Rose to prominence through the help of the United States and other the u. S. Has helped pick his replacement but maliki is refusing to go, accusing his critics of staging a coup. We will speak with Spencer Ackerman of the guardian and the to Northern Iraq to talk to joe stork of Human Rights Watch was been meeting with yazidis fleeing. Then to ferguson, missouri. He graduated, on his way to college. We cant even celebrate. We have to plan a funeral. Protesters took to the streets for a third day in a row near st. Louis monday demanding justice in saturdays Police Shooting that killed Michael Brown, an unarmed africanamerican teenager just days away from starting college. All of that and more coming up will sto. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Bombing campaign in Northern Iraq has entered its fifth day. Obama authorized the strike last week and what he called an effort to halt the advance of Islamic State militants on the ci
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