to move. next to we explore the connection between big bucks and the drive for revolution around the globe as we talk to author and war correspondent chris hedges . chris hedges is an american author journalist former war correspondent and respected expert on middle east politics the pulitzer prize winner is also a man who is suing the us president and secretary of defense will be talking about that and a range of other issues as mr hedges joins me now for a one on one interview thank you very much for sitting down with r.t. sure we have seen a lot of violence and instability over the past couple of years the arab spring foreign intervention in libya uncontrollable debt problems and riots in the u.s. and throughout europe threats of global recession how do you think these political and economic crises feed off of one another and keep the momentum going well it's

all the same crisis which is the collapse of globalization it doesn't work anymore and it manifests itself through the rise of commodity prices forty seven million americans live in poverty they're not spending half of their income on food but they're now spending about thirty five percent. when you see a rise in gasoline prices. which are going up words in the united states and in oil projections will continue to rise up words above four dollars a gallon maybe five dollars a gallon so. we have created a kind of global oligarchy elite which is super national it owes no loyalty to any particular country it has reduced the working class within the united states within the developing world. to a level of almost subsistence existence it tells workers that they have to be competitive on a global marketplace which means they have to be competitive with sweatshop workers

in bangladesh or prison labor in china so we are it's a reconfiguration by corporations of a global economy where the working and and. beleaguered middle class are increasingly caught in a vise. in which there is no escape the system of globalization of unfettered unregulated corporate capitalism doesn't work for the ordinary citizen and that if we are seen ignite popular protest and i think that's the main reason why occupy wall street began in new york emplaced throughout not just the nation but the world what does the occupy movement lack to become a real politic factor in the u.s. throughout the world right i mean the other thing about the occupy movement is that it had the right target which is wall street at this point washington is an appendage of wall street wall street is where power lies both economic and

political and so it it it was a powerful movement because it articulated these two truths. you know the idea of the one percent the economic inequality coupled with a targeting of where actual power lies the occupy movement has now. felt the full wrath of the state they've been their encampments have been physically eradicated. without question they have been heavily infiltrated the power of the occupy movement was that it spoke for the mainstream and the state's goal is to sever the occupy movement from the mainstream so the occupy movement has got to build walls it's got to develop a kind of self-discipline it's got to set standards which do not allow internal movements within the occupy. organization to sever itself from the mainstream

of the threat of the occupy movement in zuccotti park and you were there was that on weekends you had mothers from new jersey with their kids with strollers this terrified so the occupy movement they have to form agreements by which they can operate and the second thing is that they have to begin to organize around very specific issues i think if the occupy movement organizes around raising the minimum wage from seven dollars twenty five cents an hour which is the federal minimum wage to ten dollars an hour. it can galvanize around an issue seventy percent of americans by the way support a rise of the minimum wage in order to keep labor with it it has to latch on to issues such as the raising the minimum wage that will bring labor out into the street and keep the main stream keep it as the kind of vanguard movement of the mainstream whether it can do that or not i don't know we'll have to see what role do you see for u.s. banks and u.s. corporations how else if not through them can the economy get. overcovered well the

the not only are we not in a recovery i mean the the the banks are playing some very dirty game the fact that we've not regulated the banks the fact that we've bailed out firms like goldman sachs and are in essence lending them free money what's the big zero one percent interest or something means they're all back to the speculative games and that's what they are games they don't produce anything they bed against one of the reasons the price of petrol is rising is because they're buying up futures and hoarding which is what they do with commodity prices you know basic staples of food rice and everything else and we are headed for another implosion and some of our most respected financial reporters gretchen morgenson and others at the new york times walking around saying this we've done nothing to curb them we have permitted the largest transference of wealth upwards in american history the looting of the u.s. treasury or the tragedy is that the government when the banks were on its knees didn't

step in instead of for instance creating taking ten billion dollars. or one hundred billion dollars in creating regional banks capitalizing those banks leveraging them ten to one loaning you know refinancing mortgages i mean there were all sorts of ways we could use this kind of money constructively we handed it off to a criminal class and speaking of government where in the u.s. currently in an election year a republican candidates are now battling one another for the opportunity to oppose barack obama come november however skeptics view both parties as more similar than different because we've seen military invasions corporate bailouts and breaks for the wealthiest under both democrats and republicans how can a new political force start to grow in america if it's sort of that the same type of cycle every four years well that's the problem and it's gotten worse because

after citizens united in two thousand and ten. with the creation of these super pacs and obama broke a campaign promise by. reaching out to a super pac of his own i mean in a way he has no choice because this money rules and it has a pernicious effect not only on elections but on the process of legislation because if you are an elected official and you do anything that angers corporate lobbyists and corporate power then you know that the weight of that super pac will sweep you out of office and not only that but that when you are under attack you won't have a super pac to appeal to so it is essentially destroyed i mean it's all political theater i mean look at what the republican base is what's that about colonies supporting the newt gingrich and when thirteen thousand people live on the moon they can apply to be a state you know. the fact is the personal narratives and personal pinions of

political candidates do not matter there is no way to vote in this country against the interests of goldman sachs obama is a more appealing political candidate because he's sane but power i mean look the obama administration has carried out the policies of the george w. bush administration whether in terms of wall street imperial projects a failure to address the suffering of the working class. address the long term unemployment crisis we have cities now filing for bankruptcy states that are talking about filing for bankruptcy and the federal government is doing nothing except squandering four trillion dollars on wars that we're going to lose we're losing and handing money over to a class on wall street that is complicitous in a centrally hollowing the country out from the inside the u.s.

claims to promote democracy within america and throughout the world when it comes to syria. the u.s. is calling essentially for regime change sovereign state the us says that syrians deserve democratic transition but when you mention countries like iraq afghanistan and libya shouldn't the u.s. and in some ways learn some lessons before trying to teach more countries about well let's imagine how this so those in the middle east where we were mubarak's great supporter. you know i don't think anyone in the muslim world thinks that we care much about human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war planted military base some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claims that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria.

that said the assad regime and i was there under saddam is a pretty repugnant and horrible regime my feeling on syria and i'm not on the ground and as a reporter you know i i think that finally for one to make those kinds of judgments have to be on the ground but my feeling is that everything should be pushed through to create some kind of a cease fire because in cities like cities like homes at this point aside from the murderous showing and everything else you really have a situation where can he there's no water and and so rather than pass a resolution that calls for assad's removal or resolution. that you know calls for intervention or anything else i would rather see them work more incrementally if that doesn't happen do you think there's any chance of. terry intervention i don't think so i think the u.s. is so overextended and i think that the situation in syria is so messy there is.

you know there's no real formal opposition. you know it's a sort of a mess and they just went through this in libya months and months of hard time believing they do it again in syria we'll have to leave it right there mr head just thank you for your time and for speaking with r.t. thanks. so much for is that so much for your call to. hear the lessons of the major crisis fiddler on the speculation control the markets and can free markets do better things than regularly.

socialist francois long has won france's presidential election beating incumbent nicholas a cozy with fifty one percent of the vote to become the country's first socialist president in seventeen years as. a fugitive exiled russian not only god boy is a better keep a bounty on the blood in me to putin for anyone willing to detain the russian veto at his presidential inauguration on monday. protestors throw smokes a grenade in fireworks in clashes with riot police in moscow and an anti government bradley put the number of the opposition leaders are arrested apparently inciting crowds to find police orders to move. i'll have more news for you in about fifteen minutes time but for now i'll take with ali to sport news.

that well disposed of the headlines. the europhiles telling on the spot up and ready to go is it needs paraded out of the moscow side wins three to the unique champions to get a second. draw to two with a look at what is in the final but this figure can for. d.-day manchester city have the want to handle the english premier league trophy after they beat new console that manchester united also defeats was easy to ensure the title race goes down to the final day. and being the reds machine that russia beat no way for to install makes two wins for the ice hockey world championships. but let's kick off with russian premier league football where ten man spots at moscow spoiled the

celebrations of newly crowned champions an ace after they won streets here in st petersburg to go second and into the last champions league spot well as they need to look to finish the home campaign in style and that is that they're going to go. to twenty three minutes scoring strike that latching on to the end of the medical beefeaters cross not just these one hundred i merely go to the game turned on its head in the final twenty minutes first dean over the level to sponsor it was the rush at midfield the first goal for the red ones since joining the efforts in the winter and then isn't they were awarded a penalty and that gets him out just beat the goalkeeper to make it two one but just two minutes later on mont emmanuel and many kept that spot at level again and then immediately so i controversial red card for what the referee ruled was an obscene gesture however despite that most of the. time spotlight tonight in the eighty nine minutes i'm sure they need to step into second at least and to change

that. well as the needs were awarded to leave tracy and celebrated that distance. while elsewhere than on my moscow i missed the chance to go second despite snatching a last gasp two two draw at home to look motif maxine mallya i have opened the last off the twenty seven minutes the twenty year old betting has made a week ago but given to ronnie neville straight off to the interval a cracking overhead kick by the german striker now as up with ten minutes to go denise headed home dimitri tobin skis cross to put the visitors back in front botts a long range strike from him for this missing a vigil in the last minutes ensured it ended tool to now try out third place to stop by a point up only one game left to play all the army men have to. run in the meantime and he came from behind to be robin three one and will play in the

europa league next season seven gay davidoff we directed our because they have crossed to school for the visit is in the business in but it was all angie after last mobocracy equalized off the fourteen minutes i mean you have to do better than man oh man now we need to sign him christopher samba noted in for mccormack if i'm going to want to lead. to some real it's so nice for so on the scoresheet covering strike us looking at a beauty for a title just over a minute to go to see things sider up to this and we're going to europe while we're being told there are signs to the russian cup final and we faced a lot of victory day this wednesday. while in the bottom half of the table with our stuff aged ten month old one male to boost their hopes of avoiding the relegation playoffs gave bevan's was sent off off to sixty six minutes and the need to get a jenga netted the without ten minutes later the machine off

a defense switching points to the fake. and beat em cost three one in grozny zone so that i have made the most of a gold keeping. the ball rolling the kitchen team said new to. them it took the wayside just a couple of weeks to provide. firing home from. let's say a reboost pulled that back in front midway through the first time off. this second the next thirty five minutes left capitalizing on two more dreadful defending visitors not just ten minutes but the playoffs. while over england leaders manchester city have moved one step closer to their first top flight crime since one thousand nine hundred sixty eight after winning two nil at newcastle in the premier league your auto race scored twice in the last twenty minutes to ensure the title is city's to lose with one left to go while manchester united beats one's you two nil to stay level on points with city but

with an eighth goal inferior goal difference ten montauban missed the chance to go third off to coming back to draw one wanted struggling after the last substitute djibril cisse a brace to q.p.r. survival hopes with the late when i can start the boltons chances of avoiding the drop were dented after west brom came from two goals down to draw two to beat sunderland two one and already relegated wall street will now within form habits and. while fresh from winning the f.a. cup final on saturday chelsea's thoughts are turning towards the champions league the blues one of the come for the seventh time after they beat liverpool to want to wembley however in a fortnight they'll travel to buy in munich for the european final now and with the hope of winning if you meet double and one which would see them qualify for next year champions league i mean i mean the top three in england would join them. there are two crucial week for us we won the first. fifteen. if

you've been there or have another returns to another to two of the most important in europe. and we are all looking forward to play this game. now in two eyes and russia have outclassed norway for two to make it two ins from two at the world championships in stockholm that's open for the red machine they are inside syria and they spin the stuff soon doubles their lead shots the northmen twice pulled themselves to within a goal in an action packed second frame at xander but as you'll get nothing russia's fourth and last on the night right after the second for a while before that match reigning champions and co-host finland edged slovakia one male in helsinki. to boxing in floyd mayweather jr has kept his unbeaten record intact but only just following one of the toughest fights of his career against. a guess it was billed as the fight of the year and may work out how to work hard for victory number forty three he held off a tireless call time before rocking him in the twelfth round of the lighting

middleweight belt the judges made him the clip went out with a unanimous points decision and let's make sure that was full of respect for his opponent and it was also a massive payday for the thirty five year old who picks up a thirty two million dollars before starting this three month jail sentence that mistaken piece. there's a job competitor. so. this was going to be easy fight i don't look to look into going into this for i expected it easy for like i said before to me. was undefeated fighter he fought one guy at a cure. he fought another guy who was cheating the sport he brought his best maybe by going to fight or. well the match up that everyone can't wait to see is my weather taking on manny pacquiao and the filipino congressman was arrived in america but is preparing to defend his w b o welterweight title against lesser known opponent timothy bradley has

a months to go before the to square off in the last. the city's three year old champion is already deep in preparation to take on the mountains five years his junior. green hearted book with a very good of five because i'm fighting with. younger guys. by the way. just defending my to g.p. champion casey stone that has trained his second straight victory by winning the portuguese grand prix to go top of the overall standings the australian started oh and stormed to a fine victory as he held off the challenge of former champion hold a iran's eye over a second industrial zone as teammate dani pedrosa came good head of yamaha but i had the physio so much like stone that now leads the standings by a single point from their ends i thought american public that was is set to undergo surgery on monday. he's left the qualifying. we didn't feel good i didn't feel

confident to push i was trying to get it from match on the bike to try and get it back working a little better on the exit so we didn't try to say much and you know i found a certain way to write a feeling a little bit different way to ride so i felt sort of ten laps start to feel a little better with the bike and i'm a little less chatter and then for those last few laps we were trying to push a little bit more. on to basketball and defending n.b.a. champions the dallas mavericks to being knocked out of the playoffs in the first round they were swept four nil by oklahoma city we ran it for a one hundred twenty points to a ninety seven victory in dallas elsewhere the los angeles clippers off to one up in that best of seven series against men facing off a single one picturing san antonio now needs just one more win against utah off of that one hundred two to ninety victory then three nil up overall well being they are now also on the brink of progressing stretching orlando to go three one up in that contest often topsy-turvy. very very proud of our guys.

shown a great deal of resiliency in the face of a furious comeback by the magic obviously give credit to. all their players and coaching staff for just really fighting down the stretch and make and it's a heck of a basketball game. there's a lot of fun out there good good end up on the plus side of a game like that. finally sprinting you saying bolt has posted the fastest time of the season in the one hundred meters to strike down the gauntlet ahead of this summer's london olympics the world and olympic champion was running for the first time this year adding his nature jamaica where he's had to endure a couple of false starts from his competitors watch the twenty five year old kept his cool to blow away the field in nine point eight two seconds a stunning as such but still slower than his own world record of nine point five eight seconds however bolt has said he's targeting an amazing nine point four in london. and also peaking at the right time is news young he was the one hundred ten

metres hurdles champion from two thousand and four and if it's enough and the chinese star is to victory in japan and is eyeing the top gong in london especially off the sailing to deliver in beijing four years ago. that's all the sports news i think. well. it's technology innovations all the developments around russia we've got the future covered.

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socialist francois hollande has won france's presidential election. the with fifty one percent of the vote to become the country's first president in seventeen years . fugitive russian oligarch. vladimir putin to anyone willing to detain the russian leader at his presidential inauguration on monday. radical opposition activists hijack a peaceful anti-government rally in moscow leading to clashes with police and injuries on both sides find out more from me in just a few moments.