we're big oil we don't do anything bad we've never had spills like this and look at all these jobs that we could bring like they said and tried to sell people on three hundred twenty full time jobs during the terminal construction which is one time all the jobs are going to build one hundred seventy six direct onsite jobs one hundred seventy six people four hundred forty direct offsite jobs ok sir talk about maybe six hundred seven hundred jobs so far and seven point eight million in tax revenue annually compared to water you can't drink soil that's totally destroyed and polluted how many millions and clean up the giraffe are going to i mean it's incredible when you talk about the money to spend on cleaning up these messes when they occur yes and that seven million dollars a year isn't going to cut it when a spill happened you know the average cost me united states of cleaning up after a spill just stopping the spill and then cleanup and mitigating all of the damage is at least sixteen dollars per gallon so when you put them into into numbers the

deepwater horizon cost about ten billion dollars and the exxon valdez once you. adjust for inflation was six billion dollars so something tells me if you've got tens of thousands of gallons rolling on train tracks next to a river in your big and we want to dredge the columbia river and we want to do all these other things there's city on a number of industries and businesses that we don't want we don't want to we don't want to we don't want to take this break but we have to our quadruped don't forget to let us know what you think of a proper group cover of facebook and twitter your polls show that r.t. dot com coming up in the rights of thirty eight offered them called elected office of us to discuss is that was. your fascinating i'm sure cover for farcical topic states and.

i want to show people of russia that there is another point of view if this is the goal of my campaign i know you can't win on the elections where only point it always wins for there is no talking what would be if i would win i will never win on the elections like in the casino where always because even though we. seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better luck with that better and i think they are and hurting one of my my babies since my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been killed by far olds in the us going out of thought to me as i did as this is

a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw it to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know this but we are not. among those who knew him when you don't. see the teachers who are. there to court to get. what they need most through only ten best. makes. love to know they. said. some claiming to know german did that to. alex you speak french. most of the.

that said he was sent to new orleans when he still could only suppose it might lead them to let's not discuss. the. siren fury maybe the apt title of a gossipy tell all about the trumpet ministration and it's certainly an accurate moniker for the kind of senselessly bare knuckle tactics the president prefers when it comes to deporting illegal immigrants or facing off against perceived enemies of america like the mainstream media north korea's little rocket man or the islamic republic of iran but what many tend to forget is that fire and fury could also very well describe america's foreign policy when it comes to washington's designated

list of problem country for many many decades and administrations prior to the orange and cheap and no nation on earth has experienced the full nonsensical brunt of america's diplomatic approach from the people of iran to explore how our long history of fire and fury impacts today's complex world we welcome dan koblick a human rights attorney professor at university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to attack iran welcome. thank you for having me always a pleasure having you on brown and i want to start when i say i feel like you know the title of your book and this letter i feel like this has been coming for a long time i mean the u.s. . ought to read it as as you know it is basically pretty hostile and become a trademark of kind of donald trump's republican party but how does that actually comparative the u.s. already in relationship historically is the kind of aggression interference you know really all that new when you look at the u.s.

relationship with iran. well no and in fact that's one thing i try to emphasize in my book. it's if you go back to one nine hundred fifty three in the iranians remember this very well the cia's very first. date i was in iran the cia overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of iran mohammad most a deck in star installed the shah of iran a king we then helped i should say the cia helped the shar set up his security services called the sock train the savar could not see the type torture techniques . and helped the shah rule iran until the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine. through very repressive tactics again this is something very much in the memories of the iranian people and something that i think americans need to

consider when we think about iran and how the iranian government and the iranian people perceive our government. one of the things that that sort of has come up now is that washington the mainstream media really quick to to pay the wave of recent protests in iran as you know a budding popular revolution against the government you know as well here it is now you recently bento ron and have seen the situation on the ground for south and i want to ask you is the political structure there really as close to chaos and failure as the establishment's and the mainstream media is leading us to believe. no i believe not i mean my perception of iran. when i was there is first of all that it's a very modern country in some ways it's very western a lot of people speak english most of the signs aren't english and farsi certainly they're struggling but they're largely struggling because of western sanctions against

a country which have cost their economy over one hundred sixty billion dollars and so yes there are economic problems again largely imposed specifically by the united states there are issues of political freedom of course there that people are concerned about but i think you know iran is in the process and has been in the process of democratizing of liberalizing and i think they need to be allowed to find their own path to development and to democracy again keeping in mind that we interrupted their democratic process in one nine hundred fifty three. and the u.s. has spent a lot of money trying to gin up opposition to violent opposition to the government there and that has to be kept in mind also and when looking at these protests most definitely you know it's interesting the political struggles for new years has been

you know pushing hard recent years the tyrone's government the world's predominant sheo power to various sunni muslim terrorist networks which is like al qaeda and i says a relationship that would seem pretty unnatural to say the least is there any truth to this axis of power concept or is it an attempt to harden public opinion against the run and really you know go and part and parcel to this plot that you talk about as the title of your book. where you raise a great point i mean the truth is that he ron is and has been a mortal enemy of terrorist groups like al qaida isis people might not remember this but. right after nine eleven iran helped the united states in its operations in afghanistan against the taliban and against al qaida and george bush even recognized this i mean he had knowledge that they were very critical to our operations because again their natural enemies. of these you know

extremist sunni. terrorist groups like al qaida and isis but then george bush thanked them by declaring them as part of this axis of evil even though at the time iran thought they were going to get a better diplomatic deal after helping us. after nine eleven and by the way the supreme leader of iran right after nine eleven condemned the nine eleven attacks in many ways in iran is a natural. friend of the united states in the war against terror and yet we have shunned them time and again and instead opted to be friends with countries like saudi arabia which in fact support al qaida and isis and that in the lead to use it to my second question is that you know over the last two decades since nine eleven we have the publicly available intelligence absolutely reveals many more ties between anti-u.s. terrorist groups you anti-u.s. terrorist groups and saudi arabia not iran yet one of the one is considered to be

among america's top out america's top allies the other is treated like a mortal enemy and in that same way it it feels a lot like when it was saddam made nine eleven happen and somehow now we're still playing that same game that ironic made all this happen it was a run with no evidence and no real answer to that why why do we seem so bifurcated on this saudi arabia grave or ran horrible despite. yeah well again is a. little mention in my book the plot to attack iran iran is the big prize and has been the big prize for the new economy stablished the u.s. for a number of decades the truth is it's one of the last stable countries in the middle east standing because frankly the u.s. has yet to invade their. i believe it's quite frightening to me that there are powerful members of the us stablish men who want to entirely remake the middle east

. iran is in their way of course iran has oil which has always been of interest to the united states and what is sad is the u.s. has shown a willingness and self. to aid and abet terrorist groups like isis in order to weaken iran. to accomplish this goal of remaking the middle east which frankly has done nothing but unleashed chaos. upon that region and i think that's why americans need to really rethink what their government and their military are doing in the middle east and i would hate to see iran go that way of iraq to see the beautiful antiquities of iran destroyed as they were in iraq or afghanistan or syria. i think people need to step back and call on their government to to refrain from such

a conflict against their country i couldn't agree with you more you know even after the disasters seem unfold in iraq libya and syria after u.s. attempts to bring about regime change you know people still seem to be taking to this idea of invading iraq i think almost too lightly do you think an all out war with iran is in the cards i mean obviously wrote the book the plot to graft iran but do you think that the plot will come to food fruition is that something that we're going to see in the next few years i think it's a potential it is a potential believe me i hope it does not happen and that's why i wrote this book because i don't want it to happen but yes i think it's a potential as you point out it would be disastrous. iran is a huge country it's about the size of alaska and it has about eighty million people it has a very strong military attacking iran would be much much more difficult than the war against iraq or the war against the taliban in afghanistan which of course

we're still fighting to this day years later right. but i fear there are people. in power in this country who may be willing to take that risk and frankly may be willing to use tactical nuclear weapons to pull something like that off and that that's my big fear and i think americans need to be aware of that possibility and need to organize against it when one when they talk about iran on t.v. politicians or b.t.o. what is the best piece of advice you can give a viewer to through the b.s. as it were to kind of you know one of the key words they should watch out for were listening to the you know someone talk about iran who you know is pushing this agenda we're going to short i've worked. well again i think they need to look past the word terrorist and again realize that iran is not the country supporting terrorist groups that are somehow threatening the united states they need to look

at our history with iran they need to look take stock in the fact that we were the ones that destroyed their incipient democracy in the fifty's and they were not the ones who are going to move further towards democracy you know that they're going to have to do that themselves iran has on a couple of occasions occasions are for the u.s. a grand bargain to settle the u.s. has concerns in the middle east while giving iran the security that it wants in the frankly it's entitle to and i think we need to take them up on that couldn't agree more damn cold voice thank you so much for coming on i've been talking about your new book coming out the plot to attack iran thank you so much. thank you. imagine what would happen if north became sow and couldn't text your friends about it well according to research on dark magazine and the laboratory for atmospheric faces a space physics at the university of colorado boulder there are signs that the earth's

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i. i i. the b.b.c. is accused of bias as the u.k.'s house of lords questions at the corporation's breaks of coverage following the release of the damning reports we hear from one of the authors. i think it's pretty cold that a public broadcast risk you. trial is so dramatically in this direction political issue that's all you. donald trump is caught saying he will definitely release of the contents of a controversial classified memo alleging abuse of surveillance powers by the f. and israel is just sued to new zealanders who allegedly convinced the pop star lord to cancel her tel aviv concert.

or broadcasting one direct from our studios in moscow this is art international and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now the b.b.c. has been accused of bias in its breadth that coverage with of the majority of its guests said to hold a pro e.u. stance that is according to several recent reports which have prompted anger in britain's house of lords the corporations of toral guidelines however say it must be inclusive and reflect a diversity of opinion making heard the full spectrum of voices on the political stage but the reality of appears to be quite different in practice. across our output as a whole we must be inclusive reflecting the breadth and diversity of opinion we must give due weight to the many and diverse areas of an argument.

to leave has left us with a group of leaders who having lit the fire of all runaway breaks it is a historic mistake but one is with if it breaks my heart i lie in bed tonight worrying about the outcomes of backset once again i'm the sole lever on a v.c. panel that. frankly the p.p.c. has become the supporter of a foreigner organization. called the european union of the brics it's true mr david did this city recently that his drive in brussels this move even more difficult if every time he makes a small advance that is probably on the mind for the b.b.c. get sure that in order because you do a duty of impartiality. we

spoke to market littlewood director general at the institute of economic affairs which was behind one of the reports on the b.b.c.'s coverage. but it's true that we are no longer in a referendum period and it is true as the b.b.c. said in a statement by a focus g. wave that it's no longer a binary choice but the problem is this although there are a wide range of choices do we leave without a day old do we stay in with a transitional period do we stay in the single market do we stay in the customs union and if so for how long or there are now wide range of options really those range of options are subsets of the remaining camp and belief cap i think is pretty poor that a public broadcaster is skewed that gets some panelists so dramatically in this direction on the top political issue of the top teams. in general in britain the stagnation figures famous figures and influential people

have tended to be in favor of a you membership it's more the ordinary man or woman who rebelled against the political status and intense believe site it seems to be the balancing act for people's views on breakfast and making sure you have a fair share of voice from both ends and all ends of the argument should be a very very high priority indeed. i think the politicians on the leave side of the argument those who are in favor of projects that are beginning to lose their patience with the b.b.c. the baby say would argue that they always take flak from every side people on the center right compline a center left people in the center left complain that the center right and if you are taking sort of equal amounts of flak for the criticism from all sides of the fight for perhaps that's a sign that you have got balance but i would say that the baby say now should be concerned but there are politicians who are seriously raising in the british parliament in the house of lords genuine concern about whether the baby so you really can be considered a neutral broadcaster one that doesn't just show

a diversity of views but a proper balance and if the baby see starts to lose the faith of politicians in the public. in that key question of neutrality then i think over the longer i have a great deal of problem justifying the present funding possibly even the present crisis of their existence r.t. contacted various unions and organizations that represented journalists for their reaction so far only the zero s. c.e. has gotten back to us but they refused to comment. white house says it plans to release a controversial classified memo allegedly detailing abuse of surveillance powers by the f.b.i. you know it's been comes after donald trump was caught on a hot mike saying the same as he was leaving the house chamber after his state of the union address but really. what.

it is claimed the document reveals f.b.i. abuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act particularly with regards to claims found in the infamous trump dossier if confirmed it could damage confidence in the bureau and the ongoing probe into trump's alleged russian links the memo was drafted by the chairman of the u.s. house intelligence committee which voted on monday to make it public some house members who read the memo called it shocking and worse than watergate president trump has until friday to decide whether to release it there has been a huge call to make the document public with the hash tag release the memo trending both on twitter and facebook meanwhile a counter memo drafted by the democratic minority on the house intel committee is being blocked from release by the republicans top democrats believe that the release campaign is yet another kremlin plot they have demanded the social media giants reveal that it was russian bots promoting the hash tag though twitter and facebook deny this at all and democrats are now pressuring both companies to find evidence of moscow's and. your replies have raised more questions than the von sid

we cannot wait to know the years to learn how criminal link trolls and bullets apparently exploiting you all platforms to influence debates going on in congress today democratic congressman adam schiff says the memo opens the door for trump to fire key people looking into russia's alleged meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election brian crabtree publisher of talk forty dot com and political talk show host believes that the democrats profit from pushing a narrative that obscures trump's successes our economy is on fire things are happening in america for the first time in a decade or decades in the democrats want to bet on the failure of america because that's where they gain power again if trump succeeds then what do they have to offer so they'll blame it on russia that seems to be the argument they fall back on it's all russia's fault i think it would be a bad idea politically to fireballer now they'll get me wrong i'd like to see that happen i think it's an investigation about nothing about nothing the american

people don't trust the f.b.i. so worried about releasing the memo worrying about the facebook aspects of this the american people have already lost the trust of this level of our government the way we restore it restore it is to put the spotlight on it shine it on the problems and the corruption get those people out of there and put new people in place that will definitely rebuild the trust in the f.b.i. and most importantly i think it starts by releasing at least the most important component of this is a memo after president first a state of the union address on tuesday reaction was mixed from standing ovations to booing parties and samir khan was following the speech with commentary. on foreign policy there was plenty of american exceptionalism mixed with platitudes and clichés he introduced the subject by naming every so-called threat to the u.s. but in general it was all pretty vague he didn't go into detail explaining how he would accomplish any of these goals but beyond that trump took credit for eliminating isis and he seemed to have hinted at continued military presence in the

region saying quote we will continue our fight until isis is defeated he ended it with north korea calling it the worst of all dictatorships warning that their pursuit of nuclear weapons could very soon threaten our homeland even though d p r k has never attacked another country before north korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threat our homeland past experience has taught us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation i will not repeat the mistakes of past administration that got us into this very dangerous position while russia and china have been trying to reduce tensions between the u.s. and north korea and they even called on the u.s. to provoke them anymore but somehow they were designated as threats and from speech around the world we face rogue regimes terrorist groups and rivals like china and

russia that challenge our interests our economy and us in confronting these horrible dangers we know that weakness is the surest path to conflict and matched power is the surest means to our true and great effects i was just a watching mainstream coverage earlier and the only criticism big had wellies foreign policy wise was that he was apparently too soft on russia and you know the united states requires to have major enemies to justify the seven hundred. billion dollar defense budget which is actually one point one trillion if you break it down so these are all important noises for the president to make the state of the union to sort of shore up support from the defense bloc as it were to chinese it does ring a bit cold war ish to russia however.