withdrawal thirteen and fourteen this week press secretary jay carney said that the u.s. would keep a presence in the country quote only at the request of the afghan government sounds a little odd then that on the same day afghan president hamid karzai said that the u.s. has requested to keep bases in the country beyond two thousand and fourteen same quote we are giving the nine bases they want from afghanistan yes nine huge military bases scattered across the country will remain in for u.s. operation following the two thousand and fourteen withdrawal and there's very little information as to how many troops remaining that will translate to indeed it seems that the longer this war draws out the more afghanistan is looking like just another american colony in fact my next guest has made the argument that occupying armies quickly transform themselves into colonial forces through expand on that notion as eric margolis will correspond in his report on the ground in fourteen different armed conflicts in kashmir nicaragua is also an award winning columnist

and author to talk about the u.s. has continued role in afghanistan as well as other armed conflicts around the world thank you so much pleasure so should we be shocked at all that the u.s. is keeping this perpetual occupation afghanistan considering how we're in over one hundred thirty different countries nine hundred bases there is great debate within the us administration the government. what presents to keep in afghanistan you have people speaking with different voices generals at the pentagon have said we've got to leave substantial forces there the political leadership is saying no we want to keep out just keep a very badas leadership military presence enough to protect the afghan government from being overthrown the day after we so it's a contentious issue but would it seems clear to me at this point is there will still be a substantial american presence absolutely when if we ever really left a country that we are occupied or invaded. you've written article titled all

colonial wars are alike where you state that the u.s. is reconfigured its army for colonial forces and warfare how did they do this will be going on now for ten years ever since afghanistan and the pentagon has had to train its troops for guerilla warfare the cold counterinsurgency it's got it more helicopters less heavy equipment less tanks and heavy artillery and it has to develop all kinds of or reconnaissance techniques and tactics doctrine they call it in the military how to use this thing to hunt small groups of lightly armed combatants but the quick question that bothers me is the british army in the late eighteenth hundreds was similarly trained and equipped to fight its colonial wars on the northwest frontier of india plays in zulu wars when the british ran into real soldiers at the some in one thousand nine hundred fourteen sixteen in the in

the western front two britons were horribly massacred because they were trained from our war of the united states is now announced that it's pivoting towards asia and u.s. military development will have to take china into account how do you do that with an army trained to fight drugs and on the northwest frontier question i mean iraq alone just deadliest month in the last five years last april seven hundred died in the escalation of sectarian violence over the last decade of hell do you see civil war as an inevitability in this country. you know iraq certainly i see it in syria too so it's it's an awful thing because this a shia sunni conflict is relatively new they didn't have it in the past it is breaking out iraq it's clearly returning to civil war it's very interesting the only surviving member of saddam hussein's inner circle. announced that he is.

is resuming the fight with the baath party that was supposedly wiped out to lead the resistance in iraq this means that the iraqi sunnis or are getting more organized and are likely to put up a lot of fight against the shia led government has allied to the united states let's talk about syria because you just said you know syria's also escalate into a civil war very bloody civil war seventy thousand dead in the last two years horrifying situation what how outcome are we likely to see there if the u.s. decides to engage militarily similar as as israel's decided well i hope the united states doesn't get involved i think would be a very bad idea the president obama has said there will be no american boots on the ground which at least is something america's no major strategic interests in syria what worries me a two things number one the most the priority for american relations to it should be do a void a direct confrontation with russia and particularly over

a place like syria that has no great importance to nuclear armed powers cannot be in a confrontation and secondly i covered the civil war in lebanon from one nine hundred seventy five to one thousand nine hundred ninety and it was a nightmare it was all show the whole country broke up into little armed gangs who were massacring each other and this is what's going to happen in syria already well on the way it's something we all should do to our best to prevent i agree i mean i think no one's going to come out as a winner in this situation it's just going to as great tension as great hostility in the region but also makes me realize that terrorism is really in the eye of the beholder when you look at the u.s. army in the opposition in syria that's a filleted al qaeda i mean it really is just calls into question the utter hypocrisy of these doubles i mean our foreign policy doesn't really it is there's a lot of contradiction in foreign policy and one learns that i almost gave the diplomat myself and i saw it firsthand but the u.s. is now arming the. some over the rebels in syria and it's giving humanitarian aid

to finance the refugees who are fleeing from syria into jordan it is kind of crazy and the u.s. policy is very confused in syria so all the other western countries they don't know who to support or what to do and probably a lot of them are starting to think maybe we should have gotten involved in this yet no kidding i want to play a clip by general wesley clark in two thousand and seven where he's going to speak about a time period immediately following afghanistan where your take on all of this and up when i came back to the pentagon about six weeks later i saw the same also i said why why haven't we attacked iraq we're going to track record at all sure he says it's worse than that he said. you pull up a piece of paper off his desk joe just got this memo from the circular defenses office that says we're going to attack and destroy the governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and then we're going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran i mean when you hear something like

that he was given this briefing from a foreign intelligence officer from a military officer about attacking seven countries in five years obviously they didn't do that other plans obviously fell through but when you look at all this rhetoric i mean it makes me feel like we're all just pawns in brzezinski's grand chessboard here. i get respect for brzezinski one of the smartest minds in washington i wish they'd listen to him more we have heard similar plans the british media leak plans out of ten downing street where tony blair and george bush were talking about bush was president bush was talking about going on invading saudi arabia and pakistan it's cold as irrational exuberance on the part of conservatives thinking there is a military solution to all these problems they could impose the west's will in all these troublesome countries it's been disproved and i hope it's wrong and it's not going to happen right and he did call it

a policy crew of seizing upon the power of the blank check going to the government after nine eleven obviously if the author of seen house meyer down we got iraq one of the countries he didn't mention is north korea of course you've been talking about the asia pivot moving focusing on china strategically in the future is that why we're seeing so much rhetoric about north korea lately to kind of strategically arm or selves for a future position against china well the america is deeply concerned about north korea because they're american there are twenty eight thousand american troops there there are similar number in japan and our whole asian or the asian policy is based on holding korea and on the u.s. japan defense treaty so. the u.s. is moving forces into the area of the korean. the chinese are very angry about this they're saying oh no you've stirred up to the crisis with north korea as a pretext for bringing in lots more bombers submarines and heavy weapons things it's it's it's a very troublesome dangerous situation fortunately it's calmed down but i've long

thought that the way out of the korean morass is through direct negotiations between washington and pyongyang no matter how much we don't like them we do business with a lot of nasty regimes around the world and i'm sure we can hold our nose and talk to the north koreans who their only think what they really want cash is they want to be treated with respect and recognized by the u.s. government and get a non-aggression pact that's cool with the u.s. says ok we're not going to go in and overthrow you that's what the north koreans are frightened of absolutely thank you so much for coming breaking down of all the conflicts going on right now eric margolis award winning journalist and author appreciate it most welcome. so if you like what you see so far check us out on hulu at hulu dot com slash break in the set you can watch every single episode of the shows the december like yesterday's which featured my interview with computer age philosopher earning her virtual reality jaron lanier doesn't scroll through and watch every shows and for the summer favored us i want to comment how we're doing

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else had been there maybe a trinket slightly out of place a frame tilted or a pillow tussled well just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you in fact hundreds of times every year teams from the f.b.i. sneak into houses and office buildings supplant bugs completely and the tech that they're called tactical operations teams are attacked ops and their methodology is extensively outlined in the book the secrets of the f.b.i. written by ronald kessler well a while back i happened to hear kessler on n.p.r. describing the lengths the f.b.i. will go to to break in and gather information on the d.l. the broadcast was so disturbing an area to me that i just had to share with you guys so these f.b.i. tacked on top teams consist of ten people at a time who spent their entire careers fine tuning a scale of being government sponsored catbirds an eavesdropper now ten people seems like a lot to bug a house but according to the planning is so intense that it takes to pare each

break and take a listen. here of a specialty one will just watch to see if anybody's coming once there and one will take photographs of what the premises is like when they go in and if they have to move a chair lets say they have they put a tape where the chair was and then they move it back if they have to disturb lets say so. desk and there's some dust on the desk well they bring their own dust to replace the dust that had been moved and they bring along a vacuum cleaner very small very powerful to sweep up any side so let's say if they have to put a bug in a wall and do some journaling they have a special algorithm to match the paint on the wall in case they have to cut through the wall wow paint algorithms and fake does these people have really thought of everything and guess what they do if the person at home has pets while they tranquilized them of course help they actually consult with veterinarians with

photos of the pet to get a precise assessment of the appropriate dosage but don't worry they also have a wake up drug to make sure the pets alert a normal acting when the owner comes back so there's no suspicion ok so inside the house seems to be planned with t. but how does a team this big enter home undetected from neighbors and onlookers well kessler explains that these tacked up teams actually take a high resolution photo of the house that they're premeditated surveillance operation and blow up a replica as big as the house to display as a giant phony picture front to the real house then they go behind the giant tarp and pick the lock from there they also do it at night most of the time so it's even harder to detect also known to create fake bush's hide behind i know guys that sounds absurd but i'm not making this up so if all the grounds are covered at the house then there's still the possibility of people coming back to the house early or an expected lee so and then when it comes to watching the people who might come

back they're called key holders people who might have keys to the premises and they will watch them on the night of the break and if any of them start to come back they will divert them they'll either have a police officer stop them or they will stage a phony traffic accident or they'll open a fire hydrant in the area so they can come back anything to prevent them from coming back stay. a phony traffic accident burst of fire hydrant open guys this is i'm crazy ish i can't believe the insane length of this agency goes through to make sure you're never the wiser that ten people search through the most intimate details of your life and sometimes they do them to individuals for years they suspect of being involved in crimes but even if you don't think your house could ever be broken into by the fuzz without you ever knowing you have to consider that in all reality surveillance can be done just as easily through the ubiquity of our household devices that are connected to the internet we're smartphone to your playstation or your smart meter or apple t.v.

or even your dishwasher all of your personal home data is up for grabs and those legal imitations that once prevented this sort of spying have never been made easier through polls and pfizer the foreign intelligence surveillance act and the patriot act so look guys don't worry about anything i just said i'm sure that the next time you reach for your remote and farther than you remember leaving it it's all in your head. be sure.

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a little bit more about bombs well you know i. it's pretty self-explanatory you know it's about. when there's a strife going on you know and it's time to just call it quits you know we need to stop with all the chaos and really bring some peace to you know what's happening in the world so well i notice that a lot of your music online has inspiration or ron paul. what attracts you to his message i mean i just think it's the honesty you know and i and i think that's what's lacking a lot obviously in politics you know and it lacks a lot of in the lot of places in the world you know we have a hard time getting around things because there's like half truths you know and that's what the album division is all about you know there's all these half truths but nobody's really seeking out the full truth you know it's hard it's hard to debate half truths you know so that's that's the whole thing behind bombs and and

and you know with ron paul and everything so it's really bringing the message clear and true or you're you're definitely doing that with their music sharing art and activism do you consider music an extension of activism and why did you decide to bridge politics and your art and that's a good question because bridging politics in art i mean you know playing music is always been a journey of my. and i've been doing it for long time and there just was a moment when things just weren't adding up in the world and i just felt like you know when you have a platform to have a voice that it's almost your duty to explore that expressed. as an artist as the great need an artist like the thank you so much for sharing. appreciate it thank you.

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because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business. if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker c. it's a step forward for oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was and it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent on. his bills. and hold it.

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live from moscow with a blood stained vote deadly bomb blast rocked the country. democratic election continuing. but more ballots than bullets in this historic vote here in pakistan from islamic in just a few moments. also killed or severely injured in the. border with syria ankara suspected kurdish involvement. in space station repairs. emergency space walk to try to fix a. system.