Then, how do foreign powers buy influence at u. S. Think tanks . A New York Times expose reveals more than a dozen prominent Washington Research groups have received tens of millions of dollars from Foreign Governments in recent years, while pushing u. S. Government officials. Should they be registered as foreign lobbyists . We will speak with Brooke Williams. Finally, just 13, and working risky 12hour shofts in the tobacco fields. My head started hurting really bad. I got out the road and i started throwing up. Green tobacco sickness, or nicotine poisoning, it can cause vomiting, dizziness, and irregular heart rates. We will speak with steven greenhouse, longtime labor and workplace reporter at the New York Times. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has confirmed he will not fulfill his pledge to take executive action on Immigration Reform by summers end. Obama had promised a broad overhaul in the face of republican obstruction, including a potential new reprieve to slow his recordbreaking deportations. It over the weekend, the white house cited what it called House Republicans extreme politicized and of this issue for forcing president obama to wait until after the midterm elections. Obama had faced calls from a number of democrats to delay action so as not to hurt their election chances this november. In an interview with chuck todd, president obama denied democratic midterm success as his motivation. Instead, he said he needs more time to convince u. S. Public on the merits of his approach. Im being honest about the politics of it. This problem with unaccompanied children that we saw a couple of weeks ago where you have from Central America a surge of kids who are showing up at the border , got a lot of attention and a lot of americans started thinking we have got this Immigration Crisis on her hand. The fact of the matter is, the number of people apprehended crossing our borders has plummeted over the course of a decade. It is far lower than it was 10 years ago. In terms of these unaccompanied children, we have systematically work through the problems so june droppede in in july, dropped further in august, now below what it was last year. But that is not the impression on peoples minds. What i want to do, when i take executive action, i want to make sure it is sustainable. Immigrant rights advocates have denounced president obamas decision. And it statement come the group presente said president obama has launched an effort to rally congress and the public hunt sustained offensive against Islamic State militant group. President obama is set to meet with congress on tuesday, followed by public address the following day. He discussed the plan with meet the press. Were not looking at sending and 100,000 american troops. We will be carrying out airstrikes in support of work on the ground by iraqi troops, kurdish troops. We will be helping to put together a plan for them, so they can start retaking territory that isil had taken over. What i want people to understand, over the course of months, were going to be able to not just blind the momentum of isil, we will symptomatically systematically shrink the territory that they control. And ultimately, we will defeat them. The u. S. Says it will lead the offensive against the Islamic State with a socalled Core Coalition of 10 countries. The white house as the fight could last beyond the end of president obamas term barely 2017. The news follows a month of u. S. Bombing attacks against Islamic State fighters in iraq. Over the weekend, american warplanes expanded with strikes against militants dear the id the dam. We will have more on this after the headlines. The Somali Militant Group alshabaab has confirmed the killing of its leader in a u. S. Drone strike last week. Godane had headed how should bob since 2008, overseeing a number of attacks including last years rampage in a canyon Shopping Mall that left 67 dead. The group has named a new leader, shekh Ahmad Umar Abu Ubaidah and vowed to exact revenge for godanes killing. A ceasefire between the Ukrainian Government and prorussian rebels appears to behold and despite a weekend of scattered attacks. Until brokered friday was followed by clashes around 24 hours later in donetsk and mariupol. The truce lays out the decentralization of power is a key component of any longterm agreement that both ukraine and have pushrussia proposals for what that would mean. It also calls for mass prisoner exchange. The ceasefire was reached as nato approved a 4000strong force capable of Rapid Deployment in Eastern Europe to confront russia. Unveiling a new report, amnesty ynternationals salil shett accused both sides of war crimes. Very systematic, well organized armored units in place. There is no way they could organize themselves. On top of that, we have eyewitness accounts of movement of russian tanks across the border. Were getting reports of different types of violations. Also indiscriminate shelling happening. All of these need to be investigated. That is what were calling on. In a war or conflict situation, unless you go into the details, you cant be absolutely certain. But from what we have seen, we can be quite sure that both sides can be accused of war crimes at this point. Over 3000 people have died in Eastern Ukraine since violence broke out in april, including the 298 passengers killed when a Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down. The African Union is holding an emergency meeting on the evil outbreak in west africa. More than 2000 people have been killed in the u. N. Has warned the toll could hit 20,000 before the viruses contain. Hopes were slightly raised over the weekend as a new study found an experimentalo monkeys for at least five weeks. To 10 months. It is the first time a Vaccine Program has led to sustained ebola immunity. U. S. Researchers have begun human trials. On friday, the World Health Organization assistant director general said to experiment on vaccines could be available for Health Workers by november. Safety by reserves of november 2014 and after that, these vaccines would start to be rolled out in the affected countries starting with Health Care Workers another frontline workers. This is real. This is going into the field. This is not staying in the laboratory. The u. N. Has set a goal of containing the epidemic within six to nine months. President obama said the u. S. Military will play a role in the international response. Were going to have to get u. S. Military assets just to set up, for example, isolation units and equipment there to provide security for public Health Workers surging around the world. If we do that, then it is still going to be months before this problem is controllable in africa, but it should not reach our shores. If we dont make that effort now not justspreads, through africa but other parts of the world, there is the prospect the virus mutates, becomes more easily transmittable, then it could be a serious danger to the United States. A pair of newly released i can is reveal more details about the bush and ministrations to go rushing off for the wireless wiretapping of u. S. Citizens after the 9 11 attacks. The documents relate to sweeping surveillance conducted by the National Security agency under the program known as stellar wind. In a decadeold memo obtained by Washington Post, jack goldsmith, who let president george w. Bushs office of legal counsel, says the 9 11 attacks justify what he calls the president inherent Institutional Authority to order warrantless wiretapping, and authority that congress cannot curtail. Told theomey Washington Post the memos conclusions suggest the president s power to monitor the communications of americans is virtually unlimited when it comes to foreign intelligence. Some of today surveillance programs are even broader and more intrusive than those for an place more than a decade ago by president bush. The majority owner of the National Basketball associations Atlanta Hawks is selling his stake over the disclosure of a racially charged email. In august 2012, Bruce Levenson wrote his coowners and general manager to ask them more be done in order to attract southern whites uncountable around africanamerican spectators. Citing the playing of hiphop music and a Cheerleading Squad thats majority black, levenson said levenson called that attitude racist garbage, but concludes t it should still be cited catered to in order to boost ticket sales. It is the second time in months in nba owner has sold his controlling interest over racist remarks, following Donald Sterling of the los angeles clippers. A federal judge has approved new york citys 41 million set in it with a central park five, wrongfully convicted of raping a female jogger in central park 25 years ago. The five black and latino men were tried as teenagers. Media coverage at the time pretrade them as guilty and used racially coded terms to describe them. But their convictions were vacated in 2002 when the real rapist came forward and confessed after the five had already served jail time terms of up to 13 years. Each man of the five will receive around 1 million for each year they were wrongfully imprisoned. The agreement is one of several underrights settlements new york city mayor bill de blasio, after fears opposition from his predecessor, michael bloomberg. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Tosident obama has begun unveil a strategy for defense against the Islamic State that could last as long as three years and beyond the end of his administration. This comes as the United States has carried out more than 140 air strikes against isis fighters in iraq in the past month. Weekend, american warplanes launched fresh strikes against militants nearhaditha dam, less than 150 miles northwest of the capital baghdad. President obama is set to meet with congress to discuss the new strategy. He first outlined his plan sunday on meet the press. Obama says he has ruled out the redeployment of Ground Troops in iraq, that is left open the possibility of airstrikes in syria as well as economic and political measures. At the nato summit friday, secretary of state john kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel said the u. S. Will lead socalledive with a Core Coalition of 10 countries. Britain, includes france, germany, canada, australia, italy, poland, denmark, and turkey the only muslim state. On sunday, the Arab League Foreign ministers met in cairo and announced they would cooperate with efforts to combat militants who have overrun parts of iraq and syria. The resolution did not explicitly support u. S. Campaign against the Islamic State, but suggested it would back the effort. This is the arab league secretarygeneral. This matter is neither political nor security related only, but we will discuss it from all directions to block it and stop its sources. This requires cooperation between different ministers and preemptive meetings in researching the subject from all angles. However, the combat still stands. And the confrontation. It is not a simple decision. The decision to confront these phenomenon as many states to man, also by working on blocking the sources of terrorism through fighting its ideology, seizing its funding, remedying reasons and circumstances that led to the outbreak of this extremeist terrorist phenomenon. Releasehis as a newly report by private british firm that monitors arms trafficking of how theetail Islamic State has captured military quitman and senates region by the United States and saudi arabia. For more, were going to lebanon to rami khouri, the director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University beirut. He is also editor at large of the beirutbased newspaper, the daily star. His latest piece, avoid a rerun of the war on terror. He is joining us by video stream. Welcome to democracy now what president obama has said so far this weekend about the strategy in dealing with the Islamic State as well as the more than 100 strikes in iraq, can you respond . It is pretty impressive how he can go from the strategy to 60 miles an hour in five days him of but i think we have to basically understand the United States feels it must do something. At some point, what is the best to do, and obama is being cautious, understandably, because the United States has just come out of two rather catastrophic military adventures in afghanistan and iraq and a , drone assassinations all over the world. Impunity. Irony is thathard in the last, say, 15 or 20 years of the United States using military action to try to strike al qaeda and the derivative groups that have come out of al qaeda, the irony is that this has been the single greatest promoter, mobilizer of new recruits for these kinds of militant islamic terror groups. The more u. S. Leads military action, the greater becomes the expanse of recruits and the territory that is controlled by these groups. It is a real dilemma for the United States, and something that has to be on a mentally led by people in the region come and that is not happening very well. Theres no easy answer. Explain how that recruiting works, rami khouri. If you go back to the beginning of the phase of the manych has names, they started basically to fight the russians in afghanistan and the late 1970s, early 1980s. The u. S. Helped them with money and training and things like that. Then in the mid1980s and into the 1990s, a group under bin ladens leadership in sudan and other places, shifted to try to hit the United States. They call the u. S. The foreign enemy because it was the u. S. Supporting all these dictators and better to hit the foreign enemy. After the u. S. Came into the andle east and the iraq war troops in saudi arabia, then the United States became the main enemy because like the russians in afghanistan, there was a foreign army in error or islamic lands, therefore, it had to be driven out. Action in foreign power whether they are americans or russians, military action by foreign powers has been the most consistent and most effective recruiting tool to attract new recruits to these kinds of statents like the islamic and others like them. Because guys reject themselves ,nd see themselves as fighting cleansing islamic societies from the two great problems they feel. One is corrupt, immoral unslug regimes and the other is for military attack. Action is military inng to increase the problem the long run. You can see the track records going back to the mid1980s when clinton was attacking bin ladens bases in africa and sudan and other places. Over the last 16 or 20 years, the more the u. S. Has used military power to attack, the bigger the groups have become. If you look at the movements sparked by or imitated, they now have small anchorage in samaria and syria and iraq in nigeria ,mali, libya, pakistan, afghanistan, probably some other places, too. These groups, i should say, dont have support in these societies. They dont willingly attract millions and millions of supporters. They have been rejected by the vast majority of arab muslims. They can only operate where there is chaos. American militarism brings chaos in afghanistan, iraq, and other places. This is wine so concerned about a real why im so concerned about a rerun of george bushs quite criminal war on terror. This is president obama speaking sunday on meet the press. Were not looking at sending in hundred thousand american troops. We are going, as part of an international coalition, carrying out airstrikes in support of work on the ground by iraqi troops, kurdish troops. We are going to be helping to put together a plan for them so they can start retaking territory that isil had taken over. What i want people to understand, over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of isil, were going to systematically degrade capabilities, shrink territory that they control, and ultimately, were going to defeat them. Can you talk about the other states that are joining in, rami khouri, in particular, arab countries, where they fit into this picture . Well, the problem with the air of countries arab countries, most of them are responsible for the inadvertent but clear birth of these kinds militant extremist, islamist groups. If you go back to the 1970s and 1980s were these groups really started to take shape, the incubator for al qaeda and other groups like it were saudi jails, egyptian jails, iraqi jails, syr