Barely everything the user does on the internet including e mail, online chats, and browsing history. We will speak to Spencer Ackerman and longtime innocent expert journalist James Bamford. His most recent article is headlined, they know much more than you think. They claim we are only doing international, only doing Foreign Communications. When youre asking for local phone calls throughout the United States, everybody in the United States on a daily basis, where is the truth in all of these claims . All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The sentencing hearing for Army Whistleblower Bradley Manning began wednesday with a prosecution witness undermining the states own claims mannings disclosures to wikileaks harm the United States. On wednesday, retired Brigadier General robert carr, who oversaw the Pentagon Task force assessing the leaks impact, admitted that not a Single Person lost their lives as a result
Ladies and gentlemen. Governor Mike Huckabee. applause thank you very much. Thank you. And welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. This week, a couple hundred thousand people will descend on washington d. C. In the annual march for life. If i hadnt just told you about it, you probably wouldnt have heard approximate. It you know, let a dozen or so occupy wall street protestors set up camp on the Washington Mall it will get attention on the nightly news and make the front page of the new york types and washington post. 250,000 prolife advocates, will at best get a brief mention. Implying that right wing nuts are engaged on a war on women. And a better than even chance, the group will be labelled 18 abortion throw it deserves the moniker of prolife. If they are anti abortion, does that make the opposition pro abortion instead of prochoice. They believe in choice as long as it is to end the life of a baby. But if a mother chooses to be a mother and give birth is tha
Its most powerful nuclear test ever. The u. S. Responds with a fresh warning to the kim jong un regime. North korea claims it tested a bomb that can be mounted on a missile. Its the First Nuclear test since President Trump took office. Defense secretary james mattis did not mince words during a statement he made outside the white house this afternoon when he warned any north korean threats to the u. S. Or its allies will be met with, quote, a massive military response. Watch. We had a small group, National Security meeting today with the president and the Vice President about the latest provocation on the korean peninsula. Way have many military options. The president wanted to be briefed on each one of them. We made clear that we have the ability to defend ourselves and our allies, south korea and japan, from any attack. And our commitments among the allies are ironclad. Any threat to the United States or its territories including guam or our allies will be met with a massive military
If we personify the institutions governing our daily lives - viewing them as an everyday soul trying to get by, just like us - we can ask ourselves: would this person be welcome in my home, in the office, in positions of power?.