Remember malcolm x. The history of unpunished violence against our people clearly indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent mob. 50 years ago on february 21 1965, malcolm x was assassinated in the audobon ballroom in harlem. Today, we will hear malcolm in his own words and speak to herb boyd who just published , malcolms diary from 1946. 1964. Then we will look at how the nsa and gchq hacked into the largest manufacturer of sim cards in the world and stole Encryption Keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Record cold temperatures are continuing across the eastern and midwestern United States today with a blast of arctic air scientists warn is part of a pattern fueled by Climate Change. In kentucky, temperatures are in the negative digits, about 40 degrees below normal. Here in new york state, Martin Napier was among those who visited the iconic niagra falls which is frozen. It was like a wall of ice. It was like icicles. It was cool. It was completely different from when you are in the summer and it is just a wall of water. It is a wall of ice. The record cold follows what government scientists have just confirmed was the second warmest january on record worldwide. And while new york city may be among some 100 cities currently experiencing recordbreaking cold, a new report from the new York City Panel on Climate Change finds average temperatures here could jump nearly nine degrees by the 2080s. The white house has wrapped up a threeday conference on militant extremism. Speaking thursday, obama reiterated his message that groups like the Islamic State do not represent islam. At the same time, we must acknowledge that groups like al qaeda and isil are deliberately targeting the propaganda to muslim communities particularly, muslim youth. Muslim communities, including scholars and clerics therefore have a responsibility to push back not just on twisted interpretations of islam, but on the lie that we are somehow engaged in a clash of civilizations, that america and the west are somehow at war with islam. Or seek to suppress muslims. Or that we are the cause of every ill in the middle east. The white house conference hosted representatives from countries which have faced global condemnation for the promotion of extremism or repression of their own citizens, including saudi arabia and bahrain. In somalia, at least 20 people have been killed, including several members of parliament, after militants set off explosions and opened fire at a hotel in the capital mogadishu. The militant Group Alshabab has claimed responsibility for the attack on a Central Hotel saying they were targeting government officials. European finance ministers are meeting today in brussels for key talks on the financial future of greece. On thursday, greece formally requested a sixmonth extension of its current loan deal without making a Firm Commitment to the deep austerity cuts dictated under its international bailout. But German Economy minister Sigmar Gabriel rejected the request. We recently received an offer from the greek government, which has been made to all the eu Member States as well as the eurogroup in which greece, for the first time, except without reforms, will be no european financial aid. That is a beginning. But we also have to say this offer is insufficient because it lacks all specific measures in greece and that cannot happen. We cannot make easier in greece on the shoulders of german and european taxpayers. Over the next few days especially tomorrow, we need to negotiate further to find an agreement on specific measures. A new investigation by the intercept reveals the National Security agency and its british counterpart, gchq, hacked into the internal Computer Network of the largest manufacturer of sim cards in the world, stealing Encryption Keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications. The secret operation targeted the Dutch Company gemalto, whose clients include at t, tmobile verizon, sprint and some 450 Wireless Network providers around the world. Well have more on the story later in the broadcast. Walmart has announced it will raise its minimum wage to 9 an hour in april, and 10 next year, in a move that will impact about half a million lowwage workers. The increase falls far short of the 15anhour living wage demanded by workers who have launched historic strikes against walmart and reported retaliation from the company for joining the protests. A 2012 analysis found the six heirs to the walmart fortune have as much wealth as the bottom 40 of the United States combined. Two women in austin, texas have become the first legally married samesex couple in the state despite a longstanding ban on the unions. A state district judge ordered the Travis County clerk to grant a marriage license to Suzanne Bryant and her partner of 30 years, sarah goodfriend, saying the couple needed immediate relief from the ban because goodfriend has ovarian cancer. Goodfriend and bryant celebrated at a news conference. This really is very, very meaningful to our family to have the kind of ability to make personal decisions, health decisions, and financial decision as a family going forward. We are grateful we have had this opportunity to crack the door open in texas. We hope it will swing wide for everyone very soon. Just hours later, the state Supreme Court blocked the order allowing the couple to wed. Texas attorney general ken paxton has declared the marriage void. A federal jury in new orleans has awarded 14 million to five indian workers in a trafficking case involving the firm signal international. In the aftermath of hurricane katrina, signal brought hundreds of people from india to work on repairs at its shipyard in pascagoula, mississippi. The workers say they spent their life savings to come to the United States under false promises of permanent residency. They were then forced to spend over 1000 per month to live in squalid work camps, with up to 24 men sharing a single unit with two bathrooms. Those who complained were threatened with deportation. The case is the first in a historic series of labor trafficking cases led by the southern poverty law center. A st. Louis, Missouri Police officer has been suspended after turning off a dashboard camera as her colleagues were kicking and tasing an africanamerican man during a traffic stop. Cortez bufford has filed suit against police over the april arrest. Video shows police dragging bufford from the car, then kicking and tasing him. At one point he shouts, i cant move. Then, using the slang term red, to mean the dashboard camera is rolling, officer Kelli Swinton tells her colleagues to wait while she turns it off. Hold up, yall. Hold up. Everybody, hold up. We are red right now. The video then abrupty stops. Police, who had received a call about shots fired in the area, accused bufford of speeding, making an illegal uturn and abruptly parking. They say an officer kicked him to prevent him from reaching for a gun, which they say they found in his pocket. But all charges against bufford were dropped after the prosecutor saw the footage. Police chief sam dotson told the st. Louis postdispatch he does not believe the officers did anything wrong. In addition to swinton, he suspended a sergeant who was supervising the scene for one he suspended him for one day. Former Florida Governor and likely republican president ial candidate jeb bush has drawn criticism for choosing his slate of Foreign Policy advisors directly from the president ial administrations of his father and brother. Of the 21 names on the list, 19 worked under george w. Bush or george h. W. Bush, or both. The list includes two of george w. Bushs secretaries of homeland security, tom ridge and michael chertoff, and two of his former cia directors, porter goss and michael hayden. Other key figures tapped from his brothers administration include john negroponte, who served as ambassador to iraq and the first director of national intelligence, paul wolfowitz, a key architect of the 2003 iraq war, and george w. Bushs National Security advisor stephen hadley. All three worked for both bush president s. But speaking wednesday, jeb bush said he is his own man. For the record, one more time, i love my brother and i love my dad i actually love my mother as well. I hope that is ok. I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make, but i am my own man in my views are shaped, on thinking and my own experiences. Another name on jeb bushs list include former assistant secretary of state roger noriega, a key figure in the overthrow of haitian president Jeanbertrand Aristide under george w. Bush. Meanwhile, hillary clinton, the likely democratic frontrunner for president , has come under fire from environmental groups after it was revealed her foundation has received millions in donations from fossil fuel companies, the governments of saudi arabia and qatar, and a canadian Governmental Agency promoting the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline. The clinton foundation, run by hillary and bill clinton, and their daughter chelsea, has raised nearly 2 billion since its creation in 2001. Fox news Host Bill Oreilly has come under scrutiny amid reports he fabricated claims about reporting in latin america. Oreilly has blasted suspended nbc news anchor Brian Williams for his false reporting about his helicopter coming under fire in iraq. But mother jones has uncovered problems with an oftrepeated oreilly story about the war between britain and argentina. Onetime in a war zone in argentina in the falklands where my photographer got run down and hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete and the army was chasing us. I had to make a decision. I dragged him off. At the same time, looking around and trying to do my job. I figured i had to get this guy out of there because that was more important. At the time oreilly was working for cbs, and it turns out no cbs reporter got into the Falkland Islands during the war. Oreillys own book, no spin zone, which recounts his time in argentina, makes no mention of witnessing any combat. Oreilly does write about a protest he covered in the argentine capital buenos aires after the fighting was over, where he claimed a major riot ensued and many people were killed. But multiple news reports, including the cbs news report from the time, which used oreillys footage, did not report any fatalities. Meanwhile the nation has , published footage from oreillys reporting in el salvador in the early 1980s, just after the el mozote massacre, when some 1000 civilians were slaughtered by u. S. Trained salvadoran forces. Instead of reporting on el mozote, the nation notes oreilly went to nearby meanguera, the site of a supposed attack by leftist rebels. In his book, oreilly wrote meanguera was leveled, with no one live or dead. But his own news report from the time shows several people walking aound while the town remains largely intact. And those are some of the headlines, this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. A new report we covered here on democracy now has brought the legacy of racial terror back into the public conversation. And now federal authorities are reportedly investigating whether people who carried out one of the worst mass lynchings in recent history are still alive and can be brought to justice. It was july 25, 1946 when a white mob in world georgia ambushed a car carrying two africanamerican couples dragged them out, and shot them to death. One of the men, george dorsey, was a military veteran who had recently returned from serving five years overseas in world war ii. His wife, mae murray dorsey, was also killed. Dorothy malcom, the other woman in the car, was seven months pregnant. The mom cut her open and removed her unborn child. Her husband, roger, had just been bailed out of jail after he was accused of stabbing a white man. A coroner estimated people in the crowd fired more than 60 shots of the two couples at close range. The horrific attack was carried out near Walton County, georgia, not far from morse forge bridge. It became known as the moores ford lynching, and sparked a national outcry, even prompt in president harry truman to push for civil rights reform. The fbi also investigated, but no one was ever convicted of the four murders. Now that could all change. A relative of one of the men allegedly involved in the attack has come forward in a videotaped interview with the naacp. Wayne watson says his uncle and several other men he named were members of the ku klux klan. This is a clip from his 2013 interview and then president of the naacp ben jealous. People tried to bribe me. Why does this case bother you so much . You have a lot of people after you to keep your mouth shut. Why the state interested . Because im tired. Youre living with lies or you are living with people talking about things. I wanted all over with. The racism, i mean, ive been on the streets. I told people i blade dated a black woman and everything. Why men says he dates a black woman, you can get any money from a bank, they turn you down. This week, the Guardian Newspaper reported that after wayne watsons interview the fbi spoke with one of the men he identified his uncle, his fathers brother, and a man named charlie peppers who is now 86 are sold. Peppers said to fbi agents visited him last to question him for about 40 minutes. The fbi has not confirmed. For more, were joined by edward duboise, a member of the naacp board and former president of the Georgia Branch of the naacp. He is a longtime participant in an effort to bring those accountable are the moores ford lynching to justice. We are also joined by herb boyd, teacher, author, and journalist. He worked on a documentary about the lynching with the film acre. We welcome you both to democracy now edward duboise, tell us what happened as you understand it. First of all, good morning and thank you for having me on the show. We have long talked about this case. How this case came about, to give you a little background, malcolm, allegedly, you know that to be the case, stabbed a gentleman, but it was rumored that he has slept with mr. Malcolms why. We know after this incident, mr. Malcolm was arrested. Not even three weeks later, bail was posted for him. This gentleman, his wife, mr. Dorsey and his wife were all taken to the moores ford bridge where they were brutally lynched. As you all stated in the beginning of the show, shot over 60 times. We know there was a grand jury that was impaneled. Over 50 suspects were interviewed, but no one, no one was ever accused, no one was ever arrested. So we have this mass public lynching, one of the last mass public lynchings, one of the most egregious acts, included in this is a world war ii veteran. No one has ever been brought to justice in this case. We are so glad that you all and other Media Outlets are taking a look at this case. Wasnt there in Associated Press report several years ago that aimed there was some indication the governor at the time, eugene tell mitch, had actually visited a particular town spoken to the brother of the man who had been stabbed and basically, said anybody who takes care of the African American who was involved in this, they dont have to worry. That is absolutely correct. Remember, the governor ran on the platform, segregation now segregation forever. He was politically motivated and many would say and how are the people in his community to let them know it is ok. Black life dont matter. You are correct. The governor, in his own desks in his own white message to the county and to the state. Talk about when watson naming names. And just to wayne watson is. Wayne watson is a gentleman from monroe, georgia, Walton County who have been sought out by one of our people in the county. People had always said there was no one alive, no one available that would be able to shed light on this case. Were so glad that mr. Watson was found. And we were able to bring our thenpresident , ben jealous for to interview mr. Watson. Initially, we were just talking to him. Then he began to name names and locations of people and places and president jealous said, wait a minute, we need to get this on tape. This guys talking about very compelling information that the fbi needs to be aware of. Lets go back to the interview, the former president naacp ben jealous did with watson who said he repeatedly reported his allegations to local Law Enforcement officials. The da, trying to find out who knew about it and never thing like that. Evidently, my attorney told somebody or told him everyone in one county knew i was the one that new about the kkk and who is a lot of people tried to bradley. I have been to prison. They offered me money. Robert mitchell offered me 250,000 to keep my mouth shut and walk away in 1999. I told him i wouldnt do it. He said, you will be dead before you ever testify. Another part of that when watson interview with ben jealous. Ed duboise, if you could comment on that and how was dr. King involved . This lynching was 1946. Let me thank state representative tyrone brooks. I dont want to be on the show without giving him credit do. Dr. King had been informed