ceria thinking about individual foreign relations. the potential trade war with china just positioning the rapprochement with putin which clearly doesn't go down well with many many forces in the thank you states and in particular donald trump going against iran well first of all there's this big wall it's called ego he didn't do this deal somebody else did and he wants to go in do a deal and put his signature on it as fundamental of the simplistic is that he has i believe that's really at the heart of it all he loves to go up and be right obama and berate bush and any other president who made a deal because he's the deal maker and he's the guy that's going to go in a negotiate something better i think it's as much ego as it is anything else. i don't think he understands the complexities of the middle east i don't think he understands. the culture and history of the middle east and i think his attention span is dangerous when it comes to international relations and he doesn't have the

media helping him out at all so. his is new people around him are going to have i think a tremendous amount of influence when it comes to foreign policy and when he gets rid of the new team if chills gets a call and says i do love to have you on board dad john i'm so happy no i'm very happy in our team america this is the most freedom of ever had with a microphone in front of me and i'm well suited where i am and chills thank you so alex my pleasure thank you so much. light for many flips over the gays so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money. and spending the twenty million and one play. it's an experience like nothing else on earth because i want to share

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welcome back said his colleagues a unique combination of being both a pulitzer prize winning journalist and of presbyterian minister he's also someone who believes that the democratic future of that's the public has some stormy times ahead. well chris hedges welcome to the alex i'm unsure thank you. but no the pulitzer prize winning war correspondent and placement t.v. administer is a relatively unusual combination. i had a friend of mine stephen kinzer who also wrote for the new york times who once said to me you're not really a journalist you're just a preacher pretending to be a journalist and i think that's true i think good journalists like good preachers care about the truth. and that's not necessarily when in the world of journalism what your primary goal is especially if you're a career asst i mean we manipulate as journalists facts and i can take the same set

of facts. and spin them any way you want but you originally was to be a bit of the mist well yes i when i when i went to harvard divinity school i lived in a housing project in roxbury i was going to be an inner city minister i soured on the liberal church liberal institutions including harvard where people sat around talking about empowering people they never met i was going home every night to the projects. i took time off i went to latin america i studied spanish with the catholic missionary society i'd always written and although i came back and finished my degree turned around and went to cover the war in el salvador in one thousand nine hundred three as a freelance journalist. journalist but then we could move all right well i was i went you go you are proof ordination before you go to divinity school and then when i met with my committee they asked what my call was and i should have said i'm

going to be an assistant pastor somewhere and i said i was going to go to a salvadoran cover the war and there was a long silence and the head of the committee said we don't ordain journalists i was subsequently ordained when i came back because i teach in a prison i was teaching the semester les miserables. and but that was years later thirty years later so was this glittering as a war correspondent. of what old events of the. most dreadful trouble spots and conflicts of the world by. new. colinas as a minister with this emphasis and your politics of faith who is a person i mean i make my living as a writer. and a lot of the prison teaching i do i'm buying the books for them. so it's an important part of what i do but it's not a very public part of what i do. i've spent most of my time fighting

against the corporate that's taken place in the united states including suing barack obama in federal court actually winning and then we lost on appeal over. the overturn the eight hundred seventy eight posse comitatus act which prohibited the military from acting as a domestic police force in section ten twenty one of the national defense authorization act we sued him we won most people would rate. a pretty decent individual human being most people would be the general few particularly people who . would be the general view of the mostly i do think but as the regardless of good intentions become effectively imprisoned and i don't i mean first of all a lot of people are terrorized by militarized drones don't have a very and he expanded the militarized drone warfare extensively understand very well who barack obama is my students in prison know very well who barack obama and i would argue the two thousand and two authorization to use military force act as

giving the executive branch the right to assassinate american citizens and i'm speaking about on in yemen and a sixteen year old son the use of the espionage act to shut down whistleblowers the after the snowden revelations failing to curb wholesale surveillance of every u.s. citizen and all of our personal information everything is stored in perpetuity in huge government computers so his public image of course with it which is highly cultivated. was affective the actual facts of his presidency. i think illustrate that there are powerful corporate forces. of the so-called deep state which no president including donald trump can challenge i mean press them for university professor this of course a revolutionary university for us with a colleague who treated a presbyterian minister. who. joined with us became

a effectively you divest at the train revolution so he would say it was the religion and the politics into match to you from his religion caveat that you'd to challenge the authority and the united kingdom to be a public of a. society and to embrace the american revolution you have something of that view in terms of you doubt that you took this job yes completely there is a complete. intertwining of the moral of the ethical life in the public life that one challenge of systems of power on behalf of those who are oppressed those who don't have a voice those who are forgotten those who were demonized the way we demonized muslims in this country. and then those stances. are often very unpopular and so you pushed to the margins certainly everything that i have fought for starting with my coverage of the war in el salvador in the

atrocities that were supported back covered up and in some cases orchestrated by my own government not only in our salvador but in guatemala and nicaragua everything that we've seen since i began has deteriorated certainly the political climate of my own country is. in deep decay but. pretty depressing the state of the nation and. the state it's a massively but as the little town of the view the social media can democratize. the means of communication the populous and doesn't have to be. broadened but the the critics of imperialism and capitalism corporate capitalism in the united states have been pushed on the internet to the margins we have seen google facebook twitter impose algorithms to fight quote unquote fake news and the traffic in all of these sites has plummeted in used to be that if you typed in the word

imperialism you might get directed to an article on one of these sites now because of these algorithms you're directed to a mainstream publication like the washington post or something i think the reason for that is that the cause of important quote free market globalization has been found out across the political spectrum it fuel the insurgency in the democratic party under bernie sanders that fuel the insurgency for trump and the elites don't have a counter argument and so what they're doing is taking voices like mine that are already pushed to the fringes and imposing mechanisms to. if not silence them certainly mute them even further so lastly looking at well look it would be. insolvency as you describe not far off success against the law a shoo in for the democratic nomination holding every level of power that hillary clinton did with her in the the democratic structure democratic party structure so

if bradley signs of can get so close them. isn't it possible that somebody with some will use good to seize that moment to get no because the democratic party is not the labor party the base has absolutely no say point it was a surprise to many people in the labor party including those who generally corbin's nomination papers that he actually hears the because we have the way that there was a miracle of a moment it was but it was also a product of a movement within the party. and the mobilization of a base that was able to affect the top. the democratic national committee we know now not surprisingly had the fix in for senator clinton had of course i think by the time she finished she spent over a billion dollars in a campaign she had all the super delegates there was no way i mean i actually spoke with bernie about this i mean there was no as before he announced there was no way the democratic party was ever going to give the nomination to sanders if we are to

rest back control of our democracy it's going to mean that we're we it's going to go beyond a particular election cycle so he raised a lot of money he talked about a political revolution and he ends it by running around the country telling people to vote for hillary clinton. which for me was. you know it ended up being futile port hope you have. for the first revenue. one thing through provoke dramatic radical to. none in the united states many just finished a book called america the farewell tour. you know we are an empire that's contracting i mean you see it when you drive across this country the infrastructure is in shambles poverty i mean it's appalling the level of poverty in this country the ingredients for radical they're also the ingredients for fascism you see it quite effectively with the d.p.

in the left in this country has been destroyed in the name of the fight against communism radical movements have been dismantled labor unions mean less than six percent of the american workforce nine percent total if you include public sectors but most of them can't strike we've been utterly disempowered the press has been concentrated in the hands of a half dozen corporations but most importantly like empires. we've expanded beyond our ability to sustain ourselves and the moment the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency which happened to the pound sterling in the fifty's you will see a huge economic country. action and the all of the ingredients are there and we can't we must also acknowledge this is a deeply violent society you see it every other day in this country we have school shootings i mean this is just the insanity of it i'm very bleak and very pessimistic i you know i certainly have been arrested blocking the doors of goldman sachs during the occupy movement and in washington and i take part in all of this

stuff you can use the word hope unless you resist on the other hand i think we have to make a very sober assessment of what we're facing i was at standing rock with the water protectors and they were you know firing rubber bullets into nonviolent demonstrators hundreds of arrests firing water cannons laced with pepper spray unleashing attack dogs and if you don't trust heads is this stuff people come directly to the regional calling him to the ministry because he wanted to push through a clear image of us and would you be looking for you to surprise to talk about what's happening here in the united states as opposed to the toasters which were infamously which you so brilliantly report if i started as a journalist so they never got the mechanisms that were there when i began the diffuse of forms within the media the acceptance of critiques i mean if you go

back to the one nine hundred sixty is in this country on public television you could you could see malcolm x. you could see james baldwin you could see noam chomsky that's all disappeared and so the ability on the part of critics to reach a wider audience has been so heavily curtailed that i don't think i could replicate my career i don't i don't think i could you know it at this point walk into the new york times as i didn't spend fifteen years and actually do well i don't think that's possible anymore i think you know our only hope is kind of what the south africans did that's non-cooperation and that's why was it standing rock i think that we're watching it with teachers rising who are defying their own unions . that's where the hope is but it really is about at this point obstructing. these corporate centers of power and the politicians in our system of legalized bribery who work for them. i don't think the system itself is reformable because your voice

have to be. just one thing more tradition in the show for a guess is to present the queen as. a loving cup you know a little whiskey in the clear and. your close friends thank you so much thank you very much alice thanks. abraham lincoln and union square manhattan. hardly be more different people more different presidents and abraham lincoln and donald trump but they have much in common. to this challenge just. on the minority of the popular vote but a majority and the electoral college. alexion provoked the civil war and out of that became the saving of the union the three hundred million slaves. that these are men's values when it came to a bargain when every five sleeves three one rare but one civilian died.

from. enormous values are being pursued but certainly the disruption to the political system threatens trade war real wars social division within these united states but certainly from not change in america there will be a different political. from the present. better perhaps worse but certainly different. from times on myself and. goodbye for now. coming up on next week's show politics in this capital and took the surreal the minute that donald j. trump entered the white house but just as donald trump landed in substance the capture of the grand old party from the right so forces. the radical side of american politics are planning a come to revolution i speak to one of the united states most of the night and human rights activists and to group of young people looking forward to changing the

world. so what we've got to do is identify the threat that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in. the dramatic developments only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful.

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our first the german police curried a major raid to the migrant center in the south of the country after scores of asylum seekers forcibly prevent the deportation of a man or monday the group reportedly attacked officers and their vehicles before then helping the individual to escape your correspondent peter all of a report. well if we start on monday with the incident and kick this all off it started when police in the southwestern german town of. garten barton borden book arrived at this refugee center with the intention of taking away a twenty three year old man from togo who is about to be deported now as they arrive to do that crowds of people start arriving saying he should be set free those crowds got bigger and bigger we're hearing one hundred fifty plus refugees surrounding the police in their car that was there we hear from the police that this was a particularly aggressive crowd that threats were being shouted the police officers

eventually for air fearing for their safety or they released the man and then retreated now the police chief's haven't condemned those officers they've said that they what they described was a really horrific situation a potentially dangerous situation that they were right to pull out there now three days later thursday we saw a major police raid take place now we're hearing as many as two hundred police were involved in this and they detained that twenty three year old along with seventeen other people but speaking to the press senior police saying that they have to move in when they did to stop this situation descending into further chaos you go in kind of it's for you we will not allow the creation of a law we will work against it we have clear indications that most black africans who see the police as the saree and want to fight against them we've never experienced a situation like this before it was big young well as more information has come out about this throughout thursday we've seen quite angry reaction from politicians

particularly at the fact that it this man was essentially on the run in free for three days and we also heard from the interior minister a horse and who is typically a bully and in what he had to say. what happened there is a blow to the law regarding population we shouldn't let them trample on our hospitality. attacks on police officers are unexceptable in a constitutional state such conduct must have criminal consequences is clear that frustration is no excuse for crime but there are a lot of questions being asked namely well why was this able to happen in the first place how can it be stopped from happening at other refugee centers in the future and ultimately who is to take the blame for allowing this situation to escalate as rapidly as it did its going to view from germany go live the known talk to international relations first peter shilton we got a good university here there peter during today's raid it's reported that drugs

weapons fake i.d.'s was seized several people were arrested on suspicion of robbery and other crimes how difficult the police got a difficult job how difficult it is to try and prevent locations like these from becoming crime censors. i think you can not that these kind of also assumes. are places. as those refugees are treated in registers whether for us times and then in must in these houses they will of course try to get out the extra second or third work and therefore they're going basically down the criminal rates this is a real danger we have seen it in many places and germany and what is new and amal is that we found resistance spontaneous resistance but. in the beginning but then it became more and more organized there was a crowd of about fifty to one fifty or refugees who were threatening the police

merely and the police went on to do everything to calm down and i think reactions to release of person there and move from the camp was for us or was ok and then on thursday morning this morning basically about the two hundred or three hundred policemen stormed the on a still in saddam's seeking camp and the rest and the rest and the rest that more than seven thousand people you know it's rather to release a person i mean was on an escape peter you can see maybe why this situation has been developing i'm never going to live within the law of their own country but you can also see the red this frustration i guess that must be building up a week in week out month in month or year in year as this goes on where these guys as you say i label the work cooped up don't know what the future is who's coming up with a medium for us a short term even a medium and said you know long term plan at the moment who is coming up with a way forward for these people is anyone looking at it and of course i think it was

a kind of a regular call because if you see the reaction even if the greens on the christian democratic party on the liberals and socialists they all condemn on the check on the police and they. lazic he speaks and learned the same language because there was an attack on the condo procreation against german law and the justice system and they have to do everything possible to speed up current deportation of the wrongdoers or stream no elements and i think you're for the first time d.c. a kind of consensus how long it will last of course and the political process that's another question is that of course this is the thin end of the wedge she think we're going to see more resistance to the police like this and i think. that we will see more of these kind of developments because if the interior minister minister is able to or puts forward his plan of concentrating or are the refugee and asylum seekers and especially thames and institutions then of course this is

a very clear arm as well of the beck wrong of the sharpening off the deep protection laws and procedures give it be really a growing resistance from the from the refugees and get to see what's precious like this the future i guess the police were thinking very carefully about how what to do here why do you think the police moved in the raid the premises more than three days after the initial incident i guess they had ever think about it they weren't terribly keen to move in straight away by the looks of it where they probably knew what some of the ramifications would be they had first of all their shared joint duel on the jew an operational plan certainly and certainly there has had to build up or a nominee in enough force to do the job and earn and this took time and nothing there was no real danger to the surrounding in public still there could be great for two and two days to do it to do it and jay was successful and he was in the

implementing the you know the procedures and and and stop the escape and the source of it was so what's the future final for what if he. for these migrant centers are they get worse how are these security services going to try to eliminate criminal activity should they be shut that what should be done with these migrants not. the sensors and i think gnc also has. embarked on the right we have to concentrate on a couple of points there so that the refugees and there are salim seekers are not basically distributer to communities which cannot house them and who would feeling absolutely . aggressive against them and overthrow also and also also look at population this is a good move but of course i mean. there's still political opposition from the greens especially and from the on social democratic party at least on the left

engine and so we don't know but i think. that the development of the future because. under tony coins armed so far they will come culture is dead and journey it took about two years. to come to a kind of a consensus what to do with the and with the incoming on the migration. way strong africa and from europe gets thinner there could be a real pressure cooker these places aren't they as long as they continue to exist international relations professor peter shilton got a good university things going with your thoughts on this big story tonight pre-shared it. russia's foreign ministers told israel that if it has evidence that iran has broken the twenty fifty nuclear deal it must relate to the international atomic energy agency. comments come after israel's leader benjamin netanyahu claimed that duran repeatedly misled the international community over it you.