Brazil is a series of contradictions. Unemployment is low. A decade of heady growth and Progressive Social policies reduced discrepancies between rich and poor where half the population is middle class. But the hundreds of thousands of People Living in poverty in rios shantytowns have been left behind. Concrete and medical tall shacks perch one top another on the hillsides. They are the locust of much of the violence. Gang on gang, militia object gang and gang on militia violence confirm cultural notions of hyper masculinity. Brazilian culture is ripe with violence from the petty criminals to the drug cartels to the government. Brazil claims the globes seventh highest homicide rate. Violence and murder remained high even though the police started to rest control of the villas from the drug lords in advance of brazil hosting the 2014 world cup and rio hosting the 2016 summer olympics. In the socalled pass indication movement poorly trained low paid military police used tanks helicopter
At the last minute, she said this, she refused to march. She said, i refuse to march because george bush marched. He was in the front row with her. I think the Selma Movement was about nonviolence and peace and democracy and george bush stands for just the opposite for violence and war and stolen elections and his administration had people tortured. I thought that this was not an appropriate event for him. I think she was right. It was not an appropriate event for him. Its actually its a good thing hes not here today. This is not an appropriate event for him here either. The only Public Events that is appropriate today for george bush and the others of his administration is to be on trial in the hague for war crimes. Perhaps most importantly al qaeda and iraq have been decimated due to the boldest Foreign Policy decisions in the half century made by president george w. Bush. But necessary surge. By the time bush left office the economy of iraq increased in size from its time under huss
Getty of commanders in a move opposed by the United States and israel palestinian authorities have submitted a request to join the International Criminal court and just days after the urine Security Council rejected the palestinian occupation. We will speak to ali abunimah of electronic intifada and Phyllis Bennis of the institute for policy studies. Then to the lords of secrecy. Over the last 12 years, weve seen a shift away from democratic dissipation dissipation. The people know less about what is happening. Congress is much less involved. All of these Vital Decisions are taken secretly by National Security elites. In the tools that has been used to accomplish that is secrecy. What people dont know, they cannot have any meaningful say in. As the first u. S. Drone strike of 2015 kills nine in pakistan, we speak to human rights attorney scott horton about the National Security elite and americas stealth warfare. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now w\elcome to democr
In a string of similar crimes in the bay area. The burglars and techniques may not be sophisticated, but so far is proving to be effective. Grant lodes is here to show us what is happening more and more often grant all of these robberies in the past, may have may it was the apple store in berkeley when Police Arrived a suspect or suspects had fled. In november it was a chanel boutique of union square. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of handbags vanished with of the seats. In january patagonias store near Fishermans Wharf was literally hit. A you all back into the store. The suspects ran in and grabbed merchandise from the store. Just nine days later crashed and grabbed the bus went for the gold. Crashing a stolen as you beat into the Wells Fargo History Museum in the heart of San Franciscos financial district. The mask the east held a Security Guard at gunpoint while they stole about 10,000 worth of budget of gold. Five days ago it was the highend audio store in west portal. And the
Thats a long story. Thats not something you can just blow off in a week. Come to find out what that means, and so long story short they got me into walter reed and the kind of came and went for years really trying to kill those stories of wounded warriors. What they were suffering, having performed their duty in our names or a war that was hateful. Thats an interesting balancing act because i try to keep both things alive in a script at the same time. A lot of the best cartooning is investigative. You snuck into Migrant Workers cant. Spin and tell us a little bit about that. I was doing an investigative piece on Migrant Workers who are building the branches of the western cultural institutions. Right now the guggenheim and nyu are all building branches on this place on the island in abu dhabi. Migrant labor has long been incredibly exploded in the gulf. A construction worker might make 200 a month to work for 12 hours a day doing brew physical labor. Is has long been an issue its been