We speak with the directors of the oscar shortlisted documentary, the great hack, as well as a propaganda researcher and Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser, author of targeted the Cambridge Analytica whistleblowers inside story of trump, anda, facebook broke democracy and how it can happen again. Should be concerned and everyone should be very concerned about the weaponization of our data i people that are actually experts in selling weapons. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatives voted thursday to approve a nonbinding war powers resolution aimed at limiting president trumps ability to take further military action against iran without congressional approval. President trump ratcheted up tensions with iran by commandering iranian Qassem Soleimani last week. Thursdays 224 to 194 house vote included three republicans voting yes and eight democrats voting no. The r
We speak with the directors of the oscar shortlisted documentary, the great hack, as well as a propaganda researcher and Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser, author of targeted the Cambridge Analytica whistleblowers inside story of trump, anda, facebook broke democracy and how it can happen again. Should be concerned and everyone should be very concerned about the weaponization of our data i people that are actually experts in selling weapons. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatives voted thursday to approve a nonbinding war powers resolution aimed at limiting president trumps ability to take further military action against iran without congressional approval. President trump ratcheted up tensions with iran by commandering iranian Qassem Soleimani last week. Thursdays 224 to 194 house vote included three republicans voting yes and eight democrats voting no. The r
Two former twitter employees are charged with spying for saudi arabia. By providing the kingdom with personal information about saudi corrects. Federal prescriptions say they were convinced who accessed the private data as users perceived as being enemies of the crown. Both left in 2013. A third man in saudi arabia is also charged. Twitter said it has tools in place to protect privacy. Last night the election, tonight the drama. The race for San Francisco District Attorney is still too close to call. About 2,000 votes now separate the top two candidates. They are interim District Attorney susie lostus and chessa boudin. And there is a 51 to 49 edge. And now a viral video showing a supervisor leading a chant at boudins Election Night party. Ali wolf joins us from city hall with the details. Reporter well, raj, this was a tight and contentious race for San Francisco District Attorney and as the votes are still being counted here at city hall, there are tension now between the head of the
The book festival will continue in a half an hour the final program of the day joined by other contributors to her book to discuss their relationships with their mothers while we wait we will show you their recent visit to toledo ohio. Known as the glass capital of the world. Up next we learn about edward libby and his role to turn toledo into the glass city. The city of toledo has been called the glass capital of the world referring to the glass city because of the influence of the Major International corporations producing some aspect of glass and that has been the case since 1888 when the first Glass Factory was brought to toledo in 1868 scott who owned much of what is downtown toledo who was a Real Estate Broker so the article was titled the future great city of the world. So at that time it was founded in 1837 dayton ohio with 18 oh three so there was a 30 year period summit was arrested development so Justice Scott bought real estate when it was pretty cheap and decided he would
Controversial cryptocurrency. We have details. And whistleblower speaks. Christopher wylie from the Cambridge Analytica scandal joins me. Highlevel trade talks picked up this week in washington after tapering off in july with no clear breakthroughs. Chinas vice premier was greeted by treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and trade representative Robert Lighthizer before talks resumed thursday. The stakes were extremely high as President Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs on 215 billion worth of chinese goods on october 15 if there was no progress. The Technology Sector paying close attention to those sessions as intellectual property is playing a prominent role in the negotiations. I spoke to someone from a firm who helps u. S. Firms protect intellectual property. Eric a fairly Large Company in china, just saw 100 million in revenue that files and protects intellectual property for clients that have previously mostly been in china and is now expanding into the u. S. Thats what we are