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next hour he talks with peter dale scott a canadian poet and former diplomat and a longstanding critic of u.s. foreign policy. a former diplomat a poet and a prominent antiwar advocate peter dale scott is joining us now on r t thank you very much for your time sir. i'm not sure many americans realize that democracy and freedom have become very toxic and often misused in diplomatic language why do you think such a concept as democracy is being so grossly misused. well i think it's true that specially in the last fifteen twenty years that america has used the slogans of democracy and freedom as a way of expanding their sphere of influence in the world and so you get these color revolutions for example sometimes you can't judge all of them in the same

this is sometimes there is a basis a popular basis for example we have these. two foundations one rip democrat one republican doing what the cia used to do putting money into other countries elections that i think is quite inappropriate yes i would like to see more democracy and freedom in the in the world but it has to be or talk to this it has to grow out of the country in question and it's not something that you can sort of blast in and then finally you have libya which is a scandal that was done in the name of the libyan spring but that was totally pushed from outside and from the very beginning it was violent it wasn't a popular movement was a military dreams came in with support and training from both sides so we're seeing

a lot of social change and some of it is good and some of it is partly good and bad and some of it i think i think that history is going to judge the libyan thing very. from a very negative assessment of what was that against gadhafi i wasn't libya just this past december and what i hear at heart from many people is that they're waiting in the visage the libyan revolution is that everything the country will stay the same they will get the same social benefits they will and join the same standard of living but the only thing that's what change is that gadhafi would be gone and i think. sometimes that american foreign policy makers suffer from the same degree of idealism do you think it's really idealism or the lack of any serious analysis or consideration on the part of the people who make these decisions to throw for us weight behind any particular movement but

i think the big difference between british interventions in the third were in american interventions is that the british at least usually knew the languages of the countries they were it into they had a certain degree of knowledge i think american policies are usually dictated by. ignorance in the case of libya for example i think that the americans who got involved the french they did with the idea that everybody hated. and or you had to do was give a little push to work popular uprising and poof. he would be gone and first. had a great deal of support tribal support not just tribal support because of his social programs which. were progressive. so the result is. a year of chaos in which to which we don't really see at

this point and so i think it's the holes i'm hoping that at some point americans will get sick and tired of these nasty interventions which blow up in their face i mean iraq and i think most americans wish they had never heard of iraq syria's now and have lined sand the united states has been very open about its desire to see bashar assad step down what i would like to ask here is it's assume that we all assume that and it's true that syria doesn't have a very long track record. political pluralism but this is a country that's long been proud of its religious diversity and tolerance and this is also solid say a measure of democracy it's a new one for the country to have and already we see syria suffering a great deal from islamic militancy and their recent. explosions in damascus is

another example of that my question to you is when you consider pragmatically when you consider. interest in the region wouldn't be better for the u.s. interest for the interest of israel to deal with off a chronic but predictable regimes rather than groups that you can absolutely never predict. future actions well i do agree with you i talk about deep politics about the things we don't see in the newspapers but i've read more than one more than one place that u.s. special forces went into syria as early roots i think their last december before the before the syrian spring and were already trained resistance groups and techniques of street resistance so that america was stirring up the pot you know the. american foreign policy is

very bad since nine eleven the september eleventh two thousand and one attacks. we know for a fact that the cheney who is the vice president the power man in the regime donald rumsfeld the secretary of defense their response to nine eleven and review the we have to go after these countries. one of the countries they gave back in this is said. two thousand. they named afghanistan but they named iraq iraq was number one afghanistan somalia libya and syria. what do all these countries have in common well i think we have to see that at one point in the past they had been sates allied with russia in the

soviet union and that it looked like a concerted effort to replace area of soviet influence with area of american influence we have a general wesley clark who was in the pentagon in one nine hundred ninety one through two thousand and one and it's he who has told us about there was a plan to go after all these countries which we have now seen being implemented and one of the people who talked about the plan stalker he talked about the window of opportunity now that the soviet union is gone russia would be too confused state to be able to resist so that all of this should be done quickly so it was very sinister play for pure dominance in the world and i don't think there's much popular support in the american people for this it was

a group of neo con the say were special clique's. or oil companies they had their interests in global domination and i'm very disappointed that the american people have a more to stop this because it's become very dangerous to the world and it's you're suggesting dangerous to the interests of the really interests of the americans as well i'd like to ask a question about journalism and american journalism in particular what i find very strange is that on one hand that that idea of the tradition of critical thinking is very strong in american journalism but when you are dealing with a country's who is in. trist are not allied with the interest of the united states say that it's libya or syria russia iran and at least calgon it is very easy and it takes very little time for american journalists to demonize those countries iran there is a very good example get out he was

a good example my question to you what's the problem here is the lie is is it the lack of critical thinking on the part of american media or probably on the part of the american audience who is taking those things so lightly well i think the problem is not the problem of the journalists but there have been structural changes in the american media that are very relevant here and there's been a lot of concentration of ownership a lot of overlap between the corporations that. own the other corporations so that the role of advertising for. you don't have the vietnam war we had. american journalists in vietnam who started telling the truth about how badly that war was going we didn't have that in iraq because the journalists were in bed and besides the newspapers had

changed so much they weren't interested in playing that kind of role you're getting a kind of corporate superstructure to american society in which the leader of the financial interests of the defense industry and the oil companies are all part of one huge conglomerate it's very important for the future of the globe to have good communications that means we have to have good journalism and it's a great problem that the american corporate superstructure of the media is. less and less amenable to. objective journalist and finally from ask. us presidential elections franchise just a few months away as how far they have heard very little if any debate on foreign policy issues and. my question is whether it is because american people.

or simply don't care about what is being done abroad on their behalf. or in america very long time to tradition of by a bipartisan foreign policy the trouble is right now merican foreign policy ought to be very controversial we're doing things which are way below what traditionally americans. would do so it should be debated but. it's the same big money that contributes to both parties. there are some issues which you are allowed to debate health care is being debated certainly very energetically but the question of whether we should be in afghanistan is not being debated. makes me tear my hair because i feel it should be and we even have a big occupy movement in america even the occupy movement doesn't seem to be very

interested in the world polls we did of course the vietnam era had a very strong powerful and he war movement perhaps the biggest of the world had ever seen up to that time we have nothing like that in america but largely because the pentagon has so carefully strategize how to prevent a war movement from emerging thank you very much for the time sir. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism honest we.

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of the. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on our. anti nato demonstrators clashed with police near the summit site in chicago with around a dozen injured and more than sixty arrested after one of the city's biggest protests in the years turns violent. russia's new government glad to hear it was returned as president earlier this month to unveil the scheme of ministers. big dream for the red machine rusher against the world hockey title after crushing slovakia in the final go in the final with two final to win the series championship by the defeat. that no editor joins us with the sports news and the russia ice hockey world champions again and analysts say they did it in style they didn't see

the gangs that are here in the final it was a great game to dominate the and remain undefeated throughout the whole of the world championships some fate of the details coming up. hello there welcome to the sport and these are the headlines brochure ice hockey world champions for a third time in five years after crushing slovakia six two. class euro blow russia center back to sydney but as soon as he was ruled out of the upcoming european championships with injury and roman epic maria sharapova comes from a set down and all of down against lean are to retain her italian open crime. but first we are talking russia have clinched their third world title in five years after beating surprise package vaca six two in helsinki to finish the world championships as the only unbeaten team russia were the top seeds and overwhelming

favorites but they got off to a local start conceding a girl to just a minute in our goal from alexander to see him in and four more from the alexander perry. pavel datsyuk and tournament m.v.p. you can email sealed the win is russia's first world title since two thousand and nine and they did it in style with ten wins from ten of the tournament coach need to learn to get in or be received a call from president vladimir putin congratulating them on their achievement. probably for that title the side of the czech republic staved off a late fightback by finland to win three two and seal the bronze medal in the third place and it means last year's champions in cohost finland finish side the podium. while the russian football team have been dealt a blow a head of the european championships experience defended the seabed is the ski has been ruled out of the torn with injury the twenty nine year old failed to recover in time from a long time muscle problem he had tried to make

a comeback in april but suffered a recurrence and it's a big setback the courage to gamble he loses a central defender who has been a russian regular for over a decade. because i have to say that. he will relieve the squad because he still has too much pain. and we also have to think of himself and on the club so we decided together with him that the after dinner he will go. meanwhile the russian squad are still awaiting the arrival of one member sporting midfielder that is model of remained in portugal to play in sunday surprise one of the feet back to me in the portuguese cup final the twenty nine year old has been in good form for the lisbon side this season and earned his first call up for eight years but he's been given an ultimatum by the car he says is model of must be in moscow on monday if he wants to make the squad. i'm not sure if it is i'm delusional but after the game. is my will to let me

use. you know i think if you come to morrow. you can not you can both of you can start. listening now meanwhile chelsea even georgia jubilant homecoming after winning football's champions league for the first time an open top bus to the same around west london a stands of fans lined the streets plays proudly lifting the trophy after their fourth great penalty shootout win over by munich less than twenty four hours before captain john terry was suspended for the final but was making up for it in the celebrations while owner roman abramovich was also relishing what the team had achieved finally getting their hands on that trophy after he had invested one and a half billion dollars in the club since taking over nine years ago something fans also appreciated. rubber bridge purse strings other top club. for their aspirants or life support chelsea loving every second of the despair

holders now while the. chelsea six are you sure. you very much for. the world trust if you believe this is the best feeling ever switch to tennis and world number of a came back from for love and the set down defend talian open crime following a rain affected fine with china is now late and well after losing the first set six for the in-form russian battled back from fall down in the. second to take the match into a decider where she saved a match point before forcing a tie break in that final set when the rain came down but when it finally stopped to wrap of across victory seventy five to wrap up the epic battle in almost three hours it was the second title of the season after also winning in stuttgart last month to make sure the favorite for the french open in a week's time that grand slam is the only one missing from her collection and is the defending champion. who

swings because of the weather conditions. you're playing really well then you start then you go off the court you come on and then things just change for some reason you know your opponent starts playing better has time to regroup but this was a situation where you just have a tiebreaker to play so there isn't really a matter where your courage is there anyone tells you is this really focusing and trainer and that. alone to her now the men's final has been postponed until monday top right novak djokovic is aiming to defend his title there against five time former winner rafael nadal the spanish world number three prevailed in the page previous meeting and will return to second spot in the rankings if he beats djokovic to claim his record twenty first masters title. belgium's nicklaus cold sores as god's world match play champion beating northern ireland's graeme mcdowell on the final hole in spain to claim the title started impressively sinking this for the third. and from this point onwards the belgian never found himself in

a really good square the match on several occasions including here the fourteenth when he. but he could never challenge for the late and by the last hole called. the way in is his second victory on the european tour and earns him seven hundred thousand dollars and a place in the world's top fifty for the first time. it's going to. you know it's going to be very. you know he's one of the most open stories to playing into of conditions. it was going to be in this is. you know i'm glad that all that often and it all went down to the final hole in the states to jason dufner making a twenty five foot birdie here on the last to win the bar nelson championship beating to keep right by single shot to claim just over a million dollars in prize money it was a little bit right and it was downhill the greens were maybe just

a little bit slower than we're used to this week's comfortable downhill and i just had a really good feel for that you know been a couple playoffs and i kind of want to close this one. now imagine a g.p. a former champion your friends are always back at the top of the riders standings after winning the french grand prix in style on a wet man's track as a spaniard started from the second row but eased into the lead to eventually at pace valentino rossi by almost ten seconds but nine times champion rossi did overtake holder casey stoner on the final lap to claim his second paving finish since joining the cathy last year stone is honda teammate danny to drive just started from pole but had to settle for stoner trails renzo by a point in the overall standings. has been difficult he goes on with a very long race especially when casey was coaching me was really difficult to keep the concentration and not to drive too fast or. and finally just over two months

to go before the olympics in london organizers of the martial art of sambo are hoping the sport will feature future games are correct or thirty two countries took part in last week's european championships here in moscow well. as more sambo is a russian martial art which was initially intended to be a merger between the most effective techniques of all the others it has its roots in japanese judo international styles of wrestling plus traditional folk styles of wrestling today there are two main categories sport and combat with good to win in sambo you have to throw your opponent to the ground and depending on how clinical the attempt is you get points awarded to you in the case of combat sambo that you could also get points for hitting your opponent for knock outs and knock downs just like in traditional boxing another martial arts fighters are categorized by their weight which range from fifty two kilograms to over one hundred kilos the name

sambo may sound somewhat exotic but it really has nothing to do with latin dancing it's an acronym for the russian words some of our own a business. which literally translates to self-defense without weapons and it was first developed by the soviet army in the late one nine hundred twenty s. in order to improve soldiers hand to hand combat russia has dominated the sport since its inception in both the women's and men's competitions. every year and the popularity of both poured some ball and convert some boys growing and with it there are more and more people and countries getting involved. the sport has certainly become internationally renowned and the federation's vice president believes it will one day become an olympic event the sambo is so popular nowadays that it surpassed many a limp dick event by the number of participants already we have over eighty federations around the world more than a lot of olympic disciplines so it's only

a matter of time before it is seriously considered as an olympic event. that would be the sport's biggest achievement but while sambo may not have the accolade of being part of the olympics there's no doubt the growing appeal in the martial arts hybrid is set to continue mark of genco moscow financial support for now we've got more later.

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