lol. i'm sorry but i'll give you what the mainstream media can't so they will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. what charge erica i'm on your part fill in august one thousand forty nine at the dawn of a cold war the renowned singer and actor paul robeson was scheduled to play a benefit concert for the civil rights congress peekskill new york ropes and was not only a singular talent but an outspoken supporter of the decolonization of africa the end of jim crow in the united states and peace with the soviet union these political positions along with his communist affiliations that led to his blacklisting during the mccarthy era before groups and even arrived at the venue

rioters whipped into a frenzy by local right wing media mob those gathered to attend ropes and concert beating them with baseball bats and hurling racial epithets police took hours to arrive and did little to protect the concert goers leaving thirteen people seriously injured and breaking up the concert the media demagogues and nationalist mobs set a terrifying precedent demonstrating how a performer could be shut down for a speech which threatened the pro-war status quo today legislators in new york are threatening to do the same thing to another performer who has taken a bold political position their target is rock legend roger waters and his support for the palestinian led boycott divestment and sanctions movement or b.d.s. an opinion piece published on local news in nassau county this week compared the struggle of musicians censored during the cold war to that of waters stating the blacklisting of actors writers and directors during the. the war is among the most

shameful chapters of american history yet a group of nassau county legislators appear to favor a revival of a blacklist they are determined to prevent former pink floyd bassist roger waters from performing at nassau coliseum next month because he hasn't orse the goals of the boycott divestment sanctions movement b.d.'s seeks to punish israel because of its policies towards palestinians the piece goes on to point out it was waters himself who sang famously in pink floyd's the wall the timeless lyric we don't need no thought control and an exclusive conversation i spoke with waters about attempts to such down his show for his views on palestine but also the current state of politics in the united states and the rise of a modern cold war roger you are one of if not the most high profile supporter of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in support of palestinian rights

legislators in new york county are actually threatening to cancel shows of yours for this position you've taken how is that able to happen. i don't think is very open. to the basis upon which is happening is that they. can the. israel lobby in this country tried to post legislation in the state legislature in new york to criminalize. membership overall support for boycott divestment and sanctions they failed to. andrew cuomo the governor brodie into state law or it's an executive action just amazing it's needed a veto so there is some more of some kind which i have. come to tell you exactly what it says but which is. no good i say no business is allowed to do

business in new york state. we have a person such as me who is involved in the. movement to try and encourage. kofman to modify its policies physically the palestinian let's get into the government because in defending his band decision to play in israel radio had frontman thom yorke said playing in a country isn't an endorsement of the government pointing out the group doesn't endorse trump but still plays in the states why is israel different that's a two part question all right. tom bjork is wrong about no it dorsenne the purposes of the israeli government by playing. spokes person so if that government have said how excited they are that this is the best thing that's happened for the hospital which is the explaining to the rest of the world war two . what a wonderful precious democracy israel is. and willy nilly when may

cross the picket line they are making a public statement that they are doing dorce the policies of the cup what ever they say because that is what will be reported in israel and that is what gets reported around the world that is why radiohead of being so soundly criticized by anybody with progressive ideas about human rights. because they have taken that step the other thing is about no performing in the united states or trying to boycott you know it's that the people of the united states got together as a civil society and asked performance from the rest of the world not to come and perform in the united states because they are an occupied people and there was an organized resistance against the occupying army civil society in palestine in two thousand and five started the b.d.s.

movement themselves this isn't so. thing imposed by a bunch of. musicians this is something that they started that day who denies it and they have made an appeal to all artists rights as musicians to the store right to anybody in the rest of the word to observe the picket line which they have drawn and to not to to to to observe a coach or a boycott of the country you're one of the most beloved rock stars of a generation you're very vocal outspoken and i would say are fairly accessible why don't we hear from you on mainstream media or on popular late night television. told the. question but that it comes from above. i was told by charlie rose not directly but by his producer why isn't roger and charlie rose that we're not quite sure but it comes from above that chains are you here so

it's not rocket science these are after you took these positions well i've taken this position since two thousand and six when it's a long story but basically it's the last ten or eleven years. my presence and speed felt by a pack and by the israel lobby in this country which is extremely powerful is you know. very very powerful. to all political parties. they wield the know most power in congress which is why as we speak there is a bill before congress. that is sponsored by among others the junior senator from new york coast to julie brand. in the post i look forward to meeting over again because i want to explain himself to me. and the bill is to criminalize b.d.s. with criminal penalties for people like me there's plenty been talk of

a million dollar fines and twenty years in prison as a critic of israel one of the main campaigns against you this powerful lobby has rolled out is to call you an anti semite in the u.s. at the moment if you question the media's obsession with trump's ties to russia you're called a putin apologist if as a journalist you challenge the narrative the media is pushing on the war in syria you're called an assad is why is it when you start to call out injustices or inaccuracy in the status quo people are immediately slapped with a label because we're living in one thousand nine hundred four you know where my children were young teenagers are insistent that they read brave new world so they are you. to retouch all children should read huxley and oh well that might be a bit of wells maybe maybe it's if that was something in french but in fact that

is where we're living now where propaganda is more important than fact it's far more important and that value is a huge news story now this whole thing about fake news is that people have understood the truth facts phyllo syfy knowledge is stree education none of these things are important in order to retain a position of power you need to be really good propaganda you need to be really good at telling big lies often and loud and the last thing that you won't in the mainstream media is anybody shining actual real light on anything so people who are who who actually care about the predicament of the human race or about the future of this small vulnerable planet or about their fellow human beings and if they're being oppressed to kill durant or any or anything like that it's best to keep them

out of the way because they may. interfere with the general narrative you say people are realizing this is something i would say you figured out a while ago you're currently on the us and them to or which is full of especially politically charged visuals but many of your most well known songs written decades ago still correspond perfectly with the current state of politics in the united states. one line which comes to mind is hey you white house ha ha ha you are and we're just a few blocks from the white house right now roger what does that symbolize to you. well it's. it's an edifice that now has become symbolic of how deep. politics in the united states but over the western world has become separated from its potential function

which was society civil society to organize itself in a way. that helps the society to grow and develop and protect. the civil and legal rights of its citizens it is it is now the white house says it's an edifice symbolic of the function of government which now seems to be to print. the tiny elite of very very very wealthy man who actually run this country and the corporations who profit from the policies that have me to develop by the congress that is bought and paid for by the donors who were given. the liberties to make those donations by the supreme court in citizens united which is one of the most regressive pieces. of legal doctrine found its way into this into society since the circle will. and it's to poor poor in

every post for what it means that you can buy the whole political system is up for sale because of that one particular bill so in consequence it's an it's an absolute it is a sure thing is a sure road now it has nothing to do with government of the people by the people for the people there is no longer any safety net for this particular administration it has shown and and it's completely honest about the fact that it wants to dismantle all humane federal governmental. agencies to look over to the environment the oh the a.g. any poor anybody poor anybody they need to be destroyed on the altar of the advance of the corporations. if if what i was saying was true it would sound crazy but it's not it's that so that must be kept from the

public has to be kept off the mainstream media we must we must not talk we can't talk about it. palestine and you wrote that song forty years ago but in much of the establishments criticism of trumpet we hear the phrase that i hear all the time in particularly liberal media this is not normal that somehow trump is more authoritarian or militaristic brutish than anyone else who's ever run this country or been involved in politics do you think trump really represents something unique in the united states only because he's supremely dumb. he he he is the nincompoop a sofa evidently any and he kind of progress professes that publicly all the time with these tweets and just generally with the way you behave somewhat of a. make it work threats to the united states.

they will be met. with fire fury. like the world has never see so he is slightly different than a bomber was so even when clinton they were much smoother operators there but they were still operating policies which are fundamentally wrong and inhuman and particularly in their waging a war against the rest of the world you know this idea that the united states needs to be a military presence over the whole globe and needs to be. threatening as much as it can and controlling as much as it can. it's deeply and desperately dangerous particularly in the world we live in where we still of two we see is have countries that have nuclear weapons so that would we could you know we could be sitting here talking and what a surprise that would be if there's a woman and all the lights go out because of some a letter magnetic there and then suddenly we are as they happen wow and that's what

we've all been talking about and the wise men have all been warning us for years and years and just last week they came out and they said they didn't stay close to know off minutes to midnight this is the closest we've been to the nuclear catastrophe since the end of the second world war and and yet. when we talk about what we talk we talk about heightening tensions with russia well yeah yeah yeah and it's why you know why you have you have to ask yourself why why would we why would we do that why would john mccain want to be going and having a war with russia why would be we want more and more votes in the proxy or wherever that why why this obsession with with russia why not why not make maybe maybe that's the only tiny bit of sense that something is my. it might

be a good idea to actually have conversations with russia because i can remember his name but the foreign minister seems to be eminently sensible and now a quick yeah and also people people i think would do well to. read the interviews to all of the stone to be preaching because when you actually listen to it if you if you compare. to me a putin with donald trump you could which man which you wrote the sit down and have a conversation with there's no question this one is a complete buffoon who doesn't make any sense knows nothing about anything this guy may be power hungry and he may be but at least he's at least he's coherent these three can string a sentence together at least at least stephen reads about the political situations in the places that. he does his country's involved which oh that it will be said all on his doorstep putin is no frigging around in mexico

he'd make you miss just over the makes the border so you're obviously not afraid of being called a apologist now like oliver has he first pointing out these now of course i'm not afraid it's just the reality of the situation that gets to the idea that what's important to the mainstream media is propaganda that amounts what it's about it's become a tool of propaganda maybe on which signally to some extent. finally you're on the us in them too or right now throughout the states and then i believe europe as well . for your fans coming to your shows how would you like them to take your music and translated it it translate into action and their own lives their role of humans i hear you talk about that a lot your role as a human being as specially your fans in israel who might be wanting to know why they that music can be played in their country be very hard for not through his

rugby fans because of his film in touch with money if there is a big big resistance movement. in israel that particular world wants a boy cope for we've been run by a guy i know coup wrote a book and it's a proper organization and they're extremely bright because in the face of the intransigence of most of the zionists in israel they are actually running their own form of resistance because they are caring. jewish people who are deeply distressed to the purposes of fees for a government run contrary to their humane ten days of judaism or it's actually in the torah what they believe their connection with that when it should. stick so it's really none of my business but. we do know that will loose. priest religion so we'll have the same basic ideas but when you're smee something else in this city

something we've done thirty exhibits and everywhere we because the truth is for the rich will put it. here. it's about recognizing the predicament of of this attaches very much to the philosophical position that we should do as we would be done by character from charles kingsley school to babe it's mrs stewart she would be dumb but says that but we. it is incumbent upon a school and upon our politicians and on all those of us who think about people who might be on the other side of an argument to pull ourselves in their shoes how would we feel sick here in washington if there were drones but sing around in the sky all day and we never knew we were going to be playing now. because it is the it a drone attacks for its targeted assassinations of which i have to say i could not be more disapproving when when the last append straight was why barack obama kept

continued and expanded that drone program i will never know i haven't had a chance to ask him about that and i probably never will but i have no idea it's hard to imagine a sensible reply i mean he might say oh well we have to fight her please you but you must see that being that kind of been the jury bellicose. deadly presence in one hundred thirty seven foreign countries can only encourage a resistance to that to that completely unacceptable colonial imperialist behavior it's an effort no you can't cut the head of a state anywhere that's a long conversation but what i've found in the in my shows is that we discovered that ten or twelve thousand people tiniest that number is

a desperate to find to be. you know in a place of love for their fellow human beings to support their father if they want to help people they don't want to be part of this administration's charge towards ripping the rug out from society as a whole giving it internally of just the corporations and the few very very rich very very greedy men run everything they want to they want that's a beer society where they care for their brothers and sisters and they would like that to extend beyond the national borders of the united states not just into back sicko and south america where trump thinks the enemy are but also we in two purposes in the middle east and and on the web so that they'd start addressing me idea that all human beings does human and civil rights including the palestinians and from my position as a as an active member of b.d.s.

especially my brothers and sisters in palestine who've been living under a military occupation for fifty years since nine hundred sixty seven and so we continue in this struggle and we're winning it this is why they called me an anti semite this is why they want to silence me this is why they don't want me on charlie rose or stephen colbert speaking he lets me play my song but i'm not allowed to sit on the couch and talk because this is you know because they don't want to hear it but. it's reading thoughts where the search for. sixty eight years following the peekskill riots artists in the united states are still targeted for their political beliefs now by a powerful lobby in washington representing the interests of the israeli government what's more seven decades on from the second red scare and the beginning of the mccarthy era

a russian menace still looms in the minds of washington's political. asked and many lawmakers are fixated on escalating with russia all over again the threat of mutually assured destruction has yet to temper the bellicose rhetoric from our leaders now as during the original cold war it seems that only a handful of artists and thinkers are brave enough to put career as an aside to lead with their humanity and to question more. there's a real irony going. to be the. responsible choice of the people and therefore useful that's what the terms of the other top stories at c.n.n. seems to do you call the ordinary you know hold still surveillance you feel you have already while there's going to shows interest in trying to use the social you know really sort of the story because it's garbage it's real it's. the and. what politicians do such as you can.

put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. have to go to the press this is what the full story of the boy can be good. i'm interested in the was. there should. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple segments understands that we're telling stories that our critics can't tell and you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that

every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. recently professors of boston university and the university of minnesota law school jointly published a paper entitled battlefield casualties and ballot box defeat did the bush obama war as a cause. clinton the white house the paper starts out with

a dramatic statement america has been at war for over fifteen years but few americans seem to notice which seems largely true to me i mean no one i know even realized that the u.s. dropped tens of thousands of bombs on seven countries and obama like they just don't even know that but there are americans who do notice how many wars were and how many bombs we've dropped because they're the people with friends and family members in the military who have died because of all those bombs according to the paper over the years voters in communities with higher military casualty rates have become more likely to vote against politicians perceived as orchestrating the conflicts in which their friends and neighbors died in other words they vote against the war mongers and then the paper connects that to president trump's win in pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin the professor's research suggests that if those critical states had suffered even just a slightly lower rate of military deaths all three states could have easily flipped

from red to blue in other words all those people out there who do know all about our wars intimately had a choice they could choose hillary clinton who has ties to the bushes and the obama's are well as close as family and they've kept us in war longer than anyone else in our history and clinton's husband even oversaw his own wars too or the people who have lost family to what wars could have chosen donald trump who got up at the podium and said enough with the wars we got to make better relations with people around the world we've got to spend our money on our own people enough with all the wars and the people in those three critical states with communities who've lost loved ones to war they voted for donald trump contributing to clinton's defeat the paper also points out that whoever decides to run for president in twenty twenty including trump himself they better remember this last then and should. maybe ran on an anti-war message like the one donald trump ran with and

successfully became president with which makes sense to me as an american who knows all about those bombs we've been dropping to and i just really really want to stop . thinking sure new to the game this is how. the economy is built around. perforation from washington washington controls the media the media the. voters elected. on this council business people so. it's not business is business like it's never been done. what holds us institutions things to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted

or rejected. so when you want to be trusted. or some want to it's that it's it right to be first this is what the fuck are you the people that i'm interested in the law. the feeling of freedom in. every the little shit period. and you get it i'll be over. according to just. call them for their. i'm john harshman and i'll give you.