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 i've seen in more than thirty years of geopolitical 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 diffuse the industry but as a lever of political control geopolitical control if you will this is the theme of the book and its allies in oil wars that i just released and for them chaos in the middle east would open the doors 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 that enormous 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 serves that 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 or syria it's a war of within religion within islam between but not only sunni the water by salafi branch of sunni that dominate saudi arabia not the version of sunni that is endemic in turkey since the time of editors which is a very secular non-state involve. until the government so if you have

a war 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 and 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 as 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 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. intelligence services and big oil is almost seemless take the case of dick dick cheney's. stinted 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's been said about russian opposition to foreign military intervention but china also opposes that 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 there's a this is 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 the fall would would likely be iran and iran plays a vital role in the chinese energy national security they already have lost south sudan or threatened in the last. of south sudan and they've lost libya where 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 and always 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 let me 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 and da 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 dessen from ation in and claim that that's 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 or plausible rate of two women that he had relations with there were some kind of relationships we're told what that did i think was to create a little ation in the media about this fellow a songe such that he became an attraction just like a certain group in moscow that has created an incredible titillation 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 is 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 ups 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 be 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. there would be a 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 in washington was very. displeased when putin came back as a presidential candidate after after a hiatus with video of me but i think the point is that you. 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 and they don't want to have strong leaders who draw lines in the sand in syria like this they want to apply and people who play ball the way they want to play ball with the crooked rules with the often they write thank you very much thank you when talking.

i never thought i could earn a living this way. should test small arms of the sort i was to machine building plant a lot earlier sourced count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from your class submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans south here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the lesser wounds of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory brushes the number one truck

made our government look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe. here there's a brand new babies are waiting to be delivered to clients seventy trucks like this one roll off the plants conveyor belt every day just look at that this things that i absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. i can go for a test drive. oh that was fun the house i should get one of these to travel to once every morning was with a cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving money. hello

welcome to the latest sports news this wednesday and here are the top stories shock exit second day guineas three star holders revealing two one to knock the top flight side out of the russian car. while fighting on maria sharapova bottles passed. in straight sets to reach the quarter finals of the palace pacific open. back inside also monitor also in bangor praises the golden russian striker and i shall then as the gunners prepared to host commentary in the third round of the league cup. as kick off with football as a second tier side yet they say have stunned holders twice former russian champions

rubin two one to go through to the last sixteen of the russian cup but i use a city called alexei nikitin were on target for the hosts as rubin could only manage a stoppage time consolation well meanwhile tabletop a states government so are now its second tier yet leaders tall inside syria and more capital clubs locking my teeth there and spartak are all in action against lower level teams and in other games than the space the third tier of vulgar david bentley is rostov travel to astrakhan on the caspian sea one of your face not close reserves and clubs that are to make what they see the top flight bowled. well meanwhile also manager arsene wenger has backed his russian strike and they are shaaban ahead of their league cup third round clash at home to carpentry the thirty one year old has barely featured for the gather so far this season and has also been dropped by his national side but our shot in could feature in the capital one cup this wednesday evening with rango quick to praise the russian's commitment. of the person you grew to respect

for on the show because. sometimes wrong. to do. botti mehdi doesn't. completely of your position is a two hundred percent professional who works every day very hard in training and the moment is a big victim of. the high level of competition that exists for places but i think there's 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. well meanwhile in germany money or money back to braces legally does bind really expression votes were three no trying to make it five wins from five in the wonderfully get past in schweinsteiger open for the house from close range midway through the first toff slotting frank cross and within eight second half minutes croatia strike a man to pitch added a couple of headers to complete the round top of the league scorers with five goals

in as many games by and i prepared to travel to belorussian side on a group that he does bought say in the champions league next tuesday. and is now maria sharapova has bounced back from her second round scare to book a place in the quarterfinals of the pan pacific open in tokyo while number two struggled to be british world number seventy eight heather watson in the last round but has held up a spirited finds back by checking to see shivaji about the russian one the first set six two and then the second on a time breakthrough after the war next by a stray and some star is a place in the semifinals while the russian idea of a throwback or take on italy is informed irani. drives like you now in atlanta are up to fourth in the k h l after triumphing five two spots like the collage of the netted a brace for the visitors the first coming in you never to speak one wrong. and you second the side for one up front for the goal that pushkin.

and the rest increase capital and see which to inflict a force defeat. while meanwhile the mighty far up to six after coming from behind to win to want to turn to don't bask ukrainian visitors open two minutes into the second period on a power play for thirty virtanen slamming home a reached rebound however responded five minutes into the third period with a goal for requests how can one be for example joe. nicole thank the home side thirty three you know wrote a second boston with a dismal record of just two wins from games. well meanwhile on thursday philadelphia flyers nets mind you know it is golf is set to make his debut. scientists got travels to turtle but wasn't told which of his preparations.

well hockey fans around russia are reveling in the fact that stars from the n.h.l. return home to block out to north america it has caused some problems for the players and it might go a point you died just some of the difficulties facing and when you prepare for the plane over to seize you know n.h.l. and we we knew it's going to be a lockout everybody still have like lost hope you know. my b.c. isn't going to be going and right now. when you really everybody's moving here i have had family who like stays 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 and that's problems or i have to face it right now besides the hockey about hockey it's a main reason and the rest of the problems have to put on this side and went on there have some free time i got to tell your teammate 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 despite his profession and said it's a wonderful opportunity to join a club like serious crime. it's nice to have from the legendary team like red army . it's a great to protect you from me and be gone if you're going to jersey a red army if you remember if you know how many great players. came from like. red army is hockey school and how many big names play for that team you know like many means olympic champions world champions. and there's a big honor from him because he was his first game when serious come of age to beat up and got almost by a goal to zero though didn't take to be ice himself of thirty 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 not just spending time play band play hard to compete for my team you know and the best what i got it's obviously a distraction from his goal of to be with his family for the moment they hope to get this situation resolved shortly and being a world class hit might be sure to give his new club serious ca a massive boost this season richard doxie moscow. and the gulf now in time to woods is determined to help the u.s. team regain the ryder cup in chicago this weekend and the well when the two says he is to blame for his country's poor recent record the teams have been practicing at the medinah course where the tournament tees off on friday and what is hoping to end his ryder cup drought the thirty six year old fourteen time major winner has only been on the winning side once in six attempts which was back in one thousand nine hundred nine and although he's optimistic this time to show what is the brain for past disappointments. i am responsible for that because i didn't earn the

points that i was put out there for. i believe i was there about five sessions each time and i didn't go far but on our side. so i am part of that and that's. part of being a team i need to go get my points. for my team and i didn't do that so you know hopefully you know i can do that this week and hopefully the other guys can do the same and we can get this thing rolling but in the meantime a not very far away from a diner a dream has come true for greatest ever limpy and michael phelps as the legendary swimmer finally met his idol michael jordan after increasing his gold medal tally to an unprecedented eighteen in london this summer felt himself is an icon for many people but the twenty seven year old is rendered almost speechless when he was given a big hug by his basketball hero and six time n.b.a. champion jordan during a t.v. show in america the two are in illinois to play golf on the sidelines of the ryder

cup. and finally a hot new slogan has been unveiled for the such olympics as a black sea resort marked five hundred days to go before russia's first ever winter games in twenty fourteen the motto reads hot cool yours and festivities were held across the country to celebrate the milestone with volunteers forming giant pictograms which stand for the twenty two winter sports organizers say the construction work is now more than seventy percent complete as they hope for record audiences to watch what they say will be the most innovative games ever more than twenty test events are also due to be held this season which include a stop on the ski jumping world cup and the final of that this skating grand prix in december. it's a crucial model milestone for for us for all the russia not only for forgiveness or . critical exam for us to pose sort of intensive test events which is

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the friendship asian of russia has started again after two hundred years up at the . sub jet be a pro and a poli and has arrived from overseas to lead the army i have to really take my time to prepare myself to get it right. the bloody battle near moscow is going to start over. james brown will reveal the victor the soldiers are back to do it all again. but you know version twenty twelve on r.t. .

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then he glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.