what shaken folks i mean martin and this is a break in the sets while myths the growing violence in ukraine one major story has been largely lost just today tokyo electric power company tepco announced that the fukushima nuclear power plant experienced yet another radioactive leak this time an estimated one hundred metric tons of contaminated water flowed over a holding tank the reason well chord of the company of valve might have been left open by mistake oh it's great to know that all that standing between us and even worse radioactive nightmare is an open valve and last time it was a rat showing through faulty wiring that calls the cooling system to malfunction but honestly considering that three hundred tons of the contaminated groundwater are already seeping into the ocean every day according to japan's own government i

doubt this latest mishap will make many waves in the corporate media so if you don't think journalists are putting nearly enough pressure on world powers to come together and fix this catastrophe and join me let's break that. it was a. very hard to take. her back with that her right there.

who might have heard the director of national intelligence james clapper recently testified on capitol hill about the thousands of threats facing america and his wide ranging speech to congress he cited everything from a competitive china to synthetic drugs but there is one and norma's threat to the american public that he forgot to mention homeless people or at least that's what many us cities would like you to think in the past few months cities across the country have tried to deal with the problem of homelessness through an ingenious out of sight out of mind approach instead of addressing the systematic reasons for rampant poverty city lawmakers are trying to eliminate the problem by forcing the homeless out of city centers and the public i take a recent law just an act in columbia south carolina that requires citizens to obtain a permit fifteen days in advance and pay a one hundred twenty dollars fee to feed the homeless in the city parks because

according to columbia officials the homeless should be treated like ducks and the city is imposing these absurd measures on the name of reducing the homeless people's incentive to congregate downtown so they can be herded to the city's outskirts instead. it or take a look at what's going on just a couple states further south in florida's osceola county over the past decade the county excuse me has spent over five million dollars are arresting and jailing about three dozen homeless people over and over again for crimes like sleeping in public and pan handling according to the advocacy group impact homelessness from two thousand and four to two thousand and thirteen osceola county collectively arrested these same thirty seven individuals one thousand two hundred fifty times they were incarcerated for nearly sixty two thousand days costing the county a total of over five million dollars keep in mind it would have cost taxpayers one point four million dollars or less to house these individuals then jail them but

it's not just the south trying to throw away its homeless problem san francisco's dealing with poverty issues by literally treating the homeless like garbage according to activists some street cleaners are spray not just the sidewalks where the homeless sleep but the people themselves although city officials are denying the practice of two thousand and eight investigation by activists using undercover cameras showed street cleaners both kicking homeless people and hosing them down with water cannons so once again instead of investing in shelters and housing assistance san francisco spending over one point three million dollars a year to wash its streets clean a fact that's bound to reassure the city's sixty five hundred homeless residents look the poorest of society always has the smallest voice so it's up to the rest of us to speak up for those who can't and just maybe we should use that voice to drown out those who want to hide criminalize or simply wash away the problem.

the holocaust was a horrific genocide that forever changed the world. not only did it reveal the extent of evil that humanity could manifest but it also showed how cognitive dissonance can be dangerous to a society turning a blind eye to evil well after the nazis were defeated there was the question of what to do with the brains behind hitler's war machine there were hundreds of scientific minds behind the third reich spanning from nuclear physicist to social scientists many of which were complicit and horrific war crimes and others and even stood trial at nuremberg but as of holding these war criminals accountable for their nazi complicity many of them were brought to the us where they and their families were provided safe harbor as part of a decades long covert u.s. intelligence program called operation paperclip well earlier i was joined by

christopher since that professor of communications at american university and author of a low back the first full account of america's recruitment of nazis i first asked christopher why the u.s. would even implement such a horrific program in the first place. there's several different factors are involved number one to see emergence of the cold war and there was a relationship as far as a cold war is concerned in which recruitment of nazis or tolerance of former nazis in power in germany added to the then soviet union's worries about what were the post-war and post-war intentions of the western allies and some of those intent some of those questions went back to the war time period even earlier all right so then that again spurred more cold war or tension or its cold war tensions and so the group. meanwhile the soviets were also recruiting nazi

criminals and there's a track record of that that can be clearly established so you have a a open market if you will in which the. the on the one hand there were prosecutions of nazis. on the other hand there was recruiting of nazis and protection of them in a for idea of different ways by the western allies as well as by the soviets. you see today some of the same phenomenon in terms of people who are responsible for very serious crimes southeast asia other parts of the world. again will be picked up for intelligence purposes or for even for commercial gain and some of these people weren't just in the nazi party i mean they were actually they were at the nerver trials for crimes against humanity or crimes i mean these people were guilty of a lot what's your response you briefly mention that the soviets were also recruiting

nazis as well that's kind of a common response that we hear is that if we didn't recruit them the soviets would have taken them all the clain on the part of the western allies that the soviets would recruit them all those files. that the major initiative to recruit nazi criminals came from the western now it's that said. the the soviets to were engaged in selection of particular people that they thought would be beneficial to them mainly for intelligence type purposes intelligence and propaganda and so on. once you start looking at the situation it gets more complicated than it looks on the surface because for example suppose somebody who was a german who did participate in crimes against humanity who was guilty and then changes his or her stripes during the war or after the war well what does i mean. in my

personal opinion in my view it means that they still have to be brought to justice for crimes that they did in fact commit but that they're post-war attitudes. are part of the complicated judgment the society makes out against people who commit very very serious crimes and what was the long term effect on american intelligence of of him playing this program where there was a severely significant effect on u.s. intelligence operations and to some degree on u.s. appraisals of what was going on in europe. let me say that a different way if you have not seen intelligence officials who have who have devoted large parts of their life to german intelligence and then later to hitler styled nazi intelligence they have particular point of view as to how they see the

world and when the united states are in good relies largely on such people for their information about those who they say of the enemy which in this context of the soviets i think you get a highly. warped picture about what is happening in on the on the other side of the of the atlantic. so. particularly in the early cold war these people had significant effects on american intelligence we were dependent or the americans were dependent upon what they had to say was going on in germany at that time meanwhile that type of thing it feeds on itself in this way is that for example intelligence agencies don't just process intelligence they don't just kind of sit behind desks and act as scholars know these are action agencies so they do covert operations they do propaganda they

do different forms of subversion and attack sabotage against whoever the enemy of the moment is. so that the former nazis at least. some of them had a new incentive to paint as dark a picture of the soviets as possibly could be painted in order to finance their own organizations it was a very powerful drift towards war chris you mentioned that it went beyond physical scientists i mean we're talking about social scientists what do you say to people i mean in a broader sense that this country and this government has kind of adopted the nazi propaganda model gerbils was doing has been implemented here and just a much more insidious way i mean do you see any correlation there. i think its truth is that everybody in the mass media. of every

nationality has learned some lessons from gerbils frankly i think that that's true and that all of the major powers have very large scale. propaganda operations so. the. the problem is not abstract the problem is literally with this it's with us on the set right now and it's with this in. the most reputable media sort of situations where we news media this is my belief and the way. it is tends to be highly illogical and it doesn't mean that everybody has the same etiology it doesn't mean that everybody agrees with whatever the official idiology is what i mean is that people shape what they do in the media based on what they

believe every year that seems that there's another movie coming out about nazi germany about the holocaust and now monuments men. talks about saving the artwork from world war two to what extent do you think hollywood plays a role in this story a vision is i'm kind of leaving out all you know everything about operation paperclip everett. what happened afterward and also just corporate influence in aiding abetting the holocaust i think it's the that's a complicated question basically there is a polite version of the holocaust. which explains what took place in very simplistic terms. and the extent to which the whole it was an organic product of german society as it existed at that time meanwhile there is there is also a in my view a very serious problem in which. victims are. recognised all the sort to none could be just one example. people understand the

whole cost as being the cast of a. terrible crime many many people died in the cast up of the stories of the gas ovens are not made up they are facts history. that said most of the troops who were murdered in the whole of cos they were worked to death they were shot with guns they were they were destroyed in they were starved to death they were destroyed in other ways so what that means is here in western culture we get this idea of whole cost each equal scouse so. these other means of destroying whole societies they are somehow not recognised as actually being crimes because ever since then professor of communications american university really appreciate it thank you coming up a break on the big business of world war two and its impact on survivors and corporations stay tuned.

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you shells are force in that. state. six nations and the finish line of the marathon. thank god for anything. during world war two the level of coordination and efficiency in an altercation of germany was unprecedented but the systematic extermination of people based on race and class may not have even been possible or not of the many corporate interests that aided and abetted the nazis during the war you know for everything we learned about hitler in the second world war the one thing that's conveniently omitted from history books of the role corporations played in the conflict for example the world

famous fashion designer hugo boss who we can now all think of a terrified and now infamous black uniforms worn by the german as us and the brown shirts worn by the hitler youth as well as an entire fashion collection for the third reich while being a nazi party member him so. benefited greatly from the cheap labor of concentration and p.o.w. camps to manufacture their uniforms and their siemens a multinational engineering electronics giant c. during hitler's rise in the one nine hundred thirty s. . use nazi prisoner labor to build everything from railway infrastructure to communications of electrical power in two thousand and two siemens received international condemnation for its plans to trademark the name zajac line for a line of home appliances that included gas. coincidently on is the same name at the deadly poison gas used to exterminate jews that concentration camps might also recognize the company that actually manufactured the gas bayer next is i.b.m.

or international business machines excuse me while the tech giant is now a staple of america's digital industry during world war two i.b.m. played an integral role in carrying out the holocaust in poland thousands of documents archive in seven different countries have proven how this company no we really worked hand in hand with the death machine see i.b.m. produced punch cards for the nazis better known as haller tabulators which were the precursor to the i.b.m. computer and according to researcher edwin black the whole of it was used to keep records and statistics of the death camps for example calculating the rate of deaths per square kilometer railway due to starvation but despite the evidence of the company's sordid past and requests for a formal apology i.b.m. has kept silent on the matter and then there is chase bank now j.p. morgan chase and we don't need any more reasons to distrust this financial be him in between one thousand nine hundred ninety six and one nine hundred forty one

chase along with a few other u.s. bangs helped germany with currency exchange unclassified documents from the u.s. department of treasury point to a disturbingly close working relationship between chase and german authorities in fact in one thousand nine hundred eight chase finally acknowledged that apparent it's. office had preemptively seized nearly one hundred jewish accounts before german officials had even asked them to do so perhaps the emotional king example of the corporate nazi connection is ford motor company hitler's most prominent foreign benefactor yes the legendary american entrepreneur henry ford was also a famous might and one hundred thirty seven adolf hitler had a special medal created for foreign friends of the third reich and the regime awarded it to henry ford that very same year this might explain why ford open an assembly plant in berlin in one nine hundred thirty eight just before the war which according to u.s. army intelligence produced vehicles designed for troop transport but these are only

a few examples of a handful of corporations that ensured the success of the holocaust and thankfully here go boston siemens have set up a compensation fund for the victims of nazi germany. but look while we learn a limited scope of the whole the holocaust happened and why we must acknowledge the corporations played in these imaginable for only then would begin to hold accountable the many corporations that continue to profit from war and genocide today. the. protests in venezuela have continued to escalate so far at least five people have died in connection with the on the rise with countless injuries and arrests being reported as almost been no media coverage of these protests and what little reporting is conveyed appears rife with disinformation which could have something to do with washington's interests in the country speaking at this point co-director

of the center for economic and policy research mark weisbrot recently wrote an article in the guardian about what's happening on the ground he joins me now to break it down thanks so much for coming on mark so can you give us a brief timeline of how these protests have gotten at this point. well based on a doubt. just where they start all from beginning to manning that the president resigned and of course he was elected in a democratic election in april and in december which was seen by the opposition in the international media as a referendum on the presidency just two months ago they had nationwide municipal elections and the government won by a much wider margin by ten percentage points so i think what happened was the opposition was facing two years without an election which is actually a long time event where they have a lot of elections and they figured that this was the time to go for it if they can get people in the streets destabilize the country you know maybe they can provoke

some kind of regime change why did opposition leader leopoldo lopez decide to turn himself in oh well the government had announced a judge had issued an arrest warrant for him and so he he turned himself in i mean if you saw the some of the footage in the pictures and you know it was immature of the president said he would go she hated the the surrender with him so he it was it was kind of peaceful and he got to make a speech and have the megaphone with him before he was taken away and everything else mark you recently wrote an op ed in the guardian as i just mentioned called u.s. support for regime change in minnesota is a mistake in your opinion what evidence is there i guess what evidence is there to prove that western forces are actually trying to destabilize the region well. the united states has been involved in venezuela for the entire time of the since java's was elected in one thousand nine hundred eight took office in one thousand

nine hundred nine so of course they were involved in the u.s. backed military coup in two thousand and two we have state department documents that actually say explicitly that they paid big money to the groups that were organized but then after they were caught with that and had to back. off. the media we increased funding to the same groups and they've been funding these groups all the way along with the total of one hundred million dollars in fact there's five million dollars in the fiscal year two thousand and fourteen federal budget right now to go to opposition groups so it's no secret but i think what was what i was trying to call attention to in that column is you can tell from the language of the state department when these protests broke out they didn't see anything like a call for dialogue or you know condemning violence. we took the side of the protesters and made it clear who side they were on and they supported this strategy mark you mentioned the five million dollars being allocated

in two thousand and fourteen budget i couldn't find a confirmation of that under what auspices is this being allocated in the budget i can't tell you right now what a program is but i could send it to you i mean it's in the budget we have it actually says to the civil society has a whole bunch of different descriptions of it but it's going to organizations within venezuela and it's a very polarized society and in so even if you don't name all the organizations they are all against the government. one of the major stories reported last year that might add to the other side of the argument is that the duros forces were forcing electronics store owners to actually lower their prices by gunpoint i mean can you speak to that well the government did put pressure on them to lower their prices i don't think they put a gun to anybody's head but yeah they did a actually put pressure on them and i think there was a lot of news coverage because they sent troops to the stores and it did work and i think that's one reason why he the government did so well in the december elections

and what about the media because of course i am hearing from other people in the country that they're barely seeing images of these protests i mean of course you know the beat is tightly controlled can you speak to that point you know that's greely a gross exaggeration. i was just looking on the web this afternoon in effect you could see interviews with the opposition leaders some of them making wild allegations you can see the biggest t.v. said that it is you know the biggest television channel in venezuela you can you can see the scenes of the protest i think what the press reports here say well some of the real time coverage is there there are but you know our press didn't cover occupy in real time all the time right but nothing's hidden i mean there's nothing that's hidden from the venezuelan people in terms of what's going on there everybody knows what's going on so it's true that there self-censorship but not anymore than you have here and. so it's really grossly exaggerated i mean.

i wanted to get in that we have got all the time left on opposition leaders of our opposition is of course is alleging that the dural is inside of the violence of course but there are saying that the right wing factions have incited the violence . can you speak to either of those allegations well it's very murky i mean you know . i mean you do know that the protesters are having violent protests that's that you have plenty of video you know i mean during the day it's usually peaceful the night they set fires and put up barricades and trash buildings and they've burned cars and things like that now the government is also implicated of course and the world has acknowledged that in the in the shooting of one of the students but the circumstances of that are still unclear so. you can't really mean it's clear what i think is most important is that if you if you have protests that are calling for the resignation or the overthrow of

a democratically elected government there's no real path you can see from here to there that isn't going to involve violence they're not going to just step down because a handful of people say they should and of course as your column points out of course the broad history of the u.s. you know sticking their nose in venezuela really irks that of course the duros there the brookings institute memo kind of calling to seize the unrest if there is can you speak to that to what would happen to the region what are the broader implications if the u.s. does back regime change there we have about thirty left well the rest of the region is very much opposed to obviously the countries brazil argentina. o'dwyer and even part of why very strong statement condemning the attempts to destabilize the government and most of almost the whole region feels the same way this is another case where it's really the u.s. against south america right absolutely thank you so much mark weisbrot co-director

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