Amy as the fbi and nsa demands special access to encrypted communication, a group of leading security technologists warn that government overreach could have devastating consequences. We will speak to security guru bruce schneier, author of data and goliath the hidden battles to capture your data and control your world. Then eric holder goes home to the Corporate Law firm that represents many of the wall street giants he refused to prosecute. We will speak to the Rolling Stone matt taibbi. Then to gaza one year after the launch of the israel assault. We will speak to journalist Mohammed Omer in gaza city. Mohammed i believe gaza will need several years to fix or reconstruct the damages caused by the israeli military. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. European creditors have given greece five days to reach a deal to bail out its floundering economy. On sunday, greek voters overwhelmingly rejected furth
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I suppose suppose please send my kids can apply for affirmative action. It works for those and then it was gone. So, what we do aside from serving as a warning to others at this point that is a good question. This is not an encouraging pause. [laughter] im thinking. I think that it is a warning for others. [laughter] i dont see anything else that can be done. Alert the rest of us. But also i wonder i want it to be as difficult to get into the United States as it is to get out of east germany. [applause] schooley says just dont work. They can come untied. I know that human spirit. [laughter] my longterm plan which would be fantastic for israel is to move them down to the northern portion of mexico. I have a chapter why cant we have the policy on immigration. That is a country that knows how to defend its borders. That would be good for them and good for us fantastic. They would have us right next to them on one whole side. We have to get rid of the policy i dont think we would have to r
Good evening and welcome to oblong books and music. Tonight were so pleased to bring you author guy lawson, he is a New York Times best selling author and Award Winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone,. Hi latest book arms and the dudes how tree stoners became the most unlikely gun runners in hoyt. Join me in welcoming guy lawson. Thank you. Theres some kids in the crowd so theres going to be a few word that start with the letter f, and i apologize in advance. So please forgive me. Torture, massive illegal government surveillance. The coverup of the purdue of civilians in iraq by american forces. Epic contractor fraud. These are the crimes of the 21st century in socalled global war on terror. Each crime relates to actions taken by the government, policies implemented in secret, without public debate. Each part hoff the voyage the United States took to what dick cheney took called dark side. Who is accountable . Torture, prison garth in abu grade named
This is the place that could use a lesson in liberty. Well try to give them one because, im surrounded by students here, more than a thousand of them who traveled to join a conference called, students for liberty. Because here in Washington Life is dominated by democrats, who want to take away our economic liberty, republicans who often want to take away our pennal liberty. There are a couple exceptions to that. One is congressman justin amash from mesh ban. [cheers and applause] michigan. He is unusual because he has an economics degree. He worries a lot about americas coming bankruptcy. We are probably going bankrupt. How many of you students think, when youre my age medicare will be here to pay for your heart problem . No. John youre wise, im sorry. We will have spent all the money. But republicans are not talking about fixing it. A little bit, but not much. Not enough. And there is a problem we face as a country. Young people dont believe theyre going to receive these benefits they