Thank you, thank you. Well, its a really great honor to be here and to be back in new york. We are on a 100 city tour for the 20th anniversary for democracy now . I also want to shout out to my colleagues over there in the back, and the volunteers and interns who are helping out. Democracy now is a joint effort, a joint project, a brain trust of Remarkable Group of reporters and producers and videographers for the last 20 years. We never thought it was going to go beyond nine months. It was the only data election show a public broadcasting in 1996. Account the call to do the show when i was in a safe house in haiti, and to cover that critical time by after the first coup. People who announced for office could be gunned down. People who would go to the polls could be gunned down. And still the overwhelming number of people voted. But in our country when its asked to do a daily election show sitting there from that vantage point, most people didnt vote facing nothing like the adversity t
Terror from the wars in iraq and syria to the assassination of Osama Bin Laden to the fall of gaddafi. I think what happened in libya, including the president , should have been a clue that when you depose a dictator, you have to be aware of what is going to and you have to think long and hard about what you are doing. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has announced the deployment of 250 more special operations troops to syria in a move that nearly doubles the u. S. Presence in the country. This comes just days after the Obama Administration announced 217 more troops would be sent to iraq to help in the fight against isis. President obama addressed the wars in syria and iraq during a speech in germany. We continue to make progress, pushing isil back from territory that it controlled. Just as i have approved Additional Support for iraqi forces against isil, ive decided to increase u.
The u. S. Military presence in syria and iraq, we speak to cool its a prizewinning journalist Seymour Hersh who has been writing an alternative history of the u. S. War on terror from the wars in iraq and syria to the assassination of Osama Bin Laden to the fall of gaddafi. I think what happened in libya, including the president , should have been a clue that when you depose a dictator, you have to be aware of what is going to and you have to think long and hard about what you are doing. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has announced the deployment of 250 more special operations troops to syria in a move that nearly doubles the u. S. Presence in the country. This comes just days after the Obama Administration announced 217 more troops would be sent to iraq to help in the fight against isis. President obama addressed the wars in syria and iraq during a speech in germany. We continue
Great deal of concern. And i think the voters would, too. Reporter but gage says he wont condemn his competitors for something that happened in the distant past thats already been corrected. In gilroy, len ramirez, cbs 5. One more note tonight on a public official who has run into a little trouble. Port of oaklands maritime director james kwon is now on paid leave. Records show that kwon spent more than 4,500 in public money at a strip club in houston during a 2008 conference. This story broke as he was attending another conference in china. He has been ordered to come home. Get your rain gear ready because we are about to get soaked. It look the most rain we have seen here in the bay area in six months. Paul deanno has the weather forecast. April 25th the last time we have had widespread rainfall. This is typically when we first get our widespread rainfall in the fall. October 4 last year was the first big rain, october 23rd the year before. It was early in 2009, september 13. So we a