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is josh letterman today gave us some insight when he quoted the pentagon spokesman as saying we don't have any plan right now for sequestration to have that certainly appears to be the case where the pentagon has been spending money makes me wonder if they're insuring that the private counterparts will survive the cuts if they're just ignoring the january deadline. yep but nobody else picks up on it because that means you actually have to pay attention so today i'd like to say told you so to the mainstream media but the thing is that we find ourselves in this position so often here on the show so i think that we're going to create an entire segment for it and it will be called. so told she told you so told you so. so you guys going forward that on future shows but tonight it's just one more thing that the mainstream media chooses to miss. we often talk about the difference between the official unemployment numbers that are put out there and the use six you six measures not only those who are out of work but also those who are marginally attached part time workers so all of fishel unem
is josh letterman today gave us some insight when he quoted the pentagon spokesman as saying we don't have any plan right now for sequestration to have that certainly appears to be the case where the pentagon has been spending money makes me wonder if they're insuring that the private counterparts will survive the cuts if they're just ignoring the january deadline. yep but nobody else picks up on it because that means you actually have to pay attention so today i'd like to say told you so to...
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is josh letterman today gave us some insight when he quoted the pentagon spokesman as saying we don't have any plan right now for sequitur. so yeah that certainly appears to be the case the way the pentagon has been spending money makes me wonder if they're insuring that the private counterparts will survive the cuts if they're just ignoring that january deadline regardless of the reasoning it is astounding to see the pentagon blow money like this one supposedly government spending our deficits and our control but then of course there is your military industrial complex at work people no matter what it will keep on truckin. our guys it is time for our last break the evening but there's a lot more to come public schools are increasingly segregating classes by sex so does that make as much sense as a clean shot and then can college students major and even called their find out on happy hour and be read as a returning archy's lauren literally join us after that. she did laboratory. was to build the world's most sophisticated robot which doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to
is josh letterman today gave us some insight when he quoted the pentagon spokesman as saying we don't have any plan right now for sequitur. so yeah that certainly appears to be the case the way the pentagon has been spending money makes me wonder if they're insuring that the private counterparts will survive the cuts if they're just ignoring that january deadline regardless of the reasoning it is astounding to see the pentagon blow money like this one supposedly government spending our deficits...
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now the proud owner of nine point two billion dollars worth of new defense contracts or rather the pentagon is with the help of your pocketbook we'll tell you what they bought with all that cash. plus it's a hard knock life for american students they're becoming prisoners to their education and more ways than one from cops in the classroom to metal detectors at every door it's school safety on hyperdrive so when did we shift from protecting american youth to imprisoning them. it's tuesday july tenth four pm here in washington d.c. and liz well when you're watching our t.v. well today marks the twentieth anniversary that x. panama dictator manuel noriega was sentenced for drug trafficking and miami on the payroll of the cia and graduate of the school of america as noriega has become notorious for representing one of the most serious foreign policy failures for the united states and as the u.s. war on drugs drags on into its fourth decade it looks like little has actually been achieved and the crack down violence rages on in latin america the demand for drugs still remains and while brutal dr
now the proud owner of nine point two billion dollars worth of new defense contracts or rather the pentagon is with the help of your pocketbook we'll tell you what they bought with all that cash. plus it's a hard knock life for american students they're becoming prisoners to their education and more ways than one from cops in the classroom to metal detectors at every door it's school safety on hyperdrive so when did we shift from protecting american youth to imprisoning them. it's tuesday july...
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that we give to everything in the budget everything in the defense budget is classified the pentagon works hard to defend american values and even harder to spend taxpayer money the problem we don't have a clue exactly what they're buying coming up why this may be a violation of your constitutional right. it's wednesday journal july eleventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine frizz out here watching our t.v. . let's begin this hour by taking a closer look at our internet freedoms in the u.s. and around the world and we all remember a few months ago when some members of congress tried to pass the stop online piracy act and the protect ip act sopa and pipa now thousands of websites including wicked p.d.'s staged blackouts and protests and soon enough people were paying so much attention that those two pieces of legislation were voted down well it turns out soap is evil twin brother is back and his name is the intellectual property act and take a look at this it's hard to tell which is which both are talking about advancing intellectual property rights and preventing infringement
that we give to everything in the budget everything in the defense budget is classified the pentagon works hard to defend american values and even harder to spend taxpayer money the problem we don't have a clue exactly what they're buying coming up why this may be a violation of your constitutional right. it's wednesday journal july eleventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine frizz out here watching our t.v. . let's begin this hour by taking a closer look at our internet freedoms in the...
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we got september the eleventh two thousand and one and the attacks on the world trade center in the pentagon the white house while the saudis are obviously on the qataris are overseas sending in their arms across the border is interesting that saudi arabia is also having problems at home i don't think you'll see the mainstream media want to cover problems in saudi arabia that oil superpower in the oil rich east of the country they will no doubt get the arms and i notice that the syrian foreign minister being over in tehran and already the american press talking about syria's w m d and and the chemical weapons i don't think this time around the west are going to intervene using their means they're going to they're going to go the proxy way they did in afghanistan. you're watching r t live from moscow still ahead for you in the program a romanian president trying on a bus a school survives a second impeachment attempt at a spider dorothy wanted him out of office for supporting grounds of partial sterett he shows that sometimes it's better to be lucky than good plus. tops the list of countries
we got september the eleventh two thousand and one and the attacks on the world trade center in the pentagon the white house while the saudis are obviously on the qataris are overseas sending in their arms across the border is interesting that saudi arabia is also having problems at home i don't think you'll see the mainstream media want to cover problems in saudi arabia that oil superpower in the oil rich east of the country they will no doubt get the arms and i notice that the syrian foreign...
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practice pays off american media types the pentagon's one hundred percent accuracy rate in pakistan drone strikes helped along by a written definition for terrorists. a disturbing discovery in russian woodland police say almost two hundred fifty human fetuses frank dumped in plastic barrels for over five months old and may have been used for legal research. and a heavy weight boost for julian assange his legal team the man who indicted chilean dictator pinochet for human rights abuses now joins the whistleblower in his fight . next to his instigating the syrian war and has it now reached a tipping point that's the focus of today's cross talk just a few moments away. if you. start. to. move hello and welcome to cross talk i want you to know is end game in sight for the assad regime with the u.s. in a regional ally seeking to subvert diplomacy and the warning from damascus it will use chemical weapons if faced with foreign intervention it would appear the syrian civil war is that it chipping. can. start. to cross-talk serious possible endgame i'm joined by carl shohreh in london he's a midd
practice pays off american media types the pentagon's one hundred percent accuracy rate in pakistan drone strikes helped along by a written definition for terrorists. a disturbing discovery in russian woodland police say almost two hundred fifty human fetuses frank dumped in plastic barrels for over five months old and may have been used for legal research. and a heavy weight boost for julian assange his legal team the man who indicted chilean dictator pinochet for human rights abuses now joins...
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some two bit dictator country in nowhere's ville that's not a win that is in fact a loss because the pentagon is too big to win so here we see a situation over and over across every single sector controlled by these monopolies and imperial powers whether it's the financial system whether it's the movie system the entertainment system whether it's a case of penn state. and you just did not reality and just put out propaganda and fake stories but i think that adds up to a zombie population running around naked eating people's faces off because they sense the truth they know somewhere that all of these are law and we keep on hearing lies and lies instead to protect these little of darks who have the contract to deliver the food to the soldiers but when we've been talking about the zombie apocalypse for a number of weeks all these bath salt inhaling flesh eating zombies attacking people in the street in america culminating in the aurora colorado batman massacre that was the ultimate walking zombie flesh eating attack with assault weapons and tear gas and armored swat jacket where so this again is
some two bit dictator country in nowhere's ville that's not a win that is in fact a loss because the pentagon is too big to win so here we see a situation over and over across every single sector controlled by these monopolies and imperial powers whether it's the financial system whether it's the movie system the entertainment system whether it's a case of penn state. and you just did not reality and just put out propaganda and fake stories but i think that adds up to a zombie population...
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and detainees problems with mind bending drugs the pentagon report shows inmates in secret foreign prisons were interrogated while under the influence of chemical. campaign groups funded from abroad will face tougher scrutiny in russia other countries the lower house of parliament has given the green light to a bill forcing such organizations to register as foreign agents as few groups cannot reports now from the state. these were the final readings of the draft so the deputies of the duma were pretty much discussing the amendments previously put forward including those proposed by president bush and they did end up passing the draft so it's now up to the upper house of parliament even those that are we sure council to approve it and then for the president to sign it so the idea is all nonprofit organizations funded from abroad and involved in politics they have to register themselves and ask for the agents and to report to the authorities all of their activities to use to prevent alcide forces from interfering with the russians internal matters this draft did forms part of brazil and disc
and detainees problems with mind bending drugs the pentagon report shows inmates in secret foreign prisons were interrogated while under the influence of chemical. campaign groups funded from abroad will face tougher scrutiny in russia other countries the lower house of parliament has given the green light to a bill forcing such organizations to register as foreign agents as few groups cannot reports now from the state. these were the final readings of the draft so the deputies of the duma were...
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and actual experts are far less hysterical they point out that even with the cuts the pentagon's budget will still be larger than it was in two thousand and six and that today we're in one less full blown war than we were back that still defense contractors are desperately trying to take spending cuts off the table and some like military giant credit when they are even calling on republicans to raise taxes to prevent the the defense cuts course the reason why we're here in the first place is because republicans refused to raise taxes during the debt limit negotiations democrats pleaded with republicans to please put tax increases or at least closing loopholes on the table to strike a so-called grand bargain with deficit reduction to avoid a trillion dollars worth of automatic spending cuts clued in that half a half a trillion five hundred billion from the defense department republicans wouldn't do it since grover norquist told them they couldn't so no deal was struck and the automatic trigger of defense cuts was put in place so now republicans are stuck between violating their no tax pl
and actual experts are far less hysterical they point out that even with the cuts the pentagon's budget will still be larger than it was in two thousand and six and that today we're in one less full blown war than we were back that still defense contractors are desperately trying to take spending cuts off the table and some like military giant credit when they are even calling on republicans to raise taxes to prevent the the defense cuts course the reason why we're here in the first place is...
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and iowa has fully joined the fear mongering club explaining how this would occur every aspect of the pentagon from jobs to of course overall national security. it means nearly a million jobs in the defense industrial base but as senator mccain has said our secretary of defense has said essentially be shooting ourselves in the head if we go forward in this hauling out our forces jeopardizing our national security and i think there is to be a wake up call to congress on both sides of the. yeah she actually said shooting ourselves in the head just more evidence of the mounting hyperbolic language that we've seen over and over again from the war hawks. in modern warfare if you're not in advancing improving your technology you become very much at risk so if we cut a trillion dollars out over the next decade our modernization programs come to a halt and you're talking about personnel cuts of gigantic proportions so you can't project force as the navy will have fewer ships than we've had one hundred years will be given one hundred fifty to two hundred thousand pink slips to active men and women in t
and iowa has fully joined the fear mongering club explaining how this would occur every aspect of the pentagon from jobs to of course overall national security. it means nearly a million jobs in the defense industrial base but as senator mccain has said our secretary of defense has said essentially be shooting ourselves in the head if we go forward in this hauling out our forces jeopardizing our national security and i think there is to be a wake up call to congress on both sides of the. yeah...
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pentagon mind montana mowbray out for a multimillion dollar overhaul its critics say the promise closure of the scandal ridden. seems ever more on likely. and russian lawmakers their view would drop the bill to name noncommercial groups funded from abroad as foreign agents a move opposition party say could be used to crack down on service. next to dark secrets of america's most infamous prison camp as we talk to a british lawyer who's been at the heart of some of the worst cases of abuse in guantanamo. today i'm joined by philip sands professor international or university college london and author of torture team and investigation into what's going on behind the closed doors of kuantan them obey mr fans thanks for speaking to r.t. so what torture techniques are interrogation techniques of actually being used at one time i well it's pretty well established now what what emerged they adopted in the autumn of two thousand and two in the u.s. department of defense a series of eighteen techniques of interrogation arranged in three groups and the first group was. shouting and screaming. the se
pentagon mind montana mowbray out for a multimillion dollar overhaul its critics say the promise closure of the scandal ridden. seems ever more on likely. and russian lawmakers their view would drop the bill to name noncommercial groups funded from abroad as foreign agents a move opposition party say could be used to crack down on service. next to dark secrets of america's most infamous prison camp as we talk to a british lawyer who's been at the heart of some of the worst cases of abuse in...
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north korea and other threats that there will be plenty to keep black budget business booming at the pentagon christine for our team. well we were talking a little earlier about increased talk of copyrights and wrongs with legislation like sopa and pipa it turns out a lot of that actually stemmed from the case of napster napster of course the first file sharing peer to peer system that was a lot more easy for the average person to understand it was the biggest and most popular and of course an easy target therefore when napster was sued it was held responsible for all of the material its users shared making it impossible for them to continue doing business as it was if you log on today an app store is completely different now and arguably not nearly as successful as it was of course we have i tunes now but there are been some pretty major results in other realms and this is the subject of a paper called copyright and innovation the untold story by rockers law professor michael carrier he writes the napster experience emboldened anyone to go to litigation even though some record label official
north korea and other threats that there will be plenty to keep black budget business booming at the pentagon christine for our team. well we were talking a little earlier about increased talk of copyrights and wrongs with legislation like sopa and pipa it turns out a lot of that actually stemmed from the case of napster napster of course the first file sharing peer to peer system that was a lot more easy for the average person to understand it was the biggest and most popular and of course an...
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anything you have to say so like i said there is this five billion dollars of new arms deals that the pentagon basically presented to congress yesterday the big they were those three problem in the middle east let me say i was there sixty patriot advance capability missiles to kuwait by a fine radars excuse me to iran and you know why or when i don't want to be a threat copters to lebanon now we know you know why we want to run to be a threat the firearms a threat we've got to sell all these weapons to these people including about sixty billion dollars worth of lockheed martin medium and low altitude air and fits so we're going to be making a lot of money but what about the cuts do you think of the sequestration is actually going to go through. will not do enough but is it going to do that and tell me explain this mentality me to me that i just can't understand of congress actually passing a bill already passing passing a law already we're going to do this and then finding a way to just leave all your way out of all the commitments that you're specially weasel your way out with regard to defen
anything you have to say so like i said there is this five billion dollars of new arms deals that the pentagon basically presented to congress yesterday the big they were those three problem in the middle east let me say i was there sixty patriot advance capability missiles to kuwait by a fine radars excuse me to iran and you know why or when i don't want to be a threat copters to lebanon now we know you know why we want to run to be a threat the firearms a threat we've got to sell all these...
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policy stories fiske us tonight with our guest perhaps most notably five new weapons deals with the pentagon is telling congress they would like to make let's just say they might give us a clue about our policy toward syria towards iran towards the asia pacific sun in that case how much does the election matter meanwhile retired generals are warning congress once again that our view clear arsenal is too big too expensive and out of date and the senate intelligence committee adopted a dozen anti leak measures yesterday but to be honest they're not as bad as we expected so here to discuss this with me is lawrence wilkerson retired united states army colonel and former chief of staff to colin powell lawrence thanks so much for coming on the show tonight but really it's been a while since we've had you on so we have a lot to cover and it's going to be the last time that we have you on the program and so you know just for starters i got to get your take how much do you think that this election coming up in november and you and i speak about president obama's foreign policy all the time we've lear
policy stories fiske us tonight with our guest perhaps most notably five new weapons deals with the pentagon is telling congress they would like to make let's just say they might give us a clue about our policy toward syria towards iran towards the asia pacific sun in that case how much does the election matter meanwhile retired generals are warning congress once again that our view clear arsenal is too big too expensive and out of date and the senate intelligence committee adopted a dozen anti...
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it's quite possible that this school is training the dictators of tomorrow is exactly right and the pentagon refuses to release the names of the graduates since two thousand and four so we continue to press the government to release those names of instructors and graduates and to continue to take our protests to school it seems shocking to me that there wouldn't be some i mean in the wake of. nine eleven out. dictators that did attend this school that there aren't more safeguards to prevent this from happening whatever that may be unfortunately that's right the school the americas once they change their name to the western hemisphere institute for security cooperation established a rubberstamp board oversight board which does little to actually track the graduates and most of the information that we have received is from our social movements allies in latin america and many of those social movements who have tracked the graduates in their countries have now asked their presidents to pull out of the school americas ecuador recently just pulled out of the school americas just two weeks ago bec
it's quite possible that this school is training the dictators of tomorrow is exactly right and the pentagon refuses to release the names of the graduates since two thousand and four so we continue to press the government to release those names of instructors and graduates and to continue to take our protests to school it seems shocking to me that there wouldn't be some i mean in the wake of. nine eleven out. dictators that did attend this school that there aren't more safeguards to prevent...
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the annual pentagon report by the congressional research service. so what do we really know about what's happening in the country and is a diplomatic solution possible at this point joining me now is called dokken feld he is the director of advocacy at the project on middle east democracy welcome call so i want to start off talking about what's going on today or what has been postponed over at the u.n. security council tell us more about this resolution that the u.n. security council in the council that is being backed by the west or the main debated the security council now is is when you when renewing the mission if there's going to be penalties and sanctions behind it course this point i think that the west is looking for teeth behind that one includes economic sanctions possible arms embargo and so on and that's what they're really pushing for their russian counterparts you know this is really different from what the proposal from china and russia they are refusing to get to come on board with the west proposal talk about the difference between
the annual pentagon report by the congressional research service. so what do we really know about what's happening in the country and is a diplomatic solution possible at this point joining me now is called dokken feld he is the director of advocacy at the project on middle east democracy welcome call so i want to start off talking about what's going on today or what has been postponed over at the u.n. security council tell us more about this resolution that the u.n. security council in the...
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north korea and other threats that there will be plenty to keep black budget business booming at the pentagon christine present r.t. . all right so there's been a bit of fallout from a recent comedy show at a los angeles comedy club and the blog of a girl in the audience what happened when daniel tosh of tosh point zero made the remark that all jokes about rape are funny so the girl wrote quote so i yelled out actually rape jokes are never funny i did it because even though being disruptive is against my nature i felt that sitting there and saying nothing or leaving quietly would have been against my values as a person and as a woman i don't sit there while someone tells me how i should feel about something as profound and damaging as rape after i called out to him tosh paused for a moment and then he said would it be nice or wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by like five guys right now like right now what if a bunch of guys just rape her. so we want to talk about this and about free speech political correctness and if there should be lines drawn or exceptions made especially when i
north korea and other threats that there will be plenty to keep black budget business booming at the pentagon christine present r.t. . all right so there's been a bit of fallout from a recent comedy show at a los angeles comedy club and the blog of a girl in the audience what happened when daniel tosh of tosh point zero made the remark that all jokes about rape are funny so the girl wrote quote so i yelled out actually rape jokes are never funny i did it because even though being disruptive is...
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the public affairs office of working for the pentagon they don't need the job was to be more. but remains will it's impossible no matter how hard they try to hide it it's true friends. it's inherently dramatic we love the visuals and it always gets us viewers but combat is the smallest part of any war it's the smallest feature yet we define war by the guns and tanks and yet collateral damage. the destruction of civil life is the longest lasting and the largest portion of every war but as you know i cover what i'm not scared we've been living in denial when you are that scared but you do it we can't to cover the good life outside of the story we were the only witness to what was going on a lot of. you know when i went to baghdad in march of two thousand and three and i was determined not to treat war as a spectacle but rather treated as a backdrop to a very human story management a story of suffering a story of isolation a story of agony of wong's. and time and again i saw the stories and the people that i met in baghdad in the. this is an up or you know war you see the best an
the public affairs office of working for the pentagon they don't need the job was to be more. but remains will it's impossible no matter how hard they try to hide it it's true friends. it's inherently dramatic we love the visuals and it always gets us viewers but combat is the smallest part of any war it's the smallest feature yet we define war by the guns and tanks and yet collateral damage. the destruction of civil life is the longest lasting and the largest portion of every war but as you...
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research program into the consequences of a new uranium based weapon after testing on behalf of the pentagon he became its first victim he now suffers from several cancers and renal problems. what i'm doing is blowing up the shootin and burning up but what you see is the direct impact on the iranian missions iranian impact but the uranium the brace of burned and burns and burned and burned and burned for a long time you can see how long it lasts he claims that your ania has been used in american munitions since one thousand nine hundred one in missiles shells and armor plating for military vehicles. and when i shut up would four by fours meant it work great this stuff is good ok i'm going to have to understand the purpose is to kill and destroy and uranium weapons are the ultimate because there's a massive fireball a burning uranium for eight months that are moving extraordinarily high velocity and fragments that are not burning their cost massive secondary explosions or massive fires in a thing that will burn. your anian is a mineral used in nuclear power plants part of it isn't rich and us
research program into the consequences of a new uranium based weapon after testing on behalf of the pentagon he became its first victim he now suffers from several cancers and renal problems. what i'm doing is blowing up the shootin and burning up but what you see is the direct impact on the iranian missions iranian impact but the uranium the brace of burned and burns and burned and burned and burned for a long time you can see how long it lasts he claims that your ania has been used in...
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that al-jazeera had given the pentagon. his era the message was very very clear stop telling the truth. that's why they were targeted in baghdad and that's why they were targeted. al-jazeera almost revolutionized the reporting of wars. and incurred great anger. in military establishments among government. some jealousy amongst their colleagues i have to say. a great deal of admiration. that's the message that was a message to them to all those the others in the palestine hotel. the people who died there it was a warning to all of this. when that tank pulled up outside the palestine hotel and fired it was a warning. you will do as we tell you to do as journalists or else. why did journalist become a target. in order to answer this question we need to go back in time. don't know what's our mission we're about to embark on our mission today is to report down to the site of the ambush seventy miles south of here and attempt to kill the b c one two three ball with the powerful but below the water cronkite a distinguished t.v. re
that al-jazeera had given the pentagon. his era the message was very very clear stop telling the truth. that's why they were targeted in baghdad and that's why they were targeted. al-jazeera almost revolutionized the reporting of wars. and incurred great anger. in military establishments among government. some jealousy amongst their colleagues i have to say. a great deal of admiration. that's the message that was a message to them to all those the others in the palestine hotel. the people who...
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the pentagon mind kuantan a mowbray out for a multimillion dollar overhaul as critics say the promised closure of the scandal ridden facility seems ever more than likely. and russian lawmakers review a draft bill to name noncommercial groups funded from abroad as foreign agents a move opposition parties say could be used to crackdown on activists. next peter the well and his gadgets cost the sudanese conflict in crosstalk. please. you can. start. a low in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle is the arab spring finally coming to sudan as the protest movement grows the regime of al bashir appears to have limited options with a contract thing economy and it goes with the newly independent south still at a standstill is it possible the west help by local actors will i regime change. and. start. to cross whether sudan will also experience an arab spring i'm joined by omar is small in washington he is co-founder of the darfur peace and development organisation and advisor at the end of project in dubai we go to mohamed osman he is the associate editor of the online newspaper sudan tribune
the pentagon mind kuantan a mowbray out for a multimillion dollar overhaul as critics say the promised closure of the scandal ridden facility seems ever more than likely. and russian lawmakers review a draft bill to name noncommercial groups funded from abroad as foreign agents a move opposition parties say could be used to crackdown on activists. next peter the well and his gadgets cost the sudanese conflict in crosstalk. please. you can. start. a low in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle...
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prisons were drugged with mind altering substances a pentagon report has revealed prisoners were interrogated while on medication pushing their evidence into question and investigative journalist jason lippold was one of those who requested the release of this information and he says the u.s. was just looking to get confessions no matter whether they were true or false. one thing that's very important to point out here is that these drugs these psychoactive. anti-psychotic medications that were given to these detainees and those detainees were interrogated while they were on those medications the government report the pentagon watchdog report says that it could produce unreliable information in the d.c. circuit. the system that's set up there now is that everything of detainees says in a hey vs in there hey vs corpus case is presumed to be true so the burden falls upon the detainees to prove that it's not true in the case of one detainees that we identified in the report he confessed to his interrogator that he was a member of al qaida and we also know that this detained he was injected with
prisons were drugged with mind altering substances a pentagon report has revealed prisoners were interrogated while on medication pushing their evidence into question and investigative journalist jason lippold was one of those who requested the release of this information and he says the u.s. was just looking to get confessions no matter whether they were true or false. one thing that's very important to point out here is that these drugs these psychoactive. anti-psychotic medications that were...
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right around the nine eleven period and he was told by high officials in the pentagon that washington planned regime change in about half a dozen regional countries afghanistan of course iraq libya syria ok. let me go to karl and one of them here and stephen just mentioned all those countries as ever as it ever worked out very well. can i just say someday and oh i mean i think stephen is sort of getting himself a bit more than a bit confused and receiving that amongst a lot of western anti imperialist is this desire to oppose western intervention is kind of pushing them in the direction of kind of distorting if you like what's happening on the ground or a distorted understanding of what's happening in the ground i think also the other problem is this appearance that the us has any clear sense of purpose or clarity in the middle east has been completely shattered and that's even more destructive because the united states now in the middle east because it doesn't have a clear sense of purpose is just very detrimental to stability and this is what we need to focus on so unfortunately i m
right around the nine eleven period and he was told by high officials in the pentagon that washington planned regime change in about half a dozen regional countries afghanistan of course iraq libya syria ok. let me go to karl and one of them here and stephen just mentioned all those countries as ever as it ever worked out very well. can i just say someday and oh i mean i think stephen is sort of getting himself a bit more than a bit confused and receiving that amongst a lot of western anti...
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and a pentagon line. for a multi-billion dollar overhaul is critics say the promised closure of the scandal ridden facility seems ever more unlikely. hello this is r t thanks for choosing us it's eleven pm now moscow time first of all america's chief diplomat threatening russia and china with consequences for what she sees as siding with the regime in syria hillary clinton was speaking at the paris conference of the syrian rebels key supporters more on this now from artie's people all over. well you heard it vitriolic address from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton directing a threat towards russia and china saying that they would have to pay a price for what she sees as their support of the assad government you know this wasn't the only thing that hillary clinton not to say she was he said that russian helicopters were being used to kill civilians on the ground in syria now if we look closer at this there are some really inconsistency between where we were a week ago following the conference in gene
and a pentagon line. for a multi-billion dollar overhaul is critics say the promised closure of the scandal ridden facility seems ever more unlikely. hello this is r t thanks for choosing us it's eleven pm now moscow time first of all america's chief diplomat threatening russia and china with consequences for what she sees as siding with the regime in syria hillary clinton was speaking at the paris conference of the syrian rebels key supporters more on this now from artie's people all over....
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was the pentagon minds kuantan a mowbray out for a multi-million dollar overhaul that's critics say the promise closure of the scandal ridden facility seems ever more unlikely. and russian lawmakers review a draft bill to name noncommercial groups funded from abroad as foreign agents a move opposition parties say could be used to crack down on activists. from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and you so now it's good to have you with us four pm here in the russian capital now america's chief diplomat is threatening russia and china with consequences for what she sees as siding with the regime in syria and larry clinton was speaking at the paris conference of the syrian rebels q supporters live now to archie's peter all over who is following these developments peter it seems that russia and the u.s. are moving closer in fact on finding common ground on syria just last week was that all of false signal. well what we've heard is a vitriolic statement from the u.s. secretary general hillary clinton saying that russia and china will have to pay a price for what she se
was the pentagon minds kuantan a mowbray out for a multi-million dollar overhaul that's critics say the promise closure of the scandal ridden facility seems ever more unlikely. and russian lawmakers review a draft bill to name noncommercial groups funded from abroad as foreign agents a move opposition parties say could be used to crack down on activists. from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and you so now it's good to have you with us four pm here in the russian...
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showing no signs of letting up we were speaking to a former pentagon official a bit earlier in the program on r.t. and he was saying that the whether you like it or not at the end of the day the more international support in syria the more it will become a basis for flourishing extremism if i may for just a moment what about the average syrian the average syrian who is getting artillery shells falling on his or her head do you think they care what the so-called international community is getting up to in geneva. i think this is this is the sad part because i think there's a lot of people in syria want a genuine transition to have. a real meaningful dialogue between everybody in syria but they don't want the interference of american and the west and the persian gulf country we have to look at the fact every time the west and the arab persian gulf countries and. we still see a civil war taking place look at the situation and libya because the alliance to france and other western countries turkey qatar involved the process of killing still continue even after he is gone what they want to syri
showing no signs of letting up we were speaking to a former pentagon official a bit earlier in the program on r.t. and he was saying that the whether you like it or not at the end of the day the more international support in syria the more it will become a basis for flourishing extremism if i may for just a moment what about the average syrian the average syrian who is getting artillery shells falling on his or her head do you think they care what the so-called international community is...
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pentagon but also exports have a deal to sell and by seventeen attack helicopters they were being used by afghan forces after the u.s. withdraws from afghanistan in twenty eight fourteen now washington has blocked existing agreements claiming that the russian company is arming the syrian regime. and that while the financial turmoil that i've been talking about is very much in captivating the world it's becoming increasingly hard for people to find secure investment opportunities as well are calling to report by citi group russia has all the credentials to blow in big money the cash she has all the details. the eurozone crisis is three years in the making and there's no end in sight so working retail investors safely work their money to wait out the storm banking giant citi group says russia why while their answer is simple russia's economy stronger and has more potential than most european economies see for yourself russia's g.d.p. may grow as much as four percent this year that's according to the economy ministry europe while most of it expects negative growth in two thousand and twel
pentagon but also exports have a deal to sell and by seventeen attack helicopters they were being used by afghan forces after the u.s. withdraws from afghanistan in twenty eight fourteen now washington has blocked existing agreements claiming that the russian company is arming the syrian regime. and that while the financial turmoil that i've been talking about is very much in captivating the world it's becoming increasingly hard for people to find secure investment opportunities as well are...
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house of representatives has approved a six hundred billion dollar bill for pentagon funding and wars next year the hotly debated bill has seen numerous protests from the democrat minority in the house they say it breaks a spending deal as it's eight billion dollars above last year's budget caps the white house had earlier vowed to veto the bill in its current form. newly elected egyptian president mohamed morsi has held a historic meeting with hamas chief khalid meshaal it's being widely seen as a change in egypt's policy towards both palestine and israel as morsi affirmed his support for the people of gaza which is ruled by hamas the meeting is the first between a delegation from the palestinian movement and gyptian head of state. and shall be . all right time now to check in with our business desk marina good morning good morning well basically what we have here right now is only one trading i'll tell you why russia is a good place to invest in just a second but for now let's look at the latest figures of what we have there it's basically a mixed picture of the nikkei is losing abo
house of representatives has approved a six hundred billion dollar bill for pentagon funding and wars next year the hotly debated bill has seen numerous protests from the democrat minority in the house they say it breaks a spending deal as it's eight billion dollars above last year's budget caps the white house had earlier vowed to veto the bill in its current form. newly elected egyptian president mohamed morsi has held a historic meeting with hamas chief khalid meshaal it's being widely seen...