and that isn't what the place his job is the place his job is to facilitate protest in a liberal democracy and that seems to be what the officer went along with doing policing the population of a country is not an easy thing to do and you cannot have the police and full saying . any little. at the lower end of the sky with absolutely no discretion whatsoever it doesn't work in a democracy and forget for more details on any of our story for you can visit author. i'll be with you at the top of the hour with the latest world news.

was. the earth the edge of. the earth. u.s. president donald trump took center stage at the united nations this week the middle east was very much on his mind particularly a red for some sitting in the general assembly trump's words were simply laughable however what is happening in the middle east and beyond is anything but sun.

greetings and salutations according to the rape abuse and incest national network in the bureau of justice statistics out of every one thousand rapes in the united states nine hundred ninety four rapists go free never to see a moment of justice for their actions data confirmed by the equal opportunity occupation administration shows that in two thousand and fifteen forty five percent of harassment claims were sex based they also showed that seventy five percent of those who reported sexual harassment the workplace experienced retaliation after reporting this comes a full twenty seven years after anita hill spoke truth to power and told her story of sexual harassment at the hands of then supreme court nominee clarence thomas in one nine hundred ninety eight anita hill told brian lamb of c.-span spoke no it's why she had testified and gone public. well it's really about keeping this from happening. and today on capitol hill respected professor

dr chrissy and lazy ford was given the n.e.a. health treatment when her when she testified about her sexual assault which he alleges was at the hands of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh when she was fifteen and he was seventeen no easy task i am here today not because i want fees and terrified i am here because they believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me. today hawk watchers let's talk about the young people watching this all unfold young people who are being taught that sexual assaults like those perpetrated by priests in the catholic church should be covered up in the victim shamed the young people being told by their teachers like this is just in principle in tennessee that well just take a listen if you really want someone to blame blame the girls because they pretty much ruined everything they were in the dress code they were well as got a look at the clothes it's really all you really get

a good to go you can really go back to being a. for places like baylor university in texas whose face claims of covering up over fifteen rapes by student athletes in just four years it has led to a complete overhaul of their sexual assault reporting system but the work is far from over today let's look forward to a solution stand strong for the next generation and start watching the hawks. would you treat the. real that this was. a part of. what the players like you are going. to. be. welcome everybody to watching the hocks i am top of the wall listen joining me

today to discuss this issue of the campus rape high school sexual assault all of it is our sports correspondent regina hamm thank you so much for joining me thanks for letting me come on the set talk about such an important issue really something that you don't that really it kind of gets pushed around a lot where there's blame placed on victims and sometimes unwilling accusers but it really is a focus on the institutions that house both right because there is a responsibility you know when we talk about you know either brett kavanaugh case or you know some of these other ones that go back years you're talking about minors or you're talking a student and that's what really gets strange we know we saw it from the clip of the high school assistant principal who you know you know we girls we were in everything in there's some pretty toxic ideas being thrown around schools both to women and boys and girls and being teaching them those things you know after the steubenville rape case which was really i thought would be a changing point in how we handle these things in the case of. baylor university

this sort of says it doesn't stop at high school and it doesn't go away so. what's what is the this sort of pact does it really just go from like if we don't stop in high school it's going to keep happening well a lot of people think that you know high school it's like a lot of hazing. in terms of the sexual assault is massed and kind of shoved under the carpet and you look at student the rape case in two thousand and twelve the girl was in appropriately touched after being drunk at a party many was like oh well that you know this is her bad behavior she's making this very clean came up against these seventeen six year old students who were convicted thankfully enough that but that result as it happened enough so you see girls or things happen like this they're accused of being in the you know what they're wearing what they're doing and in high school if you're sixteen years old and you're cute you know you're accusing someone of this that's the last thing you want is it to come back on you you're already nervous you're scared of someone to

say you know there's your bad behavior and even the coach texted the players who were accused say in kind of joking with that one of them didn't believe him he was like coach said he'd had it how does that happen you know it's sort of one of these amazing things where we put certain values on certain certain types of people either it's an athlete at a school and you think of it a cleveland institution especially some of these that that are over a pretty high level not just for their sports programs but academically as well in the case. is big sports programs those in title mind schools is enough being done is anything being done to mitigate the attacks or i had you kidding even. on consent and understanding this because it's clearly a living and where we can talk about it and that's something i think colleges can progress towards don't think we're there yet especially when the case like you have over fifty cases mishandled by not only the school but the police department in

some cases do the fact that these are student athletes at a power five football institution and that questions whether they're placing a value on athletics over students mental health of course after a sexual assault that's also easy to deal with and for you know in some cases you're having people come in brenda tracy rachel are both people who are trying to change the narrative and set an expectation for men being part of the solution and not part of the problem and that is great that we're making headway there but for the girls who were gang raped by football players or who were assaulted without their consent that is not the schools aren't doing enough in title nine there are some counselors are overwhelmed just isn't enough support staff and i think that's something that needs to improve on college campuses and student athletes or if that you know you're attacked by a fellow student athletes just tend to be on this pedestal they can do no wrong so why would you fear ruining a player's careers right and i think that putting is as women are always or are victims in general because we saw the exact same thing not to make this

a gender issue but we saw the exact same thing happen with young men who were assaulted by priests in the catholic church or other religious organizations that they were shamed the same way women are they were put under these no one will believe you you will be on manly you sort of like figure out ways. just like emasculate a young boy or a man into don't talk about it because you might hurt the institution and not i wonder is when we look for when we look you know here's high school clearly they're getting a lot of toxic a murmur not a lot of guidance right when they get to college and they're seeing these things covered up then they go to the n.f.l. and we have things like. so. why don't we start from you know like of title nine doesn't take care of us in college are we see is that why we're seeing this because it's just getting pushed and i think part of it is it's getting pushed along a little bit when you're overwhelmed or you have an institution where there isn't that support system for you to come forward you just brush of the carpet so that

behavior moves on a good example actually is you're mixing drafted by the cincinnati bengals he had assaulted a female student at when he played at oklahoma there were some repercussions but that hurt his draft stock when you went when you watch the combine things like that the n.f.l. jerry rice you saw twenty fourteen he had his then girlfriend now wife beating the elevator knocked unconscious and him dragging her out by her hair i mean these are things roger goodell the n.f.l. commissioner do you looked at you know the response was kind of it was a lame was a good word for it wasn't it what was needed it was lame it wasn't appropriate and you know later they have penalties now i think six game suspension draft pick last good things are being implemented but not enough being done at the time if you've a history of sexual violence or sexual assault or rape coming out of college that should plea in fact your future career n.f.l. or otherwise i mean it's like any other criminal exactly a record almost to follow and this is the thing you have people who have low level

drug crimes or small petty theft crimes and they're younger and it ruins their entire life but somehow if you can play football or you are good at this one thing or you're a judge there's this idea so a lot of this comes down to and see if we have about a minute left and i'm just wondering what is how is the n.c.a.a. the national collegiate athletic association how are they dealing with this on campus so on campus they've actually after the baylor situation they implemented a few changes the athletic director the school president now the headline counselor are required to make it easily accessible to have to pursue an athlete's to find information about how to deal with you know it teammate who is committed in fact and you know and and. of this nature if you know someone who's been raped so they have put things in place but it's also a little too little too late with this dealer situation it was a toxic football environment why was nothing said why was nothing done at the time and of course the kids who play now in the coach now a completely different coach they are not responsible they have that sad legacy

following that and hopefully moving forward it's a pipeline like you said tabitha from high school to college the n.f.l. if we can put a stop in a high school we can stop that further on in their career and i think that's the thing what it ends up doing is really putting a lot of pressure on young men who aren't doing wrong and young women who aren't doing anything wrong and making it even harder for all of these are political organizations and people around the world thank you so much for talking us through that on such a such a big day correspondent sports correspondent regina hamm thank you so much for joining us today. cuba is often painted as america's enemy but the enemy cancer seems to be causing the u.s. and cuba to join forces because the united states and cuba are now working together to take on cancer with a biotech partnership that could result in new therapies for patients here in the u.s. . rachel has the story. patients who are battling cancer could have

access to new treatments in the coming years as research institutes in the u.s. and cuba partnered together for the first time there was well part cancer institute of buffalo new york is partnering with cuba's center for molecular immunology to create the innovative immunotherapy alliance say their research will be headquartered in cuba's special development zone west of havana where companies receive tax cuts and other incentives roswell park has also noted that initial results from a clinical trial of a cuban developed a vaccine to extend the lives of lung cancer patients was quote safe while tolerated and worthy of further study that vaccine and at least three other immunotherapy treatments developed in cuba will be part of the research studied by the new alliance dr johnson said you know cuba is doing great work on. research and development and. we'd love to get down there and drone.

we carry some cigars. this announcement is nothing short of groundbreaking considering the relations between cuba and the us which currently make it illegal for americans to travel to cuba for health care but cuba has made headlines for providing treatment options to cancer patients that are not available in the u.s. and it has prompted some americans to break the law in order to save their own lives after former president obama began working to restore relations with cuba some patients were able to get away with trips for treatment by claiming they were visiting for educational purposes however things have changed last november when president trump and acted new travel restrictions that forced americans to account for everything they did when visiting cuba but now there is hope that with this

research partnership the two countries can put politics aside to pursue the best treatments for cancer patients who are in desperate need in washington rachel blog is artsy. as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our full shows that are com coming up journalist max blumenthal joins me to discuss his latest investigation into a journalist who wasn't and if you can believe it we've been googling for twenty years stay tuned to watching that. are not socially liberal they are pro war and so are the republicans and

the problem people have a trump is that he's pro peace and that's. the ball in america today that runs except for against iran. well you know. walking the walk and you know you have to do it you have to do but he's totally going down the path that hillary clinton clearly was going. i don't think that. is or was trying to. destroy the bar so i don't think that they believe your are also your voters are. endorsing that unfortunately you mean the user oh. you know the states are seem to paranoid about your own it's.

when it comes to regime change a lot of different tactics are you is from arming rebels to economic sanctions nations around the world have attempted to change the course of elections and push out leaders they felt didn't fit their foreign policy plans but what happens when a novice reporter is used by major mainstream media outlets like the guardian n.p.r. in the washington post to cover the opposition movement in nicaragua journalist max blumenthal found an example of regime change propagandists making their way into the big time joining me now to discuss his latest investigative reporters journalist max thank you for joining me today are you with the so this is a very interesting story but historically speaking we've seen things like this before tell me a bit a little bit about this and for apologist yeah his name is carl david get into siac you should be the third person has written some arabic makes

a good name you know and really my story isn't about one young. turned journalist it's about the guardian and the washington post but especially the guardian and how they have actually selected among many journalists this one particular figure and many other figures to cover what was a violent cool attempt to remove nicaragua's elected leader daniel ortega and destroy the senden east a movement a progressive anti-imperialist workers' movement they selected figures who would specifically echo the narrative of the opposition that was seeking regime change and specifically we're talking about a party called the m.r.s. or the movement for send a nice to read renovation which consists of former sandinistas who wound up getting backing from the u.s. this party is directly financed and supported by the united states as i reveal in my investigation and karl david getting who emerged out of nowhere to cover

nicaragua's crisis for the guardian and washington post was intimately connected to this political party and before that had no record in journalism was an anthropologist working among the indigenous population on nicaragua's eastern coast and admitted in a now deleted podcast that he was working to encourage opposition among that population to the government so i can't think of a figure less objective for papers legacy publications like the guardian and washington post to turn to but that's because they actually wanted regime change themselves and what's so interesting about this is when you look at it i mean sure there's lots of sort of nontraditional journalists these days but if anything journalists have people are independent and that's great so when you look at his work how much of it did you find contain legitimate like fake news and wrong information and incorrect reporting how much of it was actually an accurate while i mean i'm an advocacy journalist i make my views known people know where i stand but

i also have to be factual in what i report and i'm going to get ripped to shreds. instead people tend to come at me just simply with personal insults because they can't. take down my factual journalism in the case of this journalist karl david getting lucy at who is working with you know other young correspondents like a woman named carolina hook from a publication funded by the arms industry defense one to publish articles in the guardian which is supposed to be a left wing publication. it was filled with misinformation and he was simply pumping the narrative of the opposition and quoting sources from the m.r.'s this u.s. backed party who exist which exists solely to split the senden east is and he was quoting them as sort of objective sources when in fact he had personal relationships with them that he wasn't acknowledging and was spreading misinformation about general strikes against a government which barely shut down the economy at all presenting them as if they

had shut down the entire country claiming that the m.r.s. party had been outlawed when in fact it doesn't stand in elections because they it's candidates can't get elected to dog catcher because they're like elite affluent people who work at u.s. backed n.g.o.s that common nicaraguans have no respect for so it's this kind of reporting that people in the west have gotten from the guardian a paper that they regard as left of center because it opposed the drive to war in iraq for example but now you know what this does is really expose what the guardian is to us increasingly it's a neo conservative paper whose agenda dovetails with the national security state of washington and they choose their on the ground correspondents accordingly. whatever is wondering why why is the last sort of you know a united states that sort of western media syl invested in toppling the nicaraguan government i mean we've seen them in syria we've seen in other places

and they say why are they so invested in in toppling ortega and and the government that's. great question and you know it's a question that i've struggled with this is a government that since it was elected in two thousand and six despite massive u.s. interference has seen the economy grow at a rate of forty five percent a year wiped out malnutrition eliminated illiteracy brought public education and public health care to the masses of nicaraguans who live in rural areas who previously didn't have it i actually saw the country transform because i was there before take it was elected and after the transformation has been enormous it's also a mixed economy this is not you know a hard core communist government the business community has flourished as well so why is the u.s. trying to take or take it down because it's not just about ortega it's about the sending east is and the threat they pose which is the threat of a good example to other latin american countries that the u.s. wants to dominate the send in east as remain an imperialist movement

a progressive workers' movement that is independent and opposed to u.s. domination in the region let me ask you this because i keep seeing the same sort of thing happening in all this regime changes especially in central and south america is that it always seems to be against workers' party as against the anything that even smells socialist that that puts the worker and the people first what kind of message does that send a generally i mean just out into the world that we don't like any any government that is worker based or any movement that's worker i mean if you really get into the woodwork of the fabric of nicaraguan society you'll see that new cooperatives lead extensively by women i mean women's participation in nicaraguan society outpaces what you see in almost all of latin america these cooperatives actually pose a threat to the ngo sector that washington supports they've supplanted the ngo sector

in a lot of the people that used to be active in nicaragua as the white saviors are not able to be there anymore and so they resent this guy. there's so much about nicaragua that is an example to the rest of latin america but nicaragua has done well because partly because venezuela had done so well under this and that's why venezuela is under attack right now why this trump administration has put new sanctions on venezuela because venezuela was the engine of progress in all of the independent states that were resisting u.s. influence but which we pose no national security threat to the u.s. and so that's why we see this attack on venezuela but the attack is not just through sanctions there is a media attack on nicaragua right now and a media attack on venezuela and that attack is care carried out by hand picked correspondents like carl david good to see a coup prior to emerging out of nowhere in journalism was an opposition activist in nicaragua this should be

a source of deep embarrassment to the guardian but they still get to parade around as an objective publication in the washington post gets to tell us that democracy dies in darkness these are publications that are just as biased as anyone who is an advocacy journalist except they're insidious because they are seen as objective voices what's really disturbing i think is that as you said these legacy papers that are so forth to be the ones that we can look to that at least we know where they stand they're a little right of center or a little left yeah you know where you are but i think it's that thing of you know reporters and networks and different outlets and papers can have some bias is there any end but if you're not honest about it that's where the problem i think lie is the as you said if you're an advocacy journalist if you're like this is my area and this is my opinion on it that makes sense but how common do you think these kind of investigative journalists are because we've definitely seen examples in syria of

journalists who weren't really journalists. pushing narratives on c.n.n. may. in main mainstream media major one so how dangerous do you think as a journalist how dangerous do you think this is to journalism and the fourth estate for you know either governments or n.g.o.s to again we've seen mess and more is passed in generations past using media to push out propaganda and try to regime change how dangerous that for journalism well i mean you see journalism in crisis right now and i think you know our view of it is distorted because trump is exploiting the crisis in trust for mainstream journalism so we associate criticism of the press with trump ism with the right wing but the reality is of bernie sanders were president we would be seeing the same crisis in the same clash between a president who represented a solid constituency that rejects mainstream media and this elite press corps which sees its duty as to promote washington's agenda of regime change wherever there is

a country targeted whether it's in syria where c.n.n. award winning correspondent clarissa ward relied on a literal al qaeda member named beloved dual karim who currently works in al qaeda controlled live to guide her in to eastern aleppo he was the camera person he worked on her award winning segments and clarissa ward delivered the narrative of al qaeda and its cia backed allies back to the american public that they wanted us to bomb in their support and we're seeing the same thing in nicaragua when i went to nicaragua in july i was completely shocked at the level of violence that the sending east is common sending nice to members had experience at the hands of a very violent opposition that was not much different from the kind that we saw in venezuela or even in syria except they had unfortunately been armed by the us and i saw it as my job to tell the western public what it had been told by mainstream

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