to going. to see what. three of the four people. who still hold the war. coming up on r t america hate violence and death that protests in charlottesville virginia over the weekend as whites the primitive laughable counter protesters leaving one dead and dozens injured. for live on the ground from charlottesville getting reaction from city residents local leaders and experts on why the tragic events unfolded this weekend. and this is america basically a new war against white supremacy we'll look at where the neo nazis movement stands in the u.s. and abroad. it's

monday august fourteenth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm ashley banks and you're watching our team america today we have special coverage of the racial crisis and charlottesville virginia will be live throughout the program from the ground now as our team is on a pair of pella on yeah. hi ashley i'm just a few blocks away from where on saturday thirty two year old charlotte native heather higher was killed while attending an anti-fascist demonstration today higher is being remembered by her friends and family as an all around loving and caring person who died fighting for what she believed in as they say memorial wall has been set up for her over my shoulder you can see it though probably not extremely well and we're here in charlottesville to reflect on all of this news of course the. demonstration heather was participating in on saturday was held in

response to events here on charlottesville which happened on friday night when white nationalists from around the country gathered in this city to protest the removal of a robert e. lee statue now that statue stands in emancipation park ironically actually and i say ironically because as you and many people probably know robert e. lee who was the confederate general who led the south to failure in the american civil war if he had been successful it's very possible the emancipation proclamation issued by president abraham lincoln in eight hundred sixty three would have never been law here in charlottesville in fact it's entirely possible i'd be standing or sitting rather in a very different country right now yet here we are in two thousand and seventeen and our political establishment only seems able to respond to this tragedy by pointing fingers at political opponents and now what we want to do with this show

is point that finger in words look at the united states and ask what role white supremacy has historically played in this country and also ask the question ashley after a week of such a bellicose rhetoric coming out of washington we heard threats of fire and fury being hurled at north korea and threats of military action in venezuela from our commander in chief so it's important to ask what the effects of the u.s. military being a strong powerful force around the world often partnering with the right right wing groups as we'll explain and for example ukraine syria or venezuela what the impact of that is politically here in the united states how does that play out these are the questions we're going to tackle ashley as we question more from charlottesville . a little over a month ago i attended and covered a k.k.k. rally in charlottesville where the group was protesting against the removal of a can. statue that rally ended with police dispersing tear gas on protesters to get

them to leave the premises and over the weekend charlottesville brace for a nother rally where a white national was a gathered at emancipation park to oppose the removal of the same confederate statue this time the rally turned that way now let's take a look at where it all started it now according to local media reports on a friday aug eleventh two thousand and seventeen virginia governor terry mcauliffe released a statement saying the national guard virginia state police and other public safety officials will be on standby for the scheduled rally on aug twelfth. later that night hundreds of white supremacy as carrying tiki torches marched through the university of virginia's campus they began shouting quote you will not replace us and quote in june will not replace us this demonstration turned violent when the supreme assist approached a group of counter protesters who were gathered by

a statue of thomas jefferson a brawl ensued and that we saw one person was led away and handcuffs and one saturday august twelfth twenty seven tina white nationalists and counter protesters arrive at emancipation park ahead of schedule at eleven thirty two am a lot of force meant rules it and a lawful a symbol a after violence erupt it racial taunting shoving and brawling ensued among white nationalists and counter protesters prompting governor mccoll of to declare a state of emergency at eleven fifty two am at eleven fifty three am the university of virginia counseled all campus activities and added one hundred pm president trump responded to the violence via twitter thing quote we all must be united and condemn all that heat stands for there is no place for this kind of violence in america let's come together as one out of one forty two pm a car pull out into the downtown mall killing the woman and entering in one

thousand others the woman was identified as thirty two year old heather higher shortly after around three pm president trump speaks in new jersey condemning the violence and calling for unity shortly before five pm a virginia state police helicopter crash killing two troopers the pilot was identified as lieutenant h. j. colin and trooper pilot burke and beats. they were both responding to the violence when the chopper crashed the f.a.a. and the n.t.s.b. are investigating the cause of the crash right now there isn't any indication that there was any foul play an hour later at six pm governor mccullough holds a press conference condemning the white supremacist and violent authorities then identify the suspect in the car attack as twenty year old james alex fields jr three others were arrested during the unrest as well on august thirteenth twenty seventeen a white house spokesperson released a statement saying president trump condemns the white nationalists saying quote the

president said a very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence bigotry and hatred and of course that includes white supremacist k.k.k. neo nazi in all extremist groups he called for national unity and bringing all americans together and monday august fourteenth two thousand and seventeen fields made his first appearance in court after ramming his vehicle into debt syrians killing one in injuring several others he was denied bail fields is held on suspicion of second degree murder malicious wounding and failure to stop in an accident resulting in death solidarity events have taken place around the country for the violence that erupted and charlottesville and more are scheduled for today anya. thanks so much for breaking down some of the important information giving us a little better clearer picture of how all of these events fell into place over the

weekend we've been working very hard in washington and charlottesville to bring you the latest and one member of our team who's been working exceptionally hard is a tough this week r.t. correspondent who was not only here yesterday she was here on saturday as well natasha just a few moments ago we heard the police chief speaking here in charlottesville saying . that they've opened up a hotline for more reports of assaults to come and so that's one update we can bring you but you've really been gauging the community as reaction to this horrific event we saw take place on saturday correct trade on you know the mood is very different here compared to how it was only forty eight hours ago it's a very somber feeling that people are coming together laying down flowers and candles for the three people who died on saturday. a time for mourning and putting all of what happened saturday into perspective we're

all suffering from this. is a charlottesville residents while preparing for what she called an unpleasant event she says she was absolutely shocked regarding the death of three people tied to saturday's rally you know i've lived here for eighteen years there's nothing like this has ever happened according to bart tells it's not something her town stands for me i knew it was going to be bad we have everyone in town who was going to be violence because the groups were bragging ahead of time but the fact that someone actually lost their life that someone would actually take such a violent step to deliberately kill other people was just beyond i just couldn't believe that according to i glean a local shop owner while he's witnessed many protests during his younger days he says he was different so that was kind of as expected over there murders never expected and that took place right in my back door sitting there i heard the screams and i opened my back door to let some of the people who were fleeing the

car come in as people took shelter in my cream shop he says he knows why outside hate groups targeted charlottesville they have a third generation. hippie population politically it politically and socially left of center you know open to diversity and that despite his muslim political views i clean says he along with many other locals are for keeping the least. well attorney general jeff sessions has announced that there is now a federal investigation into saturday's rally and the driver of the dodge charger james alex fields is being charged with second degree murder in charlottesville virginia natasha sweets. thanks so much natasha we're going to get some more reaction now from activist and former former vice presidential candidate for the united states of the party first since it was a man liberation eugene per year is joining me now from washington d.c. he's also the host of by any means necessary

a show on radio sputnik eugene i want to start by getting your reaction to president trump's comments earlier today let's take a listen. racism is evil. and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the k.k.k. the white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. well the reaction well in first of all thank you for having me i have to say i think it's in the crocodile tears category here too little too late i think that the president from the very beginning of his campaign has done what no republican has been willing to do in the post civil rights era and that's take the dog whistle politics of racism public and he did everything possible to encourage the bigotry towards immigrants to encourage unbelievably racist depictions of the black community in this country to push for political violence at his campaign rallies and actually as we remember was slow to

disavow some of these white supremacist groups when they believe in dorset and i think in some ways comments really should be seen through the lens of these white supremacist groups the original comments i should say which is how great they were so now for these comments to come after the fact after a weekend of criticism from really just about everyone including most of his own party i don't really take these comments seriously at all and i think donald trump is very well aware that the and the online activity is really the gas that fuels a lot of his base and he does not really want to step in the way of the rigid spencers of the world even if you maybe wishes the world more quiet. though eugena you would know better than most people with with the work you've done for so long in washington that this is really an issue which goes beyond donald trump many were shocked by this news this weekend and i saw the reaction of the sentiment expressed

in the media that this is not this is the not the united states this is not america this kind of thing doesn't happen here though eugene i'm sitting in charlottesville just a few miles. away from wanting shallower of course one of our founding fathers that lived and own slaves i'm wondering if you can put this weekend's events in some historical context i think you make a great point they're not native so you have three founding fathers who were all slave owners who are from there you know when i was a kid the headquarters of the lead person in the national alliance the nazi group you live there they would distribute literature david duke has tried to march there in the past i mean really just fifty years ago in america you had the jim crow system in the south which was essentially a fascist dictatorship over black people in the southern parts of the united states this is a country that's built on the genocide of native americans and i think that not only is this us i think this quite frankly speaks to the fact that this country has never really reckoned with the true history of genocide of racism of slavery and that once the civil rights movement made it politically impossible to come out here

to be as racist openly and be as successful as people could be i think there's been a lot of few taishan and a lot of attempts to try to hide this but i think it's important to recognize that white supremacy these are very dangerous groups i want to minimize that at all but when you look at our society whether it's the criminal justice system whether it's what we see with housing in the crisis in affordable housing around the country whether we see if the disproportionate unemployment rates in the jobs rate the true reality of racism and white supremacy in terms of what it does to marginalize communities the deep deep historical disparities those are things that come primarily from institutions not from individuals and so many of our institutions not only find their roots in slavery but also find in their contemporary reality these disparities that are directly related to the way they were set up and the way they were set up is always directly related to the white supremacist structure of this country and the way that race is viewed many different things and so i think that unfortunately this is the united states has a deep history of races political terrorism. and if you can tie it to some of the

international issues were witnessing at the moment i brought up earlier the fact the president right in the military and. in venezuela last week not ruling it out also we know the media has been hysterical at that point intentionally talking about a potential strike on north korea how do issues of war fit in with white supremacy in this country and how do we combat it the difference in very closely i think with the other ring of people around the world i think we've seen that certainly with muslim people in this country and how the war on terror has been so many ways carried out by this unbelievable observation of what the religion of islam is about and the racialization of the religion of islam to turn out to be watched as those arabs over there kind of attitude which also clearly is not related to the system itself but i think we can see quite clearly there are an example like that other ring of people koreans that north korea must be insane and country a crazy country that it's run by unbelievable bad men who could never be acting in

any other sort of way well look you know our last president barack obama pioneered a drone program that was vaporized people from the sky at their own wedding just because some guy sitting in the bottom happened to think that maybe they looked like what a terrorist could be you could i mean how is that not crazy how is that not him so i was that not a bad man's philosophy i think we see so often that the double standards that are put forward and i raise brock obama because he was not a white man but i think it's very important that we recognize the history of american exceptionalism in american nationalism is very rooted in the history of america that is really the history of victors the history written by those who don't want to acknowledge the deep roots of slavery and genocide into how the country exists and so i think this other thing that's done of people around the world outside of america in europe speaks very heavily to the way the world is constructed the north versus the south and the fact that this whole idea of behavior is happening in the united states or coming from the united states government having a slightly better or having

a totally different framework results from this kind of chauvinism and xenophobia that i do think is heavily racially based the way it is it gets mixed up a lot of times a think the the way. we look at it but i think certainly certainly we. all that this country has a significant history of using racial bias to all there of whether it's we. want to go looking. we're unfortunately out of time eugene but i really appreciate you bringing your insight for us this afternoon as a charlottesville native that's eugene puryear host of the show by any means necessary on radio but nick thanks a lot and we're going to go to new york now where thousands of people protested today in anticipation of the arrival of president trump this after demonstrations have sparked a nationwide in response to events happening here in charlottesville over the weekend here's our trading chavez with that. that's right on your we're standing outside of trump tower right across the street as you can see behind me

hundreds of protesters are already gathering in anticipation of trance arrival here tonight like you said this is just the latest protest to take place following the incident that happened in charlottesville over the weekend over the weekend hundreds of rallies and protests also broke out all across the country let's take a look. at these protesters filled the streets of new york over the weekend marching through midtown manhattan times square and you can square demanding for the president to a few white nationalist groups including the k.k.k. and neo nazis who clashed with the anti-racism protesters in charlottesville. i can point and they go over it i mean there are they probably. are. just thinking where they continue you're on. demonstrations also took place in other major cities including seattle chicago baltimore and san francisco

to show support of charlottesville thousands took part in the multi-faith vigils and rallies across the country you are standing with one hundred other groups across the country today and leaders that are doing the. exact same thing telling people that we are going to put up an attack craft that happened in chinatown this week and. i looked to my left and i saw how they're higher lying on the ground and i saw the life pass from arise and i watched her die and from that moment on ice words myself that i would not stop the fight against white supremacy i would never let this happen again i would never let another person die. because of white supremacy because of domestic terrorism although many of them were separate demonstrations and they all shared a similar message was state of america where you were. people that point. our right right. meanwhile counter protest also took place right here. in seattle tensions were high as various counter

protesters took to the streets at one point you could even see trump supporters clashing with law enforcement police said they had to use pepper spray and blast balls to disperse crowds after fireworks were thrown at officers here you can see some demonstrators pouring milk in their eyes after being tear gassed up. president trump is expected to arrive here at trump tower later here tonight and like i said this will be the first time he's back here at the tower since taking office on january twentieth the protesters are expected to remain gathered out here until he arrives reporting in new york trinity charges are two. things trinity oh please ensure that still are under heavy fire after critics say they failed to stop the violence from escalating this past saturday speaking at a press conference just a few moments ago police chief said they regret the loss of life this weekend but

as artie's marine important i reports this is just the latest in a string of protests which show law enforcement is struggling to prevent escalation at demonstrations from college campuses to the nation's capital america's law enforcement has responded to a wave of protests in the past year some were anticipated and other demonstrations turned out bigger than expected but in nearly every case an increase in police officers failed to prevent violence and vandalism from escalating november ninth two thousand and sixteen one day after the presidential election an estimated seven thousand people flooded the streets of oakland to express outrage and indignation over donald trump's victory police were unable to prevent fires from erupting and store front windows from being smashed in fireworks tear gas and flash bangs were reportedly set off in the streets several businesses were vandalized and looted at least one police officer was injured inauguration day led to more than two hundred

people indicted on felony charges in connection with protests in downtown washington d.c. on the morning of january twentieth demonstrations over donald trump's inauguration turned violent when protesters smashed storefronts and bus stops hammered out the windows of a limousine and eventually. he launched rocks at police officers responded by launching smoke and flash bang devices into the street to disperse the crowds at least six officers were injured and an estimated two hundred thirty protesters were arrested meanwhile the campus of u.c. berkeley has turned into the site of brutal protests this year as a divided university repeatedly clashed over free speech in february some fifteen hundred students took to the streets protesting a speech by a controversial blogger and trump's supporter known as milo who was invited to the university right leaning activists attended the rally to counter protesters and

clashes quickly ensued fires were burning property was damaged fireworks and rocks were thrown among the crowd the campus suffered a reported one hundred thousand dollars in damages in the months ahead more clashes unfolded unfolded as students organized to block other controversial figures like ann coulter from speaking on campus and today as tensions throughout the country continue growing worse it remains increasingly challenging for police to serve and protect public fiercely divided marine important r.t. after saturday's event in charlottesville the word neo nazis has a once again become trending on the screens of social media and the context of the torch rally held prior to the tragedy when similar torch rallies and quite open glorification of naziism happens in europe few in the us pay attention to that party the likes euro chefs he reports. may look like last weekend's rally with

torches in charlottesville except it's not this happens every year sometimes even twice a year in the heart of europe ukraine's capital kiev and doesn't seem to surprise anyone anymore these people marched in support of the 1940's insurgency movement in ukraine saying that they were heroes who fought for ukraine's independence from the soviet union the problem is that in this fight the army openly collaborated with the nazi invading army killing tens of thousands of jews poles and russians in the process there was even an s.s. but sally and not the guy operating in ukraine and led by the man who found it the army the monster cage who was behind the anti jewish programs in the western ukrainian city of involved on june thirtieth one thousand nine hundred one basically the first thing his battalion did when they marched into the city after two thousand volts jews were massacred within the month of july back then what did that have to do with fighting for the country's independence open neo nazis and or

glorification of those who fought alongside nazis is not something new for europe in some countries those are reduced to on the ground selves and many others people with such views are actually in power or out in the streets from ukrainian far right nationalists openly supporting nazi rooms in s.s. symbols to marches in the baltic states in memory of members of the baltic s.s. legions and openly fascist golden dawn party in greece but all that rarely gets attention all of the mainstream media in the united states just recently the washington post finally rang the alarm bells in this article suggesting that the far right ultras in ukraine were holding the government by something no one wants to be held by and act with absolute impunity which does not let ukraine embrace the values it's supposed to embrace but that was a rare exception when senator john mccain and house speaker paul ryan tweeted out their gleaming impressions of meeting ukrainian parliament speaker would be. the

man whose book brough the showed him with one of the nazi s.s. symbols there was no outrage and not a word on the mainstream media and sometimes it gets even borderline bizarre when the official twitter account of nato tweeted out promotional clip of the forest brothers the one thousand nine hundred fifty s. insurgency guerilla movement in the baltic states which also fought against what they called the soviet occupation but apparently nato the organization which was created right after the fall of fascism in europe cared little for the fact that many of those guerillas were former members of the s.s. battalions as admitted even by latvian historians on the latvian history dot com website the tragedy in charlottesville reignited the talk about neo nazis in the united states when it comes to the rise of ultra fire right in europe however the media and the society on this side of the atlantic prefers to turn a blind eye which if you consider that there cannot be such things as you know holocaust nazis and the damage which was done to everyone seven decades ago is

nothing short of baffling alexy russia r.t. reporting from washington d.c. . as we witness the rise of violent white supremacist nationalist groups in the us we may better understand their agenda and motives by considering a global perspective to discuss this i'm now joined by author and investigative journalist max blumenthal thanks so much for joining us max good to be on with you know many americans i'm sure are would be shocked to learn that the u.s. has actually provided direct support for national was a nazi identified groups and ukraine so my question to you is how can the u.s. support of violence as no nationalist state abroad and then condemn that same movement here it's a great question and i think we need to start out this conversation by stating as clearly as possible that what we saw with the unite the right neo nazi white nationalist rally in charlottesville was a distinctly american phenomenon that that revolved around neo confederate symbols

that reflects the history of the united states and whose main symbol whose most important symbol was the presidency of donald trump and not any foreign leader but we also have to ask why americans don't know that their government has sent millions upon millions of dollars to the ukrainian military and its national guard units which are which include neo nazi militias like the as of the tally and they don't know that representative john conyers attempted to prevent that funding to the neo nazi as of battalion which is explicitly neo nazi whose members wear s.s. symbols and that the pentagon attempted to obstruct his men his measure because of battalion or the best fighters against russian separatists we are pumping money into a government that includes andre peru be who is from a party that claimed that it existed to defend the white race and who has recently hosted here in washington by senator john mccain and representative paul ryan two

of the key republicans who are considered sort of moderate adult figures in a washing. this is a scandal and the reason this is happening is because these are the local nazis you have the bad nazis in charlottesville but then the woak nazis who fight russia just like the wouk well hobbies that we funded in syria to fight the government of syria a russian ally and we have to also have a conversation about the three billion now it's i think four billion dollars in foreign aid we send each year to israel a country whose existence is predicated on a blood and soil ideology which now has an official policy of putting non jewish african migrants in literal camps simply because they're not jewish now imagine if that was happening in the united states to groups because they were not white that's what we're supporting there and it's the absolute height of hypocrisy for supporters of israel to attempt to condemn what happened in charlottesville while supporting this blood and soil movement. five thousand miles away i want to move on

now to president trump's thoughts or his initial reaction when the charlottesville incident took place that killed i had there higher now he said he condemned it by thing quote he traded bigotry and violence on many sides on many sides with your response to that i mean there's been a lot of low moments during the trump presidency it's definitely a race to the bottom but i would consider this his lowest moment at a time when real moral leadership was needed and it could have come from anywhere and he did what everyone in his worst critics expected him to do which is to condemn all sides when we actually witnessed a neo nazi deliberate what appears to be a deliberate neo nazi terror attack on innocent people this is a moment that the democrats should seize on and they should have seized on it from the beginning the critique of trump should have been about his bigotry about his divisiveness and about his willingness to side with a small slice of his base against the future of this country and yet the democrats

have been uncomfortable with that narrative now it's being forced upon them they have been much more comfortable with rush. gate and with attacking trolled because of foreign collusion this is about america and the future of this country if the democrats fail to seize on this moment then you know i can't really do anything for them and they've betrayed the people who were wounded and killed in charlottesville we're going to have to leave it there thank you so much max women thought that was author and investigative journalist max blumenthal. and that's going to do it for us for now from charlottesville we are here to cover the events which happened tragically this week and the death of head there higher up next you can watch my interview with rock legend roger waters thanks so much and have to think. about your sudden passing i phone leatrice learned you were yourself and taken your last turn. to cut up to us we all knew it would

i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each pair. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some more fun to those that didn't like to question it or are. secretly promised to never feel like it said one does not leave the funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with this one to. speak to us there are no other takers. that mainstream media has met its maker.

welcome to our team erica i'm on your part fill in august one thousand nine hundred 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 near peekskill new york robeson 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 a local right wing media mob of those gathered to attend a 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 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 cold 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 that peace goes on to point out it was waters himself who is saying 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 set 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 the 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 take and how is that able to happen. i don't think is able to happen. but the basis upon which is happening is that is that the apac

a pac and the. israel lobby in this country tried to post legislation in the state legislature in new york to criminalize. membership of all support for boycott divestment and sanctions they failed and. andrew cuomo the governor wrote in to stay low or it's an executive action just amazing as an individual so there is a lure of some kind which i have. come to tell you exactly what it says but which says. no organization no business is allowed to do business in new york state we've a person such as me who is involved in the. movement to try and encourage this really to modify its. purposes physically the palestinian let's get into the government because in defending his band this isn't playing

israel radio had frontman tom york 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 state why israel different it's a two part question all right. tom bjork is wrong about no indorsing the purposes of the israeli government by playing. spokes persons of that government have said how excited they are that this is the best thing that's happened for their house but which is the explaining to the rest of the world what oh. what a wonderful precious democracy israel is. and willy nilly when they cross the picket line they are making a public statement that they do indorse 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 are being so soundly criticised 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 the people of the united states have not got together as a civil society and asked performance from the rest of the world no to come and perform in the united states because they are not people and there is 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 something imposed by a bunch of foreign musicians this is something that they started that they have organized and they have made an appeal to all artists right. musicians actors directors anybody in the rest of the world to observe the picket line

which they have shown and to know to to to to observe a cultural 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 excessive all why don't we hear from you on mainstream media or on popular late night television . i'm told. that they come on so the question but it comes from above. i was told by charlie rose not directly but by his producer why isn't roger and charlie rose we're not quite sure but it comes from above that chains are you out here so it's no rocket science these are after you took these positions well the i've taken this position since two thousand and six when it's a long story but basically it's ten or eleven years and a bit my presence and simply felt by

a pack and by the israel lobby in this country which is extremely powerful as you know. very very powerful. political poaches. they wield enormous 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 kirsten gillibrand who i've actually met in the post i look forward to meeting again because i want to explain it 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 lobbying has rolled out is to call you in and eats them. i in the us 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 asked why is it when you start to call out injustice is or inaccuracies in the status quo people are immediately slapped with a label because we're living in one thousand nine hundred four you know when my children were young teenagers i insisted that they read brave new world. you have to read all children should read and oh well that may be a bit of wells maybe maybe says if there was something in french but that is where we are living now where propaganda is more important than fact is far more important and that is a huge news story about this whole thing about fake news is that people have understood. the truth facts philosophy knowledge is tree

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 really big lies often and loud and the last thing that you work in the mainstream major is anybody shining actual real light on anything so people who actually care about the predicament of the human race or about the future of this more vulnerable planet or about their fellow human beings and if they're being oppressed or killed or any or anything it's best to keep them out of the way because they may. interfere with the general narrative ysaye people are realizing this 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 plain. the visuals but many of your most well known songs written decades ago it's still correspond perfectly with the current state of politics in the united states

. one line which comes to mind is. white house how you are and we're just a few blocks from the white house right now roger what does it symbolize to you. well it's. it's an edifice that now has become symbolic of how deep at least politics in the united states but all over the western world has become separated from its potential function which was just for society civil society to organize itself in a way. that helps society to grow and develop and protect. the civil and legal rights of its citizens it is it is now the white house is said

is an edifice symbolic of the function of government which now seems to be to protect. the tiny elite of very very very wealthy man who actually run this country and the corporations who profit from the policies that are meaty doubt by the congress 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 the into society since the second world war and it's deplorable in every possible way it means that you can buy the whole political system is up because of one particular so in consequence it's an. it's an absolute it is a sure are hoping is assured now it has nothing to do with government of the people

by the people for the people there is no longer any safety net this particular administration has shown and and it's completely honest about the fact that it wants to dismantle all humane federal governmental. agencies to look after the environment the old the aged any poor anybody poor anybody they 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 it has to be kept off the mainstream media we must we must not talk we can talk about it. and you wrote that song forty years ago but in much of the establishment 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 delhomme. is he he is a nincompoop so for evidently any any kind of progress professes that publicly all the time with these tweets and just generally with the way you behave some whatever. best make anyone interested in it it states. they will be met with fury. like the world has never see so so he is different than the boma was so even though they were much smoother operators there but they. still operating policies which are fundamentally wrong and inhuman and particularly in their waging

a war against the rest of the world. this idea that the united states needs to be a military presence over the hole and needs to be. threatening as much as it can and control with as much as it can. it's deeply and desperately dangerous particularly in the world we live in where we still after all we see is have countries that have nuclear weapons so that we could you know we could be sitting here talking and what a surprise it will be if there's a bomb and all the lights go out because of some a lecture a magnetic thing and then suddenly whereas. they happen wow and it's what we've all been talking about and the wise man have all been warning us he is in and it's just last week they came out and they said they didn't stay close to you know half minutes to midnight this is the closest we've painted the nuclear catastrophe since the end of the second world war. and and yet. when we talk about

what we try to get we talk about heightening tensions with russia well yeah yeah. and it's why you know why you have to ask yourself why why would we why would we do that why would john mccain want to be going in having a war with russia why would be be wanting to have more and more boats in the black sea or wherever 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 i think i can remember his name but the foreign minister seems to be imminently sensible and i could laugh yeah i also people people i think would do well to. re the interviews the all of a stern to be because when you actually listen to it if you compare. him

with don't trump which man would you rather sit down and have a conversation with there's there's no question this one is a complete book doesn't make any sense knows nothing about anything this guy may be power hungry and he may be but at least he's least he's coherent these two can string a sentence together at least he reads about the political situations in the places that. he's his country's involved which oh that it will be said or on his doorstep. in the snow for going around in mexico he. just over the mets border so you're obviously not afraid of being called the apologists now like oliver has been he first pointing out these move cousineau afraid it's just the reality of the situation that gets to the idea that what's

important to the mainstream media is propaganda and that's what it's about it's become a tool the propaganda maybe on which signally to some extent finally as you're on the us than them to are right now throughout the states and then i believe europe as well. for your fan coming tears shows how would you like them to take your music and translated it translate it into action and their own lives their all 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't be played in their country very hard not for all israeli fans because obviously i'm in touch with many of their is a big big resistance movement. in israel some particular organization called boy cope from within run by going. and they and it's a proper organization and they're extremely brave because in the face of the

intransigence applies to this honest city in israel they are actually running their own form of resistance because they are carrying. jewish people who are deeply distressed at the purposes of the israeli government run contrary to the humane ten days of judaism or it's actually in that. what they believe that connection with with ever nature i'm an agnostic so it's really none of my business but. we do know that will is. based religion so we have the same basic ideas but we must mean something else in this city something we've done thirty exhibits and every way we say because the show is very political it's. understandable recognizing the predicament of others attaches very much to the philosophical position that we should do as we would be done by character from

charles kingsley it's water babies mrs stewart she would beat them but says that but it is incumbent upon us all and upon our politicians and 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 sitting here in washington if there were drones but seen around in the sky all day and we never knew when we were going to be blown out. because it the drone attacks prince targeted assassination simply to say i could not have been more disapproved you know when when the most stupendous trade was why barack obama can't continue 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 a while we have to fight please you you must see that being that

kind of bellicose. deadly presence in one hundred thirty seven foreign countries can only encourage a resistance to that to that completely unacceptable colonial imperialist behavior that now you can't cut the head of a state anyway that's a long conversation and 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. in a place of love for their fellow human beings to support their fellow if they want to help people they don't want to be part of this administration is charged towards ripping the rug out from our society as a whole keeping it entirely of the corporations and the few very very rich very

very greedy men run everything they want to they want that to be is 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 in to bicycle in south america where trump thinks the enemy but also we into purposes in the middle east and the only way so that they'd start addressing the idea that all human beings deserve so humid and civil rights including the palestinians in fact 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. we continue in this struggle and we're winning it this is why they called me and this

is where they want to silence me this is why they don't want me on charlie rose or stephen colbert speech he lets me play my song i'm not allowed to sit on the couch and talk. because they don't want to hear it but. it's spreading that's why this. sixty 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 class and many lawmakers are fixated on as collating 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 careerism aside to lead

with their humanity and to question more more . in case you had any doubt about what the media's job is these days brian williams has made it clear he was doing a panel about what's going on in north korea when he said that the media's job is to scare people to death for real he literally said that that is the media's job to scare people you can't make this stuff brian williams a man who has been on american televisions for more than thirty five years telling people the news and made it that the media's job is just to scare people and the

craziest part is he was completely cavalier about that statement he just said it in the middle of this discussion he was having with the panelists and no one blinked an eye no one corrected him to say well brian actually our job is to report the facts about the tensions between north korea and the u.s. and just in general no one said our job is to help people understand how we got here after decades of bad blood they just heard brian williams say that the media's job is to scare people to death not just scare them but scare them to death and they didn't even blink this is the same guy who back in april also called the launch of tomahawk missiles beautiful when the military released video of a missile strike on a syrian airfield williams actually said the beautiful pictures that night reminded him of a line from the leonard cohen song i am guided by the beauty of our weapons and then he called the images beautiful pictures of fear some armaments he practically

fond over a missile launch like a teenage girl falling over a pop star this is the same guy who just admitted that the media's job is to scare people to death he's also the same guy who was suspended from n.b.c. . as for telling people multiple lies and b.z. yanked him from his anchor desk when it was revealed that he made up a whole bunch of facts just to make himself sound more like an expert when he was doing his job of scaring people to death of course the stuff he made up was about more war he exaggerated his war experience just to sound scarier to people so it should really come as no surprise that he just said on national t.v. that the media's job is to scare people it's actually great that he finally admitted it and the surprising thing in this story is that at this point in time it still works.

that's. your launching an r t. report. that's. basically everything that you think you know about civil society has broken down. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. we should not be. normalizing. we don't need people that think like this on a plane. this is an incredibly tight situation. would you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those through. your wife.

now i've. listened to all. those. things and salutations now is the time for reflection or watchers by now i assume most of the syrian the united states of c. read or heard about the young man who's moral compass have been so consumed with hate that he would turn a vehicle and weapon in the attack of those who would stand in opposition to his fractured and important beliefs our hearts go out to have her hair and her family along with the seventeen others who were injured by this act of unjustified violence and pure cowardice now while the corporate media.