Prohibition of chemical weapons wednesday 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, we will speak with paul walker of green cross international. He just won the right livelihood award, otherwise known as the alternative nobel, for his work on dismantling chemical weapons. We will also speak with professor Stephen Zunes on how the Bush Administration forced out the former head of the opcw ahead of the iraq war. Then the committee to protect journalists criticizes the Obama Administrations crackdown on journalists in its firstever report on press freedoms in your in the United States. Here in the United States. We will speak with reports author, former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, i hate how when ha based group tasked with enforcing the chemical Weapons Convention. The group re
Prohibition of chemical weapons wednesday 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, we will speak with paul walker of green cross international. He just won the right livelihood award, otherwise known as the alternative nobel, for his work on dismantling chemical weapons. We will also speak with professor Stephen Zunes on how the Bush Administration forced out the former head of the opcw ahead of the iraq war. Then the committee to protect journalists criticizes the Obama Administrations crackdown on journalists in its firstever report on press freedoms in your in the United States. Here in the United States. We will speak with reports author, former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, i hate how when ha based group tasked with enforcing the chemical Weapons Convention. The group re
Issues related to meat and poultry is closed. In japan, radiation levels in seawater around a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant have hit their highest level in two years. The Plant Operator said contaminated soil was displaced by pressure as workers pumped chemicals into the ground in an attempt to harden it and prevent water from leaking into the ocean. On wednesday, the operator said six workers were doused with radioactive water after an employee mistakenly detached the pipe connected to a Water Treatment system. In france, the Constitutional Court has upheld a ban on fracking, the gastrointestinal, saying the measure legitimately protects the environment from the damaging effects of blasting water and chemicals deep into the earth. France first band fracking in 2011 despite pressure from the gas industry. Thanrth dakota, more 20,000 barrels of crude oil have leaked into a week field from a pipeline and owned by the company tesoro. The leak covered about seven a
Near future. Know what is us to going on, and now it is up to us to act. As revelations by Edward Snowden about u. S. Surveillance continued to shake germany, we speak to his european lawyer, wolfgang kaleck. As the German Government cancels a key contract with verizon, some lawmakers are now calling for the german chancellor to grant snowden asylum. Then we speak to the director of news at aljazeera english about the sentencing of the networks through reporters jump to 10 years and in egyptian prison. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from bonn, germany. President obama is asking congress for fasttrack authority and additional funding to speed the deportation of Migrant Children fleeing violence and poverty in central america. The white house says obama will submit an emergency request to waive antitrafficking rules that prevent children from being immediately deported. If approved,
Near future. Know what is us to going on, and now it is up to us to act. As revelations by Edward Snowden about u. S. Surveillance continued to shake germany, we speak to his european lawyer, wolfgang kaleck. As the German Government cancels a key contract with verizon, some lawmakers are now calling for the german chancellor to grant snowden asylum. Then we speak to the director of news at aljazeera english about the sentencing of the networks through reporters jump to 10 years and in egyptian prison. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from bonn, germany. President obama is asking congress for fasttrack authority and additional funding to speed the deportation of Migrant Children fleeing violence and poverty in central america. The white house says obama will submit an emergency request to waive antitrafficking rules that prevent children from being immediately deported. If approved,