The confrontation in ukraine cold war. We will speak to professor Stephen Cohen. Then to turmoil in north africa and the middle east. The general impression is the countrys rate close to total chaos, and if they miss this opportunity, it is very difficult to imagine there will be a secure nation in the country that will allow is only to start a new process. As libya faces its worst crisis since the u. S. Backed ouster of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, we look at a region in tremendous turmoil from syria to iraq to lebanon to yemen to saudi arabia to egypt. We will speak to professor Vijay Prashad. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has unveiled his 4 trillion Budget Proposal for next year, asking congress to raise taxes for the wealthy and corporations to help Fund Education and fix crumbling infrastructure. The plan includes nearly 280 billion in tax cuts for some poor and middleclass families
No justice, no peace. Reston priest eric garner, mike brown, trayvon martin. Then, we go to ferguson misery, where the funeral is being held for Michael Brown. We will speak with the hiphop star, talib kweli. The fact that he is someone who could be my son, someone who could be me, someone i relate to on a lot of levels, being a black man and my experience in america, it touched me in a way that the news stories could not capture. All of that and more, coming up. Democracy now . Has level of a 12 story Apartment Building and a seven story office roaming as it continues its assault on gaza. Than 100 palestinians have been killed since israel resumed airstrikes last week. On saturday and sunday, medics said at least 22 people were killed, including a oneyearold girl and a mother and three children from the same family. Beenal palestinians have killed today, including a threeyearold boy. On friday, a fouryearold israeli boy was killed by a mortar near the gaza border, becoming the first i
Island new york. Thousands marched to protest the death of eric garner. No justice, no peace. Reston priest eric garner, mike brown, trayvon martin. Then, we go to ferguson misery, where the funeral is being held for Michael Brown. We will speak with the hiphop star, talib kweli. The fact that he is someone who could be my son, someone who could be me, someone i relate to on a lot of levels, being a black man and my experience in america, it touched me in a way that the news stories could not capture. All of that and more, coming up. Democracy now . Has level of a 12 story Apartment Building and a seven story office roaming as it continues its assault on gaza. Than 100 palestinians have been killed since israel resumed airstrikes last week. On saturday and sunday, medics said at least 22 people were killed, including a oneyearold girl and a mother and three children from the same family. Beenal palestinians have killed today, including a threeyearold boy. On friday, a fouryearold israe
Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson may have shot at brown as many as 10 times. We will play highlights from the funeral and speak to mourners who share their own stories about police brutality. They kicked down my door. They put nine millimeters on my tds had and they weren nothing but 9, 10 for 11 years old. They took my kids and lock them up for 30 days. 30 days over a snickers bar. As well as the nine millimeters and kicked in my house. That day, my whole life changed. X then we look at the crisis in libya three years after the u. S. Back toppling up Muammar Gaddafi. Egypt andhe past week the United Arab Emirates has secretly carried out airstrikes against islamist militia there. We will stick with professor Vijay Prashad, author of, arab spring, libyan winter. If you just give the libyan people a destroyed country, how are they going to build a future . That is the real danger of the air apartment in the style the americans conduct. They level countries and then tell people to c
Group released a video showing the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians. Meanwhile, two different governments run libya, each with their own parliaments and armies. Will foreign governments intervene in libya again . We will speak to Vijay Prashad and sharif Abdel Kouddous. Plus, we will hear the latest on the al jazeera journalists released on bail in cairo. They await yet another trial in egypt. Then as greece rejects an extension of its european bailout, an antiausterity party called podemos is on the rise in spain. We will speak to the partys leader, Pablo Iglesias, who could become spains next Prime Minister. My country has three big problems inequality, unemployment and debt. The socialist party and the Popular Party my country, must do the best way without austerity. After five years, or even more six years, the situation is worse than before. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Egypt has opened a new