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Good morning and welcome to this news conference. My name is norman solomon, action. Org, roots which is hosting the event today. Cosponsor ofs the a Petition Campaign calling for no u. S. Were planes over syria. Together with ive other organizations, veterans for kos, theylor daily nation magazine, will be on war, and watchdog. Net. U. S. Government began bombing. Yria nearly three years ago that was back in september 2014. Since then that killing from many sides has continued unabated. Last two, during the years, tensions between the worlds two Nuclear Superpowers have escalated. Nd escalated sharply in the process, russia and the United States have come closer to direct military warfare with each other. When addressing the tensions between the United States and russia, former senator sam nunn, chair of the Senate Armed Services committee cosigned a letter recently and i would like to quote from it. Urgently pursuing practical steps now that can stop the downward spiral in relations
And old, rich and poor, urban and rural communities. Everybody is threatened. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States and opioid Overdose Deaths have nearly quadrupled since 1999. It is a problem the likes of which we have not seen. Meanwhile, federal drug prosecutions have gone down in recent years. We are going to be bringing them up and bringing them up rapidly. At the end of 2016, there were 23 fewer than in 2011. So, they looked at this scourge and let it go by and we are not letting it go by. The average sentence length for a convicted federal drug offender decreased 20 from 2009 to 2016. During my campaign, i promised to fight this battle because as president of the United States, my greatest responsibility is to protect the American People and ensure to their safety, especially in some parts of our country it is horrible what is going on with opioid. And other drugs, but the opioid is something that nobody has seen anything like it. Today
Ladies and gents, thank you very much for coming. First of all, we are into the season where the city tends to empty out and so we are all really delighted that you are empty out. Season where the city tends to here to discuss a problem that is arguably as important here in the United States as it is around the world where we will be free hope focusing on it. Let me introduce myself and we will be conversing with. Im sarah at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, and the democracy and rule of law program, not the climate and energy program. Simon is going to kick us off, simon taylor, whose one of the founders of Global Witness, which is in my view one of the most innovative and effective organizations working in this space around the world and it interestingly combines advocacy with extremely rigorous investigations, and thats one of the things we will be talking about today, a recent report by Global Witness about shows activities in nigeria. He also helped galvanize a orga