the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education is being supplanted by the right to access education loans higher education is becoming just another product that can be born and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business where your good models of bridgegate look good is also kind of a little they could mimic. want is the place of students in this business model kind of work harder and more now and running stream or higher education the new global economic war.

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 this republic has some stormy times ahead. well chris hedges welcome to the alex i'm unsure thank you. but but you know the pulitzer prize winning war correspondent and placed with the 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 anyway you want but you know original intention was to be a bit of the middest 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 be alright 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 a good thing as a war correspondent to what old events of the. most dreadful trouble spots and conflicts of the world. you. colinas as a minister put this emphasis and your politics of faith with 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 when 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 agree. a pretty decent individual human being most people would be the general view particularly people. who would be the general view of the mostly i do think but as the regardless of good intentions become a. imprisoned in the office 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 is and i would argue the two thousand and two authorization to use military force act is 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 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 post them for university professor this of course on a revolutionary university falsely as a. presbyterian minister. who. joined with us became a effectively you the best of the train revolution so he would say it was the religion and the politics into a match to you from his religion cavies attitude 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 you'd attitude that this jet yes completely there is a complete. intertwining of the moral of the ethical life in the public life that one challenges 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 that 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 monster but as the little town of the view the social media come 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 counterargument 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 looking at the. insolvency issue described would not follow if success against the law assured for the democratic

nomination holding every level of power the thought of going through the roof in the the democratic structure of democratic party structure so if badly sound of can get so close them. isn't it possible that somebody with some good to seize the moment to get no because the democratic party is not the labor party the base has absolutely no say it was a surprise to many people in the labor party including those who signed jeremy corbin's nomination papers that he actually hears the because we have the way that there was a minister 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 superdelegates 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 of having those close head for the first revenue of the spook and one thing to provoke dramatic radical. islamists. 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 her face and 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 original 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 well if i started as a journalist to never get the mechanisms that were there when i began the defeat

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 on the children just one thing more tradition in the show for a guess as to present the queen as. a loving cup you know that will whisk 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 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 what up came to a bargain when every five sleeves three one rare one civilian died. from. enormous values are being pursued but certainly the disruption to the political system threatens trade war real wars social division families united states but certainly from not will come change in america there will be a different political. from the president. 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 to 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

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the czech republic admits producing the type of nerve agent used to poison a former spy and his daughter in britain despite earlier refuting russian claims that it could have been one of the countries which handled the sub. police raid a migrant center where a group of refugees forced officers to release an asylum seeker earlier this week. russia's foreign minister says that if israel has evidence that iran violated the two thousand and fifteen nuclear agreement it should handed over to the un.

and broadcast live direct first it is most of this is our international and sean thomas we're glad to have you with us now the czech president. has confirmed that his country has been involved in producing the type of nerve agent used to do poison the former russian spy said this we paul and his daughter in the u.k. in march. small amounts of money truck were produced interested in the czech republic we know well and we know where it will be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened the czech president saying that's not the child had previously been produced and stored in the country could be seen as a very major development to the script whole saga given that this is a point that russia had been making for a very long time saying that this nerve agent that was said to have been behind the pope poisoning of sergei and screwball and his daughter could have been produced in a number of countries including the czech republic and the us now it has to we have

to be clear that the czech president did say that. it was held in the country in a small amount and has been destroyed however this is key given that previously czech ministers had denied this possibility russian claims that the czech republic is one of the four countries most likely to manufacture the nerve agent used to poison surrogates propound his daughter a holy unsubstantiated and highly speculative. the russians crossed all boundaries when this novacek agent could have come from the czech republic that is a lie now if you remember the u.k. was saying that it could only have been russia behind the attack or to use theresa may's term quote highly likely and this was along with the wider picture with british official saying that russia had a history of similar incidents that it had been behind that it could only have been russia to have a motive in this case as well as a handful of other accusations that had led to westminster to point to moscow and

of course what unraveled was a major diplomatic standoff bringing ties between russia and the u.k. to a new low diplomats were expelled from a number of countries there had been boycotts by top officials of attending the world cup to be held in russia in the summer of twenty eighteen so certainly major circa major consequences for this development and of course despite the fact that we have seen a major scientific lab such as porton down being unable to pinpoint the production of the nerve agent used in the attack as having come from russia and the fact that russia all along has been saying it had nothing to do with the incident and denied that it was involved in this crippled case whatsoever it had called for a joint investigation and really saw what happened as anti russia histeria this is what the latest is that we heard from the russian foreign minister on this the government's accused russian launched a massive and see russia political and information complain without showing any

evidence it's even didn't wait for the conclusion of the british investigation to go over those proposals for joint prove our legal demands to produce evidence including samples of the substance which was used. and of course curiously what we have seen is within especially the first month of this major screwball scandal unraveling this was the major biggest story on all sorts of headlines especially of course here in britain as well as throughout the world yet recently especially following sergei script fall and his daughter uli is conditions improving this story has kind of disappeared from the political and media limelight so we will have to see whether or not it might resurface given these latest statements from the czech republic. the czech president cited a report from the country's military intelligence said that a small amount of a noble nerve agent was previously produced tested and destroyed in the czech republic however the president said that another report by the czech counter intelligence agency identified the agent not as no joke but as

a similar substance called a two thirty we heard from a chemical weapons expert james tour probably at least a dozen countries that have the capability to make these persistent nerve agents and it doesn't surprise me that that the czech republic and many other countries could could do this the czech republic is very advanced in their chemical and synthetic chemistry ability and many countries have made it in the past to smart of study on making nerve agents and many countries have made nerve agents if you want to study what a persistent nerve agent can be like something that that is harder to detect something that. lasts much longer than a typical nerve agent like sarin or so monor g.s. then you'd want to be making these in understanding how they work sometimes countries make it just to learn how to defend against it so yes this could have been made years ago and kept around for many years. police in southern germany have

raided a migrant center after scores of asylum seekers forcibly presented prevented the deportation of a togolese man on monday artie's bitter over as details. well if we start on monday with the incident and kick this all off it started when police in the southwestern german town of. gartin but important 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 and 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 well they released the man and then

retreated now the police chiefs 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 had 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 that was big young people of 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 horse 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 unacceptable 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 the refugee crisis has caused deep disagreements between the e.u. member states the dutch migration minister has accused countries in southern europe of failing to secure their borders ninety five percent of irregular migrants and

asylum seekers arrive from other schengen stays about two thirds of them managed to enter and travel through other member states undetected and unregistered despite all measures taken to improve registration for the dutch minister also question of the european commission's previous claims that almost all migrants arriving in greece and italy are being registered and he wants you members who refuse to share the burden of taking in refugees to be punished. freeriding should have a price member states refusing to demonstrate solidarity in violation of a e.u. obligations should be penalized through an e.u. subsidies honest. member of the series party in greece believes that blaming southern europe is unfair. the thing is that europe has failed to provide a holistic and inclusive solution to the problem. it's a yearly and it cannot prove or sole its only diary card there is

a crisis is not a great or an italian problem and it cannot be managed as an italian or greek problem it's a european problem and greece and italy have handled all the burden of this whole situation i think that the criticism is a bit unfair greece any are dealing with the refugee in my grand crisis with dignity while there are european member states that have resisted the real occasion that have resisted to abide by the e.u. turkey agreement that have it is to take on the refugees and migrants. to the european commission for their response to the allegations from the dutch migration minister and we are waiting for them to get to. a man whose wedding in yemen was hit by a saudi airstrike last.