since original metro reps are told much are grown to be closer to home a car to be sure marco results will be suited to sochi on. good terms with resorts much will never be closer to home with her riviera beach home with citrus so tell me. here that while it's the sound of american dad style rocketing if you can to the oblivion with several wars already on its plate how can the united states really afford one more going to take a look at what it costs to greece the military. you know our deal to be honest with you revel in the word that they're your somewhere in the world in libya anyway and sadly a tough question for many americans when i take a look at whether ignorance is bliss when it comes to war. and surviving a nuclear disaster now many in japan fear the worst is yet to come but for some

survivors of the atomic bomb this crisis is all too familiar. good evening it's tuesday march twenty second four pm here in washington d.c. and we see california and you're watching our team. well there are plenty of concerns about america's intervention in libya but at a time when belt tightening is all the domestic political rage writing checks for a war that's half a world away has raised a lot of questions about our own budget priorities are to use lauren lyster has more on the cost of war. one two one point five billion dollars the reported cost of this united states tomahawk missile launched into libya. it's only been a few days into operation odyssey dawn and already the cost of this environment from these and air are skyrocketing. the price of day one alone

with more than one hundred million dollars then the first two hours they fired one hundred ten cruise missiles so so right there thousands of teachers of course could be paid for coming at a time when teachers not to mention other public workers are fighting to keep their livelihoods close to ten percent of people are unemployed and the country faces fourteen trillion dollars of national debt the u.s. has already committed trillions to ongoing wars in afghanistan. as well as iraq. get despite all this has moved to the helm of this international intervention but can a country of toured it involved again the united states clearly doesn't have money for this we will end up taking money from other important programs to messy quick and other lawmakers locked in a constant debate over u.s.

money problems are going public it's a strange time which almost all of our congressional days are spent talking about budget deficits rages problems and yet at the same time though all of this passes which is a very expensive operation this mission was led by the united nations but quickly the united states has emerged at the forefront so you have to wonder. with so many cars at stake what is justifying this role for the u.s. this guy claims from the top of the humanitarian intervention people from the streets. to the pundits don't buy it the u.s. mission is to keep a doxie from having any influence on our products peak oil expert michael rupert says the real reason for the bloodshed all boils down to the one point five million barrels of oil a day coming from libya which the west simply cannot afford to lose you can't take any supply out and not expect the price to go up dramatically for everybody on the

planet but not everyone's taking a hit in the pocket conflict is good for some of the most powerful u.s. corporations military contractors they have made literally super profits spectacular profits off of the wars in iraq and afghanistan so it won't be any different in terms of the war in libya but the news jorgensen destroying military equipment in in libya opens up markets for more american british and french arms sales in the world justifying perhaps for some who have benefited a war that adds to the tool other conflicts have taken on the u.s. economy and reputation in the world we will spend at least a half a trillion dollars right now in afghanistan and no libyan the money we're spending and for the incursions into pakistan the united states has to start focusing on things here at home otherwise we're not only broke but we have the rest of the world angry at us

a price some believe is too high for america to pay lauren lyster r.t. the. ok so let's recap really quickly we're already fighting two wars in iraq and afghanistan we have two other wars that we don't happen to really enjoy talking about in yemen and pakistan and what is this president's gifts this country on the anniversary of the iraq invasion mind you over libya now regardless. what pretty little label you slap on our involvement there this is a war american troops american bombs american jets and american taxpayer dollars are being diverted to a country that most of us probably couldn't even find on a map no public discourse no congressional debate on why we're going in and as far as i can tell no one seems to have a clue about how the hell we plan on getting out and then there's this we don't have any money pouring forty cents for every dollar we spend in washington is unsustainable we are out of money that's money we're going to borrow from china our . room and we don't have the money i mean everybody is already talking about our

debt burden why would we want it to work all right well joining me now to make sense of it all is lou rockwell he's the founder and chairman of the lead with one misses institute in auburn alabama welcome back to our program it's great having you now very quickly i mean which one is it are we broke or do we have plenty of money to institute regime change abroad. we're government is broken government is a parasite that money has not only has but takes for most of our mothers so this is another excuse for them to spend money and i don't want to. part anybody civics class solutions no be a washington wants to cut the budget they just want to spend more with republicans and democrats this is just another excuse to spend that will be provided by the federal reserve they'll turn the printing presses on mr mr brady so it's caused tremendous damage to american the whole world economy what the fed is doing but this is just part of the american empire the american empire just military empire

of the history of the world is just taking over another piece of piece of the globe an oil rich piece of the glory and that's what it's about this not that they don't care about i don't care about cutting spending the fact they can spend more on the military industrial complex is a plus for them for they don't care about killing people i mean they don't care about killing civilians this is the same government under democrats and republicans that. put anti civilian sanctions and six billion sanctions on iraq ten years it killed was according to the people madeline albright and i think she very much understated the half a million iraqi children little babies and children were killed by the u.s. government as a way to get back at saddam hussein when she was asked about it so it's worth it so a government that's worth to kill half a million children in iraq is believed to be not considered paos and civilians in libya the humanitarian excuse is just a hoax oh and i guess there's a silver lining in the whole thing every single time a tomahawk missile blows up

a house in libya and everyone in it raytheon gets one point five million bucks right i mean when you look at people that talk about a super lining to the merchants of death right now for the rest i thought cost about one point five million dollars which i guess is an average of some twenty different teacher salaries put together so doesn't this undercut the whole we are broke narrative that's been going around washington. yeah that's just that's just an excuse to stick it further to the american people don't you know the government is always broke and government has money it only has a good one it's from the producers and in society parasites so this is just talk and they love spending money they all live spend money unfortunately some of them like killing people think there are people in the world whom joy killing other people or sometimes they gravitate into the military or into the white house and they have the national security enjoy spending time on missiles and of murder people and it makes money for them all right well you know the pretty much

a silver lining for them just not for the rest if you buy the whole argument that you know the united states is some sort of bloodthirsty killing machine but let me ask you this why libya why not i don't know young men boss rain saudi arabia why not the myriad other conflicts where people are dying and are in need of intervention and help or course it's the us government i'm talking about not the united states but i think that you mean why isn't the empire going after its allies and friends why isn't what's going to repair to me its will which honestly come on the court that mean about. it is by the way talking about going after. they may have a bigger war in store for us after this and of course this is going to go on for a very long time i know that today the white house says they want to bring democracy and democratic regime to that's a little bit earlier. so yes so what is that take that many many years past occupation bast amount of money jobs for boys jobs for raytheon and say in order to

free us from life corporations if you look at the oral argument you know i mean that libya is going to be responsible for some two percent of global oil production we were the same exact argument when we were ramping up to the war in iraq we were told that you know this conflict is going to pay for itself and obviously that did not pan out so what what makes you think that this time will be different you know it's not so much that they want the oil look down because they want to be able to deny buells the companies that don't hate the us they'd like to this a lot of us oil goes to china it's like to deny the oil china if china doesn't pay america is like two in its denials and japan and the other country in the world it is you that is making use of the in the world it's a it's a matter of control not so much that they want the oil to use here it will be able to deny it to other countries as a matter been a real control. now there also seems to be a whole lot of confusion about what the end game is here what exactly it is that we're targeting on the ground in libya now we did hear reports earlier that there were some airstrikes instead hall which is a stronghold of that office tribe there were reports of strikes in the civilian

airport and gadhafi hometown also a fisherman's wharf near tripoli why do you think we are bombing what appears to be civilian infrastructure they don't care about civilians there but this is what one when whenever wars take place civilians are alone i ask what you know they don't really they could they care less about civilians they do so they were after all other government employees even foreign soldiers so they don't want one civilians they leave the london school of economics in libya next i heard the gadhafi has some ties to that if we're going after everything that's related to gadhafi well you know they broke ties you know for one of the school of economics that we're after monday which of course it should not have done. and not a broken part because or because of the it was because of a corrupt arrangement right well from confusion about who the heck it is that we're targeting over there it seems like there's also a lot of confusion here at home about what it is that we're doing in libya and i want you to take a quick look at the story that one of our reporters here one for together where she

went out to the streets and asked americans what it is that we're doing in libya take a look. we're here outside the white house in washington d.c. asking people where the united states is currently bombing and even had the chance to talk to the president and felt sure libya united biting me that i'm not going to prison if i'm correct there is that correct. to me on the spot here. maybe there. are you know you have to be honest with you it's as here in africa. i think maybe i'll be a lawyer here at the end of libya you're. right over here. on tunisia yeah so the. leader is next door trees it yeah this

is egypt yeah right here in washington d.c. baby. somewhere around here yes why the united states in libya. gadhafi is. bad man because gadhafi the very bad man and you agree with the president well i am the president's we're there to make sure that khadafi is taken out of power trying to get rid of gadhafi to help the rebels that's what hankering to get off a. kind of a paper tiger move right now libya is right there get in there and why do you think we're in libya. well there is there and civil war right now so but i'm not sure exactly why we're there it's really sad that congress gave themselves a weekend off so that the president could go ahead in the clear this war you know what he had to say i have no idea. i really couldn't answer because i

have not read the paper and vacation you know washington is here today. now. let me play live yeah you'll probably. hear us on the u.k. i particularly on in afghanistan right now because it's a reactionary meant to be whatever the commander in chief tells them to mexico be bombing the drug lords and you're from the congo right would you like the united states is how i mean by libya get help but what i would like to. call more. al i do think will be a movie i have no idea. that we're you know not really and i'm in favor of whatever the commander in chief has made his decision to do i'm a citizen somewhere here would you consider bombing in saudi arabia bahrain or yemen if they're abusing their own people once again step by step step by step. you

know all right a lot of interesting opinions there so what's your reaction leo seems like we have a lot of patriotic folks on our hands but my favorite was that dallas area guy said look the commander in chief tells you to bomb you have to support him because you're a citizen well that's you know actually not a very similar way and if we look back to the best of the founding fathers what they said was the very essence of despotism a tyranny is the chief executive able to start a war is over and of course that's what we now have president obama claims the right and virtually nobody in congress is willing to is really like him on this he claims the right to bomb any place he wants them are world so he bombing you know we know he saw me in pakistan and yemen and you say of course that i am standing over iraq he's he's threatening to bomb iran so i don't i don't know if he's going to the empire thrives on these sorts of conquests libya is being conquered by the american empire that's what's going on the american empire was one of the few one like making

a difference the athenian empire claims not to be an empire but of course it isn't him for our and we have checked panic military bases in one hundred and countries around the world and i guess libya's next summer really gigantic u.s. military solution how does it all and i mean we can't fund this and definitely the money have to come from somewhere so how do you see this playing out the fittest even though it's only going to end when the dollar goes down and i think we're getting closer and closer to that which huge dollar crisis you're right the they can't go on like they are when the federal reserve is creating money get by marvel or zimbabwean levels already the consumer price index that's going up enough we all feel that the actual inflation is much bigger than that interest rates are starting to move so yes the whole system is going to be in crisis so actually a good thing because we need we in the whole world to be with government be much less powerful over all our lives it's the right thing for the police state here at home it's ruining other people who was around the world we shrink the american

government and the. a national crisis that they are bringing on it's very it's a way to do it because the funny of the innocent are going to be suffering as well as the guilty are watching but if the what if the dollar goes down and we go through this change aren't american people going to suffer as well yes we're going to suffer but there's no getting there's no getting around the sufferings the suffering is coming and the silver lining in that cloud is the government will be less powerful the government's procedural on that and that will be good for them for americans all right well that was lou rockwell chairman of the lead waited on mrs institute and i do hope we got to have you back on the show thank you now torn to pieces let's turn now to what's actually going on on the ground in libya r.t. correspondent policy here is in the capital of tripoli and has the latest on what's been destroyed by the latest airstrikes. well in the latest coalition air strikes to libyan naval bases and to live in airports were hit we are hearing from the government spokesperson as to sit by him here in tripoli and number of people were

killed in what he says was a civilian airport in the city of searched and certainly state television here has been reporting nonstop that really people have been killed many people have been injured in these latest strikes rebel leaders in the east of the country have been meeting with members and representatives of the united nations in the city of to brooke and they are there are discussing humanitarian concerns and the latest humanitarian efforts there was a cease fire and nance meant by the government on sunday but this seemingly continues to be ignored on the ground as intensive fighting continues for government in three cities in the city of zen town in the waste there we're being told by government troops continue to bombard the town in the city of misrata for the fourth consecutive day government troops have surrounded the town and they are stopping the supply of all water fuel and electricity she residents inside and then in the city of ajdabiya which is the next largest city after the rebel stronghold city of benghazi where we've been told they government troops continue to ambush that is intensifying in the latest word we have is

a rebel fighters are advancing from benghazi to actually be able to try and help their comrades and fellow fighters there now overnight here in the capital city of tripoli they were major explosions most of them came from the south of the city there was a lot of smoke in the skies that is where the compound of gadhafi is situated it has already been hit before a three story building near the controls the command and control center for his operations was we were told we destroyed but certainly here for several hours throughout the night monday it was anti aircraft fire canada is the latest to send for frighted jets we understand that they have flown over libya but they haven't actually as of yet participated in any operations there also seems to refueling tanks here qatar has sinned. six fighter jets they have landed in crete the british thai food france's have also participated in the first ever combat mission that took place on monday and we've been told that they will be a not a meeting of the united nations security council that will be held this coming

thursday to discuss these latest developments and the latest operations on the ground what is also sitting on bills is that we are hearing from rebel leaders that as they advance waste words keep trying to recapture some of the towns and some of the cities that they've lost they are calling the international community for more so people are asking well just time both of them just how long is the international community to keep going to provide is a cover and what will be the continuous climb out civilians more people on the ground becoming increasingly along that innocent people are going to be killed all right that was our correspondent paula slayer reporting from tripoli in libya still ahead here on our t.v. just how grave are the effects of japan's nuclear crisis the survivor of not assad he says the worst is yet to come this story up next. john berman here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture of.

what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through. who can you trust no one who is your view with the global mission to receive where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.

well moving on from the fighting in libya to the devastation in japan it looks like paralyze have been reconnected to all units at the because she renewed clear power plant but workers there are not out of the woods just yet we did hear reports that radiation is still leaking into the air from an unknown source and a lot of folks in japan are worried about what their food and water supply is whether those media poisoned by all the radiation that's out there now all of this as the country continues to be rocked by massive aftershocks now of course and we talk about japan you have to remember the other nuclear disaster that rocked that nation and of course i'm talking about the atomic bombs that fell over hiroshima and nagasaki artie is that spoke to a survivor from our psyche and has the following report this man has been on the scars of nuclear disaster for most of his life as a resident of niger sucky your sherry in milwaukee has had liver and kidney problems since he was thirty five and he's already beaten cancer twice every time

he falls ill now he feels it could be his last battle issue to watch as events unfold at fukushima hearing the true nature of the disaster is yet to show itself so view was only a result of the contamination we're in just endorsed of the event will be handed down from generation to generation and i have four daughters the first to have another has breast cancer with the results of exhausted them will be shown in generations to come. you should know was just eleven when the bomb was dropped he survived the blast but was exposed to lethal levels of radiation and used two trips to the hypocenter first to find his father then to bury him despite everything he's pro nuclear power still thinks fleeing from fukushima is the wise thing to do so then the i don't think the public or the government are overreacting in this situation i think people not take all precautionary measures they can to avoid the

worst for the rest of the night is psyche the stands today add to be built from scratch eleven square kilometers were jews to dust a cloud of its tragic past still hangs over the city and some residents though know what it means to suffer and are willing to help those in need members of the international volunteer organization the lions club here collecting for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami everyone's desperate to give with donations already ten times higher than normal. we have a case of something happens in our nation will collect donations i need help each other especially the people and i guess i am very very sensitive to atomic power so we are very worried about what happened. and we want to help more than. every way sounding like a sack it is a memorial to the seventy five thousand died when the atomic bomb was dropped here

this one not that exact moment now the city will forever serve as a reminder of the struct to potential of our and those here are now praying that focusing our welfare rabbit in the same way now has sucky transformation has been remarkable ground zero is unrecognizable a city would escape any radiation from a meltdown at fukushima but there is a nuclear plant close by and the incident has left residents living in fear. right now. but people. are very sensitive to the incident in fukushima we've never experienced such a devastating nuclear arsenal before and i think everyone is now free this could happen again i wasn't afraid of accidents before but now because you can see it's not under control though that this memorial represents the craze by so many off the explosion the basins tranquility a far cry from the destruction wrought by the tsunami has done its damage this

place reminds us the ripples from a radioactive disaster extends for generations i think minutes. and that's something and our country has been through so much and how in the wake of japan's nuclear crisis are americans scared of perhaps a similar disaster coming on u.s. soil now laurie harmfulness of the resident that took this very question to the streets of new york let's take a look. as to him struggles with a nuclear crisis are you concerned about the stability of nuclear facilities near you this week let's talk about that we are. so feel this cold not so nuclear plant i mean we're pretty safe if you like it say it should hopefully we ourselves live across the river from a nuclear power plant virginia. it's a concern certainly it's better than spending a lot of tax dollars on

a new energy source there's something about you know it's like this you know you look at cell phones you know cell phone chargers radio waves if a report came out tomorrow that cell phones cause cancer people. so people take the nuclear energy but then work people are really interested in you know certain. different kinds of alternative energies leaving about those. so enough companies put enough money into the research and of this enough research tell us that it's not going to be a five or ten it's if and what pace because there's tax dallas right correct so if you stop spending money and will we can start spending money on energy getting that would never happen hopefully my lifetime i find it amazing the amount of energy what's being used here in error codes in light specifically here on times square so i think people are maybe a bit too much used to use loads and loads of energy so i guess it's what's going

to be quite hard to get them to use to to spend more on green energy because it's going to be more expensive do you support nuclear and see now why not. well because it's a disaster i think you think it's a disaster waiting to happen absolutely so what should we do because we consume a lot of energy on idea i have no clue i got if you don't know then how can we rule out nuclear energy why are so many people so afraid of nuclear energy i go that this is happening right now but most plans are pretty safe sure i think it centers on people always thinking the worst and maybe that's the reaction from nine eleven even when people always think of the things that can get bad so i think there's that armageddon feeling and do you support nuclear energy. you know honestly it's going to be a pretty boring here but i haven't really thought so much about it you think people do think a lot about their energy source or or do they kind of take it for granted i would

say most people probably like me they just don't think about it you know i mean i could make up something you know. i would just throw a bunch of the south as long as the lights turned on you don't care oh let's let's have our income yes whether or not you support nuclear energy the bottom line is that with all of our energy options there comes in one form or another a high price to pay. all right well that does it for now for more on the stories that we cover check out our you tube page that's you tube dot com slash r.t. america and as always feel free to follow me on twitter it's lucy coughing up one word hope to see you in a half an hour.