al jazeera is winning. the russians have offered up english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive the war of words begins or has already been long in action well the top u.s. official is now drawing new battle lines in the cold war of information. and since the international media seems to be winning that war the us starts its bid to catch up and get back to what it's best so what exactly is this point and. what's so problematic with what the f.b.i. say is that it came in and destroyed the community cohesion it destroyed the

functionality of the community and because of that claim the a.c.l.u. and care are launching a lawsuit against the f.b.i. here i want to merican muslim communities says they were unfairly targeted and even trans wasn't their religion. it's thursday march third four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching r.t. . it is the war of the words and according to secretary of state hillary clinton the u.s. is losing losing to whom you may ask well according to her really losing to international media like al-jazeera and yes even r.t. it's a far cry from the good old days the good old days according to many during the cold war when the u.s. won the war because they simply had the best propaganda that it is you can take

a look inside the message machine war declared the us is now officially in an information battle with foreign media which provide alternative views on world news views which often running contrast to the coverage of events by the us mainstream media we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive we are cutting back the b.b.c. is cutting back some five years ago western media outlets including c.b.c. and c.n.n. had a near monopoly in the coverage of world news things have changed since then more and more viewers across the world tuning in to various foreign media to get a fresh take on events clearly the united states feels on the defensive in part

because it can no longer monopolize not only the terms of you know the soroti in these countries but also the terms of the debate there's other information out there there are other points of view and those points of view are profoundly damaging to a country that believes that its point of view is the only point of view or should be the only point of view r.t. presence on you tube is one example almost three hundred million views as opposed to c.n.n. that has around three million r.t.s. constantly growing audience is already an indication to many that the days of media monopoly are over and people demand a multi-polar approach to news you know there is no real commitment to the kind of freedom of the universe speech that we really need if we're going to be in a democracy at home and in a you know a community of nations overseas is to many hillary clinton speech a few weeks ago on freedom of internet seemed contradictory to the treatment that

sources like weak elites are getting us legislators are not crafting a law that would give the administration increased flexibility to go after weak elites and the likes and now the administration is seeking more funding to step up u.s. propaganda efforts have brought during the cold war we did a great job in getting america's message out after the berlin wall fell we said ok fine enough of that you know we. we're done and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it but many say the lack of funding is not the reason why u.s. media are unpopular among world audience the us is loose enough and has been for years losing popularity and respect around the world but that's not a result of its failures in media should be occasions it's a result of u.s. foreign policy last year the head of the agency that manages the us government run international broadcasting asked for more money for his department we can't allow

ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies the list of enemies included russia china iran and venezuela walter isaacson the head of the which runs ways of america monger other media outlets later backtracked on this statement isaacson speech for more funding seemed even more unconvincing considering his agency has a budget of seven hundred fifteen million dollars and it's way more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and venezuela's tell us more combined probably money alone can't provide global media clout walk isaacson's speech last year sent quite a hostile message to foreign media exposing shortcomings in the us mainstream but separate statements made it official the us is fighting a global information war and i'm going to start our reporting from washington or to . the right on about making an impression at the highest level so only there are some interesting so we say impressions of this country here's one thing i thought was interesting secretary of state clinton brought up this run in that she had with

an afghan man take a listen the only thing he thought about americans is that all the men wrestled in the women walked around a bikini's because the only t.v. ever saw was baywatch and worldwide wrestling. so time to amp up the message machine i guess who better to talk to about this than radio host alex jones. hey there alex lots of talk about secretary of clinton obviously fighting for more funding for the state department's media budget but she says we are in a quote information war she wants more money than most of the other international stations combined your take alex on the sides of many sides i guess of this war. well it's good to be here and obviously i have the website infowars dot com so we're focused on this i want to be clear i'm an american patriot i believe in my constitutional republic i get a tear in my eye when i go to a football game and hear the star-spangled banner when the state department talks

about losing the info war and getting media dominance again in the world they're talking about a select group of offshore globalist that the last fifty years have used the united states as an engine of their own private corporate war against sovereign countries and taking over the planet this is all admitted and so what's happened is show called us television and print media the washington post the new york times have lied about w m d's that didn't exist have lied about terror threats to the former head of homeland security governor ridge wrote a book last year admitting they would issue fake chair or alerts for political gain and so the american people realize that our media doesn't speak for us and is being used basically to propagandize not just us but the world and so it's not just people in other countries that aren't buying into quote us media it's the american people and the globalist are out of bullets and i just last year when they were demonizing rand paul and his senate run politico called me and they said well what

do you see being able to stop rand paul i said nothing i'm not a big supporter of his constitutional ideas but i said if you endorsed him if the mainstream media endorsed him that would hurt him i said you guys are out of bullets no one buys into or supports what you're doing you have lost the war for the hearts and minds because people don't trust you anymore i want to reply really quick once again what secretary of clinton fought very clear on. is winning this war. al-jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive all right but let's be honest this is not to pat us on the back this is more to drum up support on why she says the state department needs more now since she's watching alex we hope she is and like to hear

your advice to secretary of clinton both on what the message should be and how to better get it out there. well again the people that have hijacked the united states in the last five decades to be conservative do not speak for the people of america and america has become. the demon of the world instead of being the apple of the world's eye because the world has realized that we are now predominantly and become an engine of evil and you're right to say that all hillary is doing is hitting the panic button and saying give us more funding i mean it came out years ago that tens of billions of dollars a year is spent domestically and internationally to implant globalist messages corporatist messages in movies and t.v. news and in newspapers and radio and the jig is up i know people are aware of that so i would tell the state department stop lying stop and gauging edition from asia and stop attacking freedom stop attacking other sovereign nations stop being

propaganda stop being modern shows of gerbils nazi propaganda ministers and people might start thinking you i thinking of you is trustworthy sources you guys use the public faith and abused it to the point of if you even tell the truth no one believes you i mean if the us government controlled media tells the public the sky is blue they think it's red if they tell people something's up folks think it's down if it's black it's white no one believes this orwellian propaganda system anymore we said mention of course to our viewers that there are government funded channels here in the us in fact there are actually seven of them that broadcast around the world the problem is the audiences are dwindling with nothing coming close to making an impact at least not like a wants guys are to kill and ford has more on whether or not we were asked by the media is still having an impact cormac. since one thousand nine hundred

forty two the us has broadcasted its culture and politics around the world. how to build great. transmitting in over fifty languages to the tune of seven hundred forty five point five million dollars per year but what happens when people just start tuning out more and more u.s. funded media outlets designed to promote america's image abroad are channels in search of an audience but taxpayers are still footing the bill and. america has sunk one billion dollars into al huda an arabic language news network author and professor phil cvs says the networks model is stuck in the past when american news was welcomed by sam the competition in. the arab world dominated by zero zero. that there really isn't much of the audience

outside of iraq. fifty three percent watch al-jazeera while only half a percent of arab but al qaeda which is broadcast from suburban springfield virginia its credibility. arab audience for the most or wants to hear about themselves from other arabs critics say that from day one there was a major disconnect executives who didn't speak arabic staffing the network with lebanese christians to broadcast to its overwhelmingly muslim audience. and it audience that associates the channel with the u.s. the architects of the iraq war soon a new television service will begin providing reliable news and information across the region and supporter of unpopular and repressive regimes throughout the middle east but even small viewership is a lofty goal for another u.s. network kevin martin would receive. a western. for twenty six years a rally would begin mighty have fallen on deaf ears in cuba says cuban journalist

moline alone so chung well. it's hard to talk about the impact of radio and t.v. because on television it's not seen on the radio it's practically unheard of and on top of that in cuba the signal is jammed congressional reports point out the miami beach channel's quote failure over many years to get here it's a generally accepted journalistic standards i'm here i'm good at what i'm are talking about a radio show that tells people to go into cuban leaders from the point of view of journalistic ethics it's very troubling that he may have had a fifteen million dollars budget in two thousand and eight to pay cuban dissidents on the island as its reporters and rent fuel in flight to gulfstream planes that circled violent to broadcast to martine's and the u.s. isn't just paying for news u.s. state department dollars also financed eagle for an afghan police drama former marine j. dilla barito says shows like this send a subconscious message to support the military support the police force in this

sort of thing and in many ways it does. broadscale what twenty four did here in the united states ten years into the u.s. war in afghanistan deliberate those says forty five percent of the media is run by rupert murdoch's news corp. creators of twenty four a series designed to drum up support for the war on terror in the u.s. twenty four was also created to support the doctrine of torture much of much of it will force propaganda inside of afghanistan is trying to mimic that trying to say that confronting insurgents and confronting terrorists and what it is is a good thing and have to support what's on screen in afghanistan contrast with the reality off screen with little sign of afghan support with a staggering one point four trillion dollar deficit at home and propose cuts in everything from medicaid to education some americans are saying that we should

switch our international broadcasting and let the rest of the world watch what they would be watching anyway kalen ford r.t. washington d.c. . all right so clearly i like the numbers not money being spent is not like there are not channels out there at the end of the day it's. propaganda matters for money for influence and you think most americans realize this no americans were brought up in front of television sets basically trusting whatever they were told but they're beginning to realize that understand and that's why the audiences as you mentioned earlier are dwindling alternative media that gives a different view its ratings are going up like archie and others as the state department is but moaning about the old line propaganda channels are completely and totally discredited let's just look back four months ago it came out that hundreds of billions of dollars of banker bailout money was given to us and european media as direct cash payments this isn't just cia or state department run channels

targeting afghans of the arab world our media here is show laced with it and it's so cartoonish and show over the top that even the most brain dead people are waking up to it and that's why though the empire is striking back and the us media is calling for an internet kill switch google changes algorithm last week to start walking in four wars dot com they are striking back at a camp to not shut the media off like egypt did overnight but slowly start to choke it down and i know as you have positioned yourself as an alternative media and we've had you want our t.v. for years but you know we've got to bring this up you have been noticed quite a bit re rule by the mainstream i want to play a quick clip that features you and then we'll talk about it. but charlie started being held up like a devil with the t.s.a. put their hand up people's pants him cold war stuck on covers it all we've got the banks bankrupting the no less

a way we stay can let's take what charlie does that's way too pricey out of the family his family are stashed and i think you'll want to quickly have a program about elder service here it's a test figure out what is happening with charlie that's what we're trying to think of. all right so certainly charlie sheen is in the news that on other channels at least a couple of questions regarding i mean first of all do you think that he said what he said on your so because you're not like the rest because you give a platform for people to not have to be p.c. in fact i'm wondering what you think about the fact they're being so sought after now because well just to be clear i'm not bragging he thought this was a five minute interview i'm going to talk to charlie he was calling me during that last video clips i'll be talking to him within minutes i'm friends with charlie going back six and a half years i did not know he would do that on my show that was not planned but yes he seeks me out because he likes the alternative media and charlie is bigger than the whole middle east situation right now probably shouldn't be that way but

it is but i absolutely i mean if i could have three million radio listeners a day a million web visitors a day and that's that's a conservative number if i can put films out that are seen by hundreds of millions for free on the web this is the new paradigm and that's why the military industrial complex that created the internet. here in the united states is moving to try to start incrementally curtailing it and shutting it down but if we can get all the new media and the alternative media to talk about this attack on the web they'll be unsuccessful just like egypt show the attack on the internet and free speech and true challenges because the state department's cia propaganda machine is on the fight is on the alternative media is winning so the system is coming and trying to censor us right now well alex you know when you do call charlie back please the thought of our apologies for making our way to also let him know if you'd like to come on our so we can certainly give him

a different platform than he's been on on all those little thing we know he's trying as he'd say winning all right well we'll take it as always radio host alex. well a group of muslims in southern california claim they've been unfairly targeted because of their religion now they're taking on the f.b.i. with a new lawsuit which they hope exposes and huge violations of the constitution artie's rimando window shows us how a paid informant is causing concern about the government's tactics in the war on terror. as american muslims prepare for prayers appear remains at the worshipper next to them maybe it's by all of. this is especially true in southern california where paid at v.a. informants have fractured because he said midst of a law abiding community i'm fearful retaliation. and my wife hears my family fears

and i fear that. you know the f.b.i. is going to come down pretty aggressive. after i'll email you found out he was being spied on he felt betrayed by its country you know he feels alienated because fellow muslims are now suspicious that he might be a spike lee twenty six year old southern california native was approached by f.b.i. informant craig months he'll presumably because of his devout muslim faith now the a.c.l.u. and the council of american islamic relations are teaming up against the f.b.i. soon be agency for what they say is its attempt to incriminate people based simply on where they prey something they consider by a lation of the u.s. first amendment freedom of religious worship the f.b.i. insists that it doesn't ask it's important to target people for their religious affiliations something muslims are pining hard to believe this is one of the

mosques where mattio came to pray and socialize with other muslims it was during a car right here where he started making some very suspicious comments. it set off alarms and local community members reported it to the f.b.i. little did they know yeah yeah i was actually pay months he'll to watch them he was always interested in. other topics in jihad and what i thought about jihad and things of that nature was his cover was blown it was revealed them on till was paid one hundred seventy seven thousand tax free dollars over fifteen months to collect personal information on hundreds of muslims even though there was no suspicion of them committing any crime the case is eroding the already shaky relationship between the f.b.i. and the brother in law abiding muslim community it is extremely ironic and sad that here in america today we have to stand up here to challenge

a government agency that is taking us but. and to a time when people feel that we're living in a police chase told the media that his handlers try to instill in him that islam is a threat to our national security but so problematic with what the f.b.i. is that it came in and destroyed the community cohesion it destroyed the functionality of the community that would be f.b.i.'s best ally and protecting this nation security and we want to do that because we this is our home and we have no other mission also raises concerns about the government's attitudes towards muslims historically if you look at the situation in states faith based groups religious groups are always targeted because of their their faith their ethnicity like the japanese during world war two but i stand by what i said all day long muslims killed us on nine eleven and there is a huge muslim problem in the world if you are an eighteen to twenty year old muslim

you should be strip searched for must work out for islamic terrorists in our country look out for the very few muslims before to cooperate with as many politicians and pundits continue to portray muslim communities as american breeding grounds for terrorists. has a lot of work to convert these american sense of alienation to one of trust in los angeles. r.t. . i mean just imagine some members of this community say they are constantly looking over their shoulders any time a new person enters their mosque and it's not just here that this is going on the fear and distrust is spreading and joining me now to talk more about this is are a balloon executive director of care and sandy cisco and our let's talk first specifically about this case f.b.i. informants inside a place of worship simply because of who this religious group was worshipping i

mean i find it interesting so often we talk about you know reaching out across the world to our muslim brother and but this is a case this case is an example of us here in this country not even being able to respect the american muslims what do you think about all of this earthly berman thank you for having me on aka law if you could really. this is happening and. that were occurring in the muslim community how he really could undermine the trust between american muslim them aren't worth american should be partners. and. are on your mind i really. i want to talk about a couple different cases here. but first let's stay with this case here in the last what was your reaction when you found out about it and you know what was the reaction of the people there was this shocking was this sort of expected. it was

a polyp and we know our story during that cointelpro era where this type of informant activity was happening at the scene and actually real time with incredibly frightening that someone would i mean the community and our and proctor and unity members acker are to be the only trying over personal information and community relations problematic and. in terms of the reality. that there are you getting congress to trust you. totally i want to turn now to a case going on in new jersey two men there u.s. citizens have pled pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder people outside the u.s. by joining us somali terrorist group with ties to al qaeda but there's more to the story here these two men apparently have been followed by the f.b.i. since two thousand and six the f.b.i. recorded them saying some pretty shocking stuff about their desires to kill their attorney argues you know these were just kids talking what's your take on this case

. you know i'm not familiar with it but the people when i have around. yeah i think so often. i reached out and make them operational is a job you know i just. got a lot. of it is not. evil individual who we're just talking. another case also that's getting some attention not sure if you're familiar with this one a former british airways computer expert found guilty of conspiring to blow up a plane and we're talking about a man named karim and reports say he hoped that he could exploit airline strikes to become tavern crew and then cause an explosion on a u.s. bound flight you touched upon this a little bit to talk about cases like this as you say where people sort of have an idea and the f.b.i. gets in there and sort of you know there's no other way to say it this is in some

cases at least not specifically this one but it could be entrapment. right and that's very much the concern and and the response to the entrapment allegation you know it doesn't fit the tactical legal definition because it is a very different group but again what we're seeing over and over again. was ideas and giving them the tools and various you to carry out. officers in reality it was. played a very large role in creating the terrorists. i got to bring this up if the f.b.i. had gone into this mosque we would be having a different discussion today if they had in fact found you know people that legitimately were planning something so it's really difficult when you when you do it because they you know the f.b.i. goes in and they say oh we found these people this is a case where obviously they didn't sound find anybody want to you think the f.b.i.

needs to do differently to continue with their mission of trying to find people who are actually. plotting something they're going to need to work to restore the trust between the. unity what was. really undermined the trust look american will. wind up in. preventing terrorists studies have shown that the more religious an individual is arrest like the already engaged in terrorism but also the american i mean again are we looking or. this is our own we don't know anywhere else are home and it's our duty are there in our legal view. but we. were really were cases like this one that we're seeing obviously it's going to be much harder for that relationship to be strong between the two groups when you think things like this happen do you think that there's a way to repair these types of relationships. i think it's important for the get

even in the stories like this are merged has got our individual mission expeditions so we continue to hear stories of individuals in california. that. i don't. undermine. what we do appreciate you coming in and talking to us we will keep our eye on where this case goes are a below executive director for care in san francisco. and that is going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to r.t. dot com slash usa check out our youtube page youtube dot com slash artsy america and christine will be back in a half hour. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is your view with a global mission that would see where.