so the question is if it lip is mainly ruled by al qaida who gave sky news the exclusive access they are not rebels there al qaeda which rebels did you can get access to perhaps they've seen this reporting tactic once before during the siege of syria's economic hub aleppo activists say close to one hundred children have been killed in the east in rebel held areas of aleppo mill your seat in the if battle districts of rebel held east to level unable to convince moscow to stop bombing civilians all they talked about was how civilians and moderate opposition fighters were being slaughtered by assad and the russians there was no mention of the hottest though and there since something our reporter saw with their own eyes. we're in the south. and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. beyond that you're into the rebel held parts of

aleppo that is the black flag of job nusra. brainchild in the syrian civil war. time after time. a year ago we had to. do mamma always black and white. regime again we. enjoyed killing. a child because this is the ocean accompli. an american journalist has published a new investigation exposing washington's efforts to interfere with political

processes around the world and undermine rival governments max blumenthal went to an event organized by the national endowment for democracy it's a nonprofit n.g.o.s founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and supported by both the democratic and republican parties it claims to help non-governmental groups promote democracy in over ninety countries but blumenthal couldn't help but notice some parallels right i covered the ceremony because these organizations are doing exactly what congress accuses russia funded media outlets control farms of doing in the united states to interfere in other country's politics and with foreign money. the only difference is they do it openly and in the name of spreading freedom. joining us live now is the independent journalist behind that report explain menthol himself welcome to the program now let's first take a look at another excerpt from your report here you speak to the director of an organization

that focuses on work with north korean defectors let's take a quick listen though once again. i'd like to express our sincere gratitude to bipartisan. support and also u.s. congress people as well and u.s. citizens french and me we are doing this work with the u.s. citizens tax he talks about u.s. citizens to what extent are american taxpayers aware they are funding those sorts of organizations. well yeah americans have no idea that they're funding an organization that's explicitly dedicated to meddling in other countries affairs interfering in elections toppling often democratically elected leaders and spreading public relations campaigns to sow chaos against countries that resist washington's agenda but here you have kind of open acknowledgement from this korean activist who is behind the transitional justice working group which is responsible for

a lot of what congress states and knows about north korea's supposed human rights violations so basically the united states is paying for its own findings to ramp up sanctions and hostility against north korea and what's really interesting about this event that i attended in capitol hill is that it was timed to coincide with the trump kim summit it was essentially a u.s. government backed event undermining a u.s. government initiative to foster peace between north and south korea and that to me seems like almost and then a form of internal interference watch now in another clip a staff member of a different group describes the success of a political transition and mongolia so we took a group of defector scholars over to mongolia to study their transition so mongolia's transition if you don't know there's a peaceful democratic revolution there was no bloodshed there was no fighting or any revolution at all. but it developed

a successful free market economy now. with peaceful elections but without any like dramatic turn over power it's now probably like an island democracy nation and that's more of the model we want to urge the north koreans to pursue like transitioning from a socialist economy to a free market economy is paramount exactly so the ultimate goal will then oh about opening up markets. absolutely this is a staffer for the international republican institute which until i think one week ago is headed by sen john mccain who according to the new york times has turned that group into a revolving door for lobbyists and out of power republicans the international republican institute operates under the umbrella of the national endowment for democracy and it played a key role in interfering in the nine hundred ninety six mongolian elections and bringing to power right wing neo liberal parties which put the nail in the coffin

of socialism in mongolia what we've seen since then in mongolia's record inequality and that is what the international republican institute and the ne d. itself want to bring to north korea. they simply want to overturn socialist governments and open up more markets for american corporations and international finance it's not really about democracy at all and there's so much in your report you even managed to confront the house democratic minority leader nancy pelosi about the efforts to promote political transitions abroad let's listen to that as well. i think that the national endowment for democracy. if there is a peace treaty that they should cease funding civil society groups that seek a transition or regime change no i think i don't know that that's what they do but i do know that they promote human rights they mean for example if russia were

funding civil society groups inside the us and that going into the hype i support the worth they do. why do you think she didn't want to give you a straight answer to that question. well i think it's pretty obvious i mean two things are going on there first of all you have. these activists and organizations that are funded by the national endowment for democracy the u.s. regime change arm in south korea who are dedicated to regime change in north korea really worried that the money's going to stop rolling in from washington if there is a peace treaty so basically conflict is an entire industry and it's part of this fake human rights and democracy promotion industry so pelosi wanted to duck that issue and then the other issue she wants to duck is the sheer hypocrisy of supporting an organization that funds civil society groups and opposition media to topple governments and so chaos and sovereign countries while complaining that for example

this network r t does that in the united states and that's exactly what nancy pelosi and her colleagues in congress do every day when confronted with the issue there's nothing they can do but deflect and run away as palosi did you all thought one point cite the co-founder of the national endowment for democracy who said in one nine hundred ninety one quote a lot of what we do today was done covertly twenty five years ago by big cia do you think that's still the case now. absolutely i mean even it's even more the case since the color revolution model has been introduced. at what the ne does is what the cia might have done to salvador allende inchy lay but they do so overtly and therefore avoid a lot of the scrutiny from congress it looks like they're funding democracy and legitimate protests but they're directing their resources exclusively against countries that resist washington's economic and political agenda it's an extension

of the cia but it seems like it's pushing human rights and things that americans can get behind and that's why they receive so little scrutiny from the public it's very clever actually independent journalist max blumenthal thank you so much for joining us on the program and helping us unpack your report that's your headline news recount for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our web site r.t. dot com for the details on all of those stories and much more thanks for tuning in this hour.

oh who can. will the maple lives win the stanley cup only care about her on this joint you know your intro to stacy what's happening hey max we recorded in this location once before right after the us elections when president donald trump was elected and of course we were here to see the influx of american refugees the democrats but they never did arrive but we're still here and i just want to remind everybody that there is of course a little airport right downtown in central toronto and you may occasionally hear a plane land you will also see many canadian geese some of them are come over here quite aggressively to do yeah i have some headlines here that i want to talk about because of course we are here for some sort of block change sort of conference and why are all these things happening why do we have big queen why do we have

cryptocurrency is why do we have donald trump why do we have breaks it why do we have all these things well it all started with report talking about it because of the financial collapse headline reads the financial crisis cost every american seventy thousand dollars fed study says america never made up the growth lost in the two thousand and eight global financial crisis and the recession it triggered a decade later u.s. households are still counting the cost so we're below the two thousand and seven trend and that equals seventy thousand dollars per household right well let's. kind of go on a talk about this for a moment here so the response to the two thousand and eight crisis was that the global bankers got together they really architect of the global financial system to a stand a ten times the impact financial crisis in the future they did nothing however to undercut the a bill. the for the bad actors the global banks to increase their balance sheets in

the leverage by ten times and now here we are in twenty eighteen and in fact now the balance sheet of these banks in the central banks is ten times more levered and now we're at the threshold where they were unable to expand re architect to withstand a crisis eleven times the previous crisis which is what we're entering the remember that famous movie where they had to turn crank up the volume to eleven that's where we are. we're at eleven on the crisis level and there is no provisions for a massive global financial collapse as we are now seeing with the dollar skyrocketing out of control and so it's back to good times and you are right it going was created to combat the banks stirrers and in this crisis in this crisis now unfolding will see that i'm not sure you can they don't and i'm shaking my torso right now much will see the price now zoom up to that hundred thousand target

i've had since two thousand and eleven ok so now back to the story because we're going to talk we have been talking about the fact that in the u.s. mainstream media the corporate media they do not like to talk about why we have trump in the u.k. they don't like to ask why we have breaks it they like to come up with conspiracy theories instead and again we invite you to go to m s n b c and fox and c.n.n. and look at their conspiracy theories and enjoy them or not or like believe them or not but some facts my also have relevance to why people are so angry and they want to kick the elite in the teeth over and over even if it means taking down the global economy because if that global economy is not working for them they're probably thinking why should it work for those top one percent we have shown those that famous study where they have two monkeys and cages next week childcare you give one monkey a carrot he's happy eat it. you give the other monkey a grape and suddenly that monkey that was perfectly happy with

a carrot before the other monkey gets a better taste you're great and he goes crazy and he start slamming everything and throwing all his food right that's an excellent point just to briefly build on that so the boat and i talked to british people about a i said you know this is economic suicide and they said i don't care i just want to kick the elites in the teeth so what you're saying is the case that could be applied to the globe or people just reject the global economy wholesale and start to commit financial suicide which i think you will you will see well here they're saying the average american family is seventy thousand dollars worse off today than they would have been had things continued as it were in two thousand and seven we know that the likes of jamie diamond is now a billionaire we know that lloyd blankfein is a billionaire we know that we have weak but there is construction going on so our whole crew looks very shocked that there's

a noise off screen but just so you know we're out in the public that's kind of food truck i'm having some fresh canadian bacon delivered for lunch so but we know the top one percent have done a lot better than the past was in two thousand and seven because if the ordinary household in america had seventy thousand dollars more cash that means they would have less at the top right excellent point because crisis magically put together you know this on norma's wealth redistribution to the top so was it was it a crisis or was that it was a plan obviously a plan so again like if you tune into corporate media if you tune into the mainstream media the very confused about what is going on why people are so angry because st obama to them was a great president obama care even.