since the incarceration of wiki leaks founder julian the sons in the us government charges against him of violating the espionage act journalism has been under siege quite literally the new york times reports that the australian federal police raided the sydney offices of australia's public broadcaster on wednesday apparently in connection with an article published back in 2017 about australian special forces being investigated over the possibility of war crimes in afghanistan this police raid bhalo is hot on the heels of a different raid on the home of the news corp journalism on the coast matters to the sydney morning herald reports that this raid was in connection to her work on a story published in april of 2018 which revealed internal government discussions about introducing new powers for electronic intelligence agency the australian signals directorate the hawk watchers it isn't just a stray leo raiding the homes of journalists new new here at home in the good old us of a back in mid may san francisco police raided the home of freelance

videographer brian carmody taking a sledgehammer to the gate of his house and seizing his computers phones and other devices their goal to uncover the source of a leak the police report in the journalist possession. it seems with the charging of us governments and law enforcement agencies have been feeling rather a bold move to clamp down on the freedom of the press which means it's time for us to start watching the hawks. what. good looks like a real this is what. lies at the bottom. like you but i got. the book we. would. be. pretty. well going to watching the hawks i am tired and i have my list

so yeah we sort of i want to be shocked at this point but. as we've seen here there's there's definitely the signs of and pointing toward this is what will happen it will have bold police and governments to cross a line that they otherwise wouldn't have crossed. it shocked me when i saw australia pulling this like within weeks of you know me it was like i was certain was like one journalist gets worried another journalist gives way to the boom we're going to read the entire building you know a bit of a.b.c. a.b.c. here in the states you have. done and in australia and that just blew my mind and it's such this very ugly process of them especially when you're talking about 2 major superpowers so just a fernandes who is a media law expert at curtin university in perth in australia is a former newspaper editor in malaysia he told the times that countries who were

looked up for moral authority looked up to for moral authority are the very ones who are now committing this sort of agree just assaults on the freedom of expression and democracy itself they have undermined their moral authority and that's something i think is like i guess we were just we were taught differently about what was important in the freedom of the press and that being an extension of our government a 4th state that oversees everything that's not connected directly to the government that's something that was very important you know and now we're seeing slowly chipped away yeah and you had time to really else when you're not you can't certain countries you can expect to tell countries like russia hey this is how you do a better this is how you can avoid these kinds of criticisms this is where this is coming from here's the optics you can't do that in a place like china or over tenements where you can have those conversations when you do not have a moral hot moral high ground correct when you're doing it doesn't help the people

who actually need that change to happen that progress and it's not being chipped away i mean there are a sledgehammer to it quite literally as they get in san francisco where they're you know they took a sledgehammer to this. as door just to break it down to me that is absolutely ridiculous and you know it i mean look you see it right here of this video it's like here comes the pole i mean this is to a journalist home not a terrorist not someone convicted of a crime not you know nothing like that they wouldn't go after all rapists. for it and i guarantee you not one rapist in that entire city has ever had the cops show up with that much force to his house. it is. ridiculous and it poses a question because you know you often hear about who attacks in the media attacks on the media we love you know other cable news stations a lot about the me to orgasm you know so i ask you this what is that the greater role in attacks on journalism donald trump. fighting we're journalists and you know saying you know the enemy of the people one more news in the language or the

prosecution. that we're seeing today i think julian assange the prosecution of julius ons which is of course an extension of you know access journalism after next and then turning you know the move toward access journalism and. you know you see it as slowly being sort of chipped away when corporate media becomes the highest one in the land here in the united states and then you're see all timidly you know what has happened to you know members of our team and this whole who is and now al-jazeera c.c.t.v. all of that they're going to slowly start to just shrink who is allowed to be considered a journalist which comes not that long after of course that we are all journalists we are all the media and this is our push happened it got elbowed right about it's very true when you saw the rise of citizen journalism in the print media of them. no no no and the sad thing is when you see those corporate journalists you know

when you see those guys on mainstream media would like you know kind of shooting away independent journals will know we're the authority of what was a journalist and now they can't be guaranteed that they have congressional prosperous and they can't be sure that they're going to have a white proud white house press pass by their name to c.n.n. r t you're all under that same unfair. work. also in the press in 2001 the netherlands passed the termination of life on request and assisted suicide action which legalized euthanasia and physician assisted suicide under very specific conditions since the passing of the law many politicians press and pundits have used it to sow fear in americans also often falsely claiming that the netherlands forces euthanasia on its citizens which are the consequences of that ignorance this week when 17 year old. right or no well have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder depression and anorexia

passed away by the time the announcement of her passing was made by her family the international press have run with their outrage seemingly with 0 effort to fact check it b.b.c. radio euro news the daily mail the daily breeze the independent even the washington post reported that the poem 7 had been euthanized by a dutch end of life clinic in her home there is one big problem as stated by the life and clinic foundation and her own family no poet haven't did not die of euthanasia in fact she was denied the procedure last year and stated it was because quote they think i'm too young to die they think i should complete the trauma treatment and that my brain must 1st be fully grown that lasts until you're 21 i'm devastated because i can't take that long and i can't wait that long anymore and she couldn't according to her sister in order to enter suffering no i stopped eating and drinking which ultimately led to her death but this story isn't about

legal assistance suicide it's about click hungry media hounds who have now forced an already grieving family to correct a narrative that made its way across the world and back again before anyone pushing it took the time to find out if it was true you know right what i want to stand up and before journalism. suddenly began the story i mean it about watched it took you would 510 minutes the story would have 1st to earlier when someone's out right about it would be a really big deal. yeah they didn't and the one thing you can always tell in check a couple of the articles and things like that start getting tossed around if you notice that they start with the same paragraph. because that's what happened there just copy and paste and copy and paste and copy and paste because there's this thing where they want to kind of just expect someone else to do the check and it's like oh i wouldn't be on there if someone hadn't shacked daily mail reported them that must be ok then i was anybody over and i did it you know i mean you know when

you look at the guidelines for you know looking at you the measure in the netherlands and you look at these guidelines they're pretty strict i mean look the patient must have an incurable illness he or she must be experiencing unbearable suffering the patient must be of sound mind and given consent the termination of life must then be carried out in a medically appropriate manner it's not just randomly people going around a kill me and the government shoot someone right you know. there are 2 legal ways to do this in the netherlands a doctor can give the patient life and drugs to administer themselves or a doctor can administer the drugs themselves this is a very clinical sounding procedure and clearly a safe was into cars they wouldn't let her do it at 17. and i think this is the thing that gets so settling about this story is jumping on this girl story one thing you have to know about her is that she had won an award for her. winning and winning or learning and in it she details her so her parents didn't even know

what had happened to her at a younger age and tell us later when she was suddenly not eating and they were looking for treatment they found letters about what happened there she was assaulted on multiple occasions at the age of 11 and then eventually she was raped by 2 teenagers or 2 men at age 14. the trauma of sort of keeping that quiet lead to her p.t.s.d. her depression and eventually an anorexia that was all sort of put into that her family did everything they could to get her. treatment they tried to get her electro shock treatment the state said no you get another and said no you can't you're too young they went through this bureaucracy of mental health with a young person and that's what her book really stated and showed and that one thing as her parents why are getting a lot of harassment and i don't think it's fair to them because a bunch of reporters that were very big newspaper as couldn't take 10 minutes to

fact check the story of a 17 year old child who was suffering from serious mental health issues that is the thing that's been talked about and i think they should have all been a lot better about saying oops we messed up the next day not know we kind of felt like we said we should have been more clear no you lied you put law is into print and caused a grieving family harm and to me that's that's you got to do better there. are going to watch as don't forget to let us know what you think of the properties of coverage on facebook you tube and twitter and see our full shows at our dot com coming up we wave our flags and talk the dangers of american exceptionalism with author and political analyst danny i plucked up the black agenda report stay tuned to watch of the hawks.

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this weekend and now deleted tweet the new york times world in their coverage of u.s. president donald trump's visit to the united kingdom wrote that quote the cat is along the american political culture as the unofficial royal family but as president drugs a visit to britain a different opportunity of a same to present as sells his family as the american answer to british royalty that's right folks say goodbye to camelot say hello to the great kingdom of our law go but don't trump suppose that obsession with being considered american royalty doesn't come out of a void it's grounded in the idea of american exceptionalism the idea that the united states is the greatest country and culture in the history of mankind here in the u.s. politicians on both the right and the left often refer to the united states as the greatest country in the world as if it's gospel just look at our military

advertising like this ad from the u.s. navy. there are. those good. well author and political activist danny haiphong has co-written a new book titled american exceptionalism an american innocence a people's history of fake news from the revolutionary war to the war on terror which calls into question the idea of exceptionalism and the dangers that poses to not only the world but also the very founding principles of our country. now from new york city thank you so much for joining us danny. thanks for having me to you know i got to say one of the most fascinating aspects of your book is its kind of dissection of how u.s. citizens are conditioned to believe in this idea of american exceptionalism in the world that we are there's your global force for good when our military goes out overseas i think donald trump is a great example of this kind of conditioning is the rise of donald trump and other

nationalistic flag waving you know wrap themselves in the american flag politicians like him a symptom of this condition and you talk about in the book. it definitely is definitely a symptom of how american exceptionalism is pervasive in the united states but also we have to look at the fact that it's not just donald trump what actually led to the rise of donald trump is the hammering home of this myth of american exceptionalism even as the conditions of american workers especially black people in the united states have become holy an exceptional so what we've had is donald trump fill a political vacuum you know his campaign was all about making america great again but what actually he was saying was he was an alternative to what hillary clinton was saying which was america was already great and so when it happening is that millions of people were turned off to the u.s. electoral process and rightfully so and that led to the election of donald trump so american exceptionalism is pervasive across both political parties in the united states and what it really is meant to do is to create across class unity amongst

masses of people the united states to support and less warfare and less austerity and to dampen the expectations of what people in the united states can expect from their elected representatives the corporate media and the ruling oligarchies of this country. you know what's interesting is your book also covers the attacks that we all saw we covered on this show on calling tapper an expatriate during his protest for black lives matter how did exceptionalism in this idea of mechanix have exceptions and play a role even in that controversy in the sports field. what kelly capper nicole smith lee did by kneeling and sitting out of the national anthem it was you know over 3 years ago now he still has yet to play another n.f.l. game what he ended up doing was challenge the u.s. military state indirectly and so what end up happening was he was attacked a voracious not only because he linked the national anthem to the oppression of

black people in the united states but also because the american flag itself the national anthem itself is representative of the u.s. military state which gives millions of dollars to the n.f.l. in order to advertise and recruit for the military and ultimately american exceptionalism played a large role in demonizing calling capper nick as an enemy of the united states donald trump called him a son of a b. and he said that you know any n.f.l. owner that would hire him should be fired all of this was to create this hatred in this demonization of calling capra next resistance which is ultimately rooted in a years long process and a decades and centuries long process of black resistance them you know it's interesting because i think any logical thinking person can can see the difference between you know an idea of like i have pride in my country and the good things or tries to do and then you know when you kind of take it over to the 16 the you can so easily be led by you know that's the dangers you know whenever you go to an

extreme but there's an interesting take thing i want to ask you about how do we as citizens do a better job of holding politicians and leaders accountable who rely on using this kind of blind exceptionalism to justify say aggressive us foreign policy will. but at the same time ourselves becoming so cynical and radicalized in our you know in our fight against it in our fight you know to hold them accountable how do we balance those 2 things because i see a lot of people who you know they get caught up in their own kind of exceptionalism of just in fighting this like how do we balance the stooping so we can stop this and this radicalism really at the end of the day. great question what i think is that ultimately history is our guide and in order to stave off cynicism in order to save up individual ism which is really a keep component of american exceptionalism this idea that the individual is in

you know is in control of their own destiny and does not need collective support if we look at the history of the united states all of the good things that have come about whether we talk about social security medicare or they talk about civil rights whether we talk about. you know being able to form a union to improve our conditions all of that was created by resistance in by understanding that the united states is in fact not exceptional that what makes the united states run is not freedom or democracy it's exploitation and it is racism and it's imperialism and war and in order to get to a more exceptional situation in order to really define what a new society will look like we have to separate mythology from the reality and our book attempts to do that. one of the things i thought interesting this week as we saw you know trump in in the u.k. where there's been this very strange thing that happened where americans suddenly

just love monarchy like it seems like such a great thing which is weird to me as an american because i'm pretty sure that's why we fought the whole you know revolution over was to get away from that sort of blindness and the importance of this idea of nationalism and patriotism they're not unique you know a love of your history a love of your nation your birthplace or your home it isn't unique to the united states but do you think that there is a difference in how u.s. citizens are taught national pride compared to say people in the u.k. who kind of seem to have a little more balanced understanding of. the difference between this sort of mindset. well i'll give you the example of cuba as a completely different society from the united states and i've been to cuba and nationalism in cuba and patriotism in cuba is a lot different it's about celebrating a revolution that has brought forth

a an extremely radical change in the condition of ordinary cubans whereby before there was jim crow like racism and extreme exploitation almost 100 percent illiteracy and almost 50 percent poverty eradicated after revolution here in the united states patriotism is really about celebrating a legacy that is rooted in slavery and genocide and that's hardly ever talked about so many people don't even know it but those who do and many white americans do know this they do know the history and they're told and they're constantly fed the idea that this history is justified because even if crimes and this is where american innocence comes in and what we talk about in the book even if crimes were committed by the united states. the slavery the genocide produced the most advanced civilization to ever be created so ultimately it's justified but at the end of the day there are different ways of looking at nationalism and patriotism around the world in the united states it just tends to be

a more reactionary one and we have to fight it because ultimately the debate we're having right now in the elections and what the democrats talk about in terms of appealing to the white working class and in nationalism and all of this is all about flanking to the right and we need to get away from pointing to the right and talking about well what are the needs of the american people what are the needs of workers where the needs of poor people where the needs of you know the millions of people trapped in the prison system in the mass incarceration regime we can't do that and so we start to on wind in discern in dismantle the ideologies that prevent us from doing so you know we've got a little bit of time left i just want to ask you it wouldn't be. and you said outright this book in the research and things like that was there something the you didn't realize going in that you but you kind of surprised even yourself when writing this book that were like wow i was not expecting to kind of discover this aspect of u.s. history or how this exceptionalism played out. i think the most surprising thing of

the book in writing this book was just the myth of world war 2 for example in chapter 4 we talked about the myth of the good war we talked about the united states is seen as being the arbiter of peace in that war the one that saved the world from fascism and then in research what i found was that actually much of the united states its actions were extremely brutal whether we talk about the fire bombing of dresden which led to tens of thousands of deaths which was wholly unnecessary in allegiance with the u.k. which as you said before is being worshiped now as the good kind of royalty and. then we you know we can look at the bombing of japan which is largely seen as necessary to instill peace in that war when in fact japan was ready to surrender because not only had it been bombed to pieces by the united states in the allies but also the soviet union was marching to alternately broker

a peace deal in the united states wanted to intimidate the soviet union into showing what it could do militarily after the war was won so ultimately what we find is that the world war 2 tends to be one of the most challenging aspects of u.s. history which many people have a hard time especially the united states seeing the u.s. as role is anything but good you know it's important to always study history because otherwise as i say you're destined to repeat it i think your book does a good job of really on covering those aspects of u.s. history absolutely i want to thank you so much for coming on danny haiphong the black agenda report the book american exceptionalism and american and said get it now great book thanks for coming on. thank you so much. for having a classic green lawn is probably one of the worst things homeowners can do for the environment from waste of water to toxic pesticides there is a better way to use your yard and the state of minnesota will pay its residents to

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