with so many burning issues in the world today it's important that we're all as informed as we can be now one man that's more informed than most is william and del geo political analyst and author of the book myth lice and oil wars and he joins me right now thanks very much for speaking to us thank you syria is of course the main issue at the moment globally just how close are we to seeing a foreign military intervention in that country well the west in particular washington has been trying for seventeen now eighteen months almost to blow syria

sky high and spread the chaos to iran because iran is the real target of the whole syrian destabilization i think we're on the cost of the potentiality for world war three you have the superpower involvement of the united states as the behind the scenes kind of puppet master of what's going on from the air to one government and stumbled in turkey or two on has been heavily pressured by hillary clinton the u.s. state department to massively intervene in syria he's been heavily pressured inside his own cabinet to not intervene because twenty three percent of the turkish population is alawite most of them the same as assad is from an already in syria and most turks regard the syrians as brothers they're not don't see them as enemies the potential of syria to blow up is far greater than anything that seen i've. in

more than thirty years of geo political analysis this is really playing with a fire that could go wildly out of control and some people obviously want that in the middle east but he benefits from syria being out of control i think the the operation would be rolled into a destabilization of iran very rapidly not a military intervention i think this is all smoke and mirrors on the part of israel so you're saying that iran is the ultimate goal for washington and for more particularly for the very powerful interests in the anglo-american oil multinationals who have used oil since world war two not only to fuel industry but as a lever of political control geopolitical control if you will this is the theme of the book myths lies in oil wars that i just released and for them chaos in the middle east would open the door for huge new discoveries that they're sitting on top of in the caribbean in pruett obey and alaska which they've not talked openly

about but. competent geologists of told me that norman's resources there that are on top b.p. and the exxon mobil and so are simply sitting on these until the opportunity is right but to do that they'd have to have a far higher oil price and of course chaos in the middle east sort of set purpose so i don't think it's as simple as that i think there are a multiplicity of things going on but as henry kissinger said in a recent interview what is going on is not a fight for democracy and human rights inside syria it's a war of within religion within islam between sunni but not only sunni the water by salafi branch of sunni the dominate saudi arabia not the version of sunni that is endemic in turkey since the time of ataturk which is a very secular non-state involved until the government so if you have a war a sunni versus shia within islam you have the potential to blow. up the ruston who

are refineries in saudi arabia for all the workers all the skilled workers in the refineries are shia muslim and not sunni only the saudi royal family and a minority in saudi are not a minority but. so they depend on outside labor so you have the potential to blow up the heart of the oil production of the world economy what would that do to europe western europe that would be devastated i don't think that that would benefit the united states economy in any way shape or form i think these are political interests who stand above government above state and use the instrumentalities of state the state department the pentagon and so forth to pursue their own private agenda i think the scheme is utterly mad i think the whole bush plan from from two thousand and three for the greater middle east project which this is an extension of the whole arab spring is an extension of that state department project. to break open these these state regimes these monarchies in the

middle east open them to privatization of the oil and other things and literally create the kind of chaos that was created in many countries in eastern europe after nine hundred ninety with the collapse of the soviet system so we're dealing with an instability that has the potential i think to get out of control of anyone so you saying that there's the shadowy figure of big business behind the crisis in syria not big business i'm talking about big oil but there are only four companies in the world who call the shots on this and they're intimately interwoven like the british east india company in the seventeen eighteen hundreds there are intimately interwoven with the instrumentalities of state whether it's the british government or the case of b.p. in tony blair or it's the u.s. government in the case of exxon mobil. chevron lisa rice was a board member of chevron before she became national security advisor to bush and later secretary of state and the interplay between u.s. intel. in services and big oil is almost seemless take the case of dick dick

cheney's. stint at halliburton the world's largest geophysical services company oil services company at the same time they're the largest constructor of military bases and equipment around the world so i mean i think that a pit in my eyes is a big oil and the military industrial complex are seamlessly interwoven into a powerful lever. for certain interest groups private and i think to a lesser extent the interests of the american people in fact quite against the interests of the american people a lot being said about russian opposition to foreign military intervention but china also opposes not why is china taking not side i think for the chinese they recognize the. devastating flooding mistake that they made in letting the libyan intervention take place i mean this is this was the destruction of a country that was at war with no one but they realize that if syria falls then

you're going to have literally a series of dominoes this time in the next to fall would would likely be iran iran plays a vital role in the chinese energy national security they already have lost south sudan or or threatened with the loss of south sudan and they've lost libya or the chinese had an active oil involvement in some of the richest oil fields in africa and they're fighting to keep their told in africa so if iran then the iranian supply of crude oil to the chinese economy were then jeopardized by chaos inside iran china will be the ultimate loser and i think they realize that in fact i know they do because i've spoken with leading chinese strategists in beijing late last year when my book misapplies in all wars was released in chinese and they do realize this this is this is ultimately directed against the rising economic presence on the world stage of china well it's the focus away from syria now and look at wiki leaks. and the case of julian assigns now you have some theories on

what's going on that well i think the whole wiki leaks if we go back to the original story of this private barry manning or bradley manning excuse me. sitting there listening sensibly to lady gaga c.d.'s on his m p three in baghdad involved loading what is it one hundred two hundred thousand pages of classified state department cables from all over the world i think the likelihood that that could go undetected for so many months is less than zero but once you have the cables released to wiki leaks what's rather bizarre is that giuliana songe. gives those cables to the trust of the guardian in london the spiegel in germany and to the new york times to select what they think are the most important leaks to publish in their newspapers so as brzezinski who's certainly one of the

most knowledgeable people on this because he's done this over the decades as national security advisor zbigniew brzezinski pointed out at the time in an interview. this is a perfect opportunity for one or another intelligence service to amid all of the actual cables that are released that are real cables some of them mildly embarrassing to washington but very few of them that i've seen. you can spike you can put little pinpointed to bits of this information in and claim that part of the cables with the songs set to spend his the sable future inside the ecuadorian embassy where you see things ending for him i have no idea. the. what's bizarre is the charges on which this extradition process is being prosecuted in terms of the swedish government for plausible rape

of two women that that he had relations with there were some kind of relationships we're told what that did i think was to create a little asian in the media about this fellow a songe such that he became an attraction just like a certain group in moscow that has created in and credible to relation in the world media since they had their trial recently now you just alluded to the pussy riot trial in russia that do you see that there was somebody manipulating them in their actions. i think there's no doubt that it was managed by somebody and i think the somebody is the same somebody who has been trying through the volley in various other so-called dissidents most of them have a record of involvement with agencies or n.g.o.s connected with the u.s. state department in the case of all the openly has been documented taking money from the national endowment for democracy and u.s. government financed in geo that conveniently appears in all the countries where there's a color of revolution in preparation by washington. and i think the so-called

pussy right first of all it's not a punk band it's not a musical group it's a political provocation provocation collective what's clear to me is that the of course when you name a group with an outlandish name like that and then do the kinds of stunts i won't mention them on the air but what's been documented and in visible you tubes that one can find on the internet with little difficulty are things of such obscenity and violation of the decency of womanhood and human decency that it almost comes under the name satanism. and they've done this repeatedly throughout the past months and years before this desecration inside the the russian orthodox church in moscow now you mention satan is in there but the women themselves said that this wasn't aimed at offending the church that they were just making a political statement and i think freedom of speech does not permit people to make

while they were making sexual gestures in tights and so forth and with masks on and you can argue these are only old believers who were there and so forth that's their right to worship in the way they want to unhindered and uninterrupted and that's a desecration if that were done in a synagogue in new york city or tell of the i can assure you that the people who would do such a disruption would be spending. much longer term or in the u.k. that i think in the u.k. the the limit the maximum in jail is fourteen years not seven as it is in russia do you think that the media outrage over this was because it was happening in russia yes or no no question in my mind why russia well i think the point is to put russia on the defensive internationally especially putin who is a hard ball player and washington was very. displeased when putin came back as a presidential candidate after after

a hiatus with medvedev of. i think the point is that. putin. defends russian national interests in a very active way in a very determined way and that's something washington doesn't want to have right now they don't want to have strong leaders who draw lines in the sand in syria and places like this they want client people who'll plead ball the way they want to play ball with the crooked rules of the often they write thank you very much thank you when talking. question is that so much as i can recall from right on it comes of years just how influential is the israeli lobby of the us to what degree does it impact american foreign policy what about the rift that now divide.

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of. motion to be soon which brightened a few. songs from phones to impressions. from stunts on t.v. dot com. jane in spain for task there's a brutally beaten in madrid as police try to stop thousands from storming the country's parliament in anger over harsh and stary cuts. from calls to stay. two threats of intervention harsh rhetoric towards the syrian regime dominates the un gathering but fails to bring countries any closer to finding a solution to the crisis in. the perks of being minister top british politicians get caught up in scandals over their business as you just can't seem to keep their hands out of the cookie jar. the headlines here in our team sports next with ender

. they're welcome to the sport and these are the headlines for the car misfiring is in the squeeze past second tier baltica to reach the last sixteen of the russian couple along with terror but car. plus new hope for a sharper an arsenal boss banger praises his forgotten russian strikers the gunners prepare for the third round of the capital one cup. and in the army now philadelphia flyers goaltender bruce gallo prepares to make his pearce car debut and make a. start there with the football where league champions any to have moved into the last sixteen of the russia cup following a nervous two one victory at second tier baltica record signing hope firmed in the

after thirteen minutes to brazil striking that in the second goal in this many games he then turned provider portugal defender bruno alvarez headed home with nineteen minutes to go maksim with the poles one for the hosts but the visitors hung on to victory while fourth place tearing their stroke three times before the break to coast past three one but there was an upset in the early game. two one after extra time. while in england there were a couple of shocks in the third round the cup of one league cup managed to city last for two to aston villa while everton lost two wanted a championship side leeds and weiss time when times are going for one no such problems though chelsea who thrashed six nearly at stamford bridge sunderland in southampton also got wings to make it into the next round meanwhile arsenal boss are some very good has praised his russian striker andrea shove in all sherman has barely featured for the gunners so far this season and has only been dropped by is now and as also being dropped by his national side but he could be given game time

in the league cup tonight against coventry with quick to praise the commitment of the thirty one year old. i have a person your great respect for under our serving because. sometimes some wrong ideas circulated about him but he doesn't. completely the opposite he's a two hundred percent professional who works every day very hard in training and the moment is a bit the victim of. the high level of competition that exists for places but i think is a huge respect from everybody in the dressing room and specially from the staff and we read give him of course on condition on wednesday night. ice hockey action there from the k h l well documented all came from behind for two one home victory of ukrainian side don't bust open the score on a power play just two minutes into the second period the kitty vertonghen slamming

home a loose three part of the automotive goal tend to tally call three the home team responded however with a goal from the class hardman five minutes into the period and in the middle of the alexander cheerily call lifted lokomotiv to their third victory in a row don't bust a bottom in the western conference while locking my teeth despite having a game in hand to four in the play. well today in that mind blue skull of a set to make a skate chel day be the philadelphia flyers keeper is expected to feature for his new side when they travel to track thaw with the details his rich poor flicked. when hockey fans around russia are reveling in the fact that stars from the n.h.l. return home to block out of north america it has caused some problems for the players. bruce go a point you don't just some of the difficulties we're facing anyway you prepare for the queen over disease you know. we we knew it's going to be

a lark. everybody still have like lost you know for the. mind the season going to be going right now. when you really everybody is moving here i have had family who works days and feel right now and i have to find a school for my kids and i have to find a nice apartment for my family where you can leave. problems or have to face it right now besides the hockey about the hockey it's a main reason then the rest of the problems i have to put on this are then when they have some free time i go tell your teammate it hasn't played club hockey in russia for over a decade jim the last n.h.l. lockout he stayed in north america. even though he's separated from his family for the time being he says but hockey comes first as much as a profession and said it's a wonderful opportunity to join a club like serious crime. it's nice to have a shoot from the legendary team like red army. it's

a great opportunity for me to be gone if you're going to jersey a red army if you're a member if you know how many great. game from like. red army hockey school and how many big names play for the team you know like many means olympic champions world champions. and there's a big honor for me and because. he was his first game when serious come of age to beat up and got almost by a goal to zero didn't take to be ice him self. two year old expects to play him first team but he says he's not here for a holiday and will be giving everything to help his new club get as far in the playoffs as possible. just spending the time play band play hard to compete for my team you know and the best you know what i got it's obviously a distraction from his goal of to be with his family for the moment but hopes to get the situation resolved shortly i'm being

a world class mate mine to be sure to give his new club serious a massive boost this season richard doxie moscow. well yet another russian and i shall star has returned to play at home until the end of the lockout with alexander human grabbing the headlines by joining his home time club for free the cousinly ask native has signed the siberian side sokal in the second challenge they say surprisingly for the russian regular after many of his teammates have predicted the chosen for the top like a human is happy his friends and relatives can now come to see him play either twenty eight year old to switch to the carolina hurricanes in july after six consecutive seasons with the washington capitals. meanwhile a hot new slogan has been unveiled for the such a lympics is the black sea resort five hundred days to go before russia's first ever winter games in two thousand and fourteen the. so you read hot cool yours and

festivities were held across the country to celebrate the milestone with volunteers here in moscow forming giant pictograms which stand for twenty two winter sports organizers say the construction work is now more than seventy percent complete as they hope to record audiences to watch what they say will be the most innovative games ever more than twenty test events are due to be held this season which include a stop on the ski jumping world cup and the final of the figure skating grand prix in december. it's a crucial moral milestone for all before us before long before. it's a critical exam for us to pose sort of the importance of which is forthcoming for the next winter season when we will perth. or propose we will absolutely new infrastructure both in the mom of course. and finally the cricket twenty twenty world cup pakistan are free to the super eight stage they thrashed bangladesh by

eight wickets to book their place bangladesh had to win this game by thirty six runs or more to progress themselves and they started well enough openers time in it . for a full put on thirty four b. . sand eventually went for eighty four as bangladesh racked up one hundred seventy five runs for six wickets in their twenty overs but in reply pakistan's. made half a year's put on one hundred twenty four for the first wicket that set pakistan on their way and come back and ask mal silva when one hundred seventy eight to two when he found the boundary. you know to be. really really put us a little bit under pressure. to be honest. and. you know after we'd really come out we don't bother devoted to the man was you know exceptional tonight he was. it was eddie's best i would say in the n.t.

and it is a good to see as he kept going and ezekiel we really had you know the boys really approached were discarded but after the fire the game we really came back well in the race game and the boys really work at last three days and put up a good troll so although we haven't got there it's a lot but i am quite happy with the progress that after the first match plan that is the sport for the moment more later. courageous and creative. elegance and full and public speaking. a few european bodybuilders against millions of weak immigrants. may not seem so serious now. but this could be

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