he was supposed to unload merchandise for order in from department stores -- from nordstrom's department stores, but instead he was stealing it police say, tens of thousands of dollars of high end clothing, watches and makeup. >> his female partner opened up the door and his dining room was displayed just like a display case in nordstrom's. if. >> norman is out on bond accused of stealing more than $42,000 in merchandise. >>> the director of a local zoo under arrest with animal cruelty and the reston zoo could face further charges. fox 5's melanie alnwick has the details. >> reporter: kids and families are still visiting reston zoo and interacting with the animals even though the director was arrested friday. 26-year-old meghan mogensen is charged with animal cruelty and possession of a controlled substance because of an incident with a wallaby in january. a usda inspection said the wallaby like this one seen here had severe face and head injuries. o

situation i'm joined by brian becker in washington is the national coordinator of the answer coalition in norman we have joshua landis he's director of the center of middle east studies and associate professor of middle eastern studies at the university of oklahoma and in istanbul we cross the do how much he general manager of the news agency all right crosstalk rules in effect gentlemen that means you can jump in anytime you want brian back in washington it's called the civil war now now this war will end with winners and losers who will be well let's start peter by making clear that the united states government the western powers england france the former colonizers of the middle east have actually promoted civil war they promoted civil war because their go in the case of syria as it was in libya as it was in iraq is to overthrow the existing independent government now is syria unlike libya and unlike iraq has a different set of political and social contours clearly the syrian government has a mass popular base the opposition also has a base of mass proportions in the case of syria they are be

norman bonds is being held without bond. thout bond. >>> a young girl has become the third victim of a violent car crash. 7-year-old victoria william of cross junction died today. her mother dejon williams and 5- year-old sister faith were killed when their car sideswiped another vehicle, then hit another car on lee highway tuesday. the driver of the other car, hamidallah nabilada, remains in critical condition. >>> the latest in the etan patz murder investigation, police say detectives spent hours searching the new jersey home of pedro hernandez. he confessed to killing the 6- year-old last month. patz disappeared in 1979. his remains were never found. it's unclear if police found anything significant at the hernandez home. >>> the latest on the roger clemens perjury trial, clemens wife debbie took the stand today. she is expected to continue testifying tomorrow that she received a shot of human growth hormone from her husband' former strength coach brian mcnamee. it allegedly happened a decade ago and clemens was not prese

al norman with the baby emergence. if you could both line up right here and we'll have neil go first. >> good morning. i have two minutes. so this is my "american idol." are you guys ready? yeah. first of all, i would like to thank the mayor and our supervisors for coming out and everybody for showing up. the last time i was here was in the seventh grade in the production of hare. -- "hair." i'm 54. so this is really a trip. redevelopment. it's gone. our street is a ghost town. if you've seen leyland avenue, it's beautiful. we have a green way. it's beautiful. but we have a lot of empty storefronts. and with the redevelopment gone, it's probably going to get worse. how many here in district 11 has ever come down and spent a dollar on leyland avenue? great. i spend a lot of money in the mission. because there are places to go. and we need places to go in mid valley. we have a lot of services for minorities. i'm a minority. sfaft -- as a matter of fact, i'm a single dad. i'm disabled. i'm gay. i mean, you can go through

a norman rockwell painting of ruby baits. she was a young african-american girl whose parents sued to have her integrated to a school, ironically in the ninth ward of new orleans, the ward that's now black. at the time it was white. ruby baits, her struggle was captured by norman rockwell in this very famous painting. but i want to pull this up. this is the actual photograph of ruby baits. why is this important? this is the federal government defending the rights of blacks. in this instance defending the rights of a little girl. this is powerful. this is evocative. this is reflecting the changes taking place in american society and particularly the attitudes. of the three episodes that i mentioned earlier, the brown decision is by far the most important. the brown decision reflects on two very important changes that have and the place in the 1940s and the 1950s. first, i want to pull this image up. there's a change in the courts. now i'm showing here the u.s. supreme court. interestingly this is the supreme court in 1954, it

for communication and journalism at the university of southern california, he founded and heads the norman lear center, which studies politics, entertainment, and commerce and their impact on us. he's an expert on how big money and big media have coupled to create a disney world of democracy. marty, welcome. >> thanks, bill. >> you wrote "the distinguished gentleman" 20 years ago. could you write it today? >> oh god, it still is the same. all you have to do is add a couple of zeros to the amount of money. and the same laws still apply. it is fabulous and miserable at the same time. >> was washington then, and is it now, the biggest con game going? >> it is the biggest con game going. and the stakes are enormous. and the effort to regulate them is hopeless, because the very people who are in charge of regulating them are the same people who are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the lobbies that run them. >> i have it on very good authority that a prominent washington senator recently told a group of lobbyists in washington, a room full of lobbyists, that they are the lifeblood of the city. and i

i took greg norman to number one in the world. butch harmon had been out there with a lot of players before tiger woods. a lot of success with davis love a lot of success. >> rose: there was no resentment on the part of tiger. >> he never expressed that to me. i have read that, where people have sur pieced that. but he himself never expressed that nor did his father. >> rose: can he return to that form? >> i done think so. i'm not sure anyone can return to what he did in 2000. he totally-- . >> rose: because of the social things and mechanical. >> there are all kinds of things. first of all the players are so much better. the young players are so much better. second he has had four knee surgeries. the knee i don't care how many surgeries you had is not as strong as it used to be. equipment has changed, completely changed am tiger's body has changed. he's much bigger and stronger than he was there. >> rose: i think he has gone through a couple changes. he bulked up a lot in the by accepts and chest and that hurt him a little bit. h