About a month after my visit when i tried to place an op on the International Day in support of the 2 of the victims of torture. In the Mainstream Press around the world i was an able to place an op ed d. Mask in the torch and during the sons after having visited and examined him with medical experts as conducted to New York Times the Washington Post the the australian Mainstream Media the british and a Mainstream Media it was impossible to place it today what were seeing is really that the Mainstream Press starts to realize through publications and alternative media that they probably got it wrong and so the get more interested in discovering the truth about a story thats face saving in law they know that if a songe is convicted the next people could be them well we do have indicators of that and perhaps they start to as we say smell the coffee after the raids on the a. B. C. Headquarters in australia and after Glenn Greenwald was arrested and in brazil and is being accused you know a
Control the board and coercive political control at home are refracted by a brutal war on drugs illusion killing or maiming millions all the civil coming up in todays going underground but 1st the worlds most famous publisher and arguably the entire freedom of the press to reveal war crimes is on trial today the london court just 12 miles from the studio after years of alleged u. K. Torture and disinform ation even socalled mainstream news outlets that have attacked this channel and been responsible for an arguable attack on truth since 911 and before getting worried about this weeks alleged u. K. Persecution of Julian Assange. Well if you watch a lot of the coverage of this story today on television you likely came away with the understanding that julian a songe is some kind of russian spy whos in trouble tonight because he stole classified documents from the u. S. Government that is not true its factually incorrect saying so its not a defense of assad right here to promote him or. An
mariana islands and gave us this update earlier. they said he will be landing in australia wants to hearing wraps up. his plan is committed to depart inside three hours time, that he would land around 6:1i1pm australian eastern time. that is later today. our correspondent shaimaa khalil was at the northern mariana islands and gave us this update earlier. julian assange is in the us district court house behind me where the final steps of the legal proceedings for his guilty plea are under way, his pleading guilty for one felony thatis pleading guilty for one felony that is illegally obtaining and disclosing classified national security material, no for him because as for the deal that was agreed the usjustice department, he will get credit for time served in the uk. he is here because crucially, this is here because crucially, this is continental usa, julian assange refused to go to mainland us because he deeply distrust the us government. in the past, he accused him of plotti
the carnegie endowment for peace in paris for more. then, disaster capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe. for three years, i ve investigated what happened after the spotlight fades from disasters developing countries. what comes when the money and goodwill ends? it is like a political ngo and these people are employees. they are getting paid often it creates atmosphere reliance on foreign money. amy: we ll speak with journalist antony loewenstein. then juan felipe herrera, the first latino u.s. poet laureate. he is the son of mexican migrant farmworkers and the author of 28 reasonscluding, 187 mexicanos can t cross the border. it is one of those places where we can really present new ideas to even new audiences. on whatn felipe herrera it is like to live outlaw and brown in the united states. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. this year s nobel peace prize has been awarded to
amy: the nobel peace prize goes to a coalition of four organizations, including a labor and employer s union which had themselves been at odds. we ll speak with sarah chayes of the carnegie endowment for peace in paris for more. then, disaster capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe. for three years, i ve investigated what happened after the spotlight fades from disasters developing countries. what comes when the money and goodwill ends? it is like a political ngo and these people are employees. they are getting paid often it creates atmosphere reliance on foreign money. amy: we ll speak with journalist antony loewenstein. then juan felipe herrera, the first latino u.s. poet laureate. he is the son of mexican migrant farmworkers and the author of 28 reasonscluding, 187 mexicanos can t cross the border. it is one of those places where we can really present new ideas to even new audiences. on whatn felipe herrera it is like to live outlaw and brown in the united