Children of puerto rico deserve nothing less. Amy in july was hot. It was the hottest month worldwide since recordkeeping began over 130 years ago. We will speak with a scientist who has exposed how Global Warming has worsened the California Drought. Into conflict minerals. A federal pills court rules corporations dont need to state whether they use materials from the wartorn democratic public of congo. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In news from greece, Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras announced his resignation on thursday, paving the way for new elections. The move came after tsipras lost the support of many members of his own syriza party who opposed his backing of the demands of International Creditors for yet more austerity and economic reform in exchange for a new 96 billion bailout. Tspiras, who is expected to win in the snap elections, said the vote will give the greek people a chance to have a say on the new bailout. I would like to summit the governments resignation and i would like to express my believe that the constitutional process needs to be set in Moment Movement immediately and with all disability to elections of the greek people can decide which way the country should be led safely and quickly out of the crisis will stop amy well have more on greece after headlines. We will hear from Bernie Sanders. New data show july was the warmest month ever on record. The data, released by the u. S. National oceanic and Atmospheric Administration thursday, also shows 2015 has been the hottest year on record so far. The agency said the temperatures have caused global heatwaves throughout the summer. The heatwaves have worsened the wildfire season in the western United States. In Washington State, governor jay inslee has called the wildfires an unprecedented cataclysm one day after three firefighters were killed after being engulfed in flames. A fourth firefighter is in Critical Condition with burns covering approximately 60 of his body. Nearly 400,000 acres across Washington State are currently on fire. Meanwhile, in california, new research from nasa shows that parts of the San Joaquin Valley are sinking almost 2 inches every month as a result of the increased consumption of groundwater due to the drought. A least one town has sunk by more than a foot. The sinking is cracking roads and unearthing underground pipelines. Researchers say the damage may be irreversible. Well have more on Climate Change later in the broadcast. In news from the campaign trail, republican president ial candidate jeb bush has said he does not regret using the term anchor babies during a radio interview on wednesday. In the interview, he said he supports the 14th amendment, which guarantees people born on u. S. Soil are automatically u. S. Citizens, but that he wants more enforcement to protect against socalled anchor babies. Jeb bush responded to questions from reporters on thursday. D regret using the term anchor babies yesterday . No. Do you have a better term . Im asking you. You give me a better term, and i will use it. Dont yell at me behind my ear, though. Is that not bombastic . No, it isnt. Give me another word. Amy in response, democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton took to twitter to suggest alternative terms, writing how about babies, children, or american citizens . Meanwhile, clinton is facing increasing pressure over her use of a private email setup while serving as secretary of state. During a foia hearing on thursday, a federal judge said in reference to clinton we wouldnt be here today if this employee had followed government policy. The Justice Department is currently investigating whether any classified email was handled improperly. In news from europe, macedonia has declared a state of emergency and sealed its southern border with greece after more than 40,000 migrants have flooded into the country over the last two months. A spokesperson for the interior Ministry Announced the decision thursday. The macedonian government has decided to declare a state of emergency in crisis regions on its southern and northern borders. So courting to laws, army can be deployed on the territory of the public of macedonia. Amy the majority of migrants have been passing through macedonia in efforts to reach germany, britain, and sweden. But with the border between greece and macedonia now sealed, thousands are stranded in a no mans land between the two countries. On thursday night, police fired tear gas at the crowd of migrants by the border. One man spoke out about the violence. [indiscernible] amy two more women have accused Comedian Bill Cosby of drugging and raping them, bringing the total number of accusers to more than 50. One of the women spoke at a News Conference with lawyer Gloria Allred thursday. I dont know how we got to the hotel room. He went into the bathroom, undressed, and came out in a robe. I told him i needed to go back to the hotel. I could barely stand up, and owes either going to pass out get very sick. He made menial down im not going to repeat what happened next. All i know is that it was the most horrifying thing that could happen to any young woman. The next thing i remember is i was in the rollsroyce profusely vomiting. I apologized and the driver said i wasnt the first. Amy while she showed her face of a News Conference, she did not want to be identified, simply called elizabeth. She is one of now more than 50 women who have accused bill cosby of Sexual Assault and rape. Defense secretary Ash Carter Says the pentagon is visiting detention sites in the United States where the agency could relocate prisoners currently being held at guantanamo bay. The pentagon teams have already visited the army prison at leavenworth, kansas, and will soon visit the naval brig at charleston, south carolina. Carter said thursday he wants to see guantanamo closed before president obama leaves office, calling the naval base a rallying cry for jihadi propaganda. A new campaign is calling on five of the countrys most influential museums to divest from fossil fuels. The campaign singles out the American Museum of Natural History in new york city, the field museum in chicago, the California Academy of sciences in san francisco, the North Carolina museum of Natural Sciences in raleigh, and the Natural History museum of utah in salt lake city. The call to action was launched this morning by 350. Org and the National History museum, a new mobile museum that champions climate action. Former president jimmy carter has revealed his cancer has spread to his brain and that he has begun radiation treatment. In a News Conference carter said thursday, he would like to live to continue his humanitarian work, but that he is at ease with whatever comes. Wast first i felt that it confined to my liver and the operation i completely removed it, saw was quite relieved. Then that same afternoon, we had an mri of my head and neck and it showed up that it was already in four places in my brain. So i would say that night and the next day until i came back up to emory, i just thought i had a few weeks left. Ease. Was surprisingly at ive had a wonderful life. Ive had thousands of friends and ive had an exciting and adventurous, gratifying existence. So i was surprisingly at ease, much more so than my wife was. Know, it isel, you in the hands of god. I will be prepared for anything that comes. Amy and longtime civil rights activist reverend George Houser has died. The white methodist minister helped found the congress of racial equality, alongside civil rights icons james farmer and bayard rustin. He also helped organize the 1947 journey of reconciliation, in which eight African American and eight white activists rode interstate buses through 15 cities throughout the south. The action prefigured the freedom rides of 1961, which galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. Earlier in life, houser also served a year in federal prison for opposing the draft for wwii. He died in his home in california on wednesday at the age of 99. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Juan welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Greek Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras announced his resignation on thursday, paving the way for new elections. The move came after tsipras lost the support of many members of his own syriza party who opposed his backing of the demands of International Creditors for yet more austerity and economic reform in exchange for a new 96 billion bailout. Tspiras said an early election will give greek voters a chance to have a say on the new bailout. The would like to submit governments resignation and i would like to express my believe that the constitutional process is to be set in motion immediately so we can go as soon as possible and with all due civility to election so the greek people can decide which way the country should be led safely and quickly out of the crisis. Amy many analysts predict tsipras will retain his post as Prime Minister after the election, but the conservative government has announced plans to try to form a new Coalition Government ahead of the elections. Meanwhile, 25 members of the leftwing of syriza have announced they are breaking away to form a separate party called popular unity. To talk more about the situation in greece, we are joined by costas panayotakis, author of, remaking scarcity from capitalist inefficiency to economic democracy. He is professor of sociology at nyc college of technology at cuny. Welcome to democracy now what has tsipras doing here . He has resigned and going to run in a snap election. He has transformed syriza to what you does he hopes will be the dominant party of the austerity. His claim is, even though he is following the policies does not agree with them, he has been forced to do it, that he will do it with a way that is a little more socialist humane and just. Mandatet have a because there was a recent referendum in july were over 60 of the greek population voted against austerity. So i think he is also hoping to get the mandate so he can continue these policies. And part of his party did not support this, and that is why we have this split, which is a split the europeans had hoped for a long because they saw tsipras is more amenable to. Heir policies the leftwing of the party is still trying to resist. Juan some analysts, quite a few of them, are saying that he is actually expects to get in even larger support for his policies in a new vote. Route ofhose to go the a referendum rather than or new elections rather than for a vote of confidence within the parliament itself, where he thought he had less of a chance. Yeah, i think what he is hoping i mean, the poll is in july. The opposition is in disarray. Election,g up the because theres also discussions it might happen in october or november, but by speeding it up, he also gives less chance to his internal opposition to organize themselves and to form a party that would have a good chance of doing well. So there certainly political calculations that he made. And he clearly hopes he will do well and win. It is possible this is indeed the case. Juan and the sense that the greek people, even though he did this aboutface, still blame the European Union and germany more for their troubles and they do tsipras for caving in on some of these concessions . I think the antieuropean and has grown a lot in greece and drought europe, and fact, because of the insistence of austerity policies. There is a lot of discontent with the previous Political Parties for how that is understandably the main culprits for the current situation. Tsipras is still popular according to polls, but this is burden,ecause the full the full impact of this new wave of austerity measures has been hit ordinary greeks. So his popularity is likely to suffer in the future, and that is probably one of his calculations. Party tellsnazi its only party to do they stand to benefit from these Upcoming Elections . That is what they claim. They claim they will do very well because supposedly theyre the only ones it remains to be seen. Their last showing in january was really strong given the fact there under charges of being a criminal organization and they have been exposed the crimes and the violence they used against activists and immigrants. The immigration issue is also a big issue in greece right now. Attack bybeen lots of the opposition, not just golden dawn, even the conservatives and even the centerleft party who are basically saying syriza is leaving the borders open and these immigrants are coming because they liberalized immigration laws. I think this is very concerning because it is not just the golden dawn that is been very populist about immigration issue, it is like suddenly mainstream parties solidly mainstream parties. Amy this new party . The syriza breakaway party that is now calling itself popular unity, where does it fit into this picture and will again in popularity . We will see. We have nothing to compare it to and they have not had much time to prepare, but they are hoping their claim is the 60 of voted against austerity has to be represented in the election, and that is what theyre hoping to do. How many of the 60 of greeks will support them . It remains to be seen. Juan meanwhile, the selloff of National Assets of greece is a reoccurring. This week, there were 15 Regional Airports in greece sold to, guess what, a German Company . The whole point is that it is supposed to be privatization and the German Company is a Company Owned by it is a german state company. It is a kind of paradoxical in the sense. The same thing happen in the past with privatization, like the greek telecommunication company, which was bought by deutsche telekom, which is also a state company. Amy buying greece . I guess. , thankstas panayotakis you for being with us, author of, remaking scarcity from capitalist inefficiency to economic democracy. Professor of sociology at nyc college of technology at cuny. As we turn to democratic president ial hopeful Bernie Sanders, who recently convened a panel of economists in washington to discuss the debt crisis in greece as well as throughout the world. Austeritynders said has worsened the situation in greece. This is some of what he had to say. Were here today to talk about the very, very important issue regarding the ongoing debt crisis in greece and the way that people in governments all over the world are struggling with too much debt. Were going to be focusing on greece, but in truth, this issue goes beyond greece. Countries that are struggling not only with too much debt, too much inequality, and too little growth and income. Today, as i think all of you know, theres a very, very serious Economic Situation unfolding in greece. In many ways, greece today resembles the United States in the 1930s and midst of the economic downturn in the history of our country. The Greek Economy is basically collapsed and the people of greece are trapped in a very, very deep depression. I want to begin by expressing my solidarity with the people of greece, where five years of cruel and counterproductive austerity policies, policies to minute by the European Central bank, the european commission, and International Monetary fund have left the people of greece facing a fullblown humanitarian crisis. In my view, there is no more obvious example of the failure of austerity policies than what is going on in greece. For more than five years, greece has cut pensions, slashed its government workforce, made deep spending cuts that have eviscerated it social safety net. In other words, despite what we have been led to believe by many in the media, greece has not gone on a shopping spree. It is not over funded government. Rather, it has imposed massive spending cuts that have caused devastating pain to some of its most vulnerable people. It is done is because its creditors, led by germany, have insisted austerity is the only way to dig greece out of its debt. As a result, today, greece has the highest level of inequality and the worst Unemployment Rates in europe. The official Unemployment Rate is 26 . 26 . Youth unemployment in greece today is more than 50 . More than 30 of the people in greece are living in poverty. The Greek Economy is 25 shrunk by 25 over the last five years. That is really quite incredible. Problem,f solving the austerity, in my view, has made a bad situation much worse. Greece has seen