journalist and t.v. show host chris hedges who sees this as a dangerous fusion of media and politics. well 1st of all the announcement by bloomberg news that they want to investigate bloomberg or any of the other candidates running in the democratic primary is an announcement that they are going to do any journalism and this i think gets to the rot of the american political system where you have oligarchy such as bloomberg or trouble or candidates like hillary clinton in 2016 who are centrally funded by oligarchy dominating the political landscape and that kind of fusion between political power and media information is extremely corrosive the idea that they won't investigate bloomberg doesn't mean they won't cover bloomberg it means they will cover bloomberg uncritically and essentially they will act as a propagandist for bloomberg the the announcement that we won't investigate.

essential means we won't ask any questions but it won't stop them from presenting the narrative as disseminated by the candidate whether it's democratic or republican and i it's the role of journalists to expose that mendacity of those in power and everyone in power spins information to their own advantage so essentially what they're what they've announced is that we're going to turn our media platform into a giant advertising agency on behalf of these candidates thanks that you think not internationally to anything at the top. but. a i'm on a few. of the friday as less of a bias. in the future crocker was keiser 6.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle with ukraine remaining in the headlines we have a look how russia's foreign policy is change since the 2014 coup in camp and the impeachment circus continues but it's anything but funny. talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst and editor it interests me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander macarius he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to alex 1st in london well ukraine remains in the headlines and the 2nd half of the program we'll talk about the impeachment circus

but let's focus on how ukraine the ukraine the ukraine project that the west has had since the coup in 2014 is changed russia's foreign policy and it's something that's beginning to worry people being sent to and i mean worrying people at the neo cons in washington in the in the swamp we could talk about sanctions we're going to energy policy that turn to china and europe's reassessment in there's a lot going on right here that's never talked about in western media go ahead alex . indeed we just happened over the last. period of about 10 years but it is specially since 2014 is of the crisis in ukraine i think is crystallized russian doubts about the extent to which a partnership with the west is possible and what we saw after 2040 is that there you can take the russians by surprise you can never panic with them and they will

always adjust and very rapidly and very effectively to changes in policy by the west and to aggressive moves by the west so what has happened is that the russians firstly adjusted their energy policy and they weren't going to let ukraine continue to sit on top of their transit pipelines and try to block or control russian gas exports to europe so the russians full steam ahead with all these other part lines north st 2 turks stream which are birds now rapidly coming to an. end the end there being they have been they've been built and they've been successfully built and attempts to stop them have not succeeded it and of course they have successfully motor 4 ways with a major realignment with china they've built gas pipelines with china they've developed very close police equal relationships with china china's now become their

major trading partner and in almost every respect what we see is that russia has distanced itself from the west it's made his position diplomatically much stronger and he has succeeded in countering western moves within ukraine itself crimea is now once again part of russia nobody expects that to change their russia or is also a major player in ukraine in politics it's the ukraine. is realize they have to negotiate with the russians and they're talking about in the end what will probably be very significant constitutional and foreign policy realignments but the ukraine if it is to find a way out of the crisis well let me say yes but that. given there is that if the u.s.

and its western allies that that have another thing i think is really important here is that over the last few days we have the european union basically tell the ukrainians get their energy policy together because europe is tired of underwriting it which means that must be a return to dealing with the russians just as alexander make your set in every single sense the project they've had for ukraine has been an utter failure well i am not concerned about rushing chair and i think the world should not be concerned because things are developed been quoted and it was said if you are a neocon sitting in an air conditioned office in the swamp you are very worried well i am very wired to some other countries 1st i am worried about ukraine which is in the situation of course the political crisis since 2014 actually since 2013 when the european union and the united states encouraged these so-called peaceful protests in which 8 policemen died violent deaths you know protesting the

perfectly legal decision by the ukrainian president to 1st form the association agreement with the the fault of the e.u. and what happened in ukraine is huge you know so 1st i'm concerned about ukraine now i'm also concerned about the united states because this whole ukrainian affair is now the basis for these so-called impeachment hearings where i hear i'm sorry a lot of inaccurate information a lot of people i get an angry and if trying to support us. i feel deceived they aren't being easy if they feel that you know they voted in 2016 for this man and the view it as their last chance to keep the country that is slipping out of their hands under their control this is not my words you know i read it in there plenty of it's an article by a young bremmer a pretty good article you know about the supporters so which see how 1st ukraine

was destabilized the united states was destabilized now the european union is destabilized and they blame it all all trump trump and putin i hear them almost like charlie chaplin saying all the time competent competent competent from which it was kind and in reality it's the same people in washington in brussels who destabilized ukraine destabilize the united states now through these impeachment hearings and destabilize the european union because we see a real conflict denmark has been blocking the north street. by applying for several but one of the russians have been able to overcome that so it's coming to their or they have all comment but with a huge deal we the e.u. has been put in hurdles on their way for this project or this fall called 3rd energy package the kill the south korean project which was great for greece great for italy it could provide even in greece with cheap energy reducing the u.s. unemployment there but that we have the e.u. acting against the interest of european countries which need cheap russian energy

and that's why a lot of things are in flux sarah lucas let's go back to alexander i mean it's kind of on the tail of what the mood was having just there about ukraine in an interesting article but probably totally expected when you go to the states is beginning to imitate ukraine in its political crisis ok where you it's the factions are are very very clear the media sort of particular political interests that are talking at cross purposes it is remarkable the deeper the u.s. gets into ukraine the more it seems to resemble the ukraine go ahead. alex absolutely true and if you drill through to what these impeachment argument is all about what it is is accusations made by each side not without some course that they have become implicated in ukrainian corruption yet that's what it's all about ultimately that's what that's why we're talking hearing all

this about you know hunter biden and riz my holdings it's all about people being involved in getting payoffs in ukraine american officials american politicians the sons of american politicians receiving large amounts of money to provide protection to bear is on the go ox ukrainian oligarchs that one side is the other side is accusing the republicans of dorothy's and donald trump of rummaging around ukraine getting bromley they're trying to use ukrainian politicians or you create an agency is to investigate their opponents it's all about this and of course it's unsurprising because when the united states went into ukraine in such a massive way in 2014 it had totally unrealistic geopolitical objectives it seriously underestimated russia and it completely

overestimated its own ability to control the situation in ukraine and to distance itself from what was going on there and it's now paying that price but what was stakes were heading for a lot all of us to make this comparison look at the new york times you know this week there is an article there by bret stephens redolent to notice that it is a real piece of the united states has started talking like ukraine and then the subtitle why the. resident must be impeached and removed well in fact he wants the united states to look exactly like you put in because they're the president was impeached and removed by illegal violent action right so also you actually have the illegal coup in 2000 and now we have another dodgy legally dodgy power play in washington so it's a deed indeed the united states president of told me this line and sub headline you

know the united states is starting to look like a cream that's why the president needs to be impeached and removed it reminds me of the soviet dog we were standing on the board over the precipice but we must make a big step forward rate that's exactly what they say right there so. their arguments there are also bread stiffens makes in this article ludicrous you know all comparisons are wrong he compares for example trumps your chance to. hillary clinton he compares them to the fact that you were too much i was putting jail for abuse and when she signed the deal with russia well they should have asked their own best laughed ukrainian president viktor yushchenko if the machine could deserve this she was the prime minister and she didn't fulfill your should because directives she didn't talk to the president as their prime minister she went to meet portman and signed that agreement without having powers to do that so any

current issue would be put in jail similarly legally don't you remember her nickname exactly the gas princess i guess we've got about 40 seconds hours go ahead finish up this blog. just quickly it was years ago who initiated the criminal prosecution of her but this is exactly where the problem is with the united states it's bruce hughes i'm realistic foreign policy is easy illegal methods to engineer changes in other countries and what it finds inevitably is that the methods are now being used. in the united states it was only a question of too long and they were imported back and that's what we're seeing playing out now and. hearing american commentators and politicians so completely miss just describing ukraine comparisons between ukraine and the american war of independence. all right alex i got

a job in your alex thanks for joining in syria that's right people defending the coup were minutemen apparently that's all the time we have in this part of the program after a short break we'll continue our discussion and some real news stay with r.t. . the world is driven by. the day or. week to ask. welcome back across the uk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind

you we're discussing some real news. and now technical c.e.o. we are joined by alex christopher he's the director and writer for the duran dot com alex it's quite interesting to me watching the divergent interpretations of the last 2 weeks of testimony to the ship's congressional committee but i think that we should look at really what the outcome of all of this white noise is. none of these witnesses were credible in terms of what was being pursued impeachment so what the result is basically is that it's dividing the democrats it's a uniting the g.o.p. and it has put the media in disrepute even more if that's even possible all the outcomes that these people on this witch hunt wanted to avoid but here we are alex . yeah this was

a terrible mistake by nancy pelosi to put schiff in charge of this in teevan move forward with this peter think this impeachment hoax inquiry is over because this was really they use the word cloud show this was an absolute clown show the ratings show it trumps approval ratings show it is well they've gone up people just did not buy into this this ship show as they call it i mean the last day i think peter the last day of the impeachment inquiry hearings the testimony of a few on the hill and sherlock holmes a man with a superhuman hearing they really. really revealed a lot and they revealed the democrat panic because these witnesses that they brought up on the last day were manufactured witnesses yet they were manufactured no one even knows what fiona hill was doing there because she had nothing to say about quid pro quo extortion bribery whatever the claim is now because it's shifted so many time i can just was just there to convince us i can tell you i can tell you

why she was there she was there to reinforce the narrative ok she was she was the like at it a cafeteria monitor showing up and making sure that the cafeteria rules are in effect ok it was to maintain this week she took it she knows very little of anything about ukraine her she in and she is a well known anti russia hawk ok that's why she had the job in the 1st place also a good jump and very badly informed that's the problem with phil and he was that she's very badly informed i mean the titles in the u.s. space of about her the entire country should be grateful for feel any commitment to the truth that is the washington post then the new york times is caught in her in the. you know in the headline our nation has been torn apart truth is questioned why don't this question because our highly professional expert career foreign service is being undermined well these foreign. service god and mary queen trouble

in ukraine in syria in libya everywhere you have civil wars wherever these highly professional foreign service gets involved and miss feels predictions before have all been wrong she's a bad expert i don't know why trump took her it was a mistake 1st because she betrayed him basically what we saw was betrayal of your own boss and 2nd i'm going to quote if you want to use interview to figure out or in 2015 right after you know the crimea thing in and after their history to start it and don't buy us here's what she says to figure all putin doesn't know the limits he will certainly go further than ukraine he would destabilize other countries and of court well this is to put it mildly not curate information and now the whole nation is supposed to believe you only hear when she says something about highly professional foreign service about russia definitely definitely

destroying m.h. 17 and she says it all under all how does she know russian down to any 17. can she be sure you know rush by crania feel when he'll was in russia she traveled through these vile day club discussions many times and give you would put it many times i'm sure she was in crimea she knows that this is not the truth that crimea is you know it's really interesting but it's go back to and you can see what's interesting here is that you've seen the rhetoric of patriotism being. shown on the liberal corporate media and this is what's really orwellian about it because these people are actually traders they act in a. in such a way that undermines the electoral decisions of the american people nobody elected these people none of them and having been a russian watch an eastern european watcher for almost my entire adult life the

testimony i heard from these characters was lame at best and ideologically possessed and most go ahead alex yeah we heard the word a lot peter during the in test testimony from everybody there about official us foreign policy who sets us foreign policy that's the president not these guys what america saw they saw these mid-level managers who are hell bent on pushing their foreign policy on to the american public they saw mid-level players of the deep state and they were upset that their boss president trump who the american people elected had his own thinking and asked him just how i wanted to deal with ukraine and russia and europe and these people did it like it and they didn't like it peter because what we've realized now in ukraine is that there's a lot of money flowing into ukraine and flowing out of the rain and trump was there

to spoil the game he was going to take away their cash cow and they're all scared to death of it. that's the simplistic bottom line of what's going on here well deemer i think we're. going off what we just heard from alex is that i think there's a whole lot more to learn about this carpetbagging in this and people are beginning to panic because you get into this unregulated environment controlled by oligarchy politicians in the pockets of our guards and then you have this qadri of american american people their children coming in and scooping up all of the cash here and there is there are paper trails and we're going to hear about this and particularly if there is a trial in this senate or i hope that we'll hear from hunter by absolutely well i mean the. confused you know the wrong good or bad guy and if you know a vigilante and we're let me just quote you know david holmes these show records who testified against trump although he's just a minor official at their u.s.

embassy in ukraine he said that he was sure there trump has frozen security aid for ukraine because he wanted to pressure the country to commit to an investigation and also if you want to heal says besser the your bondi beach was smeared and attacked by whom why i was sorry but she was attacked by mr wood some call the prosecutor general who the new york times just a few months ago called a hero of my done a former political prisoner a strong friend of the united states why did god send could do it because you would send please a skull and he saw that there was a change of administration in the united states he decided that it was exactly like in ukraine where the winner gets it all so he decided i was this woman told me you know you want to put in jail and who not to put in jail these people pressured me know another man is in charge so i can report on them to

a trump veer this interview in the field in the sense that you know what we said in the 1st part of the program i think it's absolutely. fascinating is that it is the united states now that is imitating ukraine let me go and pick up on the family now just real quick you know something that will turn couldn't understand elections don't decide the fate of the united states anymore this same people the same establishment you're on your reiteration of my point here and you know let's go to that alex reflected on that because we did talk about that a little bit in the 1st part of the program but this imitation this demonstration effect is really quite remarkable because it's the u.s. now that is imitating the political practices and corruption i would say that we see and you ukraine. you know we've got a paper trail now peter we always say follow the money we have documents now that show that money was being poured into ukraine the money was going back out only to american politicians i imagine e.u. politicians as well everyone is making money on the back of all this i.m.f. u.s.

e.u. aid going into ukraine that is a fact now we've got documents we've got the paper trail of this money being funneled back out into the u.s. from ukraine and back out into the u.s. this is documented now peter this is what was going on in ukraine why did obama decide to go through with this coup god only knows why it has opened up a huge pandora's box of corruption misinformation lies deceit all of it and not to mention a war in the east which has killed many many lives is a tragic tragic foreign policy mistake by obama no one talks about the cool no when they talk about javelin missile yeah pillows you know it's all the no mentions the coup they only go back to 2016 as if you crane came in existence in 2016 they never want to go back 2 years before when this mess started which was completely unnecessary drama and now they're the cows are coming home and we see it clearly

here and everybody has dirty hands well or yes because it was after all it was not trump it was a bomb on the support the create and what is do we have just very little bit of time how would you compare obama's foreign policy to ukraine and trams foreign policy to ukraine in light of all the nonsense in these hearings well i mean our bomber. you know he destroyed ukraine he destroyed ukrainian politics you know because a lot of the no my point is the point is is that it was trump that agreed for military aid and i know the bomber well i mean but you never do you never see that in these he just said well i'm going to say on the left a weapons trump started sending left or weapons but he didn't save him from. q should so-called persecution in the united states but in fact you know when you want to heal said and all the main press mainstream press quoted her this deeply flawed theory of american ukrainian influence on american policy which originated

in the russian special services ukraine all of vias the influence of some american policy because of biden has been doing business in ukraine rick perry is now accused of doing business in ukraine unfair so when you create these employees and we'd not be surprised at the end of the day we find out that a good deal of the steel dossier probably came from ukraine as well ok alex if you have your last 30 seconds go ahead. no doubt that the still dicey came from if you create peter i think we're going to find find that to be fact as well i mean the whole the whole thing is all goes back to 2014 coup peter no one talks about no one talks about the nuland piute phone call no one talks about the coolio new code that should what they did all of this generates from there everyone is trying to deflect this whole thing on to a russia did it narrative again and that's what fiona hill was there for that's

what show ok holmes what they're like again we end the program by saying but they never expected trump was going to win that's why we have our eye that's all the time we have there many thanks to my guests in moscow and in london and in nicosia and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see a next time and remember. young innocence have come to us. especially brutal budging incidents because sadly the baby elephants often do see their mothers. killed but also be caught up unfortunate . i do believe they laugh and smile i see it simply someone's home. for the express untamed says.

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