on raveling is the subject of a recent article by journalist stars from all staff reporter with truthout dot org and one of the very few on and bet a journalist a reporter from the ground in iraq during the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three more earlier dars joined me and i first asked him to break down exactly what events had taken place since the u.s. withdrawal that have led to iraq becoming a near failed state. really. all started with maliki took power because since that time on he has really been launching a organized ongoing attack against the the minority sunni population there's been reports on massive amounts of torture detainees being maliki's going to in government forces in the problems of primarily sunni neighborhoods in baghdad as well as in towns like illusion to detain sunni's and holding them in secret prisons a lot of this is come out over the years many years since he's been in power human rights watch has done reports on it as has and then and the senior national on his secret detention facilities around baghdad and this escalated to a clearly where beginning i

we have a situation that looks the way it does today and in a recent article you just wrote for truthout a really great article you describe daily life in iraq during the height of the occupation as being a walk in the park compared to how violent the country paint that picture for our viewers and just an average iraq what they deal with on a database. there's a man whom i quote in the article who is a sunni man who's married with three small children living in the middle of baghdad in a predominantly sunni neighborhood and he quoted it linked in the article because his story is so telling of so many sunni's now living as a minority population being persecuted by the maliki regime in baghdad and he said we literally can't go north south east or west because there's fighting if we go north east or west if we can't go south because the area is completely controlled by shia militias that are basically hunting sunni at this point we have the mahdi army the badr brigade etc other shia militias that are literally going around trying to find sunni's to kill are they taking the orders of grand a

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the great barrier reef so a lot of grim stuff going on here's a at at move on up who replied to truthout it's tweet about yesterday's column on the severe drought in california he writes here in so cal the southern california drought is so bad thirty forty fifty year old trees are dry are dying and water wells are running out and the scary part of this is what we talked about yesterday the daily take is that california the great hope for california because this is like a. not just a generational drought this is you know a century century sometimes millennial drought apparently there was a drought a couple thousand maybe fifteen hundred years ago hundreds to thousands of years ago in the southwest there was so bad that there are evacuated cities in the southwest of the united states because people just there was no water they had to leave i mean literally wiped out cities that are just emptied and. this the the hope had been that there would be a an el nino and el nino is. a water weather pattern it's a change in the temperature of the ocean that causes rain to fall in california and then