Targeted assassination of terrorist watch list and really violating peoples Civil Liberties and so thats why its so important that we do see this kind of work and really acknowledge those policies because for the most part they are happening in secret and under secrecy and so when people are uninformed, then they cant necessarily push back when they are far removed from these types of policy they become detentize. They make jokes about raining down bombs on people and thats why its important that this work is out there. Thats one thing i would like to say. [cheers and applause] also its so important that we have these journalists that are doing what they do. A job that puts journalists at risk and thats because aggressive policies and the freedom of speech should be very clear and its a rarity. I was in washington, d. C. This weekend surrounding the events of the white house Correspondence Dinner and its not the same people that you see there winning and dining here in brooklyn. I didn
Live coverage of the lost Angeles Times festival of books on the campus of the university of southern california. A couple more hours of live coverage ahead. You can get our full schedule at book tv. Org and you can follow us on twitter or facebook to get the behindthescenes photos and other photos of the festival. We are now joined by Bob Streisand are who has written this book, incarceration nation a journey to justice and prison around the world. In your book you write america is the Worlds Largest largest jailer . Guest we are and it is a title we should wear shamefully. We have 5 of the worlds population, but 25 of the world prison population, 2. 3 Million People incarcerated. We spend over 50 billion a year on corrections and when it comes to the Racial Disparities that our system there are more africanamericans under correctional supervision today than there were slaves at the height of slavery in 1850. Host how did we get there . Guest its all really goes back to the war on dru
Charlie hebdo publishes its first issue since last weeks attacks, we look at press freedom with Reporters Without Borders. Then to nigeria. There are wildly different accounts of the numbers and youre going from 100 two 2000 and we have not been able to verify that. What is clear, one eyewitness is talking about how when he was fleeing, he was tripping on bodies the whole way. So clearly a large number of people were killed. As many as 2,000 people are feared dead in an attack by militants from boko haram in the North Eastern nigerian town of baga. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. France is deploying an unprecedented 10,000 soldiers inside its own country in the wake of last weeks deadly shootings at a Kosher Grocery store and the magazine Charlie Hebdo. The soldiers will join nearly 5,000 Police Officers mobilized to guard jewish schools, train stations and other sites. France has also announced steps
The middle east. We will speak to Glenn Greenwald and Lisa Stampnitzky, author of disciplining terror how experts invented terrorism. then as the french magazine Charlie Hebdo publishes its first issue since last weeks attacks, we look at press freedom with Reporters Without Borders. Then to nigeria. There are wildly different accounts of the numbers and youre going from 100 two 2000 and we have not been able to verify that. What is clear, one eyewitness is talking about how when he was fleeing, he was tripping on bodies the whole way. So clearly a large number of people were killed. As many as 2,000 people are feared dead in an attack by militants from boko haram in the North Eastern nigerian town of baga. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. France is deploying an unprecedented 10,000 soldiers inside its own country in the wake of last weeks deadly shootings at a Kosher Grocery store and the magazine Cha
The middle east. We will speak to Glenn Greenwald and Lisa Stampnitzky, author of disciplining terror how experts invented terrorism. then as the french magazine Charlie Hebdo publishes its first issue since last weeks attacks, we look at press freedom with Reporters Without Borders. Then to nigeria. There are wildly different accounts of the numbers and youre going from 100 two 2000 and we have not been able to verify that. What is clear, one eyewitness is talking about how when he was fleeing, he was tripping on bodies the whole way. So clearly a large number of people were killed. As many as 2,000 people are feared dead in an attack by militants from boko haram in the North Eastern nigerian town of baga. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. France is deploying an unprecedented 10,000 soldiers inside its own country in the wake of last weeks deadly shootings at a Kosher Grocery store and the magazine Cha