Kouddous. We will also get an update on Abdullah Elshamy. [indiscernible] my responsibility if anything ever happens to me. We will speak with his brother Mohammed Elshamy. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iraq is in crisis as sunni militants seized more towns and now set their sights on the capital baghdad. In the past few days, Al Qaedalinked rebels have seized control of mosul, iraqs second largest city, as well as tikrit. The sunni militants now control a territory that stretches from the eastern edge to fallujah and now the Northern City of mosul. Their advanced has cost a humanitarian catastrophe, displacing some 500,000 people in mosul alone. Mosul fell in part because u. S. Trained iraqi forces abandoned their posts. Maliki has reportedly urged the u. S. To carry out airstrikes in recent months, but the Obama Administration has declined request so far. We will have more on the crisis in iraq aft
Launch an offensive against the city of baqubah less than 40 miles from baghdad. We will speak to professor juan cole of the university of michigan. He just wrote a piece titled dont trust the bombers on iraq shock and awe never works. Then 50 years after freedom summer, Voting Rights are under attack again in the south. They have attacked early voting, making it harder to vote with voter id laws. Every one of those reforms voter repression laws and tactics have the same effect of driving down the black vote. We will speak to former naacp president ben jealous on true south voters of color in the black belt 50 years after after freedom summer. And on the First Anniversary of the death of Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, his widow publishes the novel she found on his computer after he died in a fiery car crash. It is a scathing critique of the news media today called the last magazine. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace re
Oeking asylum in the United States out of fear of his safety if he returned. Today he will give his first tv interview. Plus, ned parker in the Baghdad Bureau chief for reuters. Then egyptian prodemocracy activist alaa abd elfattah is sentenced to 15 years in prison. Me. His is not just about if it is a war on a whole generation. We will go to cairo to speak with his aunt ahdaf soueif and Sharif Abdel Kouddous. We will also get an update on Abdullah Elshamy. [indiscernible] my responsibility if anything ever happens to me. We will speak with his brother Mohammed Elshamy. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iraq is in crisis as sunni militants seized more towns and now set their sights on the capital baghdad. In the past few days, Al Qaedalinked rebels have seized control of mosul, iraqs second largest city, as well as tikrit. The sunni militants now control a territory that stretches from the eastern edge
Conflict, the crisis in syria, and the longterm impact of the 2003 u. S. Invasion. The mistake was to invade iraq third having indicated , and i would be probably very unfair, but i am tempted to was aat every time there choice between something right and something wrong, not very often the right option was taken. We will also speak with a and freedomlomat fighter Lakhdar Brahimi about his own country, algeria, and it struggle for independence from the french, and the classic anticolonial film, battle for algiers. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Have seized the Islamic State of iraq and to control, is said 75 of by e. G. Seizing the refinery would be a major coup for isis forces, handing them a rack pot large a source of the mystic fuel. In other violence, at least 18 people were killed and over 50 wounded tuesday in a pair of suicide bombings in baghdad. Speaking earlier today, airing in president Hass
Conflict, the crisis in syria, and the longterm impact of the 2003 u. S. Invasion. The mistake was to invade iraq third having indicated , and i would be probably very unfair, but i am tempted to was aat every time there choice between something right and something wrong, not very often the right option was taken. We will also speak with a and freedomlomat fighter Lakhdar Brahimi about his own country, algeria, and it struggle for independence from the french, and the classic anticolonial film, battle for algiers. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Have seized the Islamic State of iraq and to control, is said 75 of by e. G. Seizing the refinery would be a major coup for isis forces, handing them a rack pot large a source of the mystic fuel. In other violence, at least 18 people were killed and over 50 wounded tuesday in a pair of suicide bombings in baghdad. Speaking earlier today, airing in president Hass