Of battle, are unmatched in skill and courage. On the same day that president obama gives his inaugural address, the u. S. Drone strike kills three people in yemen. Today we look at the new documentary, dirty wars the world is a battlefield. Dimons sue was nothing like kabul. Life is defined by the war. Everything revolves around it. In yemen, there was no war, of these not officially. The film, dirty wars, follows Jeremy Scahill to afghanistan, somalia, and yemen as he chases down the hidden truth behind americas expanding covert wars. We will speak with jeremy and the films director, rick rowley. Night rates have risen to astronomical levels where there are 1000 raids a month happening. Decades after vietnam, one decade into this war, we have gone back to body counts is our only way of measuring any kind of progress in the war. Broadcasting from the Sundance Film Festival in park city, utah, all of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hundreds of thousands packed into the National Mall on monday for president obamas second term inauguration. In an address many saw as a blueprint for a more progressive second term domestic agenda than his first, obama vowed to continue to fight to seek equality for the rights of women and of payment and lesbians. Our journey is not complete until our wives, mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. [applause] our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. In making those comments, obama became the first u. S. President ever to use the word gay in an inaugural address. He also give a nod to voting rights, Immigration Reform and his recent push for gun control. Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. [applause] our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see america as the land of opportunity. Until bright Young Students and engineers are enlisted in our work force instead of expelled from our country. Our journey is not complete until all our children from the streets of detroit to the hills of appalachia to the quiet lanes of newtown know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm. President obama also used his address to hint at a more forceful engagement on Climate Change than in his first term, calling the fight against Global Warming a defense of future generations. We will respond to the threat of Climate Change knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. [applause] some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. The New York Times reports the Obama Administration will tackle Climate Change this term by avoiding broad, farreaching and birds through congress and instead focusing on administrative actions. These include reducing power plant emissions, increasing the efficiency of home appliances, and reducing the federal governments carbon footprint. Although the white house is planning a campaign to build public support, environmentalist have been warned not to expect fullscale engagement what congress is preoccupied with other issues including gun control, immigration, and the federal budget. Well have more from president obamas second inauguration after the headlines. Algeria has confirmed the death toll from its recent hostage crisis and a southern gas field saying 37 foreigners and 11 workers lost their lives. The dead included three americans. The attackers came from algeria and neighboring mali as well as several foreign countries, including egypt and canada. Algerian troops raided the complex over the weekend after the attackers were raided it last week, calling for an end to the french bombing of mali. Meanwhile in mali, france continues to make advances in its Ground Invasion in the north after a week of airstrikes. French troops appear to have now taken control of the key towns of after rebel militants fled. In syria, at least 30 people have been killed in a suicide car bombing. The attack reportedly targeted a building used by progovernment fighters. Meanwhile in northern syria, activists are reporting more than 50 people have died in a week of fighting between rebels and members of the long oppressed kurdish minority seeking self government. The violence comes as the nations has launched a new appeal for its operations in syria, saying humanitarian needs are vastly underfunded. Our International DonorCommunity Giving 50 of what is needed here, in our minds, a very, very obsessing and of course results in much higher humanitarian suffering that needs to be. It means the people who need the food, not all of them are getting the food, and so on. Hundreds of people marched in new york city monday in a show of support for stricter gun control in the wake of the mass killing in newtown, connecticut. The group 1 million moms for gun control called on congress to back president of his plan for tighter restrictions on gun and ammunition purchases. The group marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to city hall, braving frigid temperatures. Children should not have to worry about guns. We should have a free nation that does not need to depend on firearms to protect ourselves. We should just know we are safe critics really listen to the voices of moms and not the civil law the of the gun industry and try to protect our lives and value the lives of our kids of of really what is in industry voice and not the voice of the people. It was devastating. I have never marched before. I am going to do whatever i can to be certain that things change. As claymont and a new yorker and as an american, we are fed up with guns and children getting killed and people being unsafe and we want change and better laws. Last week, andrew cuomo signed into law a package of gun control measures hailed as some of the tightest in the country. Meanwhile in brooklyn, new york, a group of demonstrators marched to the Police Precinct in the neighborhood of Crown Heights to demand justice in the case of Jabbar Campbell. He is an africanamerican man who is accused officers from the new York Police Officer of a hate crime. Campbell says he was hosting a party for gay and lesbian friends at his home earlier this month when he was confronted by police. Surveillance footage from his apartment shows officers tampering with and turning around the camera monitoring his doorstep. Moments later, Jabbar Campbell said he is brutally beaten and called antilgbt slurs freed on monday, he addressed supporters outside the precinct. We need to speak up and that these officers know they cannot go around invading peoples homes, tampering with their property, and beating up innocent people. Yes, yes. And treating them like animals. I was an innocent man and i was brutalized by the officers from the 77th precinct. I am here to speak up and fight back. Newly disclosed internal documents have confirmed the Roman Catholic archdiocese of los angeles deliberately hid evidence of child molestation for more than a decade. The now retired archbishop, Cardinal Roger m. Mahony, and other highranking clergy officials, made extensive efforts to transfer abusive priests out of state to avoid prosecution and to stop them from confessing to therapists who would have been forced to inform police. The church reached a 660 million settlement with 500 victims in 2007, the largest of any Roman Catholic diocese. In reaching a deal, its their top Church Officials from having to testify in court. A los angeles judge is set to rule next month on whether two Church Officials will face new depositions in a civil lawsuit over the abuse. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We begin todays show in washington, d. C. , where some 800,000 people packed into the National Mall to witness the second inauguration of president obama on monday. The secondlargest inauguration in history, only behind obamas first 1 four years ago that was the largest event in washington, d. C. s history. Myrlie evers became the first woman in the first layperson to deliver an inaugural invocation. She is the widow of medgar evers, the civilrights activist who was assassinated 50 years ago. 150 years after the emancipation proclamation and 50 years after the march on washington, we celebrate the spirit of our ancestors, which has allowed us to move from a nation of unborn hopes and history of disenfranchised folks to todays expiration of a more Perfect Union the aexpression of a more Perfect Union. We ask that where our paths seem blanketed by oppression and rippled by pangs of despair, we ask for your guidance toward the light of deliverance. And hose who came before us and dreamed of this day, that we recognize that their visions still inspire us. They are a great cloud of witnesses, unseen by the naked eye, but all around us, thankful that theyre living was not in vain. For every mountain, you gave us the strength to climb, your grace is pleaded to continue that climb for america and the world. Myrlie evers delivering the inaugural invocation. O misled, president of emmett if his inaugural address. Week, the people, still believe that our obligations as americans are not just to ourselves, but all posterity. We will respond to the threat of Climate Change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. The path towards Sustainable Energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But america cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and industries, we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our Economic Vitality and our National Treasure our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by god. That is what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared. We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war. [applause] our brave men and women in uniform, tempered by the flames of battle, are unmatched in skill and courage. Our citizens, seared by the memory of those we have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty. The knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against those who would do us harm. But were also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war, who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends and we must carry those lessons into this time as well. We will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms and rule of law. We will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully not because we are night about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more terribly lift suspicion and fear. [applause] america will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of the globe and we will renew those institutions that extend our capacity to manage crisis abroad, for now has a greater stake in a Peaceful World than its most powerful nation. We will support democracy from asia to africa, from the americas to the middle east, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes the alleged tolerance and opportunity, Human Dignity and justice. We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths that all of us are created equal is the star that guides us still. Just as it guided our forebears through seneca falls and selma and stonewall, just as it guided all of those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone. To hear a king proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on earth. [applause] it is our Generations Task to carry on with those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. [applause] our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. [applause] our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. [applause] our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see america as a land of opportunity. After president obama delivered his inaugural address on monday, a cubanamerican poet Richard Blanco recited a poem called 1 today. He is the first latino as well as the first openly gay poet to read at an inaugural ceremony. My face, your face, millions of faces in mornings mirrors, each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day. The pencil Yellow School buses, the rhythm of traffic lights. Africa stands apples, limes, and oranges arrayed like rainbows begging our praise. Silver trucks heavy with oil or paper, bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us, on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives. To teach geometry or ring of groceries as my mother did for 20 years, so i could write this poem. Cubanamerican poet Richard Blanco reciting the palm 1 today a president of his inauguration on monday. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. When we come back, we are here in park city, utah, the Sundance Film Festival. One of the films that has just premiered is called, dirty wars the world is a battlefield. We will speak with the subject of that film and its producer, investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill, and its director rick rowley. [music break] Jennifer Hudson singing the al green classic, let stand together, for the obamas first dance at last as commander in chiefs inaugural ball. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We have flown from washington, d. C. , from the inauguration, to park city, utah to cover the Sundance Film Festival. It is the 10th anniversary of the documentary track. We will start off by getting a response to president obamas inaugural address. On monday, president obama declared a decade of war is now ending and that lasting peace does not require perpetual war. But you never mentioned the wars in iraq or afghanistan by name. There was also no mention about the secret drone war that has vastly expanded under president obama. On the same day he gave his inaugural address, a u. S. Drone strike killed three people in yemen east of the capital. Also on monday, president obama officially nominated john brennan to the director of the cia, succeeding retired general David Petraeus, who resigned. Nickname the assassination czar, brennan was the first Obama Administration official to publicly confirm drone attacks overseas and to defend their legality. Four years ago, john brennan was rumored pick for the cia job when obama was first elected but was forced to withdraw from consideration amid protests over his role at the cia under the bush in ministration. Obama also officially nominated chuck hagel to head defense and john kerry to become secretary of state on monday. Joining us here in park city, utah, is Jeremy Scahill, National Security correspondent for the nation magazine. He is featured in and cowrote the new documentary, dirty wars the world is a battlefield. Book with thest same title is due out in april. Were also joined by the director of the film, rick rowley, independent journalist with big noise films. The film premiered here at the Sundance Film Festival in the u. S. Documentary competition section. When we flew in a Salt Lake City last night, we went directly to the Salt Lake City library where there was a soldout crowd to see a showing of dirty wars. We want to congratulate you on this absolutely remarkable film. I think it is very appropriate to begin our four days of broadcasting here in park city on this day after the inauguration of president obama to begin with dirty wars the world is a battlefield. Jeremy, talk about president obamas first four years and where were going now. You got a chance to hear his inaugural address. What did you think of it . I think