what people on the streets had to say about the controversial criminal justice policy and then scott horton will be joining us to be talking about violence in syria today and what role the u.s. might already be playing that. more news today violence was once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day oh. oh . he weeks ago when christine for his guest hosting the show she told you about a very disturbing private prison plan of virginia basically virginia wants to work with the prison company geo to keep certain offenders detained even after their sentence has ended so the company's working to acquire a contract with the state to run the virginia center for behavioral rehabilitation or receive we are for short facilities specializing in civil commitment that's what they are it's a fancy term for involuntary detention for violent sex offenders now these offenders have served their time but they've been deemed not ready to reenter the general population and it's a story that keeps coming up in our team disc

what people on the streets had to say about the controversial criminal justice policy and then scott horton will be joining us to talk about violence in syria today and what role the u.s. might already be playing there. a lot of american power continues. things are. might actually be time revolution. and it's going to be are very good old rock. radio. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry is a big issue. here a good. book and they alone are still you know get the real headlines with none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . welcome to the capital account i'm lauren lyster. few weeks ag

dynamic situation now one of the things too that everyone was questioning guest today and we had scott horton on from harper's is whether whether that counts is terrorism right if you have a suicide bombing that happens is that terrorism is it fair game because of the situation in the country he said it's very game what's your take you know it depends on whose legal definition you use if i use the state department's definition it's terrorism if i use the justice department's definition it's terrorism if i use the free syrian army as definition it's an act of national liberation against an oppressive regime so look terrorism is a subjective term let's call it what it is it's violence it's war it's unpleasant it's bad and we should bring it to an end as quickly and justly as we possibly can one of the things too that we're hearing now. talk of chemical weapons in syria being used right we saw the ambassador to iraq defect say that he doesn't doubt that assad would actually use chemical weapons but i mean what do you we have to break this down because these are these are the kind of threats that