wednesday is declared an official day of mourning in russia as large crowds gather across the country to remember the victims of sunday's shopping center fire in the siberian city of camera which killed at least sixty four people including forty one children while in the city itself. thousands rally to demand on says on justice for those who died calling for the resignation of the regional government. no no no no no. no you did you ever heard. on the u.s. state department says it has no proof russia was behind the poisoning of double

agent said ok script file in the u.k. it takes london's claims at face value. when the u.k. tells us that they have proof that they know russia was responsible we have every reason to believe. you are greater than c. there are evidence there are proof i have i've not personally seen there. before more of those stories don't call my colleague rory say she will be here at the top of the next hour with a full bulletin of well news but now max kaiser tackles the latest financial scandals in the kinds of reports. readings and so you see on june twelfth two thousand and sixteen walked in the post nightclub in orlando florida and he opened fire in the yeah he was killed by local police. but not before taking the lives of forty nine people mooning fifty eight

others today in orlando florida his widow who are solomon with her future hanging in the balance awaits a jury's decision on whether she obstructed justice and was an accomplice to her husband's heinous crimes as the prosecution alleges or just another living victim of her husband's savagery as the defense has argued with omar long dead the public is thirsty for revenge somebody needs to pay for the tragedy the state has offered up with scenes wife and widow but new evidence revealed during the trial now call into question the f.b.i.'s role and motives and not just the persecution of nor solomon but the nonexistent prosecution of all marma team despite investigating him on two different occasions in the years and months leading up to the attack on sunday it was revealed that all marma teams father sigma team you remember the one you saw on c.n.n. after the shooting was actually an f.b.i.

informant for more than ten years and according to the intercept may have influenced the f.b.i.'s decision not to investigate his son prior to the shooting the intercepts trevor aaronson observes that the f.b.i. files provided to saddam's defense lawyers suggest that agents consulted with seems father in his capacity as an informant during the first assessment raising questions about whether saddam mateen helped persuade f.b.i. agents to close out an inquiry that could have prevented the deadly terrorist attack. so it appears that once again the f.b.i. may have clearly dropped the ball on preventing tragedy like they did recently with park with shooter nicholas cruz charleston shirt shooter dylan roof boston bomber town ones are not want to go back to that you know it. makes me wonder is this is are we noted are we seeing a trend here let's find out and start watching the hawks.

what. it looks. like. as it gets to the bottom of it. like you know that i got. this. week so. welcome there on the watch of the tyrrell but and on top of the hour we do keep seeing the is these events happening time and time again what's different and this case seems to be that. well usually what we've been seeing is the f.b.i. kind of turning someone i was into a terrorist i'm not situation i'm putting in their head well here you have the exact opposite where they were pushing away from this investigation because there informant that the person's father had obviously given them and he's fine and yeah

yeah it's really interesting like when we started looking at all of these cases one after another there was at some point interaction with law enforcement sometimes not as high up as the f.b.i. right but always interaction you know and a certain point you have to start questioning the credibility and the ability of the agents at these vong to you know institutions because they're going to if you're getting complaints over and over again about the same person and the only person and then the informant which i'm sorry as an informant you know is saying i want to use my son leave him alone if that proves out to be true maybe we'll never know that's a big deal because then it's again it's putting it the f.b.i. is the use of informants as we've document on this show over the last let's say fifteen years since nine eleven has been absolutely frightening and miserable at the same time sigma teen he was an f.b.i.

informant for eleven years from two thousand and five to june twenty sixth seen with his son here but the same month that his son attacked the post my club it's interesting when they search subjects house after after it all happened after the a day later after the massacre law enforcement officials found receipts showing that the father recently transferred money to turkey in afghanistan. and a criminal investigation was opened against the dad all of this under the nose of the f.b.i. in that area for him and i think you know there are formatted twenty twelve they got an anonymous tip that city quintin was seeking to raise one hundred grand via donation drive to apparently contribute toward an attack against the government of pakistan all of this once again under. the nose this is a person who by the way this is a person who's been and informant for ten years being an informant means you are in some shady information there in some shady situations and your able to get that information that's scary that someone that was that close didn't and the defense

attorneys know they tried to get the case thrown out you know because they brought this up to the judge and said this is ridiculous because we could ship a whole new firms we could say is it possible the dad was helping do this is it possible that dad played some sort of role we don't know it's alleged but the defense could use that as an argument to trial if there is it's very interesting and part of this is because the f.b.i. in these situations if they can't investigate everyone both their resources time but also just because of how the process works and the rules they have to follow they have to go under so assessments of people not like a full investigation are how the f.b.i. gets what they call quick responses now and here along the state i wouldn't exactly call them quick but you get a quick response to a possible security threat and so what you do is they allow agents to investigate people based on sort of internal tips or you know tips from the public. but they're restricted from these assessments for sixty to ninety days but about two months we

looked to me as. well there good for them both to know of someone who maybe not those who think about it a little bit of you don't know how much was going on so they they launched the first assessment of omar mateen in two thousand and thirteen after he talked about it for you told coworkers at the g four s. the security company that he had terrorist connection so the report indicates that agents told and an unidentified undercover informant that they were investigating my team and the informant quote apparently this is the person we think is his father you know became very upset that my lot of us under scrutiny so the f.b.i. closed the counterterrorism investigation into omar mateen in two thousand march of twenty four. because. but what really does that are right but what's really disturbing then when you watch it is that the f.b.i. event in that report consider that the agent that was doing the assessment

considered using omar seen as a confidential as well like a father a lot of questions for the f.b.i. i love the question still got to answer. on international women's day laurie mercer associate professor in the department of leadership and organizational behavior at the norwegian school of business made a very interesting point she said the barriers to equality are not only ignorance in action and massage day but also false believes that we have arrived and not a quality involves both women and men something the female leadership of norway truly understands norway with a population of little over five million is in a unique position to tackle the challenge of helping men feel empowered in an economy and society that is slowly destroying the gender roles and careers that they have been expected to sell as prime minister earner solberg put it quote the challenge in scandinavian countries is not to end up with a large group of young men who have no purpose in life no hope for

a job and more women around the world been encouraged to enter fields that have been male dominated men are not being encouraged to enter new fields in the same way and with many traditionally male jobs being automated this leaves men in a very precarious position and it's what feeds the violence we see prime minister solberg observe this saying quote that's what we see in the angry white man who not only don't like muslims and immigrants but absolutely not women either at least if they can't keep the woman to themselves norway speaker of parliament tom trone suggested it's important that boys and girls make nontraditional choices when it comes to education which brings me to a really important point norway's suicide rate. two thirds of suicides in norway are men and if you think the u.s. is any better in the us white males account for seven out of ten suicides men around the world are you ready to hear a secret the patriarchy and sexism hurts men just as much as it hurts women.

interstate get annoyed i couldn't agree more i think the lack of education on sexism and patriarchy. that's really what hurts men in the boat yet we're not educated about that so we've got to fall into those stereotypes very easily because there's not a lot of people out there laying it out saying like don't do this you should do this think about why you say this you know that kind of thing i don't see that it is also just empowering men to understand that they can and you know the idea of gender roles and gender norms has almost been this sort of. strictly female area of discovery it's that men don't have to be empowered that they have that power for centuries so why do we need to explain to you how to have power the problem is that . when you know there's that old saying about being oppressed and then when you equality feels like oppression when you've been the one in our will this is what happens except nobody's helping people who are going while what's happening there i was told if i was tough if i could do this kind of work if i worked in construction if i did those work at

a factory i could support my family and now none of that's possible and i think that's where you're seeing a lot of these suicide rates in the u.k. and norway it's not odd but the in the u.k. the office for national statistics data show that the balance between male and female suicides there shifted from sixty three percent male in one thousand nine hundred one to seventy eight percent male in two thousand and thirteen so in the u.s. it's not much better so the mortality rate for working class white men between the ages of forty five and fifty four fifty four have been steadily rising since one thousand nine hundred nine they've only just tapered off and white men account for seventy percent of suicides each year and nine tenths of suicides the do happened regardless of gender are in the lower socioeconomic groups the see the connection it's the same kind of things that we talk about radicalization in places where you don't have a job we don't have this when you're expected to be this manly you know when when there are talks that there are one german and as much as women you know it is and

you know talks of masculinity is one of those kind of issues the brand new big words that you know when you lot of points of scrabble but you've got to actually pay attention to what they mean and amanda marcotte he wrote slowly over a year ago to be excruciating we clear toxic masculinity is a specific model of manhood geared towards dominance and control it's a manhood the views women the male g.b.t. people as inferior sees sexism are not of affection but of domination and which of bell arises violence as a way to prove oneself to the world and you see that reflected many aspects of society over and over and over again. and again i think it's one of those cases where i think until it's explained out and. until you understand that you have no idea what notes i drew that is is sort of the fault of these movements of feminism that have been sort of put out to the world your first your second your third way one is you you're more than just being a housewife then it was being

a housewife is bad you shouldn't even married men are horrible then it was well you know where we're beyond that we're doing these other things then you have this fourth wave that sort of jumped in and said it has to be intersectional well the first place that has to be intersectional is with men we watch them what we learn we have exactly and then at the same time you know men have to be responsible to want to learn you know that's the other quite true is that we have to actually step up and be a man and say no i want to actually learn this and figure out how to better get along with the opposite sex and you know it's interesting when you brought up earlier that that of the diving and the men are jumping into those jobs i think that part of that education of saying no it's ok if you do this as i mean mary says there could be a lot of men out there who are like you know i don't want to do that because i know that there are so many little jobs for women on my side of the fence i don't want to start taking their jobs away from them but you know the answer is and i'm just like that's out of the audio we're going to get it all right as we go to break clockwise stone for good to let us know what you think of the topics of coverage of facebook and twitter. at r.t. dot com coming up shawn stone welcomes famed historian alfred mccoy to discuss the

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great empires much like everything else in this world have a tendency to one day crumble the roman empire with the centuries of art history of white was wiped out and mere decades by growing corruption over extended borders and under their own way if the great colonial empires of spain and france became history after what seemed like astronomical peaks then came the last colonial empire great britain having spanned half a global for realizing that it's time to have passed but one of our modern day empire the beacon of world democracy that is the united states on that point many disagree earlier sean stone sat down with alfred mccoy an award winning historian and author to discuss how america came to be an empire and what may await for it in the bigger chair. it's an extraordinary empire like none that sever been because it's the first empire that actually dominated at its peak the

entire globe and it did so the through a kind of fortier apparatus first of all a military of unparalleled strength in the aftermath of world war two we were the victor nation and we built upon that strength through the cold war adding on top of our massive conventional forces an air land and sea a nuclear triad the second as the victor nation the founder of the united nations and the creator of the entire international order that we're living in now the international community the united states had extraordinary diplomatic influence both multilateral about zero through organizations like the united nations and military alliances like nato but also an active bilateral diplomacy carried out through hundreds of embassies and continents around the globe and then the u.s. claiming that the in the aftermath of world war two and the united states as the

only major industrial power that wasn't either damaged or destroyed by the war the us was a the industrial powerhouse of the world we had about fifty percent of the world economy and then there was a unique dimension of u.s. global power the dimension of the attribute that defines america as a unique empire the covert dimension that on the one hand there's a kind of delicate duality at the core of u.s. global power in the one hand we built this international community of the united nations the international court of justice the world health organization the rule of law the idea that that all human beings should be living in a nation and that nation should be. a sovereign immune to aggression ok so that was the idealistic world order we built and then co-existing with it was a course where the globe's great henchmen we have to exercise asymmetric power and

so how do you intervene in a world in which you can't intervene you do it covertly and so covert operations became the signature aspect of u.s. global power and during the eight years the eisenhower administration apart from the famous operations like overthrowing the reign in government of the bottom all in government all of that he conducted a one hundred seventy covert operations in forty eight nations and those numbers alone indicate that the united states was shifting its force for action from conventional military to covert interventions and that and basically that that's the full my paradis all of that rested however on something that most americans with except very few exceptions understand at all it was on the geo political foundation the united states became the first empire in the history of the world to

dominate the vast eurasian land mass which is home to about seventy five percent of humanity and economic resources and we did it by controlling the axial ends of eurasia in the western and through the nato alliance that gave us that leverage there and then at the eastern end of eurasia. we had for my lateral military pacts with japan south korea the philippines in australia along the island chain the literal off asia and that was the eastern axial point and then we tied those two axial ends together with the layers of mutual defense pacts of three great fleets the the six in the mediterranean the fifth in the persian gulf the seventh fleet in the western pacific high. hundreds of air bases and then in the last ten years we've built sixty drone bases from sicily to guam so those four aspects that i outlined resting upon these firm geo political foundations gave the united states

an empire that's been fair if you will to last throughout to go the full term of the american century. and it seems to me it strikes me that the united states really aligned itself with the british empire inherited it adopted it incorporated many of the anglo files into you know its ruling class and this notion of an anglo-american empire why is it that we have become such an extension of the british. well first of all they were the you know a lot before us they didn't dominate the entire globe they dominated about half the globe through their colonial empire they ruled directly over a quarter of humanity through what's called their informal empire over nations like china persia egypt they control and at the peak in one thousand century the whole of latin america they controlled another quarter of manatee. they built the

incident much many of the institutions of global governance they of course and we created a very effective intelligence agency they built a global navy that we imitated in our rise so the british were in many ways the precursor they they got half of humanity we had the whole thing and then during the cold war britain's economic foundation for its global reach was was fading fast and there was an informal and formal handover. for example of the right at the start of the cold war the british told the united states that it could no longer defend greece greece was an informal territory under british domain or of the british had germany britain could no longer do it even though it was nice from a different critical for the access to the suez canal. and so that's what prompted president harry truman to declare the truman doctrine and extend u.s. defense to greece and turkey there were informal handovers for example in

a round the british were the dominant power in iran the abbott an oil refinery that was the biggest oil find in the world that provided the fuel that drove the british navy the british navy conserve of converted to bunker oil was absolutely critical and from one hundred on word around was part of the british informal empire well you know when most of that took power in that nationalist revolt the british intelligence tried to maneuver against them they couldn't quite carry it off and that became a. and of course imperial handover were british intelligence after the arenas close a british embassy and kicked all the british spies out they handed over to america so there was it was actually handover and then of course i'm back around when the british in the early one nine hundred seventy is pulled out of the emirates they turned over their naval base to us and that's their quarters for the u.s. for through to the persian gulf so it was a real imperial transition. in that in pro transition at two aspects one it was you

know collaborative the british were formally handing it over to us on the other hand there was a lot of tension. so it was a kind of a friendly rivalry and it's that that that's sort of what we're this is today between the united states and china. it's a plus for me. one certainly in terms of where we're going into future i think it's very interesting that trump who began as sort of anti interventionist someone who seemed to be opposed to these. overthrows and you know the government in iraq and basically claiming that he's opposed this regime change concept is now bringing john bolton is a national security advisor a man whose overtly neo conservative calls for change part of the whole bush administration devil with iraq and beyond what do we make of trump's position now going for. right in the first part of this administration as any plan that the

derision and a major newspaper would tell you you know there was this aspiration this hope that you know the adults in the room could control trump and who are those dunce the adults will generally master his national security adviser rex tillerson his secretary of state. and now what we've seen is a marked shift in the character of trumps foreign policy where these sort of traditional realists and republican realists who believed in the rational cautious exercise of u.s. global power have been replaced by bolton by mike pump aoe for whom military is the first option and the preferred option then this creates a i think a possibility that trumps own inclination to impulsive actions reinforced by his national security security team that wants to use military power and this opens us up to the possibility. and that's one of the scenarios i discussed in my book on

us the klein. of something that historians call micro militarism and we could talk a little bit about that as well if you want i can it's a it's a it's a something it's an attribute of many fading empires you know as their power begins to fade away empires launch these ill advised misbegotten military adventures you know this kind of bold military strikes that they somehow are imagining to put them back on top stop the slide stop the rot ok the british did it suez you know nasser in nationalize the suez canal the gem of the british empire the british conservatism who up to that point had been managing a very rational imperial recession will suddenly just in a kind of outburst of insecurity and and anger. rage and racism who were these people to think they could do that the us wants this massive military

operation six aircraft carriers three hundred thousand soldiers in collaboration with the british and french the turned out to be a disastrous operation that signaled the end the british imperial power of spain before they did that and so as the united states imperial power wanes there's a possibility that the trumpet ministration who come up with the idea of a bold military strike a nuclear attack of north korea conventional attack and around the possibilities are many that somehow will show the world that america's back on that we're strong that we can't be trifled with that sort of thing micro militarism. now that that is one big pile of trash no i'm not talking about latest eagles of death metal album but sadly an actual eighty thousand ton pile of trash currently floating in the pacific ocean between california and hawaii infamously known as the great

pacific garbage patch the six hundred thousand square mile two towns the size of texas continent of one point eight shore illian pieces of plastic debris is floating in the pacific ocean is the visual testament to mankind's dirty disgusting side and it's only getting bigger and worse the pacific garbage patch is still growing and to get bigger unless we curb our our annual consumption of plastic which currently sits at about three hundred twenty million tonnes and start working to actually shrink the great pacific garbage patch. that is a gather our that's twice the size of texas now times the size of france that it's the one of the biggest block our eyes on humanity i think going to be. it's definitely need to roll up our sleeves for going to war with anything with all. or with this garbage patch in the true texas of three francis in the pacific think

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