to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean it's a challenge i know that i'm supposed to seem to really miss. the old story so personally apologize that's. the worst you're going to go live out superman to the radio guy for a minute. what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. me everyone i'm abby martin and this is going to set well it's been a little over one week since the tragic death of journalist michael hastings early

treats from wiki leaks and biggie was the state of the f.b.i. was investigating him because of the big story he was working on but now we're learning more information about the fiery car crash that led to his death you see hastings then a fellow staff members and buzz feed a disturbing e-mail me afternoon before he died and it said quote the feds are interviewing my close friends and associates perhaps authorities arrive at buzz feed headquarters may be wise to immediately request legal counsel before any conversations or interviews also amount to a big story and you get off the radar for a little bit all the best and hope to see you soon after that fatal car crash the following day another interesting development emerged statement from the only witness to the crash was captured by ana sparring of the young turks and explains how to carve a sparking and caught on fire before it crashed into a tree. that really is the. bunker let's really know us the cheese but. i don't this is the. when the sun was put there. you

saw the sparks prior to him hitting anything you just saw it at the bottom of the car. with the most but the resolution in the in the puzzle and in another bizarre twist richard clarke the former national coordinator for counterterrorism told the post that hastings crash is consistent with a quote car cyber attack you further explained quote what has been revealed as a result of some research at universities is that it's relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a car and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver doesn't want acceleration that they're on the brakes when the driver doesn't want the brakes on to launch an airbag you can do some really highly destructive things now they're hacking a car and it's not that hard now i want to note that although clark said this is a possibility i can't confirm that is indeed what happened nor can anyone else

furthermore the f.b.i. has continued to deny that they ever investigated hastings so as it stands there are no further details or leads but the point of telling you this is to remind us all that there are still a number of questions surrounding his death and it's up to all of us to seek answers so let's go break to set. up where you are she might be like oh oh . well obama has just kicked off a tauren africa a region that probably once had a high hopes for america's first african-american president in two thousand and nine obama iterated his commitment to the betterment of the continent stressing that his election was a new moment of great promise so what has this administration done to help africa since taking office well over the last five years food security hiv prevention and climate change initiatives have all been a distant second to the u.s.

government's number one priority the war on terror over the past two years alone the pentagon has committed itself to conflicts in libya mali somalia and central africa establishing at least four drone bases and stationing navy ships along every coast of the continent so to discuss president obama's latest trip and u.s. policy in africa as it stands today i'm joined by emir woods co-director of foreign policy in focus at the institute for policy studies thank you so much for coming on to be with you so what is driving the u.s. is to fit into africa well we have to recognize that africa is on the rise africa has over a billion people it has resources that are vital for the global economy from oil and gas to other key resources uranium gold plutonium but this is actually quite long so it is the center of the of africa for the global economy that is actually driving not only the u.s. and china which get a lot of recognition but also brazil india turkey the list is a lot of countries but primarily the brics you know brazil russia india china and

south africa i see those drivers in terms of economic determination of the continent so i think these are key elements of it that we always know that resources are involved when you. look at a region that this is the africa summit by the african union in ethiopia what was the takeaway from this because the central issue is self-sufficiency peace and security i mean could this mean a new push to drive out foreign military intervention well let's understand this was the fiftieth anniversary of this. start of the organization of african unity an organization that started out with with this key mantle being uniting the continent not only in terms of peace and security but also on economic development regional trade telecommunications road infrastructure a large set of activities including currency a new currency is being envisioned by first the organization of african unity and then it's transformed organization the african union which was created about

a decade ago to actually expand the space to include social movements and civil society to also include opposition party leaders and and also the diaspora folks like myself that are living outside of the continent understanding the diaspora plays a critical role in determining the future of the continent so the african union set for itself this huge agenda to actually put forward the priorities of africa from a continental perspective and to assert africa's dominance in this twenty first century as really a region a continent on the rise how much power they really have though considering how just in the last couple of years we saw mali intervened nato in libya in the arab spring in north africa overall i mean is it possible that they can stand up to these kind of imperialist forces well i think the african union has done a lot it still needs a lot more work in terms of actually preventing the conflicts from occurring stemming the flow of weapons into the continent this is a priority number one it is the weapons that are actually fueling these conflicts

and so what you see libya as the best example the african union actually had a plan forward they had a plan that would see not only the transition from qaddafi but would also assert peace and stability for the region that would include all the issues of democracy popular participation and economic reform that people in the streets were clamoring for but the african union was marginalized it was sidelined and we know quite frankly that the u.s. taking the. what nato decided that aerial bombardment was the way forward and also armaments and arming fact factions in libya was the way to go and we see the unintended consequences those weapons then flowed from libya across borders to mali and have now contributed to really chaos in the region there stabilize the region without a doubt so you have you know both provided by the west as well as from from caches

in libya and you also have a military training ironically in the u.s. right captain sanogo who launched the coup in mali was actually trained in the u.s. for the past decade that's part of the transfer hell initiative you know to kind of seek out terrorists throughout the region well this was the result centrally army and equipping an army that decided to take things into their own hands and created havoc in the region did you even golding nor had anything to do that as i know a lot of people are speculating about that and gadhafi is kind of pursuit of that and you mentioned the currency kind of being developed by the you well i think you know it's like iraq they're off often multiple. people say it isn't only the oil that was the issue in iraq when the u.s. invaded but but clearly the oil had a lot to do with it and i think also when it comes to africa you know the region is rich in oil but also you raney i'm without which nuclear power could be possible and we know quite frankly not only the u.s. but also france very much interested in accessing uranium for nuclear energy so it

is these vital resources you know so i you know i cannot say it's a shift away from. that but i can say that the vital resources you know again it's like iraq it's not only iraq that where there's oil there's military money to military interest that is also the case for africa and we have to understand now that you know about a quarter of the oil coming to the united states as of two thousand and eight now comes from africa so this is increasingly in this twenty first century going to be a region of. teaching importance not only to the u.s. but to the world and now is the time when when africans in the streets are demanding a different way demanding that their leaders put the interests of the people first of course and i want to you mentioned kind of the leader of the opposition in libya was training the u.s. role in mali right there in that area mali. who launched the coup about a year ago in mali was trained in the us a living as you know of kind of the hypocritical stance on the war on terror while

training these these leaders who then go to commit crimes and in congo the battalion that had committed that mass rape against women was trained by the u.s. military how many other covert operations do you think are going on across the region and why do you think there are so many drone bases being developed across the world and i think there was a decision made and clearly what we see are three key factors first accessing oil gas mining other all of these vital resources second you know the so-called war on terrorism and third countering china so there has been this steady increase in the militarization of us indeed with africa i get it you know it started many say. under the bush administration and has continued under the obama administration and really what you see is not only the increase in arming and training of armies often armies do scandalous you know reprehensible acts against their own people but what you see is the u.s. relationship with you know again these these what some call the friendly dictators

or friendly tyrants in places like rwanda or uganda you know arming and training the militaries that sustain these dictators. and uganda in spite of the role that they have played in destabilizing not only you know the eastern congo but really the entire region and so right now there's a real call a real push to move away from the militarization of u.s. africa policy to move away from the push to more drone technology and. weapons on the continent and to actually rebalance u.s. engagement with the continent to receive the balance away from defense and towards towards development towards helping to support building blocks of healthy society education housing health care these are what people in the streets are calling for they all do need that and it really shows that parker see of the us and in terms of supporting and propping up these dictators while you know talking about who ghana tarion causes america woods i really appreciate your insight co-director of foreign

policy in focus at the institute for policy studies appreciate it a pleasure thank you. stay tuned guys after the break we're going to cook birthday shout out to the late literary master george orwell. looking pretty much in the feel good while you won't find it here if you're looking for relevant stories unique perspectives on top my scans and sorry.

oob. who grew up in the news. there are very few literary master masterpieces that can transcend generations

there are even fewer that serve as a blueprint for the future one of those books is one thousand nine hundred four and the most prolific novels of our time the author was born eric arthur blair is probably most known by his pen name george orwell and this week would have been his one hundred tenth birthday george orwell was one of the greatest visionaries of the twentieth century who identified himself as a democratic socialist under the soviet union he was forced to flee under communism suppression of socialist dissidents and one thousand nine hundred five he wrote animal farm a novel anthropomorphizing an animal kingdom meant to serve as a metaphor for stalin's betrayal of the russian revolution soon after all wrote his most famous book of all time one thousand nine hundred four which portrayed a terrifying future of a total surveillance and police state tragically just one year after it published in one thousand nine hundred seventy or well died of tuberculosis at the unforgivably young age of forty six however his work lived on in

a substantial opposition to injustice in authoritarianism led him to produce one of the most genius narratives ever written sadly orwell's dystopic future and vision in one thousand nine hundred four seems to ring more true every day in this technological age let me just say that if you have not read this book you must not just because it's a work of art from front to back but because it is so early realistic in fact it was even made into a film in one thousand nine hundred four take a look at the trailer.

so many of the ideas and concepts in this book are a political to the way our society has evolved today in fact since the explosive revelations about the n.s.a. spying on american citizens sales of one thousand nine hundred four have skyrocketed so what is it about this story that raise resonates with so many what kind of future does it depict well imagine a world under complete to tell of terrorism the world perpetual war surveillance and mind control governed by a singular ideology all independent thoughts and individual of them apart from this reigning philosophy is considered to be a thought crime it doesn't matter whether or not you vocalize your dissent the mere act of thinking it is enough no need to write it down or even say it out loud

because the second it crosses your mind it's only a matter of time before the thought police come after you and once they do you'll simply disappear with every record of your existence wiped out and vaporized at the helm of the state oppression is an ambiguous and called big brother and every day it requires a ritualistic cult worship to the state orwell describes it as a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness a desire to kill to torture to smash faces in with a sledgehammer seem to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current but aside from this tire radical adulation of big brother there's also a calculated manipulation of language designed for one reason mind control. people are conditioned through repetition and propaganda and all must abide by these three slogans war is peace freedom is strained and ignorance is slavery

these terms are contradictory on purpose which orwell refers to as double think defined as quote the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct this paradox is also applied to the purpose of government ministries inside the state similar to the nazi propaganda ministry being called the ministry of public and in the book the ministry of the truth controls all information this is where historical revisionism takes place by rewriting articles modifying photographs all in agreement to the party line because everything the party says must be true or refers to it as reality control the majority of people living under the system are weak minded and capable of understanding anything more than the parties of world view this willful ignorance is instrumental in the state's control over the piano. then there's the perpetual war to fight an unseen enemy in some cases the government bombing itself to keep the masses living in fear

or will describes the concept quote the object of waging war is always to be in a better position and which to wage another war but constant war is also to ensure the destruction of humanity's potential as orwell explains quote the essential act of war is destruction not necessarily of human lives but of the products of human labor war is a way of shattering to pieces materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and hence in the long run to intelligent guys look around for as long as i can remember this country has been at war perpetual war. against an invisible enemy there are nationalistic rituals held to celebrate an authoritarian government one that you can't question without being labeled anti american or a traitor the masses have

a blind trust in authority and relinquish their privacy for so-called security history is revised to favor the winners and top to either minds shaping them into modern day proles we're told that dropping bombs is the path to peace and occupation is the path to liberation but this nightmarish prophecy was never intended to be an instruction manual and it's up to you me and the freedom of our minds to prevent it. first several years the israeli government was forcibly administering birth control to a segment of its minority population with doctors and jacked an ethiopian jewish woman against their will with a contraceptive deborah vera but it wasn't until this january that a government official finally acknowledged it one investigative journalist who

interviewed thirty five ethiopian immigrants found that they were being intimidated and threatened into taking the shots or being told that they were merely an occupation but many speculate it was all part of a deliberate attempt to restrict an expanding minority in the country you see over the last two decades israel's experience a significant influx of ethiopian immigrants there now being close to one hundred and thirty thousand living in the country and while the government is finally put an end to this and humane insane population control tactic this story has shed a light on a dangerous contraceptive that's now being pushed administered on women of color all over the world including right here in the u.s. so here to talk about the use of depor of era and how. this is targeting minority populations in the vote here and abroad i'm joined now by randy short president and national spokesperson for the anti clergy coalition thank you so much for coming on thank you for having so israel allegedly put put this to an end can you talk about

what you know about the health effects though because obviously women were being administered this for years without knowing about them well the drug was first patented in one nine hundred fifty nine by the middle sixty's there were a lot of unethical experimentations done in particular the greedy clinic study and ga on poor black and poor white women got no so many people. this drug did not get approved and told nine hundred ninety three ninety four but during that time that was used on women all over the effects of it are serious excessive bleeding osteoporosis breast cancer cervical cancer heart attack stroke ectopic pregnancies excessive weight gain which can lead to type one or two diabetes short or long term infertility maternal death it strips the epithelium the inner part of the woman's womb making her morse of sceptical to use an s.t.d.

therefore doubling the chances of getting hiv aids clear h.p.v. gonorrhea syphilis and there are other things that bothers the middle health one of the things that's come to us that the group that i work with the rebecca project is that many women are telling us that they've had mental problems the f.d.a. and two thousand and four was so concerned about the dangers nature of it that they issued a black box warning which is the most serious warning that can be issued by the f.d.a. about how dangerous this drug is and despite this warning this black box warning it's still be administered under multiple agencies to multiple countries around the world yes who is administering it why. and where it's being used primarily in non white countries so muslim countries pakistan bangladesh indonesia burma possibly on the myanmar minority all over africa central america and latin

america and of course the united states depending on whose information you look at it's disproportionately used on african american women who's doing it planned parenthood is one of the big purveyors of it in addition to that you have the population council you have the international federation of planned parenthood you have a lot of persons and groups that have a mouth lucien view that there are too many people and therefore they want to reduce the population they know this drug is deadly it's cheap and it makes huge profits for the parent maker which is spicer and us the idea is also one of. our forty seven years it's been an unofficial policy the u.s. the idea office on population to use or to send abroad dangerous unsafe untested or unapproved drugs and and you said that this is being obviously disproportionately affecting minority population yes if they know that it's deadly why would they be

administering it to minority population i mean what is really that's all about here there are too many non white people if you look at a gentleman by the name of dr or even whole who was head of the u.s.c. id office on population from about nine hundred sixty six until nine hundred seventy nine he was able to first convince president johnson that it was in the national and commercial interest of the united states that one fourth of the women in the developing world be sterilized so there's some sense that if there are too many black or brown people that somehow their needs will conflict with the capitalistic purpose to games of the united states and its allies and there's been more to. well lawsuits against pfizer for the detrimental health effects from this drug but they seem to be getting away with it and seem to keep you know direct to consumer advertising why are they doing that they're making a lot of money the u.s.

department of justice has sued them in the last ten years and find them about six billion dollars but if you're making billions and billions that's the price of doing business but you have to understand the people that are being steered towards a struggle are poor they lack education and legal representation and they're being tricked so they don't know now you have to understand they face are lost in canada they've lost in europe but they go to countries where they can't be sued you can't sue from nigeria here you can't sue for mozambique here so you can go to countries where you either have a corrupt government structure or they're coerced or should i say they've constructively manipulated into having this drug as part of their international foreign aid i just see what i'm saying so the women are become just chess pieces in a mouth lucien eugenics game and so you think this goes beyond just the corporation making as much money as it can pushing it on on as many people's again you think it actually goes down to this is

a modern day form of eugenics that engine aside yes and it's happening here in the u.s. as well yes it is well that's very shocking and will definitely follow up this story very disturbing thank you so much for coming on ready for your time randy short president national spokesman and i'm with the rebecca project on human rights all right thank you all right. about that tonight show you guys have a great night and we'll see you right back here tomorrow.

i would rather i asked questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. oh and welcome to technology update regardless of who you are and whether you live in moscow or anywhere else in the world we all like their one holiday wish economy crawl hoping for good health to keep us in tip top shape the tech team and i have

struck out to find the latest improvements in russian medical science. showing off some of the newest gadgets and research was the russian health care week exhibition gathering in moscow promoted everything from a good health habits to advance lifesaving treatments push really the biggest medical breakthrough as of late took place away from the bright lights of the capital's expo center. the box live center for cardiovascular surgery recently announced its doctors had performed the first replacement surgery with a brand new full flow valve given the center's long history with performing such surgeries as well as developing an improving the technology it's not surprising that they were at the heart of any big news on the topic. traditionally speaking of biological valves offer the best performance over their less than ideal if the patient is relatively young as the delicate tissue tends to tear as a result mechanical valves are often.