even moderately paying attention to the foreign policy agenda of the united states for the last twenty to thirty years i think it's a very safe bet that you've come across the terms humanitarian intervention or the ubiquitous spreading of democracy bandied about by any number of elected officials or state department spokesperson and well for many of the hard working folks either elected to or working for the us government that is indeed probably their legitimate goal when it comes to foreign policy and handing out aid but can bursley the old spreading of democracy has also been widely used as a justification to drop bombs and wage war by those with an agenda of pax americana full spectrum dominance this contradiction is what inspired attorney and former illinois green party candidate for governor rich whitney to ask the question does the united states government actually oppose dictatorships and championed democracy around the world as we are repeatedly told over and over and over again and what mr

whitney discovered is indeed shocking but for those of us who read between the headlines it's tragically what we expected using a combination of official government documentation and freedom house's annual global report on political rights and civil liberties mr whitney has discovered that in twenty fifteen just two short years ago the united states gave military aid training and assistance to thirty six of the world's forty nine dictatorships that's over seventy three percent of them. you know i really do think it's time for those of us here in the united states of america to ask ourselves just what kind of freedom are we truly spreading as we start watching the hawks. what would it. look like. at the bottom. like you know i got.

the. clinics around. the world watching the hawks i am tyrol been to iraq and down south a lot less so i would have been good we spreading democracy around the world well. and that's a much deeper existential question that i'm not sure we can answer and twenty eight minutes on this show but this is why we need to have that deep existential crisis so what are we really spreading and who are we spreading to the us and that's where these numbers finally have to make everybody question what worse it is actually you know it is there really is democracy is that we're you know is our motivation really the spreading of democracy is that you know to put up kind of you know puppet dictators that go along with what i mean was and then when they don't let's

just knock them down get rid of them invade and put under the guise of spreading the bark i think at the core of the over arching idea in the overarching goal is in fact the spreading of democracy and i think a lot of people who work in these departments and in these that is their call however i don't believe that call this being mad and you can't you can't make someone believe in democracy and believe in their own freedom and self-determination at the barrel of a gun you know you better not just doesn't work it doesn't work just like torture doesn't work you don't get good information you don't get good democracy that way and that's where this is saying. are we really standing up against tyrants or are we really coddling them so they're not too bad right there was in the thing you hear them and you know i do they serve our business interests do they serve our economic issues that the other big you know i think a lot of people like you said. earlier a group that i think there's a lot of people work in the u.s. government who do believe in the cause and do things like oh you know i'm not here

working for empire pax americana i'm just doing my dog job i should be doing but i think there's a lot of people that hijack those words in order to sell the american people of things you were selling of the war in iraq libya you know the military interventions that we've seen recently you know it was all sold in that we need to restore democracy and get rid of the dictators a little of that kind of thing when really it had more economic reasons it had more way more geo political reasons than whether or not we cared there were a dictator there was freedom there. for the really good snow when you look at the amount of money and what was actually spent i think there's a much better way to get people on board with democracy than the way that we did in the amount of money that was. whitney i had compared the way his sort of methods of doing this he compared freedom house rating of political rights for twenty fifteen then to the u.s. government's provision of military assistance military training military aid and weapons sales to these foreign nations and twenty fifteen so what he gets is these

number that the united states has given in a low estimate around eight billion dollars to foreign dictators. and what's interesting about this whole point with that i think people should know is that the numbers are coming from a place with bias really but not in the way that you would think it's a bias that actually should be against what what's being said there so he used an annual report called the freedom in the world report describing in it his opinion for the best source for a comprehensive list of dictatorships and freeze. societies but what you pointed out about freedom house is that it is an independent organization has a very pro-u.s. ruling class by is which i take to be someone. conservative they're going to see the sides of the same. kind of havoc on. so it actually helps unbiased the conclusions in his research by saying here's this

bias still comes out that is actually really interesting because i don't want to i mean there are places on these lists that i'm mike. but there's places where i'm like why why why if we have a problem with cuba if we have a problem here why are we selling our what's interesting is you know i'm talking about crowd of the world report of freedom's bios the most put together again it's all very you know it all comes down to very your pure opinion of things of opinion of different governments but what's interesting really is that you know iran and syria are on the list of dictatorships despite the fact that you know iran had an election last year that put a moderate leader yasser rouhani is considered a moderate president you know syria has a lecture russia clearly has elections you know these are your classic dictatorships as one would ever even dream to think oh you know but we're told that a lot of times so they're on the list that he used to divide dictatorships if you take them off the list you know and say ok let's say you know other side of the argument they're not particular ships just of you just pull those three and pull

those three are you talking about seventy the u.s. has given money them to seventy eight percent of the world dictatorships it's absolutely ridiculous we need to rethink what who we're giving aid to especially when it comes to military training and weapons. saudi arabia's restrictions on women are well known and much criticized from rules keeping women from opening a business or getting elective surgery without permission of their male guardian to requiring women to cover nearly all of their body in public but this week the unthinkable happened amongst the conservative political push in many. parts of the world on tuesday saudi ambassador to the united nations happily announced that you may be interested to know that a few minutes ago a royal decree has been issued in saudi arabia giving women the right to drive this is a historic day for saudi society for men and women we can now say at last that's right on june twenty fourth of twenty eight thousand provisions of regulations will

be in place that will allow women to obtain a driver's license without the permission of their male guardians in the kingdom of saudi arabia is comes just months after another royal directive in may of this year that allowed women more access to government services without approval of male guardians many see this as a sign that the next in line for the throne crown prince mohammed bin some is trying to move the ultra conservative nation to a more progressive future however this move may be more about the almighty by shoring up their labor force encouraging education and economic independence from oil profits into a more renewable resource women saudi arabia can stave off irrelevance and a fossil free future and despite the fact that there is still a long way to go for women in saudi arabia this move shows that even ultra conservative patriarchal societies are beginning to respect the power of women to transform and enrich communities and economies for the better. it's interesting saudi arabia so do you really abuse oil. as we were thought i would see about it

come much later in my life time given their history. of what i do use. is only really been around this whole thing with the driving thing is it hasn't been around it's not as if this is this regular and it's not part of sharia law it's this patriarchal idea of protecting women because they could get hurt or there was one guy who said something about her ovaries getting those that were driving. out of this information where about women it's interesting when you get into this. you. mentioned of resource and getting this in the economic terms which is what a lot of governments think of they like to kind of hide it and flowery hey we're doing all this for good but you know what it's about resources right but what's interesting about that is it's these oil rich nations that have depended on it to be their backbone for so long are starting to realize that that's not going to be there that the real resource just like here in the united states the resource we have isn't in mountains of national parks it's in our people you know china

understands that russia understands that a lot of european nations understand that when it comes to education they have thought that because you figure you can live off oil forever perfect but what you've been looking out lately is that only twenty two percent of saudi women were even in the workforce as of two thousand and fifteen and according to the saudi ministry of education fifty one point eight percent of university students in that country are one that while more women are going to college than men that's a good sign and more women are just getting involved and that's a good sign for equal rights in the countries that are educated in the more you know the more that they're getting these doorways open to them the more they're going to take advantage of them hopefully change that culture for the better does nothing to do with economics are they going to i mean their statistics as well the more women are studying for bachelor degrees well over twenty thousand women are working on master's degrees and. that's the extraordinary blow when what women are participating in education has tripled over the last three decades but we were

talking about money in the end that kind of element if there isn't a money angle it's never going to. leave out sometimes how did the equal rights didn't work that way but how how does this influx of viably you know allowing women to have equality even if it's going to just driving how is that affecting the money well finally someone figured out you know how math and money were over there and why keeping women at home and not being up the driver a was a such a huge spaying so it's estimated that by lifting the ban this could move saudi. yes g.d.p. to nearly sixty five percent from the private sector that's a huge amount so that they're not reliant on fossil fuels or this to make their g.d.p. if more of their g.d.p. is coming from that private sector it's better for them. and better for their economy a director of economic research at the gulf research center and riyadh had actually said lifting the ban will have an enormous trickle down effect for many sectors of

the economy from automobiles to retail consumption the greater productivity you know. just being the cynic but also part of me thinks that don't you think that this is also something a little bit to do with the pressures of like you know so they don't like the human rights at all of the u.s. i mean you can always kind of critically so if you were to get away with anything or try to get away very big over the world the best in the region. look how you treat all the women i mean look you know gays women things like that and they're realizing that these things are trying to protect women and a patriarchal society ended up costing them money right oppressing people cost the the oppressors money and a long run by not having them be part of it and that's why because employers were subsidizing a lot of this because it was causing a thousand dollars a month to hire a private driver and those private drivers were usually men about one point five million men their ex-pats from other countries from south asia so now you're

looking at something where you have there so what happens now maybe women will be able to drive as a profession perhaps women will be driving women. and then you've got a bunch of women and a car talking to each other and i got to tell you saudi arabia you're. you might want to get ready for. the love boat and i'm going to. go into a bit of groups that are not something that will give them credit where credit's due they are sort of trying to push that but the women credit really goes not to the government not to the patriarchy in saudi arabia to the women who fought and fought fought and. as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered of facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our two dot com coming up we turn our attention to the startling new direction growing inside the republican party following alabama's shocking election primaries also as political commentator steve malzberg enters the office less so stay tuned to watch for all.

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they call him was appointed to replace attorney general jeff sessions and ever since then has been a reliable vote in the white house's corner but to many in the president's base big loser was just well to senatorial low energy the president called him to friends even as he went to campaign for him so in a stunning blow to mitch mcconnell and the entire g.o.p. establishment voters in alabama instead opted for roy moore a former chief judge twice removed from office who suggested making a homosexual conduct illegal and claimed d.n.c. vice chair keith ellison shouldn't be allowed in congress for taking his oath of office on a qur'an and in the shadow of last night's results many republicans in washington appear to be in well silent terror with a c. retirement some nationalists breitbart field primary challenges piling up by the day to make more sense of last night and this looming civil war in the grand old party we're joined by political commentator. thanks for joining us dave my pleasure

steve. help us on this because there's a it seems to me there's a really strange do so the president dorst luther strange strange strange campaign for him and apparently now he's embarrassed a little teed off with his lies that he endorsed a loser and even one two and deleted all of his tweets backing who they call big loser within minutes of the defeat but you know many including the r. and c. are claiming this is a victory for trump and his agenda. victory last word what's going on here in the well if it were ok for first of all you know his support for luther strange when he made that campaign speech in alabama he most notably to me said hey by the way if the other guy judge moore wins i'm get a campaign like for him against the democratic candidate as well so we kind of hedges bet there the person who fits with the trump agenda more so than string. is

judge moore what happened yesterday was a victory and it wasn't the first i mean this isn't the first step of a civil war or anything but this civil war and what upset the apple cart to the republican establishment was donald trump in the first place donald trump was born of the republican establishment and the fact that the people are fed up with the republican establishment and then the failure to i believe partially by choice to an actress agenda so far it was a natural that moore would win why did trump back strange a couple of reasons i think first of all i think he was trying to have some leverage over mcconnell they've had their differences they've had their words and mcconnell is no fan of trump and vice versa he still is the majority leader and now trump could say hey you know i did you this favor i backed your guy and secondly strange is going to remain in the senate until the end of the year to the beginning of next year when the new congress is sworn in so there's still votes to get at

a strange and you know now strange has an allegiance which he already had still to trump trump when in fact more strange might have bucked the president and as you know every republican vote counts and as far as the leading tweets of course i mean wouldn't you know i mean if you sort of somebody who lost and now you valid to previously to campaign for the new guy you would have got rid of the old tweets anybody would have done that i don't i don't see that as a big deal interest i love my experience that go back and say that i was around and all the ones i said trump whatever when i had i lost a model to prove a point. the other major shift that i've been noticing also is you know tennessee senator bob corker he's a senior republican and mcconnell and nancy is retiring at the end of a term it seems like there is this wave of moderate house republicans that are announcing their retirements or going into private sector is this a foreboding of a shift in the congressional g.o.p. towards a more nationalistic. going into the midterm elections and it's not just of winning

i mean it's that all those that are added say. that could we get that to spread to paul ryan and connell somehow well because that would be the best thing ever i just think that corker i mean corker there's been stories written on breitbart about you know deals and whatnot and i don't know if that's the reason or not but you know let's let's talk about steve benen for a second here steve bad in may because of the becoming a kingmaker and steve benen has an allegiance to donald trump he said good conservative radio hosts like levin and like laura ingram and like and then you got . pale and they all were for more they all say this helps trump's agenda and it does bad then is not only was out there campaigning for more he's now reportedly traveling the country trying to recruit people who will primary some of these house of representatives moderates to left wingers and also some senate candidates mark green who might who was a primary corker quite possibly was reportedly in the state of alabama meeting with

ban and now bands traveling so let's not underestimate or overlook that bannon's role in this election and going forward you also have people like to talk about peyton manning possibly running for the corker seat or maybe waiting until two thousand and twenty for lamar alexander you have kelly ward in going against jeff flake in arizona and we've got to get rid of flake especially if you're a trump supporter and you also have danny tarkanian in nevada so you have these unorthodox kind of people seeking office i think it will spread and this is the true trump agenda make no mistake about it if we get all these people in he will have the votes to push forward with his agenda. peyton manning you know with the you know it's kind of a reminder and i thought i don't know who would ever go against pain and and. there

is no doubt that it will just just just quit now if you're going to put it on you also get a slogan be a on your side i don't know who those who were this is going to and then you also i mean you've also heard all sorts of names bandied about from mark cuban and drink politics and you've got kid rock. saying he's going to run for senate in michigan potentially i mean are we going to see more of this pattern of i mean look i know something about celebrities running for and was my brother is a good example you know but are we going to see more of this kind of pattern down the line in what in what you see on the horizon i think so i think you know they look at donald trump success unorthodox shaking things up no political experience to talk about and he's president of the united states so it does a bold and people and that's not a bad thing i mean i would never vote for mark cuban and i doubt that he would run as a republican although you might think he could but yeah i mean all of welcome i think people are fed up on both sides with career politicians i'm not saying everybody

who you know is a public figure is qualified to run a country a be a politician or serve in congress or whatever or just because they play football for that matter but i think choices is what real democracy is about and up till now it's been limited to just career politicians supported by the establishment that is changing. do you see let me ask you this because i haven't seen a live strong female candidates coming out of the g.o.p. lately i mean everybody seems to be that you know we just drag out sarah palin and put her in a shiny jacket that you know your female candidate where are the strong conservative women that well that are not blackburn sorry marsha blackburn is is been her name has been bandied about is running for one of those texas senatorial seats she's a strong congresswoman and congressman as she likes to call herself and support and you know they can serve. sarah palin i mean our time has come and gone certainly

but look what they did for and this isn't the reason but look what the left does to conservative women it's exactly what they do to conservative blacks and conservative hispanics and conservative days when sarah pailin was picked by john mccain i believe it was the president now came out and said he might as well have picked a white male because in the left wing more old if you are not you know if you don't fit the stereotype then there's something wrong with you and you're as bad as a white male and we know there's nothing worse than a white male in the minds of the i'm glad i'm so i can finally admit now that i have in the minds of the yeah i think the left has a problem just understanding the difference in general and it's something i understand about the left wing sort of in the middle left person myself that. they don't really know how to hold women to support each other when if it even comes close to hurting their like establishment now look i look at the shelter obama today i hate to interrupt look at michelle obama today joining the bandwagon of her

and hillary clinton both saying that you know women women made a big mistake you know they were talked into voting for donald trump they didn't know what they were doing and who in which women were these white women fifty three percent of white women so hillary's attacked them now shell obama today attacked them this is a problem for that party i mean they don't learn their lesson and they're just in my view destroying themselves every time they open their mouths. you know for people on the left and hardcore democrats and even you know burning supporters and then of all sources in the world they want to get your opinion do you see these two parties because i'm a big party guy i was independent i like trying to take a bus so i didn't really know about a minute left but do you see these two parties are socially possibly fracturing in the future and becoming maybe four or you know each one kind of doing their own wings and kind of what's going to happen to be richer i think until the money issue is taken out of politics and i don't know when that will be just a. so you're third party candidate or somebody independent you know winning the

presidency possibly winning you know senatorial elections and congressional elections that would have to be the first step but i just don't see i mean the democrat party i think there are a million places right now but when push comes to shove they always vote lockstep they do what they're told the republicans have the two factions basically and they don't vote lockstep which is a good thing but if you're conservative and you're trying to get tax reform and whatever it's not so good most of those thank you so much for coming on and they always were i would actually look forward to having you want to get up early it was a pleasure thank you thank you. nasa has taken on a lot of scientific challenges throughout its existence but touching the sun may be their most courageous yet the parker solar probe will go where no man or woman has gone before to the ground or super heated atmosphere of our most important star the sun nicholas fox of the johns hops and its hopkins inner university applied physics laboratory explains what else makes this mission so important it's actually

a very historic event is the first time nasa has named a mission after somebody during their lifetime and so dr paul wrote a seminal paper which was published in one nine hundred fifty eight actually named this expanding atmosphere of the sun he named it the solar wind and he also came up with theories for how this extreme temperature could exist and how it could be accelerated and so you know we carry his name and we're going to go up into this region to finally come to unlock the mysteries. of the parker solar probe will launch to unlock mysteries in the summer of twenty eight hundred history and the future shining bright like a diamond in the sky who i love love to see inside of breaking those boundaries and it's our star. going out was through. that was our job you did there. body remember

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