and seeing from the streets of canada. operations to rule the day. this is art so you live in the heart of moscow you're just in time for the headlines now a major antiwar march outside the nato summit in chicago turns violent weather out a dozen activists injured and many more arrested after clashes with police. the violence contagion spreads further into lebanon deadly street clashes between opponents and supporters of the neighboring syrian regime now reach the streets of beirut. and a lot of may put it on the rails a new cabinet made up of mostly new ministers but certainly some familiar faces make a return as well. right next to the program here and talk to former canadian diplomat

peter dale scott who takes his time to zero in on current 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 words 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. 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 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 popular it was a military risk alien with support and training from outside 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 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 in 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 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 went 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. free would be gone and for. the have a great deal of support tribal support but not just private support because of the social programs which. were progressing. so the result. 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 the. 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 us 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 thinker last december before the before the syrian spring and were already training resistance groups and techniques of the street. so that america was

stirring up the pot you know the. 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 the words we have to go after all these countries that are. area. 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 now 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've 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 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 car on 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 and 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 that often was

a good example of 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 only. own the other corporations so that then there's a rule of advertising for example. you don't have when we had the vietnam war we had a dream of 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 the kind of role you're getting a kind of corporate superstructure american society in which the media 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 is less and less amenable to object. and finally from asking about. us presidential elections which are just a few months away as 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 that contributes to both parties and 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 and it 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

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.

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hello thank you for joining me for the latest sports and other top stories. simply the best russia's ice hockey star has returned home as well champions of the trashing slovakia six two in helsinki. while cloudy rough on the dull beats top ranked no by djokovic constraint set a record six italian open title with a week to go before the french open. big victory maria sharapova comes from a set of four loud down against defending french open champion the nod to dramatically retain her title in rome. but first russia's triumphant ice hockey team have returned to moscow off to beating slovakia six two in the world championship final in helsinki to finish the tournament as the only unbeaten side while the team was greeted by dozens of fans at your immature airport with many of the players wearing their shirts and gold medals while the red machine gave russia their third world crowd in five years and they did it in style with ten wins from

ten games at the tournament finland and sweden they also dedicated their trying to the late locomotive yaroslavl side which was tragically killed in a plane crash last september. so invisible to me forward there was a plague there were people look over your monitor your. environment to see if it's mail order well this is great success for a russian heart gave this grocer just for all three. last two years you know there were already told you about his new porsche and obviously the art you want to gold and. the what expression of the speaker or russian dumper. well russia were the top seeds and overwhelming favorites but they got off to a woeful start conceding a goal two captains then no just a minute since that's alexander's you mean equalized midway through the opening

period before alexander alexei that actually made it three one to mince with the netted his second and russia's fourth and then turned provider early in the third to set up that super well caught up pulled one back five two but here getting malkin made it six late on to run victory and finish as the tournament's most valuable player and later coaches in and to lobby that did not receive a call saying congratulations from president the emir putin well before that title decider the czech republic clinched the bronze medal staving off a late fine bank from coast understanding champions finland to win three two. now into double and russia coach together got says that defender of a silly but as it says absence from the euro two thousand and twelve squad is a huge loss however the dutchman was full of praise for me for that matter it is my love who's joined the squad despite pressure from his sporting side to stay an extra couple of days in has been which are important reports. it was the hottest

day of the year in russia so far with the temperature rising told us thirty degrees below the deck of the countess feeling the heat more than most as he has a number of selection dilemma is ahead of him firstly has to finish scored down to twenty three players or he also has a number of questions concerning his teammates defense russia suffered a hammer blow on sunday afternoons but experience defender of a cd but it will be ruled out of the euro two thousand and twelve championships after he's failed to recover from a fire in dream and had courage to come to kant's will be praying that his side doesn't pick up any more injuries especially in defense as that's really the sides problem position but it's also he was a sure start of a national team who are not blessed with a number of great central defenders who were there to slap my theory of says it's up to the team to try and make up a bit is your skis loss suggesting the camp is in good spirits at the moment it's only the start and there is a long way to go with you but if you manage to perform well then this will

certainly help to live to see his mood and we will certainly be supporting him all the way. to see these absence opens the door for a number of new players. because of injury like the madonna and roman should all know when to fake the following one place but now both are almost certain to be on the plane to poland possession is not just all and i didn't deserve to be called up earlier but now due to vassilis injury i have a great chance of making the euros i feel really sorry for vassili as no one wants to pick up an injury at this time. there were only twenty four players on the training pitch today has paid for their team photo however that number is soon going to write to twenty five but marriage is my love resisting pressure from his club sporting lisbon to stage a film an advertisement and arriving to join up with the russian national team squad. for the latest news on merits of. it will come with. something or problems by him. i'm not sure about his club

but he decision to go so those good i mean you must be quite pleased about that with the play i want to show he was quite rational you showed a lot of those above us as well as all of us the longer a week to go until at the cat has to name his final squat of the year is the pressure on the players to became an increased production is certainly known as failure to secure themselves a spot in the plane to poland which meant they fully dancey netscape. when in the meantime chelsea enjoyed a jubilant homecoming after winning the champions league for the first time on sunday by beating by in four three on penalties in munich and open top bus took the team around west london as thousands of fans lined the streets all the players proudly lifted the trophy along with the f.a. cup which they'd also won two weeks before captain john terry was suspended for the champions league final but was allowed to lift the trophy to let the celebrations while i'm out of overtures also relishing what the team had achieved the russian

finally getting his hands on the cup off the pumping one of the half a billion dollars into the club since taking over nine years ago which is something the fans also appreciated. that robert brown is best things other top six pack moving target certain back to the chase for the osbournes our last point chelsea loving every second of their despair and hold it has now more that girls can sing chelsea success if you're playing strategy very much more than. tennis now rafael nadal has beaten world number one novak djokovic for the second straight time to capture a record six italian open crown after rain delayed the final by a day in rome the spaniard won it seven five six three as the serbian made forty one unforced errors including a double fault on the last point two hundred on his forty ninth career title along with a record twenty first masters crown victory also gives the spaniard enough points to overtake roger federer into second spot in the world rankings. kind of sunday maria sharapova produced a stunning comeback to retain her. italian open title against french open champion

you know the russian went into the final four after winning in stuttgart last month but lost the first set six four and down in that when she trailed four games to love in the second but somehow the world number two caught her way back maintaining her big groundstrokes to eventually take it six four to level the match and saving a match point in the process while she forged ahead in the decider after reeling off eight games on the trot but gnarly was not to be written off and as the momentum shifted once again the chinese rallied from four one down to force a tie breaker but then turned to lies only the clouds gathered and rain stopped playing for two hours however didn't let it upset her rhythm on her return to the clay she picked up where she'd left off winning the time break seven five to take the match and the title so the russian heads into next week's french open as one of the favorites. to defend her title. 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 in which you just have a tiebreaker to play so doesn't really matter what your coach is turning one tells you is this about really focusing on trying. now in the n.b.a. the san antonio spurs have reached the western conference final offer. pray for neil series sweep of the l.a. clippers the spurs won their latest game one hundred ninety nine to complete a whitewash face either the oklahoma city thunder for the l.a. lakers in the western conference final while in sunday's other guys in the miami heat beat the indiana pacers to tie their best of seven contests to a pace meet again on tuesday however san antonio all through and remain unbeaten but they aren't getting carried away. with every goal was going to happen with your team breaking tell you with every championship we've never gone into

a playoff think and you know this is our year. you know we've got a team we can get it done we've never so we just we go with what we call appropriate fear. you know you're not afraid of people but you still have good conserve appropriate fear about everything and all the things that can happen so there's never a thought that you're the team is going to win a championship. and finally to go off and belgium's nick a lot closer is the world match play champion after a win on the final hole against northern ireland's graeme mcdowell all cause i started impressively thinking this part eagle at the serve and from this point on was the belgian never found himself behind what mcdowell he did square the match on several occasions including here at the fourteenth when he did but he didn't challenge for the lead and inspire the last hole have two parts to win. it's his

second victory on the european tour and say seven hundred thousand dollars and a place in the walls top fifty for the first time. i mean living room in such conditions you know when. you know it's going to be very difficult you know you grew up looms you know as one of the us open series used to playing into of conditions that it was going to be a game in conditions like. you know i'm glad that old enough to win and it also all went down to the final hole in texas where jason dufner signed a twenty five foot birdie at the eighteenth hole to win the byron nelson championship beating dickey pride by a single shot to claim just over a million dollars in prize money. and that's all sports news.

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