of their lives and little businesses they have behind they're scared to stay because they came here and threatened us with a gun they said shut everything down and go home you won't live here anymore xenophobic sentiment surged in the sabeer in city after a local woman was abducted and raped the media outed a migrant from kyrgyzstan as the key suspect and the city snapped sporadic protests violent attacks and an attempt at storming a mosque many now want the whole day asper to make amends for the crime of a few individuals the local authorities while saying the crime has no nationality also said exactly what the morgue wanted to hear the guest insulting the host in his house is no longer a guest but an enemy. we are in our homeland in our city where the masters of our land and we need to make sure everyone understands that. officials have also

promised to hunt down and deport everyone who's moved into the city illegally they've called on people not to take matters into their own hands the police have been detaining those delivering mob justice and charging them with administrative offenses also to quell the hatred law enforcement have published official statistics showing that out of almost three hundred cases of rape in the region last year only four were committed by foreigners the key demand now is there a very quick and transparent investigation and members of the migrant community support this call for justice to the rapist must be brought into the street and punished publicly so that others never do the same but the damage has been done already and there's no obvious way of defusing tensions at this point most immigrants still choose to keep their shops cafes and market stalls shut in fact dozens of city buses stayed in the polls following the riots immigrant drivers were

too afraid to show up for work for them it's better to lose some money rather than their lives. in emergency evacuation is underway in norway after a cruise ship found itself stranded in stormy weather one passenger filmed the stomach turning moment the ship began to rock violently. latest images show helicopters attempting a rescue operation near seventy kilometer an hour. meters tall are hampering evacuation efforts passengers are being lifted one by one via helicopter which is supported that around three hundred people are left to safety of a total of thirteen hundred crew and passengers the viking sky cruise line issued

a distress call after an engine failure would drift towards a rocky shore. that's our top stories for the last seven days and the latest up to date news here on the weekly i'll be back in around thirty minutes with more but do stay tuned now for a documentary called recommend for the american dream. on chance am i unfairly at mit and i think. anymore i went to a war activities for the last few years. noam chomsky has made to international reputation. is one of the missional leaders

of american resistance to the vietnam war the d.p. is a professor of linguistics who before he was forty is also the tribes form the basis of his so. you are identified with a new level whatever that is you certainly have been an activist as well as a writer. your times. is based in anybody's catalog among the dozen top girls of the new law. by adopting over the past two or three years a series of adamant. projecting at least american foreign policy. itself. but actually this notion that he american is quite an interesting. session is to tell a tear in the ocean that is used in free societies so if someone and say italy is

criticizing barrels going to me. corruption of the state and someone told he. likes their cold indeed then people would collapse and laughter the streets of. london. in totalitarian states the notions used so in the old soviet union dissidents were called anti so via that was the worst condemnation. of the brazilian military dictatorship they were gold in every brazilian. know it's true that in just about every society the critics are maligned. or mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like them so it unions they will be imprisoned. in a us dependency like el salvador at the same time this counterforce heather brains

blown out by a u.s. run state terrorist worse. than others is it just condemned their villa from the zone that in the united states or one of the terms of abuse is anti american and a couple of others like you know more cases there's an array of terms of abuse. of in the united states you have a very high degree of freedom and so if you're vilified by some commas or other who cares to go on to your work anyway these concepts only arise in a culture where if you criticize state power and when i state i mean. we're generally not just government but state corporate power if you criticize concentrated power you're against the society you're against the people it's quite strict in there is used in the united states i think for another the only democratic society where the concert isn't just ridicule and it's a sign of. elements of the leading culture which are going to the glee.

the american dream mike many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's there was a the biggest growth period in. american economic history. gold

paint. it was pretty kalak area and growth so the lowest fifth of the population was improving about as much as the upper fifth. and there were some welfare state measures which improved life for much of the population it was for example possible for a. black worker to get a decent job in an auto plant. get a core of children go to school and so on and the same across the board. when the u.s. was. primarily a manufacturing center it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raise the salary of his workers who would be able to buy cars.

when you're moving into a good international plutonic a is the max like to call it a little small percentage of the world's population that's a gathering increasing wealth what happens to american consumers at a much less concern than most of them aren't going to be consuming your. products anyway at least on a major basis. your goals or profit in next quarter even it is it's based on financial manipulation and. high salary high bonuses produced overseas if you have to and produce for the a wealthy classes here and their counterparts abroad what about the rest well there's a term coming in to use for them too as they're called the precariat. precarious proletariat the working people of the world who live increasingly precarious lives . and it's related to the attitude toward the country all together.

during the period of great growth of the economy fifty's and sixty's but in fact earlier taxes on the wealthy were far higher corporate taxes were much higher taxes on dividends are much higher simply taxes on wealth for much rare the tax system has been redesigned of so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy are reduced and cursed ponderingly the tax burden on the rest of the population's increased. no the shift is towards trying to keep taxes just done and wages are not consumption which everyone has to do not say and dividends which i go to the rich.

the numbers are pretty striking. now there's a pretext of course there's always a pretext the pretext in this case is well that. increases investment in increases jobs but there isn't any evidence for that if you want to increase investment give money to the poor and the working people they have to keep alive so they spend their incomes and that stimulates production stimulates investment that leads to job growth and so. if you're an ideologist for the masters you have a different line and in fact right now it's almost absurd and corporations have money coming out of their pocket. so in fact general electric are paying zero taxes and have enormous profits let them take the profit somewhere else or defer it but not pay taxes and this is. the major american

corporations shift the burden of sustaining a society on to the rest of the population. solidarity is quite dangerous from the point of view of the masters you're only supposed to care about yourself and not about other people this is quite different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of people's heads gotta be for yourself father while maxon don't care about others which is ok for the rich

and powerful but is devastating for everyone else. going to take a whole lot of effort to try to drive these basic human emotions out of people's heads. and we see it today in policy for a major for example in the attack on social security. social security is based on a principle it's based on a principle of solidarity so terry it is caring for others. a social security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town can get something to live on. for a much of the population that's what this of iowa. it's of no use to the very rich a so therefore there's a concerted attempt to destroy it. one of the ways is defunding it you

want to destroy some system first defund it. then it will work people be angry they want something else that's a standard technique for. privatizing some system. we see it in the attack on public schools. public schools are based on the principle of solidarity. i no longer have children in school or grown up but the principle of solidarity says i happily pay taxes so that the kid across the street can go to school that's normal human emotion that it dries it out of people's heads i don't have kids in school why should i pay taxes privatized it so on. the public education system all the way from kindergarten to higher education is under severe attack i mean that's one of the jewels of americans say.

go back to the golden age again the great chris period the fifty's and sixty's a lot of that is based on free public education. one of the results of the second world war was the g.i. bill right which enabled veterans remember that's a large part of the but relation and to go to college they would have been able to do otherwise of the century got free education where a given today's date or nation regularly invest a substantial share of that resource in education the investment invariably it returned in better business and a higher standard of living u.s. was way in the lead in developing extensive mass public education at every level. but now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges comes from two issues not from the state that's a radical change and that's

a terrible burden on students it means that students if they don't come from very wealthy families they're going to leave college with big debts and if you would think that you're trapped i mean maybe you wanted to become a public interest lawyer but you're going to have to go into a corporate law firm tip. pay off those debts and by the time you're part of the culture you know you're not going to get out of it again and that's true cross the board. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next hope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to start off on fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v.

think. i'm going to talk about football not the moral thing to think i was going to go. by the way ways that that's life here. but politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more some want us. to go right to the press it's like i'm a forty three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the wires in the house. question. in the one nine hundred fifty s. there's a much poorer side in the news today but no the us could easily handle centrally

free mass higher education today a much richer society claims dozen of the resources for. that just what's going on right before our eyes and it's the a general attack on the principles that i'm in not a. are they humane they're the basis of flee to prosperity and health of this society. if you look over the history of regulation say a railroad regulation financial regulation and so on and you find that quite

commonly it's it's either initiated by the economic. concentrations that are being regulated or it's supported by them and the reason is because they know that sooner or later they can take over the regulators. and it ends up with what's called regulatory capture. the business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. bank lobbyists are actually writing the laws of financial regulation gets to that extreme. and that's been happening through history and again it's a pretty natural tendency when you just look at the distribution of power.

one of the things that expanded enormously in the one nine hundred seventy s. is lobbying as the business world moved sharply to try to control legislation. business world was pretty upset by the advances in a public welfare in the sixty's and in particular by richard nixon and it's not to will understand that but he was the last new deal president and they regarded that as class treachery. and nixon's administration you get the consumer safety legislation safety and health regulations in the workplace the e.p.a. the environmental protection agency. business didn't like it of course they did like that taxes. they didn't like the regulation and they began a coordinated effort to try to overcome it. lobbying sharply increase the regulation and begin with the rule ferocity. there were no financial crashes in the fifty's and the sixty's because the regulatory apparatus of the new

deal was still in place. as a pm to be dismantled under business pressure and political pressure. to get more and more crashes. and it goes on through the years. seventy's sort of starts begin. eighty's really takes off congress was asked to approve federal loan guarantees to the auto companies about the want and want to have a billion dollars and all of this is quite safe as long as you know the government's going to come to your rescue so take say reagan instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bail out of american history at the time that she ended his term with a huge financial crisis the savings and loan crisis and the government moved in and build it out for a family didn't or god if

a very fair lady and hundred ninety nine regulation with us dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. then come see bush and obama bill and bear stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bail out citi group that in may and freddie macin ask for a total at renewable million dollars more to sail out could get much bigger than billing even in troubles for the u.s. economy. and they're building up the next term. b. each time the taxpayer is called on to bail out those who created the crisis increasingly the major financial institutions. in

a capitalist economy you would do that in a capitalist system that would worry about the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they don't want a capitalist system they want to be able to run to the nanny state as soon as they're in trouble and get billed a taxpayer it's called the too big to fail. i mean there are no will or it's an economics who significantly disagree with the course that we're following people looked at stiglitz paul krugman others and none of them were even approached the people picked to fix the crisis were those who created the robert rubin crowd the goldman sachs croak they created the crisis are no more powerful than before is that accident well not when you pick those people to create an economic plan and then what do you expect to happen. meanwhile for the

poor let market principles prevail don't expect any help from the government the government the problem not the solution and so on that's essentially neo liberalism and it's has this dual character which goes right back in economic history one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for the poor. and nothing surprising about this exactly the dynamics you expect if the population allows it to proceed just going to go on and on like this until the next crash which is so much expected that credit agencies which kind of evaluate the. status of firms are now counting into their calculations the taxpayer bailout that they expect to come in after the next crash which means that the beneficiaries of these credit ratings like the big banks they can borrow money more cheaply they can push out smaller

competitors and you get more and more concentration everywhere you look policies are done this way which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that's what happens when you put power into the hands of a narrow sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as you'd expect. be. concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the political parties into the pockets of major corporations. the citizens united this was january two thousand and nine i guess that's

a very important decisions prim court decision but it has a history and you got to think about the history. of fourteenth amendment has a provision that says no person's rights can be infringed without due process of law. and the intent clearly was to protect freed slaves said ok they have got the protection of the law i don't think it's ever been used for freed slaves if ever marginally almost immediately it was used for businesses corporations their rights can't be infringed without due process of law so they gradually became persons under the law. corporations or state created legal fictions. maybe they're good maybe they're bed but to call them persons is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about

a century ago and that extended through the twentieth century. as they give corporations rights way beyond what persons have so if say general motors invests in mexico they get national rights the rights of the mexican business well the notion of person was expanded to include corporations it was also restricted if you take the fourteenth amendment literally that no undocumented alien can be deprived of rights if they're persons. undocumented aliens who are living here and building their buildings clear lawns and so on they're not persons . but general electric is a person. an immortal super powerful person this perversion of the young elementary morality and the obvious meaning of the law is quite incredible.

in the one nine hundred seventy s. the courts decided that money is a form of speech. but the first well and then you one through the years to citizens united which says that the right of free speech of corporations members spend as much money they want can't be curtailed. take a look what that means it means that corporations which anyway have been pretty much buying elections are now free to do it with virtually no constraint as tremendous attack on the residue of democracy. interesting to read the rulings like justice kennedy's swing vote his ruling said we'll look after all the c.b.s. is given freedom of speech there are corp why shouldn't general electric be free to spend as much when it is they want. i mean it's true that c.b.s. has given freedom of speech but they're supposed to be performing

a public service that's why that's what the press is supposed to be a general electorate is trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. sitting critical decisions and it puts the country in a position where business power is greatly extended beyond what it always was this is part of the vicious cycle the supreme court justices are put in by reactionary presidents who get in there because they're funded by business and that's the way the cycle works. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have crazy confront case you know let it be an arms race is on offense planning dramatic development only i'm going to i don't see how that strategy will be successful very chaotic at a time time to sit down and talk.

a bombshell report alleges that a group of american legally traveled to to help the caribbean countries president consolidate power and move eighty million dollars we speak to its author. many of them without. their parents' support without going through immigration without. with. your brother the u.k. a two week break deadline extension as prime minister tries to make fails to get support in an increasingly fractious column for her divorce plan.