Candidates jill stein and Rocky Anderson into the debate. Republican and democratic parties may have some differences, but they have both morphed into a militarist, anti democratic course that betrays the most basic and civil human rights. Democratic and republican establishments continue to inflict austerity on the American People while they continue squandering trillions of dollars on wars for oil, wall street bailouts, tax breaks for the wealthy, an enormous private Health Insurance waste. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama and republican challenger mitt romney met for their third and final debate monday night before the general election two weeks from today. With the focus on Foreign Policy, both candidates shared wide agreement on issues including support for the Israeli Government, the withdrawal of u. S. Forces from afghanistan, and opposition u. S. Military involvement in syria. But they clashed over a few key points including military spending, iran and libya. The one exchange, obama chided romney for seeking to increase military spending by an additional 2 trillion. Governor romney has not spent enough time looking at how our military works. He mentioned the navy and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Governor, with your horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. And so the question is not taken the battleship where were counting ships, it is, what are our capabilities the despite caution nonmilitary spending, the two candidates struggled at times to differentiate themselves on key Foreign Policy areas. Asked about u. S. Drone warfare abroad, romney said he fully backs the obama administrations efforts. Let me ask you, governor, because we know president obamas position on this, what is your position on the use of drones . Well, i believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out people who pose a threat to us and our friends around the world. And it is widely reported that drones are being used in drone strikes, and i support that entirely and feel the president was right to up the usage of that technology and believe that we should continue to use it to can the continue to go after people who represent a threat to the station and to our friends. As i said earlier, were going to have to do more than just going after leaders and killing bad guys, important as that is. Well have highlights from the debate and are expanding the debate special with thirdparty candidates jill stein and Rocky Anderson after the headlines. A retired cia agent who publicly confirmed the torture of al qaeda operative abuse of vita is set to plead guilty in court today to leaking classified information. John kiriakou who served from 1990 to 2004 is best known for the 2007 abc news interview detailing how zubaydah was waterboarded in cia custody. At the time, i felt waterboarding was something we needed to do. As time has passed, and as september 11 has moved farther and farther back into history, i think ive changed my mind. I think waterboarding is probably something we should not be doing. Why do you say that now . Because we are americans and we are better than that. Under a plea deal, kiriakou will admit to a single count of revealing the identity of a covert officer, which carries a potential sentence of up to 30 months. His indictment marked the latest in the obama administrations crackdown on government whistleblowers. An africanamerican woman in louisiana has a brutally attacked and left with serious injuries in an apparent hate crime. 20yearold Sharmeka Moffitt reportedly told police she was set on fire by three men who wrote the initials kkk and a racial slur on her car. She suffered burns on more than half her body and is in critical condition. No arrests have been made in the case. Doctors for the pakistani teenager activist Malala Yousafza say shes been able to stand and write for the First Time Since being shot and seriously wounded earlier this month. The 14yearold malala is undergoing medical treatment in britain after militants shot her for publicly campaigning for girls education. Her british doctors said she is showing slow improvement dayby day. She is not out of the woods yet. Having said that, she is doing very well. In fact, she was standing with some help for the first time this morning. She is communicating very freely. She is writing. She has a tube in because her way was swollen by the passing of the bullet. Of violence continues to flare in the panamanian city of colon and its protests over the sale of stateowned land to private companies. On monday, Police Fired Gunshots to disperse demonstrators who had blocked roads. The shootings followed days of protests that saw least three deaths last week, including a 9 yearold boy who died when police opened fire. The Honduras Supreme Court has struck down a proposal for a number of socalled private cities with their own tax and justice systems. Wealthy landowners have pushed the plan, drawn opposition from human rights groups. The honduran justices ruled the establishment of private jurisdictions outside of honduran law would violate the constitution. Former president jimmy carter is accusing the Israeli Government of abandoning any effort to reach a peace deal with the palestinians. Speaking during a visit to israel and the occupied west bank, president carter said israel, with u. S. Backing, has never been less publicly committed to a twostate solution. I think for the first time in my memory of the mideast peace process, we have reached a crisis stage. It because all the previous Prime Ministers of israel have been detective lee and proven the committed to a twoday solution. I was at every Prime Minister i have known has been a pursuer of the twoday solution. I dont know that president obama has found Prime Minister netanyahu is willing to go that route. In canada, thousands of people gathered outside the provincial parliament in victoria, British Columbia on monday to protest a massive oil pipeline. The rally was billed as the largest to date against the enbridge corporations Northern Gateway pipeline project, which would carry crude oil from alberta to canadas west coast. Critics say it stands to cut through sensitive environmental areas and First Nations lands. Rallies were held across the u. S. On monday in a national day of action against Police Brutality and the targeting of people of color. In new york, hundreds joined the october 22 coalition for a rally in march leaving from union square. A rally and march leaving from union square. Three robbers rocked my uncles grocery store. My brother was tried to escape the robbery and not get killed. When he ran out of the store, there is a Police Officer in front of the door and shot and. The Police Officer says it was a mistake. You cannot just kill someone as a mistake. Across the country, the Police Brutality movement is coming back to a place where people are Holding Police accountable from a Grassroots Level to a legislative level. We see the Committee Safety act being passed in new york as well as a Class Action Lawsuit against stop and frisk all way down to grass roots organizing. A recent study from the not the max Grassroots Movement out at least 110 africanamericans were killed by police, security guards, and selfappointed vigilantes during the First Six Months of the year, a rate of roughly one every 40 hours. Muslim american man has returned home to new york after his inclusion on this governments nofly list left him stranded in europe for over three weeks. Samir suljovic had been unable to return from vienna and munich after the u. S. Government barred him from flying without explanation. He was finally allowed to board a u. S. Bound flight after a Public Campaign on his behalf. Samir suljovic says he believes he was targeted because of his muslim faith. And a longtime native american activist Russell Means has died at the age of 72. Russell means was an early leader of the American Indian movement who helped head the uprising at wounded knee in 1973. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Our 100the road in city tour in summer fallow, california. President obama and republican challenger mitt romney squared off monday in florida in their final president ial debate before the november 6 general election. In a debate focused on Foreign Policy, both candidates agreed on a number of issues including the secret drone war, u. S. Support for israel, the withdrawal of u. S. Forces from afghanistan, and opposition to u. S. Military involvement in syria. But they clashed over military spending, iran, and libya. Several Key International issues were not addressed at all, including climate change, the economic crisis in europe, and u. S. Backed drug war in latin america. Last night broke the sound barrier once again by adding the voices of two third Party President ial candidates that were excluded from the debate. Jill stein of the green party and Rocky Anderson of the justice the party. We air the obamaromney debate, pausing the tape after each question to give dr. Stein and Rocky Anderson a chance to respond the same questions put to the major party candidates. We also invited libertarian candidate gary johnson, but he declined to join us. We recorded the show in front of a Live Audience here of the kosher Marin Jewish Community Center in san raphael california. Today we bring you highlights from our expanding the debate special. We begin with debate moderator Bob Schieffer of cbs news. The first segment is the challenge of the changing middle east and the new face of terrorism. I will put this into two segment so youll have two topic questions within this one segment on that subject. The first question, and it concerns libya, the controversy over what happened there continues. For americans are dead, including an american ambassador. Questions remain. What happens . What caused it . Was a spontaneous . Was it an intelligence failure . Was it a policy failure . Was there an attempt to mislead people about what really happened . Governor romney, he said this was an example of an american policy in the middle east that is unraveling before our very eyes. Id like to hear each of you give your thoughts on that. Governor romney, you won the toss. You go first. Thank you, bob, and thank you for agreeing to moderate this debate this evening. Thank you to Lynn University for welcoming us here, mr. President , it is good to be with you again. We were together at a humorous event a little earlier, and its nice to maybe be funny this time not on purpose. This is an area of great concern to the entire world and to america in particular, which is to see a complete change in the structure and the environment of the middle east. With the arab spring him a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation and opportunity for greater participation on the part of women in public life and in Economic Life in the middle east. But instead we have seen in nation after nation a number of disturbing events. In syria, 30,000 civilians having been killed by the military there. We see in libya an attack apparently by well, i think we know now by terrorists of some kind against our people there, to people dead. Our hearts and minds go to them. Mali has been taken over by al qaedatype individuals. In egypt, Muslim Brotherhood president. Were seeing a pretty dramatic reversal in the kind of hopes we have for that region. For years closer to a new query Nuclear Weapon, we have iran. I congratulate the president of taking a Osama Bin Laden and going after the leadership in al qaeda, but we cannot kill our way out of this mess. Were going to have to put in place a very comprehensive and robust strategy to help the world of islam and other parts of the world reject this radical violent extremism, which its really not on the run. Its certainly not hiding. This is a group that is now involved in 10 or 12 countries, and it presents an enormous threat to our friends, to the world come to america long term, and we must have a comprehensive strategy to help reject this kind of extremism. Mr. President. My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American People safe, and that is what we have done over the last four years. We ended the war in iraq, refocused our attention on those who actually killed us on 9 11. As a consequence, al qaedas core leadership has been decimated. In addition, we are able to transition out of afghanistan and irresponsible way, making sure that afghans take responsibility for a security, and that allows us also to rebuild alliances and make friends around the world to combat future threats. With respect to libya, as i indicated in the last debate, which we received that phone call, i immediately made sure that, number one, we did everything we could to secure those americans who were still in harms way. No. 2, that we would investigate exactly what happened. And most important, number three, that we would go after those who killed americans, and we would bring to justice. And that is exactly what were going to do. It is important step back and think about what happened in libya. Keep in mind, that i and americans took leadership in organizing an International Coalition that nature that we were able to without putting troops on the ground, at the cost of less than what we spent in two weeks in iraq liberate a country that had been under the yoke of dictatorship for 40 years, got rid of a despot who had killed americans. And as a consequence, despite this tragedy, you had tens of thousands of libyans after the events benghazi marching and saying, america is our friend. We stand with them. Now, that represents the opportunity we have to take advantage of. And you know, governor romney, im glad that you agree that we have been successful in going after al qaeda, but i have to tell you, you know, your strategy previously has been one that has been all over the map and is not designed cuban american sake or the bill on the opportunities that exist in the middle east. Thirdparty candidate, green Party President ial candidate jill stein, you have two minutes to respond to the question about the situation in libya. Thank you so much to democracy now for expanding this debate in a way that is absolutely essential. Here, i getting set up could not hear all of the comments barack obama and mitt romney, but i will respond generally to the issue of libya and the tragic events at the embassy. It is very clear there is blowback going on across the middle east, not only the unrest directed at the libyan embassy, likewise at the embassies across the middle east including in egypt we are seeing in afghanistan, our soldiers are being shot and by the Police Forces they are supposed to be training in afghanistan. We are seeing in pakistan, 75 of the pakistani to identify the United States now as their enemy, not as their supporter or their allies. In many ways, we are seeing a very illconceived, irresponsible, and immoral or policy come back to haunt us where the United States foreign policies have been based, unfortunate, on brute military force and wars for oil. Under my administration, we will have a Foreign Policy based on International Law and human rights and the use of diplomacy. Instead of fighting wars for oil, we will be leading, as america, a leading the fight to put an end to climate change. In afghanistan and iraq, we have spent about 5 trillion. We have seen thousands and thousands of american lives lost, hundreds of thousands of civilian lives lost, about 1 trillion a year being spent on a massive, bloated military, Industrial Security budget. Instead, we need to cut the military budget, right sizes year 2000 levels, and build a true secured here at home, bringing our war dollars home. Rocky anderson from the justice the party, yet two minutes. The question was whether the killings of the embassy in libya were a policy failure, whether they reflect a policy failure. And it is so clear to everyone that the policy failure has been the way the United States has treated so many nations in the middle east. Were like the bully that never got counseling, and we keep wondering, why dont they like us . We invaded iraq and occupied the country. It was completely illegal. Two United Nations secretary general declared it was illegal. It was a war of aggression and all done on a pack of lies.