our message is simple. if you take the risks that reform entails you'll have the full support of the united states. sounds promising right but the president's message may not be as obvious as it seems so reading between the lines the us trying to promote imperialism under the guise of democracy will get a reaction from those folks obama was trying to target in the speech. to be like that before that level of. mediation just means that. the american citizen.

an american citizen but also a muslim hold off a plane on his way ironically to a conference on islamophobia so in a post osama bin long world what's changed but in time muslims transmit the growing . and it may be time for americans to open their eyes and so paying attention to those glaring signs the ones that preceded the financial collapse so with expert sound the alarm isn't the end of the economic world as we know. it thursday may nineteenth i'm christine friends out in washington d.c. you're watching our team. starting out today president obama speaks out responding to the arab spring and laying out guidelines for the future of the middle east and north africa calling this a moment of opportunity so i found out freedom is in and the future is bright

all right so it's not that simple but we did hear some tough talk on democracy and much much more the united states opposes the use of violence and repression against the people of the reach. the united states supports a set of universal rights and these rights include free speech the freedom of peaceful assembly the freedom of religion equality for men and women under the rule of law and the right to choose your own leaders a lot of people today talking about this speech including a group of muslims not too far from here in the state of virginia artie's kalen ford sat down with them during the speech and found the president's words are ones we've heard before. president barack obama months his new his plan for peace development and democracy in the middle east from washington so we

face a historic opportunity we have the chance to show that america values the dignity of the street vendor in tunisia more than the raw power of the. there must be no doubt that the united states of america welcomes change that advances self-determination and opportunity. but across the potomac here many in the arab community were skeptical. the seven muffy came to the u.s. from tunisia eleven years ago leaving his wife and son behind he lived the revolution from a far i wish from t.v. and facebook something like that but i think that initial nothing could change and now it seems nothing can change until easy and. this is going to be of the most going to see when it's enough to go on the three months because like two more months for the new president but i don't think we know we're not the video for that

but as the arab spring turns to summer many here express their doubts about how president obama's proposal for private investment we think it's important to focus on trade i just made an investment not just assistance a marshall plan for the middle east would work. going to be like a great mistake because you know i was being calling like some of my friends and b. was going saying you know like business from outside you know what about you know you know this is not saved anymore we need democracy first in this country and then they come home for business for some but now we need democratic president obama had tough words for libyan leader moammar gadhafi and syrian leader bashar al assad president assad now has a choice he can lead the transition were get out of the way but many here didn't see gadhafi in this town as the only leaders who needed to move on minor keys remain in u.s. allies saudi arabia in jordan as well if they want to say they saw it they should

do something good for their people not only stay on. money money money in their pockets it's not like people see old people if they need some need food need everything they should keep their country is rich like them not all of them but would they suffer just three years ago many in washington's palestinian community had high hopes for the quote peace candidate david's work for his campaign door to door to solicit people to vote for him and i did my server called everybody you know to vote for her yes we did but unfortunately the noise is a big disappointment obama inside and outside for the middle east an interview but now many are disappointed and want to give us to let democracy bloom in the arab spring on its own. they should get out of the arabic revolution because what they could give to it the. more screw it and build it just leave the

buddhists of these over who should to get their what they want here. and there the market to see there we let the american library computers and out know president obama's message to the arab world with quote take the risk that reform entails and you'll have the full support of the united states but for those here thousands of miles away from family members in cairo tonight in jerusalem they're waiting for a promise to turn into progress healing for the r.t. region you. want to stay on this topic of the speech and a short while ago i spoke with musician poet and playwright and political activist lowkey i point out that he is just the type of person president obama want to reach he's young he's educated and has a vested interest in what happens in the arab world so i asked him if he was being reached you know the president is not reaching me. and i really sincerely doubt he's reaching the people who are actually based in the places that he's talking

about. what would have to change what would president obama have to say to win you over or at least get on board with you know some of his policies. i think. he one thing that he said which really struck me was he won the trade liberalisation of egypt. the question is how much more liberal he want the trade of egypt to be under hosni mubarak it was selling its natural gas to israel for a third of its value i mean i don't know how much more liberal the trade could become i think really he said something which i personally found to be quite a colonial choice of words he said the entire region is facing a choice between hope and hate i mean this is really like a george bush ism if ever there was one i think that mr obama clearly has a choice between empire and security and that is not just security for the united

states there is security for all of its puppets around the world well let's stay on this topic of egypt i know a lot of people kind of getting ready anticipating today's speech compared you know compared to the one we saw back in two thousand and nine in cairo certainly a lot has changed since then but i want to play a portion of what president obama said regarding egypt's and then i'll get your take on it. and that's why two years ago in cairo i began to broaden our engagement based upon mutual interests and mutual respect. i believed then and i believe now. that we have a stake not just in the stability of nations but in the self-determination of individuals the status quo is not sustainable. society is held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time. but they're built upon thought lines that will eventually terrorists under

. so here we have president obama talking about quote societies held together by fear and repression one thing that seems a little ironic you know i'll just throw it out there is that he didn't mention hosni mubarak so much. by name in terms of the fact that hosni mubarak and you touched a little bit on this was supported with money with weapons with support for the last couple decades and now all of a sudden he's the person spreading fear. well let's be completely clear in arnest about this one of those people who is a political cheerleader the one thing which egypt tunisia libya and. syria actually up until two thousand and four all had in common is that they were complicit and they were involved in fact they were partaking in rendition for the united states they were torturing terrorist suspects on behalf of the cia this is

all four of these dictatorships were involved in now all of these governments that they're talking about have capitulated to u.s. interests over the years some have capitulated less than others this is why we have libya and syria being treated completely differently to say yemen and bahrain for instance you have in yemen with the collaboration of many government the united states have been droning that country over oh. under obama which is something that bush didn't do. and regimes have capitulated more than others and this is where you have a difference in the way obama is talking about you know in bahrain they've been killing people and they have us a military base there however mr obama said. pointing the finger at iran now i don't mince my words when it comes to the iranian government some people dislike me because of that by i will tell you this is not the iranian military that are based in bahrain it's the u.s. military and now the saudi military as well as speaking of that also mr obama you

didn't hear you didn't hear a peep about the saudis even though he talked about rights of women and he talked about the ships there are none more. more brutal than the saudis and also. he even had the nerve to talk about iraqi democracy or iraq as a country holds the record for going the longest time after an election without forming a government for over ten months there was no. rocky government they've just been running trade unions in the electricity sector with these this receiver still over fifty thousand u.s. troops there and double as many contractors in mercenaries in this country is this the more i know lowkey one of their is the model of democracy one of the biggest frustrations are for obama supporters and then a lot of them are surprised at how president obama is not quite as different a president as his predecessor now r.t. spoke to arthur and filmmaker tariq ali about this point i want to play this really

quick and then get your thoughts in terms that obama has been looted from from bush at all i mean we celebrated certain. behavior. sending in people to a compound in pakistan to carry out a revenge killing it had nothing to do with just suited everything to do with revenge so i know you mentioned loki a little bit that there are some times the ladies with president bush and president obama talk a little bit about us. well i think definitely somebody whose opinion on this is very valuable is mr gone old rumsfeld he was being interviewed on sky news and he said one thing about obama is that he was elected on the promise of being everything george bush wasn't that's what he campaigned on the basis of he said however since obama became the president he has kept all of bush's policies whether

it's the defense secretary robert gates or anything else but me personally i would disagree with mr rumsfeld and say he's extended further than george bush has when saddam or bay is still open george bush did go on pakistan but not to the extent that obama has done george bush did not bomb yemen obama has bombed yemen george bush did not bomb libya obama has been gloopy or you know this is an extension of the george bush policy in my view and that was lowkey musician poet playwright and local activists. well there are so many who believe these strong words may not translate into action and even if they do it's unclear who the winners and losers will be many of the refs the president spoke about randeep and is actually going it's a kind reports now everyone's fight for freedom fits washington's time. words could be about democracy actions are about interests as the wildfire of public rage

spread throughout the middle east and north africa at the beginning of this year analysts say america's foreign policy in the region has seen a major crisis this is the way policy has been formally for fifty plus years out of this country that we try to look for somebody we'd like to see in power. but washington's old policies could now be seen unfolding in libya a large portion of the leading population is opposing any foreign meddling in their affairs and analysts say washington's efforts to propel its man into power in libya could result in infighting that's going to last year's inconsistency between what america's says and what america does seem obvious when he came to egypt despite asking warrants all three tarion on democratic rule washington had been supporting him for decades many of those years present or as their leader ever were and a friend of the united states but when millions of egyptians took to the streets he

was swiftly shifted its policy as veteran washington hawks we've never seen ski explains if we conclude for example that the street is going to win there's no point but in our head against the wall in order to save a government that's due on the other hand if we are convinced of st it's going to fail there's no point massively antagonizing the government with which we have to deal after whatever happens over in yemen where the president is heavily backed by the u.s. or in bahrain which hosts the major u.s. fleet washington was very careful not to undermine bear leaders although they too have violently cracked down on peaceful protesters meanwhile in iraq people regularly protest against their u.s. backed government it but israel even mentioned here these. he's in saudi arabia one of the u.s. key allies in the region scores of dissidents have been arrested and the u.s.

seems to be ok with all of that but one state that is coming close to being on washington's blacklist is syria iran's closest ally in the region there is strong condemnation of the syrian leadership and the white house source says the administration is close to declaring president assad's rule clear illegitimate action might follow syria is much more dangerous a situation than libya as far as global issues are concerned it is a crucial player in the balance of power in that region with the situation in the middle east as unstable as it is analysts say the u.s. involvement in yet another conflict could further destabilize the region and add more red spots on this map going to shake on r.t.e. washington d.c. so as president obama addressed the middle east this sunday actually marks three weeks then for the death of osama bin laden i mean face of evil in america for the

last decade but has the terrorist death also brought an end to the fear of islam in this country are seeing honest answer churkin to delve into the struggles of the muslim community post in line. ding dong the witch is dead but the spell it cast is still causing chills the fear of islam and muslims in the poster somewhat iraq is alive and kicking there is this the stigma there is this. by is conscious and unconscious about muslims and you know xenophobia is at its height in the united states and muslims are definitely targeted just because of who they are one of the leaders targets of discrimination the sixty one year old a man i mean up to let's leave was recently pulled off an airplane together with his son also one in mom despite having passed through all the security checks the pair were yanked from their fight without explanation i've never spirit anything

like that before that level of you know. as american citizens or the irony of brooklyn mosque leader was headed to a conference on islamophobia the whole idea of the of freedom of religion and that's what we pride ourselves over those americans are proud are so now we can feel proud no more so you find all out a group of people who have a different phrasing you know this is this hard ball ball from say airport authorities can do all it takes a minimum of security others are done looking for excuses and recognize religious profiling when they see it i mean not do much if was one of four enormous headed to the anti prejudice conference that ejected from their flights there was no security issue it was no safety issue. case in point it was discrimination based. in doubts on except. as some americans celebrated the death of one.

muslim community in the u.s. hope for an end to the fear and distrust directed at them and the pressure on muslims to prove themselves as loyal and patriotic americans we don't need to prove all itself that there are more than a thousand muslims are in. and muslims have been can be would a large all beautiful state be and this is my country something until those in power redefined the war on terror the bias against muslims will remain that's not going to stop until we have i think some policy shift so that muslims in fact i'm not targets in the modern islam is not their bogeyman of the twenty first century and with the war on terror it's it has no end in sight others going the right wing media for a few willing the hostilities and not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslims. in the forefront. they go. for basically with this message reaching the policymakers in within fifteen states

across america where laws banning shari'a the legal code of islam got some observant muslims choose to follow is being pushed through if you're a practicing any form of sunni islam and obeying its religious laws and doing it not just alone but with a partner that means that you are forming a national reorganization and therefore can be prosecuted and pay a fine and spend up to fifteen years in jail all this many see is the stunt ignorance and a fear of the are no americans to sort of gradually. muslims they need to have some kind of contact with with this culture about seven million muslims live in the united states a significant part for a country to. still empowered by the number one terrorist even after his death is the poster boy of evil force nine eleven is gone from the fulvia with means and could be one of its way to becoming a permanent state of human rights record of the united states is that's the truth

right. and you know this is a kind of a really important story to tell and stories like this we just don't seem to hear much about in the mainstream media but they're certainly worth discussing so we run any man abdul alim with the director of the masjid alice one last great here in washington d.c. and it's really interesting in the examples that we've seen continue to add up graffiti at a mosque in maine also at a mosque in brooklyn and attempted arson at a mosque in texas signs that the anti muslim sentiment did not die with a sign of in one what do you think about this world what i think about it is first of all the man who two people or two shown happening to friends of mine. happens to be a voice of moderation we spoke together less time on a program together and of course i was a little far. right but he was right in the middle who's a voice of moderation in fact he was of me. for the department of corrections used

to carrier birds but birds i used to make fun of him he was a voice for moderation so he worked with the street he was a state employee the officers that inforce the long years years he is of the third of the law i loosely was a plan was have been to muslims of course and i can speak from personal experience that every time i get on a plane i have this is on my good. side search through once then when i go to do machine a special screening again after you get. to the gate there's a no go. has it gotten more so since nine eleven now. nine eleven is definitely nine eleven we believe was a pretext to. to sway the laws towards prosecuting muslims in other words the global islamic movement has been growing over the last

thirty or forty years has it grows and develops the so-called enemies of islam have to come out against it it's doing no harm to anybody but in order to justify it so pressured of muslims it has to have a nine one one and bin ladden has nothing to do with it if he was there that's fine but that that has nothing to do with it bin laden was actually their employee that's their friend he had nothing to do with us none of us knew him and none of us had anything to do with it and the muslims in america and i would say very good muslims are law abiding citizens and they don't deserve this type of. as i said on your program before i believe the muslims today are treated the same way jews were treated in nazi germany adolf hitler had to justify what her name and i mean all i hear is not like anyone is going hard in

a way that concentrates here in the usa of the world what about all of these entrapment what about all of these cases if you ok there is a difference in reporting the news and living it you see we live it every day so if if you have to report on this and you will have well there's a possibility of this good we live this every day in this country right now to muslims is what we said it was fifteen years ago a constitutional dictatorship that's what it is that's how we're treated but the fact is i mean you're still able to come here and talk with me openly about all your actions and your only words i could not repress and about in my ears and you hurt me about not rising writers and i get arrested every other day i was booed. twice last month my wife was a star preacher does. school to teachers and harassed and what have you the swat team to sustain your own burning road who i'm saying is is i can come here

but i have to pay the price i'm willing to pay the price for coming here and willing to pay to priceless we can i have a different opinion than of the muslims i'm going to stand up for moderates because if we don't stand up we will lose everything we have so instead of trying to cooperate with the system we stand firmly against the system as lone is it's not abiding by its own laws so well in your opinion needs to change the most in terms of the laws and how things are today you know the whole system the whole system muslims are just one part of a global problem if you fix our problem you still have wars going on around the world you still have people getting kicked out of their own educational system is the is in the climb in other words the whole system is broke so you have to fix the holy see the extreme make of it has to have it at all it will it will happen by

force via natural causes like the decline of rome the decline of great britain all of systems if they don't change they decline and then they fall apart that's where the us is headed right now they're really interesting when you take a look at all these cases of increased graffiti though after that activists are going on in on this i think they're always talking out your rights as a master at all if not right here in washington which is a good thing. well here's some food for thought there are more than forty four million people in this country on food stamps and one out of every four american children is on food stamps one in four that's a lot of children whose parents can't afford to feed them here this is not a third world country and this is one of those factoids that makes you stop and think and our friends at the business insider have actually come up with fifty of these points to help make to help make a clearer picture of the state of the economy and here's another one the number of

low income jobs in the united states has risen steadily over the past thirty years and they no account for forty one percent of all jobs in the united states. i don't know about you but just last month i noticed mcdonald's going on a hiring spree they hired fifty thousand new workers so that doesn't demonstrate the point i don't know what will but i want to break this down and for more earlier i spoke with max frowned wolf senior analyst at green crest capital. there's a maximum amount of federal and also state and local unemployment benefits that people can get not everybody who's out of work but also qualifies for unemployment benefits and so there's lots of people falling through a safety net with a lot of holes in it and we should also mention that in about a dozen or more different state legislatures right now we're seeing bills move through the legislators which the governors of a lot of these states are are eager to sign that further reduce the amount of unemployment insurance and we do see this in homelessness we do see this in incarceration for criminal activity sometimes driven by economic need and we see it

in part in a weird way that people very rarely acknowledged in the housing market part of the reason the housing market the united states has double dip that it's in such dire straits is that young people can't afford to form families and people can't afford to buy houses and so part of the weakness in the housing market is all these people who can't afford to live on their own and are sleeping out of food on a couch or in someone's basement or on their feet and on the floor their friends apart it's almost like it's going to take you know lawmakers and big bankers and people who want to see the unemployment go down it's almost going to take them having to actually step over these homeless people to get to work because a lot of them frankly they don't see it so they don't have to deal with it but i want to show another kind of factoid here this is one for parents for those with older children who have graduated from college some good news for those of you whose kids have yet to go to college i'm sorry to report that the cost of college tuition in the united states has gone up by over nine hundred percent since one

nine hundred seventy eight in the last just three decades nine hundred per cent what does that mean for the future of those who want to be educated in this country . but we know it means a bunch of things we passed a very unfortunate benchmark in two thousand and ten the total amount of student loans outstanding is now nearing one trillion dollars and is larger than the total outstanding value of all credit card debt in the united states we've also seen something else very disturbing which isn't in the factoid list but maybe for next year should be that the average person getting out of college the united states now has twenty thousand dollars or more in debt and is making ten percent less than someone who got out of college in two thousand and six so life costs more food costs more gas costs more many cases rent costs as much or more and yet people are making less from they go to school and they're getting out of school with more debt that was max bradwell thing your analyst at green craft capital i'm not going to do it for now for more on the stories we cover and go to our team dot com slash usa art.