it's not time to. go. to the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy there's a report on r.g.p. . coming up on r t c n n i respond to claims they held back on their coverage of the arab spring because of their ties to the bahraini government now others are jumping into the debate including the producer of the documentary that was pulled from the airwaves an update just ahead . and groot green on blue violence is on the rise in afghanistan afghan authorities have detained or moved hundreds of soldiers to investigate the rise of insider attacks so what does this mean for the u.s. and its ongoing role inside of afghanistan are questions more. and g.m.o. dangers could new type of genetically modified corn actually be creating

a type of super worm crawling details coming up. it's friday september seventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. we begin today with an update on the story we brought you earlier this week c.n.n. international has fired back at the guardian reporter glenn greenwald for his accusations that the station purposely chose not to run a critical documentary about bahrain for sponsorship reasons the documentary called i revolution was commissioned by the c.n.n. proper and was intended to take us from one country to the next as the arab spring unfolded and give them an inside look both of the revolution itself as well as social media's impact on it here's a look at the bahrain portion of that documentary. the protesters seem to have disappeared from buffering scapel thanks to the intense military crackdown. we

ventured into another side of. a side the government didn't want the world to see to find out where they've gone we drove to the shia villages passing military checkpoints as we left the capital. this is what the protests look like today young boys who've been hit tear gas. so what's the big deal with bahrain well c n n i has engaged in certain business arrangement it calls an association with it offers countries the ability to pay for specific programs that spotlight their country the name might sound familiar called the c n n the eye on or the marketplace middle east series they are designed to put

a positive economic social and political picture of the country greenwald and others are asserting that the partnership with bahrain is in this regard caused by causes see an end to self censor itself a claim that c.n.n. article disputes c.n.n. proper only ran report the report by a lion once but c.n.n. i chose not to report it at all which brings us to the exchange between glenn greenwald and c n n i's p.r. team the broadcast giant's p.r. team wrote a six point rebuttal to greenwald guardian article saying that it has extensively covered the unrest in bahrain greenwald in turn wrote a response saying that c.n.n. defense was weak and avoided the real issues like the station's alleged partnership with bahrain then the battle went to twitter and public relations said at greene greenwald nowhere in your piece do you link this to the thirty this to the thirteen minute segment on amber frey which was broadcast around the world on c.n.n.

i to which he replied back to c n n's p.r. department i expressly said she went on air in april and linked to those videos not not even a good try and then c.n.n. rebutted back to them in april twentieth eleven amber lyon appeared on c.n.n. c.n.n. eyes of back story discussing her trip to buffering with the sling to the video and actually link to the video itself if you saw that at the bottom of the screen so a little of back and forth tiff between greenwald himself and the p.r. team with amber lyon. herself actually getting involved in the twitter battle she tweeted out these tweets by c.n.n. are not true the video link is from april before the censorship the document mentary wasn't finished until june of two thousand and eleven now r.t. has her tried repeatedly to get in contact with both glenn greenwald as well as

amber lyon for an interview and as soon as we hear from them you'll hear from us but until then this is a good reminder to all of us to always always question the things you see on t.v. and more importantly the things you don't see. to afghanistan now where green on blue violence is causing on these between the u.s. and the people it eventually plans to hand the power over to this year alone forty five international service members have been killed as a result of these insider attacks twenty eight of them american something that is deeply concerning to the administration but doesn't merit a mention at last night's d.n.c. speech nonetheless white house press secretary jay carney spoke about the incidents last month. it's him to remember that. first of all that our relationship with our afghan partners is strong and that every day our forces find alongside afghan forces there are now about three hundred fifty thousand afghan forces. and

we partner with those afghan forces on ninety percent of operations and while the. whenever there is a so-called green on blue incident it is concerning and the fact that there have been the number of incidents that you mentioned is is deeply concerning now in that press briefing carney went on to say that we need to keep these incidents in perspective so joining me now to put these incidents as well as the afghan war into perspective anthony shaffer he works on the task force on national and homeland security with the center friends of advanced defense studies and joins me now all right and tony a lot to talk about here let's start off with this that this green on blue violence what's the problem here are we not vetting these people closely enough because of our desire to get out by two thousand and fourteen you're correct that much are about the twenty fourteen days but we are not better partly because three years ago when i first brought this up and other experts warning them the closer you get to

the more you're going to see the taliban become more of a bold and. we we said you have to do the better to protect our curves they chose not to do that for a number of political reasons and i think we're now suffering the consequences are going to want to your comments a new direction make it one of the reason they didn't bring this up is because the very root of this problem goes back to president obama about the year two thousand . were living in twenty fourteen so he embolden the taliban this is part of their duty many gave them the ability to plan for us and they're continuing to expand. increase over the last three years by accident and more importantly this whole fiction that the afghans are leaving look i talk to people on the ground there. an afghan led operation is basically putting the afghan army humvee ahead of the r r us army guys and they're going to letting them drive around the circle that's it it's a fiction so i'm very critical by the fact that we're not making progress this is

become a political issue the white house doesn't want to talk about and frankly the bottom line for me and others who were interviewed in there we're putting our kids our soldiers in jeopardy no good reason without onerous rules of engagement with no real path forward other than just to separate out the next eighteen months and how many let's talk really quickly about the difference between a war and nation building we are nation building right now so how can you put an exit date on nation building when you don't know how long it's going to take to build a nation you can and when they announce this policy i also said you got to go big or go home on another if you didn't work the bottom line is this of that assessment then three years ago to go big and actually be successful in the nation building we're talking about you would have to put five hundred thousand troops on the ground for ten years and we knew that wasn't in the car so therefore we started saying it's not going to war we were unfortunately correct in our prediction and now we're headed for the door so we've got to figure out and i've talked to several senior generals about this the numbers are relevant is the mission and the fact is

the mission we've been given this nation building thing is not working based on the resources a lot of to it and a friend of mine retired congressman former admiral doso stack told me that he was lied to about this they briefed him when this first happened in two thousand and nine saying hold on this is going to be us focusing on the border and they did a big switch on and get missed now that they switched the mission from protecting the border to nation building to enhancing that and frankly a lot and he's a democrat he's upset about. and just to go back to the screen on blue attack things that we're facing right now the attacks the insider attacks that we're facing right now i mean are we just switching from the mindset of the u.s. versus the taliban to the u.s. versus off afghanistan. well you have this is a great question and let me try to parse it to your audience the karzai government has been described by ambassador ryan crocker and other shows as a nother insurgency i've talked to a number of folks some afghans who feel the karzai government itself is helping to

to create the conditions for the uprising because of the corruption the corruption is now so rampant that the afghan people themselves so this is really not about helping the afghan people i wish it was so so today i mentioned this is where we signed with a corrupt government and the afghan people who really i think like you like me want to be free see that they're caught between two very bad choices to have voices and forth across most many of them are choosing the taliban because we've already announced earlier a new spirit of the karzai government all the moment. and tony the ministry of defense the afghan ministry of defense that is actually handing out booklets to try to its forces to try to explain the western mindset it covers everything from talking to women to prang to taking pictures of a country but i mean tony we're in their country should it be the other way around well we tried that and idol i don't mean to put

a bad face on the idea of trying to be culturally sensitive it's just i think we've gone too far we were there in two thousand once you got to two thousand and three to basically right or wrong we we had the right set up and this is i don't mean to diminish the importance of cultural understanding but we were there because we were attacked the afghan people supporters and i remember that the actual conflict in two thousand and two thousand to forty two days the northern alliance and others helped us do this now we tried to exist. wait upon them these people who are socially not undercover they're self-governed to to be going to a central government they have no tradition of that so therefore we help create the very circumstantial enough trying to justice and i want to kind of push the conversation just a little bit to yemen president obama has in many ways become the drone president yet he said in an interview earlier this week that he wants to use drones responsibly he didn't actually address this in the d.n.c. at all but he did say that he wants he's wrong to sponsoring and then we look at

what's happening in yemen twenty nine people alone died this past week and they were all civilians so are we using drones responsibly or not but i have studied this i've talked i've had high level contacts with certain leaders of certain embassies recently on this very issue just yesterday and the problem is this any time we use these as they we kill innocents we create the next generation of terrorists and this is something the obama administration is just ignore completely and other experts to advise them to say. using drones are not bad it's just if you overuse them increases perception of progress you're creating a next generation jurors want to take the backing off of what you just said i mean these attacks that we're seeing in yemen i are we actually fostering to the taliban members are we fighting them i think we're sauntering them because much of what we need to do is boots on the ground for science like operation dark precision

operations and let me tell you your own limited aspect of what we're doing right now is actually creating more havoc and chaos which the governing bodies of yemen or pakistan have to deal with rightly i think we're helping to stabilize pakistan by this overuse of drones are right that was anthony shaffer with the task force and the national homeland security for the center for advanced defense studies tony i really appreciate your opinions thank you. well in case you missed it the democratic national convention wrapped up last night with both joe biden as well as president obama giving their party acceptance speeches crowds packed themselves in a time warner cable arena to be part of the festivities but at the last minute the venue was changed and that actually disappointed a lot of the people that were planning to go to the venue the speech was supposed to be held at the bank of america stadium bank of america is after all headquartered in charlotte that's not the only thing that has a happy coincidence when it comes to the d.n.c. hosting the venue in charlotte r.t.

correspondent liz wahl takes us through the middle of the dispute. more than six hundred miles away from america's financial hub lands a city with striking similarity is that it was very symbolic that the democratic national convention was coming to charlotte with this big wall street of the so it's the second largest banking institution city outside of wall street and so the democratic national convention being hosted here in charlotte is also home to the headquarters of bank of america the massive bank at the time they're fired for unreasonably raising interest rates on their customers and wrongfully foreclosing on homes. testers took to the streets surrounding the democratic national convention and the police were quick to respond. but at least one speaker at the convention highlighted the greed and corruption because protesters speak out against massachusetts senate tauriel candidate elizabeth warren people feel right

the system is rigged against them and here's the painful part. they're right. this system is very. look around oil companies guzzle they own billions in profits billionaires pay a lower tax rates than their secretaries. and wall street c.e.o.'s the same ones who wrecked our economy and just royd millions of jobs still strut around congress no shame bank of america is one such corporation many say profits from this so-called rigged system the bank has faced a slew of lawsuits and is accused of predatory lending which resulted in foreclosures across the country in two thousand and eight a number of banks failed and the taxpayers were asked to bail them out and the taxpayers did through the government now those same banks those banks are acting

the same as they did before with little change since the two thousand and eight wall street crisis many fear history is doomed to repeat itself according to some activist money and corporate influence on american politics is a hazardous mix one of the main things that we stand on is the monies big corporations influence through their money how they've taken over our paul political system they write the legislation they they fund the campaigns and almost every elected official has has to answer to them rather than to the people themselves so what can americans do there's a lot of local credit unions small credit unions that are answerable to local communities if the community doesn't like what the credit union is doing they can actually stop them from doing that others have taken their grievances to the streets. in charlotte north carolina liz wahl r.t. . all right well what's in your food i guess that depends on who you ask if you ask

g.m.o. advocates they might list in number of ingredients you can't even pronounce or the more popular answer could be it's none of your business but the more important question might be what are the future consequences of our present actions for years the agriculture giant monsanto has been genetically modifying corn and soybeans to withstand and even produce herbicides and pesticides but as what happened with the drug resistant bugs in modern medicine and as ike i said einstein so eloquently put it not unlike me for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction this time it's in the form of super weeds and even more daunting super worms the environmental protection agency has launched an investigation to inspect the resistance that is developing in the parts of the corn belt in the unprecedented colony of super worms that are bound to spread throughout the entire midwest to talk more about this i'm joined by alexis baden mayer political director for

organic consumers association hi there alexis let's start off by talking about these super worms what are they how are they different than regular worms and how do they affect our health. well my dad who invented is genetically engineered crops that had b.p. in it into mirrored bruson of a natural insecticide the idea is that the insecticide would be part of the crop so when the root or attacks the crop they would die because the pesticide would be inside the crop but we knew that this would happen and finally the root worms have developed a resistance to this in ethically engineered crops and it was bound to happen months and so we knew it would happen and now they'll have to come up with a new product to sell to farmers and alexis we saw all these super weaves that monsanto had created and the special fees that they have that came from the special see that were supposed to be resistant to disease now an even more often if disease

came along and they had to create a talkfest a toxic herbicide to battle it in turn they made money off of the thing that they created that created in that turn the super weeds so they're making money off of these things that are happening i mean are we going to expect the same thing to happen with super worms are they going to be making money off of that too of course monsanto is a chemical company they market themselves as you know a company servicing farmers helping feed the world who if they want to do is sell pesticides and herbicides and these products which have a very short shelf life certainly enable them to continue the business model and a life of how is your organization involved in the proposition thirty seven the proposition thirty seven of course is the initiative in california that would require g.m.o. labeling on foods. well we're supporting proposition thirty seven we support consumers right know what's in our food the chemical companies have kept this from

us from a long time they don't want to know that where they don't want us to know that reading genetically modified foods consumer certainly want to know and so that's what this proposition is all about now advocates of this proposition thirty seven say would bring transparency to the food industry opponents say they say that it would hurt farmers it would have adverse effect on the economy and it would hamper innovation we were very aware in a very bad drought the summer and experts say they could this could turn into a corn crisis so is now really the time to be worrying about what's in our food web rather than whether there's enough of it. we definitely need to worry about whether there's nothing but it's not the problem is these industrial monoculture is a genetically modified crops these are the the crops that are suffering the drought the farmers who are growing crops are again asleep and who are growing wars and when and where mixing animal agriculture with with grain crops these farmers are not experiencing the same kind of tragic drought that the monoculture g.m.o.

farmers are so if we have more consumer awareness about him of me will certainly it'll help the pledge to develop more organic and sustainable agriculture and we know that eighty five percent of corn crop is located within the drought area itself with barely half of the crop area experiencing extreme or exceptional drought levels we also know that the majority of american corn actually isn't used to feed americans a lot of it goes into petroleum a lot of it goes to animals to feed animals so are we overhyping just the corn aspect of the g.m.o. foods a little bit or not. oh no it's very dangerous even to be eating animals that are said to that a flea engineered crops and we've learned that pregnant women have the bt gene in their bless the engineer d.c. gene is in the blood of ninety three percent of women of reproductive age and their

fetuses so this is a very very dangerous thing to have in the food supply even if it's even only being fed to animals but wal-mart began selling b.c. corn to consumers in the form of regular sweet corn that people eat at barbecues so this is it slowly creeping into every aspect of our food supply now much as i also am entente i was already spent four point two million dollars trying to kill the november prop thirty seven initiative critics like your organization have made this abundantly clear but i mean i have to ask what's the difference in what monsanto is doing versus what you're doing as i understand your organization donated forty thousand dollars to yes on thirty seven versus the four point two million for monsanto well we've actually donated seven hundred thirty thousand dollars and i'm very proud that we've been able to raise that money this is all coming from small contributions from consumers who really care and it is

a real tragedy that we have to raise money to do a ballot initiative when that should be part of our regulatory system just like it is in most countries where they respect consumers right to know what's in their food certainly we're going to be sent months and when their allies have raised about twenty five million dollars so far we're going to rely on word of mouth social networking consumers educating one another they're going to set up a bunch of expensive t.v. ads so you know what lead democracy will work ninety percent of the public support and that will be reflected in the election all right alexis peyton mayor political director for gannett consumers association thank you for joining us we'll have to see what comes of the prop thirty seven battle. i think that my. so what do you think should the u.s. begin labeling genetically modified foods or as the stigma of g.m.o. was as well will it be bad for business laurie harshness host of the resident dot net took that question to the streets of the big apple.

more than forty countries around the world has mandated g.m.o. labeling on food products but not in the u.s. is it fair to consumers to not have that information this week let's talk about that you would like to see the labels that absolutely why do you think we don't have them here oh i'm a big conspiracy theorist and i'm sure that like the government you know because they're getting paid by pharmaceutical companies that own the g.m.o. stuff they don't it's all that's what i think it comes down to money like everything out right exactly and it's all about big corporations making the seeds that are genetically modified other no i mean i've got a daughter who's really really particular about what she said no i mean i guess in our generation we do see what it has been there it is it a younger generation concern i think a lot of people say there's no direct link to it in terms of what it does to your house but then again they said that about smoking

a decade this is true i mean they do listing greens in a way whether they're good for you or not so maybe there's a drone on there are you ok with it you know i'm ok with it you don't care if it's been messed with and no i just think you know we've got to be careful because we're not going to have enough food at some point if we don't we maybe need to look at other wise that we can help. a whole. food production really think should be labeled the consumers you know the place where you get to go everywhere and it may go away what do you do put a barcode are going. to read it right and i bet the other thing are people going to pay attention and care anyway right the price being someone that works in retail with food on the shelf you know you read those labels and you don't trust them and also. new levels but you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because that will be healthier regardless like organic milk because of the same cow the cows are labeled organic regular you know they're not

a lot of people say there's no low evidence that g m o's are bad for your health. so but when it's on the label you can decide if you want to eat it or not so i think that's a different if you think it's probably or not or it makes no sense you can buy it whether or not you think it's fair for a company to not have to label for g.m.o. information the bottom line is if you live in the united states you're probably ingesting a lot of g.m.o. food whether you like it or not. all right we'll pick up account is up next on our team let's check in with host laura lister to see what's on today's agenda lauren i'm sure you've been busy with the jobs report you know meghan this is a great example of something that i was just talking about with our guest yesterday about why you can't push to put too much stock in statistics or the mainstream news

when you're trying to get your economic news straight today's a great example if you read a lot of the headlines the unemployment rate fell to eight point one percent it sounds like a good thing but why did the rate fall megane because more people dropped out of the labor force because the labor force participation rate hit a multi decade low so that's just one example but we're going to get into what the unemployment in the job situation means as we see on the horizon what our guest thinks will be higher oil prices because you see as people remain unemployed or find low wage jobs megane they still have to pay for life and if that cost of living is going up how do they make ends meet where does the rubber meets the road and what kind of solutions are on the horizon from the government or the candidates are running for president because if you're listening to the conventions if you listen real hard to see if there's any long term plans and i haven't heard any yet i don't think our guest has either will talk to stephen leeb and also another

analyst to yeah i know president obama was pretty careful not to say employment that's coming up next on our team with lauren lyster that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america back here in half an hour. emission free cretaceous free in-store charges free arrangements free risk free. to tide free. download free blank counseling videos for your media projects and a free medio dog to our teeth dot com.

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