weeks apparently the fact that these weapons may end up in the hands of al qaeda extremists just isn't concerning enough for our government now one woman who has repeatedly spoke out against u.s. involvement in syria's civil war since the beginning is me all the harm known as syria girl really has become a viral sensation perhaps passionate antiwar speeches now in one video she says that if assad regime gives up its chemical weapons would be a grave mistake i asked her why she believes this to be the case. in my case i'm syrian nationalist so my country comes first before government before anything and i'm always looking out for the interests of the country as a whole. those weapons exist for reason near an answer to the fog that israel developed chemical or nuclear weapons in the sixty's and they have signed the n.p.t. but they haven't ratified it so that's all on record. and the fact is now the

fact is due to the ok to go in two thousand and four the us administration approached a certain asked him to give up those chemical weapons and i'm sure they mean to him which may be exactly the same assurances as they made to gadhafi when he agreed to give up his chemical weapons and we all know how that turned out we all know how. you rock turned out when saddam give up his chemical weapons as well the u.s. made absolutely sure the using knew the united nations that there was no hidden chemical weapons left in his arsenal before they invaded so i don't see the how do we not deterrent or your strategic that. can actually prevent an attack might actually insurance or postpone it back in july or russia bill. to report to

the u.n. blaming the rebels of course of the march sarin attack and a lot in the u.s. and said that it has undeniable evidence evidence that the august twenty first chemical attack in damascus was perpetrated by the assad regime of course the you when has has yet to assign blame either party obviously both countries have their own agenda as you just kind of outlined based on the evidence that you've seen who do you think is behind these attacks. well i think. it's quite clear you know cuba you know who benefits. it was either going to be the rebels who benefited from a u.s. strike always going to be israel who benefited from disarming syria and even the head of the insurgents the. just so that the mossad was all over syria you know this third parties in syria now if you want to look at evidence the one that lead to the united nations why try to prevent the

united nations from coming up with the answer before coming up with their own answer and for that we you know it seems as though the united states duck surely. the united states administration actually doesn't really care about who did it just so long as they gain what they want to go along which is disarmament i want to play the most bizarre line of all from obama's serious speech on tuesday to you. it's true that some of assad's opponents are extremists but only draw strength in a more chaotic syria if people there see the world doing nothing to prevent innocent civilians from being gassed to death so here's obama saying not striking syria would actually strengthen al-qaeda does that logic makes sense too. absolutely not it's very orwellian you know it's true versus the truth. we only look at recent

history in libya you know destroying the libyan military or you resulted in al qaeda floods flying over courthouses in syria you know he talks about some rebels are extremists he didn't maybe use the word al qaeda but the us administration themselves to clear that up was al-qaeda and recently as recently as today the b.b.c. reported that the offensive which was considered the moderate rebels. which are considered dull kind of rebels were jointly reading my luella the christian village near damascus so the law between al qaida and the rebels and the line the artificial line that he's drawing is false and i could go back also in aleppo in. airbase the same thing happened where the supposed moderate rebels that were vetted

by the cia you know they've admitted their army for alongside to put in the straw and actually declared victory alongside these foreign al-qaeda rebels so the logic behind a we have to strike because the chaos will create more al-qaeda wouldn't a destroying the syrian military create more chaos great point that that's what we call logical thought unfortunately obama's treating us like we're children that we don't have this kind of thought process i mean we had of course responded to that speech in a new york times op ed today saying that quote is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional whatever the motivation do you agree with this assessment and how do you think the concept of american exceptionalism is playing that this policy. you know i think that. the american people have great qualities and for one thing that most of them have good hearts and good intentions

and anybody can see that but i think that the point that putin was trying to me which was turned around in the controlled media was that you know everybody should be seen as equal nobody should be seen as an a super to anybody else or apparent to anybody else the american government shouldn't believe or make if people believe that america has a right to attack anybody. and i think the point was rather missed in the u.s. media how can the people here in this country me support the syrian people in their quest for revolution without getting involved in either side of this imperialist global chess match match. because we've already rather seen three years of war it's interesting that many syrians just don't seem to care anymore they have to get on with their lives you know they're totally ignoring obama's speeches they're buying food they're going to come and does this kind of strength that you gain

after a lot of hardship as for how people can help. i have charted that. i convert and i can be certain that it's not going to. promote any turn any part of the war effort was called the syrian relief fund i could provide you with the actually it's not my charity but i know the people that run it so i can be sure that it's not part of the propaganda machine or anything like but otherwise always i would say you know for sure the government of the us to stop. funding. surges. you know sort of in country and so nothing is enough you know these wars are enough and soon vicious cycle that keeps going and. it has to stop. though be you know one of the major things that i would also people to do and it

has to stop by the american people standing up to their government or the one sponsoring this with our tax dollars syrian relief fund will be sure to link to that in this video about section everyone check it out see how you can help me journalist an actor is always a pleasure having you on. still ahead i have the opportunity to speak with one of hollywood's biggest actors and activists at asner don't miss it. choose your language. actually make it without any financial center special someone . trying to split the consensus. choose to get to use the great. choose the stories could impact the. true spirit access to.

it looks like. we're going to go did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and i was crushed cynical we've been hijacked right handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one still just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem to try and rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing up to find a job ready to join the movement then walk away from the big picture.

if you leave the. economic up and downs and the find out all day long to do your shanghai and the rest because i think the case you will be every week on me. i know c.n.n. the m s m b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from the might think. of. goods because one whole attention in the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here.

at our teen years we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not like damnit i'm not. good. at. you guys stick to the jokes that will handle the stuff that i've got. well told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i haven't read the reports but i'm likely to put the no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your letter play. list or carry out a car is on the job here no. thank you no more weasel. when you say to a direct question be prepared for a change when you're done you should be ready for

a. freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to. the but. it's not every day i get to talk to someone who are grow up watching on television as an or as an acting or legend as known for his iconic role as lou grant in the genre bending mary tyler moore show over the course of his career he's won seven and the awards and served two terms as president of the screen actors guild but as it is not just another celebrity big wig he's one of the most fervent antiwar activists in hollywood and is very outspoken about a variety of issues from universal health care to workers' rights well he joins me now from our l.a. studio welcome mat as or it's a great pleasure to have you on. thank you so to be gagging as you introduce me

so yesterday was the twelfth anniversary of nine eleven and you've been extremely vocal about this issue and called the investigation a sham why do you question the official story. because it's filled with holes it's filled with holes about building seven it's filled with holes all about the hot steel it's filled with holes up to thirty right it's filled with holes of. confusion about the terrorists themselves it goes on and on and if you want to talk about nine eleven for the rest of the afternoon i'll be glad to participate. well at a recent horse shows that thirty eight percent of americans don't believe the official story yet if you question it you're labeled a conspiracy theorist by the corporate media and do you think that this label is preventing more prominent figures such as yourself from speaking out. or are.

they like to diminish us and dismiss us by calling us conspiracy theorists there has never been a fully fledged but there's no organization called two thousand architects and engineers on nine eleven who challenge the the the story of how dianne eleven happened or how it could have happened. i see no rational. object to discussion going on anywhere in the country. because the people people wish to be bubbleheads they wish to nod their head in agreement with whatever whoever is in charge. and what about people on the left and do you think that this is the same reason that it's just too much to handle to talk about this issue of course you know first of

all people either don't want to challenge the myth of america that america could do this or allow this to be done to it so or that they're too afraid to challenge authority so that takes care of at least two or jordi people well let's talk about hollywood you're seeing an actor and antiwar activists and what happened to all the antiwar activists after the bush administration and hollywood and scientology snatch them up to her. but i think. for people to ask that question and. it's. i don't think the emergency. or dire enough. to bring the liberals out in force plus the fact perhaps they believe all of the information. is talking about

the evils of assad and the purity of the rebel movement maybe they choose to believe that may consume them. i don't think there was an urgent need for liberals to attack. at this point really because it seems like not only has obama continued but he's exacerbated some of the worst of the worst policies of the bush administration i find it hard to believe that people simply believe the rhetoric at this point i mean do you think that i mean talking to people in hollywood do you think that some people are too afraid to challenge the establishment because of how to affect their professional careers or they just in the pocket of the democratic party as we saw michelle obama announced argo at the oscars. yeah. there is a. i'm sure there is a segment of the anti-war movement that wants to safeguard

the less bellicose party the democrats hard code difference anymore. it is. don't wish to attack the first black president sits in the white house. there may be some element of that i don't know how much or or care. i am on that please of the president's performance with or without syria right i mean i just can't help but think how much would it culturally shift the dialogue in this country if a lot more prominent actors did speak out ads that's why i'm concerned about it as someone who served for two terms as president to screen actors guild you've been a staunch supporter of workers' rights do you take any issue with the absurd

discrepancy between the average salary of top hollywood actors and the salaries of nurses or teachers. or. for. hollywood actors are least putting out some semblance of unity or style or acting i think. it's. unfair to list them as part of the one percent i think time would be was very spent on the corporations who get away with not paying taxes and the corporations and individuals who get away with. with all kinds of shenanigans and not paying paying their full share of taxes in this country and i don't think there are that many hollywood actors who are stealing money these days it's been a somewhat chaotic business well i can agree more that we should be focused on the

corporations that are really running the show here especially the ones that don't pay any taxes but i cannot deny or it can be denied really to hollywood has been used as a tool to push a lot of american values on the rest of world over the last couple decades as a self and he and and used to to sell all kinds of american products we we have been very very good fodder for the propaganda machine of america. right i was going to say do you blame the industry at all for promoting this corporatist capital of agenda. do i blame the industry. i don't blame the industry no there are to make a buck just like everybody else is and in the bottom line it's making the buck except for the fact that. all too few of the talent that you talked about the rich actors there are far too few of in existence these days i'm certainly

not one of them and. i think the vast majority of it you would like to name would not fit into the millionaire category. good point ed you originally voted for obama but since then you've said that obama has proven himself to be a corporatist and as long as he's a corporatist he's not my president but as we live in a corporatocracy how do you expect anything different. well i'm a socialist i naturally work you work for something different i would love to see the fact that most people in this country could understand what socialism means and want to how it benefits the individual and now there are various socialist practices at work in this country even though we're corporatocracy but i would like to see an advanced even more so that our people i mean to read in the paper how men sitting in congress voted against food stamps and at the

same time take millions of dollars in aid from the government for their agricultural farms and plantations i am sick to death of it. if the exposure would be widespread i mean who is this guy is a guy from tennessee i believe i can remember his name three point two million. dollars he got from the government last year and he voted against food stamps and most of those republicans and most of them are republicans. did the same right benefit and then all socialism the term itself has been so taboo to even talk about and of course this country now we have politicians that have constituents applaud them when they said that they won't provide health care i mean fascinating we keep doling out money for more wars though and i want to turn to syria now another issue

been very vocal about. you know according to a new wall street journal poll only a third of americans support a u.s. strike on syria why do you think obama is completely ignoring popular opinion and so intent on intervening in another country's civil war well i don't know it may fall into his corporatist agenda and that's the of the thing i want to point out that about the the so-called anti-war liberals in hollywood who have spoken out i think they read the figures and they see that the vast majority of the american people are against another war yet another war and they were astounded at their treatment. with george bush in iraq so. they felt that it was not an urgent case for them to rush forward on this one with the majority of the american people against. right and i guess the guy like you said i mean you think that it's really just about kind of the corporatocracy agenda perilous agenda

to overtake the last remaining independent states here. i also think that we have finally reached a point in this country where enough people are educated enough people are finally looking witness enough to history to see that we got rid of jared's up another war to to. kick start the economy we have done it too many times vietnam was found to be a hoax. either was even some talk about career grenada was a bunch of bull. phantom always a bunch of bull. and the worst of all was iraq george w. bush and the millions of people who have been affected and either have been hurt or die so i think american people are finally going gun shy and it's i think

it's serves our country wonderfully well not to be the oh or if we're going to if we're going to fix the world let's do it with band-aids rather than. i hope you're right and i hope that people are finally standing out to this and all this war cycle that we've somehow gotten caught up in a post nine eleven world and let's talk about your charity autism speaks what intreated is issue and what the charity all about. autism speaks is a wonderful girardi the great great success in exposing and. administering. a. resume my son i must tell you is the executive director for california. for autism speaks. i have a younger son who is what this thick and my son has

a son who is artistic so we are directly affected and we wish to call the attention of this permission is handicapped. to the world and call people's attention to it make people aware of it realize it and. because to it and it's suffer and millions of people around the country also are inflicted with autism we just saw a little pop out there we are talking from the center for disease control saying that one in fifty each older and now has autism what do you attribute to the exponential growth of this disease. some say it's environment some say some of tried to say that it was. a good thing it's been discounted. it could be the environment or could be certainly

better reporting better recognition takes place and by the way i don't think that's one hundred fifty children that's one hundred fifty boarders. one in eighty some children over all but one in fifty years so. it's more record highs of all it's understandable and it falls and we're going to spectrum but it's commanded more and more attention as we speak. not not that we can and a lot can be done i know a lot has been achieved my younger son. who is performing autistic. in the year away from getting his degree at college in the days and amazing as an r. thank you so much everyone check out autism speaks actor activist as are amazing to

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