This is real money. You are the most important part of this show, so tell me what is on your mind by tweeting me, or hit me up on facebook. Radical militia men grab large swaths of territory in northern and western iraq. And now their sites are on taking bagdad. The Islamic State of iraq is a radical group. It started as an alqaeda inspired terrorist outfit after america invited iraq in 2003. But they have morphed into a force that threatens to take out the iraqi government. They refer to isis by other outlets. The region includes syria, and were talking about the same group. The stated goal is to create a single state in syria and iraq. Ruled according to strict sharia law. In the past three years they have grown in size and taken part in the civil war next door in syria. It seized much of the northeastern territory that borders iraq, and used revenue from oil fields there to fund its operations in both countries. As of this week, domination stretches to the outskirts of aleppo and ou
This is real money. You are the most important part of this show, so tell me what is on your mind by tweeting me, or hit me up on facebook. Radical militia men grab large swaths of territory in northern and western iraq. And now their sites are on taking bagdad. The Islamic State of iraq is a radical group. It started as an alqaeda inspired terrorist outfit after america invited iraq in 2003. But they have morphed into a force that threatens to take out the iraqi government. They refer to isis by other outlets. The region includes syria, and were talking about the same group. The stated goal is to create a single state in syria and iraq. Ruled according to strict sharia law. In the past three years they have grown in size and taken part in the civil war next door in syria. It seized much of the northeastern territory that borders iraq, and used revenue from oil fields there to fund its operations in both countries. As of this week, domination stretches to the outskirts of aleppo and ou
The worst days weve seen in months. The s p posted the first threeday losing streak in two months. The dow logged the first backtoback declines in a month. The dow transports dropped about 2 for the worst day in two months and all of this was, again, as you saw the crude oil prices pushing higher. The dow futures are indicated up by about 13 points. Take a look at whats happening in the early trade in europe. Red arrows there, as well. Biggest declines at least from a percentage basis coming from the ftse in london down close to 1 . In asia overnight, the markets that you are watching did see green arrows, in fact, the shanghai up to close to 1 , nikkei up close to. 8 . And here in the United States looking at the bond market, youll see right now that tenyear note is yielding 2. 95 . The dollar this morning, down against both the euro and the pound. Its trading against the yen. The euros at 1. 3572. And gold prices yesterday rallied by about 1 . That was the best day in almost three mo
Cups. Youre always hanging around and looking at them. Roger is right, theres another lad that will factor into these players. Renaldo from portugal and uruguay player is another to watch. They can score goals an put on a real show if theyre on their day. But i think the cam of the italians, they always start slowly. I think its a stonewall bet italy will draw with england in the first game and then after that i think italy will go through and win the competition. Charlie we conclude this evening with Elizabeth Lecompte, kate valk and Frances Mcdormand of the Wooster Group. I do it for joy. Thats what this project came from was the desire to sing the songs, hear these songs and investigate ecstatic dancing, a theater of joy. Charlie iraq, the world cup and the Wooster Group when we continue. Theres a saying around here you stand behind what you say. Around here, we dont make excuses, we make commitments. And when you cant live up to them, you own up and make it right. Some people think
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