What is new about the story we have broken in this book is that kissinger went into president fords oval office and said, we have to smash the cubans. Im in favor of humiliating them, that tips greek fidel castro, who does he think he has . We will speak with Peter Kornbluh and William Leogrande, authors of a new book and what it means between u. S. And cuba relations today. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Islamic State militants have reportedly made advances in both iraq and syria despite the escalating usled bombing. In iraq, militan are said to have seized control of the town of heet and bar province. Turkish, advanced on temps forcing tens of thousands to flee in recent days. United nations meanwhile says over 1100 iraqis were killed in violence last month. The actual toll is far higher because it does not include deaths in areas controlled by the Islamic State. The u. N. Says from the Islamic
Home country. Then we look at Henry Kissingers shocking plan to attack cuba in the mid1970s. What is new about the story we have broken in this book is that kissinger went into president fords oval office and said, we have to smash the cubans. Im in favor of humiliating them, that tips greek fidel castro, who does he think he has . We will speak with Peter Kornbluh and William Leogrande, authors of a new book and what it means between u. S. And cuba relations today. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Islamic State militants have reportedly made advances in both iraq and syria despite the escalating usled bombing. In iraq, militants are said to have seized control of the town of heet and bar province. Turkish, advanced on temps forcing tens of thousands to flee in recent days. United nations meanwhile says over 1100 iraqis were killed in violence last month. The actual toll is far higher because it doe
A shooting scene in old city. Now those men are under arrest. Nbc 10s jesse gary has been gathering information since 5 00 this morning and he joins us again live from old city with new details. Jesse . Reporter ted over the past hour weve received an email and other information about what happened here overnight. Its still not exactly quite clear but it seems to be a consensus there was a fight as the clubs were letting out and that preceded the gunfire. Philadelphia police say the shots were fired in a parking lot at black horse alley and Second Street in old city. Three men jumped in a cadillac and raced off going the wrong way on Chestnut Street. They jumped on to the sidewalk nearly running over a Philadelphia Police officer. That officer and his partner opened fire which brought the car to a stop. A resident says a fight sparked the violence and those involved tried to escape. I saw a gentleman with his shirt off, its 12 degrees outside. Being encouraged strongly by five people a
This morning. A Police Spokesperson tells me this information was not brought up in this mornings News Conference because police were working to confirm whether the woman was in the cruiser with him, which they have since done. The police chief says this morning no other officers were in the cruiser with officer raban when he lost control of his cruiser. Weve learned of the second person from a witness. I said oh, my god, something is wrong. I ran out and there was we run down and, you know, and then know what happened. [ indiscernible ] we had an opportunity to pull the incar camera information. Were interviewing people as we speak to find out if that in facts what was happening. But what i can tell you is in the 9500 block, he lost control of the vehicle and left the roadway. Im being told from police that the officer was offduty with the woman in the car. Once he began to pursue the traffic stop, thats when he became on duty. There is a question of policy violation here. Were workin
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