and regen and the billionaires who are threatened by an expanding middle class billionaires who fear that as more people join the middle class they'd see their enormous stockpiles of wealth become to be more nearly multi-millionaire each and his speech president obama acknowledged this change and the challenge that confronts us now. for decades now americans have watched that compact you wrote they have seen the decks too often stacked against them and they know that washington has not always put their interests first the question is whether we can restore some of the fairness and security that is the find this nation since our beginning so the question is are we going to let reagan's raw deal take more and more people out of the middle class and create a new america with just two classes the billionaires and the oligarchy on the one hand of the vast working poor on the other or are we going to bring back the middle

class a middle class doesn't just spring up out of nowhere it has to be nurtured and actually requires government policies to create requires a government that people have faith in a government that adopts fair policies that promote a middle class taxation policies labor policies trade policies that reagan's raw deal destroyed faith in government and turned our tax policy upside down to give some of the most profitable people and richest people and most profitable corporations in the world tax breaks reagan went after patco the professional air traffic controllers union and triggered a class war against working people and unions that have led to working people's wages flatlining over the last thirty years c.e.o. wages of skyrocketed. so this is the choice confronting us a choice between strong middle class or a strong billionaire class because as president obama said we can't afford

both. i know that some of us want also to never raise any taxes on anyone for as long as you live now is not the time to carve out an exception and raise middle class taxes which is why you should. you have to ask ourselves what's the best way to grow the economy and create jobs should we keep tax loopholes for oil companies or should we use that money to give small business owners a tax credit when they hire new workers because we can't afford to do both this isn't political grandstanding this isn't class warfare this is simple man. this is simple math these are real choices he's a real choices that we've got to make and i'm pretty sure i know what most americans would choose it's not even close and it's time for us to do what's right for our future and that means ditching reagan's raw deal it also means ditching the

nice society a crucial element of reagan's raw deal and replacing it with a new deal style we society as the president said one man didn't build the united states of america. no single individual built america on their own we built it together. we have been and always will be one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all a nation with responsibilities to ourselves and with responsibilities to one another but stopping the raw deal in its tracks won't be easy and the president acknowledged that we are in a crisis right now and right wingers like eric cantor and the billionaires who fund the tea party want to exploit this crisis to finish off the new deal for good just cut the head off of our government altogether and let the oligarchy run the show but president obama drew a line in the sand saying that's not going to happen on his watch. but what we

can't do what i will not do is let this economic crisis be used as an excuse to wipe out the basic protections that americans have counted on for decades i reject the idea that we have to strip away collective bargaining rights to compete in a global economy we shouldn't be in a race to the bottom on where we try to offer the cheapest labor and the worst pollution standards america should be in a race to the top and i believe we can win that race in fact this larger notion that the only thing we can do to restore prosperity is just dismantle government refund everybody's money and let everyone write their own rules and tell everyone they're on their own. son who we are. it's not the story of america but it is the story of reagan's america is the story of raw deal america a deal with the president told us all he's now committed to fighting against this jobs speech wasn't just about jobs it could very well be a turning point in our modern history and while it will take

a while to correct this massive ship of state that's lost its way this could be the beginning the first turn of the wheel away from reagan's raw deal and back toward the new deal and a rebirth of the middle class of america and spending numbers may not have been as high and the tone not as combative as most regresses may have liked myself included but it's a radical shift in posture well reagan bush bush and even clinton all said things like the era of big government is over obama came right out and said that we're a nation of foreign builders not just lone wolf daniel boone zz and if more and more people get the president's message about the dangers of reagan's raw deal and if the president's message gains traction then he'll be able to go bolder and fight harder the next time and then even bolder the time after that until finally our nation once and for all care is down the myth known as reagan's raw deal and

embraces what made our economy great during the last century the new deal so let's this let's let the speech be the beginning of the end of the raw deal if the president keeps fighting and enough of a show up and take over the democratic party and will win and reagan's raw deal just be another one of those mistakes that our nation made but eventually overcame to become a more perfect union. that's the big picture for tonight more information on the stories we covered visit our website to tom harkin dot com for speech dot or archie dot com also check out our two you tube channel has links over thom hartmann dot com this entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free child partly i phone and i pad half of the app store he's honest feedback or twitter a tom underscore our of them on facebook at tom underscore on our blogs message boards and telephone comment line at tell mother about. and don't forget the

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first funerals take place today of those who perished in a plane crash near russia's jaroslav hole that took the lives of almost all the local ice hockey team. crowds gather in the rain outside the locomotive stay. stadium. preparing to say their final goodbyes the city mourns john thomas and coming up we'll have all the details. from the u.s. prepares to commemorate the nine eleven attacks the day that unleashed the war on terror now feared by some to be a bigger threat to international security. and hundreds of egyptians stormed the israeli embassy in cairo in a raid by the deaths of five egyptian border guards last month.

it's eight am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the families and fans of russia's lokomotiv ice hockey team prepare to honor victims of the plane crash on the ice and their home stadium a sports world is in mourning after nearly the entire local much jaroslav old team perished on wednesday our correspondent sean thomas is out in front of the stating he joins us live with more so sean it must be a very somber morning in euro sagal tell us more. well matt it certainly is a very somber tone in the air as hundreds of people are gathering here at the locomotive stadium in. where they will view. fourteen caskets most of them close caskets on the ice at their home stadium of the team members and crew people who were killed in this fateful ill fated flight in fact you can tell

it is raining out here but it's not stopping the crowds of people and judging from the police presence. socials tell us they're expecting the entire city to come and show up between twelve thirty and excuse me eight thirty and twelve thirty they will have the opportunity to pay their respects and bring flowers on the ice and actually say their last goodbyes following this there will be private ceremonies for these fourteen caskets here in the area where only friends and close family members will be able to attend as they are put to ground and then the city can then begin the process of trying to recover from this tragedy we had the opportunity to speak to two of the co-chairs one of them who was supposed to be on the flight one of only two members of the jaroslava locomotive team who were not killed in this tragic accident this is what they have to say. you see here because that somebody.

said the situation. very very. very very nice guys from. both players here is. we were expecting to be against the start and everybody was what. i think it's it's hard part of florida. life emily's really is. it's them. going to. gold. when i first heard the news i really couldn't believe it was true anyone could feel the same i've known some of the players for thirteen years since they were released he said. the fifth and sixth of september training sessions before confidence and quite optimistic and determined all of the very high spirits. and this

is the third official day of mourning here in the city. and over the past three days we've spoken to many fans and friends of the players and emotions have run from. grief and even celebration of the team as fans gathered here throughout the past days chanting slogans of the team but shock disbelief grief somber attitudes all the entire gamut of emotions here. as people here prepare to say goodbye and even though the team has been devastated by this tragedy it looks as though its spirit will live on how strong is the determination to rebuild after this. well it's very interesting yesterday we had the opportunity to go to a hockey rink where the. team practiced in fact the very rake that the team had their final practice and the youth movement or the used teams that are playing the

next level down if you well they're already back on the ice they're already practicing and they have a sense of determination they really want to rebuild this team because jaroslav all and hockey go hand in hand this was a championship team three time championship team and they don't want to lose that tradition so the coach is getting the players back on the ice as soon as possible also the k h l has said that they want to make sure that they rebuild team that is just as good so that they can continue this tradition and that spirit is alive so it's very interesting to see these people really take this to heart now another thing about moving forward if you will the investigation about the plane crash starting to come to some conclusions as to what happened not to get too technical but they said that all three engines on the plane are fine but there could have been a problem with some of the fuel that was put into the plane so they're looking into that as well but in terms of going back if you will to this idea of moving forward

. to speak to one little boy who says it's his dream to play hockey this is what he had to say. it is my favorite team number it's because it's strong and it's. going to keep games with some of the players don't mind. you told us about them and cannot none why you need to be made in the team of aborts talk to school he was in the ninth room when i started. you don't have a catch i'm going to be in the new team that ruthie disappointed not to leave me to become scheduled to be tested for the count the county is going to come right. and we will be here throughout the day as thousands of people throughout the region come here to pay their final respects on this final day of mourning for today's charlotte sliding jaroslava thanks for that report. turning to the other top

stories here on r t americans are united in their grief as the nation commemorates the events of september eleventh across the country security has been beefed up to protect against what's been called a credible threat of a new terror attack yet for many people who still have no sense of safety the clout of this dreadful anniversary has no silver lining is very important i reports in our special coverage from new york. ten years ago america was rocked by unprecedented terror. nearly three thousand innocent lives were lost in a post nine eleven world was born. our war on terror. begins. but it does not in there. it will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found stopped and

defeated washington's military reach again with the hunt for osama bin ladin america strikes back afghanistan as only put bombs and missiles from the air and sea then a preemptive pounding into iraq. in the decade that followed america's fight for freedom has been stained by torture secret detention and renditions human rights violations symbolized by landmarks like one time obey grade and the blogger airbase prison we had cornered the empathy not only of the world but the muslim world and if we had the courage to be vulnerable. we would be far safer and more secure than we are today instead we track deep from that very dark lips or of nationalism journalist in office chris hedges says america's terror unleashed throughout the middle east has opened a pandora's box of evil estimates are over

a million iraqi dead since the invasion. you know hundreds and hundreds of civilians killed in pakistan thousands killed in afghanistan not to mention millions of people displaced in refugee camps i mean the terror that we have unleashed will not go on. it is and it will strike us eventually however in a post nine eleven america citizens have been forced to compromise their freedom. in the name of security that past decade has paved the way for new state practices such as warrantless wiretapping intrusive airport screening and greater authority for law enforcement what some call a police state in the making and as this national security state rose as it becomes easier for the government to scrutinize and niceness in all aspects of our lives i think that we are concerned we worried about is the issue. is larger

than it was the specific isolated riggers it is a heater that is all around us much of it right here at home from people in our own country. since nine eleven a rising tide of islamophobia house passed through this formerly tolerant nation according to the f.b.i. the four men intended to carry out their fire and today dozens of muslim americans have been arrested and convicted in so-called f.b.i. foiled terror plots plots that were orchestrated and manufactured by government paid informants these cases have been created by the government and yet we're supposed to feel safer because criminals that would not have come up with a plot had not been brought to them on a platter by the u.s. government are now in jail and we have you know snowball that's going on around the world only raise more hatred only raise more bad feelings only reinforced many

narrative their violent and the narrative of american imperialism around the world and we think we've created more enemies than friends you know if we targeted communities rather than making them partners not only has it not made us any safer i think that it has undermined you know the very fabric of american society the fabric of a post nine eleven america the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda. in the name of freedom americans can get their began at the us on strike but in the ten years that followed a military state no he didn't. feature. around the world the man behind nine eleven and. the international safety and yet the letter. artsy. u.s. war on terror launched after the attacks was sold as

a necessary measure to stop further attacks on u.s. soil but brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition believes people no longer buy the argument sixty five percent two thirds of the country oppose the war in afghanistan they don't know why they're there why the u.s. is there they don't know what victory means and they favor ending the war in american people who originally bought the position that this was a war to stop another september eleventh they have no longer believe that position they now believe that it's a war for something else then we have thousands of troops who are going to be in afghanistan for decades because this is part of a grand scheme to keep these countries under u.s. control as part of a us americans fear of influence what we see is the institutionalization of everything that started before september eleventh but accelerated the tendency towards militarism towards war towards occupation for its intervention towards poor black hole prisons rendition all of that has become institutionalized in spite of

whoever is in the white house. our coverage of the nine eleven anniversary continues later in the program. we have people on the streets if the post world post nine eleven has become a safer place. and the war on drugs or hypocrisy while struggling to destroy fields of opium poppies in afghanistan the u.k. harvest the crop but for good use. but first the israeli embassy in cairo has been attacked by dozens of egyptian protesters they destroyed part of the wall around the building and tore down the israeli flag replacing it with an egyptian one hundreds of demonstrators had been injured with police using tear gas against the crowd and israeli ambassador and his family have been flown out of the country anger swelled last month after israeli forces responded to a cross border militants attack mistakenly thought killed five egyptian police officers the protests came at a time of change seven months after the popular uprising that ousted hosni mubarak

thousands had gathered in the capital talk here square urging an end to military rule and pressing for urgent reforms president of the arab lawyers association. believes as long as groups world merely benefit from the onerous. almost equal movements vying for trying to show who is bigger than the other i think this demonstration it's only the liberals this slimmest not taking a side is accusing the other one of trying to show that. the islamists. don't want to the election though because for the election no thanks they will definitely get votes then the liberals demonstrations will continue i think the egyptian people who will not accept the military continue to be in this five most of the military as everybody knows the same old team of mubarak people who were picked by mubarak with the approval of them out of the americans would be happy for

a minute. but i don't think he will. soon following the war on terror was the war on drugs ten years later afghanistan are going to stand remains the world's biggest producer of opium poppies with much of its income rooted in illegal or kardex but as the west struggles to destroy drug production in afghanistan the u.k. harvests a new crop of poppies to plug a growing painkiller shortage was already discovered some think it's counterproductive in the rolling fields of oxfordshire at this time of year you'll probably see wheat barley ripening for the harvest but troy springs and warm summer's have been able to plant a very different type of crop opium poppies that are under contract to a pharmaceutical company that turns the opium into morphine and cuttin to plug a shortfall in strong painkillers in the national health service in fact there's a global shortage of drugs made from poppies the opium here will be put to good use

but thousands of miles away nato troops are wiping out existing afghan poppies with bombing burning and spraying the main question is why we destroying crops and then having to grow poppies in fields in which is being used by the american and british governments repeatedly one of these so-called soft arguments of a liberal audience is that they're fighting a war on drugs this is completely cock was a it's not true it's not what war is a problem we should know not so that it's easy to understand why afghan farmers grow then sell opium to the taliban there's an effective distribution network and they can make around seventeen times more profit per hectare than they could on wheat despite the o.p.'s economics farmers are still being encouraged to grow other crops british m.p. frank field thinks that policy has failed but the americans will budge from america

and we follow him best. behind them. makes a nonsense of what this relationship should be. when you put it was. not to be able to use it as a position with the americans to rethink a strategy which i think most people think over the years has if we look historically has probably try a new chart frank field and his group poppy relief think afghan opium should be legalized instead it would benefit afghan farmers raise much needed revenue for the governments nation rebuild and stop the opium falling into the hands of the drug cartels field says it should be military strategy to. have chosen problems rather than brains and anybody who is thinking about how do we get ordinary people ordinary farmers to see poppies as a cash crop. to protect the backs of our troops we will be thinking about how do we

harness this core how do we pay them for it. to transfer it into medicines to cancer. burned in afghanistan and kept secrets here in britain no one wants to talk about the u.k.'s opium growing program we asked the farmers and the company they grow for me if they would give us an interview but fallen smith said they wouldn't allow the farmers to talk to us because it's part of that contract with the home office that they keep the poppy growing. the home office also declined to comment while poppies are increasingly harvested in britain the so-called war on drugs is being decisively lost the u.n. says opium production in afghanistan has been on the rise since the us occupation began in two thousand and one lawyer and it party oxfordshire. president obama

is urging voters across the u.s. to get behind his half trillion dollar stimulus package to create jobs and pressure u.s. lawmakers to pass it the latest white house plan to rescue the economy was a mixture of tax breaks additional government investment and funding to states but gerald selenski a publisher of the trends journal says politicians are fighting the wrong battles in the struggle against unemployment if anybody watched you could wonder how any self respecting good could have any respect for these politicians jumping up and down and clapping like trained seals that every two bit lawing all this creature was is obama's campaign speech on one end you have the republicans that want to cut back in title minson anything going to the people you know are staring measures and obama promising empty promises the federal reserve and some sixteen trillion dollars in stimulus back through

a loans etc and they couldn't create jobs well obama said he wants to create infrastructure jobs perfect but they creating them in the wrong place is creating him in afghanistan fareed building iraq now they're going to be rebuilding libya oh it's simple there's a way to solve this cutback on these of nasa of wars and defense spending and repatriate the money number one and then listen to what else obama wants to do he wants to open up more free trade pacts oh great export jobs overseas why don't you export americans over to china panama indonesia and vietnam to do them so we have to re trench we have to stop these trade agreements that are raping america all of its resources mental and natural. on our website our journey dot com has a lot more for you including videos news and analysis here's what's

a click away right now. at the funeral of the man whose alleged shooting by police triggered four nights of chaos and bedlam across the u.k. back in august. and driving mad that's exactly what moscow was doing to its drivers with traffic jams that go on and on or. america's former top commander in afghanistan general david petraeus has taken up a new spot as head of the cia he's bid farewell to the army after thirty seven years in uniform or his military contributor looks at the reasons for the top brass reshuffle he may seem in consequential but the first decision the general pitch riddles has made on his way from the pentagon to langley was still shared he is military uniform and to present himself in a new incarnation as that poor little civilians according to their official.