in a radio interview that nothing short of a technocratic government like that of monti's in italy may be required to stem the crisis in greece greek politicians are going along with creditors demands even though angry mobs are literally gathering at their doors look at this outside former prime minister close to submit his house on sunday. they were calling him a traitor other names too meanwhile look at this greek national poll conducted this month it shows the influence of various political parties in greece we want to focus on that three percent it may not look like a lot but that is a far right political party extreme nationalist party they don't have members in parliament yet but three percent is the threshold reportedly at which parties can

begin to place their own members in parliament so are people moving to more radical parties because the others aren't listening to them this is how we saw the rise of fascism prior to world war two in europe i asked m.e.p. nigel farage about this earlier take a look ok mr farris let's get straight to it so you've been critical rightfully so of pop a day most in greece as an unelected official a technocrat put in place by the e.u. but in greece there is a deeper problem you have all of these elected officials democratically elected politicians in parliament who are voting for these deeply unpopular measures as athens literally has been burning outside of parliament why do you think that it is well sunday was very interesting effectively what happened was that the you you have held a gun to their heads in greece and they have said to the political class unless you vote for this bailout package unless you vote for continued subjugation. we will

not give you the next tranche of money you will go bankrupt and your reputation internationally will be destroyed and in the face of that the greek political class just don't have the courage to stand up and tell you where to go and you know i can see why i mean for a country to go bankrupt to face the devaluation going back to the grog we're about sixty or seventy percent it is a difficult thing to do but i tell you this if they don't do it they're going to die a different kind of economic death because the greek economy is contracting now at an accelerating rate that has now reached seven percent per year yeah absolutely it's in a depression in siberia is that they've had they've seen a contraction of growth and you have the greek m.p.'s for example like some of us who is seen by some as possibly the next prime minister who backpedals away from the electorate every time there's pressure from the e.u. or from the troika put on what you kind of spoken to but what's interesting is you

have politicians acting against their electoral interests jeopardizing their reelections which is unusual for a politician what's in it for them. it is a funny one isn't it i mean we you simply can't think of greece as a normal democratic country it is not a democratic country you know its prime minister is a puppet he was put there to dance to the tune of the european union we have a troika where we have a three people with common unelected bureaucrats one from washington from the i.m.f. one from the european commission another from the european central bank they're the people effectively that are now running greece and the political class in athens most of them are like rabbits staring in the headlights of this car that is coming straight down towards them and and the people i just think put yourself in their position if you take away from people their ability through the ballot box to determine their own future then violence is all they're left with and i'm afraid

that what we saw on sunday may be just the start of something really very very bad indeed. and it's interesting we've seen a backlash against politicians in greece you've seen molotov cocktails thrown at the president's house you've seen a former prime minister have a mob gather around his house literally harassing him i don't want to say this lightly but history europe does have this history are you concerned about political assassinations happening again i am concerned that if we continue with austerity package on a country whose economy is already in a downward deflationary death spiral without any compensation which is what going back to the drachma would give then i think we're heading for a revolution of some kind in greece and i don't want to predict exactly what form that will take that would be irresponsible but i think it is i think the prospect is very very bad indeed and you said before that you're worried about a rise of nationalism as a result of what's going on in europe in greece according to gallup was

a very far right party could get a seat in parliament if there were elections today is this rise in nationalism it's dangerous in your view already in europe. what in the thirty's what we saw huge financial disaster and countries crashing out of the gold standard mass unemployment what we saw was fascism and it's what most of europe and do not think that that sort of thing cannot happen again i am very worried about it and that is why i've always been looking for democratic solutions i've always believed that if you are going to form a new united states of europe you can only do so through free and fair referendums only do so through consent and that consent has not been given and in the case of greece and portugal and spain the prospects are very bleak indeed i do not want a rise of extreme fascist nationalism in europe but i'm terrified that the e.u. itself is now so powerful and so determined to keep up with its own failing

policies that we may well be driving people into this position it's quite a warning coming from nigel farrah's the leader of the united kingdom independent party. all right intend to go so far let's lighten it up a little bit let's bring in dimitri kofi anna right here in studio and shannon donahoe in the control room our producer is to talk about this which is actually kind of an alarming finding of a main street dot com just came out with a list of the u.s. is richest counties and just guess who dominates their standing the d.c. area take a look at the top three look at the median household incomes they are six figures

in the top three counties all around washington d.c. . listen this man puts it pretty clearly as far as what this isn't like. in other parts of the country where people can speak consider locally rich someone here making one hundred thousand was just media. just media users right in there for making six figures all the top fifteen richest counties are in the d.c. area the top fifteen if you what more evidence do you need about the people sucking on the teat of government and that well yes courageous because the money gets redistributed to d.c. i think it's absurd i can't stand d.c. and i live here but when i was that thing i got this i don't i mean the fact that they make that much money. and this this this city is really slow pace of it compared to new york so i'm shocked that make them whole i think one thing that you find is all of the contractors and a lot of the people the benefit from business the government are all around here and they've all done quite. forgot about that one and you hear so much about

welfare reform but there is a whole different kind of welfare that is going on that i think is pretty alarming shannon do you have anything to add. full disclosure i do live in one of those counties but i definitely do not make that much money and we've got people in the control room over here high five ing that they live in the county but i'm pretty sure they don't make that much money so basically you're all bringing down the median is what you're saying and you know without just average people imagine how high those salad also goes and i think food the way foods that is working is it's about half of median income so from what i understand that the people eligible for food stamps in d.c. would have to make what could make more money than anyone else in the country all right some one fact check came in let's move on to something in london is causing rents to skyrocket can you guess what it is.

it's the olympics and landlords are cashing in ok the rent for a large house can be as much as four hundred thirty three thousand pounds per month and other landlords are increasing rent by as much as six times the normal rate is this why david cameron was so excited about the olympics when i heard him speak about it at davos workers got out they want to run i don't know maybe he wants you know that money to be you know coming into london in the news much music because it's completely bankrupt the u.k. is the most bankrupt country in the in the world which we saw all their financial sector of the financial sector that there are all the all the debt if you take their financial good public everything it's a thousand percent of g.d.p. so they can they can they need all the money they can get the rollover that they should pray to god the money keeps going to you shannon i would feel relieved if i

lived in one of those areas and went out that way if you live there and you're right goes up for that reason that would be a robot or good time to leave your house then run it out to somebody else make a little go that's all we have time for in the lead with a great idea if you are one of our viewers in the u.k. thanks so much for tuning in feel free to follow me on twitter lauren lyster give us feedback on the show at youtube dot com slash capital account and from everyone here thank you so much for watching come back tomorrow and have a great. fears

of tending confrontation between tel of even tehran grow following reports that iranians arrested over recent thailand bombings were targeting israeli diplomats. violence in syria escalates as a high ranking religious leader is assassinated in damascus allegedly for his from a pro-government news our correspondent has reports from the heart of the events in the syrian capital. athens fulfills the last to be used bellow demands of many greeks feel the nation will recover from out scary measures that harm their health care system while leaving the military unscathed. coming up following the latest on

our top stories the a low to show concentrates on whether the us mainstream media is turning a blind eye to the situation in iraq stay with us. welcome to the lower cell at the real headlines with none of the mercy or can live in washington d.c. now tonight we're going to talk about the possibility of the white house making drastic reduction to the u.s. nuclear arsenal to buy the budget for twenty thirteen so far shows the exact opposite then there are some army psychiatrist downgrading p.t.s.d. diagnoses to save money we're going to talk about

a very disturbing speech in which an investigation has now been launched and get this a private prison operators offering to buy up state prisons all in exchange that they remain ninety percent full so we're going to talk about the dangers making criminal justice a for profit industry we'll have all that and wife and i including it does of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. yesterday's show we spoke to glenn greenwald about how the media seems to be beating the war drums on iran even louder than the government itself and today we saw more direct proof take a look. defiant iran taunting the west iran is calling it a major achievement its nuclear program scientists have loaded nuclear fuel rods into the core of a research reactor tehran is fueling its centrifuges with nuclear fuel and that is

stoking fears that the rogue state is indeed one step closer to an atomic bomb is this another step potentially on the road and road to potentially making nuclear weapons it is certainly a step down the road towards a nuclear weapon escalating nuclear tensions with iran this morning president mahmoud ahmadinejad is shown supposedly loading nuclear fuel rods into the tehran research reactor but it is a huge source of pride for iraq. but should it be a source of worry for the west rand has ballistic missiles with a range of about one thousand miles obviously putting israel well within reach this is a ron doubling down on moving down the path towards a nuclear weapon. so to hear that defiant iran taunting the west the rogue state one step closer doubling down on the path to an atomic bomb should be a source of worry for the west how many ballistic missiles do they have after watching news this morning and hearing all that can help them feel scared oh here you have the mainstream media playing fearmonger in chief actually taking over and

expanding on what we normally hear from the warhawk pundits and lawmakers now they just have their own reporters and anchors doing it but listen is there a lot of talk about the developments of iran's nuclear program yes of course but is that mean that we automatically have to jump to conclusions about nuclear war ballistic missile strikes firstly i'd say no and just like we discussed yesterday perhaps the most frustrating and hypocritical thing about all of this is that it's always perceived as if iran is a constant aggressor and the west is just idly sitting by waving flags of peace this is a game being played by more than one side but if you're the media shouldn't you at least explore both sides explore it all don't you at least zero it to audiences to remind them that well there's the possibility that iran wants to remain defiant because it's being cornered in by sanctions by u.s. military presence and has it surrounded by a covert war that's being waged against it in the form of drones flying over their sovereign airspace and their nuclear scientists being murdered to point out any of that doesn't mean we're coming to iran's defense quite the opposite it just shows

that you have an ability to apply logic and analysis to your coverage but from what we're seeing coming from the mainstream media it really doesn't seem that they're able to do that now does it now you know what else i haven't seen the mainstream media coverage is the fact that those in our military leadership have been doing nothing but urging caution in regards to beating these were troops heard it from general martin dempsey the head of the joint chiefs who said last month that a war with iran would quote be. really destabilize he said i personally believe that we should be in the business of deterring war as a first priority air force major general charles dunlop it said almost any use of force carries a great risk of unintended quantum consequences so many of those who served and commanded in iraq have also given several similar warnings reminding everyone that engaging in a military conflict is a massive endeavor that involves danger risk the loss of life and it's not by any means something that we should rush into and so you think of the population which is war weary from iraq and afghanistan from ten years of constant war would be

cautious as well but as we discussed with glenn yesterday a recent poll shows that more than fifty percent of respondents so they thought the u.s. should use military force to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon that's despite the fact that our secretary of defense and the director of national intelligence have both said in recent weeks that there is no evidence that iran has decided to pursue a nuclear weapon and so once again we have to return to the mainstream media and the role that they're playing in building this in fanning the flames and making conflicts seem inevitable and sears it's dangerous and yet somehow they want to help provoke more war to scare people enough that their eyes will be glued to the t.v. screens and chills will be running down their spines but a semblance of being calm collected responsible professional that's what they choose to miss.

now since everyone is on the topic of nukes let's talk about where the u.s. is heading and their nuclear weapon drawdown officials are saying that the obama administration is contemplating further cuts to the u.s. arsenal possibly by reducing the number of deployed long range nuclear weapons to as low as three to four hundred warheads that be about an eighty percent reduction from what the u.s. agreed to in the new start treaty with russia which limits both countries to one thousand five hundred fifty however if we look at the budget that the administration just released for twenty thirty even something doesn't really seem to quite add up not only is the budget more than last year's appropriation but it's twenty percent higher than ronald reagan's largest nuclear weapons budget at the height of the cold war and yes that is adjusted for inflation but is this a double game what can we really take away from all these reports here to discuss this with me is peter creil nonproliferation analyst at the arms control association peter thanks so much for joining us tonight having me ok before we get into the obama administration's plans let me at least get a comment from you on what it is that we're seeing you know what do you think that

we should take away from what iran is saying about having their own nuclear fuel rods well i think we've seen two three interesting things from iran today on the one hand they announced all of these major nuclear accomplishments accomplishments they made today but at the same time they also delivered a letter to the catherine ashton calling for responding for a call for a new talks on the nuclear program so what it seems that iran is simply posturing they're trying to show the world that look we're not going to bend to the west's will we've managed to have some serious accomplishments in our nuclear program but at the same time you know we're willing to talk and it's we're they're trying to say that they're coming from a position of strength even though they've come under the most serious sanctions that we've ever seen i mean do you think the people are going a little bit overboard with the nuclear talk when it comes to iran especially when we talk about the idea of iran having a nuclear weapon of hiding. you know hire enough high enough excuse me and rich uranium you know i think so i think there's a certainly a lot of her probably going on i think the iranians are engaged in a lot of hyperbole

a lot of things that we've seen today are not very serious nuclear complements they don't seriously advance iran's program very far but at the same time you know a lot of things that they're doing are very worrisome but they're not necessarily on the cusp of building nuclear weapons and i think that's one thing that we need to keep in perspective ok so now let's get into the obama administration and what these reports are saying that there might just be an even larger drawdown i mean how would something like that even have to go about happening right specially if we look at this budget they've been out for twenty thirty and if we look at the way at the start treaty to be ratified there is a lot of congressional disapproval there so what would be the process if they wanted to bring it down to only three or four hundred warheads absolutely would what the administration is looking to do essentially is they're looking at what the options are for the role of u.s. nuclear weapons so it's not necessarily trying to decide on a on a number and drawing down there this process would schools kicked off a couple of years ago when the united states had concluded a nuclear posture review which is certainly done once every administration and that

offers some broad guidance about what u.s. nuclear weapons are supposed to achieve what they doing now is looking at well what are the specific missions that nuclear weapons are for and drawing from that how many nuclear weapons do we need to achieve those missions so it's not simply a matter of trying to ping one number another it's deciding on from from a range of options what can we live with what can we afford and how can we meet our goals while still meet the nuclear mission goals while still maintaining u.s. nuclear security now is that necessarily something that we're going to know about because we had just to hear on the show a couple weeks govern the ploughshares fund has talked about how obama had this big decision coming up but it's not something that he makes public in terms of you know currently we have to be able to deploy to five different nuclear enemies or powers whatever you want to call them at the exact same time right this is all classified process. we're not going to know all the details at the end of the day in fact one of the things that we're going to be looking at is when the u.s. tries to engage in additional nuclear arms reductions with with with russia

whatever is decided now is going to form the guidance for how low the u.s. feels it can go in those negotiations so what we're seeing with the last round with the new start treaty the to the levels that the u.s. went down to work were divided by the bush administration policy guidance on nuclear weapons so what we're doing now is looking at where can the next round of cuts go have we actually really fulfilled our obligations with the new start treaty yet is that a done deal we're down to fifteen hundred or one thousand five hundred fifty it's still an ongoing process the there are different levels that we're looking at we're looking at both the level of nuclear warheads and also the the means to deliver them russia is down below in terms of the delivery systems that are looking at the u.s. is still going down a little bit further but also an important aspect of it is that this is a constant exchange we recently had in several inspections on both sides so that

each country knows what exactly the other is doing so that there's no you know they're trying to eliminate room for miscalculation and things like that so it's an ongoing process i would say if this process is already under way then explain to me why this twenty thirteen budget is so much higher than it was. adjusted for inflation but then it was at the peak of the cold war part of it like you said we're looking at a range of options and what the administration is doing is trying to plan for for what all of those options mean so i mean given some options right in that case if you're telling me that we're still spending a ton of money on our nuclear arsenal i want to know what it's for well i think one important aspect is that as part of the agreement to get the new start treaty through the senate the administration agreed to to invest eighty billion dollars in do u.s. nuclear infrastructure with the idea that it's not a surly to build up nuclear weapons or to maintain at the same level but to. to modernize those systems to make sure that as we're drawing down the lower and lower numbers we can rely on what we have left ok but then are there some areas where you feel like there is some waste there is perhaps in this management we are part of

a couple of weeks to go to a new funding for the continuous building at los alamos where nobody can figure out exactly why less and less would be needed and less they really want to start building new nukes there now i believe it's been taken out of this budget but it's not the only facility i'm sure you know there's certainly there is where we can we can get some cost cutting and also to tailor our nuclear arsenal to the threats that we're actually facing these days we don't face the same threats that we did during the cold war so we don't need to maintain thousands of nuclear weapons and you know the levels that we have on high alert status we're looking out decades into the future to build new systems including new submarines and new bombers in order deliver them but we're looking at a very different world decades in the future and i think that the role of nuclear weapons is actually going to be declining they're not where they are during the day they are where they are were during the cold war now and as we look at threats out in the future they're not we're not going to need the same level of. nuclear arsenal that we maintain now so instead of making those huge investments now and

deciding on maintaining a huge stockpile well in the future let's take a good look at what our needs really going to be what can we live with and perhaps you know invest in fewer of those systems and gauging a lot of cost cutting which the defense department needs to do anyway and haven't lost all that also meets the president's pledge to work towards a world free of nuclear weapons all right so if you had to make a guess like you said this is going to be classified we're never going to know exactly what it is the president decides what's he going to go with do you think of this three to four hundred number is a good guess it's difficult to take a guess i think that that's it i don't see it going in that direction i think what's what's reasonable is that we can go down to about a thousand nuclear weapons and i think that's it's a level that. should be you know politically acceptable it's a level that would meet for our needs and it was something that would still be able to meet. u.s. national security programs. i don't know what we need at least a thousand nuclear warheads for but you know i guess that's the game is played

peter thank you so much for joining us tonight good to be with a. hard time for a break and when we return the rest of drones are a go after the president signed a bill that opens up the skies with a message from within months but why now calls is quite common in this town has something to do with the benjamins and are responding to much money on treating p s d that's a what army psychiatrist trying to say is we're going to dive into his comments an investigation that's been launched but jim hansen with about. the official t. obligation to i phone the i pod touch from the. lights on the. video on demand. will go. omissions feed now in the palm of you want. to.

call. the news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day. last week we told you about a bill that went through congress that is aimed at helping the f.a.a. tell the surface this bill seeks to hasten the transition from outdated radar to g.p.s. based system for air traffic controllers would also seeks to hasten is that when you will see draw drones excuse me flying in the skies above you see the bill

affirms that within years the drones will be sharing u.s. airspace with regional airplanes and orders the f.a.a. to come up with an integration plan to open up access to drones more broadly by two thousand and fifteen but some groups will be flying them much much earlier groups like law enforcement and emergency responders will be allowed to fly on manned aerial vehicles within the next few months on the name of public safety of course now eventually the integration plan will extend to private sectors too so that t.v. stations other private companies all get their hands on their very own u.a. the isn't it comforting to know that eventually corporations all over the us will have many spying machines at their disposal because like all you need is a little cash to make it happen now so let's just say that this bill should have set off alarms for obama and those in congress if they cared at all about our civil liberties as we've been saying for months there are quite a few concerns raised by fast tracking domestic drone use here in the u.s. and it's hardly giger of the policy counsel at the center for democracy and technology explain to us there wasn't really an outcry.