shell's results in the death of two sons in green eggs. will take a revolution to bring real change in the american political system that's the message ted rall is taking across the west to perotti his new book all season as the situation sat down with a cartoonist and outspoken critic and he calls for the fight for democracy to begin . but she's sitting down with award winning editorial columnist and cartoonist ted rall ted thank you so much for meeting up with us today thanks for having me let's get right into it right now you're on a tour for your new book which is called the anti-american manifesto clearly that name is bound to tick off some of the political establishment here in the u.s. for our viewers give them a little bit of a sneak peek into the main message of what it's all about it's a call to arms it is addressing the fact that neither the democrats nor the republicans are able or willing to address the biggest problems facing the united

states today which are the economy the environment health care and the wars and now you have to ask yourself as an american do you want to tolerate the system do you want to tolerate a system that is unresponsive and not going to go anywhere or do you want to change it the anti-american manifesto is not anti-american it's anti the american government or more specifically this american government we can do better and that's what we want to that's what i want to do now you're a big critic of america's wars and occupations both in iraq and afghanistan a call to arms really seems like you know an aggressive way to respond to the aggression that the u.s. government is involved in the reason i oppose this particular regime is because it is so in aggressively violent. as the rest of the world knows the united states is always involved in some kind of war of aggression it rarely goes spends an entire year without invading some for some foreign country and that's only part of the story i mean there's the overall economic system that the united states provoked

presides over that is incredibly violent and unjust so i'm talking about taking on this monolith this violent horrible disgusting system that is is brutal and is willing to do anything you're going up against them you can't fight these guys with one arm tied behind your your back. probably going to lose anyway but you you have to you have to be serious let me follow up on that we have the united states really liking to criticize other countries and really try to get involved one way or another how come if all the things that you say are true we're not hearing more voices of criticism from across the globe well anti-americanism is rampant throughout the world obviously and not just in the muslim world and much of it is justified unfortunately due to u.s. foreign policy and you know in terms of other countries let's face it you know if you're the president of brandon republic somewhere in central asia for instance are

you really going to challenge or criticize the united states government which is the sole remaining hyper power in the world the largest exporter of arms and possesses the large a bigger military presence than the next ten countries combined no i don't think so the rest everyone's afraid of us because we're a bunch of bullies would you say that u.s. military presence across the world is basically the number one priority of american foreign policy well it's certainly the number one. priority of us federal spending fifty four percent of us federal tax dollars go into the military nineteen percent is just the paying off the interest on old wars that are over and we're not fighting anymore so what the united states is all about is about invading other countries and in and exerting foreign military power whether it's through military bases of which the nobody even knows how many there are if you call the pentagon they can't tell you if it's seven hundred eight hundred nine hundred or

a thousand bases they don't know how much or how many people they have under arms somewhere between two and three point five million directly or indirectly using foreign using mercenaries i mean it's a crazy monolithic roman style empire and nobody talks about it including anywhere in the world or here it's not allowed i want to bring up a quote from your book the u.s. . terry would not and could not have killed a million plus iraqis if the people who live in the united states had done anything they could to stop do you really think that's the case what could the people have done considering the fact that many americans were opposing and still are opposing these wars and still nothing is being done for the most part the american left has been dormant or nonexistent some to the early one nine hundred seventy s. and the big exception was the opposition to the war against iraq and two thousand and three hundreds of thousands of americans marched in the streets there was vocal opposition even members of congress were against it and yet in the end nothing

changed and you have to ask yourself what could have gone differently i mean let's say of the million plus americans who marched in the streets during the winter of two thousand and two to two thousand and three had been more aggressive let's say they had refused to go home let's say they had clashed with the police let's say violence had broken out i think that then the congress would have been required would have been forced to take pause because they knew that this was an unjustified war of aggression it was an optional war it wasn't about defending american interests it wasn't about protecting the united states and therefore it didn't necessarily have to help and you say in your book that the story of the united states is drawing to a clause close and you call the u.s. is army empire and especially in the light of the recent elections when we see republicans again enjoying their power it really feels like a circle of republicans democrats republicans democrats where will that change come

from that you talk about well it's certainly not going to come within the existing system what we're seeing now that you just referred to this flip flopping the two parties are so close together on the overall ideological framework from left to right that there there's not enough differentiation so big swaths of the population are not don't feel represented at all which is why are voters. turnout is among the lowest in the industrialized world the change is not going to come from the d's in the r.'s the democrats and the republicans and the fact that people are constantly just voting against the party in power is a symptom of that people are frustrated the message they're sending is not right now we support the republicans nor was it in two thousand and eight we support the democrats the message is we hate them both so we're voting no the story of the united states government as the twentieth century invading bullying imperialistic economic and political empire that is coming to

a close it is unhealthy for us and it's obviously terrible for the world but you also claimed that it's very likely that the united states could become a fascist state and this is clearly a statement that is bound to get many people outraged what do you see these traits well i don't think that we're going to see you know brown shirts and nazis stepping in the streets but we have elements of proto fascism in american culture today whether you look at the vague nature of the politics of the tea party where you know vagueness political vagueness and a lack of ideological specificity is a trait of extreme right wing politics the cultural back basis of so many americans particularly in the middle of the country and in the south is centered around extreme forms of right wing christian fundamentalism. that religious force is is very nativist racist bigoted zina phobic and

anti-feminist anti-gay it's a very it's very narrow minded all of these attributes not to mention the the major attribute of being so militaristic is are elements that we saw in traditional fascism in germany and italy where there are civilian rule. the military is to is not worshiped you know we don't have all this rhetoric about the heroes have fallen another fallen hero this is not to say that we should disrespect the military but americans have especially since nine eleven have come to fetish eyes the military you get a lot of criticism especially from channels like fox news they say you're not a patriot because you are against this widespread military presence of the united states. are you not a patriot i am more of a patriot than those people ever will be i care about the american people more than i care about about the american government the american government is supposed to

be here to serve the american people and because of its leading role in the world also the people of the world we have a tremendous responsibility because of our political and economic power and we are we are just completely acting irresponsibly and insanely now i want to ask you one of the latest articles of yours is called obama was bad from the start realistically which his promises has he kept in the in these last two years has he kept well that's well that's to be a short short answer well he did promise to escalate the war against afghanistan and he has he did try for health care sort of but health care reform turned out to be really creating a system of the even worse than what we have now he hasn't kept many promises i mean he promised he would close guantanamo that he would end torture that he would end extraordinary renditions that he would ramp down and pull out of iraq all he

did was rename the troops who are in iraq from combat troops to something else assistance force as he is he's a very cynical guy i want to ask you about following up on afghanistan do you think it could become the graveyard of the u.s. is an empire like many people are predicting since there's not really an end in sight we know the pentagon has come up. with twenty fourteen as the timeline but not a deadline what does that mean decades more i thought two thousand and eleven was supposed to be the deadline and now it's two thousand and fourteen and who knows how long this goes on i mean there are so many threats to america's continued status in the world that it's hard to know exactly what will bring it to an end all we know is that it's unsustainable you know it's kind of the united states it's kind of like a wild man who uses drugs and drinks and commits crimes and beats people up and everyone hates him all you know is he's going to come to

a bad end you really can't be sure how but something bad is going to happen you know you've cited the enormous amounts of money that is that is being spent on the military and u.s. defense if there's so much money available how come it's not being spent to create jobs for millions of jobless people and why do we continue hearing that the country is in a recovery yet it's really crazy you know i mean if you took the one point four trillion dollars that were initially spent just to bail out the banks and you had redistributed that money among all the millions of americans who were who were having problems paying their mortgages and who had just lost their jobs in the previous year or two i remember doing the math and back of the envelope determining that each one would receive a check for three hundred fifty thousand dollars the reason is because the u.s. government does not serve the people and it's not afraid of the people and even though it knows that its actions are shortsighted and will ultimately lead to its

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which is they are awfully i'll have more on that in just a moment so don't go anywhere. hello and welcome to sport on r.t. covering stories from russia and around the world i'm reminded khosla and let's take a look at our top stories in brief. going out marsay will win three zero a ten man sports talk to affected live and the moscow sides hope so reaching the last sixteen of the champions league. while champions under pressure holders inter milan prepared to hold such side at six one set in group a on the back of a five game to mystics like. out of two russia federer's outclasses to marry to take command of group b. at the age of the world tour finals in london. and we kick off with football where marsay have already sickly and helps of reaching the knockout stage of the

champions league for the first time in fourteen years the french side triumphed three in the. village and the stadium right here in moscow points against marcell would have left meeting to beat bottom side jeana not to qualify but the visitors open after eighteen minutes through the match. luke rimini capitalized on a deflection and hit both pose to make it sunil after fifty four minutes and the home side were left with a mountain to climb a striker whether it's and what sends all ten minutes later runs out with the made it three zero and that's how it finished now the only way sports could qualify is to thrash gin up by a huge margin and hope chelsea do the same at more say next wednesday. missy were a lot stronger on the beach and they played with class this squad it was but we didn't have key players like onyx and push of luke so it's not surprising to see

we're physically better and they were on what we need to do know is work hard. elsewhere chelsea cemented their lead in group after with a two one victory over asia will finish paul summit need sports off his boys to take third place and qualify for the round of thirty europa league well giants ryall the dreaded ac milan advance into the champions league last sixteen following respective wins at. their in group role might came from two goals down to be group leaders and edged closer to the next round and all they need to do now is draw with bottom side kluge who lost to basel one nil and shots are now top of group h. as they thrashed underdogs sports is on three male while former leaders arsenal were shell shocked by brought up to zero. in the meantime defending european champions. are preparing to hose dutch side in their group encounter on wednesday and perhaps the dutch side gets to face rafael beneath his men at the perfect time

they sat inside are in the middle of a mini crisis having not won in their last five league matches and now lie nine points behind siri pacesetters arch rivals ac milan but despite being hit by a series of injuries to key players such as wesley snider goalkeeper julio says r and defender mike on the interim manager believes in his players'. physical assume very good in an active both situations and counterattacks so we have to be very careful i'm used to seeing if we do the job will we can beat any team. manchester united will be looking to clinch that self-supporting group c. in their match against glasgow rangers wayne rooney should be back in the starting line up for manchester to help his side guarantee a place in the next round the previous encounter between the two teams in september had no winner as the game at old trafford ended in a gold as draw blood united have been on form since then.

we're going to larry program. survived to model. the performance and go in so it was so a. user experience very well known and bursaspor was put up to first class control to much. meanwhile talk of them are brimming with confidence heading into wednesday's group a clash at home to werder bremen an impressive three one home win over interest white hart lane in their last champions they counting left leaders spurs well set to go through to the last sixteen and three points against werder on wednesday will gather and see their passage through to the knockout stages much to the joy of manager harry redknapp. it would be a great achievement you know we always made looked at the draw if it was a tough group into middle and good abram and twenty good show i didn't know weak teams in the group you know one of two two groups you look at them and there's

a few games very well most give me games you know but in this group it was always going to be difficult and if we could come out of it would be it would be a great achievement would be very pleased. and those games are just three of the champions league pictures taken place on wednesday elsewhere ravine need a vicks rates of booster a flagging campaign as they host sculpin hagen for second in group d. while hot was tel aviv also in group b. face been fi group d. leaders barcelona travel to robots on the night cos now second place shelter welcome group b. leaders lee on and. pour in the final group c. fixture. now to tennis and roger federer has produced a masterful performance to add class britain's andy murray and take command of group b. at the a.t.p. world tour finals in london the world number two one six four six two in one hour and sixteen minutes and with itself from. this man round robin competition

advancing to the semifinals federer is now in pole. position to go through to mari may need to be done before or in his final match on thursday. and robin sorrowing has boosted his chances of reaching the last four after defeating terror in two sets that was a close one of the third did he put a lot of pressure on soldering the spaniard say three set points in the first set but it was the swede who controlled the long rallies and eventually won it seven five seven five he also smashed a total of twelve aces along the way the outcome of this group the match means that the qualifiers will not be decided and still the final round on thursday. moving across to the ice now and double defending champions akbar stumbles in their bid to keep up the pressure on the top two in the kontinental hockey league as they lost at home to tractor the men from kazakhstan failed to go level on points with league

leaders deny moscow as they went down three two in overtime elsworth fifth place look at the flames a narrow home win over seven a style of well scott st petersburg the dream team lost to sports at moscow in the shootout in st petersburg plans had no problems against you now on men's and. moscow right here in the russian capital five four arts constantine paul toppled has the details of the match. and encounter between two sets of four underdogs in the western conference didn't promise to be very exciting but it turned out to be a cracker to come made an electric start and denominate could hardly cope with a blizzard of attacks as the visitors looked confused and couldn't leave this room i think the first ten minutes of the game we were really sure it was very. similar we were controlling the game and coming into the you know going to mention after the first period similar to. you know very well for us the entire game and the army men broke through using dad wanted to playing with

a man up against an incoming new one the face off and you go to me i love sent the park above the. well tender shoulder with a few wrist slap shot but the rig inside responded and equalized in the last minutes of the first period thomas are all we rewarding their effort of his teammates by scoring a splendid goal and just after the restart deny my took their chances and put their noses in front loaders daughter inch capitalized on a power play to one but the visitors kept helping their host by earning penalties and young mark one time to short bus the goaltender to all at the end of the second and in the decisive period of play in the third deny what took the lead when martins car so much push that back but. in the goal mouth scramble but kearney have made it all square for the third time as this column called on the power play on the i thought we shot the part really well we got a lot of shots from the point to go through the net and that was very much the result of why we had success. when you have

a shooters mentality from and that always helps however right up to the face of deny my game took the lead. putting his name on the scoreboard and ten minutes later alexandre broke away and increased the lead to two goals while deny were short handed said man did manage to pull one goal back but that was all they could manage at the amp for the final score. we were really unlucky tonight we had lots of opportunities to score but every time we made a mistake and dinamo got to our zone and scored it was an important match for us but we failed to win so deny maraton home to lead to in a good mood after a six away games here is and beating their rivals which could be crucial for a place in the playoffs well to ask us chances of reaching the postseason are becoming slimmer and slimmer consigning but out of our team. and finally sailing russian team synergy have failed to reach the semifinals of the louis boots on

trial for the current under way in dubai synergy turned out to be no match fourteen new zealand in the second round robin stage the kiwis winning conference i believe by one minutes and eighteen seconds that lopsided race being a far cry from the closely fought final of the previous stage in italy these ilands just edging russia by a three two scoreline five months ago also making the cuts in dubai world leaders b.m.w. oracle italian entry must cause on the latino and the french german bolt hole for one semifinals are due to begin on friday. that's all for right now there will be more sports quite soon but you don't have to wait to get an update when you get a chance go to our website artsy dot com to get the latest from russia and around the world thanks for watching. issues that so much difficulty for you to be sitting on the market playing the

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a muslim extremist network said we think chechen militants. recognizing the russia's imperfections moscow says it's on track transforming its political system despite signs of stagnating democracy. as the us puts its military on the move from iraq to afghanistan or is it made clues to the afghan insurgency can give locals false hopes of cool deadlines. and the sea change in central asia dried out desert used to be one of the largest bodies of water slowly comes back to life. in area with r.t. we're live from moscow welcome to the program where europe is on high terror the belgian authorities arrested several.