you know i'm not trying to bag on minnesota but this isn't the first time there's been in the minnesota police department is that a lot of. bad a lot of bad yeah and the last few years you can definitely see them lou i mean from the shooting of steel and everything that happened with and you know they've been major line of fire lack of a better term how is the community you just mentioned you know people are writing letters things like that how is the community up in minneapolis as a whole here and yet another you know look this is what the police are doing again and really i can't see the justification for any of this i cannot see the justification for the police saying hey let's go throw some kind of meaning to this person in the course of doing our business because let's also remember that any interaction you have with the police you need to have all your senses about you you're dealing with the authorities and if you're suddenly drug were essentially what's the horse tranquiliser street drug it also used for anesthesiologists you

can have your faculties to know from down left or right in that situation no matter where you end up so i'm just curious what's the community there how they go respond to all this and what do you think's going to happen next. well there are plans for a press conference to be held tomorrow at three o'clock amongst activists in the community who are outraged about the situation and who are demanding accountability people are have also been urged to show up at the next public safety subcommittee hearing the minneapolis city council which is taking place this this thursday so i expect the city council chambers to be packed with folks who are outraged who are concerned and who are demanding that change come swiftly we're also asking that the report be completed as soon as possible so that the public can be made aware of all of the specifics of what has happened but we're not going to rest until we see

change because this is more evidence of corruption within the minneapolis police department it's also evidence of what is. sometimes an inappropriate relationship between minneapolis police and emergency medical responders i don't know if you all are aware of this but when jim r. clarke was killed in minneapolis in november of two thousand and fifteen that was a result of emergency medical professionals calling the police and claiming that john mark karr a twenty five year old african-american man was acting belligerently and when people you know saw the videotape of him outside the ambulance that was that could not have been further from the truth but. after lamar clark was killed and i got to say great great work up there great work in the community of stand your ground up there and it came always a pleasure to have you on thank you so much. thank you for and as we go to break or quads or don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics you covered of facebook and twitter see our full shows at r t v dot com coming up sean stone

breaks down the walls of the modern drug cartel with author and ph d. as well those of a lot and later we will take a ride on the legacy of astronaut sally stay to watch. the trump juggernaut continues on all fronts is he remaking the western world or merely isolating the u.s. also is north korea coming out of the cold and much much more on this edition of crossfire.

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in the classic nineteen eighties film scarface today's hit netflix series narcos the latin american all powerful all dangerous drug cartel is rampant in our world of pop culture and with us president donald trump's current obsession with m.s. thirteen gang members in the u.s. cities coupled with monthly even weekly news reports a vicious cartel killings taking place south of the u.s. border it's safe to say that the concept and mythology of the all powerful latin american drug cartel is alive and well in both the news media and washington. politics as well but is what we know about the cartels even the true well ph d. and author as well those of is now challenging that dogma and his new book the

cartels do not exist drug trafficking and culture in mexico earlier and johnstone sat down with the vala about his challenging new book. as well those thank you so much for joining me i'm really looking forward to talking about this important subject which with you which is the issue of drug cartels especially in mexico our neighbor state over the years we've seen numbers about how hundreds of thousands of people have been killed as a result of the drug wars and obviously at the hands of both. paramilitaries government police and also the cartels themselves but you have a new book that is in spanish translated to english yet but the but the claim of the book reallocation is that the drug cartels don't exist what is that exactly mean well thank you for depredation to be here and to share some of the say the us what i mean by drug cartels and that exists is the fact that what we think happens

in mexico is related to this so-called drug organizations or drug cartels as we are told they operate in the country. it's part of a political agenda that has been pushed in the mexico through the national security apparatus of the united states first and then into the mexican government to further military. to military expansion. of the federal government into many regions of the country and so what i tried to demonstrate in my book is that the drug cartels as we are told. supposedly you know the territories in mexico and challenge state power do not exist such and that instead what we got is a very violent. imposition of federal forces special through the military in many regions of the. through with various objectives in mind the most immediate that comes to my attention and to others that have been researching this very same

subject is of course the appropriation of many of the natural resources ripe for extraction in mexico and this is the case for example of you know the state of. the state of chihuahua where you have many of these regions with a lot of the vast reach they sense for example gas shale gas and of course oil and minerals that are ripe for extraction and that the military justify to take over so instead of really having this drug cartels fighting each other what we really have is the military expansion into this territory. so that certainly makes sense obviously the notion of this sort of dialectic where you declare a war on something whether it's terror or drugs and then you basically start to pump money into the you know the war state and the military industrial complex in a sense and then use that military to basically extract natural resources makes

total sense but how do you mean that the cartels don't exist i mean is there no cartel structure that as far as we understand like the cartel and the idea of sort of bosses and drug drug lords who are who have maybe thousands thousands of men working for them and are basically running these trafficking operation well what it what the main problem with understanding what really drug cartels are supposed to be is that most of what we know comes from official institutions right so most of what we think we understand about them comes directly from state agencies or know from from the military intelligence from police and all that knowledge it's really has come through us unchallenged by the media if you survey most of the books that are already on the record deals from the journalistic site where you will find these. they represent constantly the same discourse without any mediation without any sort of challenger except for further examination and the legitimize this

official information telling us that these are going to stations are really that powerful but if you really look into their activity in what happens once they start being challenged by the military say for example the case of this in a law cartel what you quickly find is that these traffickers are far smaller than we think and their power do not really serve. the state in specially not that of u.s. intelligence so what you get instead is you know these very precarious traffickers that once they are caught you know have no money like in the case of a chopper with man right who's now you know extradited us as we all know in prison in new york city and you know in court immediately shown in the real boom there ability which is you know traffickers who inhabit parts of mexico always fleeing the power of the state and in the of course are able to produce a massive fortune and to produce some sort of. structure but once they're

confronted with official power the mediately crumble so what is very interesting to notice here is that i'm not of course at all denying that traffic or you know the trafficking it's an important issue of course it is but what i'm trying to say here is that we need to pay more attention to this expansion of the military apparatus and the way this companies does this course at the same time proclaiming the superiority of drug cartels so this is the most ironic moment in mexico in history right because while we hear that drug cartels are taking over the country we have you know one of the largest investments in the security apparatus of the country right since two thousand and nine on the public spend it you're in the military and federal police has doubled up in mexico. so what nobody has been able to explain so far is you know we have one of the strongest military in our history in mexico's

history while at the same time we have the expansion of the supposed expansion of these so-called drug and stations so what i'm trying to show is that there are between in my book that there's a correlation between the presence of the military in those areas where drug cartels supposedly are fighting and they're challenging. the state for control and the rights of violence and i'm not the first one to say it for example in mexico sociologist got in on this got on a one sided will have shown clearly through a statistical analysis using official numbers. rising violence in many parts of the country were. where we're told drug cartels are fighting. exactly with the arrival of the military and police forces in the socal war against drugs so what you have in the end. the violence has a direct correlation to the presence of the military i'm not saying of course that the military is doing well divine this but it is definitely true and it can be and

he has been proven that the presence of the military is a condition of possibility for most of the violence in mexico that at the same time accompanies the energy reform in the country right so. events are happening in apparel fashion and they intersect each other especially where we're told drug cartels are fighting say for example my colleague. in professor at the george mason university has recently published a book called inc where she clearly shows for example. exploitation of shale gas is going sailing with the drug war right and this set that somehow do not object to the preparation of the energy of the gas while at the same time you know they're killing in depopulating many areas where the gas is located so the. there's a lot of. research that is spending on the part of econet of academics and journalists to clarify exactly what we say when we named the war on drugs and how

to explain this correlation of these two events right the energy reform and expansion of the military apparatus in mexico. and when you see the energy reform taking place in mexico what do you mean exactly by that i mean certainly you have pemex which is this massive state owned oil company as i understand it but are we seeing more privatization or what's taking place right so that since two thousand and six specially with the presidency of felipe because i don't you know when the same person sees that the clear the war on drugs immediately from day one we have seen this new agenda of pushing for energy reform as you know mexico has been very protective of its natural resources going back to the one nine hundred thirty s. expiration of oil and what's been happening since two thousand and six and on it's a process a political process for us that has been undoing all of the many of those locks that were protective of many of the natural resource especially old but also now

gas and minerals and and with that there's been a very period of extraction in many of those areas where a lot of assistance could have a rice and where it not for the supposedly drugs. fighting against each other so why do you get this energy reform has been occurring on their own at the same time the government is selling this war against drugs and in while with this of course many of these terrorists have been opened up for immense fortunes you know exxon mobil is in it. energy you know it's all over the north. and b.p. many companies and gas are already in mexico and they're gaining all the incredibly rich contracts. from the federal government and it's part of the i guess one of the most sensible topics coming in the presidential election of july first you know one

of the things that the candidate on the left has been arguing as one of its main focus of the platform has been precisely that every vision of this complex because there's a lot of fortunes that are being amass right now as we speak that has been gone unchecked in this process of the situation so what you get is a very obscure political process accompanied by this very violent security apparatus that at the same time it's in my opinion independent of others. you know the appropriation of this of this area's by. the war on drugs. president signed space policy directive three today which did not actually order the creation of a space force despite what you may have heard it actually task the commerce department was creating data and traffic management services for space first to mitigate space junk and second to make it easier for the private sector to track

and monitor what's in the skies above their satellites and how it's organized below and on june eighteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty three so this is an astronaut sally ride became the first american woman in space at the age of thirty two she was and remains the youngest american to have ever traveled into space and it's like being a trailblazing women woman sally ride preferred to be judged on her merit not on her gender as the other woman of the one nine hundred seventy eight class of the space program she wanted to be judged on a bar just as high as the men and despite the fact that she worked just as hard excelled above and beyond expectations now as the thought she would want to make up for her mission and the press asked if she cried when under pressure so let's celebrate sally ride for the string in. for ration and pride suspected women across the globe. are that is our show puta baby remember every everyone in this world we

are about told her loved up so i tell you all i love you i am i roll with her i'm tapped off keep watching those hawks never great days later. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it be no in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict just found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying there's just no way that doesn't mean that we're even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished to respect the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

i can imagine. i don't know i wasn't there but i can imagine a russia defending its national interests in a way that doesn't help the hawks in the united states but couldn't has this image of such a hard guy. and i would only blame him for not caring about american public opinion anymore because it seems like no matter what he does this is an unfair response nonetheless what i'm saying is it's gotten very personal. belief. oh no. it is illegal to.

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a former pentagon analyst on whether the u.s. and russia can ever find common ground. welcome to so see him go into. both russia and the us are calling for relations to be rescued but hostile rhetoric is still growing louder on both sides in moscow and washington let bygones be bygones robert english former policy analyst at the u.s. defense department international relations scholar is with me today to talk about this. ghost of the cold war is harboring in washington and moscow. as relations between russia and the us in syria raid into the series of personal jobs in escalating decisions what is inhibiting the understanding we've had two great

powers how long will the current confrontation persist and who will be strong enough to stop it. robert english former policy analyst at the us defense department welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us happy to be here so interesting times really didn't. start off with henry kissinger quote he says that demonization of lattimer putin is not a policy it's an alibi for the absence of one degree with him yes yes yes is there a coherent policy line on russia in washington. there are seven or eight coherent lawns but all together they produce incoherence by that i mean the congress thinks it knows what it's doing there are some individuals let's say the department of defense who have one orientation in the state department which is a revolving door who have another and so on no a coherent administration lie has not emerged because they're fighting internally

because trump started off as a pragmatic rush a complainer right he wanted to make good with russia but then they stopped wish one tatt his hands does this mean that the american line towards russia is pretty termite no matter who the president will be no no this is and this is unique with trump no tied his hands in particular because the pass this legislation requiring sanctions right and. that is certainly tied to trump personally because of the suspicion that he colluded with russia or that members of his campaign team. up to no good with russian representatives and to who knows there's this anger because hillary clinton lost and blaming it on somebody there's this sort of outsized anger at russia that's why trump is uniquely tied with another president might not be so you feel like making russia u.s. adversary is partially part of the internal political fight in america they're

using russia adversary against trying to weaken him is that part of the game for somebody who is it's not the only thing. one has to admit that russia hasn't helped in this there but russian actions that have made it easier for the people who dislike russia for the rooster forbes in washington to do what they've done but yes they are. it's against trump there's suspicion of russia there's a whole combination old cold warriors trump pater's hillary supporters democrats who just can't necessarily accept a new presidency people who are genuinely concerned about russian actions what happened in england all these come together to paralyze our russia policy but also doesn't it come down to strong president weak president because i mean i understand your checks and balances anderson you can't just do whatever the president wants to do but when he was trying prize present like for instance reagan like he wanted to make it with soviet union and everyone followed suit i feel like maybe if hillary

clinton were president. one day decided that she wanted to make it with russia everyone else would agree with her more or less and because he's such an outsider it seems like he met with much more resistance this partly that but the first thing you said is the main thing a president who comes in whether it's china russia any foreign policy issue with a hard line reputation if they decide they have to find accommodation accord a treaty they have a much easier time getting it past the establishment getting it passed congress someone who comes with a reputation as we or soft whether it's china or russia or whatever it might be they're constantly met with suspicion and resistance so reagan was a tough guy and that he could make peace nixon kissinger were hard on russia and they could have they taught you're probably right hillary clinton who would suspect her of colluding with russia or making a bad deal she's as tough as they come on putin trump came in reputation not just

soft but super soft so he's always going to have a uphill battle to do you think is done fixing ties with russia is it like a done fadel for him you know sitting in washington sitting anywhere in the united states we don't say anything anymore we never know never we never know what's coming next there's this feeling that this administration has not settled. on what's happening with negotiations with north korea on off on threats of war my best friend trade war with china trade with europe we're going to have a record no we're going to pose massive terror so iran we haven't even got to maybe the most dangerous of all the issues so i can't answer that we don't know we all hope that we find some stability in the submit a straight and can focus on one issue or another well at least on predictability it keeps you guys tone to make you straight all right so in the years after the cold war the funding cuts mean that fewer and fewer russian experts were being trained

in american schools what does that mean for russian knowledge in washington how does this influence policy. it's not a good time. for russia expertise we have and it's not just now but it's the last twenty years there's a strange combination of. lost interest in russia so fewer people after the ninety's were going into study oh boris yeltsin they have a democracy now it's kind of dall it's a crazy place but pretty strong arms control go about show that was exciting so a lot of people how do i now let me put it solely on people awake so now we do have a renewed interest but we have problems in our academy but say we train political scientists we train area experts very poorly thirty years ago twenty years ago when i was in graduate school we studied history first we learned the language and the

culture very deeply and only then do we move to politics and we didn't always stop with politics we learned some economics we learned some strategic and military affairs and our experts were sort of comprehensive these days it's much more narrowly focused and there's much less interest in culture and history in the past and that produces very narrow or one sided experts so even though you're right we have interests now people want to work on russia they're interested whether it's to go into intelligence or business or anything in between but i feel like even though there are fewer x. ers there still are experts i mean look at yourself and there are like bunch of people of your generation who really do have a knowledge of russia what russia stands for and what it represents what it wants but if you like the state department. or the white house don't really pay attention to the expert opinion do they even take that opinion into consideration when making up policies towards russia so i have great respect for the state department there

is a large qadri. of mid-level officials who spent their career in russia in prague maybe in beijing back to russia developing expertise they tend to have very balanced and sensible views but you know what happens every four years or maybe every eight years we have an election and it's the secretary the deputy secretary the assistant secretary the deputy assistants the political appointees and the basters who come in and got to say every administration it's not just trump but it was obama before and it was clear before that they put in more and more political and i'm qualified people because their campaign contributors because it's politically advantageous and therefore the competence at the top declines well their latest trumpet wiser in russia and europe on the hill and she's not like a putting lever and it's not like her views towards russia are super favor rule but she sensible and she's program atic which is already

a very good and where i think for american it has been academic colleague i have great respect for if you go to the hill for her work i had her as an invite to a conference at our university in los angeles she knows the caucasus as well as russia central asia she knows trade and oil with economic issues i have and she's balance straight she's not an idealogue she isn't hate anyone can she have a real impact on a policy i don't know i hope that she's working quietly within the system and in tandem let's say with people like our new ambassador here in moscow jon huntsman was also known as a moderate a sensible person and don't forget he has experience in business international trade he's been in china and other foreign postings my hope is that over time people like hudson and hill will move this administration in a pragmatic direction but then we watched the revolving door in the white house at the n.s.c. and i don't know. when it comes to russia and people in your.