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peace movement for your coup funding of could take for example including running for state office in california for the green party but probably your most successful campaign when you used to call nike and some people say brought it to its knees you know it's interesting alex in all the work i've done over the years as an activist the easiest are going after companies that have brand names and have some kind of outlet retail outlet so we went after nike for the way they were treating workers in china indonesia vietnam toxic chemicals they were using in the factories and you go outside a couple of nike stores and make some ruckus and they'll meet let's meet and so we we managed to clean up a lot of problems in the factories the muslim at many corporate p.r. man that many of them because i would go to the shareholder meetings to kind of get up there and create a bit of

a ruckus there and then we took on sweatshop companies for the way they were treating workers and one other campaign was around starbucks for not using fair trade coffee and we started organizing protests outside starbucks immediately they came and said let's me then let's talk it's a lot easier to move those kind of corporations than it is trying to move government but that's interesting i will use a perverse sort of way you know capitalism is more easy to influence in a benign direction than the political process well the political process is part of capitalism and it's part of the really corrupt part of capitalism where the corporations are giving money to the politicians you can you can get to the corporations again if they have a retail face to them it's easier. but to get to the politicians it's a lot harder because some lose. major corporations are a lot harder to get out because the don't really enter consumer facing industries

like for example the military complex or the to use the eyes of the her face to for free is the industrial military complex pretty impenetrable up there not only impenetrable they think about perverse this is they take our tax dollars we give it to the pentagon it takes massive amount of our money the pentagon gives the money to these corporations the corporations and take a little bit of that money and give it back to the politicians but they also put a lot of money into p.r. campaigns to show how wonderful they are that's our tax dollars that they're taking to convince us how good they are when they're really just part of a big gam and making it guaranteed profits because you know these these contracts and basically. guarantee we win for them what they call no bid contracts and and then they profit from war but yet people think of them as

these wonderful benign corporations medea benjamin when people watch and listen think well that you know this is a lady who acting before those obviously brought the mighty nike to its knees in terms of wages and conditions for workers around the world but there's no saying that there's no effective way to campaign against the corporate military complex in the united states is obviously and the keyword there is effective because i do a lot of campaigns and i find myself flailing around hitting my head against the wall yelling and screaming just because i feel so incensed about your latest book of about iran and your real experiences there and how you found that society well i went to iran a couple of times and i was actually blown away by the iranian people because you know even if you are a person who's very skeptical of the way the mainstream media talks about a play. yes there still some part of it that you do feel the internally the

stereotyping and you go to iran and you find these incredibly well educated people these and they love americans i mean i'm sure they love scott as well they're they love europeans but americans they just think they knew so much about the united states literally like sitting down in a cafe and having a casual conversation with a mean ex you become good friends because they're so anxious to learn more about you invite you into their homes and they're incredible business people you know in some ways all of these sanctions over the years has forced them to do to find ways to replace all these imports and i mostly feel the rule of women is the is a key to political progress international well certainly i. know women like margaret thatcher who is not somebody i would put up on a pedestal is someone i admire their politics or in this country we have former

secretary of state madeline albright who i was in very intimate with and even hillary clinton i felt was very hawkish in the way that she looked at the world in that she was going to be as tough as any guy so there's no guarantee with women coming to power that you will have a softer more nurturing society because louise rice once told me in order that she actually felt a certain state that she had to demonstrate that she was no she was no pushover i did observe that i thought she probably demonstrated that pretty well demonstrated that very much and you might see one very famous picture from my group code pink where we were in front of kind to leave some rice can i get close to you and we were like this with bloody hands like this saying it was our blood on your hands are demonstration of them and in a congregational here. when she was testifying running up to her before we got arrested and putting our hands right there face to say you have blood on your hands

because she did have blood on her hands so yes there are plenty of yeah and test them out from him our conversation on the list of clues alaska's people selfish she was highly critical of the direction of she saw the extreme devotion of the republican party so you know your demonstration of conclusive votes but in republican terms she might be regarded as something of a moderate views this well she's not a moderate in my eyes and she's never come out afterwards and said the iraq war was a terrible mistake and we apologize to the iraqi people and we should give reparations to those people for all the damage that we have caused i had a survey that republican you'd be comfortable with. i don't know i don't really like the republicans or the democrats i i like people like bernie sanders but he's such a rarity in the mainstream politics that's why i ran as a green party but so it's not the individual it's the system alex and you know this

is tim is so corrupted by money i mean we talk about it with the military industrial complex but take any big industry whether it's a while or pharmaceuticals the drug industry anyone they are all are giving money to the politicians to get something for those politicians and it's just not a good system so you've mentioned a few tough minded woman who felt perhaps they had that extra tough to succeed i'm a male dominated world the politics hubbub with the woman activists you for lying were from the women who are changing the whole system well yes and i think if you have a. even majority of women that are in politics that politics would be better than it is now if you have more women that are making decisions in general i think the decisions would be better if you have more women in the state department i think there would be more. use of diplomacy among the many accolades and awards you

forsee for your career you one of the disappearance of the martin luther king jr peace prize not in the fiftieth anniversary of this deficit has a special resonance for you i think of the triplets that he talked about of the triple ills of poverty and racism in militarism so we have not progressed all that much in the last fifty years in a way that weren't luther king would have wanted so to be a recent peon of this prize i don't feel that i have done nearly enough to make his dream a little closer to reality and why you. agree rallying figure of of radical medical like like martin luther king was in the in the one nine hundred sixty s. we're going to imagine to. lead an army that's waiting to be led i think bernie sanders did it during his campaign i was actually shocked i was one of the people as part of a group called progressive democrats of america i'm

a green man a progressive democrat that pushed for bernie sanders to run i thought he would do sort of the way that ralph nader had done in his presidential runs maybe two to three percent if he did really well he get five percent i was blown away by how well bernie sanders did you know this is a very conservative society in the united states the center in the u.s. is the far right in many other places in the world and bernie sanders calling himself a socialist i said you never get anywhere using that term and long behold among young people they do or him a poll that was done at the time showed that for the younger generation they had a more positive view of socialism than they did of capitalism of course it also said in the poll they had no idea what socialist what. but i think it's remarkable the way bernie sanders has ignored. they did a generation of live benjamin what would be your hopes for america

if i was to give you three wishes for who would be. i wish that we would gently ease out of being an empire and just be a nice democratic nation that learn to live at peace with our neighbors around the world not trying to dominate them i'd wish that the race issues could be resolved in an equitable way in the us which i think means serious reparations for what was done around slavery i also think in that same vein reparations around what we did to build our country on the genocide of native americans that has never been we've never been held to account for well i hope i can actually make your wishes come true but what i can do. is give you the liquid which is the scots gullit for loving cup the toast quite simply whiskey and

the quick scotch of course and then you pass it on your close friends well that is wonderful and beautiful and i think passing things around among friends is the kind of world that i really do want to live in so this is a perfect gift thank you so much thank you. thank you. no wise people know this is not a country but a continent so just because you be a political activist in washington or idealistic young people here you've got thirty doesn't mean that there was a mere thought will cut much ice and the vast come to land of those countries where . the loss of a is still gospel i don't i'm still the king. but what do you think about the last time a movement for political and social change what the united states from the sixty's the sun. that these grandparents of the young people i met today didn't have the

access to the social media to get eyes and to agitate and therefore i'm not so sure that the next political and so reaction in this country one come from the right like some but from the left because perhaps the times they are changing again. the discipline to know that are many years not reviewed crane or ga and that our experience is unique to certain extent that we're building on the success and the feel yourself past efforts to address the issues that you're talking about so in

many ways we have a leg up on anything best been tried in the past this is not a whole or a democrat a grassroots effort by the armenian people for the armenian people. with. good. ministries police forces and city administrations of many countries depend on one corporation that does what mike was hoping to avoid doesn't come from on the rise of god i'm stumped this is going to come to the. woods as the theory that the dot on into the sea it's enough to supply become proprietary software you don't know the whole scope to isn't that a such a security risk when you have a black box operating in the public eye to microsoft's dependency puts governments under a cyber threat and not only that. it will. close off instantly

since it is still being the only one who will still be linked to the most. recent border. with. the ins this is the. most i've been done with the old patient stop when there was a sting of phone calls in front is up and his cards on the fine. job was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that still. produce talk to try to tell you that what we gossip to the public has filed for the most important news. i. think you will and by. the hawks we all know what.

the head of the e.u. calls on the block to step up to the plate and replace the us as the world's superpower after the scraps the iran nuclear deal and continues this war of words with tehran i don't think they do understand like if you look at what's happening in the middle east or syria with yemen with all of the places they're involved it's bedlam and. israel launches a series of strikes on iranian targets in syria claiming it's in response to an iranian assault on the golan heights. in other news the british prime minister apologizes for the u.k.'s complicity in the rendition of the leader of a recognized libyan terror group.

this is r.t. international. the us is facing a row with the european union over the iran nuclear deal that's because despite donald trump announcing he was withdrawing from it other signatories have expressed their willingness to keep the agreement alive use commission president even said america has lost its vigor. since the usa turned away from multilateral relations with the ferocity that only surprised us wants to cooperate with other corners of the world there is much need for your all across the globe at this point we have to replace the united states which as an international actor has lost vigor because of it in the long term it through. many european leaders of being openly discussing their own knees since president trump made that decision to pull out of the uranium nuclear accord france's president mr khan has been talking today about

the fact that europe now must make its own way and not follow others he talked about when that deal was created a few years ago saying that it was designed to build peace in the middle east and then quite pointedly the usa said that now the powers have decided not to respect their own words so much so european leaders want to selvage this deal that ministers from france the u.k. and germany due to meet with representatives from iran on monday to see if there is any way that they can keep this deal a life without the united states meanwhile we've also been hearing from the german chancellor angela merkel has talked about the fact that now the usa has decided to pull out of this means that europe will have to greater responsibility and now faces greater burden to try and maintain peace to secure peace and

also to find a political solution to conflicts around the globe are there that we could talk we will freeze more responsibility in europe in foreign policy in the area of securing peace in the area of political solutions we must find the us president decided that he would withdraw from the nuclear agreement with the around france the united kingdom and germany have decided that we remain committed to this agreement but we've also been hearing that germany. russia have said that they will maintain communications as all the other signatories to the. deal just want to keep that deal afloat despite the fact that the usa has now decided under donald trump to walk away from it we've also been seeing other tensions between the relations between germany and the united states after the u.s. a new ambassador to germany sent out a tweet in which he was giving the german companies who are working in the wrong some advice telling them they need to wind down operations immediately.