well look at the details of the un report on the flotilla raid a few months back in israel the panel determined that israel violated humanitarian and human rights laws and killed an american citizen execution style you would think that such a report would elicit outrage and anger yet there hasn't even been a peep so look at why there hasn't been any outrage at the death of an american citizen with investigative historian dr gareth porter then his millions flock to theaters to catch the social network on the big screen we're going to reflect on the impact that facebook's founder mark zuckerberg has had on our everyday lives he's portrayed as a tragic hero in the film but a hero nonetheless so can we say the same for his creation for facebook former m.t.v. reporter kurt loder will give us his opinion on the phenomenon and it's friday which means that we're going to bring you a mash up of everything politics osama bin laden's latest tape warns of global warming and we'll show you some nifty little kitchen gadgets for mind is just how

lazy americans become now the twins will be here to rehash all that at the end of the show but now let's move on to our top story. the attempted overthrow of ecuadorian president rafael correa has put latin america back in the news or at least kind of from venezuela haiti to honduras coups involving the united states why not seem like anything new to some people but could the emergence of a democratically elected leftist government actually challenge the dominance of the u.s. the one that they've enjoyed in latin america artesia one half years has the report . was that it was a moment that ignited latin america once again was the attempted coup against a democratically elected president of ecuador rafael correa seem to remain lessons of previous coups that destabilized once functioning democracies. of the last one happens here last year in hundred us ok the coup mongers they call

them the natural allies of the united states and why are they natural allies because this coup is there because it corresponds to the interests of the united states almost immediately the u.s. was implicated in the one doing coup the right wing military generals who carried out the ousting of the democratically elected president of honduras one was the liar were trained in the united states u.s. state department was the first to support the right wing government in an election that countries in the world deemed as illegitimate as for the former president of honduras he was in the midst of implementing leftist reforms similar to those in venezuela brazil bolivia and ecuador. which is why the crisis in ecuador brought back memories of one during this for a doll for pastore he worked for the lie of government you know you got to wonder how these forces and how these dark sectors within ecuadorian society are strength and then emboldened by the coup in honduras and by the president that was said and

of course by the decision made by the u.s. to support that coup nearly every country in latin america has experienced u.s. intervention in. one way or another the ambassador of nicaragua insists the coup in honduras is paramount to understanding why the us needs to maintain control of the region. you can't forget that after the coup de tat hundreds the united states has an interest in paralyzing the integration of the all the countries and development of the social processes generated and made dynamic in the old countries the fact that the coup failed in ecuador is an indication the people of latin america are mobilized the direction of the left turn sweeping the continent. it happened in venice well and when president chavez was temporarily ousted by right wing forces the people brought him back to power. the first then again the people in hundreds generated one of the largest resistance movements in central america against the right wing u.s. backed government of pillow but there are several there is

a lot ok or it's an ideological shift in latin america the us is up against socialist leaders from bolivia than a swollen ecuador to emerging world power brazil are operating participatory democracy is where the poor people of their countries are intimately involved in the direction of their political future. the pull from right to left is distinct obvious and very much alive in latin america. the organization of american states is supposed to represent the general consensus in latin america but leaders argue that the oas based in this building behind me here in washington d.c. does not reflect the idea that most countries are struggling to get out of the shadows of their north american neighbor it is because of this there is a left turn that is sweeping the continent and hopes of shaking off decades of u.s. dominance in the region to head office r.t. washington d.c. . now to hand joins me in the studio to tell us more on the story you know one

thing that i couldn't help but notice and i know that you just came back from venezuela to say we have so much footage is. that the populations there are so riled up so politically active you know and you compare latin america versus here in the u.s. where the population just seems so apathetic in terms of politics i mean what is it you think you know really really drives these people i think a lot of it has to do with these left leaning governments and really for the most part they're implementing policies that are participatory democracy so in brazil for example they have an initiative called participatory budgeting where the government gives communities three to three million dollars and they take it as it is and they. can distribute it throughout the community which has nothing to do with their congress or their problem and it has to do with their own communities but aside from the leftist governments of also empowered the people they've gone to the poor communities and there's no shortage of poor communities in latin america and said this is your government you were in it this way and because of this i mean we're in venice while i was the end of the election campaign season it was

incredible to see the celebration the celebration of political mobilization that is not seen in this country we have very you know subtle political campaigns but they have explosive very passionate campaigns i think are pervasive throughout the continent now you know you also mention that at the moment we can see somewhat of a leftist sweep throughout latin america you know and as they become especially brazil much larger global force especially financially to how do you think that's going to shift the balance of things will tremendously as far as the economic balance throughout latin america you have the i.m.f. and the world bank's influence tremendously and what would you know policies like the one in brazil venice while ecuador and bolivia represent is a very old turn of an issue for example in brazil they have a system where it's internal economic production everything made in brazil to enhance their economy similar to something that they're trying to do in venezuela right now they're trying to enhance internal economic production so it can mobilize the people to see that this economy is theirs and this is how they can get it

together also nationalizing resources ecuador you know came under a lot of fire for nationalizing their. resources as well which a lot of multinational corporations in the us were not pleased about on top of that kicking out u.s. military bases in the name of national sovereignty and security for predominantly indigenous populations and of course in latin america there's no shortage of a digital population and very quickly do you think there's been a lack of media coverage in terms of this attempted coup that we've just break out yesterday all the media coverage during the one during coup of two thousand and nine the u.s. state department never even called it a coup until three weeks into the actual crisis so you know for the most part the u.s. media mainstream media this country does tend to sometimes fall in policy with how the u.s. government is reporting on it but as you saw yesterday or during the ecuadoran crisis there was not much reporting on it because i personally believe they didn't know which way the u.s. government was following this the state department that were interested in the situation but they fell very short of actually condemning it now definitely and

considering the massive political movements that are going on just south of the u.s. i think it's something that definitely is for paid more attention to john thanks so much for joining us. still to come tonight the foreclosure crisis is still making life difficult for so many americans but could the lazy workers at several banks you don't blame for more of the problems i'll explain that in just a moment and two years ago today congress passed tarp to the taxpayer funded bailout really help the country or was it just the banks going to speak with author nomi prins after the break. we've got. the biggest issues good voice seems to face with the news makers.

we've discussed many times here on the show the epidemic of foreclosures that's crippled the u.s. in the last few years which is left thousands homeless and dragged down by the u.s. economy but now we're learning that some of those foreclosures should have never taken place in fact g.-mac and j.p. morgan chase have all stopped foreclosures do reports of massive paperwork mistakes a manager in fact told lawyers that he signed off on legal documents for ten thousand foreclosure papers a month without falling verification procedures is not comforting the bureaucrats are just throwing people off the street because they can't be bothered to follow protocol now those lawyers are presenting a group of homeowners who obtained similar statements from employees at j.p. morgan chase and one west bank i'm sure that's going to make homeowners feel so great that disgruntled workers just pissed off about being on the job are pushing

foreclosures through the system without even checking his if it's no big deal as if it isn't going to kick a family out of their home now at the same time now in los angeles thousands are in line for help in avoiding looming foreclosure the save the dream tour is a program by the neighborhood assistance corporation of america and it offers struggling homeowners the chance to restructure their home loans at lower rates and estimated thirty thousand people began lining up yesterday for the free five day twenty four hour event of the l.a. convention center and similar events have been held in other cities across the u.s. including right here in d.c. and also drew tens of thousands of people you know it's really disconcerting that the people of the united states clearly can't turn to the government and certainly cannot depend on the banks who continue to treat people's lives with such callous disregard that same attitude got us into this mess it's now continuing to prevent us from getting out of it and turning people to the streets in the meantime. now

two years ago today congress passed the troubled asset relief program also known as the seven hundred billion dollars bank bailout now most economists are agreeing that the program has saved the country from a complete financial collapse but it's easily become one of the most hated government actions in the minds of average americans who continue to struggle while thanks to their taxpayer dollars wall street has enjoyed a quick rebound and finds itself right back on top rarely has any government program become so stigmatized the most lawmakers that voted for it do their best to steer clear of the subject are now getting hurt by it in the midterm campaign season just yesterday the white house tried to cheer americans up they told them that the real costs are much lower than expected and they come in at just under fifty billion dollars rather than seven hundred billion but my question is is that going to change any minds or is it just too little too late or joining me from our

studio in los angeles is no me brain is the author of it takes a pillage behind the bonuses bailouts and bathroom deals from washington to wall street now we thanks so much for joining me now how do you look at this news by the white house that hey taxpayers you know it's not as bad as you expected in fact we've only spent fifty billion me little dollars is that supposed to make us happy that it's better than expected. well you know first of all we have to take these numbers with a little bit of a grain of salt because the white house is facing elections coming up there are reasons to make things look better than they might actually be i mean this is sort of been what's happened on both parties from the start of when tarp was. voted upon two years ago and throughout this whole process if we had not been done if seven hundred billion dollars had not been agreed upon by congress the entire world would have collapsed the financial system would be in disarray and everything would have been so much worse than it is now i.e.

so much worse than almost double the unemployment rate since before tarp seven point seven million foreclosures since tarp seventy percent higher personal bankruptcies since tarp so since banks got a pile of money and have done much better and paid pretty good bonuses last year and are looking at pretty decent bonuses this year. the rest of the economy hasn't but worse than that tarp was really only a very small portion of what the government really gave out to subsidize the banking industry and that's the real story that isn't being told to the american people well that's exactly what i was going to ask you next is you know the tarp is the big bogeyman in the room that everyone knows about but aside from that how much has the treasury department how much has the fed spent in trying to prop up the housing market and you know mortgages. right and in general although all the

financial leverage and in everything else that the system oh did on effectively or almost before the government stepped in and bailed it out and these numbers are going to sound very very big and that's because they don't tend to be discussed by a lot of the media but the fact is at one point not now but at one point over nineteen trillion not seven hundred billion one thousand trillion dollars worth of moneys of subsidies of guarantees of fed facilities which are basically loans to the financial community were put on offer and these are real they're documented you have to go through all the records i've done that a few other people have done that was a big number now that number is closer to seven point eight trillion so again not seven hundred billion because some of these facilities of close that's because when you give a lot of money to the financial industry and it uses what it needs it's actually over stimulated then the fed can kind of track back and take some of it back and close some facilities but they still owe two trillion dollars for example of toxic

assets that nobody is talking about they just sort of disappear and go away it was a help to the banks to get the fed to buy all of their toxic garbage in order for them to go about and do other things which they have done as they have bounced back into higher profits and looking at again higher bonuses you know right now we're only two years you know two years into this but down the line how do you think that people are going to look at tarp at this bank bailout i mean is this going to be the moment when it became really clear to americans that their own government chooses wall street and chooses banks over the people. i think a lot of people do feel that way when they think about tarp and again that's only thinking about a small portion of what happened i think they would hopefully be much more irate if they really knew all the nuances and all of the help that the government really gave when push came to shove to the financial industry that it it didn't not only did it not give to the citizens it didn't step back and say well what can we do to make sure that the problems that are being faced in the united states in housing in

surprise and loans and everything else are actually looked upon at the core what happened was these subprime assets these loans got pushed into the banking system and got leveraged and borrowed and restructured and diced and thrown all over the world i mean those are the things that collapse more than the houses beneath them and that is what the government stepped in with trillions of dollars of subsidies to help when push came to shove they found the money they open the doors and that that type of stimulus is immense and you know so you have these arguments going on today about you know seventy five billion dollars here and there yeah it's a big number but compared to what was on offer to the entire financial system it's absolutely nothing and yet these are the arguments that are happening every day in washington over small programs to help citizens whereas tremendous programs to help the banks are not even being discussed yeah you know i mean the things that we hear from people like treasury secretary tim geithner that you know this was perhaps not

fair but that it was necessary so you know sorry booboo just one program or one thing i want to ask you go to there is you know a congressional oversight panel that essentially has said that unless they actually see the effects of this they're not going to let the government do it again is a good thing is this is this finally mean they were having a little progress. i think it's good that there are people financial oversight committee or stability committees in washington actually saying that this wasn't a good idea but again they are still only focusing on tar i still don't think they're getting or choosing to focus on the magnitude of what was actually done to help the the the industry and so yeah i would be good not to just dump a bunch of money into the top level of banks with no strings attached to help renegotiate the mortgages the foreclosures that you were talking about just just a few moments earlier that stuff can kind of still happen where money is given to the top level banks and doesn't filter down to renegotiate or modify mortgages with

individuals we don't know how they're toxic assets the people definitely need to know about it but i believe you know it's so complicated that it's definitely hard for them two years later now we thank you so much for joining us thank you. well coming up sorry for the s.t.d. now it's right the u.s. government issued that apology today i'll tell you who in just a moment and a u.n. report was finally released on the israeli flotilla attack last summer and left several people dead including an american citizen yet nobody seems to care so we're going to break down what this reports that in just a minute. wealthy

british soldier it's time to right let's go. to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a record. today secretary of state hillary clinton and health secretary kathleen sebelius are offering instance of apologies for get this giving guatemalans s.t.d. that's right apparently the u.s. injected gonna react and syphilis into hundreds of people some mentally ill without their knowledge or their consent and they then encourage those infected people to pass along their illness to others to further the study and even worse a majority of those purposefully injected never got treatment for those diseases

now this happened in guatemala back in the one nine hundred forty s. when the department of health coordinated with other world health organizations to determine if penicillin could prevent sexually transmitted diseases once they realize that penicillin wouldn't work the research in the data was carefully hidden until professor recently found those documents and posted them online now clinton sebelius expressed deep sorrow over the tests saying that they want to show efforts in enhancing america's ties with the hispanic population and their ongoing dedication to ethical regulated human experimentation regarding treatment honestly i don't know if sorry is going to cut it here america purposefully injected sexually transmitted diseases into people from other countries without their knowledge that is beyond disturbing there is no way to pretend that this was an accident this is straight up malicious human experimentation and it's eerily similar to the tuskegee experiment the last in alabama for decades and i think it's good that the u.s. is stepping forward to admit this travesty but this will definitely another black

mark on america's record when it comes to human rights violations. now last week the office of the un high commissioner for human rights released a comprehensive report detailing its findings were guarding the may tenth israeli attack on the six ship flotilla that was attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to gaza now this report found that much of the israeli force was quote unnecessary disproportion. it's excessive and inappropriate and resulted in wholly avoidable killing and maiming of a large number of civilian passengers they said that at least six of those killings could be characterized as extra legal arbitrary and some merry executions and that israel violated numerous international human rights conventions including the fourth geneva convention now perhaps most shocking here is that forensic evidence has established for kendo again a nineteen year old american citizen was murdered execution style i think shot in

the face of point blank range and yet the u.s. government and the media have been silent on these findings which clearly leaves us to ask the question of why you're discussing with me is dr gareth porter and best to get historian and journalist on u.s. national security policy. dr porter thank you so much for being here now tell me this in what other situation would the u.s. government be silent when there is an american citizen that you know evidence was found was executed like we said at point blank range only if we had a client government that we were trying to protect that has happened but not very often i mean it's to me it's just i can't i can't believe it because you know this is a country that they're constantly is is pointing fingers you know and just yesterday you had hillary clinton announcing that they're placing sanctions on eight iranian officials for human rights violations and yet at the same time i have discussions yesterday you know we're making arms deals with saudi arabia and we let his israel get away with it so whenever we have

a vested business interest we choose to just turn a blind eye no question i mean this is a perfect example of where political interest trumps principle and in this case of her important principle that the u.s. government is responsible for doing something to at least investigate when a u.s. citizen is murdered in a foreign country now any definite foreign country they are supposed to investigate exactly you know you're saying that the department of justice actually have their auto. the information back in july and that's right yes is it this is an absolutely key point which clearly has not been reported except in my story and i doubt if it is going to be reported that the u.s. embassy in turkey received obtained the autopsy report on for can do on the one thousand year old u.s. citizen from the turkish government in july passed it on to the department of justice and the department of justice was in theory responsible for making a judgment as to whether it should be carrying out an independent investigation

we've heard absolutely nothing of course and you tried to contact when i asked the problem of justice they refused to comment. they it's really just an aberration now tell me this too because the media when the actual attack occurred in may the media coverage was all over this that there was a lot of it we kept seeing those videos that we later found out had been edited and they were handed over by israeli forces we saw them played over and over again of them descending on to these ships and so this time around now that the report has come out why is the media silent why do we not you know this is a very interesting question and i've been thinking about this a lot and i have a couple of observations about this one is that you know i have seen a very strong tendency of the corporate media in the united states to decide what is news and what is not news in large part based on what the power in washington tells them or implies to them is news are not news in this case i think it's clear the news media understood that the obama administration did not want this to be

covered i was told by a state department official off the record not for the attribution that we don't think that this report first of all it's not it's not objective in our view but more important they told me look we don't want this report to be used to disrupt the talks between the israelis and the palestinians now i have happen to think that the the obama administration. was intentionally suppressing the story because they didn't want to do anything to rock the boat particularly at this moment but i don't think it would have anyway second point i would make is that clearly some of the major news media have always been extremely pro israeli and i think that they do in fact exercise news judgment that reflects that value why i just think that you know i mean you can say that it's pro israel but you can also just say that our media in general is afraid of ruffling any feathers that they are listening to crew for perhaps questioning the government they just want to take what the government will

give them and they don't want to be shut out by the government so that the they're too scared to report i think that's probably the more important dynamic at work let me out for you know for a journalist that's that's the thing that i should be really concerned about now tell me this because israel media only ever you know said that this was a biased report and they completely dismissed it you say that this is going to be the most objective thorough and in-depth inquiry that will see what he said well i say that because first of all of course the israeli investigation is clearly not going to go into any detail about what happened they're simply not going to do that it's very clear secondly they have not made they've refused to make any israeli official or i.d.f. member available to the inquiry that wrote this report so it's clear that they don't want this to come out the u.n. panel that ban ki-moon secretary general ban ki moon named in august has a very narrow mandate all it has as its mandate is to review the israeli in the

turkish reports and say well this is good this is not so good they can't really do their own investigation that leaves the turkish report we simply don't know what that's going to be like at this point the turks of course have five citizens who were killed by the israelis in execution style is the most objective this is going to be the most detached objective right dr potter thank you so much for being here . still ahead on tonight's show a senate candidate who's in a tough race come city saying apparently has already measured his future office for drapes and a new carpet move earns him tonight's tool time award we'll tell you about a minute and it's a movie that's getting amazing but as about the making of facebook so tonight we'll look at the movie and the impact of the social networking site has had around the world i want to speak with kurt loder formally of m.t.v. and now with reason magazine.

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illegal. and one russian from wants to mix business with pleasure in outer space it plans to open a commercial space station conducting experiments with companies while also attracting tourists by sixteen designers also hoping to be used as a safety capsule case of emergencies on the international space station. now it's back to the only on the show and back to outer space a new planet has been discovered that has scientists excited because it could potentially sustain life all the details next right here on alt. it's time for tonight's tool time award and it goes to alaska senate candidate joe miller the job is turning into a real problem for the g.o.p. and their hopes and holding on to that alaska senate seat apparently the quote pride of the tea party things very high very highly of themselves and he's already declaring himself the winner in.