of ththe city has dououbled in e last years in united statates ad itit leads to type 2 diabetes, n enormous public health problele it kills a a quarter of a millin people in this country every year and costs the economomy $90 billion. we havave no idea how polar beas prevent b becoming diabetic, evn thouough they a are massivelely. we to understand that. we have to sttudy them in the wild. they do nott hibernate in zoos r in laboratories. polar bears have secrets to teach us. if people understood those connections better, i think they would have a much greater value to biodiversity, to ecosystems and individual species. >> we both have to understand what science is telling us. we are losing this diversity of life. that loss is directly inflfluencing our ability to led healthier lives. >> if we expropriate the whole earth and try to take off, , we are the lords of creation -- wee are not. we are one of millions of animals. to ththink of itt as planet the oceanan. we have to livive within our means. living within ouour means applis to ecology just as much as it applies to budgets. >> it dodoe

it says, in return, the united statates shoululd put an end t o threatening military maneuvers onon north korea's borders which , happen to include, under trump, sending of nuclear-capable b-52's flying right near the border. now, maybe americans don't remember very well, but north koreans have a memory of not too long a ago when nortkorea wawas absolulutely flatteneded, liter, by american bombing. there was -- there was literally no tgets left.t. and i really urge people w hahave not done it to read the official american military histories, the air quarterly review, the military histories describing thi they describe it very vivividly and accuratetely. ey say, "thehere just wen'tt any targets left. well, we decided to attack the dams, the huge dams. that's a a major war crime. peoplele were hanged f for it at nuremberg.g. but put t that aside. and then comeses an ecstatic, gleefuful description of the bombing of the dams and ththe he flfl of water, w which wasas wig out vavalleys and destroroying e rice crop, on which asians depend for survival -- lots of racist c comment, but all with e

we're broadcasting from raleigh, north carolina, as we continue our journey through the united statates. tonight we will be in miami and the tomorrow we are moving on to temper, florida. then atlanta. we will be going to madison, wisconsin. chicago. we will be in michigan as well. this is democracy now! when we come back, we're going to look at the politics of north carolina in the broadest sense. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: performing at washington square park in new york city in celebration, day. this is democracy now!, democracynow.orgrg, the war and peace report. i am amy goodman. we are broadcasting from raleigh, north carolina. we will turn to look at the state of politics in north carolina. it has been nearly six months since voters elected democrat roy cooper as governor. republican lawmakers responded by waging what many described as a legislative coup to strip away much of cooper's power. meanwhile, republicans in north carolina are attempting to solidify their legislative power by passing a series of new laws to restrict voting rights. this comes despite report by the

back in the united statates, t e national security agency says it is curtailing one of its controversial mass surveillance programs known as the "upstream" program. on friday, the nsa admitted that an internal review found the program violated rules set by a secret surveillance court.t. under the program, the nsa collected en masse americans' communications with people abroad if the conversations simply imaging keywords designated by the agency. on friday,y, n whistleblower edwaward snowden saiaid, "the th changed everything." donald trump's counterterrorism adviser, sebastian gorka, is repoportedly being ousted fromoe whwhite house amid reports a abt his links to a hungarian far-right, nazazi-allied groupu. thjewish newewspaper "the forward" has also o reported goa suppororted an anti-semitic c ad racist p paramilitarary militian hungarary while he served as a hungarian politician.. to see our interviews, you can go to dedemocracynow.org. the white e house is reportedly considering tapping milwaukee county sheriff clarke for a top job at the department of homeland security. politico rep

alliance-- i'll use their words--ththe forl aalliance betweeeen the steelworkers union of the united statates, which-h--i don'tt know many members it has, but in the hundreds of thousands, big union--with mondragon, the corporate--that huge, successful worker's self-directed enterprise in spain. and i remember many of us were taken aback. "what an interesting idea. an alliance." what did it mean? well, the details were hard to come by. it seems asas though there was discussion, obviously, between them. they issued a joint press release anand had a press conference. but it's hard to tell, so i'm now going to imagine where this might go. i'm not saying that's where they're taking it. i don't know exactly where they're going to take it, or even whether they're going to take it somewhere, but here's what i would do. imagine a trade union movement with a completely different strategic idea from what it has typically been. unions h have typically been organizations who make it possible for workers, instead of bargaining individually with the employer, , to get particucular conditions of work. the u