if you are just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is our take you just in time for the headlines nato demonstrators clashed with police near the summit site in chicago with around a dozen injured more than sixty arrested after one of the city's biggest protests in years turns violent. russia gets a new government three quarters of the cabinet is replaced as a lot of mean putin returned as president earlier this month just unveiled his team with ministers. and victory for the red machine russia regains the world title

after crushing slovakia in the final but to win this year's championship and defeat . right next to the program here on r.t. we speak to peter dale scott a canadian poet and former diplomat he takes on the current running agenda of u.s. foreign policy. a forward 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 on the same sometimes there is a basis a popular basis for example we have these the two foundations one rip democrat one republican doing what the cia used to do putting money into our country's 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 talked 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 cadres 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 saying very. from a very negative assessment of what was that against gadhafi i was a little bit 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 really enjoy the same standard of living but the only thing that would 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 people who make these decisions to throw full 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 to into they had a certain degree of knowledge i think american policies are usually dictated by amazing ignorance in the case of libya for example i think that the americans who got involved and the french they did with the idea that everybody hated gadhafi and . all you had to do was give a little push to a popular uprising and poof. he would be gone and first. had a great deal of support tribal support but not just tribal support because of his social programs which. were progressive.

so the result is. a year of chaos which to which we don't really see at this point and so i think it's the whole thing i am 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 is now law and have lines and 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 to. 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 yearning 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 u.s. interest in the region wouldn't it 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 that future actions will have 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 last december before the before the syrian spring and were already training resistance

groups and techniques of street resistance so that america was stirring up the pot you know that. american foreign policy has taken a very bad turn since we called nine eleven the september eleventh two thousand and one attacks and 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 immediately words we have to go after all of these countries that are in the area and one of the countries that was back in this is septa. tobar in two thousand and one they named afghanistan but they named a rat 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 states allied with russia in the soviet union and that it looked like a concerted effort to replace area of soviet influence with an 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 will be too confused state to be able to resist so that all of this should be done quickly so it was

very sinister a 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. oil companies they had their interests in global domination and i'm very disappointed that the american people haven't done more to stop this because it's become very dangerous to the world and as you're suggesting dangerous to the interests of the real interests of the americans as well i'd like to ask a question about journalism american journalism and particle act 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. just are not allied with the interest of the united states say whether it's libya or syria russia iran and at least can't go wrong 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 was 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 then there's a room of advertising for. you don't have when we had the vietnam war we had. american journalists in vietnam we 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 rule or getting a kind of corporate superstructure american society in which the really 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 object. and finally from asking about u.s. presidential elections which are just a few months away out so far they have heard very little if any debate on foreign

policy issues and my question is whether it is because american people at all or simply don't care about what is being done abroad on that behalf there is you know in america very long time to tradition of by a bipartisan foreign policy the trouble is that right now american 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 is it 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 and is not being debated. makes me tear my hair because i feel it should be even have

a big occupy movement in america even the occupy movement doesn't seem to be very interesting and. we did of course in the vietnam era have 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 now largely because the pentagon has so carefully strategize how to prevent a war movement from emerging thank you very much for the times thank you. so for assistance for new job the rates of. the rates of leukemia for example

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so sad. i have. leakage and i show you to the extent how much i have leaked. the headlines on r.t. and see nato demonstrators clashed with police near the summit site in chicago but around a dozen injured more than sixty or arrested after one of the city's biggest protest in years turns violent. russia gets a new government three quarters of the cabinet is replaced as blood may have putin to return as per. earlier this month unveils his team of ministers. and a victory for the red machine. the world title after a crushing in the final to win this year's championship undefeated and has all the

details on that next with the sport. hello there good to have you company again and here is what is coming up simply the best rushes ice hockey stars return home world champions after thrashing slovakia sixteen in helsinki. plus euro blow to russia defender of the city but is the sport balls european championships with injury. and roman epic maria sharapova comes from a set and fall of down against. her italian open title. but first russia's ice hockey team have returned to moscow as world champions they be survived to six two in the final in helsinki to finish the tournament as the only unbeaten side the team were greeted by dozens of fans at sheremetyevo airport this morning many of the players wearing their shirts and gold medals they gave russia death third world

crown in five years and did it in style ten minutes from ten games at the tournament held in finland and sweden they also dedicated their triumph to the late locomotive the aristotle side that was tragically killed in a plane crash last year. so even the small meal was there well you. know all the people will follow you know mario. you know martha stewart as well for. all this great success for a russian grocers for all three. lost to your studio there were all my old you have bought these new porsche and obviously lord we want to. know what expressions you speak or russian banter. well russia were the top stories and overwhelming favorites for the final but they did get off to a woeful start against the slovaks conceding a goal. in the first minute however rushed them fanned the next six times alexander

human getting a brace on for more came from alexander. and the tournament pay you can e-mail can't. even received a phone call from president vladimir putin congratulating them on their achievement well before that title decided the czech republic clinched the bronze medal staving off a late fight back from co-hosts and defending champions finland to win three to. the russian football team have been dealt a blow ahead of the european championships experienced offender. has been ruled out of the tournament with injury the twenty nine year old has failed to recover in time from a long term problem he tried to make a comeback in april but suffered a recurrence it is a big setback for coach who loses a central defender he's been a russian regular for over a decade. will leave the squad. we also have to solve so we

decided together with. after doing. russian midfielder matt is model will join up with the squad today after being given an ultimatum from a vicar the dutchman said he must make the savings training session in moscow or face being axed when his model had played for sporting lisbon in the portuguese cup final defeat to academic on sunday the twenty nine year old flew back to the russian capital this morning this is first call up to the russian squad for eight years. meanwhile chelsea have enjoyed enjoyed a million homecoming after winning the champions league for the first time an open top bus to tame around west london as thousands of fans lined the streets to place proudly lifting the trophy after death for three penalty shootout win over by munich less than twenty four hours before captain john terry was suspended for the final four is making up for it in the celebrations while oh no man was always there

relishing what they say you had to change finally getting his hands on the cup after pumping one and a half billion dollars into the club since taking over nine years ago something the fans also appreciate. rubber bridge purse strings other top six pack the average joe your backyard for the osbournes your life support chelsea loving every second of that experiment holderness now. chelsea so excited you already started playing strategy for it much more than what's up for the world for just if you believe this is the best feeling ever. rapper is known as a bit of a fighter on the tennis court but a victory i believe not retain her italian open title must go down as one of the greatest comebacks ever after losing the first set six four the russian looked down and out when she trial four games to love in the second but somehow she clawed her way back never giving up a big grand traipse to eventually take it six ball to level the match. then

you saw the section bravely say match point i'm forced to tie break after hitting a thunderous winner. just to show up in the he's getting on climbs gathered rain start crying low the russian didn't let it upset her rhythm too much on her return to the clay she picked up from where she left off when the time break seventy five for the match an unlikely three set win them fresh wrap of a second title of the year and she now heads to next week's french open as one of the final. two swings because of the weather conditions so you start the match and you know you feel like you're playing really well then you stop and 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 which you just have a tie breaker to play so doesn't really matter what your coaches her no one tells

you it's just about really focusing and trying to tobruk are. all the right men yesterday's final for the men respond until monday but it is now underway top seed novak djokovic against rafael nadal and no doubt he's three two up early in the first set. the n.b.a. the san antonio spurs have reached the western conference final after sweeping the l.a. clippers they won the latest game one hundred points in one thousand nine hundred three to four nil series whitewash and will face either oklahoma city thunder or the l.a. lakers in the western conference final in sunday's deadly game miami heat beat the indiana pacers to tie their best of seven contests to two with pace they'll meet again on tuesday san antonio through and remain unbeaten but are getting carried away. you never know what's going to happen with your team but i can tell you with any championship we've never gone into a point of you know this is our year. you know we've got a team we can get it done we've never. we just we go with what we call appropriate

feel or. you know you don't you know afraid of people but you still have the concern of appropriate fear about everything and all the things that can happen so you never a thought you're going to win a championship in other news belgians nicolas colsaerts is golf's world match play champion and it all came down to the final hole in spain against nor knowledge graeme mcdowell started impressively thinking this for the third. and from this point onwards the belgian never found himself in arrears mcdowell did square them actually several occasions including here at the fourteen twenty birdie. but he could never charlie in the you know by the last cold call science had two cards to win the second victory on the european tour and hands him seven hundred thousand dollars and a place in the world's top fifteen for the first time. in such

conditions. you know it's going to be very difficult. you know he's one of the most open stories used to playing into of conditions. it was going to be in this is. you know i'm glad 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 byron nelson championship with pride by a single shot to claim just over a million dollars in prize money. and finally the martial art of some by one feature the upcoming london olympics but the sport believed it does have the qualities to be included in the future under striking fighters from a record thirty two different countries at the recent european championships in moscow with more on that his mother could have changed. sambo is a russian martial arts 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 the opposite 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 but just like in traditional boxing another martial arts fight is a 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 rats and dancing is an acronym for the russian woods some of our own the best. which literally translates to self defense without weapons and it was first developed by the soviet on the 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 and unload them

every year and the popularity of both sports some bowl and combat sound was growing and with it there are more and more people and countries getting involved in. the sport has certainly become internationally renowned and the federations vice president believes it will one day become an olympic event imo sambo that is so popular now there was that it's the past many i think events by the number of participants already we have over at a federation is around the world with more than a lot of olympic disciplines here so it's only a matter of time before it is seriously considered as in the olympic event that that would be the sport's biggest achievement for a while sambo may not have that accolade of being part of the olympics there's no doubt the growing appeal in the martial arts hybrid is set to continue like a chunk of moscow. last ball for now without more items.

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