was going on and it's all based on this idea that there is no independent media that there is nothing that people in cuba have no access to anything that they have no idea how to get any information that isn't all pro cuban government and that's not true because there's a many there's like cyber cuba the r.d.o. de cuba are all critical of the government but available be an internet on the island in fact just this week the telecommunications company of cuba wrote a test of their upcoming three g. capabilities and while it was slow and only allowed people like seventy megabytes to use for one day they were able to download videos they were able to go through music and news and have the internet write and download things from you tube which means they're getting there it's not an easy process but they're not trying to keep anybody out and most people on the island of learned a long time ago to use and things like that to counteract they know how to get around it and they don't like outsiders like we said the sanctions telling them how to feel about their own government and i think that's the biggest that yes that is that's the most important all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget

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from one form of us meddling in a sovereign country is politics to another this week journalist max blumenthal unleashed a new short documentary that shines a light of the rather curious work of the united states government funded national endowment for democracy or ned founded in one thousand nine hundred three by then u.s. president ronald reagan the ned was started under the guise of promoting democracy around the world that is funded primarily by the u.s. congress in the form of a grant awarded to the united states information agency however with its deep ties

to conservative as m and a cold war era ideology as many claim the group is more of a mechanism for influence peddling and propaganda than promoting any kind of democracy cia whistleblower philip achieve one stated nowadays instead of having the cia going around behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process by inserting money here and giving instructions secretly and so forth they they have now a sidekick which is the national endowment for democracy ned joining us now to discuss his investigations into the national endowment for democracy is investigative journalist and senior editor of the gray zone project. thanks for joining us thanks for having me and thanks for saying i unleashed a document and the. document and i don't just release it i don't know. whom and this was a boom for a lot of people because i think when you look at like the michelin down one for democracy it sounds so nice and wonderful i'm sure will make millions and endowment exactly but no one but i want to ask you you you know kind of women do it and

looked at what it was really doing and you know what is the measure for democracy really doing around the world and what inspired you to actually take a look at it the first voice the first time i wrote about this organization was actually in two thousand and four an article i wrote for salon dot com called the other regime change and it was about how the national endowment for democracy and its republican partner organization the international republican institute which was run by john mccain had effectively toppled the government the elected democratically elected government of haiti jumper trying to aristide the liberation theology preacher who was socialist oriented in his love of last movement which was a big challenge to american control of domination of haiti and they funded all these opposition groups they controlled them they strategized and they got them to basically sabotage the political system and create the context for a violent coup so i learned about it back then i returned to this subject again and again but most explicitly this summer when i attended an awards ceremony that the

ne d. hosted on capitol hill with a bipartisan cast of members of congress for korean defectors and activists who were funded by the u.s. government dedicated to promoting regime change in north korea and what was significant about this event was it was timed for the day of the trump kim summit to sabotage plans for peace between north and south korea so you've got a u.s. government funded organization undermining a u.s. government initiative which. actually threatened the organizations it was funding because if you have peace you don't need to fund these groups anymore don't you don't you really where is the fun and yeah i mean what would we do with all these hundreds of millions of dollars if we didn't use them for that how what i wonder is how how is ned's work that different than what has been accused of in terms of meddling in foreign country's politics so what's what's the difference between these two things while give you one example. you know i was just in nicaragua

reporting on a another coup very similar to what took place in haiti where the national endowment for democracy and its partner groups were heavily involved in funding opposition media opposition civil society groups and i found that you know through public filings it's all public this is all in the open as philip agee said the national endowment for democracy had spent over four million dollars between two thousand and fourteen and twenty seven thousand to fund the opposition to the elected send in nice the government of daniel ortega along with the usa id another state department related group which does the same it's been about five million ok so now let's take there are six million people in nicaragua that's about two dollars for every citizen let's imagine that russia and china got together and spent one billion dollars or about two dollars for every american citizen to fund civil society groups and the media in the us including groups that we don't know

they fund to topple the american elected government can you imagine the uproar can you imagine what would the united states do russia has actually banned the national endowment for democracy because it was seeking a color revolution in russia. how would americans react the thing is americans don't know that they do this they don't know that their tax payer dollars fund this and they don't know the consequences the consequences in nicaragua are dire a country that was growing at a five percent rate a year the economy was very productive which had no migration. isis which was not contributing to drug trafficking is now been d.c. has now been destabilized its economy has gone from five percent it's contracted to one percent there is a migration crisis now and criminal gangs are slipping in because the country's been destabilized this is partly the work the handiwork of the national endowment for democracy you mention would work taxpayers don't know who jumped on me mention

the timing obviously to avoid hey we're going to do this more of korea meeting and all that but what do people need to know one of us tax payers need to know about meds work regarding north korea the they might think twice about wanting to yeah i mean it's it was very clear to me at this event that ned the national endowment for democracy was threatened by the idea of peace breaking out on the korean peninsula whereas polls consistently show that south koreans over eighty percent of them favor peace with the north and you can see this with the government of mungy and he's put he's staked his political career on peace with the north reconciliation and most importantly reunification and now you have this u.s. government agency coming in with often. for reports that are unreliable in many cases and we've seen a lot of the defectors actually fabricate testimony the most important one being the only park. in order to sabotage that from taking place so this is a group that claims that it favors democracy and human rights which actually is

sabotaging it in many cases i mean you can just look at the record of the color revolutions they spawned and what happened afterwards in eastern europe how much conflict has taken place in ukraine for example there is an active war in ukraine's east the ne d. was heavily involved in the my down coup neo nazis are rampaging a government funded neo nazi group called c. fourteen is attacking roma camps across ukraine and you know i tried to warn about this at the time. and people said you know come on it's just about democracy let's keep the money flowing into civil society groups and now ukrainians favor peace and the u.s. wants to send more weapons. to serving under our many levels and what's even more disturbing to me is that right here you know on capitol hill our people who don't seem to see that who are supposed to be you know the great minds like you know nancy pelosi. well can i just make a quick point there which is that you know you brought up nancy pelosi and she was

at this event the democratic minority leader and i i question her about this but one of the most important things people need to understand and why this conversation we're having is so important is that there is no public debate about these kind of initiatives so you constantly hear about polarization between republicans and democrats on capitol hill but when something has so much bipartisan support like the anybody that's what you should really worry about and that's why we need to keep having these conversations transparency is so important because i don't think the public would want to know and what i thought was really interesting is that you know nancy pelosi when you tried to ask her about that had said you know i don't want to get my hypotheticals though that like ninety nine percent of her job but that's not like that's literally your job is to understand pathetically i want to ask you are u.s. politicians like pelosi just too blind with this like pseudo patriotism or are they are they where do you think that they absolutely know what's going on there and at

some point if somebody is getting paid or somebody just thinks that's the right thing yeah i think they partly compartmentalize but really what it comes down to is american exceptionalism that we do i mean this is the dictum of democracy promotion is to do unto others what we hope they do not do to us and so what i asked nancy pelosi was how would you feel of russia was funding civil society groups in the u.s. to encourage regime change and she said i'm not going to get into hypotheticals and it's a question she's never had to engage because she's an american except. analyst and she believes where a special nation or a shining city on a hill as reagan said it it's our job to export our system worldwide and no other country should seek to do that to us which is absolutely ridiculous because to me that goes against the very fabric of what i think all three of us and millions of other taxpaying citizens feel about this country is that it's not our job to police the world it's not our job to tell the world how to think what to think and why to think just so we can make more money on the back yard i'm pretty sure that's why we

had a little thing called the revolutionary war and he is one of the reasons we had as we want to move away from that well also we wanted to keep slavery going but oh you guys want to figure out how to through speaking of slavery you guys did a really important segment earlier in the week or last week on the prison strike yeah i mean we still have slavery in this country what right do we have to export our system when that's going on at home and it's not what about every it's about providing context that we need to work this out at home and not spend tax dollars to supposedly promote human rights what we're when we're what we're really doing is promoting conflict and destabilization and let me ask you this because we obviously we pinpointed one of the problems with them is who is what you know someone sitting at home what should they do what do you recommend as a journalist how do you combat things like mad how do you say like ok if i want to see if i don't want my tax dollars going to those what should i do to help stop it yeah i think you know it's really about writing your local representative and there are some representatives who unfortunately for me someone on the left they happen

to be more on the libertarian republican side because they don't want to spend lots of tax dollars but i think this is an issue about accountability and the public needing to be more involved in foreign policy what we've recently seen is the public getting interested for the first time in yemen and now there are calls in mainstream media to end that war the public needs to look at this organization the national endowment for democracy and call for it to be totally defunded and for those for those tax dollars to come back home and be real. invested in building democracy in this country where one still doesn't exist it's very true americans are going to thank you for coming on great work oh as always always thanks for having me if they can are still. open concept offices stand up desk air purifiers an ergonomic keyboard all work to make will work slightly less soul crushing but the folks at the mit media lab have gone one step further and are developing

a smart cubicle as part of the mediated atmosphere project which seeks to improve wellbeing and productivity in the workplace the workplace is not only modular but also as a frameless screen custom lighting speakers a video projection and both wearable and contact for the bio signal sensors the whole thing is designed to self regulate based on the user's activities and physiology it collects over thirty biological signals including heart rate facial expressions and posture so we get stress in the workplace it will literally adjust the lighting images and even sound in order to help you relax if you're getting distracted easily the smart workspace will learn what helps you focus most and implemented based on your body by experimenting with things like lighting and sound and objects that we interact with science and technology have been shown to have a monumental effect on cognitive performance mood and even physiology it really does seem like the geniuses of our generation might just make going to work almost

as fun as not going to work well i think the pleasure of working with the wallace and shaw stone of journalist like max blumenthal so i love coming to work every day what would be your favorite thing to what do you think would be the thing that called you out if you want to scream the word pop up and show yourself. video games and what that would distract. from the problem there's a bit to presume i wanted i believe it was or overheard about a certain shit over to remember what it was world we're in. told that we love to tell you all i love you i am tyrol but. keep on watching cocks and have a great day and night everybody. it was you know provision on my back when i wanted to. ask but i.

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are you. doldrums former attorney michael cohen who accuses the president of a legacy in finance violations launches a crowd funding campaign to pay his legal fees. also ahead in the program this hour the u.s. democratic party cries foul over another suspected of the culprit turns out to be much closer to home. police in the picturesque city of bryn noble dubbed the friendship cargo spike in gang related violence that's left residents living in fear. and a controversial new law in the u.s. state of louisiana it makes the pipeline protests a criminal offense the first charges have already been brought against activists

who potentially placed long prison terms. twenty four hour news live from the russian capital this is your r.t. international hello and welcome to the program i'm you know neal our top story with scandal raging iran the guilt of his former associates president trump has hit by in an interview with fox news warning that any move towards his impeachment would mean the u.s. economy taking a substantial it. i don't know how you can impeach somebody who's done a great job if i ever got a ph i think the market would prefer. i think everybody would be very poor. legal fees equal big coal sun donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen who implicated the us leader in breaking campaign finance law back in twenty six being asked for

donations to cover his defense it's paid off as well he's raised over one hundred fifty thousand dollars in two days a skill up in reports it's not always bad business to be dismissed by the president and donald trump was a host on the reality t.v. show the apprentice he really took the show's iconic catchphrase to heart you're fired you're fired you're fired. now that donald trump is the president getting fired by him isn't exactly a career setback take the case of michael cohen this is michael collins lawyer urging people to support michael cohen with an online fundraiser because some people might be laughing but the cash is flowing and then there's peter struck the disgraced former f.b.i. agent who sent him to trump messages to his mistress now he's raising money online he's already raised four hundred forty three thousand dollars half a million dollars on a go fund me just for hating donald trump has cancer patients on that site that are

like hey we need him to can you pay for my treatments like no you already hate him we could tell and then there's andrew mckay the f.b.i. director who was fired without benefits now nick cave has already managed to raise five hundred thirty nine thousand dollars and if you want to get more creative than crowd funding you can always write a book i'm rosa manigault newman's new book on hinged tells stories from inside the white house thirty four thousand copies were sold within the first ten days and before on the rose it was james komi the fired f.b.i. director and now he wrote a book about donald trump and within the first week six hundred thousand cars. these flew off the shelf writing books about donald trump is a smart move this year every single title on the new york times nonfiction best seller list has been about donald trump so it double trouble yells his natori a sketch phrase that you don't sweat it it could be a ticket to making more money than he paid you to begin with what people have to realize one of the bout is

a donald trump has been more. a source of jobs for more people who have done nothing more than become or exist as a disgruntled either former trump fan or employer associate i mean right now it is a cottage industry to see how much you can hate donald trump be trade donald trump and cash in the mean time i have never seen any thing like this an obsession a fixation and obsessive compulsive disorder a focus to big way should i could think of no other way no no psychological construct that can best describe this unnatural and unhealthy. focused rage and not just not let me clarify

not over a particular policy program platform vision idea no it's just ham. french police have described the city of grenoble near the us the french chicago they've expressed great concern over the rocketing crime rate that has seen some politicians even try and avoid bierria. weird too many things happen one of those now we are afraid you're afraid to go out in the evening why they can steal your jewelry they can grab your bag we have never seen anything like that the police used to be more tough but now even they're afraid.

of the relative the crime rate is significant in grenoble compared to cities of the same size the city is plagued with drug trafficking there's not a single week without a knife attack or criminal settling their schools. said to have renewed the fact that interior minister came to visit for cool in the assail region we thought he would visit grenoble even for a short visit. in the future we will of course make additional efforts in this area . click on that so i'm talking preserve phrases because there again he's both male and female who just come and rob them in broad daylight and no one even moves because they're scared to death the police are afraid of those crooks because they have

kalashnikovs they're on to the teeth with the weapons of war and the municipal police have nothing by the national police i believe it is the criminals who are the law in this city. to another headline stories this hour the u.s. a democratic party has cried foul over a quote sophisticated attempt to huck its voter database just months before the mid-term elections the party security chief approached the f.b.i. over the incident paul butler. even stress that the democrats must remain vigilant head of the elections and the media were quick to hint at who might be to blame the democratic party's voter database targeted with a sophisticated hacking attack d.n.c. just confirm the n.b.c. news it has alerted authorities to an attempted it had all their voter file and the

takeaway really is if this continues to be a major issue any attack on a political party or campaign is important for us all to take seriously but later on whedon's they party chief said method this so-called attack was in fact in high security test it was initiated by the democrats michigan brunt which coordinated what it was up to with head office the branch chief says it stole trump's refusal the crackdown on foreign influence that spurred them into action and rescued a reporter dave lindorff ses election tampering claims are being exaggerated. the meddling issue is. first of all i think has been overblown in the first case you know when they found evidence of. you know russian based. organizations that were buying ads and things on facebook it was such a tiny amount during the two thousand and sixteen election that it was laughable so you know i think most people most sensible people realize that the election

in two thousand and sixteen was not significantly impacted by meddling it was affected dramatically by a really bad candidate running a really bad campaign in. my popular accommodation service is there to find you a comfortable place to say around the globe the homeowner personally chooses who they would like to host however the vote aspect of the business has raised the issue of people being denied booking because of their names or profile pictures in from journalists marouane who has north african roots sais that when he tried to book an apartment in mar say his reservation was counseled without explanation his friend who he ses has a good french name leave her book the same apartment on the exact same dates. it's a clear example of discrimination after the journalist wrote about his experience on twitter he was quick to respond it expressed regret over the incident and

stressed its own position to all forms of discrimination we were joined in the programme by political commentator nicole america and french lawyer hosni monte who give us their thoughts on the rights of owners to choose their guests. i think there's a problem with part of the storm committee usa in the large sense today in france which has got a bad image and some people would rather not rent than rents to people who got this bad image and particularly within the north african community means giving some are jews who are racist people who don't want to see enough african post in their house and a lot of people will be people coming from north africa. crime to incivility to terrorism and unfortunately these are some of the reasons why we speak a lot of the north african community today i don't agree with the thing that we can sum up the reality of people acting or having.