Keystone xl pipeline. The fight against the controversial project isnt over. We will also look at the link to South African spy cables. I was greenpeaces kumi naidoo being spied on . The to the corinthian 15, and group of students go on a debt strike refusing to pay their debt owed to a forprofit college. A lot of the older generations the criticized the millennials grew up in a time when you could go to a State University and pay your way through with summer jobs. These millennial children they got to college and realized, the money is not there to pay for me, im not going to be able to try to it in took issue job. In fact, everything i was told about the way the world works turns out not to be the case. And we will hear why adjunct professors are holding a national walkout. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has vetoed a republican bill approving the keystone xl Tar Sands Oil pipeline. Obama says the measure unwisely bypasses a state Department Review that will determine whether the project is in the national interest. White House Press Secretary josh earnest said the veto should not be seen as a judgment on the pipelines merits. It circumvents a longstanding administrative process for violating whether or not Infrastructure Projects like this are in the best interest of the country. And it is not represent a specific position on the pipeline itself. It just merely says that the benefits and consequences of building that pipeline should be thoroughly evaluated by experts and through this him in a straight a process that has existed for decades. The rejection of keystone marks the third veto of obamas six years in office. Senate republicans say they will try to override obamas veto but they dont appear to have enough votes. More on this story later in the broadcast. The department of Homeland Security is closer to a shutdown in a stalemate over immigration. Mitch mcconnell has agreed to allow a vote on a clean bill to fund dhs after democrats rejected four republican bids to tie the funding to a repeal of obamas executive actions on immigration. But Senate Democrats want reassurance the house would pass the clean bill. Last month, the house passed a dhs funding bill that would have effectively reversed oath of obamas recent plan to spare millions of immigrants from deportation and his 2012 policy of allowing socalled dreamers brought to the u. S. As children to remain here. If dhs runs out of money friday, mena republican backed policies would halt including the employees screening system e verify. The Islamic State has reportedly kidnapped more than 100 males including nine boys, near the iraqi city of tikrit. Most of the captives have relatives fighting the ice is advance and the kidnapping is seen as a pressure tactic to stop the resistance. A new u. N. Reports has isis has intentionally and systematically targeted iraqs various ethnic groups and subjected them to gross human rights abuses. The news comes one day after isis militants kidnapped an estimated 150 syrian christians in northeastern syria including women and the elderly. Eurozone finance ministers have formally approved a fourmonth extension of a Financial Rescue package for greece. The new syriza government in athens sought the temporary deal as part of a bid to undo the austerity demands of its international bailout. In exchange, greece committed to several reforms, including cracking down on corruption and tax invasion, and tightening public spending. European Commission Vice president Valdis Dombrovskis announced the deals approval. Basically, it was concluded that Reform Program or least of reforms presented by the new greek government is sufficient enough to start or to be a good starting point for successful completion of the program. The extension grants a temporary lifeline to greece but delays a longerterm standoff over its Campaign Pledge to reject the harshest austerity conditions imposed by creditors, which has caused massive unemployment and other hardships. The truce in Eastern Ukraine appears to be taking hold after more than a week of violence since it first took effect. Prorussian separatists have pulled their heavy weaponry from the front lines, a key demand under the ceasefire deal. The Ukrainian Military says fighting has ceased, but that its too early for a pullback of their own following the rebel offensive to take the city of debaltseve last week. On tuesday, a rebel leader said his side still aims to control the entire territory of the two separatist provinces including , the port of mariupol, but seek this through negotiations with the ukrainian side. In an appearance before congress, secretary of state john kerry accused russia of lying to his face about its military involvement in Eastern Ukraine. Russia has engaged in a rather remarkable period of the most overt and extensive propaganda exercise that i have seen since the very height of the cold war. And they have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies whatever you want to call them, about their activities there to my face, to the face of others, a many different occasions. Top Administration Officials continue to criticize israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu for an upcoming visit to the u. S. That seeks to undermine a nuclear deal with iran. Speaking to pbs, White House National security adviser susan rice said netanyahus planned visit and speech to Congress Said the trip has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, i think its destructive of the fabric of the relationship. Speaking before Congress Secretary of state john kerry criticized netanyahus stance without mentioning him by name. The policy is iran will not get a nuclear weapon. And anybody running around right now jumping in to say, well, we dont like the deal, or this or that, doesnt know what the deal is. I caution people to wait and see what these negotiations produce. The u. S. And iran will resume talks next week in a bid to reach a deal before a march 31 deadline. A leaked cable discussed on tuesdays democracy now shows israels own intelligence agency, the mossad, contradicted netanyahus claims on Irans Nuclear capability. Go to our website at democracynow. Org to watch the broadcast. Leaked cables show a number of foreign request to South African intelligence with the spying on activist ngos, and. According to al jazeera, one document shows south korea sought out a specific security assessment of greenpeace director kumi naidoo. He called the disclosure chilling. Sadly, especially after the Edward Snowden weeks and the wikileaks information came out that in fact we are heavily monitored and being under constant surveillance. But it is one thing [indiscernible] it is a little more chilling to have it confirmed as you are being right now. The disclosure is among scores containing cables leaked to al jazeera by South African intelligence source. We will speak to kumi naidoo later in the broadcast. The chicago mayors race is headed to an april runoff after incumbent rahm emanuel failed to get more than 50 of the vote. Emanuel will face secondplace finisher Jesus Chuy Garcia, a county commissioner and former immigrant rights activist who has support from the Chicago Teachers Union and other labor and progressive groups. Garcia received about 34 , far higher than expected. More on this story after headlines. Chicago police have reportedly operated a secret compound for detentions and interrogations, often with abusive methods. According to the guardian, prisoners as young as 15 years old have been taken to a nondescript warehouse known as homan square. Some are calling it the domestic equivalent of a cia black site overseas. Prisoners were denied access to their attorneys, beaten, and held for up to 24 hours without any official record of their detention. Brian jacob church, who was arrested during chicagos 2012 antinato protests, said he was shackled to a bench for 17 hours without being read his miranda rights. When they first arrested us, they took us to this building. We were never booked. We were never processed. I was in homan square for about 17 hours handcuffed to a bench before is actually allowed to see an attorney. At least one victim was found unresponsive in an Interrogation Room and later pronounced dead. Brought to the homan site are most often poor, black and brown. Two. Former senior officials in the Justice DepartmentCivil Rights Division have called on their colleagues to launch a probe. The Justice Department has announced it wont charge George Zimmerman for the 2012 killing of unarmed africanamerican teen Trayvon Martin in sanford, florida. Trayvon was walking home from a Convenience Store carrying candy and juice when zimmerman followed him, claiming he looked suspicious. After an altercation, zimmerman fatally shot trayvon in the chest. Zimmermans acquittal galvanized the country on issues of race and bias in the criminal justice system. On tuesday, federal officials said there is insufficient evidence to charge zimmerman with violating trayvons civil rights. In a statement, the Justice Department said our decision does not condone the shooting that resulted in the death of Trayvon Martin and is based solely on the high Legal Standard applicable to these cases. Thursday marks the third anniversary of Trayvon Martins death. And those are some of the headlines, this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. I am amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. We turn to chicago where mayor rahm emanuel failed to get more than 50 of the vote in tuesdays election and must now face off a runoff against secondplace finisher Jesus Chuy Garcia in april. Despite vastly outspending his four opponents and receiving an inperson endorsement from president obama, emanuel received only about 45 of the vote. Emanuel served as obamas first chief of staff. Chuy garcia, who serves on the cook cnty board of commissioners, received about 34 of the vote far higher than expected. Garcia jumped into the race last october after the Teachers Union president , karen lewis dropped out after being diagnosed with brain cancer. Garcia, who was born in mexico and is a former immigrant rights activist, addressed supporters last night. Would be here tonight. They wrote us off. They said we didnt have a chance. They said we didnt have any money. While they spent millions attacking as. [applause] well, we are still standing. [applause] we are still running. And we are going to win. We have something to say to all of those big corporations and special interest who spent all those billions to install their own mayor. We want change mayor Rahm Emmanuel raised roughly 16 million, more than four times his challengers combined. On tuesday night emmanuel vowed addressed supporters. Tomorrow morning, i will be seeing you at the el stops, as i have every morning. That skinny kid. Ive a sneaking feeling you will be there. We will get back out there talking to our friends and families and neighbors as they make a critical choice about who has the strength, who has the leadership, who has the ideas to move this rate city forward so we can secure the future of this great city for our children. Thank you and god bless you. To talk more about the chicago mayoral race, we are joined by Salim Muwakkil. He is Senior Editor of in these times and host of the the Salim Muwakkil show on wvon in chicago. Welcome back to democracy now. The significance of rahm emanuel, who president obama came out to endorse them who raised well, four times the amount of money of all of the candidates against him combined, him not hitting the 50 marks of yes to go to a runoff . He was widely disliked in chicago, especially in the africanamerican in the africanamerican committed the some and the Latino Community as well, but primarily, he was seen as a candidate of privilege, a candidate who is dedicated to the development of Downtown Chicago on neglect ing the less privileged precincts of the city. And he was seen as someone who would continue that process of privatizing the publics fear, or the commons, privatizing the commons to the highest bidder. And i think was simply a reaction to that attitude and especially with the activism and organizational prowess of the Chicago Teachers Union, his initial clash with them, i think, is what started his downward spiral in certain communities, because he had the kind of arrogant attitude and attitude that was procharter schools, sort of dismissive attitude toward the public in chicago. And the Teachers Union championed that alternative. In championed a lot of candidates in this contest, a lot of other candidates. They provided chuy garcia with some of his seat money in order to get started. There were a number of factors that contributed to emmanuels lack of fulfilling what a lot of the media took to be kind of conventional wisdom, that he would triumph. Well grassroots organizing of the Chicago Teachers Union and other organized labors and Community Groups that got involved with chuys campaign, they simply outnumbered the money. That will happen if the passion is there. One of the things that struck me which happens repeatedly in many of these local races, is that the polls were way off on the support for chuy garcia. There talking about he only had 20 support. I am wondering, one, your sense of what happened there and also, careless was originally the head of the Teachers Union and was supposed to run, but of course when she got ill, should a dropout. Im wondering if she hadnt, if she might have beaten emanuel in the first round . Is a great possibility of that, yes. But karen lewis was a polarizing figure, also. She would have inspired a lot of passion, but she may have inspired just as much opposition. I think chuy garcia is that compromise figure who was a moderate, a spot between her passion and her great passion and sort of organizational prowess and knowledge that chuy garcia possesses. Yes, but you know, karen lewis drafted chuy garcia, according to his own accounts. She was the one who convinced him to get into the race. She is a large part she is his ideological backbone, i guess you could say, or is great supporter. He certainly gives credit to her support. Chuy was a very essential part of the Harold Washington coalition back in the day. That stood him in good stead let us say, among many of the progressives who still rallied to his side. Many of them meeting progressives, black or aggressors progressives were in his scam. And also the candidacy of Willie Wilson and dock walls siphon the way some of that discontent from the black community that may have may have gone to rahm emanuel because there is some residual there is a little bit of animosity in the Africanamerican Community toward the latino committed the, primarily, because of economic threats. The threat of employment. Replacement. That kind of thing. So theres a little bit of that and the black unity. Perhaps, the candidacies of Willie Wilson and doc walls siphon that out to allow a clear kind of expression of discontent for the mayor to consolidate on chuy garcia. And the significance of luis gutierrez, maybe the most prominent latino leader in chicago not backing chuy garcia but going with rahm emanuel . That is another thing. Chuy comes out of the progressive wing of the latino political power in this city. And gutierrez represents the opposite wing, let us say. There was always that tension between the two. This is an indication that could dearest iteris really doesnt have the support of the committee behind him. He has long ago seated his credentials to support for these kind of mainstream candidates. He continues that dynamic. I think he was repudiated in this election. Im sure he wont get the message. Salim, thank you for being with us. When is the runoff in april and what was the voter turnout and you think that will change . The voter turnout was extremely low. Estimates are that in fact it may have been it may have hit a record for lack of interest. And that is something also that defies conventional wisdom. The pundits said if the turnout is low, it is likely that emanuel would win without the need of a runoff. But that too you know, was contradicted by the results of this election. We look forward to the general election and chuys chances look very good. Very good. Salim muwakkil is a Senior Editor