markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to congress report. they think that a quick bit of bombing will sort the matter out but in fact i think they will find that it will last far longer than they have gone before so has the white house figured out a clear strategy for libya or is this just a page from the history books only see if you will slavia nine hundred ninety nine . percent command and control because this is complicated. and we haven't done something like this kind of on the fly before dropping a hypocritical bomb and on the fly war in libya some other on the fly decisions are being made by western allies. with those from the progress that. comes

for. some type of presidential for an arms. race and sarah palin's done it huckabee romney and barbara too so what does the road to twenty twelve always pass through israel. it's thursday march twenty fourth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine frizz now you're watching our team. well today marks the twelfth anniversary of the nato bombings in yugoslavia it was a different time than now with the recent military outburst of the west against libya it's hard to draw some parallels between the two attacks on a saucer charge in the analyzes the wars past and present. in march seasons change sunshine invites americans onto the streets american politicians invite themselves

to foreign countries. march nine hundred ninety nine the u.s. and its nato allies yugoslavia our own forces joined our nato allies in airstrikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo march two thousand and eleven america's next democratic president and a new coalition of the willing attack libya the u.n. security council passed a strong resolution that demands and so the violence against. it authorizes the use of force libya were sanctioned by the un security council in contrast to the bombings of the savia there was no such green light ninety ninety nine in the bombings were led by needle the first time a military alliance atop a sovereign nation a non-lethal member posing no threat to the group similarly libya poses no external threat and there are other striking parallels between the conduct of these wars the enemy then slaughtered on the loss of each dog pinions hitler's the enemy up to

date the eccentric one market and power for forty years as we're just scared af these days john galliano trashed freak show he modernised lead be out for a while now similarly villainize by the us how could. these to step down from power and we've gone now and back then getting rid of a leader no longer a fever by the west taking sides with a questionable opposition in what started as a civil war what we're seeing is a poor fledged war including attempting to kill the head of state of the targeted country and other leaders of the government out again as you know a page from the yugoslav book of twelve years ago. what is the world learned evidently not much the official reason for western involvement a so-called humanitarian mission a term coined amid the bombings of nine hundred ninety nine if you're willing to use a really good leader that's just going to save its people. essentially that was

a. good lawyer so you're a rationale still bromide upon but widely questioned do not as aggressive as with all those businesses. that is of. course the. this is very real and here is a serious the engine of that machine put that in now a no fly zone code for aerial bar. he will that will be here by the additional all necessary measures called for war where the line between the enemy in a foreign land and its civilians often gets blurred they did it in yugoslavia with thousands of people killed and close to one million displaced but after the war when they did account they found the us nato bombs had destroyed fourteen tanks and serbia fourteen tanks but they had also four hundred thirty seven

schools a similar scenario is now predicted in libya obama vows the anti you could argue war will last these are not weeks that was the field plan of yugoslavia bombing lasted two and a half months at a quick bit of bombing will sort the matter out but in fact i think they will find that it will last far longer than they have gambled for twelve years on serbia still remembers the losses inflicted by u.s. and nato bombings the us is now involved in its fourth attack of a foreign nation in the same twelve years and. we were. all right so from two evil dictators to two humanitarian crises you know we're just connecting some historical dots here but we should talk about this a little deeper there is one man who calls what's happening in libya quote a bad science fiction movie written by a political scientists that man is gerald celente publisher of the trends journal

and director of the trends or since. all right carol part of what you and your friends at the trends research institute do is make predictions and i know you recently wrote the first great war of the twenty first century has begun making a prediction of sorts about what's going on in libya and we just showed a report comparing libya to the former yugoslavia exactly twelve years ago how do you make of all this both just keeps going on and on any excuse that the united states has to attack another country they just make it up for example what makes could often be so different that the dictator in yemen xampp a little hypocrisy on the same day that obama announced that we were going to go into libya some fifty people were killed in yemen i didn't hear about the overthrow in that for that government the same day the united states sent in a predator drone missile into pakistan if you want to talk about brutality and

killed some thirty eight innocent people they mistake just those suspected militant targets that they hit so infrequently and so all this is is the united states doing what it's become accustomed to do and that is attack any country it wants to at any time there any reason that it could make up and the new reason that they made up is perfectly orwellian humanitarian crisis so you kill people to solve the humanitarian crisis and you take dictators out that you don't like because really what's behind this and i've said it before with the united states being in iraq if their major export was broccoli or would they be in libya if they weren't holding on to the sweetest of sweet crude oil on the planet and here we should mention you know we've been following on some new developments there happening as we speak reports that nato forces will in fact take command of the mission in libya but i

got to point out. here whether or not that does happen in the coming minutes or hours the negotiations have been a little hairy still some major differences in principle between nato members and i also want to show our sort of what we've been seeing leading up to this point from clayton fingerpointing much of it from turkey to france now here's a quote from turkey's prime minister saying the following i wish that those who only see oil gold mines and underground treasures when they look in libya's direction would see the region through glasses of conscious from now on sort of playing it gerald to what you were just talking about what do you make of this and also of you know what's happening next there nato's a code word for the united states they've changed the date stays the language every time you read the new york times or any of these other so-called papers of record when people get killed or there are strikes in afghanistan that kill innocent people they always use the term nato it's mostly the us and yes the prime

minister of turkey is one hundred percent correct again the hypocrisy is before our very own eyes look what's coing on in the ivory coast as we speak look what's going on in the sudan as we speak look what's going on in bahrain where the fifth fleet happens to be as we speak you don't hear hillary clinton say we have to take out those tyrants no it's about the bottom law and that's all it's ever about it's not about a humanitarian crisis and besides that it's a civil war and it's none of the united states business here it's working about the republicans and the democrats about balancing the budget in the u.s. as if just blowing away probably a billion bucks in a week bombing another country how about fixing up to troy whose population is

declining from two million to about seven hundred thousand how about fixing camden now this is just war and wars are racking. so then gerald i mean it's very easy to say everything that's wrong here but what if you had a you know if i have minutes with president obama well how would you advise him on what's going on here well it's not advising him on anything i've made this very clear and over and over again if you want to see the problems in the united states obama's part of it it's called harvard princeton. bullets bombs and banks these are the people that run the country and i'm not making this up is rhetoric take a look at the supreme court oh really supreme isn't it all that and yeah well you look at wall street you look at the people in the administration and the greed ministration before that before that so that's what's going on and these are the

people that are in charge who's the head of the federal reserve over princeton no this is all it is they have members of the club and this is the dirty business that the club does switching gears here jerrold i want to talk about sales of new homes that report came out recently that shows last month they fell fails new homes fell to the lowest level on record dating back nearly fifty years and i really poppins we're supposed to be getting better on the housing front let's look at the housing front what prop it up the last time remember they gave that eight thousand ten thousand dollars tax break to the home buyers in the name made it to anybody first it was first time and then look who's supporting all of this it's we the people of the united states we're backing all the loans fannie mae freddie mac. the f.h.a. so no this is only a temporary boost we said this from the beginning when the money game would run out the real estate market in the rest of the economy would collapse and that's what

we're seeing and let's not forget that the a boom that happened because of the fake. money that digital body printed out of thin air when they lowered interest rates the forty six year lows beginning in two thousand and one if you will the housing boom that's what the recovery was all about let me ask you this gerald it's happening obviously this report an official report but i'm wondering you have any take on why you know where i live here in d.c. there doesn't seem to be as much of an issue with new home sales where you live in the d.c. i read that it's the government that's where they create jobs if you look at of the clyde in federal jobs since what about eight billion of it was since the the great recession began there's always been any decline at all so that's the business of government is to build more federal government that's why has the prices stable

there they take a trip to cincinnati you'll have a lovely to live in laws vegas so that's where you collapses are happening harold's loans a publisher of the trends journal and director of the trends research institute well one week ago as we sent the united states security council adopted resolution one nine hundred seventy three this gave the green line of course for the u.s. led coalition forces to launch air strikes into libya and they'll fly zone was then established and countries were authorized to use all necessary measures to protect civilians from moammar gadhafi forces america britain and france blazed in like you can say western cowboys and six days into the bombing campaign the allies have not clearly explained exactly what they're doing or how the war they started will ultimately end archie's marine important reports. operation odyssey dawn struck with weak minds. france and britain campaigned for the military offensive into libya but it was america that led the way by. firing hundreds of

tomahawk missiles against moammar gadhafi is tanks compounds and libyan air defenses nearly one week after waging war no country has been able to clarify a clear goal or exit strategy for libya it is u.s. policy that gadhafi needs to go and not so insists coalition partner britain. and give you a resolution sold as a humanitarian intervention to protect libyan civilians from gadhafi is firepower allied airstrikes are now being blamed for mounting casualties. i have no choices only victory on this we have no other reason to live the boom was terrorizing children we will not give up on completion thing the killing of a lot of people soon the american. there is also little sign of anti gadhafi forces

gaining much traction with only a few government forces switching sides as for the twenty two arab countries that push for the no fly zone their military is nowhere to be found only cutter put up a handful of warplanes prohibited from flying too close to libya meanwhile obama says the u.s. will hand over control of the mission but to whom nato countries are mired in disagreement from the brits and french to the turks have already said that all they want is a no fly zone nothing more than man the germans are now stating that they are removing their navy from nato control so it seems like this is quite a model with the cost of this odyssey at a reported one hundred million dollars per day u.s. lawmakers want some answers we would have. so what is the intelligence that we have with secretary gates who leads us to believe that he doesn't know played be we

would have put that just last month u.s. defense secretary robert gates publicly opposed american military intervention in libya a third u.s. war he's now forced to defend those commanding control because this is complicated . and we haven't done something like this kind of on the slide before. and and sort so not surprising to me that it would take a few days to get it all sorted also hard to sort out is u.s. senator john mccain's position on libya the republican repeatedly called for gadhafi is removal he is the blood of american society his hands because he was responsible for the bombing of pan am one hundred three yet just eighteen months ago mccain was in tripoli peddling american military equipment and shaking hands with the libyan leader and his son to do everything we can to work for the relations between our countries and. right now the rift couldn't be further apart

as gadhafi vows to fight fire with fire. in the short term we will be in the long term we will be nearly one week after spearheading a military intervention into another arab country the u.s. u.k. and france are coming under increasing pressure to explain the endgame of this scenario what is happening in libya who is in charge what does victory mean and when will this new and third u.s. backed mission finally be accomplished pre-nup or not artsy we are. now on to an invasion of a different kind the invasion into israel by presidential candidates from these very united states their palin is the latest one but she follows rudy giuliani. mike huckabee mitt romney haley barbour and george pataki and visits to the holy land all over the last few months. in our new york studio and lauren it's almost as

if establishing your credentials and tell of eve is as vital as say something right here in new hampshire. it certainly seems so but though in the case of sarah palin her people said the trip was personal and not political but yet it was the american jewish coalition who was in talks with her for her to make this trip and they report that they've made requests to all of the republican politicians who have been rumored or said to have possibly be contenders in the two thousand and twelve presidential elections to make trips to israel today they meet with israeli leaders they take pictures with benjamin netanyahu so the real question is why is it so important for these politicians to be hobnobbing with the prime minister of another country when did not even so much as announce their candidacy for president her home. the pilgrimage of presidential hopefuls in the western wall

a photo walk with netanyahu will all first stops ahead of a possible run for the u.s. top spot in some ways i think of israel as the new iowa you know it's like sort of the indicator that you're running for president is a trip to israel but why go all the way to tell of the in search of the holy grail that's a rite of passage for presidential candidates. mostly it's about money jewish and pro israel money accounts for between one quarter and one third of all donations to the major political parties some estimate higher and one former congresswoman put it this way the executive branch state. legislative branch pro israel federal campaign contributions amounted to more than eleven point seven million dollars in two thousand and ten leaving other foreign and defense policy contributions along with human rights women's issues the environment and gun rights donations in the dust and this power of the purse has built

a reputation in washington for the most powerful pro israel political group and the country i think what a pakistan best has impressed upon candidates and upon elected officials they can punish people who got the wrong way and a reward people who got the right way rumblings of which could be heard at the height of tensions between the white house and israel over settlements last spring in the way some members talked about president obama's fate i think he may very well be a one term president. now in the last few months we've seen a parade of g.o.p. politicians through the holy land a stance of leaders to use their foreign policy credentials huckabee romney giuliani barbour and most recently of course he went who is known for her uncompromising support for the state of israel who is known in the u.s. when it comes. to international aptitude by our infamous lack of it you can actually see russia from land here in alaska and if candidates like pailin are

hoping to gain insight into the middle east it doesn't take a political analyst to see a major part of the picture is missing someone asked sarah palin what she thought about the west bank she says should all use wells fargo but critics argue an accurate view of the issues is just not really the point just grows from the poor some incomes for goods and. parks from her presidential for no. reason and a broader perspective might not matter much to the future of u.s. foreign policy i mean when people of the united states job it should representation when it comes to their value versus the ballot of the pro israel lobby so all of this helps to explain why first stop on the international tour is it say china with its rise in the world is taking us bonds or russia which the u.s. is trying to reset relations with or saudi arabia with the planned u.s. sales of sixty billion dollars in arms to counter rerun or even the u.k.

which is the other part of the so-called special relationship but instead widely tensional presidents on the surface looking to boost their foreign policy street kred bypass all of these other countries and head straight to the stump in just one lauren lyster r.t. new york such an interesting point lauren brings up there is a lot of allies certainly israel is one of the important one and let's talk about this it seems to be a hot trend of course we are getting into that almost election period we're seeing mostly republicans and of course there's some obvious reasons for that to talk a little about that and also i'm curious if you can explain who funds these trips. absolutely yeah right now we're seeing a lot of republican candidates because of course obama will be up for reelection in two thousand and twelve but analysts assure me that candidates from both sides of the aisle make these journeys and in fact democrats seem to be more reliant on

money from the pro israel lobby according to statistics less conservative numbers than the ones that i cited in my report in two thousand and six from the washington post indicate that the democratic presidential candidates and party rely on private jewish money for up to sixty percent of their private donations so quite a sizable number and that's thirty five percent for republicans and when you consider that the jewish population in the united states is less than three percent that's quite a sizable number coming from a minority of the population now it's horace who pays for these trips in many cases it is the jewish political organizations the the republican jewish coalition i mentioned was in talks to send pailin she actually went through a christian group which was a source of some controversy by a board member from the r. g.'s j c david frum wrote a blog about that now haley barbour was sent by the r j c back in two thousand and seven romney was according to an israel israeli publication mitt romney and his

most recent trip was paid for by a pack so you can see that these the pro israel lobby does pay to get these candidates over there well let's talk about what these candidates or potential could be candidates do once they get to israel benjamin netanyahu seems more than willing to meet with anyone who comes over lots of photo opportunities and perhaps closed door discussions surrounding that but one thing you don't see as many of them visiting the west bank or gaza you want to talk about this a little more. yeah that is something that you don't see and that's something that many activists argue is it is a huge issue i mean even general petraeus you heard say last year that america is pro israel stance and the perception of being more heavily supporting of israel in the mideast peace process by the arab world was a challenge for him and doing his job as a commander of that area so clearly this is an issue the palestinian issue is something that united states lawmakers according to activists absolutely need to

understand and yet you don't see them going into the palestinian territories at all and we're somewhere like gaza you have people reporting it to be a humanitarian crisis and essentially occupied territory but yet you have u.s. politicians not even having an understanding of what that means and really kind of case in point driving that home sarah palin reportedly tried to go to bethlehem but she and her group of organized the trip evidently didn't know that that wasn't in israel just showing this you know how little understanding she really has of the dynamics the true dynamics in the region well wait a minute lauren she can see russia from her backyard. she can but she certainly can't see palestine and it doesn't seem like she got any better of a vision of it on this trip there to israel. i remember there was a woman in your report she implied or said that they can punish people who vote the wrong way to talk about what you think she might have meant. she meant it very

literally and one of the ways in which she said that a package done this in the past or been reported to is by heavily funding opponents of candidates that they want to see out of one case where this is reported to have happened with with cynthia mckinney who you saw in my report she was a u.s. congresswoman and american jewish money poured into to her opponent and essentially that's why some believe that she was not reelected now that's also believed by some to have played a role in why george h.w. bush wasn't elected he went head to head in ninety two with israeli leadership over the issue of settlements and some believe that that lost him his second term a second term all right lauren lyster from our new york studio. and earlier i spoke to the editor of counterpunch alexander coburn i asked him why the road to the white house doesn't seem complete without a trip to israel he says take another composer take control. you know functional group so obviously i mean you know it could focus the israeli lobby the

miami cubans for example about a huge influence on american foreign policy whether since the late fifty's because it's an important electoral state the jewish vote in new york and california is extremely important politically therefore every political candidate who has why is to be president of the united states who started to be a member of the u.s. congress has to deal with the israeli lobby and the organization to represent let's broaden this a little bit can you make any comparisons in terms of what other groups get this kind of treatment these kind of visits i mean christian right in this country muslims in another country or do you think that israel is sort of at the top when it comes to these visits that are becoming i mean i wouldn't say mandatory. oh they've been managed through for years other important lobbies for you can start with the defense industrial complex why is the defense budget higher than it's ever been even though the u.s.

military is smaller and there's no longer the soviet union to justify the old expense. that's a cook into the israeli lobby by the way but no it's one of the most beloved in the united states no question about it i want to also says here is that throughout the show we've been talking a lot about the situation and libya i was wondering your take i certainly it's very interesting to see i just thinking back when i saw the way that the english reacted that the leaders that the public reacted when you know great britain sort of went side by side with us in iraq now wait britain seems to be instigating in some ways what's going on in libya i feel like david cameron's been pretty gung ho even know the public there remains pretty overwhelmingly against it do you have any insight into that well i would have said the french would have been perhaps as important even maybe more important than they were just because it was softer also cozy whose popularity in france is around twenty percent right now who is the one who suddenly

amazingly recognized the benghazi rebels as the legitimate government of libya this is an extraordinary event i forget if somebody said that us our president was not only launching bombs but perhaps launching his reelection campaign i thought that was a really interesting he's trying to save his political neck but in this country people talk about a loyal i don't think oil is a factor in this poll in this country the inspirer is this i think actually insane military venture probably stupid as anything sinister poleon tried to upgrade rush for an eight hundred twelve. it's absolutely amazingly stupid because you had what we call liberal interventionist lobby which was. you know rice in the u.n. hillary clinton. at the advisory and samantha power in the white house who were pushing for intervention.