bush left right and center and pointed toward a way of transcending the presently unbridgeable political divide pilling kept up the attack against crony capitalism and her labor day rally speech last week. you are. the voice those. who read you. really can't lose. weight. for their belief. and then she delivered the message again last night on fox so-called news bashing gov rick perry's decision to mandate young girls had backs unaided against the h.p.v. virus that decision that helped a former aide of his who went to work for the same drug company that manufactured the vaccine. that's crony capitalism that's part of the problem that we have in this country is that people are afraid even within our own party to call one another out on that true reform and fighting the corruption and fighting

a chronic capitalism is a tough thing to do within your own party you have to go up against the big guns and they will try to destroy you when you call them out on the mistakes that they have made only you know the point is when a crony corporate mouthpiece like sarah palin is decrying crony capitalism then you know there is a serious problem with too much money in our government. it's an issue i talk about in chapter eighteen of my book on equal protection a problem of blowing off politicians handing over massive chunks of our commons from schools to hospitals to energy resources over to corporations to carve up for profits and then rewriting the rules of capitalism along the way through subsidies and tax loopholes to make their buddy buddy c.e.o. zeven more profitable core sarah palin supports the privatization of the commons but in this new populist incarnation she just says doesn't she doesn't like how

it's done the backroom deals the political contributions the quid pro quos but considering that we live in a democracy or at least did before the supreme court citizens united decision in bribing politicians is the only way for corporations to get preferential treatment or at least the easy preferred way after all a vast majority of americans sarah palin excluded are opposed to the crony capitalism of taxpayer subsidies to oil corporations yet vote after vote politicians keep the corporate welfare spigot open to the tune of tens of billions of dollars for the likes of exxon mobil and chevron. again the vast majority of americans again sort of pale excluded pale in excluded think it's an outrage that billionaires like warren buffet pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries do thanks to the capital gains tax loopholes yet vote after vote politicians keep the tax breaks alive for america's wealthiest hedge fund managers and sure the vast majority of americans again sarah palin excluded think dishing out hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money

to defense corporations in the form of no bid contracts to build unnecessary weapons systems is another outrageous form of crony capitalism and just last year half of the pentagon's defense contractors to contracts to private conference call for asians contractors were of the no bid variety costing taxpayers an extra one hundred forty billion dollars according to the center for public integrity this is all crony capitalism at work against the will of the people but at the behest of billion dollar corporations hiring million dollar lobbyists to custom make our economy to meet the needs of the very very wealthy in her i was speech pale and noted that seven of the ten wealthiest counties in america are in the suburbs around washington d.c. . this is a topic that historian thomas frank explored when he took a drive through some of these incredibly wealthy suburbs and what this has made

washington into is a city with you know a lot of still glorious federal monuments and monumental buildings and these sort of you know huge bureaucracies and that sort of thing but the real power is further out it's in the contractors offices and the lobbyists offices you know out in the suburbs where those people live where they do their work and we're going to go take a look at that privatizing is that you know is what built this area and what made d.c. not the same but the d.c. metro area so wealthy so incredibly rich. we only cal look at look at that thing. as a car coming behind us we've found none that i really think where somebody you know you're a lobbyist when those are the monuments to the corporate takeover of america and elsewhere around the country in the communities crippled by foreclosure and

unemployment and the families now living in their cars or in homeless shelters you see the consequences of this very same crony capitalism sarah palin is right we need to end the corruption in our lobbyist infested government that has led us to this for the rich by the rich economy course sarah palin thinks the best way to do that is by electing people who will dismantle government which will totally leave those corporations and wealthy people to step in and fill the void i didn't say she's bright or that i agree with her solution. which really was just a side ways of attacking rick perry but i think it's great that she's willing to identify an attack crony capitalism but the truth is we need people who will dismantle corporate power and that means any in corporate personhood getting money out of politics and in the commons back to the people and making corporations pay their fair share like they used to in america before ronald reagan unfortunately to

get sarah palin to go that far along with the agenda we might actually have to wait until pigs fly and that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our websites of. speech dot org and if you got a check out to you tube channels there are links that somehow. this entire show is also available as a free video podcast and i tunes and we have a free tom hartman i phone i pad app in the app store he sent us feedback at twitter a time others who are on facebook at some underscore of logs message boards and telephone comment line at tom hartman. and don't forget democracy begins when you get out there get active tag your it city.

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are the day.

italy prepares for a live over security of the government's is down to prove a range of major tax hikes and spending cuts while downplaying fresh outrage over its own lavish budget. with the with of revolution still in the air of the arab world our fear is america's support for change could spell trouble for israel with its closest ally in the region. and locked up and left alone caught a virtual extradition laws in britain trap its own citizens and gaps in the justice system spending years behind bars without charge.

of the russian capital you're watching r t with me wearing a joshing welcome to the program italy is deciding on the future of a highly unpopular astaire the package intended to put a leash on a country's runaway debt the country's lower house of parliament is voting today on whether to pass an extensive set of tasks hikes and spending cuts or measures already been passed by the senate despite weeks of wrangling and mass public protests but even if passed many wonder if it will be enough because as our first reports of years of economic stagnation and a culture of government may. have left it to whittle to wait. as italy prepares to once again tighten its belt in the light of new austerity measures politicians it seems found a way to save themselves and pennies the republic. of the inside

of the parliament and the. free. restaurant with very cheap prizes you of for me. and serving the great. cause why don't you send. this cheap yet exclusive money was leaked to italian let's press a magazine but this is no mitchell instead of the straight before we vote the. prize for the call of the parliament costs five million some for around a. year and it's the taxpayer getting that walking bell in fact that's been hard for many to stomach that we are in economic resistance arlene are my people like us a decrease in. greece is because they don't care they interest profits i really

care only day interest so we are. outside the parliament building a protest meeting that has been growing their play guitar in a ferrari has been a hunger strike for months. all the people here are hungry for a future for their children and we don't see that at the moment but to make the politicians listen we know we need to get three million people here who will come protesting against what they say is the politicians a piece of taxpayers' money and an inability to deal adequately with the economic crisis in the country so we're asking for my reduction or for this salary something but i'm in paris because they are the i guess salaries in our europe ok in a. and italian police. one hundred eighty thousand euro in spain for example only it forty five thousand euros. for the controversial spending doesn't end there politicians have four hundred thousand euros allocated to language courses naver

million euro just for their stationery and his public can give builds the protest movement has been gaining momentum we. pulled the greek protest in which. people with less. to find. the situation's going to be very very. hostile across italy casa to be cuts in station spending in people's wages it comes to the politicians it seems no expenses. people's appetite to change is growing. thing. i know but at this instant you can say that they've got the hunger strike will continue and there are mainly until they get them out their.

energies peter labelling his guest discuss the growing crisis in italy is not unique in the united states especially there is great concern over the engine of the world's economy but once mighty and now dying american middle class that are more in christ are coming your way at seven thirty g.m.t. but here's a brief teaser. i was amazed to discover when i got to the united states that everybody was in a trade union is considered middle class you just mean guys with jobs that's what you mean that's a very. capital or capital gains or whatever you just read people who make money from money and people only money from work most of these middle class people make money from work and they should cast their lot in with the poorer people. the point were being employed means little cons will live once a. dealer i know in both once said very politically that for him working class men people who didn't want to work. lives in argentina when it collapsed and i would

put it another way around when you get a crisis the middle class becomes the people who have to work and they start having this illusion that they can become rich like everybody else and suddenly realize hey we're just like the poor guy down the street that i used to pass by. in. washington has strongly backed the libyan opposition since the revolutionary wave in golf the state it's now equally enthusiastic and its support again syria's president bashar al assad but the concern is whether america's decision to take sides can backfire on its closest middle east ally israel or she's going it should count looks at a possible repercussions of u.s. policy. as nations in the middle east and north africa are torn between the struggle to bring about change and the struggle not to let that change ruin their

lives washington views the arab spring as an opportunity to finally see some of its longtime foes crumble you know iran is not an arab country the arab spring to absolutely. and i think and many ways it's a matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurred and under the umbrella of paragraph aleutians washington is also beating the drums of regime change in syria iran's closest ally in the region violence within the country has been widely condemned countries like russia and china call for both sides in syria to talk and end the bloodshed while america's blaming assad alone the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way i think assad stays just like a dog and let's hope the pressure assad is next in line they were overthrown qaddafi they're going to have a proxy or client government in tripoli the next step is syria they want to

overthrow syria next to take advantage of any movement that exists in syria to overthrow the assad government now they have a more democratic government a more humane government but a government that is allied with the united states and after syria the next target will be iran itself watching regimes go down one by one american politicians are filled with new hopes and aspirations some went as far as to predict the arab spring will spread all across the world what this is all about is the spring and bashar assad is next and even places like china and russia and other places they are very uneasy this is about people aspiring for freedom and that's what the libyan people are just achieved. that's wishful thinking on the part of john mccain but it speaks volumes to where the real orientation is in washington not just of the republicans but the democrats too i believe that the united states government feels in the aftermath of the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago this

year there's one single power left in the world so they would like to overthrow the government in china they would like to overthrow the government in russia they would like to overthrow the government of venezuela and cuba or wherever people are independent of the big. it's of washington but i think it's a fantasy but when it comes to syria and iran washington doesn't seem to be just fantasizing about revolutions it actually fosters the process by pledging support for anti-government but some say this might eventually turn against america's closest ally in the region israel if you were to see the rise of a popular revolution with very extreme islamic fundamentalist elements there what you have with. with hamas could essentially spread to many more places and then you'd have a much much larger population base in an extremely hostile position towards the very existence of israel by throwing its support behind revolution makers and

really say washington is seeking to increase its influence and control in these countries let's look at how things have been in the control department so far eject thousands protest against the u.s. backed military there that's the only power last week egyptians store in peace really embassy and rage by the killing of five egyptian border guards in the lead here but washington she wanted leadership is taking over but the country is at risk of plunging into tribal war syria the opposition includes those with radical agendas so the aftermath of the so-called arab spring remains very murky and difficult yet washington seems to be using the early spring to fulfill its long time goals but the fear is it might end up getting the opposite of what it wishes for and undermining the whole region i'm going to shake out reporting from washington our king israel strained relations with turkey and egypt threaten to leave a dangerously isolated from the whole region a situation made even more delicate by you have coming decision at the u.n.

and whether to grant a palestinian statehood turkish political commentator you have told r.t. that israel's current policies leading it no work. israel now is getting away from the notion that needs rational democracy allies in the region and this isolation now taking place because israeli cornishman israeli decision makers on the political will are choosing to if you will. why if you think apologize for turkey for what has been taking place since mavi marmara incident and also killing or for egyptians soldiers inside and hoping to get away with what has been done against them certainly puts for forward in new guinea israeli image in the people's eyes the country will

continue spalled action policies while the world around them in their new research is is really changing. on the ground in libya the national transitional council has given everyone in the besieged procrit r.t. stronghold bani walid two days to leave or face a full scale attack last week opposition fires launched an assault on the city but the offensive stalled in the face of fierce resistance rebels however claim they've made gains in the city of rare valley sixty kilometers east of his hometown of sirte and even though the whereabouts of the embattled leader still now steven rambam has a have an international investigative agency says it's just a matter of time before he's found. after years or not but he's a very clever book and he's a not that's managed to survive for forty five years. and i'm sure he took note of her or some of the water was captured and i'm sure he took note of how saddam

hussein was captured. i'm sure he was avoiding those mistakes but he will make a new mistook. for injury with steven rambam is coming up in just around twenty minutes time here on our team. imprisoned without charge in britain extradition laws are catching people in legal limbo tarr sharp was accused of terror related offenses and attain at the request of the us five years ago he is still behind bars waiting and as if he is either about found out the british government is in no rush to close the gaps in the justice system. is incomplete. hence. the anguish of the family torn apart. the.

player who asked to live. i'm going to lose some of our son son is one of britain's forgotten terror suspects held in custody for five years without charge trapped in the twisted pits of its justice system we don't. do better we. only want to rid of president. our son was arrested in two thousand and six on alleged terrorism offenses he hasn't been tried here because it's not the u.k. that wants him but the u.s. it accuses of supporting the taliban and being involved with websites it calls extremist one of the web site servers happen to be in america and that's why it's after him people were told if they committed anything recorded in this country and they should be brought to justice here and charged and if. they let them get on

with their lives five years in prison this is starvation prison won't release him because of a treaty signed in two thousand and three in the post nine eleven crackdown it means the u.s. can extradite terrorist suspects without a hearing or even showing any evidence has families relentless fight for justice is the only thing stopping them. says nobody. see it weakened and move. on with the people who provoke us with something new and none of the government forecast. this is where it's our how was arrested at his father's shop just over five years ago since then the family have seen their son once a week of fear they won't see him at all it is extradited to the states in prison here town who writes poetry and teaches english if extradited and convicted it will

be a supermax jail solitary confinement and life without parole extreme measures to those who know the man born and educated in london i'm very surprised that the british courts have not treated him on fail at least in all these years because it's completely clear that he is not any kind of threat to anybody there are four more like including barbara our maid britain's longest attained without charge prisoner gary mckinnon another fighting extradition since hacking into the pentagon seven years ago both e.-m. town has suffered from asperger's syndrome which helped keep gary out of prison unlike the muslim suspects gary mckinnon is say you're right middle class english boy and and. are very highly

educated. british middle class boys and they're both asians and they're muslims and what that tells you is sort of something rather awful about our society despite opposing the treaty in opposition the government's done little to overturn it only an independent review jew out in sic tembe or down has families gone to the european court of human rights in a last ditch speed to get him tried here it's taken five years to get this far the town has father's not giving up hope yet either bennett r.t. london. the leaders of the u.s. are may have sealed the deal under which america would station its watch today with interceptor missiles in eastern europe under the agreement the us will build a network of military facilities in the country over the next four years by this is only the first stage of a plan with more bases to them set up around europe the state of intent of the

program is to defend any work against attacks from rogue states such as iran and north korea according to a p.r. girl and professor at paris west university that said there is no real threat to america or its allies but a question mark over just who the shield is saying that. i don't think it's really a military necessity no one really believed it was a possibility of iran it turkey in europe it's nice size did not reach could not reach western europe so it was the deployment was scrapped in the czech republic now it is a new deployment in rumania and i think mistakes are truly political washington probably wants to reassure its former satellite countries is this so huge you know so it's a political move hardly a military necessity and also considering the state to the us economy i don't think it's a wise move in financial terms one of. these reset all this it would russia at

least he was achieving something called gratian russia and she issued this new climate is aware of antagonizing russia which is going to turn into maybe some kind of new arms race which is to give our interest not only because the effectiveness of the shield is problematic doubtful but also because it's going to cost a lot of money and unnecessarily because frankly i don't think iran is in a position to attack anyone in the west. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world c.c.t.v. footage shows the moment a bus and two passenger trains collided during morning rush hour in argentina eleven people died and two hundred twelve were injured some of them children the bus driver is thought to have been trying to beat the train across the traps several of the carriages or star of the real estate here train facing the opposite direction. heavy flooding has killed two hundred people and left

two hundred thousand homeless in southern pakistan rescue boats are collecting those villages cut off by water but may remain trapped most of the displaced population are staying in tent camps floods began early last month but heavy rains have as of eight of them temporary relief efforts. at least nine people have been killed and twenty three wounded in a series of coordinated taliban attacks in afghanistan's capital kabul gunmen targeted the american embassy and nato forces have quarters before several suicide bombers hit police stations elsewhere in the city insurgents stormed and occupied a half built high rise building firing guns and rocket propelled grenades from there afghan and nato forces surrounded the building killing several militants and forcing several others to flee shots still running out on wednesday morning as fighting continued u.s. embassy staff were ordered to retreat into bomb and bulletproof shelters texas

based derek row of the brave new foundation think tank says the presence of u.s. troops in afghanistan usually encourages the taliban to keep on fighting. here we are just past the nine eleven ten year anniversary and major attacks are being mounted in the capital we're just weeks out from petraeus you know kind of crowing about the most recent statistics you want to cite saying that you know violence is coming down but that was immediately followed by august which was the most deadly month ever for u.s. forces in afghanistan and then followed by the spectacular attacks in the capital it shows that the military approach in afghanistan such as yours what's happening is that because the united states didn't respond to their primary just occasion for the war being achieved which was the killing of somebody that has lent credence to the taliban argument with the local people that the united states has its own purposes in afghanistan that has given the taliban even more recruitment abilities be able to say that what's happening is the united states is awkward.