when documents. don't go in there. and some reason. to be used the cubans the country's business in the united states was embarrassed he's going to become. speaking out for her son r t travels to ecuador to speak with julianna songes mother she talks about his asylum case and why he founded the website wiki leaks the exclusive interview coming up. and when thousands of state department cables were released by wiki leaks online world leaders were outraged but did wiki leaks actually help some countries become more transparent r t questions more how can you go from one city to have so much money you know i mean in so many jobs available for people to almost nothing

that's the question many people here in the u.s. are asking how can the world's leading superpower actually be so divided our two shows you two sides of america where the haves and the have nots live in two entirely different worlds. it's thursday august second four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our take. we begin this hour with an update on wiki leaks whistleblower julian assange on shazad remains held up in the ecuadorian embassy in london awaiting ecuador's decision on his plea for political asylum his mother is now in the country to discuss her son's fate with president rafael correa artie's eva golinger caught up with the songes mother for an exclusive interview her first question to christine assad how does she feel about the work her son has

done when she started when he told me that he was doing so. repressive regime she. was going to disagree to be able to. some of the abuse that was happening in the country and. that's what happened. when he would do. that then when the documents. struck books on america. some reason. to be just documents that other countries produced in the united. is going to be kind. so i have two reactions one is another of course i wish he'd never done and said nothing but as a citizen having this to go with he lives is down to the intense fear is it the world that the pieces of the russian kidnapping extortion.

torture. and fraud involved big financial institutions of course i completely support my son do you think that your son's life is in danger absolutely . from the beginning. from the us from politicians and from. news commentary this they were screaming at his murder in the most brutal way they seem to be no. hilltop at all in how they were feeling now calling out for the brutal for this of murder is citing move against myself. and still in the last few weeks. there's been a fox who says it has because fox news whole paid fallon who was screaming out for julian six

a commission this is somebody who is not writing the war and has done nothing more than any good investigative journalist would do which is to be an interesting one is one very reward for where you are now quite obviously advocating for your son are you here particularly to advocate prior to his political asylum request is the foreign ministry invited me so that i could speak to him about what i knew that the conditions in this tragedy for example by the government has offended him can you talk a little bit about that yes well unfortunately for australia. we have a. prime minister who is really can only be described as as. puppets for the us who prove already has twenty seven percent of people are not happy with that war and from the beginning the prime minister. condemned my son. in the media sticking ahead of a case which is unheard of in australia to speak about

a case and commits judgment upon a person prior to or trial she jeopardized his right to due to the presumption of innocence by saying that what he did was. she actually pretty preceded the american government in their statements and. despite the fact that this trial in federal police. some two weeks later. after this decided that julian had broken no laws at all in a straight line and the us treasury had refused to blacklist wiki leaks because they could find no crime that had been committed these stolen prime minister julia gillard. continued to defy my son in the media do you think that the australian government would hand over to the united states if they had the possibility of doing so absolutely this is a great concern given that the united states has been labeling its own citizens as

low level terrorists. so with that with america being within the top five countries executing their own citizens in the world and that actually is go ahead it seems like a seven. from what here to nine hundred eighty here. what do you think would happen to jury and if he were actually added to the united states. has the first hand if emotional was like to have been a part of what they're doing to one of their i was soldiers bradley manning. which the un report on torture says is cruel and inhumane treatment is very concerned i was not a pedophile. cambridge capital city. and one of the other speakers was an instructor you called david hicks who didn't think she's important. now. president obama came to office with the promise of closing

guantanamo bay but it hasn't been cause and effect this thirty billion dollars with the fiberoptics going to do as we speak. and tell me how only with. the best treatment going to and this is something that we could expect that you know would. that was christie in an asylum to the mother of juliana sonde you can say or to his entire exclusive interview online you can find it on our youtube page youtube dot com slash r t america well with the leaks has certainly sparked outrage among government leaders for the secrets expose some of them harsh and others just embarrassing for the detention of bradley manning to the attempted extradition of a saw and we are seeing the fallout of it all but what's interesting is the different ways countries have reacted and latin america for example the secrets were spelled out in newspapers and mexico readers learn the country is true relationship with the united states so we want to discuss now of transparency can in fact strengthen democracy and empower the people joining us now is miguel tinker

solace he's a professor of latin america history at home on a college miguel welcome so how would you say wiki leaks has impacted the people in latin america and how they view foreign policy with the united states i think it's been tremendous and i think it's opened up an entire new pin around in which citizens in mexico and brazil and venezuela can actually see how their governments have interacted in on the world stage and in particular in the case of mexico with the drug war the information has been very revealing it has confirmed what many scholars have been saying for quite some time and the same thing in the case of brazil and u.s. relationships and the same thing in venezuela with efforts on the part of the u.s. to isolate countries like venezuela and ecuador. in bolivia in the region and that cable gate as it's called led to the fourth departure of tell us ambassador is one to appledore and mexico so miguel i mean how has this impacted the debate in latin america country about when it comes to transparency and government accountability

when in the case of mexico in particular here we have a government of any pic of their own who in two thousand and six assumes office with a very small margin zero point five one margin in the electoral arena and the us immediately attempts to buttress his administration they recognize it as a stagnant presidency they begin to recognize his government they begin to push and support him so that they and their friends in essence buttress his administration to ensure that they have an ally in the region the same thing we find out that u.s. military personnel in the in the embassy personnel are intentionally a power within mexico they are a second state within mexico they are directing the military they are overseeing the drug war they are funding they are ordering mexican generals to take action the federal police to take action this is very revealing for a country for its citizenship and has been very evident in the political discourse in the political debate in the case of mexico so i think that we see it we see very good examples very clear examples in the case of brazil we have another very clear

example in which the u.s. embassy was privileging its relationship with the military in brazil with the military and the secretary of the military and trying to isolate brazil's foreign policy so we see it we see exactly what kind of efforts the us had the destabilise to gain control to gain importance in the region and efforts of the stabilize bolivia efforts to be stabilized ecuador so that's that's a very revealing forward citizenship and also in the case of on due to us here we have a country which the u.s. is saying that it did not have a coup and that it will not support a coup yet its own ambassador is saying there has been a coup in on doing us and we must take action. in a way though he gal and it's no secret that the u.s. . works very close with latin american countries on this war on drugs. man is it all really that shocking it is to a certain extent it is the way the way the war on drugs was used to buttress a presidential administration so it's one thing for

a social movement or scholars to say something and then to have it confirmed so yes in many ways you're right is confirmation for a series of beliefs that is that is evident in the society and that itself is important because that shift the balance of power in the discourse to say in the case of mexico so that sense in the same thing in the case of venezuela women as well as saying that the u.s. is attempting to isolate venezuela from the rest of latin america to inoculate the continent from latin america is one thing for venezuela to say it is another thing for u.s. documents to confirm it and now we are seeing a growing number of countries passing these freedom of information laws so this shows that people want more access to government documents and government information to them that wiki leaks kind of fed this demand i think it revolutionized the process and i think in the case of brazil when the wiki leaks was thinking about how to release the information in brazil they recognize that it was a sense that a conglomerate that owned all the media so they had to find alternatives and the way that they use those alternatives in fact force the official media the

mainstream media then to adapt and to begin to open up so i think it had a dramatic impact in that in that arena and that was going to be my next question to you miguel on how wiki leaks has affected the way the public views traditional media and latin america do you think you know in the wake of these revelations that has led to this loss of trust our credibility among the people there i think it confirmed as i said earlier confirmed a belief of what what many had already been thinking but now they had the evidence was to prove it and i think it's going to sound as a new anew margin a new a new bar against which political figures will be judged because in essence they will have alternatives to be able to confirm or disprove what they're saying so i think it's in that sense it continues to be a very important resource in latin america. in terms of foreign policy and also internal policy here in the us a songe is widely condemned for what he has done government leaders say compromise national security by leaking the documents do you think that he is just as demonized in latin america or is he viewed differently if so why well there's

a whole different perspective i think is a different perspective in the u.s. is what i'm in other sectors i think that there is the government sector but other people also recognize that what what wiki leaks did as an organization and a son in particular was to open up an entire arena foreign policy and allowed citizenship to actually see what the u.s. did in supporting coups in trying to isolate governments and inciting a never ending drug war that is not that has produced over sixty thousand dead in mexico and still the supply of drugs into news north and stopped so i think in that sense it opened up the arena of public for public scrutiny in the u.s. as well and now julian assange is now awaiting to hear back from the ecuadorian officials regarding his his bid to seek asylum there i think it makes sense then that julian assan just kind of turning to latin america for help now i think it does i think it makes perfect sense to turn to the countries that actually the material that he revealed in that his organization revealed. is the most obvious place to turn to countries like upload or countries like bolivia like venezuela

like result and i think that his image in the region is much much different than it is in the u.s. all right and lastly just want to ask you i guess the controversy surrounding us and as i have mentioned earlier is the fact that some people say yet you put our national security by releasing some of these top secret documents whether or not that the if that's the case is up for debate but is there any perception in latin america that assad may have compromise national security there no i don't think so i think there may be some elites in the case of brazil for example in the case of the defense ministry who eventually was replaced by bill the rousseff the president may may have had. some concerns but i don't think the majority population would share those same concerns are a very interesting perspective there miguel thank you so much for coming on the show that was me galton chris solace he's a professor of latin american history at pomona college. well it's no secret that the income inequality gap is widening in the us today and in some areas this reality is more glaring than others the state of connecticut is one such example

interstate ninety five was one stub the ribbon of hope for the promise of prosperity the highway once symbolized but it seems that has changed r.t. correspondent on a saucy a church going to takes a look at the economic divide and the constitution state. calvin is the master barber at a hair salon dubbed the home of the six dollar cut. service is being cheap business is steady in this town america definitely definitely industries and jobs are feeding a lot there used to be about five hundred factories in bridgeport in the thirty's today it's largely a wasteland a buzz with booming factories and its peak years bridgeport is now a town filled with sites like this one abandoned lots and buildings that were once the work place of a prospering middle class these days there is simply no work to find here where unemployment rate is ridiculous i've been looking for a job for about two years and i haven't been able to find anything. it's hard this

twenty three year old mother jobless and burdened by college debt keeps afloat by selling scrap metal that others throw out it's hard to drive around all day and find stuff on the side of the road gets tiring today taking her son along on the hunt brought her luck. joey and made sixty seven dollars and a few cents. which board stands off the i ninety five highway in connecticut. a road up the ribbon of hope in the fifty's when industry flourished here. our drive from bridgeport. life is a ball in the picture perfect town of greenwich it's just a place that every by desire to live really it really is like getting your worries forgotten you. the crandell a crime of the financial world flock to this paradise where our wall street bedroom primarily i mean obviously we have lawyers and doctors and retailers but yeah

a lot of wall street around here here restaurants overflow with clients with an extra buck to spend luxury cars or shiny homes state of the art it's the most affluent town and in the united states it just it is it like not my fault but well greenwich and bridgeport are still tied together by the same small strip of asphalt the i ninety five of today is a ribbon of inequality rather than a whole. reflection of the transition to america today. from opportunity to lifestyle to backdrop reality is increasingly contrast in the u.s. . well production and manufacturing the sources of the american dream have all but vanished i don't know what happened you know everything that they go by. wall street continues to prosper increasingly hedge fund hubs like greenwich and

industrial ghost towns like bridgeport will live side by side but worlds apart is this a church party kinetics. well here on ars he would like to cover stories that the mainstream media won't report or under report take the story for example. they don't really think that you know that my baby didn't like them i don't think. they know me. well you can see residents terrified as police unleashed dogs and fire projectiles into the crowd this was a response to the protests that erupted in the community after police shot dead twenty five year old man well diaz who was apparently unarmed at the time and while local loop news and anaheim couldn't ignore it there wasn't much coverage on the networks and when they did cover it they seem to focus on the riots instead of digging deeper and asking why they broke out in the first place here's

a look at some of the headlines that may be online outlets from the l.a. times anaheim unrest twenty four arrested six injured in night of violence things in post reported anaheim police protests another fiery clash between protesters and officers and this one only focused on the looters smashing windows steal i had him during anaheim protests and now another police crackdown they seem to have missed this time on activists in west virginia protesting coal mining police say they arrested twenty protesters after the demonstration on saturday happened at patriot coal hobbit strip mine in lincoln county the action included coordinated lock downs tree sits and banner drops twenty of the protesters are with the group ramps which stands for radical action for now in people's survival they say the coal mining practices put the health and safety of the community in danger to talk more about this dust and steel an activist with the radical action for mountain peoples

survival dustin welcome so. i know that you kind of had a rough day you just got released today tell us what you saw at the protests and what led to your arrest. i was protesting mount hawk removal hour went to twenty two which is the largest active mountaintop removal permit in appalachia the mountaintop removal it will is a very destructive form of coal mining so instead of going underground and taking coal out that way they take explosives packed it into the top of the mountain and then blow blow them out in a way which since that crash in the u. s. . it is personally always and. it's been today it's been the degradation of

a lot of people within appalachia and their health and their environment and us that ramps is made in an active effort to stop this destructive process of money and i understand that while you were out there protesting twenty people were arrested and you are among those arrested what have you and others been charged with i am personally and all twenty protestors have been charged with trespassing in the struction of justice. with that charge they're both misdemeanor charges that serve lots and since is what we were all charged with a twenty five thousand dollars bond which was completely ludicrous for our charges as of yet ten of our comrades are still in prison non of our comrades that a lot of seeing coming across the camera has just been released from jail so it's time of jubilation and here at the ramps camp but. at fruit

for us at this point we're still trying to bot mountaintop removal and look after a really wonderful action of how to move forward and keep the pressures on this extract of industry who is robbing apple actually block and taking away their well and destroying the environment for future generations i would do want to ask you and i read that there were some reports alleged beatings while in custody what do you know about that. there was a lot of cases of police brutality in their experience during the action. one comrade was pulled bachar it tells by an officer people were dragged across the asphalt boss self personally i was dragged twenty feet on my back through asphalt and sabol stairs my head was slammed into

a concrete wall. into an interview room at the process and station where a group of west virginia state police officers. physically assaulted me with punches and kicks and during the protest i mean did it get violent and did you see any protesters provoking the police are turning to violence themselves are or what do you think about that the only violence that was there ramps makes a staunch nonviolent peaceful protest we are dedicated to the tenets of nonviolence the only ballance was the violence the police officers and the counterprotest they were completely unprovoked. and a lot of other comrades made a choice of being non-compliant at no point where we fall and at no point were we resisting but the west virginia state police still decided to brutalise my self and

mother for. protests struck to form a body now you had mentioned all these of these health and environmental hazards earlier on before and really we haven't heard much about the this case and west virginia do you feel like you need to stage a protest like this in order to bring awareness to this issue. absolutely it's direct action is the only way that we can get our point across not only are we bombing the coal the coal companies who are trying to destroy our mountains poison our water in air we're all sort of dealing with a state police force who is compliant with the coal companies and during protests always cracks down hard on protesters and counter protesters who has been ballance to anton mountaintop removal activists or have we found no

recourse within the state police as well as our state legislators our governor her senator they are bought and paid for bob a cold so we have no recourse through legislative or executive manners either the only way that we can effect change in appalachian is if we take power in terre own hands and resist and organize and planned lockdowns and actually. create an alternative to the communities and the alternative economy because it's not going to be politicians it's not going to be supported by the police if change is going to happen it's going to be people who are willing to go to jail who are willing to beat or working in jobs that don't pay well because it's work that appalachia is the central appalachian with or is the second most diverse place in the world with the exception of the amazon rain forest every day more and more acres of this

beautiful beautiful ecosystem that's been destroyed by mountaintop removal the further generations of tourism will no longer be available because all of our tourism is based on their amazing scenery and wallop which is being destroyed by the cold means for short term profits for the future of our generation we're going to have to resist organize and bought back. thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing your experience with us that was dustin scale and activists with the radical action firm now in people's are viable. well coming up next on our t.v. is the capital account with lauren lister let's check in with learn to see less on today's agenda lauren what you have going on over there another day another problem with a financial firm that just could really knock confidence in the u.s. financial system added to the litany of issues the flash crash the problems with the facebook i.p.o. m.f. global and p.f.g.

two firms that went over stealing or taking customer money with them in the process that still being recovered now today what we've had is the effect of a trading glitch gone arrive for a firm that specializes in high frequency trading with computer algorithms so after they installed new software the story goes they had this massive computer glitch that led them to lose sixty six percent of their stock value and they lost four hundred forty million dollars in relation to that so this threatens the stability of the fur we ask if it's right and the confidence in the u.s. financial system and what to do about it we're going to go straight to a source a convicted fraudster to find out what still needs to change lives all right it sounds like you have some interesting guests and a lot to talk about lauren thank you for that update that's coming up next on the capital account with lauren lister but that is going to do it for the news for more of the stories we cover check out our you tube channel and youtube dot com slash

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