Nation and our rights of determination. Amy then outrage grows over new jersey governor Chris Christies decision to settle an 8. 9 billion toxic contamination claim against exxon for less than 3 cents on the dollar. New jerseys state has urged a judge to reject the settlement. And we will remember the pioneering independent journalist and filmmaker Danny Schechter. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Newly reelected israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to walk back his preelection vow not to allow a palestinian state. Netanyahu had emphasized his rightwing positions in the leadup to the election, urging supporters to cancel out the votes of arabs he said were heading to the polls in droves. A day before the election, when asked if he was ruling out establishment of a palestinian state under his tenure netanyahu replied, indeed. But he tried to backtrack in an interview with nbcs andrea mitc
Syrian army, not shia militias tied to the asad government. Did nbc knowingly cover up the truth . Well speak to Asad Abu Khalil who openly questioned nbcls nbcs claim back in 2012. Then to the house the herman built. What you see before you is a model built to scale of Herman Wallace is cell. He spent years in solitary confinement for a crime he could not have possibly committed in louisiana. 27 of those years were spent in the cell. Amy we will speak to artist Jackie Summell about hermans house, her collaboration with former prisoner and black panther, Herman Wallace. And we will get an update on the case of glenn ford freed from death row after 30 years. He is now dying of cancer in hospice care. While exonerated, he has not been compensated. But first, in an act of mass civil disobedience, tens of thousands of new york parents rebelled this week against years of standardized testing from the politicians in albany. We will speak to a parent and school superintendent. All that and mo
Teenager is violently hurled to the ground while he is handcuffed. In another video, browder is attacked by almost a dozen other teenagers. Then, president obama has apologized after the white house revealed a u. S. Drone strike in pakistan killed an American Government contractor and an italian aid worker held by al qaeda in january. As president and commanderinchief, i take full responsibility for all our Counterterrorism Operations. Including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. I profoundly regret what happened. On behalf of the United States government, i offer our deepest apologies to the families. Amy well get reaction from the aclu. Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The fate of the armenians is exemplary for the history of mass extermination, ethnic cleansing, expulsions, even genocide of which the 20th century stands for in such a gruesome manner. Amy on april 24, 1915, the government of the Ottoman Empire began a systemat
Collection of phone records is illegal. We will speak with Jameel Jaffer. What will congress do . Then to guantanamos child. Public has been so much better than anticipated. Amy the 28yearold canadian born omar khadr has been freed on bail. He was detained when he was just 15. He became the first person since world war ii to be prosecuted and a war crimes tribunal for acts committed as a juvenile. With the Obama Administration asking congress to increase funding for Charter Schools by him is 50 , a new study by the center for media and democracy finds the federal government has spent 3. 3 billion feelings a Charter School industry already. Where has the money gone . All that and more coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now democracy now. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The court of appeals has rolled the nsas collection of bulk phone records is illegal. In a unanimous decision on thursday, a threejudge panel called the phone records collection unprecedented and unwarrant
Goes along the shoreline cutting east and northeast we have a slick offshore that is 5. 3 miles. So a slick totaling about nine miles. Amy california has declared a state of emergency for Santa Barbara county after a ruptured pipeline leaked as much as 100,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean. The leak occurred near the massive 1969 Santa Barbara spill that helped launched the modern Environmental Movement and earth day. Then to the legendary native american folk singer Buffy Sainte Marie. These the universal soldier and he really is to blame but his orders come from far away no more they come from him and you and me this is not the way we want an end to war amy five decades after writing the antiwar anthem universal soldier Buffy Sainte Marie is out with a new record, power in the blood. She joins us live in studio. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The selfproclaimed Islamic State has reportedly