New details about how the National Security agency targeted wikileaks and its supporters walk placing the sites founder Julian Assange on the main hunting target list together with al qaeda. We will speak with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in london where he is and political asylum. Then interrogated at the airport. Who is Edward Snowden . Why have you gone to russia twice in three months . Those are some of the questions jesselyn raddack was forced to answer when she flew into london on sunday. She will join us today. New york times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse in a big defeat for organized labor in the south. Workers at a volkswagen plant in tennessee reject the United Auto Workers after a costly antiunion campaign. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A new report based on topsecret documents from Edward Snowden has revealed how the United States and britain targeted the whistleblowing web
Speaker pelosi was third in the command in this country, and yet someone was able to break into her home. They investigation is in its early stages, but we have answers. We begin with cheryl at sf general. Cheryl . Paul pelosi is here at sf general after being attacked by an intruder in the home that he shares with his wife, House Speaker nancy pelosi. Late tonight we saw two suvs and a Police Escort leaving the hospital. We dont know for sure if Speaker Nancy Pelosi was inside, but she was spotted arriving at the hospital late this afternoon, to be by her husbands side. It was just before 3 00 am this morning, when paul pelosi was attacked in his Pacific Heights home. The suspects try to tie mr. Pelosi up. Somehow he managed to dial 911 when the suspect wasnt paying attention. Hes going to wait for his wife, he advised his name is david, and he is not a friend. Police rushed to the home for a welfare check. And then when dispatcher who took the call is being recognized for acting on h
Now, with more on the passing of a legend greg julie. He was born in louisiana, but his legend as a basketball icon partially began. Clemens high school in oakland from there across the bay to attend the university of San Francisco, and the legend began to grow. Bill russell, six ft 10 inch center of the San Francisco dunns Biggest Wheel in the collegiate basketball circuit. First party game playing cal berkeley. The senate was preseason all America First five shots. He took a blocked bill russells legendary skills on the court began at usf. It was during those College Years when former San Francisco mayor willie brown at sf state cross paths with russell attending usf. Few black College Students that they were at our age. Interacted with each other. Socially. Fraternal organizations. And other kinds of things that young people did in those days. Mayor brown and the rest of the world watched as russell turned professional playing for the Boston Celtics under coach red auerbach, talk wi
Loans of up to 3 million or nonprofits to buy smaller apartment buildings, over the average listing price of a home one . 7 million in San Francisco, is it enough . We will speak with former San Francisco mayor willie brown. And we are remembering the remarkable life and career of actor Robin Williams, found dead yesterday at age 63. Good morning vietnam to his oscarwinning performance in good will hunting, to the lovable mrs. Doubtfire, how his talent and comedy changed hollywood. He was a bay area resident. Or a microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer is officially the proud new owner of the l. A. Clippers. Todays ruling solidifies that Donald Sterling will no longer maintain an ownership stake in the franchise. Trish regan broke this story and joins me now with more. How did this all go down . It has been quite a process, quite a few months. Let me give you the specifics on this morning. On the east noon coast, the superior court judge did issue his final order. It is in response to the objecti
Indeed this was foreshadowed. It is an assessment conducted by the oecd in 24 countries so we are being compared to the countrys you see in yellow. Russias data will come in next year and will be added in and there will be another round of countries that will be added to this database, looking at this every ten years. This first report is a baseline to see how we are doing. It has a lot of sample in it. You can see how many hundreds of thousands are in the database. It is looking at skills in three domains, literacy, numerous sea and problemsolving in a Technology Rich environment, it also has some of what we call employability skills, cooperation, teamwork, persistence kind of skills listed in the assessment as well. In the u. S. The first wave of samples was 5,000. It is nationally representative but not large enough to drill down into some of the smaller subgroups you may be interested in but we have another way of being collected by the department of education so we see they are ad