drop 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 is are we noted are we seeing a trend here let's find out and start watching the hawks. what . it looks like. it's like. as you get to the bottom of. what it looks like you know that i got. to. look at. this. clinic so. well the one the watching the hard science i robot and on top of the hour we do have seeing the these events happening

time and time again what's different in this case seems to be that. usually what we've been seeing is the f.b.i. kind of turning someone i was into a terrorist i'm not the choice now 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 you know 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 polls in 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. and it's very for him and i think you know there are formatted twenty twelve they got an anonymous tip the team 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 in it for him and means you are in some shady information you're in some shady said joey asians and your able to get that information that 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 did they brought this up to the judge and so this is ridiculous because we could ship a hold of the firms we could say is it possible that dad was helping do this is it possible that played some sort of role we don't know what is alleged but it depends could use that as an argument the trial if there is it's very interesting and part of this is because the f.b.i. in these situations they can't investigate every one both their resources time but also just because of how the process works and the rules they have to follow them 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 to you know tips from the public. but they're restricted from these assessments for sixty to ninety days. about two months without me as. well the good part about the movie though of those who think about it a little rough 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 i unknowingly done a fide undercover informant that they were investigating my teen and the informant quote apparently this is the person they think is his father you know became very

upset that my love is under scrutiny so the f.b.i. closed the counterterrorism investigation into omar routine in two thousand march of twenty fourteen. because. but words are really those that are great 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 you have a question still go to. an international women's day lori 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 this 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 ernest 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 what women around the world are 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 met and if you think the us 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 ya know i couldn't agree more i think the lack of education on sexism and patriarchy that's really what hurts men 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's 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 and how are will this is what happens except nobody's helping people who are going well what's happening there as 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 is 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 nine hundred eighty 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 this when it's there are talks that they're going to learn german as much as women you know it is and you know toxic masculinity is one of those kind of issues the brand new big words that you know when you're a lot of points of scrabble but you've got to actually pay attention to what they mean and amanda marcotte he wrote in salon 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 that views women to meld g.b.t. people as inferior sees sexism or acts 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 in 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 how and. until you understand that you have no idea what notes i may grow 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 yeah exactly and then at the same time you know men have to be responsible to want to learn you know that's another click too 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

they're going to be a lot of men out there who are like you know i don't want to do that because i know that there's 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 i think it's a time jobs that are like that's out of the audio we're going to get it all right as we go to break cause stone for good to let us know what you think of the topics of government facebook and twitter see your full sold at r t dot com coming up sean stone welcomes fame to story of alfred mccoy to discuss the past present and future of the american empire to.

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a. great empires much like everything else in this world have a tendency to one day crumble the roman empire with its centuries of art history of white was wiped out and near decades by growing corruption over extended borders and under their own weights 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 the globe for realizing that it's time to has passed but one of our modern day empire the beacon of world's mocker see that is the united states on that point many disagree earlier song 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 future. 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 of victor nation the founder of the united nations in the creator of the entire international order that we're living in the international community the united states had extraordinary diplomatic influence both multilevel show about a role 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. clemen me at 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 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 per 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 the very few exceptions understandable it was on a 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 and 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 packs of

three great fleets the the six in the mediterranean the fifth in the persian gulf the seventh fleet in the western pacific. words 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 bid fair if you will to last throughout to go the full term of that 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 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 the peak in one thousand century the whole of latin america they controlled another quarter of humanity. they built the incident much many of the institutions of global governance they of course and the 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 red 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 of the british were the dominant power in iran the abbott an oil refinery that was the biggest oil refinery the world that provided the fuel that drove the british navy the british navy conservative in the front of the bunker oil was absolutely critical and from the one nine hundred on word iran 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 carried 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. fifth fleet in the persian gulf so it was a real imperial transition. in that imperative as it had 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 where this is today between the united states and china it's a plus for me. was certainly in terms of where we're going in the 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 it is a national security advisor a man who's overtly neo conservative calls for change part of the whole bush administration devil of iraq and beyond what do we make of trump's position now going forth. right in the first part of this administration as any pundit the derision any 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 gentlemen 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 my own peo 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 discuss 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 nationalized 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 oprah's to insecurity and anger and rage and ray. cism 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 on iran the possibilities are many that somehow will show the world that america's back on that we're strong and 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 the latest eagles of death metal album but sadly and actually 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 to don's 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 i mean it's twice the size of texas now times the size of france that it's

the one of the biggest black eyes on humanity i think going to be. it's definitely need to roll up our sleeves we're going to war that even with going to war with that are bad. bajan a true texas of three francis in the pacific think about how our that is our show pre-debate remember everyone in this world we're not told we love that up so it's a wall of view i rolled with the door and on top of the loft people are watching those talks of the bridge. how does it feel to be a share of the greatest job in the world it's as close to being a king as any job there is what business model helps to run a prison now we do this do or don't like is there nobody you know visitation i don't no one comes anymore we don't have to serve them anymore is cost effective that's what they want to do that knowing they don't give

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