it's. a fixed. if you live on one hundred thirty three books about food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck. i mean sometimes i believe that i'm still really messed up. and we're all very personally. the. worst for to live through the white house for the. radio guy for a minute from. what we're about to give you've never seen anything like this until.

one guy is welcome back to break in the set i'm abby martin i want to talk about something huge that just happened marking a monumental shift in palestine struggle for self-determination this afternoon the palestinians issued a successful bid at the u.n. for international recognition as a nonmember state and all some of you might think that this vote is nothing more than a diplomatic theatre i can assure you that it signifies so much more it signifies palestine's burgeoning strength in the eyes of the international community it means that the more leverage on border talks and negotiations with israel not to mention boosting the country's chance to join the international criminal court which would give them the ability to investigate israeli war crimes and hold their government accountable that israel and its biggest supporter the us are saying this is a horrible idea why well they say it was valid violate palestinians commitment to resolve issues through negotiations interesting because it seems to me that actually giving palestinians some kind of level playing field giving them a voice would encourage them to come to the table because here's the bottom line

the status quo was not acceptable and this bit represents the first step in the change needed to move forward so join me and let's break that set. if you've ever seen anything like that. if you're wondering where i've been the last few days my producer and i had just got back from haiti where he went on a chartered plane with former u.s. president jimmy carter to help build houses for habitat for humanity now tomorrow i'm going to bring you all of our exclusive reporting from the country but first i want to talk about my personal experience with the former president of the united states now for such a distinguished man i was shocked at president carter's humility and humble nature unlike other former presidents who gallup banter around the world to for stealing travel hotspots or have retired at their giant ranch mansions president carter and

his organization spends a week every year building homes in the most impoverished countries around the world even the entourage of secret service following his every move didn't stop carter from getting his hands dirty i was on the field with him in ninety five degree heat with eighty percent humidity for eight hours a day for four days building homes in santo's haiti alongside his wife rosalynn carter and the rest of the six hundred habitat for humanity volunteers it was a great honor to be able to speak personally to one of my favorite former u.s. presidents at a video roundtable where he was dressed in simple work clothes a baseball hat and a red bandana to wipe the sweat from his brow in the scorching heat for an eighty eight year old man president carter was not only incredibly sharp but he gave amazingly candid and straightforward responses to my questions knowing the fact that carter himself had personally tried to broker peace between israel and palestine even writing a book called peace not apartheid and given the fact that it had barely been

a week since the cease fire i first asked him about the conflict. and i've come all the way and i can't be sitting right in front of you without asking this question especially given current events i know that you've worked for decades on the israeli palestinian conflict what is your reaction to the most to recent events in the region and do you think that we're beyond a two state solution here. well every prime minister before nato and yahoo. and every american president and the leaders of all the european countries have agreed on a two state solution as the only process toward peace and that means israel's withdrawing from palestine with some exceptions on the sixty seven borders and letting the palestinians have a state adjacent to these ready state let both living in peace netanyahu has bali did that. agreement that the whole world recognizes because he's now decided first

of all that they are going to take over as much palestinian land as they won't they're doing that eagerly every week they are complicating habitat homes they're tearing down the ones that they don't call to skate they're sending us israeli settlers into palestine to take over the choice places that's one thing the second thing is that nathan you know who has announced that he's going to have to control the jordan valley in the future all the way to the mediterranean sea which means that the publishing is you can never have control over any territory and third he's ordained that the that is rope or the person time he's ordained it is what has to be considered by other arabs as a jewish state when even inside israel twenty percent of the population are non jews. so this is like america are saying this is a christian state we can't say that because we have a lot of muslims and

a lot of other so and so forth so those three things need to know who has done and the other thing that he has done it very very grieving to me he has prevented any reconciliation between hamas and fatah when the egyptians have been almost on the verge of succeeding with that reconciliation nation you know who any united states are going to ceded and block the reconciliation which i think is very important so all poor those things have proven that for the first time eighteen you know who and his serco sosia as you know. a legal one that now they both agree that israel will take over everything they want in the public opinion areas so this is the first time in history that the problems tenure and prime minister and princess of present united states have been crossed up as far as the gold is concerned. amazing president carter confirmed that every former prime minister of

israel prior to netanyahu had accepted the two state solution and isn't passion concern over the fact that the first time ever the government of israel what unabashedly continue to take over palestinian land unless something is done was a brutally honest plea that the international community should take heed to in fact he even followed up about israel while addressing the crowd that had gathered to watch the interview check out. i think that. the thing is lacking in other places including including in the middle east is their willingness to sides to come together and not in the media work and then this is something that nato and you know who has not been willing to do he's not been willing to stop settlements long enough to have peace talks and my hope is that in this second term of president obama that he will be very of course. it requiring the palestinians and israelis to do the same kind of thing that was done in our own indeed i too hope

that during president obama's second term he will actually be forceful with peace talks between the two countries but again all i can do is hope because that doesn't seem very likely now i followed up by asking president carter about a critical op ed he recently wrote for the new york times where you articulate how the u.s. is quote abandoning its role as a global champion of human rights check it out. you wrote an excellent article and june of this year where you said that the u.s. is violating human rights at home and abroad what factors do you see plain what are the main factors playing a role in this deterioration of human rights in the rule of law and how can we restore it well the main no violations to which i referred in that op ed piece have been brought about by over correcting the nine eleven disaster when terrorists. came in and destroyed as you know more than three thousand american

lives and and to buildings that also even attacked the defense department so we have over a over reacted to that and i'm a lonely voice in saying that i don't believe for instance we should have drone assassinations of people i know that many others disagree with me personally think that we do more harm than good by having our drones attack some potential terrorist who have not been proven that they're guilty but in the meantime drone attacks also killed you know women and children sometimes it weddings and i think this arouses more new terrorists then it is possibly correct in maybe killing a few other terrorist leaders so that's the kind of thing that i think we should correct also we have now violated a longstanding policy in our country are preserving the privacy of american

citizens we now have passed laws that permit eavesdropping on private telephone calls and private communications in the past when i was present we passed a law that that could not be done in a single case unless you got a judge to decide in advance that this was a national security question which is very rare now is done all over america so i think that we need to back off from. correction of the problem with the terrorists in nine eleven and restore basic human rights as spelled out in the universal declaration of human rights there are thirty paragraphs in the universal declaration of human rights and my estimation is it at the present time the united states has been ten out of thirty other countries are doing the same but i was just referring to my own country unbelievable finding we have a president speaking out against targeted assassinations drones the n.d.a. the surveillance state and the rapid erosion of the rule of law too bad it's not

the sitting president but it was incredible to hear former us president personally confirm to me what i've been saying on the show since it started this country has strayed so far from the rule of law that the surveillance state must end if we want to have any semblance of the values this country was founded upon and that was an experience i'll never forget. now be sure to check out more of my trip to haiti and tomorrow's breaking the set and here's a little bit of what you can expect. when most of us think of haiti the first thought that might come to mind is the seven point six magnitude earthquake that devastated much of the country in two thousand and ten but in the poorest country in the western hemisphere eighty six percent of haitians lived in slums just like these even before the earthquake struck. after leaving the habitat for humanity camp i got a chance to see some of the most impoverished and devastated areas of the country traveling the slums and seeing firsthand the massive tent cities that have housed

over four hundred thousand displaced haitians when two years after the earthquake are still living in conditions that no human being should ever have to know despite the miserable conditions that currently plague the country life in the region goes on and we had the opportunity to see the best of humanity under some of the most dire of circumstances we investigated the role the u.n. had to play in the cholera outbreak that alone has cost the lives of over eight thousand haitians my experience gave me a better understanding of a clear solution for haiti a solution that seems to always be just shy of attainable if you like what you see so far go to our you tube channel youtube dot com slash breaking the set and subscribe check our facebook page at facebook dot com slash break in the set if you're intelligent you can write me and let me know what you think and if you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin we took a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear the effects of us

interventionism around the world next. the before you. leave.

so let's switch gears to something else that needs attention america's longest war

we're reporting that two thousand and fourteen would be far from the end of the war in afghanistan while the white house has revealed that it is considering a plan to leave around ten thousand u.s. troops in the country after twenty fourteen. it's been proposed by general john allen the commander of u.s. and international forces in afghanistan and in fact his suggestion to keep up to fifteen thousand troops there for training and counterterrorism operations but we all know how these training programs would work it out so far not too great particularly with the recent wave of green on blue insider killings that are deterring the country's transition. and that's exactly what our next guest says is the problem with exporting democracy in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven he left his job at the state department to become a vocal critic of american foreign policy so to talk about the war on terror and the role of u.s. interventionism around the world i'm joined by william blum historian and author of

america's deadliest export democracy the truth about u.s. foreign policy and everything else to be released early next year welcome thank you so much for being here pleasure fan so let's just get right into this why is democracy such a deadly export. with what we call democracy. what it comes down to is something else of course if we we do normally overthrow governments invade occupy torture those are the things we label democracy. or what i said we're going to call it. killing and bombing and torture and so that's that's the standard. talk from my state department and there's no need to be confused by that. in two thousand and six as someone bin laden released a video in which he encouraged people to read your book in which he quoted your introduction in your book which said if i were president i would stop the attacks

on the u.s. first i would give an apology to all the widows and orphans and those who were tortured then i would announce that american interference in the nations of the world has ended one and for all william when the world's most wanted terrorists recommended your book did you feel validated in your thesis. you know i did need to be validated i know was correct. but i was pleased that i knew it would help sales . i said at the time to the washington post it was better than and oprah. recommendation. but as it turns out. his recommendation actually course we want to hear if you're asking about money because i have been banned from speaking on college campuses a sense that i had been getting five to ten paid speaking engagements every year from college campuses in the us after this obama incident that fell to almost zero

so. people think i've benefited from a mistake and i know i was just talking about how validates your thesis of the blow back there i mean so many it's so much corporate media outlets when they hounded you about this in a kind of almost wanted this is a shame that apology but really so many journalists the establishment is so opposed to even the theory of blowback which is an editable reality i think what obama like most of all about my book. osama excuse me. is the my chapter explaining that the people who attack us not just insane mindless bastards but they are. seeking revenge for decades and decades of u.s. hostile actions in the middle east and i give you a long list of those in my book which you read so i think that's the reason he left

to go because it it shows that the even though i have no sympathy for them it shows that they were not simply mind this crazed people why do you think the establishment is so close to even acknowledging the low back i mean we hear ron paul being demonized and even just bring it up and hear them kind of you know criticizing you in the promise of even asking his questions and why. they show their wars to to america on the grounds that these people out there that we bomb and kill have no good reason for hating us or unless they're just jealous of success jealous of freedom you know there's never any mention that it's retaliation for for us. policy that is the big secret behind all the talk about u.s. foreign policy which you can't mention manged free media that it's retaliation on their part and so that's that's what i expose and that's what all these people you're speaking about. let's let's shift to kelly and hope i mean you like your

examine you lay out fifty examples of u.s. military cia interventions since world war two i mean and what you were just saying you know how they don't put it into context they don't explain has storable significance of these interventions when work when we're hearing about the wars and they sell the wars to us phyllis bennis from the institute for policy studies said something very interesting recently about perception and she said history can be determined when you start the clock of course she was referring to the establishment given you know starting with the palestinian israeli conflict just a couple weeks ago you know with the rockets being fired without of course giving this long struggle of intervention why you know why do you think that we do you think that they don't provide this because yeah they just need to sell us these and us wars i mean why don't i learn about this in school it's not just the political media establishment it's the education system it's our whole culture their own

voters they know what we're doing is horrible they can only live with themselves by saying that it's because these people are just jealous of us that they they hate us god is that what we do see these people who would attack us and hate us independent of foreign policy so this is how they can live with their own policies and how they can explode into the world what they can accept is that these people are reacting to what we have done to them for decades and decades that's what they kicked that's the big dog secret behind us foreign policy and of course people wouldn't support these wars would they if they really knew the true. the stark reality of. it or maybe they were many right in many words you can't undersell the amount of brainwashing of the american public that they can accept a lot without question and get on fortunately we just don't hear about the reality the proper historical lands of these these issues oh well but i wanted to bring up

john perkins the author of confessions of an economic hit man who says that the cia sends and jackals to actually assassinate democratically elected and dictators that don't really fall in line with what western interests in in the world i want you to talk about how the corporations how the corporate state plays a role in the imperialism that we see today. one of the main beneficiaries of these policies for decades and decades they have been able to overthrow governments. to any kind of socialism socialism is the main enemy of american corporations here and overseas and they need a government in place which is going to be sympathetic to free enterprise in its full glory and so we we have attempted to assassinate more than fifty foreign

leaders since the end of the second world war that's far more than fifty eight is we have attempted to overthrow more than fifty countries in the same time period we have attempted to we have we actually boned more than thirty countries since one thousand nine hundred forty five and so on i've compiled it all it's i was amazed myself how much there was when i began i had no idea there was this much to uncover but we have to keep doing this to keep from power any government which is not going to be sympathetic to the aims of multinational corporations and that's why we hate . the cubans so much the cubans have never apologized for throwing out capitalism and. they have infected the entire latin america with their philosophy that can't be excused that's why cuba is a perpetual and object of hatred and it will be that way forever. and

cia officials i've even endorsed your book saying i've never seen a more accurate historical record of all these interventions let's talk about obama when you see the policies that he's not only continued from the bush administration but exacerbated i mean assassination drones pretty much of this endless war were were you surprised that someone touting himself as a progressive has has continued this or is this just kind of par for the course now and the empire i was not surprised because he gave us all the warning that we needed to the campaign in two thousand and eight he said on many many occasions he was going to deal very harshly with iran and with cuba and with afghanistan he made it very plain it's only people who had stars in there who thought he was a savior who these people did not hear or pay attention to what he was saying but if you paid attention you it was obvious that he was saying it's all going to

continue folks don't expect anything different. and he didn't he didn't go back on that promise. and fact it's just gotten worse i recently spoke to jimmy carter about the surveillance state and he said that the ramping up of these counterterrorism policies was kind of an over correction of the nine eleven terrorist attacks do you agree with this premise or do you think there's something else playing at hand here and kind of the ramping up of the surveillance and the policies that we see being enacted. well if if our policies at home and abroad were sharply different after nine eleven it's. supposed to before nine eleven i would agree with him but it's really this is when the same before and after only more of the same nine eleven was used by the powers that be here to ramp up these policies and they have a fantastic extent but the policies were always there we were intervening in other

nations. and tapping phones here and spying on our own people for decades before nine eleven so that hasn't really changed except in the degree it's much more now than it was before because they have the excuse of nine eleven that's what they wanted. legitimize the whole ramping up so you know what people here at the cia they think of this this kind of this faceless entity has a black budget everyone kind of knowledge of its existence but no one really knows how much damage it's really doing around the world as you so thoroughly outline how do we hold these officials accountable i mean they just completely beyond the rule of law these assassinations taking place how we ended this endless warfare well. i don't know. make me president of make you president. it's not going to change with a republican or democrat right i'm sorry to say that's pretty people if you will walk over you do and my answer is not really great but what my answer usually is

educate yourself and as many others as you can about what the government has actually done at home and abroad and. this education will keep adding to our numbers and at some point at least in theory the numbers will reach a critical mass and how how the explosion will take place i don't know but there will be years when explosion and deed truth is power it's a powerful thing and it we all should be learning these things really does explain a lot thank you so much william bloom for coming on thank you author of america's deadliest export democracy the truth about u.s. foreign policy everything else check it out coming out now. next year it's so much you. look don't take it for me take it from the people like william blum who have documented american history in a way our schoolbooks have failed to do so because you see there is no denying the effects of us interventionism around the world and there's no defending it either we're told over and over that we have maintain the wars for national security but

this has to stop. its timing of knowledge that the us has pursuit of security has only served to make this country more insecure. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations to rule the day. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought

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