in our beloved president constitutional lawyer nobel laureate brock obama apparently loves to brag about how well you can execute human beings with drones now i know you're thinking it's probably the republicans making him say such things because you know he can't look weak on defense but shockingly no it's all the credit of barry you see during the two thousand and twelve election journalists mark halperin and john heilemann were reporting on obama's campaign and it was during this time that the drone king reportedly boasted to his aides about his kills since becoming manager of the us empire obama's rapidly increased the use of drones abroad and his hundreds and hundreds of strikes have put bush's measly fifty two drone attacks shain see thousands of dead when women men and children don't lie they also can't speak or defend themselves in any way now for those of you who are still not offended at the president's disregard for human life and think this is just the way politics works and that every president has blood on their hands let

me remind you of this one of the chief architects of the drone program john bellinger so that the reason why obama has ramped up the use of these killer robots is to avoid the bad press of guantanamo bay so you know what i'll give it to him he is really good at killing people because if there's one thing voters hope hope for when electing him it was expedited murder. it's. very hard to take. that. with such great care.

from occupy wall street to the arab spring the last few years have provided a unique look at the successes and failures of grassroots movements but one man has been studying the process of revolution for decades his name is jean sharp is a three time nobel peace prize nominee and author of several acclaimed books exploring the notion that revolution can and should be accomplished in nonviolent means according to sharp nonviolence means much more than just chant in the streets he says quote nonviolent action is a means of combat as is war it involves the matching of forces in the waging a battle requires wise strategy and tactics and demands of its soldiers courage

discipline and sacrifice genes writings are also the inspiration for a film that delineates the elements necessary for a revolution. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh. oh oh oh dying. to be counted as a. threat. to a tyrant in a manner i would say means were affected and these were relevant it means out of this very small office be produced work that that threatens regimes. i think that's pretty cool. the woman in that film is jean's protege jamila ricky she's the executive director of the albert einstein institution an organization founded by jean to study the process of social change i spoke with her earlier and

asked her for historical example of a revolution arising through entirely peaceful means. well action has a very very long history and has been used in many many different countries in different parts of the world. polish solidarity struggle was nonviolence and was successful the serbian struggle was also violent and as well as been successful in the struggle against milosevic and. culminated in the ouster of morsi the chin in year two thousand also the also the independence movement in india and struggle and in the indian subcontinent against british rule and on and on those are the struggles and really i think most people know about besides those struggles there are thousands and thousands of peace is really going back to ancient rome where people did use nonviolent means and we're talking about not simply protests

and demonstrations and non-cooperation economic political types of not cooperation boycotts in order to withdraw their support from a particular system that they didn't agree with where it was successful genes and writing from dictatorship to democracy is often a reference as the inspiration for successful revolutions but there's been a lot of books written about revolution what is it about this book that's so influential. races not just one but it's actually a whole series of works and really the one that's going to gain the most attention is called for me it's democracy which was originally written for burmese dissidents but which later on did go on to spread around the world to many of the countries where people felt the need for it i think what's different about this book is that it is it's it's. it's eighty seven pages it's a very detailed analysis even in those eighty pages it's quite dense but it's also very easy to meet in easy to understand the concepts are very basic there the idea

that power in any society in any reasoning whether age democracy or even in the most authoritarian system comes from various institutions and groups in society in as those institutions choose to withhold and sever their sources of power that that. regime or governments cannot survive i think it is that idea that is so basic and easily understandable. that i think has really lends itself to be the spread of the book so it's easily read it's easily translated and i think that the basic analysis is accurate and i think that is really what makes it different and can you give us some guidelines really briefly like what one of the first steps it depends on this idea is power analysis which i explained and it is the idea of you know where where does power reside in society resides in these various is

touche and these institutions exists then you know it's important that people make them stronger and if they do not in treating independence to sions that are independent of the regime or the government really strengthens the society and groups in in the population to act for particular objectives so non-round action works by severne by severing and disrupting those sources of supply so the basis is that you have to understand your side you have to analyze it analyze your strengths and weaknesses analyze use the strengths and weaknesses of your opponent and match your own strengths to the weaknesses of your opponent whether that morning the government dictatorial regime or a corporation. or some other oppressive system and central to all of this is the idea that those struggles had existed for centuries they have often been improvised with very little task planning almost no strategic planning and that it helps to

have a plan that is there is more likely to be successful if you come up with a strategy that is charity based on your strengths and weaknesses and there really . developed actions based on what is likely to bring you closer to your objectives and not simply focus on protests and not simply focusing on purchasing particular policies but actually creating the change and we can. j.f.k. famously said of those who make peaceful revolution impossible to make a violent revolution and never have all of a american political status that has already made it clear that they won't allow peaceful revolution considering the events of occupy wall street or do you think that that movement lacked that grand strategy that you speak of i think occupy wall street was in many ways simply a display of anger and dissatisfaction with the status quo and current institutions that are designed to protect people people are finding that they are not working

and our leadership is also has you know people are valued as they have. you know population and so what are people to do and so there was this sort of idea that if we occupy public spaces that somehow desired these going to materialize and i think relying whether it's occupy wall street or whether it's the syrian nonviolent resistance movement if you rely. on the excessive reliance on protests and demonstrations i think that's unwise and that he needs to happen is a assessment of your situation that can help to move you away from. the methods that are not likely to work and i think probably just is simply symbolic so. it does expresses dissatisfaction and it says that this certain group of people in this public space are have particular grievances but it doesn't do much to provide an alternative or to actually meeting the system that people are

fighting against i agree the vast majority has to be the organization behind the scenes not necessarily what we see in the streets your office studies nonviolent resistance of course not only as an alternative to violence but as an alternative to pass the past fifty what conditions are needed for people to reject apathy and actively engage in change. that's a great question abby i think we're often asked this because people come to our office and say you know you want our society they just don't care how can they need to care and you know there's a general sense of apathy here there's a lot of young people just don't care as opposed to you know people in other other generations and i think that what i have found in my work is actually the condition that's often mistaken for apathy is actually a feeling of helplessness that people actually don't feel a change is possible so when you have that condition then people are not going to engage in political action and so i think just the recognition that there is

a means available to people as an alternative to violence as an alternative custody that can be effective that with wise planning and careful thinking and courage that people can get belak strategies that can be effective to regress to the wider concerns that we have inside each and we sound just that that awareness alone. does a lot in terms of opening people's eyes to what's possible and getting the mini excited for political change now it's not simple obviously it does take a lot of work and interns breasts but it is possible and i think that people need to learn more and learn more about their own history learn about the ways in the change has the need in the past and the lessons and can distill from that to make. what we're doing today thank you so much for coming on breaking on this extremely important subject to miller ricky executive director of the albert einstein institution. and. so had i sit down with

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in the for. the first couple. with all the theories surrounding the j.f.k. assassination fifty years later there's one that stands out from the rest it's called the man who killed kennedy the case against l.b.j. . and is written by nixon's presidential advisor roger stone now if you've never heard of roger stone your in for treat not only did he serve under nixon reagan and bush sr he's also self-proclaimed g.o.p. hit man that's not a phrase to use dirty tricks to get his way politically when he joined me earlier to talk about his new book and his role in perpetuating dog and pony politics i first asked him what the strongest piece of evidence is that implicates l.b.j. and kennedy's murder. probably the fingerprint of of

a hit man named malcolm x. wallace that is found on a cardboard box on the sixth floor of the texas school book depository it's the only print other than the prints of lee harvey oswald that i believe were planted there so that is probably your strongest piece of evidence secondarily johnson's mistress of twenty one years madeline duncan brown who bore him illegitimate son said that lyndon johnson told her on the eve of the assassination after tomorrow i won't have to deal with those kennedy s.o.b.'s no more and then lastly i think when the presidential motorcade pulled into dealey plaza in dallas when vice president johnson's car made one hundred twenty degree turn into dealey plaza lyndon johnson before the first shot has been fired is on the floor of his car he hits the deck there's photographic evidence that proves this so i would say both

before during and after the assassination lyndon johnson's actions betray the fact that he is in fact the man yoking a conspiracy or in this case a plot that includes the cia organized crime and big oil oil texas. a lot of people have written books alleging that l g b b j was behind the assassination what makes your book different i have a lot of first hand information meaning i had the opportunity to spend substantial amount of time with president richard nixon to ask him about his views of the kennedy assassination he was of course in dallas he has recorded on the white house tapes the watergate tapes the saying the warren commission was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated he told me directly. lyndon johnson and i both wanted to be president the difference was i wasn't willing to kill for it additionally have

confirmations from embassador john davis lodge who was the brother of henry cabot lodge j.f.k. some bass or two to vietnam attorney general john mitchell tony salerno the head of the genovese see crime family here in new york told me directly that it was carlos marcello working with the cia and lyndon johnson who killed j.f.k. so i have a lot of first hand information in my book i think it's very important to know that in the immediate aftermath of the assassination lyndon johnson tried to create the false impression that the russian government had killed kennedy he told earl warren the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court who was reluctant to chair the warren commission he was only persuaded because johnson convinced him the russians had killed kennedy and if the truth got out it would parsipur to world war three this was a lie that johnson told over and over there was no truth to it we now know that

when kennedy was killed nikita khrushchev wept fidel castro who was with an american when he got the news kept repeating over and over again this is very bad news this is very bad news no i don't think that the russian state was involved in any way in the assassination i think johnson lied about this roger i want to move on to your own career in politics you've called yourself your own words a g.o.p. hit man what is that term mean and why do you use the title to describe yourself. well it's it was meant kind of euphemistically at the time but i look i'm not a conspiracy theorist i am a hard political realist i have been on a national american presidential campaigns i started with richard nixon in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight i worked for ronald reagan i worked for george h.w. bush i worked on the recount in florida for george w.

bush i think a very realistic about american politics you did everything in your power to make sure they have honed in and when during your time serving under nixon you engaged in such activities as hiring spies to work opposition campaigns making fake donations topics and candidates and the name of communist organizations and spiking non-radical groups why did you find it necessary to engage in such dirty tricks. well those activities of call in one thousand nine hundred two were all perfectly legal it is only in the post the post watergate reforms they became an illegal illegal i was nineteen years old there was a culture around nixon of if you won't do this we'll find somebody that will as i have written i found a number of the things that they asked me to do that they ordered me to do. juvenile not particularly effective in terms of winning votes almost thirty years later i found out that most of these missions i was sent out on were dreamed up by a white house speechwriter pat buchanan so again those are perfectly legal

activities and i admit they don't match say robert kennedy who has a million pieces of it virulently anti-catholic literature printed and mails it to every catholic household in west virginia put a uber humphrey's campaign address on it to make it look like it came from humphrey politics ain't beanbag and it is it is a contact sport in the united states being such a staunch advocate of nix and i know that you have backed peace. his face on your back his approach of presidency largely in part because you said he rejected a leader isn't however roger how can you say that reasoning to defend a president who clearly some self above the law. i don't defend him i think that he was brought down by as is own hand i think that he was both a very great and very flawed this is a man who could open the door to china this is a man could who could negotiate an arms reduction agreement with the soviet union

this is a man who could give us who could desegregate the public schools in the united states who who passed affirmative action who passed the first environmental protection legislation so in many ways very great he was also brought down by his own paranoia there was no reason to wiretap the watergate he was leading his opponent by twenty votes but there was i think as the basis on the basis of his narrow loss in the one nine hundred sixty election which i believe was stolen from him by lyndon johnson by the democratic machine in illinois i think it bred in him a certain paranoia and in the end he was brought down by his own hand so i'm not oblivious to his flaws i admire him not for his political tactics as much as i admire him for his personal resilience this is someone who gets knocked down and

defeated and comes back he he says in one thousand nine hundred sixty two when he ran for governor of california and last gentleman this is my last press conference you won't have nixon to kick around anymore in only six years later he is raising his hand to be sworn in as president in our eight states you mentioned some liberal things that he kind of implemented i mean we're talking about the e.p.a. overseen the integration and public schools affirmative action policies you think that nixon could win a republican primary today. absolutely not i think that he would be appalled at the state of today's republican party and nixon understood that to win elections you needed to have the conservatives you couldn't win without the conservatives but you could not win with just the conservative that politics is about admission and not subtraction so he he saw the disaster of one thousand nine hundred sixty four in the nomination of barry goldwater in which moderates were encouraged to leave and

were offended and he understood that you had to reach beyond that only four years later he built a winning coalition i don't think he could be nominated in today's republican party i don't think ronald reagan could be nominated in today's republican party i think social dogma has become too important a piece of the republican cosmos and i think that we are going to limit ourselves as a party if we keep becoming more and more and more exclusionary let's move on to your role in the controversial two thousand presidential election you mentioned earlier kind of in a boastful way that you were a major force in stopping the recount of ballots in miami dade county why are you so desperately trying to subvert the democratic process and is this really something very proud of. the first of all i reject your characterization of supporting the democratic caucus we are going for the third recount of the same ballots they had already been counted twice without any change the democrats in

miami dade county wanted to recount them a third time this was an obvious attempt to create new votes to try to divide what voters were doing it was a violation i think of the process now and i do think that if al gore had asked for a recount in every one of of florida's counties he might well have become president instead he asked for. recounts in selective counties where he thought that he could pick up the. what's so i would argue that that we ensured that there was not of abuse of the process i was involved in the brooks brothers riot absolutely because two democratic officials were attempting to take a sheaf of absentee ballots into a room with no windows a new door no doors and no neutral observers no no reporters no republicans no neutral observers and therefore that violates florida's sunshine law which which

prohibits that so yes i have no regrets about the specific role i played i was not a supporter of the of the war in iraq it is one of the great i think mistakes of the of the bush administration of that bush administration so from that point of view i may have a tinge of regret but it wasn't about the tactics it was about the fact that once he became president i disagreed with a number of the policies of george w. bush and so you agree with the supreme court decided not presidential election. it was a political decision but this is politics and i think at the end of the day we'll never really know i reject the argument that all these voters respond because of the use of the butterfly ballot and some voters inadvertently voted for pat buchanan when they meant to vote for al gore and joe lieberman the butterfly ballot

that's being criticized has been in use by the chicago democratic machine for twenty years prior to that so there was nothing wrong with that ballot it's very simple there's an arrow in a hole if you're too stupid to know how to vote with simple instructions and perhaps you're too dumb to vote. no i don't think there was i don't think there was anything fraudulent about that election all right i think we're not very very close yeah i guess half a million votes. is not that close to me you seem to be a huge fan of political theater or what you call political performance. art why do you think that this is a healthy way to approach politics in this country and how can we ever expect real progress of people like you treat politics like a game when so many people are suffering. because politics is about being interesting because if you turn on the television at night with the advent of cable there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of channels and therefore when you add network t.v.

on top of cable on top of the internet on top of magazines covering every subject imaginable it's very hard to get enough repetition and to stand out so i mean i'm interested in making politics interesting in making politics entertaining politics is show business for ugly people politics is about being interesting and therefore standing out and drawing public attention to your message there's nothing illicit about it it is it is street theater as it were for the purpose of gaining attention to communicate a message go ahead put out a white paper on your environmental positions you will bore both the media and the voters to death and no one will pay attention well i certainly agree it is hollywood for ugly people roger stone thanks so much for coming on author former nixon advisor really appreciate your time. to be here. thanks for joining us

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