that with the russia gate narrative we see that with syria where it's you know allegations of chemical weapons nonstop we see that with the current and well it's not even an investigation there's been no investigation into the poisoning of the double agent in london. and so you know we look at figures like bill kristol who is a long time neo conservative guy did his his his think tank the project for a new american century that guided the bush administration into war with iraq and now he's welcomed on m.s.n. b.c. on major networks and so i think you know regardless of liberal conservative our mainstream media there is a pro where pro war narrative that voices anti-war voices that one time were allowed to come on anti-imperialist voices have been totally excluded and the entire range of discussion is basically when are we going to bomb and let's do it now and was soon can we at the house you know for peace and what's interesting too

is you saw the shift in i would say the two thousand and six two thousand and seven around the time of the democrats back and that are really took the. congress because you saw that anti-war movement big shift and all of these people were you know the crystals and all them are like oh no get these people off t.v. we don't like them at all that it's dramatically in even the obama era you didn't really see bill going on t.v. that often as an example but then you saw this dramatic shift the moment trumpets and soldiers ask you given you know your history of studying politics in this country do you think the one the democrats say the democrats can remove trump or win them get him out we got the times i guess will that shift and suddenly bill's out of the gate all these people that we trust now who say trump's bad well they suddenly be like oh no we don't like you anymore well i mean this is the folly of partisan politics you know all of these liberals who like oppose the war in iraq it was because it was a republican agenda but when obama you know fed weapons to syria which ended up in the in the hands of jihad he's there's no no problem with that you know. enforcing

the red line these kinds of things there's really no opposition that current soldiers keep on spinning around i thank you very much they are always a pleasure thank you all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter sphere full shows r t v dot com coming up we crack open the books they don't want you to read with author and speaker of the block and stay tuned to watching the hawks. the most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way to good catching. it's only when i'm themself a much larger mission was one that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not geared toward long term survival and that's why we

have the catastrophes. banks geysers financial survival they say money the balance is only going to be easy this is a central plank support diatom is kind of common right now so you stop to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. thank you. the removal suppression and restriction of circulation of literary works or educational materials is known as book censorship and it's not a part of american culture since the mayflower so the governor of plymouth william

bradford charge that thomas morton had to compose sundry rhymes and verses some tending to listen he is miss morton was eventually banished by the puritan colony and for his actions of sixteen twenty eight really four hundred years later we're still holding on to those puritan beliefs that words can poison the soul that must be contained hidden or even destroyed and twenty six email is office for intellectual freedom found that over half of all books banned in us schools libraries and universities are by authors of color and contained ideas that are outside of the perceived to mainstream and those brain twisting propaganda pieces threatening the minds of the nation's news their books like the color purple by alice walker beloved by toni morrison the autobiography of malcolm x. and i no way that caged bird sings by my angelou classics by some of the greatest american authors ever yet bain and in many modern public schools for fear it will offend or confuse parents and students as someone rushed the one said what is

freedom of expression without the freedom to offend it ceases to exist to help us understand this a little deeper is all for a professor do you walk in to welcome what you guys don't have a good group a good guy you want to start with ask you what what is deep what can you know what what are your favorite bad books what's your list sort of watching say what you know what's your top three top five but books that they should go out and read so it would definitely be the autobiography of malcolm it is like i think it's such an important book as educator you can give your kids this book show on this amazing journey show them the many different transformations he went through. and you compare it with a movie so as a reward for so that would definitely be number one on the list of the next would be color purple you know the same thing like these brilliant brilliant stories written by a brilliant people and. we only hurt people when we keep the truth away from them yes we do yes we do it's true as you guys know because the truth teller that's what

we tried every day to get in trouble that you know that's i mean. because when i look at these books i'm looking at this list and i'm thinking i read that some great i read that high school i read this in college these were books that were you know i guess we weren't maybe not as sensitive in the eighty's and ninety's and kids weren't able to handle it and i think that's the weird part what what you know how did these books banned books affect kids who either aren't reading books because hard to get kids to read a lot of times or getting them but also when they have parents who don't or can't read how does the ending these books make it even harder how does that affect kids especially children of color who aren't seen books that reflect that so you know a long time ago before the twitter instagram and even television right there were books now that kind of. people the most wealthy people always had the best libraries they had the books they had the knowledge they could take that knowledge

. develop the strongest critical thinking skills in the world to use those skills to give everyone else day realities it's the same thing the only difference now books way more sensible now we are taught that we hate reading when i was a kid i thought i hate reading. it wasn't you know it was uncommon to see books like huckleberry finn and tom sawyer next you know next to the old banana pill running in a dumpster writing this is nothing as mark twain but there was so many contemporary books when i was going to school in the ninety's. come up you know going to school and then it was so many there was so many books that spoke to my experience and even like the early two thousand where if i was in high school and you gave me a book like nathan mccall you want to holler i would have read it if you would again be called as one of us just a soldier i would have read it but instead you've given us books that you know we can't connect with and we never develop those critical thinking skills so we're just like the people from back in the hundreds and we're walking around with heads

full of someone else's ideas and it's dangerous and it's very dangerous it's very very dangerous you know and it's interesting people's reactions to things that they don't want other people to read or don't understand themselves and people see something they don't understand keep away from it scares me yeah right i don't like it and that kind of leads into the i think a pub big part of the banning of books i don't understand it i don't like it and it might influence some of the wrong way it's that idea of like you know is reading the n. word in huckleberry going to make someone a racist you know is the fear of you know that fear of profanity and challenging people's beliefs more of just kind of trickled down of that period to country that the united states was founded upon because we forget that we forget we're very puritan religious you know dogma you know of any of criticism of of the standard or that. the standard of what verses to be was punished and you still see it today it's like oh this group of people shouldn't. or you know that shouldn't be that way

or see these things in this group people shouldn't see this exhibit you know. there was you're out of huckleberry finn and that's when it gets brought out because they might get confused if they read this and you might not understand but i learned a lot about race from reading hockenberry fan i mean it's the great teacher in the reasserted too late now ok so you ban it back when you know people could have taken a lot from it and then when it becomes old and outdated you try to feed it to these young people who've already moved on the schools right now giving kids the scarlet letter these kids already are having sex and paying for abortions and make it like this is a whole different to think about it think about it like this. when we were kids right if you were going to like do something like you know like you know you could buy community magazine or something like that right so you can sense it that you can control what i had to work really really hard to see that you had to really yes to your older brother is just collection thank you to get a boy or somebody you know serious business now these kids click

a phone everything's instant so why are we trying to censor their experiences when they can really get their hands on everything that any any and everything and. again we're not doing anything but hurting them because of that you because they're not they're not going to be able to function and never get to decide if they don't get those go and sort of that idea of like having a bubble around and i think the lesson of. i mean one hundred schools and let me just say you know like my book has been the b. side has been in a lot of schools because of profanity right i've been to these schools and these kids have said curse words that i've never even heard that i learned stuff from again five everything in this country evolves right i myself own isn't the same phone from like a week ago was education still stuck in the now you know and then we complain about these low test scores it's interesting because when you mentioned earlier you know people started you know those people had libraries and they held that information back so then they could filter that information out right there. the most education

read the most i'm filled with i wonder if that's what we're seeing now with this kind of crackdown the freedom of information on the internet you know where you see kind of like everyone kind of suddenly jumping on this all we need to rein in social media we need to rein in this because we're going to be dangerous to the people experience a social mobility ok then you know that you cannot have these kinds of things that women are getting this idea that they shouldn't be harassed and run out i wonder if that's true that kind of you know beat up things that aren't getting all it literally was a student or a certain leader of the dangerous for you know the poor and minorities to learn too much because then they will become now if we get smart you know we don't how poor we want to think take. yeah you know once we get smart we'll realize hey you know we're not the same color we don't have the same experience but we can link together and we can build something to combat the top one percent yeah that's what's interesting capitalism you must make sure groups of people are systemically

generationally oppressed yeah and if you do that you always have people to sell products to again like i said my whole thing you know what this whole this journey of fighting for for a fair critical thinking skills for everyone is about you know the first book i fell in love with i did like i said i thought i had a reading someone gave me the coldest want to ever do i loved reading that simple and i'm so happy for you guys you know and you know it's interesting my dad handed me the malcolm x. book when i was about thirteen years old so breed this and one of the reasons he did which i think we don't give young people in your work with kids a lot we don't give young people of credit they part of the idea is that we have to teach them the shades of grey of not only historical figures and people given for the not know not to say it's not that they say it's a great but you know i mean you have to be able to teach them that it's more than just right or wrong history is more than just this is what happened this was right

this was wrong of us back then yet we have to teach them a thousand different perspective so that when they can build their own properly correct about how powerful is control the way you look at history in this country you know you guys were slaves did not making much there rosa parks because it was time and it barack obama ran for president that's african american history right there whatever your mouth now you're pretty good at you know you could say that same thing when you go on with women's history you know like when they we got when they there was suffrage there was candy stand and she passed a bottle susan b. anthony and before you knew it they got together one of the hillary clinton and now this one is history and oh yeah the man and he's a walk ahead like me to a product like this and this is what you this is what we've given our children and we have to cost them. we fight that we have to because if we don't the same problems that we see play going to our country the year in the year i was going to happen we you know we got to do something about it that's what history's always repeating itself about over the weekend because you see you know and i can't i can't stress enough to folks books are still the most powerful one of the most

powerful tools of learning we have because it does put you know i would never of know in your life experience had i not read the book that you wrote you know and it's more powerful even than what i'm saying on t.v. because t.v. is just a box of magic and doesn't actually have the depth the books hold and it's the same thing because the color purple really was moved as one of us by the first books i read it in eighth grade when i was thirteen years old and it's made me realize it was the struggle of women in understanding black women struggle and understanding a lot of things i didn't and that's the need that sisters all of these so these books were transformative and amazing right but there's all these brand new contemporary by young people who reflect the communities that we were to where kids a bit educated that can be used this is right as a whole how you know who go to read about the do from well how you know what a woman from ohio had a rough house a which in this. you know marginal so you're going to have as i said things are sort of always going on i always

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millions of its uses. and exploited in u.s. presidential campaigns. to election. with whatever whatever the russian. is the fact that facebook is a. proxy you feel well for. a warm welcome in protest u.s. president looks to sell more weapons to the. demonstrations washington's support for the bombing of yemen.

schools of civilians are killed rebel shelling targets the suburbs of damascus and it's a crime. thanks for the welcome has just turned four o'clock here in moscow you're watching the international top story this. facebook has been trending on social media it was revealed that the tech giant failed to protect the data. of millions of users from being used for political purposes the scandal involves a british data gathering firm called cambridge analytic or it worked with multiple u.s. presidential campaigns including donald trump and reportedly harvested the details of his many as fifty million facebook profiles for its operations the company is now under investigation and is even suspended its chief executive artesian the she said think has more on the story. political campaigns have changed they're no

longer about running the most t.v. spots or spending the most money they're about to spend the smartest money finally it's cool communications company that really knows how to pitch and then they came rich and it's a house prestigious and academic connotations to again very convincing small money must mean smart ideas writes we had a unique extra layer of data about personality decisionmaking and motivation this creates an unparalleled rich and detailed view of voters in the issues they care about so you know exactly who to target with exactly what type of message cambridge and i risk a claim they can do all this with a mix of data analysis and strategic communication that current list is want to boast about trump cruise cost and the list goes on so impressed so far but how exactly do cambridge and it's a target faces a company now accused of using the private data of tens of millions of facebook

users to directly target potential american voters data analytics firm that harvested information from millions of americans without their permission facebook is under growing pressure to explain how to protect americans personal information from people wanting to exploit it for electoral gain tricks by tens and conditions wow suddenly doesn't seem so impressive especially when you end up in a legal feud with the social media giants and it tends outs cambridge on earth to have a not small skeletons in their closets according to britain's channel four news and they're on the cover investigation they pose as potential clients interested in the outcome of the share lankan elections last month they found cambridge on the list because secretly works to influence over two hundred elections worldwide and the tactics when so squeaky clean the two fundamental human drivers when it comes to taking information on board effectively our hopes and fears and many of those unspoken and even unconscious. it's no good fighting an election campaign on the

facts because actually it's all about emotion but that's not what cambridge i wanted to cut publicly admit of course publicly they say that advertising is not coercive they'd also tell you they never use any dirty tactics bartz you mentioned intelligence gathering as well as part of the mix didn't you yes we have relationships and partnerships with specialist organizations that do that kind of work you know who the opposition is you know their secrets you know their tactics so in some girls around to the candidate's house we have lots of history of such things with years of practice cambridge and then let's go have become real pros that having the result they want if we are working and then we can set up free k. d's and websites we can go in our students doing research projects attached to university we can be tourists there are so many options we can look at i've had lots of experience in this at cambridge i'm

a little we are creating the future of political campaigning. so it's a story with twists turns and action meddling thwaite in the minds of voters using dirty tricks but something is missing oh and the narrative that russia must be behind it all now that it's an impressive result mr sethi there will donald trump's campaign was not the first to use facebook stay together for political purposes a former campaign official for barack obama revealed how in twenty twelve they obtained much more personal information than their republican rivals carol davidson at it was all things to loopholes in facebook's privacy terms at the time. facebook twenty twelve election we got people to opt in and the privacy policies of that time on facebook worried that if they opted in they could tell us who all their friends were where this gets complicated is that freak facebook out. so they shut off the feature so that is out there you can take it back to the democrats have

this information. well we did invite richard goodstein a former adviser to hillary clinton's campaign as well as legal the media on this line or to discuss whether the political use of social media inside the u.s. is more dangerous than the kinds of potential foreign interference looks like it's undisputed that they did things that either were clearly against the law campaign finance laws the involvement of foreigners in u.s. election campaigns let alone kind of the moral approach of basically pretending to be something that they weren't. so they either clearly would over the line or they they went right up to it and i think that's what investigators where the state attorneys general i'm sure congress will look into it whether this justice department looks into it because donald trump was the beneficiary of his campaign that they worked with i wouldn't exactly hold my breath on that happening they entire point is being missed here is not cambridge analytic is the fact that

facebook is a tool a proxy if you will of that government and it's a surveillance june it it was conceived it through darpa through seed money did this this faith oh do you think they use the information against there are you kidding me facebook apple everything that we do is basically sucking up every bit of information we have where has the world ben you're living in and up an optic on and when barak obama was the you beneficiary of facebook data i'll be it not cold and gleaned by these characters like especially don't forget legs and in action american you say that and that immediately turned it's the dog whistle

went missing the point this is about a surveillance world that. we live in that's being utilized by everybody constantly look we've already had facebook why publicly about what they did and didn't know they finally had to come clean right because i actually think they have a bit of a guilty conscience having worked with the trump campaign to do things that are frankly kind of un-american so you know we'll see i understand that's the kind of party line which is whatever whatever the russian box may have done was to war by you know this large things we'll see what did they do that was un-american what well again they paid they they ran messages that pitted blacks against whites they got under the skin of blacks because of their claim that they were whites were coming after them and vice versa you're telling me that all the sudden the russians are who are the russians there's a russian government that lattimer putin is at the kremlin some guy with a russian name who are these russians so let me get this straight when we had

prayer president barbaric obama who basically went and absolutely not only colluded with but actively campaigned against bibi netanyahu no problem then he when we guarding brags that he said you're going to be waiting in the queue if you don't or if you vote for braggs it may be also when actually involved himself in the scottish independence movement as well so we we don't seem to care about this and i can't believe it that we have gone from that to this dainty miniscule didn't move him in miss microstamping buying a facebook ad and somebody is going to say oh wait a minute hold it i was going to vote for hillary clinton but now where i just how did you say this facebook ad that said i mean really this is that with all due respect this is the best the russians have facebook ads if lionel is of the view that all those billions of dollars that spent worldwide on advertising or news

channels like arts here and. others is just absolutely just wasting money just to you might as well throw it out the window if that's your attitude then obviously i'm not going to persuade him or anybody who believes that that by you know that's what he will do what affect anybody's opinion she has me i didn't really know what the heck you know so i said my point is my point is my point is that yes i think facebook should be ashamed of itself because the evidence seems to be that it knew exactly what it was what its role in this was and in a sense it was kind of facilitating this in the interest of making a buck and i think that's wrong now another series of missile attacks have struck control of the syrian capital killing at least forty to. sleep you saw both of my relatives are injured my wife and daughter are in surgery right now.