Program this purports to be tom friedman. [laughing] tom ace young but it still looks like hes accelerating in reverse in that photo. Tom has spent his life getting out into the world doing the research and speaking to people and every station of life, in every walk of life, and around the planet. The result is something quite different from the cynicism and snark and aggression we encounters often today in todays media universe. What we get instead is a pair of rarities, insight and wisdom. They are the products of real reporting and serious reflection. A themselves, all too rare. Those qualities can be found in his previous bestselling books and youes can find them again in toms latest. Thank you bring late. When the editor in chief of bloomberg and the former editor of the economist wrote his review of his book for the New York Times he rightly observed it is hard to think of any other journalist who has explained as many complicated subjects to so many people. Among the central sub
Start in yemen. Air attacks condition. And. And, of course im the first kenyanamerican to be president of the United States. A National Address from president obama as he ends his trip to his fathers homeland syrias president says the army is struggling to contain i. S. I. L. And rebel groups. He said his troops are tired and lacking manpower and they must define key regions to hold on to during the conflict. Translation we have new recruits every day. The military is carrying out the mission, its required to give up areas, in order to hold on more important areas. We are in a fateful period. Theres no compromised solutions. A retired military analyst joins us on the phone. What do you make of comments from the president. Is he making the best of a bad situation. I look at this and he is to leave the areas not as we sud. He lost a lot. The southern areas are doing well. Going on to the main city like damascus and other areas. And committing to the nation or intervention. Its easier, af
Im rob mcbride in the rice pad ice of hong kong with being farmers for a day. We begin in syria where for the first time, president Bashar Al Assad acknowledged that his army is tired and lacking man power. During a televised speech in damascus, Bashar Al Assad said that his army is struggling to contain isil and rebel groups. He said that his army must define key regions to hold on to during the conflict. The military is carrying out the mission but the syrian army is sometimes required to give up areas in order to hold on to more important areas. We are in a fateful period and there are no compromised solutions. Lets go to an expert on this a retired Jordanian Air force general and analyst. Thanks for being with us, sir. What do you make of president assads comments . Well, dictator always want to show strength and theyre certain and confident but really hes facing great challenges and he faces a lot of setbacks on the operations. If you want to win war you need to have enough soldie
Visit to his father says homeland. On patrol in el salvador, police say theyre increasingly under attack as the country experiences a historic wave of violence. President Bashar Al Assad has vowed to win the long running civil war bur and would hit his troops are struggling to hold on to territory in syria due to a lock of manpower. We have this report. Since the war began, for the first time, the president admitted problems. We do have no recruits every dave. The military is carrying out its mission, but the syrian army is required to give up areas in order to hold on to more important areas. We are in a fateful period and there are no compromise solutions. Assad trying to put a brave face. In order to win, everybody gets tired. It is quite normal that the state, the army get tired, but the word defeat does not exist in our dictionary or in the language of the syrian armed forces. For four years, he relied on the military backing of iran and fighters from the shia muslim Group Hezboll
Chelsea manning and edward up euro,arried courageous acts. They fulfilled the responsibility of some who takes citizenship seriously. That is, who believe people of the country ought to know something about amy professor noam chomsky for the hour in a public conversation i had with him earlier this week in cambridge, massachusetts. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump is slated to announce his tax plan today. The plan proposes to slash the Corporate Tax rate from 35 to a mere 15 . The plan would also grant the 15 tax rate to companies known as s corporations, which include both small Family Businesses and massive corporations, such as hedge funds and real estate empires, such as trumps own companies. The Washington Post reports that some of the biggest winners of trumps proposed tax cuts would be construction and retail companies. The tax plan would sharply increase the national deficit. A