My brother and i are calling for the removal of his statue on monument im new in richmond, virginia, because we believe the monument is an ongoing symbol of racism in the United States. Amy you will also speak with the former neonazi who founded the group life after hate, an organization that fights White Supremacy. It was recently stripped of its funding by the Trump Administration. Time went on and i became a respectful leader both locally and regionally, and then it grew to nationally and internationally. I started a band that was singing racist music that was used to recruit people. It was a powerful topic and itll for young people to adhere to. Amy after the funding was cut after urging from trump adviser who worksgorkas wife for the department of Homeland Security. Then we go to fargo, north dakota, to equip a man whose uncle to speak with a man whose uncle marched in charlottesville. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace
, we will speak to prominent muslim scholar tariq ramadan. And we will look at President Trumps warning to pakistan. Trumka we can no longer be silent. The taliban and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In charlottesville, virginia, residents cheered and celebrated as workers covered two confederate statues one of general robert e. Lee and another of general Stonewall Jackson with black fabric on wednesday in order to mourn the death of heather heyer, who was killed by a neonazi during a white supremacist rally in charlottesville on august 12. I feel like it is progress. I am concerned it will be an invitation for people who disagree with shrouding the statue to come back here. I have concerns about that. The real resolution that i would like to see is the statue coming down. I feel really impatient about that at this point. But i also feel
Pursue a plutonium use not for use but for bombs. Iran is going through this route of enormous sanctions by taking the iran economy to get a bomb. Theyre pretty close. Rose how close. Well, they are close to the point where they want to be in a situation where they have enough in rich uranium at lower levels but to be able to punch through and enrich it very rapidly within a matter of weeks to get high rich uranium they can use for a bomb. Rose are they close. They are getting close. They didnt go for high enrichment. Instead they built a lot of piles of rich union annual but added centrifuge to high enrichment just like that. Weve been working today the United States and israel and other countries have put place very forceful sanctions saying if you continue in this path those sanctions will collapse your economy. And theres been a credible military option by the u. S. Perhaps by israel even if the sanctions dont work, there will be ways to take out your program. The combination of St
Like and how she might be different from ben bernanke. Well i think shell be fantastic. I think key to the fed gracefully exiting out of its quantitating policy and normalizing Interest Rates, the ability to communicate clearly to the marketplace. And thats what shes been working on at the fed. Shes been working really hard on communication strategy and key to communication is building consensus. You need to have the consensus view around the committee. And i dont think theres anyone better than her at doing that so i think shes going to be very good fed chairman and transition very nicely away from the bernanke fed. So i think were in good hands. I think well be in georgia shape. Rose transition away means what . Well, it should be a seamless transition so that its not disruptive to the Financial Markets, particularly in a very uncertain time given whats going on with fiscal policy and whats going on with washington. We need to have a seamless transition between chairman bernanke and
Obama healthcare reform package affordable healthcare. Nothing substantially changes obamacare going forward. Rose and what about the effort of some republicans to limit the power of treasury during these kinds of debt ceiling issues. Actually, its been moving so fast all day, i defer to julianna on that. I havent seen the latest language. Rose whats in that senate bill thats going over to the house. That was something charlie, that republicans had been trying to get in the past few days so that come february 7th, that was the hard dead line saying thtree any of the extra powers that theyve been using for the last several months. That was something that came up in a conversation earlier this week between president obama and Mitch Mcconnell. They made it very clear they wanted the flexibility to use no, sir extraordinary measures. It means you hit the debt ceiling come february 7th but you have a month to use some of those abilities that the treasurys been using. Rose so the whitehouse