Constitutional rights defended, investigated, and spoke up for victims of human rights abuses across the world from haiti and guatemala to iraq and the palestinian territories. He used the law to sue some of the most powerful people in the world on behalf of some of the least powerful. In 2002, Michael Ratner filed the first lawsuit against george w. Bush on behalf of guantanamo prisoners. Six years later, he won a landmark case at the Supreme Court against the Bush Administration. Today we speak with his family and friends and hear michael in his own words. This is no time for compromise, no time for political calculations. Us,oward zinn admonishes the job of thinking people not to be an aside of the executioners. Remindsin nation prize us all that the job for each of us is not to be an aside of the executioners. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Brazils senate has voted to suspend president Dilma
Constitutional rights defended, investigated, and spoke up for victims of human rights abuses across the world from haiti and guatemala to iraq and the palestinian territories. He used the law to sue some of the most powerful people in the world on behalf of some of the least powerful. In 2002, Michael Ratner filed the first lawsuit against george w. Bush on behalf of guantanamo prisoners. Six years later, he won a landmark case at the Supreme Court against the Bush Administration. Today we speak with his family and friends and hear michael in his own words. This is no time for compromise, no time for political calculations. Us,oward zinn admonishes the job of thinking people not to be an aside of the executioners. Remindsin nation prize us all that the job for each of us is not to be an aside of the executioners. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Brazils senate has voted to suspend president Dilma
And kathleen parker, c cumnist for the Washington Post. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc ws in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. Hasnt happened since 1968. A vacancy battle on the Supreme Court at this stage of an Election Year. L lrned late yesterday of the sudden and tragic death ofof suprememcourttustice Antonin Scalia. An intellectual and conservative thought leader, a a man president obama last nigg called one of the moo consequential judges and thinkers to serve on the Supreme Court. Scalias death of course is a personal tragedy for his family and colleagues, but it isis also bursting witit Major Political implications. What will his loss due to the balance of power on the court . Will the Republican Senate even consider someone nominated by resident obama . How long will this vacancy paralale the court, and perhaps the u. S. Senate . And at last nights republican clclar where they stand on this issue. I do not believe the pre
Ll, good morning, reena. John. Emwazi. He was unmasked finally in a series of leaked news reports early in the winter of this year after presiding over the video beheading of a number of u. S. , british, japanese aid workers and journalists. Theyve been track him for quite a long time. And thentelligence agencies of the u. U. Finally zeroed in on hiss location. And gotthe green light to attack him with a drone strike in raqqah, syria. As he was exiting the vehicle, a drone missile hit the vehicle he was in. And as one official said to me, evaporated. And on the impact, leaving his car in flames. Okay, so james, were getting that from one official. But will the u. S. Ever have 100 confirmation that he is dead . And how will they possibly try to confirm this . Well, they may not ever 1010, but they can come close, because ey will be looking theyll be l ltening to the chatterf isis operatives, as well as social media and other chatter, cell phones of people in the vicinity of the strike w
World was saudi arabia. In this vast desert without rivers, streams, they were far apart. It was built more than 1000 years ago on a caravan from baghdad. Since those days, they eked out a meager existence in a lost world. On the same desert through the summer and winter of 1947, motor caravans appeared. Camps were set up, the sorts never seen here before. Airplanes on a Reconnaissance Mission roared overhead. They were carrying arabs and americans, surveying the route for a great pipeline, a pipeline along western europe, the middle east, and the stability of the world. Oil is scarce in many areas today. The cause is they lack of economical distribution. The logical source of oil for u. S. Is the middle east. Here are more crude and readily accessible reserves than in all of north and south america together. The region is rapidly being developed. In eastern saudi arabia, the Arabian American Oil Company Discovered five major fields during the decade after the first commercial producin