deals for your media project c.e.o. don don carty dot com. coming up on our t. the world watches to see if the u.s. will launch a military strike against syria the u.s. and allies insist that syria has used chemical weapons on its own people more of the latest developments ahead. and there's a new case of racial profiling with t.s.a. airport security a man was detained for hours without food or water he was interrogated and much more a look at flying while muslim coming up. we hold these truths to be self-evident. that all men are created equal and today's the fiftieth anniversary of the one nine hundred sixty three march on washington a day when many americans learned of the dream but fifty years later is the dream realized and in-depth look ahead at today's event.

it's wednesday august twenty eighth a pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our t.v. and we begin with the united states on the verge of military action in syria today the u.n. special envoy to syria acknowledged that some kind of chemical substance was used last week outside damascus claimed the lives of more than one thousand people and nato called the attack quote a clear breach of international norms president obama is reaching out to allies and planning for a round of military strikes against selected targets of the assad regime the white house stressed on tuesday that the goal of the strikes is not to remove assad from power but instead to punish his government for carrying out the attacks but president obama is unlikely to find any support in the arab world for military strikes against syria the arab league though it blames the syrian government for the chemical attacks and has already expelled president all assad won't. endorse

military action in retaliation and here in the united states congress wants to have a say before any military action is taken twenty two members of the house of representatives have written a letter to the white house demanding congress approve of any military strike democratic congresswoman barbara lee from california said while the use of chemical weapons is deeply troubling and unacceptable i believe there is no military solution to the complex syrian crisis and the harshest words against u.s. intervention came from former u.s. congressman dennis kucinich who said so what we're about to become al qaeda is air force now this is a very very serious matter that has broad implications internationally and try to minimize it by saying we're just going to have a targeted strike that's an act of war it's not anything to be trifled with meanwhile the u.n. security council received a draft from british prime minister david cameron today authorizing what he calls

necessary measures to be taken in syria but such a resolution can't gain approval of the security council given that both russia and china have a veto and they're both critical of military strikes in syria now for more on this artie's marine important i had joined me earlier from new york and i started by asking her about the details of this u.k. resolution. well the text of the u.k.'s draft resolution reportedly the august twenty first alleged chemical weapons attack on rebel held areas in syria is false the syrian government for the alleged attack and this draft resolution also seeks council authorization as you mentioned for all necessary measures to be used to protect syrian civilians from chemical weapons is it fair to assume by necessary measures targeted military it's very fair to assume that all necessary measures under chapter seven of the u.n. charter or allows for the use of force to be used the same wording was used in the

security council resolution that was adopted and subsequently paved the way for the u.s. the u.k. and france to launch a military intervention into libya so yes of course it's fair to assume that if the security council were to adopt a resolution that allows for all necessary measures to be used in the case of syria then we would see military intervention that would have a stamp of approval from from the international community so the u.k. british to the security council what happened while the five permanent members of the united nations security council failed to reach a consensus failed to reach an agreement we have the u.s. the u.k. france russia and china the u.s. and france of course support the u.k. draft resolution russia and china are not certain that the syrian government has used chemical weapons and have warned about jumping to conclusions russia has publicly stated that the council should wait for the report of weapons inspectors the report from weapons inspectors that are in damascus right now before discussing

any resolution on syria now the u.s. of course is claiming to have evidence that it promises to share in the coming days it's important to know that the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has also said that the u.n. team needed to be given more time to establish the facts of the alleged chemical weapons attack and also at a press conference in geneva. the joint special envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi also said that any military strike in response to the use of chemical weapons in syria needed security council approval well doesn't look like they're going to get the security council approval so i mean does the u.s. go to alone on this we have the u.s. representative said that we're past the point of no return here but seems to suggest. that an attack is imminent if anything absolutely i mean it seems as though the u.s. has made up its mind the u.s. and its european partners of france and britain they have a plan in place this might have just been a protocol to make an attempt to go through the legal norms because if they ask

outside of the united nations and ask unilaterally it is a violation of international law i don't know if they want to acknowledge it or not but if they do strike militarily without approval from the security council it's a violation of the u.n. charter but it seems as though that is the past they are choosing to go with anyway you mentioned there's weapons inspectors in syria right now investigating this this lead should talk near damascus what's the timeframe there or do they still have more work to do is it feasible that the united states and allies would begin launching strikes against syria while weapons inspectors are currently on the ground there i don't think that's the ideal plan there have been reports that the secretary general ban ki moon has asked the u.s. please wait until we get the the investigators out of the area i don't know what has been decided behind closed doors i do know that this investigation is ongoing because you want to szell's have asked for the u.s. to be cautious to not make any move until of confusion has been breached by people

that are there that are on the ground that are taking samples from the soil that are gathering testimonies from the syrians there but it's not clear if the u.s. and its european allies are going to dismiss what everyone's saying and just strike whenever they want to there's been reports that the strike can happen within twenty four hours maybe it will happen over the weekend we don't know but if you. by the words the aggressive words in a tone that was. you know put forth by the u.s. and europeans it seems that this strike as you said is imminent that was our correspondent very important now moving on earlier this month we learned of the extreme actions taken by the british government toward david miranda the partner of glenn greenwald who's been writing on the n.s.a. leaks while travelling through the u.k. miranda was detained at heathrow airport in question for nine hours before eventually being released the british authorities say miranda was stopped out of suspension he was carrying sensitive documents miranda responded by filing suit against the u.k.'s home office but these sort of airport detentions aren't

exclusive to the u.k. and arctics clues have to people suspected of carrying sensitive documents they're rampant here in the united states and those who face in the most are completely innocent individuals who are being targeted strictly based on how they look strictly because they look muslim and in some experience that far too many of us who aren't muslim know nothing about it i was joined earlier by in our mill bit sell a regional director at the muslim legal fund of america she started by explaining the story of a ditch a carriage. mr mukherjee is a new york based scientist who opted out of wave screening at the airport and decided to undergo a pat down instead and during that procedure for unknown reasons the swab that was taken of his hand made the machines go off and spurred various incidents which included hours of interrogation without food or water. various interviews from law

enforcement agencies eventually t.s.a. cleared him as well as did my p.d. but jet blue under the assumption that he was muslim would not allow him to board the flight. how frequent frequently does stuff like this happen want to know and move slow and people need to know about the difficulty of flying while move slow or while hindu which people have mistaken for being with us alone. unfortunately this is a frequent occurrence and i know this both from personal experiences of being so-called randomly selected at the airport as well as various incidents that have been reported in the media of people being targeted because you know perhaps their name sounds foreign or they speak another language so it does happen quite often and it makes traveling for a lot of americans a complete nightmare they're forced to undergo prolonged security measures and you know extensive invasive interviews merely because of a religion they identify with so i would say it's pretty often so when it comes to

doing something about this is this something that needs to be addressed legislatively with new laws to protect muslims or or by repealing laws that allow them to be targeted to begin with where do we do we go to tackle this. ultimately i don't think the focus should be on most slims this is an issue that affects all americans so we definitely need to see legislative measures that will ensure that no american citizen is going to be ethnically religiously targeted at the airport or any other area for that matter so i think legislative measures and new laws on this issue is beneficial to all americans and not specifically to muslims or hindus there's news from new york city designated mosques as terrorist organizations so they can spy on religious leaders use informants what do you make of this news. this is i mean completely blows my mind designating a mosque as

a terrorist organization is basically saying that any individual who attend service at that mosque can be a subject of a terrorism investigation they're officially indicting millions of americans as a possible terrorists it's you know a violation of our freedom of speech freedom of religion and it infringes on our rights and it's unconstitutional to say the least some organizations like the council on american islamic relations are calling for a probe into the n.y.p.d. do you think that will be effective. i mean i guess only time will tell i don't exactly know i know that they've had other hearings where the n.y.p.d. themselves actually have admitted that years of spying on the muslim community in muslim neighborhoods did not generate any leads nor did it lead to any terrorism investigation so i mean they've admitted that it's quite pointless waste of our tax dollars as well as extremely unconstitutional so hopefully it will be effective but only time will tell this this sort of suspicion of muslims and these increased

rates of islamophobia really became institutionalized after september eleventh unfortunately and here we are twelve years out do you think there's any sign of this abating what keeps fueling it so far removed from nine eleven. i mean at the current moment i would say no i hope eventually it well you know people are just kind of. like the laws that we have are having focusing on muslims as being you know terrorists or individuals or profiling them as individuals who would carry out terrorist acts but terrorism has no religion it has no ethnicity we've seen terrorist acts committed by various individuals and focusing on a single group is actually very harmful and it doesn't protect us because it allows individuals who are actually terrorists to go by freely because they might not fit that so-called profile of what they believe a muslim i mean a terrorist should look like who if anyone who is muslim or middle eastern they

might assume that's who they're targeting and example is richard reid who also known as the shoe bomber he was able to go through easily if law enforcement agencies focused on you know profiled weird behavior or anything that's unusual he probably wouldn't have been successful in boarding the plane he bought it one way ticket using cash you know he had no luggage those are all red flags but he didn't fit the profile in terms of image and so they didn't target hemp and that's an example of why profiling doesn't work and it doesn't keep us safe when are you regional director of the muslim legal fund of america thank you thank you fifty years ago today martin luther king jr stood before the lincoln memorial and told a quarter million people sprawled out on the national mall that he had a dream today in commemoration of the speech president barack obama returned to the site of king's speech to give his own speech lopez was there and she has this

report. it was one of the greatest demonstrations of freedom in the history of the united states fifty years ago standing at this very spot in front of a memorial of a man who signed the first ever emancipation proclamation martin luther king jr and civil rights leaders through over two hundred thousand people to the nation's capitol to demand equality for all and his famous i have a dream speech martin luther king jr told his followers that he was here to cash in a check a check for the black community that promised justice and equality and freedom of all now he says that that check was written into the words of the declaration of independence as well as the constitution this week to mark the anniversary of that great speech thousands once again descended on d.c. to remember the legacy of the march on washington and there on the lincoln memorial steps five decades to the day after dr king's spoke those famous words america's

first black president told the crowd there was still more work to be done we now have a choice we can continue down our current in which the gears of this great democracy run to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations were politics is a zero sum game. where few will do very well while struggling families of every race fight over struggling to the that's one. or we can have the courage to change so let's take a look at some of the major issues african-americans faced in one nine hundred sixty three and see where they stand today as a result of his i have a dream speech a man has leadership throughout the entire civil rights movement martin luther king jr has had streets named after him he's had schools and post offices named after him he's had libraries across the country named after him and he is the first african-american to ever have a memorial on the national mall to commemorate him but where does the u.s.

stand today in terms of equal rights and what i see in the capitol i just use the end of government now is a lot of stalemate because of truthfully i just got to have it out i believe because of president obama you know that think there's a racial. aspect that's put into this new enter active map created by university of virginia research associate dustin cable brings us a visual manifestation of lingering racial divides in the us blue dots represent white people green dots represent black people and so on the divide is especially clear in cities like chicago where streets and neighborhoods are split up into one color or the other so what about income inequality and poverty the number one issue is economic disparities and. the fact that we are now challenged in many states on our vote voting rights today twenty eight percent of african-americans live below the poverty line compared to ten percent of whites

unemployment for black americans is double that of white americans standing at twelve point six percent something modern civil rights leaders saying must be addressed. need to be done very well for the birth of the public. for its last build a second class for them or them are going to prison for over half african american . one of the most important rights dr k. and other civil rights leaders fought for was the right to vote today there are forty four black men and women serving in congress showing that the voting rights barrier was trampled but with the u.s. supreme court's recent repeal of the one nine hundred sixty five voting rights act civil rights advocates are worried the u.s. could be moving backward. any of the gains of me because we still have a long ways to go and if we're going to have people being a client of the process we don't want to put up roadblocks finally perhaps the most

famous aspect of dr king's dream the dream that his children might one day have the same educational opportunities as everyone else the dream of attending school with white children has been realized however graduation rates among black students still fall significantly behind white students and for those who don't graduate high school they are more likely to go to jail than to find a job in the end the one recurring theme throughout the rally was that dr king's speech from fifty years ago was an important landmark in american history but more needs to be done to keep the wheels of progress turning in washington on the steps where dr king spoke those famous words meghan lopez r.t. . when it comes to the future of oil production we should just be looking toward the middle east and should also be looking toward africa over the next ten years about a dozen nations in east and west africa including kenya ethiopia and gonna will

become major oil exports thanks to new technology that means huge amounts of money will flow into very poor countries in fact all twelve of these african nations projected to be a major oil players over the next decade are currently in the bottom half of the un's human development index but these new oil and black gas exports could inject three trillion dollars into their economies the how to combine g.d.p. in two thousand and eleven of just one hundred eighty one billion dollars so what effect might that have well history tells us it could mean bad news for the people of those countries that's because when countries suddenly discover a valuable resource they receive an influx of cash they succumb to what's known as the resource curse wealth inequality surges corruption is rampant and democratic institutions and quality of life break down perhaps it's worth noting that of all the developing nations that are now receiving a majority of their export earnings from oil and gas of all of them not a single one has

a functioning democracy so why does this happen what answer that question i was born earlier by richard america an adjunct professor at georgetown university and nia quite a founder of the democracy and conflict research institute i started by asking richard if he expects the oil rich african nations to fall victim to the resource curse well i think the effort is has a problem with weak management and the resource curse is a misnomer it's really a weak management curse and we know how to fix that for you know how to create institutions and programs that will dramatically and consistently improve the quality of management if that happens and it can happen. the the resources available will be put to good use so history would not repeat. case i mean this is a pretty eye opening fact here if it's true i presume it is that of all the developing nations that have a a bulk of their export revenue coming from oil and gas and none of them have

a functioning democracy why do you think that is it is it is a startling fact they need to say but i think the reason that it happened you have to look at the history is before discovering oil the majority of them were goven from outside. entities and nothing is more undemocratic than colonialism the colonial is never developed democracy so they leave these poor countries without any stunted all the institutions of democracy and then of course when oil all any other resource becomes available it becomes a scramble for for leads to get the wealth but i think we also have to a good look at the international angle the oil companies are coming to exploit these resources on international and a lot of them exacerbate the corruption in the corrupt local leaders and so i think i reach it is so right i agree with him it's a problem of the case over not of democracy

a civil society you see in those countries have to work very hard to make sure that the you bring democracy the results itself it's not because the absence of money and the absence of democracy is what the currency is in one thousand said that can be fixed maybe think of when people there's a story about when people win the lottery in the united states their life ends up going into shambles they don't know how to manage that they don't know how to do this so you're saying you're saying that it's not necessarily just the resources that are causes problems as long as these governments know how to handle them appropriately so let's get to get to how they can go about doing that now a lot of these twelve african nations that are going to going to be players in the oil market they don't really collect taxes from from their their citizens it's not a huge percentage of the government revenue now that they start. export oil they're going to be even more money not from taxes but from selling this oil does that tax structure and i'll start with you neither with the rich or does that affect the way that these countries either prosper or hoard are damaged by it certainly does and

it has in the past but a good and if the present in the future does is not wedded to the past number one you've got democracy bridge over the continent to civil society strong values in social media and so they become a city these see what's going on iran i mean my country donna is a perfect example we are neighbors to nigeria and we are a lot of these civil society down and insist in we have to see what i do i did wrong and not void do in dot the some time they did international hope there's something called publish what you pay when the the citizens find out what the government is getting from the oil revenue if it is not kept secret it gives them help in trying to see where does the money go so yes i think they are going to mit efforts to make sure that they don't do the bad things that others preceding them have done richard do you agree i mean james davies has written

a lot about revolution as this j cover curve of revolution he says you know populations don't start demanding more things demanding new rights until expectations are no longer being met so it sounds that things are so bad they start demanding you rights that suddenly their expectations go up and they start demanding you rights could seeing what other countries have done and then seeing this influx of cash coming into their country be something to motivate them to demand changes well again i this is a value chain issue to significance that oil discoveries and natural gas will increase exports but much more refining and processing and value added and i hope will occur in africa in other words again back to technology and good man. even taking those resources and converting them into intermediate and even final products in africa is the job of managers and investors and if the institutions are you business schools and engineering schools are strong enough and working to make

that happen then this will be the outcome it will mean that these natural resources and others copper iron or steel you could name all the major natural resources extracted will be. value will be added in africa. the manufacturing sector is the really the key improving the manufacturing sector in africa will be the difference maker many of these countries rely on foreign aid as is how might that dynamic in foreign aid often comes with a lot of strings attached to it how might that dynamic change once they become oil exporter i think you said often comes i will say always comes there is no foreign aid without without straining so in fact you know i mean. if i might make a sort of attendance link for instance if you take that comes from the united states there is a growing community of octave these here in this country who are looking out what.

is on its aid to africa where there is nigeria. so i think one way that you can get the aid to help with transparency and democracy in those countries is to make sure that there is an insistence what it's tied to that democracy is not about we want to dictate of luton with us in the un by rather we want rio democracy to take root and that was richard american adjunct professor at georgetown university and founder of the democracy and conflict research institute. and moving on with huge internet companies like google taking over more and more of the web a bit of paranoia is understandable but are there moments of just too much paranoia the residents laurie harvest with more on that.

this year we've been bombarded with stories about the government and corporations spying on us and that's making us all paranoid enough to where web developer has been whacked has created a web browser plugin called paranoid browsers we all know by now that wherever we go on the internet can be tracked and used against us the problem the spires are up against is being able to filter through all of the sites you visit to figure out which ones are actually relevant to what they're looking for like you trying to figure out how to build a bomb and which are just noise like you're trying to figure out which pressure cooker to buy for your awesome to a recipe that filtering problems is what makes it tough for them to profile you and that problem is what paranoid just browsing takes advantage of it's

a plugin for chrome that creates a background tab that surf the internet on its own to help you create a false browsing profile it starts browsing a page then click on links on each page at random pausing at various amounts of time to make it look like you're actually reading those pages after reaching a certain browsing death it chooses another top level page and repeat the process the result is that it creates a completely fake internet browsing profile for you hiding what you're actually proud that you for whatever that might be by the false paranoid browsing is set to browse a set of popular american websites but you can set it to browse whatever you want to create whatever fall. you can pretend to be a pony could be used or a wooden toy if you're not out anything. but plug in comes at a time when our paranoia is reaching new heights we now live in a world where villagers in thailand detained

a google maps street car because they thought it was a government by vehicle a world where turkish officials believed of birth for the five from israel because it was wearing a migration tracking tag. the thing is our fear of being spied on is justified but with so much spying going on it seems like we're being pushed over the edge of informed awareness and into the realm of paranoia so the question and well that paranoia destroy has or will it be our only means of survival tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at their web site. that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash our jericho or check out our website r t v dot com slash usa you can follow me on twitter at sam saxon over good to tune in at nine pm for larry king now with

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