creasing hair the blonde exploded and so shrapnel flying around to actually some towards me and then stumbling around the car only to find out that my family had a mother and father and my brothers and sisters they were all down in the. lab at the time because of the war the number of all fronts has risen so much that the orphanage just can't house them it's bleak for this children many of whom have to leave right from the streets. but there are countries of the u.n. see specifically responsible for the crisis in yemen a recent report accused america britain and france of being complicit in the alleged war crimes in the country in a dirge them to stop there are certain states who are well known to be supplying weapons that includes the united states it includes the united kingdom and it includes france to name but 3 the group of experts has recommended that 3rd states

prohibit the authorization about arms transfers and refrain from providing arms to parties to the conflict this is because of the prevailing risk that such arms will be used by parties to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law the us is the main arms supplier to saudi arabia followed by britain france between 201518 washington sold weapons worth around $10000000000.00 to the saudis the u.k. and france trailed far behind with $2100000000.00 and $500000000.00 respectively while the authors of this latest u.n. report charles garraway told us the continuing flow of arms into yemen is what's purpose. pitcher waiting the war. this is a collective failure of the international community as a whole and it is the responsibility of the international community as a whole and inevitably those people who supply arms have a greater influence on the politicians and therefore have a perhaps

a greater responsibility to take action to try to prevent politicians there's no doubt that it is the continuation of supply of alms to yemen that is prolonged the conflict is that and $32.00 in the morning here most go thanks for watching a program as they continue showing you a part of the world next. there is one organized force which traditionally 20 floors but with all its flaws it's been in the forefront of the. efforts to improve the lives of the general population and it's organized labor it's also a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going

on which does lead to corporate attorney. eric arrive. at a major reason for the concentrated on us fanatic attack on unions and organized labor as they are democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends workers' rights but also popular rights generally. and if that interferes with the pariah it is now or for those who want to manage a society. i should say said anti union sentiment in the united states among the leads is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights in the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate

of free association which would mean the right to form unions and us has never ratified. but i think the us may be alone among major societies in their respect. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. or that the us has a lawn a very violent labor history as. society. but the labor movement had been very strong about the 1920 s. in the period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich.

by the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. franklin delano roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to somehow get it passed so he informed labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is you go out and demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the after pressures fission and be able can through the legislation you know i am not for a were. killed last definition number 11 a i now. many say 3 people were being gradually read your man then into the. friendly field i prefer that brought out information. so there was

a kind of combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial focus or activism . there were industrial actions there were sit down strikes which were very frightening to. ownership. have to recognize a sit down strike is just one step before saying we don't need bush that we can run this but they're still. and business was told to read the business press say in the late thirties they were talking about to the hazard facing industrialists in the rising political power of the masses which has to be repressed things were on hold during the 2nd world war but immediately after the 2nd world war the business offensive began in force and test partly act. to restart

many holiday in labor management relations. mccarthyism was used for a massive corporate propaganda offensives to attack union. increased sharply during the reagan years and reagan pretty much told the business world if you want to illegally break urbanizing efforts and strikes go ahead they are in violation of the law and if they do not report for work within 48 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated to continue to the ninety's and of course with george w. bush went through the roof and now less than 7 percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect is that the usual counter force to an offensive or highly class conscious business class is dissolved. if you're

in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else you back to the 19th century in the early days of the industrial revolution and ignited states working people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded that wage labor as not very different from slavery to the different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. well that was a very sharp class consciousness in the interests of power and privilege it's good to drive those ideas out of people's heads you don't want them to know that they're an oppressed class so this is one of the few societies magicks don't talk about class in fact the national class is very simple one who gives the orders who

follows and that basically defines class it's more nuanced and complex but that's basically it. the public relations industry the advertising industry which is dedicated to creating consumers it's a phenomenon developed in the freest countries in britain and the united states and the reason is pretty clear it became clear by a say a century ago that it was not going to be so easy to control the population by force too much freedom and one. labor going to use in parliamentary labor parties in many countries women started to get the french as and so on she had of other means of controlling people and it was understood and expressed they have to

control them by control of. beliefs and attitudes well one of the best ways to control people in terms of attitudes is what the great political economists they're stunned blind called fabricating consumers. if you can fabricate want to. make obtaining things that are just about within your reach the essence of life they're going to be trapped into becoming a consumer's. and you read the business press say 920 s. it talks about the need to direct people to the superficial things of life like fashionable consumption and that will keep him out of our hair. you find his doctrine all through progressive intellectual thought but walter lippmann the major

progress of intellectual of the 20th century. he wrote famous progressive essays on democracy in which his view was exactly that the public must be put in their place so that the responsible men can make decisions without interference from the be willed and heard. there to be spectators not participants then you get a properly functioning democracy straight back to madison on to the polls memory and so on and the advertising industry just exploded. with with this as its goal fabricating consumers. and it's done with great sophistication. many whilst down. as one of the last known while very singular. whom are aware of the kind. of

the ideal is which you actually see need to did. we're let's see teenage girls they have a free said area afternoon all go walking in a shopping mall not the library or somewhere else. the idea is to try to control everyone to turn the whole society into the perfect system. perfect system would be a society based on a diet of pair the pair is you and your television set or maybe now you in the internet. in which that presents you with what. the proper life would be with trying to gauge and you spend your time and effort to gaining those things which you don't need you don't want maybe to throw away. but that's the measure of a decent life. what we see is in say advertising on television if eve ever taken an economics course you know that

markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices well if we had a system like that a market system in a television ad would consist of say general motors putting up information saying here's what we have for sale a samba an ad for a car is an ad for occurs in football hero you know an actress in the car doing some crazy thing like going up a mountain or something the point is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices that's what advertising is all about. and when the same institutions p.r. . system runs elections they do it the same way. they want to create an uninformed electorate which will make irrational truisms go

off against their own interests and we see it every time one of these extravaganzas take place. right after the election. president obama won an award from the advertising industry for the best marketing campaign and was reported here if you go to the international business press executives were euphoric you know they said we've been selling candidates marketing candidates like you know toothpaste ever since reagan and this is the greatest achievement we have i don't usually agree with therapy. and but when she mocks the much she calls the hopi changey stuff she's right 1st of all obama didn't really promise anything and that's mostly illusion you go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at it has very little discussion of policy issues and for very good reason because public opinion on policy is sharply disconnected from what the 2 party

leadership and their financial backers want. poesy even more and more is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. with the public being marginalized. said she stressed to a while but was quick to say that the progress faster at the ball of the trap that irritable was terrible. pressure was to your street dentist the fish to she's ok so i pushed off. here which book i thought at which she ducked and now look what you've seen a response you took or were living for sure. what you thought of the sort of the

mighty bombs for syria to give. it to mr ellsworth supporters are still with him to the spirit for this interview where you put these that it's a stupid actually the person has to be vocal or should stop them spilling. spiced she. dares thinks. me dear to.

the leading political scientists don't scream out. but a study of the relation between public attitudes and i would poesy what he shows is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of influencing. but they might as well be and from other countries. the population knows. what its lead to is a population that angry frustrated and hates institutions. and it's not acting constructively to try to respond to. his popular

mobilization and activism but in very self destructive directions. taking the form of unfocused anger attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets that's what happens in cases like this. it is corrosive of social relations but that's the point the point is to make people hate and fear each other and look out only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. one place you see it strikingly is on april 15th. april 15th as a kind of a measure that they appear taxes of how democratic a society is a different city if a society is really democratic april 15th would be a day of celebration it's a day when the population gets together decides to fund the programs and activities

that they have formulated agreed upon which could be better than the solution celebrated the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's a day in which some alien power you know has nothing to do with you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything you can be keep from doing. well that is a kind of a measure of the extent to which at least in purple. consciousness democracies actually function. not are attractive pictures. be . the tendencies that we've been describing within american society unless there are versed it's going to be an extremely ugly society i'm

a society that's based on adam smith's final maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else. a society in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so are there any bitter of sport in which they're going to driven out. that society so ugly i don't even know who'd want to live in it i wouldn't want my children to. give the society is based on control by private wealth it will reflect the values that in fact does reflect. a value that is green and that lead to maximize personal gain at the expense of others any society has made a small society based on that principle as a good way to control. a global society based on that principle is headed for

massive destruction. and i don't think we're smart enough to design in any detail what a perfectly just and free society would be like i think we can give some guidelines and more significant we can ask how we can progress in that direction. john dewey the the leading social philosopher in the late 20th century he argued that until all institutions production commerce. media unless they're all under participatory democratic control we will not have a functioning democratic society. as he put it policy will be the shadow cast by business over society. it's essentially

true. where there are structures of authority domination and hire somebody gives the orders somebody takes them as they are not self-justifying who they have to justify themselves and their burden to prove to me. will if you take a close look usually you find they can't justify themselves to say can we ought to be dismantling. trying to expand the domain of freedom and justice way dismantling that form of illegitimate authority and in fact progress over the years but we'll thankfully recognize as progress has been just that the way things change

is because lots of people are working all the time and you know they're working in their communities in their workplace or wherever they happen to be and they're building up the basis for it or movements which are going to make changes and that's the way everything has ever happened in history. takes a freedom of speech. one of the real achievements of american society it's the 1st in the world in that it's not in the bill of rights it's time that the constitution and freedom. speech issues began to come to the supreme court in the early 20th century. the major contributions came in the 1960 s. one of the leading ones was a case involving the civil rights movement well but then you had a mass popular movement which was demanding rights. refusing to back down and in that context the supreme court did establish a pretty high standard freedom of speech or it takes a women's right women also began identifying oppressive structures refusing to

accept them or he'd go their people to join with them well that's her right to return. to trouville extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism into that doesn't show up publicly but you know. terribly good it was not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious defects in our. culture and. which are going to have to be corrected by operating out of it is commonly accepted i think we're going to have to find new ways but it has. been the activists or people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the area carrying out proces based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers are separate from process. to try to do things you learn you learn

that with the world it's like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go on . there's huge opportunity it is a very free society still the freest world. government has fairly limited capacity to coerce corporate business may try to coerce but there are mechanisms. so there's a lot can be done if people organize struggle for the right. says they've done it in the past and can win many victories. to. close friend for many years later howard zinn. to put it in his words that what matters is the countless small deeds of unknown people who lay the

basis for the significant events that enter history. there's a once who's done things in the past the unsolicited do it future.

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think. they are washing up with. going today the united states could potentially be smuggling tons of weapons and ammunition to militants in syria according to leaked documents obtained by both kerry and john list. a bill designed to overthrow the biggest democratic fruits you know he. plans the british prime minister get a major blow as end piece possibile to blow up a no deal departure from the e.u. . house where are you in the for the role of the us britain and france and alleged human rights violations committed in yemen. it's. all well known to be supplying weapons that includes the united states any clue.