welcome back and this is all see it would trickle the headlines he is fighting in syria as regime troops tried to push rebels out of the country's commercial hub the city of aleppo. while german intelligence finds evidence al qaida is behind some ninety terror toxin syriac and all correspondence adjusts rebels have been passing that only fix himself hospitalities of the regime. the united arab emirates follows the example of saudi arabia and bahrain as it leaves the french clamp down on protesters but the west stays silent. as the divide between people and power in the u.s. widens protest movements gaining more exposure than ever before he talks to bill as radical activist also on school professor at the university of illinois about the

growth of the protest movement in the us. party's in chicago sitting down with radical activist author and former professor phil ayres thank you so much for joining us today pleasure to be with you so let's get started with protests really in the united states we've seen the arab spring we've seen the uprisings in europe we've seen occupy wall street in the united states what do you think is really the face of the modern protester in the us today i mean i think occupy is unpredictable but wonderful development and it comes directly out of the arab spring i mean it the idea that people could actually make a difference is is infectious and so occupy came out of madison madison came out of tahrir square tahrir square came out of bradley manning and wiki leaks so we kind of can see. a real development where people are saying you know the world as it is

is not the world as it must be it could be otherwise and when people feel that way they get into motion get into action very exciting very you know hopeful we have obviously critics of occupy wall street who see the main flaw of the movement is a lot of attention all unified message do you think that kind of message exists apart from the obvious occupy wall street what is it really about well i think people are mistaken and with that kind of criticism occupy is not a point of arrival it's not a manifesto it's not a demand occupy is an invitation and it's an opening of the public space that means that every grievance every complaint as well as every aspiration and dream can find a place in a new open public square i think occupy already has accomplished something amazing which is is shifted the frame and how we discuss wealth how we discuss war how we discuss austerity the metaphor of one percent ninety nine percent is a marvelous metaphor but as usual power responds to these kinds of peoples in

a pattern that that is predictable. they ignored occupy for a while then they ridiculed it then they tried to coopt it with language like what you demand and then they beat it up and then they repeat it that's very typical of how these things happen but occupy is not going away it's morphed it's transformed to occupy is a marvelous thing and it's still evolving we shall see occupy also seems to sort of police violence and unrest that we haven't seen in a while in the united states and every time there's clashes like we saw here in chicago it seems to be the protesters saying the police are violent the police are saying the protesters are violent who is right we see in our whole society is the militarization of our society so when nato comes together for example for a summit. this is an organization that all wearing suits and ties all speaking very quietly but they can they represent three quarters of the military budget in the world three quarters are represented by the nato kind of g eight world and and

that's violence that's institutional violence so in chicago when there were clashes between nato demonstrators and police. we have to also note that that is the city was incredibly militarized that is there were tens of thousands of police in the streets here that nobody had ever seen before you know troop carriers buses transformed into military vehicles we take for granted in this country that the military must be under civilian control if it's under civilian control it's a dictatorship what is nato under how is nato governed who takes care of making sure that it's not a military dictatorship and the problem is in many ways it is obviously people are quite annoyed to say the least for the fact that like you say millions are spent on the billions are spent abroad on the wars whereas obviously a lot of people are still not in the best economic situation do you think i mean

what is this all about is there a huge disconnect between those in power and the people or. is this kind of purpose something that's purposefully being done i think both are true but is there a huge disconnect absolutely what is nato if it's not kind of a fig leaf for the united states nato in europe for example has two hundred sixty tactical nuclear weapons those are not allowed under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty but they're allowed because nato is not a signatory it's a way around the law it's a way around common sense but speaking of a disconnect yes there is a disconnect twenty seven percent of americans support the war in afghanistan and we can't end it this is true now for seven years no one wants it eleven years ago when the war started we could have said this is a police action to get the people who did nine eleven but know it was an invasion in a war we overthrew a government where we eleven years later they're now talking about negotiating with the taleban they and moving out of afghanistan but leaving four billion dollars

a year in american aid that's an outrage and it should be an outrage that's why only twenty seven percent still support that war but we cannot end it that's a disconnect between power and the people the first time we interviewed you four years ago you said you wanted to create the biggest anti-war movement in the u.s. are you closer to the. occupy wall street part of the energy of occupy is in part an anti-war energy it's an energy that says our priorities are all messed up our society is off the tracks spending trillions on war every couple of years while we ignore basic human needs privatizing the public space destroying the electoral process under the term reform reforming everything from public schools to elections to pensions and what reform is is a kind of a cover for destruction so yes i think that the anti-war movement is represented in the occupy moment and my hope is that we continue to evolve and grow do you think

with the wars the us is fighting in. living beyond its means. absolutely not and you know one of things that happened in the old soviet union was it spent itself into destruction i mean you cannot arm at this level and have now create the conditions for an arms war with china with india with russia with all the countries of south asia that's an outrage that we are now entering into a new arms race which is going to spend us into catastrophe it's anti-democratic it's not what people want it's not how we want to see ourselves and it's something that has to end when you think about the u.s. and nato missile defense plans is that necessary absolutely unnecessary i mean if you think of all the toys and gimmicks and and war materials that are being developed what are they for i mean why a hundred fifty american military bases abroad what are they doing who are they in

circling so now it gives itself permission for preemptive war for war against non-state actors which can take the form of any country it wants to invade so nato in afghanistan nato in iraq nato in libya these are illegal immoral and unnecessary we're hearing war drums beating over iran lately a lot do you think we'll see the u.s. embark on this new military escapade it would be a catastrophe for everyone if the united states or nato which is just the united states fig leaf or israel went into iran and attacked iran there we can live in this world as a nation among nations as long as we insist on the old colonial mentality that we can dominate other peoples we can tell them how to be and have a double standard that's just so grotesque so we're frantic about the possibility that iran might have a nuclear warhead some day meanwhile we have two thousand nuclear warheads and that

doesn't make us frantic israel is the third largest nuclear power in the world not part. nuclear nonproliferation in the heart of even admitting that they have that this is a world that's dangerous that's you know unstable but it's not unstable because of the run there are so many better ways to be a citizen of the world to shake your sword every time you feel like it the us has the biggest military budget in the world a trillion dollars a year what is really the necessity we understand that if somebody had tax you have to be ready to defend yourself considering many people and critics of u.s. warmongering say the us actually starts these boys it by itself builds this long list of enemies well that's my view my view is if you look at my whole. lifetime sixty seven years the u.s. has been engaged in a war virtually every year and the wars are primarily wars of invasion and aggression and occupation vietnam we can all now look back and say well that was

illegal immoral a tragedy three million people were killed six thousand though we were killed in that unnecessary war mostly civilians and the u.s. did it i mean it it it made it happen under a lot of guises of bringing democracy and so on and there was a wonderful sign in the demonstrations recently that said you know if you want to build democracy someplace build it here and i think that's true peace is the answer and it begins here we have to cut back our military budget we have to close our foreign military bases we have to become a nation among nations that the goober nation exerting our will everywhere we have the us elections fast approaching four years ago a lot of people in the us were really hopeful that barak obama would become sort of the real face of change a lot of americans now say. that is not happening democrats and republicans seem to be the same side of one point what should we expect is it naive at this point for anybody to expect some real true change come election. for wins those elect.

i think we have to build a movement for change i think that's what brings change if you look back even in our fairly recent history it wasn't lyndon johnson although lyndon johnson passed the most far reaching civil rights legislation in history he wasn't part of the black freedom movement he was responding franklin roosevelt wasn't part of the labor movement and yet he accomplished all that labor legislation and social legislation and abraham lincoln didn't belong to an abolitionist party each of them was responding to movements on the ground what we need if we want peace is to build a movement on the ground that could bring about real change from the bottom and that's what i think we should be concerned about during the last presidential elections obviously your name was talked about a lot by the mainstream media what do you think is going to be that mean controversy this time around the one thing that we know for sure is it money is always corrupting in politics not just here but in russia and europe everywhere

money corrupts politics this election season in the united states is going to see an absolute tidal wave of cash come into this election so last time out the obama campaign spent a half a billion dollars this time each campaign will spend over a billion and it's hard to believe that anyone can look at that and say this is what democracy looks like i think it's what plutocracy looks like rich people throwing cash around buying votes buying legislators and it's an unseemly and and certainly undemocratic site i have no idea what the controversy will be but you can be sure it'll be dirty and it will be expensive.

it was shot four times in total. war as it were the. story of the boys who are still in my body. people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a problem national rifle association was a group of basically retired military we love to shoot holes and i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and what's in front of here is going to die that's all the training you really really need raise your hand if you know something's been. ok but to live with one of the philadelphia horns over streets. until about a hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared the full class including the teacher i think was. seventeen students.

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going to. target civil war in russia. signed the danish league's top scorer. the oscar goes to chelsea. club decided not to wait until the end of the olympics as the blues confirmed their latest acquisition brazil. and legend speaks of the only triple olympic champion in this sport under love about the russian women's team chances in london. so first more school have signed senegal striker and danish league top scorer from copenhagen as the new head coach sloven village targets civil way in his debut year that team finished seventh last season but started a new campaign very well by beating newcomers surrounds three two in southwest russia last friday but charismatic creation coach says that result proved how tough

football in russia is after just seven. in charge he believes competition at the top will be hard this season. they're with their rivals. through the league was. ok for me to meet but then you six or seven. that's almost. equal percentage of chances to do it can be this couple of games it's going to be. a little bit of luck. that you got a deserved course. in the meantime english premier league side chelsea have confirmed the signing of brazilian midfielder oscar from international deal is reported to be around thirty nine million dollars the twenty year old whose full name. junior is currently in london with a brazilian olympic team he's a product of the said polly you think cademy and joined international in december

twenty eighth ten the playmaker is expected to join the club straight after the games in his absence the blues lost their exhibiting game start american team from the major league three two in philadelphia. chris wondolowski opened the scoring for the hosts in the twenty first minute chelsea responded eleven minutes later captain john terry headed the ball into the net after qana kick english giants took the lead in the second half thanks to precise shots from frank lampard as he found himself unmarked in the air in the center third minute the league's m.v.p. set up chris spontaneous for a short past ross turnbull to tie the game it and in injury time eddie johnson set the file of results of the rate two in favor of the m.l.s. will start. their first victory of the london games went to the host country of the british women's

football team beat new zealand one nail in the match which officially kicked off the lympics two days before the opening ceremony it was the first ever win for britain in olympic women's football basis court had never been pulled together before this year's games but football tournament started because of its long shadow . to basketball now where the british men scored continue their preparations for the upcoming games despite defeats in all three of their recent warm up matches against the usa to needs and belgium coach chris think stace positive but is not going to make any predicate addiction's britain will begin their campaign against russia on sunday they need a top four finish in group b. which also includes spain australia china and brazil to reach the quarterfinals. in the business of making any predictions this is not what we do we all try to predict the group i think you're in trouble when you do. you know i think for us it's a porno approach every game with the same amount of intensity preparation readiness

execution and chances were. also our nine track and field athletes were suspended ahead of the london olympics for doping for frank took his distance runner a gun is among them through the courts in protest of samples from last year's world championships and other six athletes were exposed in biological passport tests which changes in an athlete's block profile that of god himself was caught by the biological passport route. i can see i'm a really great athlete it's not easy for a turkish family to rank. right now the russian men's handball team failed to qualify for the olympics for the first time but the country's ladies are aiming high in london so i asked the sports greatest olympian ever to share his views on russia's chances.

i often get asked the question which one of my four olympic medals means the most to me and it's the last one because i wanted to when i was forty two we fell just short of the final and that bronze medal is the most. memorable of all i ted surgery six months prior to those athens olympics and then picked up an injury just a fortnight before the games so it was doubtful if i'd make it but all that made the bronze medal even sweeter when you go out there and realize it's your last time this makes it even more emotional than we knew the three goals before reach. some of the most. well russia's women could only manage six at the world championships in brazil last december but was still one of the favorites in london probably only norway are considered better than russia but still there are about seven teams who could deliver the goods at any given time so i don't think we

should be overjoyed about what seems an easy group for usher in london ok we're probably the favorites to finish top of that group but all possible quarterfinal opponents could pose a real threat so it's crucial we're mentally ready for the games and as far as i know we've got an experienced team and i hope they'll claim gold. at the secrets no secret that played to the host nations have tended to take five six or seven gold medals they never expected to win in the first place and this is actually quite alarming that however the way the russian team have been preparing especially for the last couple of years gives us a lot of hope of all their quite specialists are in place everything has been thoroughly analyzed so i don't think the national forecast will differ much from the results at the end of the day i think the russian athletes can win twenty three to twenty five golds which would put the team in third place over old. at the

london olympics where russia will be aiming for their thirst of a gold medal since the collapse of the soviet union there michael surf reporting from the team's training camp in russia's black sea resort. the russian men's sports greatest achievements at the summer games was silver at sydney in two thousand that's a far cry from the teams or the u.s.s.r. that won three gold silver and bronze the twenty twelve edition of the national team collected a number of titles recently and it is hoped that it can overcome the latest hurdles in order to claim its first olympic gold. russian volleyball players have always been distinguished by their athletic abilities but they are lacking when it comes to executing certain technical elements that will be our main focus during the preparation for the games. will be one of the most experienced at the olympics with five players aiming to improve on their bronze medal finish in

beijing four years ago however fresh talents like setzer alexander booty call could add to that necessary push for the top of the podium. anyone can win even by accident or that's not enough to go one must always be hungry for victory it's like a drug the feeling off euphoria when the team scores deciding like a huge way it's been lifted off your shoulders but victories must be forgotten it's just losses to be remembered and analyzed at the moment rochelle won the world league and the world cup in twenty eleven this year however was marked by a visible slump which saw the team drop all the way to eighth place in the world leagues than things hopes that will change when the game starts but we're going to give a speech on it's a very particular tournaments should record sample no one has ever thought the poland will develop like it has it's constantly on the podium in the recent years with brazil cuba italy some african nations anyone really has

a chance to say it will be more difficult for some than others but it's pretty even . brush just first goal is to get out of their group which features brazil us. say serbia germany and sunni's yeah none of those themes are considered weak but one thing is for certain if russia makes it to the next stage they will not face any of those nations in the quarterfinals the man calls for an artsy i'm not. well that's all from a full today kate politics will behave with a more sports news from around the globe for you good bye.

if they shoot something inappropriate from the public they can easily be shown to accept casualties of war ok. i wish it would have never happened but it has happened. in a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary would destroy their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave around. and this clear what happens with such witnesses i got on my flight. many checks. merciless shooting on our.

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