Shooting in the u. S. There have been 50 more over the past six weeks. The largest one in oregon, a gunman killed nine last thursday then himself. The gunman cited the roanoke shooter in his online post. Andy parker joins us today to talk about his fight to end the countrys gun epidemic. Into a battle over Academic Freedom. Academic freedom is often negligible when it comes to sexual critique of structural critique of militarism or state power. Amy we will speak with Steven Salaita whose job offer at the university of illinois urbanachampaign was withdrawn last year after he tweeted harshly critical of the 2014 israeli assault on gaza. He is out with a new book, uncivil rights palestine and the limits of Academic Freedom. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Commander in afghanistan has altered the u. S. Account of the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital whounduz, acknowledging called
Her government adam ward were shot dead on live tv in roanoke, virginia, the 246th mass shooting in the u. S. There have been 50 more over the past six weeks. The largest one in oregon, a gunman killed nine last thursday then himself. The gunman cited the roanoke shooter in his online post. Andy parker joins us today to talk about his fight to end the countrys gun epidemic. Into a battle over Academic Freedom. Academic freedom is often negligible when it comes to sexual critique of structural critique of militarism or state power. Amy we will speak with Steven Salaita whose job offer at the university of illinois urbanachampaign was withdrawn last year after he tweeted harshly critical of the 2014 israeli assault on gaza. He is out with a new book, uncivil rights palestine and the limits of Academic Freedom. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Commander in afghanistan has altered the u. S. Acc
A flood of corporate headlines this morning. News to bring you on ge, intel, Goldman Sachs and many other closely followed names. But first our top story. Market turmoil. U. S. Equity futures pointing sharply lower as you can see. 243 points were expected to open down for the dow. The nasdaq down by around about 80 points and the s p expected to open down by about 28 points. Lets have a look at oil price which is have corrected to the down side today. A little bit of a bounce yesterday of course but were locking at below 30 for wti. Below 30 for brent and that reprieve yesterday seems like it will be short lived. Perhaps technical in nature because futures are down sharply. Heres what you missed while you were sleeping. What happened in asia overnight can be part of the story here. Shanghai stocks entering bear market territory which means theyre down 20 from the december 22nd peak. If youre having a case of deja vu thats because this is the second time china has dropped into a bear ma
Drug production and trafficking. Police organizations estimate that one third of all drugs consumed in europe pass through albania. In the mountains and the south of the country, an entire village has specialized in marijuana production. The heavy scent of marijuana hangs over this village in southern albania. The drug is cultivated here. Almost everyone earns their living from it. Get the private growing of mayor juan is also illegal in albania. Usually, the villagers keep to themselves. We are the first team that has been allowed to film since they started farming the drug. We are the guests of a family. We will call them the douche who dushkus. It is a very hard and tiring job from march to december. We have to keep watering the plants every other day. The harvest he and trimming of the crop is also very difficult. We do it all ourselves. But it is a lucrative business. The dushkuas dont like to talk money, but the rewards are sizable. 300 kilos 300 euros for a kilo of marijuana. Th
Drug production and trafficking. Police organizations estimate that one third of all drugs consumed in europe pass through albania. In the mountains and the south of the country, an entire village has specialized in marijuana production. The heavy scent of marijuana hangs over this village in southern albania. The drug is cultivated here. Almost everyone earns their living from it. Get the private growing of mayor juan is also illegal in albania. Usually, the villagers keep to themselves. We are the first team that has been allowed to film since they started farming the drug. We are the guests of a family. We will call them the douche who dushkus. It is a very hard and tiring job from march to december. We have to keep watering the plants every other day. The harvest he and trimming of the crop is also very difficult. We do it all ourselves. But it is a lucrative business. The dushkuas dont like to talk money, but the rewards are sizable. 300 kilos 300 euros for a kilo of marijuana. Th