[inaudible] amy this comes as a group of democratic and progressive activists have published a new report autopsy the Democratic Party in crisis. Influence Democratic Party loyalists for refusing to examine their own role in their partys defeat. We will speak with coauthor norman solomon. Then more on money of politics as we look at new revelations from the Paradise Papers, a trove of millions of leaked documents in offshore finance that reveal commerce secretary wilbur ross conducting business with russian president Vladimir Putins soninlaw through a shipping venture in russia. Ross says he is to nothing wrong. Made aink the media has lot more out of it than it deserves. The fact that it happens to be called a Russian Company does not mean that there is any evil. Amy we will speak with guardian reporter jon swaine who coauthored three reports from the Paradise Papers on tuesday. Lone all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report.
Under barack obama and Hillary Clinton defense spending is on track to fall to its lowest level as a share of the economy since the end of world war ii. We currently have the Smallest Army since 1940. The navy is among the smallest it has been since 1915. It is 100 years ago. The air force is the smallest it has been since 1947. When Ronald Reagan left office the navy had 592 ships. When barack Obama Took Office it had 285 ships. Today, the navy has just 276 ships. The average air force aircraft is 27 years old. We have secondgeneration b52 bombers their fathers. The same plane they are flying right now. This is not the United States. Our army has been shrinking rapidly. From 553,000 soldiers in 2009 to 479,000 soldiers today. Some decrease. You want to make it smaller. In 2009 our marine corps had 202,000 active marines. Today it is 182,000. Our ship count is below the minimum of 308 that the navy says is needed to execute its current michigans at a minimal level. President obama plan
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Between the president and House Speaker. We take all of this up here tonight with former special assistant to president george w. Bush, veten democratic politicos strategist and republican pollster. President obama issued a warning to syrian leader declaring there will be consequences if syria uses chemical weapons on its own people. The president s steered clear of defining those consequens. Egis political crisis is widening cajon. A general strikeo protest the presence unrestricted new powers. In this countrys hospits that deadly new bacteria that is more than just drugresistant, it is draw prevent spreading. Just how high is that this book of . We begin tonight with the fiscal clef which produced more far spent progress rejecting the speaker of the house cla that no progress is being made the House Speaker said on Fox News Sunday right now i would say we are nowhere in terms of the fiscal cliff negotiations. Does the president agree . No, he does not. You saw secretary geithner over
Heard arguments on greenhouse grass Greenhouse Gas regulation. Peter cook a looks at the call for a smaller army. Raking developments at the World Congress in barcelona. Good afternoon. One of the comments has been from Mark Zuckerberg sort Mark Zuckerberg who did this. This is a company that positions itself as a leader in mobile communications. No surprise to see Mark Zuckerberg at an event focused on mobile here it theyre trying to reach out to phone carriers to see if facebook in the near future can find more partners to basically get the internet into the hands of work he will. Working between three and five carriers to help a spaghetti people who do not have access to data on their phone access to it. A big factor from that would need facebook. If successful, it would get facebook in the hands of more people. The Company Looks to grow. Example was last weeks 19 billion purchase of the messaging app. He was asked about the purchasing price. He thinks despite all the wall street co