US Loses 40% of Guns in Afghanistan, Decriminalizing Piracy & Why Weed isn’t Legal

Staff Writer, DB Holmes

Government / News 
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US Loses 40% of Guns in Afghanistan, 

Decriminalizing Piracy & Why Weed isn’t Legal

Abby Martin on a recent report by the US Inspector General for Afghanistan, highlighting how the Pentagon has lost track of more than 40 percent of guns delivered to Afghan security forces. A recent UK agreement that reduces the likelihood of individuals being sued by entertainment companies for file sharing. RT’s Sam Sacks discusses the shift in state policy on marijuana use, citing a report by journalist Lee Fang that outlines why marijuana is such a threat to the bottom line of American pharmaceutical companies. Abby then breaks through the propaganda rhetoric of ‘Human Shields’, calling out instances such as the second Iraq War and the current conflict in Gaza. Finally, BTS’s Manuel Rapalo remarks on the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI and a few of the most outrageous pretexts for war in modern history.

Source: Breaking the Set

​Total Surveillance in Afghanistan, Out-of-Control Presidential Powers & Boko Haram’s Roots

Staff Writer, DB Holmes

News / Government
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Total Surveillance in Afghanistan, Out-of-Control 

Presidential Powers & Boko Haram’s Roots

Abby Martin on the newest revelations from WikiLeaks that all Afghanistan’s phone calls are recorded by the NSA. Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica’s decision to give up his presidential mansion to 100 Syrian refugee children, accept Guantanamo Bay detainees into the country and reject the war on drugs. Eugene Puryear of the ANSWER Coalition talks about Boko Haram terrorist attacks and the wisdom of sending in a US military force to track down the kidnapped girls. Viewers called on to take part in the March Against Monsanto. Finally, RT’s Sam Sacks on the House of Representative’s decision to strip out an amendment to the Defense budget that would have repealed the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which is the justification for nearly all the actions taken during the War on Terror.

Source: Breaking the Set