I should say it is a raging debate in the United States are virtually alone, almost everywhere else, the dust greeted with relief and optimism and without even parliamentary review. This is one of the many striking examples of the famous concept of american exceptionalism. Amy noam chomsky weighs in on the 2016 president ial race and donald trump. I think we should recognize that the other candidates are not that different. Todays democrats are what used to be called moderate republicans. The republicans are just drifted off the spectrum. They are so committed to extreme wealth and power, that they cannot get votes. Amy professor noam chomsky on power and ideology. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pope francis arrives in washington, d. C. , today for the start of his historic u. S. Tour. The pope will meet with president obama on wednesday and address a joint session of congress on thursday. On friday,
Before arriving in panama, obama will remove cuba from the list of terrorist states. Will the president get rid of a major roadblock to building a better bridge between hooive and hooive havana and washington . And roadblocks in africa. Good evening im antonio mora we begin tonight about new concerns about the crisis in yemen. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter says that al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or aqap, has captured more territory. Aqap is an organization that we are very concerned about. Because other than having regional ambitions ambitions in yemen, we all know that aqap has ambitions on striking defense the United States. Iran has sent two war ships to the waters off yemen. That comes as tehran is calling on pakistan to reject a saudi request for help in fighting the houthi rebels. Hashem ahelbarra has the story. A tv channel owned by the houthis was hit. The Saudi Led Coalition has stepped up its military campaign to prevent houthi fighters from capturing the port city of a
The past 30 years. In the next hour you will see clips with u. S. Central command adviser david crist, author of the twilight war, abraham sofer, former Legal Adviser to the state department, and author of taking on iran. And president of the National Iranian American Council and author of a single roll the dice. We start with David Christian author of the twilight war, the secret history of americas 30year conflict. He sits down with former National Security council official to discuss internal debates within the American Military government over relations with the wrong. How to manage the iran problem, how to act. Clear signals about redlines an element, without being so confrontational that the only option is to escalate military tensions buried at the your book had some really original material on some of these debates within the military. I wonder if you could talk to us a little bit about said, is out in the arena. Trying to set the course of u. S. Policy. A few stories at thank
House doing his Daily Briefing answering a question there about the vaccine controversy. But opening of course with breaking news were covering this hour. Isis claiming to have executed and brutally executed a jordanian pilot. A terrorist group has released video that it says shows al kaseasbeh in a cage being burned alive. The president spoke minutes ago at the white house as well as that josh earnest statement. He issued a condemnation of this death and made a statement of solidarity with jordan. You know i just got word of the video that had been released. I dont know the details of the confirmations. But should in fact this video be authentic, its just one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization. It will redouble the vigilant and determination on part of a Global Coalition to make sure that they are degraded and ultimately defeated and whatever ideology they are operating off of, its bankrupt. Were here to talk about how to make people healthier and ma
Abuse of power, a leasing a statement that reads in part if these reports are true, then there is truly no bottom to President Trumps willingness to abuse his power and debase our country. Weve got Team Coverage of this story. Matthew chance is in ukraine. But were going to begin with s Sarah Westwood at the white house. The president was talking more about this call today. Whats he saying . Reporter thats right, President Trump continuing to defend himself this morning calling this conversation a perfectly fine and routine discussion with the ukrainian president , also labeling this entire situation a ukraine witch hunt. A source says in a july 25th phone call between ukrainian president zelensky and President Trump, trump asked the ukrainians to investigate hunter biden, son of joe biden. Theres no evidence that he offered anything in return but that call is the subject of a controversial whistleblower complaint, one that an unknown person made to the Intelligence Communitys watchdog