when an academic linguist on a put off that provides that no. made of what not i spoke with they were nonpolitical activists about the world's most recent developments. r.t. sitting down with for over an ounce scholar only west author and mit professor noam chomsky professor chomsky thank you very much for taking time speak with r.t. glad to be with you the first issue i want to speak with you about is the recent clashes that have taken place on wall street between americans who are turning out to demonstrate and police officers from what i read you recently sent a message to support the activists of this group called occupy wall street you've called them courageous and honorable you can you talk to me about your take on occupy wall street well as in the wall street is just a short him to the financial institutions the banks are bigger richard before

a corporate profits are reaching record levels for much of unemployment is about the level of the great depression real unemployment these people are saying you know look when you come here from behind so fiscal policies what taxation rules of corporate governance deregulation and so on those set in motion a vicious cycle which is getting worse and worse in new york so walk down the streets you can see a very serious poverty on the other hand phenomenal wealth right side versus the much like a third world country where you see if you go to so if there are enough with that meanwhile infrastructure is collapsing and schools are collapsing and all of that increases the. keeps the cycle going and then it's like rising well. it's about time for some protest what may be in there in the coming year for the

twenty twelve election is that many including yourself have speculated and assume that campaign spending for the u.s. election two thousand and twelve will exceed one billion dollars each for hundred twenty that isn't massive it will probably be much much higher than that where does that come from well you know basically a lot of it comes from financial institutions like you look at the two thousand and eight election and what's one obama what gave him the election was primarily financial institution contributions they preferred him to mccain they expected to be paid back when they were. on the next will be even worse and certainly that's why a part of it in parliamentary systems including our own up to old maybe twenty years ago. positions of influence you know functioning part of a parliamentary system what's the chair of the committee. comes from principle at

least from experience you're already. legislative contributions and so on that's gone now they're bought if you if you want to become chair of the committee. in the house of the senate you have to pay off the party have to pay for it where do you get the money to pay for the same pocket you don't so it. provides even more influence to the your already overwhelming fluence of concentrated capital so it's harder and harder to distinguish between the elected officials and. economic concentration it never was easy to distinguish i should say this is not something novel but now it's sort of reaching the extreme level but what's left of america's democratic system if this is the process that has been cemented in plates and what is really left if from every angle there's these very nicely for me just take a look at public opinion they'll tell you. about two thirds of the public thinks

the entire congress would be thrown out. but that doesn't mean that it's going to happen no but it means that the system isn't working and the public knows it. the popularity of favor ability rating for congress and single digit president not much higher in the same month across all other institutions it's a very widespread sense that everything is going wrong that tells you the democratic system is just not functioning now in fact i don't want to suggest that this is totally new so you go back a century and you can still predict throughout all this period pretty well the outcome of elections by campaign funding but there are degrees and now it's gotten extreme but the levels to which the u.s. has departed from other capitalist societies are pretty remarkable you released a book recently. called nine eleven was there an alternative focusing on the u.s.

assassination of osama bin laden and that continuity you say between george w. bush and barack obama. the killing of osama bin laden is an interesting case it was done it in such a way as to infuriate the pakistanis which is extremely dangerous that's the most dangerous country in the world and go into it when they have a professional army committed to the sovereignty of pakistan pakistanis were already overwhelmingly anti american this. through the stratosphere the army is bitterly angry not only at the invasion of the country and murder someone on their soil but also that they're being pressured or forced to take part in an american war in afghanistan some of the conservative

military analyst who wrote about the bin laden assassination i quoted some of them pointed out quite accurately that the shift between bush's policies and obama's on this bush bush's policy was to kidnap people. whatever you thought about them. take them to guantanamo by ground or some other torture chamber and. extract some information out of them we know what that was like describe it obama's cause is just kill. killing them all over the world targeted assassination camp and you know to kidnap them and torture him just kill him. and the blood necessitate if it was a case in point it's hard to remember but there used to be a system of justice in the west which said that a person is a suspect until he's proven guilty of until then he's a suspect he's innocent until proven guilty well that's gone now you just kill him

if you think they're guilty so he was apprehended. no resistance he was alone with his wife the defense doesn't. highly trained commandos could certainly have apprehended him and they didn't they were under orders to murder him and then toss his body into the ocean acts that are almost designed such a way as to increase her and. hatred throughout the muslim world in fact and when anybody has got their eyes open you talk about the obama administration and how the us actually is right now could be infuriating the muslim world the arab world the obama administration has supported the tunisians has supported the egyptians has supported the libyans and the so-called arab spring the palestinians have officially submitted an application for un membership and

statehood the us says that they will cast a veto against it if they do because they believe that the record low shisha should take place between house and israel before there's an independent palestine first of all i have to make a qualification of the united states and its western allies did not support the egyptian two newseum revolutions they opposed them they sit back to them and to me as it was mostly france they are calling me fix going to the united states and britain their support of the dictators until the last minute and when. the army turned against them and it was no longer possible to support them then they said ok want democracy is wonderful and then they moved to try to ensure that the regimes would stay pretty much as they were in sight of the very old pattern but putting that aside it's true that the united states announced that it would test of the progress thirty five years of the united states and israel has

been rejecting a political settlement that is supported by virtually the entire world the arab league the organization of islamic states which includes iran and hamas supports it almost no relevant party disagrees with except that the united states and israel let it happen how does the fact that egypt right now and turkey have really covered their relations if you see that's an effect of the arab spring what's happening there are changes in the world what's happening is israel's getting harm or isolated meaning the u.s. is getting for more isolated for example a couple months ago there was a meeting of the the oligarchy people pretty much on the economy they warned the government that they better accept something like this resolution because that is it otherwise israel will be as they put it south african iced even more isolated you know boycotts refusal of ships and so on and our economy will collapse now it's

interesting that israel is reacting too much to a so. if you look back at the history but about nine hundred sixty we have the records south african foreign minister called in the american ambassador described this to and said we don't really care as long as you back us because you're the one who matters and that's how it worked out right through the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. u.n. embargo u.n. embargo corporations were pulling out. sanctions are all over the bully cut they were doing fine. the reagan administration was backing them. as long as the us was supporting them and nothing happened then the u.s. withdrew support almost instantly apartheid collapsed saying it's in israel's best interest and the us still allow this palestinian un membership to stay with us for

thirty five years the sense in which a murderer is now that it's been for almost forty years there's a choice between security and expansion very clear choice israel is like other states is preferred for since the early seventy's it's had a choice between security and expansion can have peace but not with expansion into the territories which incidentally is recognized to be criminal but everyone including israel they can get away with it as long as the most powerful state in the world backs them and as long as europe goes along and europe is remarkably tardily them out like this but they don't like to step on the tone and also the masters so they go along so you know it's the quartet has backed the united states they picked tony blair you know i don't have to comment on him but then i might as well pick george bush to. bring the message to do what the united states tells you

to stop this nonsense about statehood and go back to negotiations with that's where we now stand and it's up to the people then just industrial countries to compel their governments to go along with the world the rest chomsky thank you very much for your time. twenty years ago i just. listen to this it. sees the mutua each began a journey. where did it take the. food. to eat. the

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hello and welcome to the sport an artsy comment see a live from moscow with me or i'm on call for our top stories. the marks in the beat ten month or so in st petersburg to earn their first points of this year's champions league campaign. and ready to rumble the countdown continues for the biggest boxing clash of the russian year the country's great cruiserweight holds in these letters of verses a ring legend james it's only. trying times we catch up with russia rugby player constantine who despite having a storm the world cup now finds himself seeking and you club. let's start with football where it's been a night to remember for easy meet the st petersburg side between portuguese dogs force all to claim their first points this champions league campaign the first half and one one after four of those comments are

a dream guess and remind sure all go by exchange goals within the opening twenty minutes of the second period was to belong to the home side after the visitors jorge have to see they receive is marching orders for a second yellow the danger is sure all go up again and man of the match johnny netting for a three one win and here are the results of the night seven other games in the needs group g. the cypriot side are now on top after a draw in ukraine against shots are in group h. the reigning champions force alone has destroyed bot say over and below rose and now sit even on four points with melanne who defeated the league debutantes pulls them from the czech republic chelsea are now on top of group for a home draw against the wild wired leverkusen are now second following victory over again from belgium and find the way in group f. arsenal defeat to greet champions olympiad goals to climb up to second while marsay are now two for two at. for their latest win over borussia dortmund. now two more

russian representatives are on continental d.c. on thursday evening in the europa league rubin host of pollock while on tour elect exactly a decade after the railway men thrashed the belgians five one in the champions league now both sides enter the game as a group leaders after claiming opening round victories a fortnight ago the russians now having all three points after recovering from a goal down against the wind so one thanks to victor i've been now and me treats the child even frightening form of late all round. josie cause there was charges and now unbeaten in their past fourteen games while the belgium's made light work off athens rushing the greeks four one in under that and with a run of seven games without defeat and their domestic league theirs will be a tough side to beat. because. i would seemingly want to also feel at the moment and that's to win every game and elect to see a great confidence in our players this season they go on the beach with no fear of

losing it's what today's game they may be some small strategy changes but i would general style it will be the same with. we came here with a conference and we will try to win this game however at this stage of the tournament it's usually enough to win all your home games and get a draw for any of the wee fixtures to proceed further and actually commit to a nicer in a similar situation right now. is the big sign for russian boxing fans coming soon as the country's top cruiserweight denise is preparing to take on one of the sport's most decorated athletes james the lights out so many right here in moscow the ballot is scheduled for november the fourth although the fighters have already come face to face robert vaughn young reports. make america a russia how you guys do here russia. indeed russian books

and fans must be having a great time one of the musubi rated fighters in the he's through sports teams lights too many women. preparing to show his stones on the fourth of. the ninety minutes russia still cruiserweight. to me following in the footsteps of books and legends roy jones jr slip if lost me and was knocked out in the final round of the bout. to respond three now over state age hasn't affected he quite as much as his doing these plays are two different stories. and james tony jones was a genius probably was the best fighter in the history of boxing his star was very much dependent on speed and this is not what he can say about tony against tony's defense makes him unique and while there's flexibility in the. chest of

a sort of peekaboo defense that he shows it's not exactly peekaboo he's changed tony personally speak up or whatever it is yes but hardly any punches flat on the face that's absolutely unique it's close to do who fine tuned level of skills. and for his next one as well the books in hall of famer claims. to be even harder to completion but sure he's bigger he's never been knocked out he's got a very good chin and vast experience over eighty professional fights speak for themselves he knows the ring like the back of his hand. you know fox is hard to break down over the limit in his plan to do for. these eleven years younger. and his claim soon team he's turning to millions but. the rushing of his must just

looms controversial split decision in the. cruiserweight. how close december but his mind is firmly focused only upcoming. the time that we all try to win and then we'll see who's going to turn the lights out on the member force now said. james to me his works hard to respect and here is hoping he's rumble with is going to make it in the member to remember. now where a vera zvonareva became the first player to qualify for the semifinal of the

pacific open by defeating compadre at maria kirilenko sets six three six three was how they all rushed in quarterfinal and. posting five three break points against her fellow national. became the second semifinalists after beating marion bartoli from france and. while the quarterfinal between. ended prematurely with a russian player retiring in the first set with a leg injury will place another russian in the semifinal where she will play fourth seed. and the last quarter final is underway right now with. the score there is right now six. six in the second set. one the first set six two so we are tied in the second set now the winner of this tie will play third seed victoria azarenka in the semifinal. now the countdown continues to russia's

final match of the rugby world cup when they take on australia in nelson on saturday our correspondent richard reid caught up with one player who's certainly up his reputation in new zealand and that player's name is constantine rushed off despite vats of the flyhalf now five himself without a club. constantin rushkoff has been on the move for most of his life born in kazakhstan he would move to rush hour in his early teens to continue his rugby development before departing for france after the turn of the millennium he took up the sport to be age of twelve however things could have been very different for the thirty two year old having taken different career path as he used to be tennis number one. because a little more than i thought it would take a lot of time to get to the top in tennis as those time goes by the champions are getting younger and younger the money in tennis is older this world in comparison to rugby but i've never regretted my decision. constantine has been playing for the

last decade in france i once played with fellow russian veteran of however over the last couple of years as a member of a massive a trade team which included one of the rugby's most famous ever players loopers list of beautiful i was very lucky to end up at the same club as john a little more i wasn't very lucky that he decided to quit the game not long after i joined he had a lot of injuries and health problems he's now taken up walks in and wants to compete at a professional level but unfortunately i don't think he will ever return to the rugby pitch i know him and he's one of the nicest guys you could ever wish to meet the producer knows constantine had been enjoying his first ever world cup. up until he received some very bad news a couple of days ago he was released from us saved as the french club ran into financial difficulties a decision which came as a massive shock to him and now he's looking for

a new team to play for preferably in europe. definitely want to keep on playing and i'm studying for a degree at the moment for life after rugby but i would like to find a new club and have no intention of ending up my boots for at least the next three years it's a tough time of the moment for consenting who is one of the more respected members of the russian squad and after being constantly moving from one place to the next since his early teens the thirty two year old would like nothing more than see out the remainder of his playing career in europe and a good display against australia could certainly help him to put himself in the shop window for potential suitors richard pombo three year old to new zealand. more spore with the union in a couple of hours and don't forget to check out our you tube channel at r.t.e. sporting news thanks for being with r.t. .

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