want to an event organized by the national endowment for democracy it's a nonprofit ngo that was founded in one thousand nine hundred three and is supported by both the democratic and republican parties currently operates in more than ninety countries the national endowment for democracy says it's working to help non-governmental groups promote democracy in those places and blumenfeld 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 and troll farms of doing in the united states they interfere in other countries politics and with foreign money. the only difference is they do it openly and in the name of spreading freedom. r.t. spoke to the journalist behind the report my split with ali tell us more about the findings. so once again. i'd like to express our sincere got to to bipartisan. support and also u.s. congress people as well and u.s.

citizens eventually we are doing this work with the u.s. citizens tax 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 suppose it 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 in a form of internal interference you 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 now i think i don't know that that's what they do but i do know that they promote human rights wherever they and i mean for example if russia were funding civil society groups inside the us and that going into the hype as i said put to work they do 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. see 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. a lot of what we do today was done covertly twenty five years ago by the cia it's even more the case since the color revolution model has been introduced. what the any does is what the cia might have done to salvador allende in she 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. now he's facing a backlash in the u.k. after losing a controversial government with some of those say in the companies cashing in on gang culture now. has an attachment that can be clipped away for easy transit as the advertising goes to those who has a pocket that some say can be used as a holster for a weapon britton seen a surge in knife crime in recent years two. so there's multiple stabbings every day around the country a massive gang problem that's getting worse by the day and night he has released

this seventy pound balaklava are they dumb nike are using a black guy to promote about a club with straps and pockets where there is blood there is money now nike are endorsing gun and knife crime as well isn't forcing racial profiling well done why exactly are you promoting a baloch lover in july if this was in winter it least it's hard to criticize. well the past two years have seen almost thirty five thousand recorded knife attacks in the u.k. that's the highest amount since the data became available more than a fifth of those arrested for knife possession a youngster's we asked people in london what they thought of nike's headgear that. could be sort of a sportsman like a climber. could be also a terrorist my immediate reaction is terrorists first it's a bit scary. but at the same times i do scary might be just sports equipment to

find it menacing. now the problem is i'm from canada so all i think of is someone being warmed to me it could be a good winter i'd outfit. is not appealing to me at all i don't think you'd be allowed in banks and. it's not just so much that what's going on. here is as if these could have i don't know you can see them with weapons as well as guns pulling something like that so why the trying to cover the faggots by. see why you what. you wouldn't want to have to face that you're not inviting is not like he's going to make you to buy. you know the brand isn't it i don't think it's really a fashion police i think they might have changed to cause a little bit to charge for some. i think it's good to. make a profit on the back of that kind of image that was encouraged more gangsters and

stuff you think is out here of course that's nothing to do with nike if they don't get it from making they get it from something else it's nothing else to make out by way of being seen around the people where it. so makes the action they're the more the company says new products available to multiple markets around the world adding that it does not encourage gang culture in any way it's removed the sold out item from its website youthen antiviolence activists paul mackenzie says that companies like nike should bear more social responsibility that they're warm by skiers and snowboarders i agree and i fully agree with that but they're also being mourned by gangs in london and they're also be used to cover the faces of known gang members a lot of the young people i work with are now buying these baloch lovers and i'm actually seeing these baloch lovers on a day to day basis and i'm seeing the being worn by children who do not ski or do not snowboard they actually go out and use those in their crimes and the way that

young people look at the use of about the club and now as part of this part of my opinion these brands need to be a little bit more socially responsible when your brand is so desirable and when there is a trend at the moment of young people killing themselves in london who are using things like baloch lovers to hide their faces on a day to day basis. coming up here china's grand plan to try to avoid a looming democratic time bomb and controversially tax the countries in the forty's to pay for it so after the break. they gave his camera. roughly once they showed some little need for them. to joan cool videos and film with the broccoli stirring it. down more on

string i don't rightly don't t.v. . in a world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

around two hundred fifty protesters at the university of north carolina at chapel hill pull down a controversial confederate statue on monday night the one hundred five year old monument known as silence has long been a symbol of white supremacy. i was i was. erected a mansion so to commemorate the person fighting for the slave holding confederate states in the american civil war money would have polarized opinion on campus for decades and had been vandalized in the past although many saw it is a racist and offensive thing others argued it was part of the south's heritage and should therefore have been preserved university for its part condemned the toppling of the lawsuit as unlawful and dangerous but did acknowledge the monuments divisive nature at least one person was reportedly arrested during the demonstration and police are investigating the act of vandalism is as it's been called the instant forms part of a growing backlash though against confederate symbols across the country.

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little activist and say raj is right and can save the radio host dave perkins joined us to talk about the implications of the move and how society should deal with the vestiges of the confederation period everything that happens here in the public square and public view is political it's a political plan involving street activity designed yes to divide us because there is an election coming up in just a couple of months of mid-term election here where all congressmen and one third of senators are up for reelection it is divisive because it is designed to be divisive because it's designed to activate the political base of the democrat party to get them out to vote in as high a number as possible what this is is forcing people to look at something to have two or three symbols of white supremacy where they're going to school they're abandoning the historical context they're forgetting why those statues. in there

who it was that put them there what the thinking was at the time and what the statues represent the history that led up to this or that person being remembered in a statute those statues were not mean throughout this route they were made to hold white supremacy it would be great to see more conservatives concerned about fighting slavery right here at home we have a president who has incited violence against people of color whose dog whistles that racism have become. warrants which have led to people like our sister i'm heather being killed in charlottesville last year we talk about prudence when you're more concerned with the statue than you are and if a player's having the right to need to stand up services in the white supremacy that run this country the campaign against the statues as i see it as a way to get young people out and make them feel like they're doing something when they're really not accomplishing anything because they're ghosts that they're fighting against is disappearing more and more every year we have to know where we

came from so we don't do what the young people are doing today which is look at the present and see all manner of unfairness and injustice and feel like they need to riot in the streets and destroy things to make things right if they just saw history they would see how right everything is it's a matter of perspective destroying history ruins your perspective and that leaves you subject to being told what to think and having to believe it because you don't have anything else. people in china for decades back and from having more than one child but now in a further push to improve the country democratic there's a proposal it's controversial into the tax anyone under fourteen who's only got one child no children old you to provoke up world and.

i'm forty years old now i wanted to have a second child because i wanted my first born to have company.

haven't had a second child or someone else says that's what insane politics as twenty years ago you were forced to cry because you have children twenty years later you're forced to pay because you don't like slaves or have to pay taxes for a production rates. to experience i do nowadays a lot of people don't want to have more than one child the older generation has already got used the idea that they can. we have one child so even if they have a mission to have a second one they don't want to. be sixteen expensive to rent an apartment in beijing or shanghai as well as provide education i don't simply can't afford to have more than when i left i propose the taxation is foolish the government has to

change its policy in the first place to encourage people to have more than one child. this is our to bring you some of the stories you just don't see elsewhere and question them or two you can follow our site. for the latest stories as they happen straight to your mobile device for now here in moscow is kevin o. insead have a great wednesday. he didn't simply said he was up and up and basically it was in the.

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keep. reading some salutation. on the state of u.s. foreign policy john bolton the current national security adviser recently lamented the we once had a capacity for clandestine efforts to overthrow governments i wish we could get those back well mustache johnny is probably roasting model weenies and popping champagne bottles in the styles of this week is one hundred because august nineteenth marks the sixty fifth anniversary of one of the most notorious acts of meddling in twentieth century history a cia sponsored plan and instigated coup in iran after years of being labeled conspiracy theorist quackery in two thousand and thirteen the cia finally admitted its responsibility along with britain's m i six for orchestrating the nine hundred

fifty three coup that saw the removal of the democratically elected iranian prime minister mohammad mosaddegh from power and replacing him with the brutal and violent shaw muhammad of the lobby all of this of course in the name of protecting western oil interests you see move that could committed that most heinous of international crimes he he nationalized the british anglo iranian oil company horrible horrible vicious and evil of him given his country's most valuable natural resources back to his people i mean as crazy. tragically the one hundred fifty three crew and agreed just act of war and superpower meddling is still causing blowback to this day in fact this week so iran unveil a new domestically manufactured biter jet in response to the united states crippling sanctions and president trumps chest thumping hostility towards the country or any and president rouhani stated at the end bailing the enemy should see how expensive an invasion of iran would be why does not the us wage

a military attack on us because of our power you see this fear of us aggression is rooted in that fifty three despite despite what recent bad. affleck movies teach us about modern world history you see there is no such thing as what about it's only context when you are watching hawks. but if you treat the. real thing. as the bottom. like you that i got. the. welcome aboard the watching the harks i am tyrone for the tour and i'm happy for

a while it's so yeah. many years later here we are and people wonder why i ran in such a big deal why why is there all this hostility why was the nuclear deal in place why did they work so hard to have that and why does that matter event that we just sort of quit the whole thing and move done a lot of history a lot of history sixty five year anniversary and i remember when you would talk about us involvement in the removal of the crew and people would be like that is crazy conspiracy theory talk how dare you mention that we would never ever do anything like that and the cia would never do anything like the number of our intelligence services and community they would never visit all the seventeen of them or was it for some of them. but then in twenty thirteen they finally admitted yeah we were pretty much we orchestrated that we did that they read notes out of themselves to write

a word and i was so creepy about it is they treated back then and look you know they still do today they treat it as a normal part of like foreign diplomacy the formerly excise section of internal history entitled the battle for. iran was really supporting thirteen and it literally says the military coup that overthrew most of the national front cabinet was carried out under cia direction as an act of u.s. foreign policy conceived been approved at the highest levels of government yet even eisenhower signed off on this one wow just act a foreign policy. smuggler gone meddling that's an act of war that is his foreign policy raising him saying no no you elected this guy as your leader we don't like him so we're going to put him back and i mean there's no ratchet i just heard it in the perspective what i'm justin trudeau down here in the canadian army of came in and said you know what trump that's it dragged him out of office and said no we're going to put somebody else and go put out would be ludicrous right it was any if

any other country tried to do that to united states there would be especially if they had to be ability to control the media the way the cia correct yes so here's the thing about it wasn't just. controlling what was going on in the ground in iran you have to control the narrative back home and so in all the august seventeenth of nine hundred fifty three the c.i. a there was a memorandum that revealed. how they were able to sort of trick the public into thinking certain things were of a certain way that weren't entirely true in that memo they stated state has passed the word to v.o.a. which is voice of america and instructed its own press relations people to avoid using such terminology as plot etc. you know but we don't do. you get voice of america which is you know government funded us government funded outlet to purposely make sure that the narrative didn't make it look like

a coup d'etat to make it look as if it just magically happened in the us didn't have any involvement in it and the central intelligence agency which i don't know when they became an arm of the military. they're suddenly going on internet things and then we know later. oh ramón the united states this is not the beginning nor the end of this issue oh no it's because when we see it years later and there's a lot more very foul things that keep happening all the time yeah you know what thomas carruthers of the carnegie endowment for international peace actually argues today in that same sort of tone is that. unlike russian electoral matter meddling u.s. democracy promotion does not favor particular candidates or undercut the technical integrity of elections all my whole. distance exercise their basic political and civil rights. i think that's kind of crazy but i think what honestly you can't end

this segment about iran with no mention what happened to iranian oil company which is what all of this was over that they were going to private they basically nationalize their oil that later became be peaceful marriage and if that would have stayed in iraq. we never would have had the b.p. oil spill probably. in a rare event u.s. politics someone is actually being held accountable for their decisions while in office on monday this week michigan judge david goggins ordered the state health director neck lion to stand trial for his actions during the flint water crisis line is accused of involuntary manslaughter for failing to alert the public of a legion errs disease outbreak that is believed to have led to the deaths of two citizens artie's actually banks as more. nicholai in michigan state health director is being accused of failing to alert the public to flynn's water crisis why in phases and voluntary manslaughter charges in the deaths of two men who died

from a legionnaires disease outbreak in flint he also faces charges on misconduct in office and the willful neglect of duty lyons is denying any wrongdoing however judge david goggins says these deaths could have been prevented if the outbreak had been publicly known despite lyons pending trial michigan governor rick snyder is sticking by him snyder issued a statement saying he has quote full faith and confidence and will remain on duty i d h h as unless convicted of a crime after a full trial by a jury of his peers snyder and lyon announced the outbreak in january twenty sixth team although lyon knew there were legionnaires he says being reported months earlier experts say the outbreak was caused by the flint water crisis back in two thousand and fourteen however attorneys for alliance say there isn't enough evidence linking look christ says to the legionnaires outbreak the crisis began on

april twenty fifth two thousand and fourteen when the state emergency manager decided to switch the city's water source from the detroit water system to the flint river and order to cut costs during the summer months residents began complaining about a foul smell as well as side effects they experience after drinking and be thing in the one. many residents were then faced with a legionnaires outbreak and in the months to follow many officials would have faced charges for their role of not properly addressing the crisis lyon is the highest ranking michigan official charge and an investigation led by the attorney general's office fourteen other current and former state and local officials have been charged with crimes related to either the legionnaires outbreak or lead in the water four of them have agreed to a misdemeanor plea deals while the remaining cases are still active unlike these other employees the lions and one other official have been allowed to remain on the job despite facing criminal charges and washington actually banks art.

or you talk about one of the worst black eyes in the history of the many black eyes that we've. got to be up there and our federal government's complete lack of reaction or as if well it's your problem that is what really got me you know it's that thing of going went where was obama where were you where were the progressives where were those people who say no we're going to do something about those men nothing happened nobody of second responsibility that's all that passed the bar the bar pass a budget and you know they wouldn't give them any money to fix they would give money to fix what's interesting is people who are hungry for people to not to go to take the fall to be held accountable for their failure as a government officials and in fact when the judge announced this decision there was a woman in the chambers who actually yelled out yes yes yes you know i mean there

there that hungry for somebody to be held accountable for what i would yeah you know. like they're saying there was at least ninety cases of legionnaires' occurred and genesee county including twelve and more than half the people have this common thread that they had spent time in the clear in hospital with what was on the floor in water so. and that's probably what's going to be argued in this trial they're all writers and that's what lions attorney is going to argue with that he didn't mesh warren and that's what we've heard again and again that he didn't initially warn status and about the possibility because he didn't know for sure and they were a little confused about where the legionnaire status was coming from which i'm sure is they didn't want to say it was from the water and it was related to that here's my problem you have a duty as a public official that when there's legionnaires disease going around you tell people i don't care what what causes it i don't care who's aliens from mars it is you're still let people know that they might be at risk of contracting lead.