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as recently as that world economic forum in davos president trump was touting the takedown of iranian military commander summa mani explained as decapitating a killing machine that he claimed to many american lives and threatened more but what's the money was up to when he was killed was a threat to the us economy after kennedy trumps pledge to get us out of what he called these stupid wars in that neighborhood are boots on the ground there for me let's ask a long time pentagon official an r t contributor michael maloof michael iran's caretaker prime minister says yankee go on but united states secretary of state mike pompei o says we're going to stay in iraq to continue the fight against terrorism and the president has ad libbed that we're there protecting be oil from what well that's.

protecting u.s. interests because what we're seeing because because of what the near near conservative thrust today is a new type of diplomacy is to is to. contain all the oil wells as much as we can where and places that we've kind of like in syria we said we're going to take over the oil in eastern syria and we're not leaving and we're proud to pump it and spend the money why we weren't we weren't even invited there so what we're seeing is that . the whole idea of that is to and to maintain our interests in that region is to basically dollar eyes the global economy where where they're trying to. base our activities diplomatically on foreign central banks savings on loans to the u.s. treasury because why. it's we all of the loans that we issue in the form of bonds

they have to buy in dollars and then they sell them back to us that helps actually keep our deficit spending going we can spend endlessly sure and you give me a new buzzword when you say dollar rise because you've explained this belt and road initiative you know us and you know i'll call sam's greenback has got to remain the floor for all these international deals right yes and yes because oil is all dollar based that there's the there's the requirement that all the all the revenues. that are produced are going to be in dollars from these oil wells we from iran we certainly want to from we certainly were using it in saudi arabia but what this and also the u.s. wants to continue to. pay for and recruit these foreign fighters they keep the activities for our power to fight our proxy war our proxy war we

blame iran for having proxy wars sure we have them too well for a country that crows about being energy efficient we're very protective of her else's oil but for the viewer who might not be up to speed in iraq one o one the sites pico agreement which you'll often hear referred to as the asia minor greenman was between britain and france carving up the whole mideast region back during world war one and western powers drew the map of iraq as a practical matter is in that country really 3 places we're seeing it evolve in that way we're seeing a renewed interest now by the united arab emirates as well as the saudis to reinvigorate the sunni's within iraq because it's predominantly shia so and what they want to do is have a carve out of ambar province and a few other provinces that are. predominantly sunni and make a multimission like the kurds have now in northern iraq and they keep the in the in

the from baghdad on south and that seems to be what this saudis want they're putting a lot of money and they're paying a lot of people off given the level of corruption that exists that are there and it's playing into the u.s. hands because the u.s. even though the iraqis have now asked us to leave and even though we refuse they may say ok the kurds are going to give us a place to stay in their area or we weaken the sunni's will give us a place like an airbase it's located in the anbar province which was recently hit by iran so this thing is really and what really messes all of this up for the united states also i might add is a sort of money appeared to be going on a diplomatic mission sure he was there to talk to bring their iranian response to a saudi peace plan and i've had it confirmed that there was something that existed

like that and the reality is that if that happened that all of the the house of cards that the united states is built to maintain its interest in the in the middle east through all and us revenues from that generated from that would collapse all right so about the dough and i've got 30 seconds give me the twitter version there's talk of partitioning iraq what would that mean to united states' interests it would help the united states because we would be able to maintain a base not withstanding what the iraqi parliament said however that i think the world would look upon that as make look upon the united states has been an occupying force michael maloof thank you as always for your clothes on text and perspective on this developing story. for word just seldom hear from uncle sam we made a mistake this from the official twitter account for the united states national archives apologized for a doctored photo of that massive crowd here in washington for the 27000 women's

march in a lobby display promoting the archives exhibit on the 19th amendment to the constitution giving women the right to vote a 100 years ago the national archives fessed up that we have secured some words on protest signs and a photo of the 2017 women's march this photo is not an archival record held by the national archives but one we licensed to use as a promotional graphic nonetheless we were wrong to alter the image not having license this image we can't show you either version google that protesters signs that were obscured said things like god hates trump and remove the rapist 1st amendment utterances that would displease a king but what happened here isn't just about a photo is it lets us the co-author with filmmaker oliver stone of the untold history of the united states a companion to the showtime documentary series peter koos nick is professor of

history at american university here in washington peter welcome back to see you for those watching outside the beltway your federal workforce consists of 2 kinds of people there are political appointees who come and go as administrations change and surviving trump cabinet members show this president the same undaunted loyalty is congressional republicans the other sort of government employees are a political career people who carry on despite who's in the white house peter even with this apology this national archives gaffe was an unfortunate curtsey to royalty well that's one way to look at it it was certainly unfortunate but we don't have royalty in this country but we have his donald trump whom i think that he's a king or a monarch but he isn't and the fact that the national archives even the head of the national archives and then forever who is appointed by obama is so afraid of donald

trump that they're willing to. office kate history to actually lie in that way this is unconscionable this would never have happened before but it just shows the fragility of truth in america in 2020 under donald trump a man who according to the washington post has told more than 16000 lives already by this point at a time when democratic institutions are also very threat fragile and this country so the implications of this are much more egregious than the simple act of of altering the signs there as you probably tell students at the beginning of each semester those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it in the last time you were here you were just back from what had to be gut wrenching. commemorates hiroshima and nagasaki and around that time there were confederate statues being shuttled off to museums or disappeared entirely doesn't quite washing history risk with george

orwell called memory holes yeah but our will said was he who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past and so that's a very very dangerous thing as history in this service of power and history is so important and that's what a lot of people don't understand is that what people there are understanding of the past shapes their thinking about what's possible in the future i see with the students if they don't have the sense that the past could have been different that they could have been different that was different than they don't have a sense that the future can be different so they can't think in terms of the possibility of a better world really they soon that what exists is what has to exist but we see that you mentioned hiroshima nagasaki you know we're coming up on the 75th anniversary now 75th anniversary of the end of world war 2 commemorations like it's

going on at auschwitz the. this is a pacific war and people don't understand this even the vietnam war you have the students now don't know about what vietnam even that 51 percent of 18 to 29 year olds in this country say the vietnam war was not a mistake it was worth fighting yeah this is really frightening but we look back to world war 2. the 2 big myths one is that the united states won the war in europe right now but a very small percentage of americans know the role that the soviet union played hundreds of thousands of americans died millions of russians $27000000.00 russians died i gave students an anonymous survey asked them how many americans died in world war 2 the media has struck out was $90000.00 so there are only 300000 off as how many soviets died in world war 2 the median answer i got was 100000 so they're only 27000000 off they can't understand the cold war they can't understand what's

happening now in ukraine they don't know world war 2 is about and the myths around that and the miss around the atomic bombing rice idea that obama and others keep on pushing out there that it tomic bombs were necessary because they ended the war without invasion american invasion and saved half a 1000000 american lives and therefore was a good thing and humane thing the reality of course was that the japanese were already defeated and dry in his surrender and that truman knew that they're going to tell just as he kept saying that he said once the soviets into the war all japanese would know that the war was going to end that for the resistance was futile and that we went ahead and use atomic bombs not really against the japanese much more against the soviet union now under a minute so i need not to over think this tell me the 1st thing that comes to your mind because just ordered your book on amazon spoiler alert of all that you want to oliver stone cover in the untold history of the united states what is another event

that is so much misunderstood by today's young people. the whole book we've got a new version is more than $100.00 pages read the book so it's all about what's what's misunderstood but at the university level this is not so it's understood it's the public schools it's the television or at the universities the quality of good historical scholarship is really quite high well thank you for being part of that american university professor peter koos nick always appreciate your perspective. coming up jeff i got a song stuck in your head i've had one stuck in mind for 40 years and after this break you may be humming it to this is the big picture on our t. america.

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count on me. and doesn't that look 40 years before today's divided america from movie stars to mickey mouse everyone in that diverse crowd was eager to be counted back to the future even after the supreme court threw out the citizenship question the trumpet ministration wanted many americans have concerns why let's ask christina who from the taiwanese americans citizens league and jesse jaspal from the sic coalition welcome. with congressional representatives electoral votes 675000000000 in federal funding of. christina's group has

produced an updated version of invitation to be counted i will work in 20 census is an opportunity to showcase the diverse asian american run taiwanese from taiwan where your family came or you try to tell this is who we are making. you. know that is the opposite of where what reluctance are you seeking to address. so actually thank you very much 1st of all thank you very much for allowing me to speak today and representing taiwanese american citizens oblique so most of the reluctance has been around ideas that people didn't know what the census is because the count that actually happens to everybody happens only every 10 years so there's a lot of the education and what that is and it's part of the constitution is totally legitimate for the government to be doing this and also educating about the

democracy participation aspect and also letting people know that the census is not just about the citizens it's about counting everybody so basic information of talking about what it is and also the. aspect of how it's not going to be used against. regular people there is. no alarm that needs to be have for the government collecting this information and there are regulation protecting that information is also really important especially for groups like taiwanese americans and taiwanese a lot of those are 1st generation we're just approaching a 3rd generation so we just had our convention and we talked about different generations of americans. and so this education or what it requires for its citizens and also people living in a state in order to make democracy work in america to that point your campaign

seeks to differentiate taiwanese americans from quote other asians why is that important. oh it's not really a differentiation there are americans is simply a limitation of the form itself under question i. the census form. the question for the race is only allowing certain preexisting categories on there so if you're why you're black then you have preexisting boxes for asians they have preexisting boxes for chinese filipino of vietnamese japanese asian indian and. i think the 6 categories and for all the other asian groups and you have to check the other asian box or writing taiwanese so that's just in the 30 of what the forms the limitation of this is also the 1st census the count 6 the distinct group and your britain that they are not safe in america because of hate crimes

especially since 911 there's a schoolyard bully in places of worship the ferries to real estate discriminations are those are all reasons to be counted and can be recognized as a distinct ethnic minority make the community safer. yeah yes. yeah i agree it was a question for me ok. are encouraging people to definitely distinguish themselves and counted accurately how they self identify and one of the information which we also have instagram as well we post information educating people around the senses and if you look at the census passed in the under the race to gore is quite interesting time capsule. of the race relations in united states to the preexisting categories the names of the 6 different asian groups actually it was true for several years already but 4 were encouraging also them for the other asian

groups are not within those preexisting boxes to also get themselves counted thank you as a student i did actually mean a question for your co panel so take it away ok ok. well having a distinct category and actually this is the 1st time in in history that there are going to be categorically allowing us and marking us internally special coded seek now you know having an accurate count in the country will help alleviate a lot of these social problems that are happening day to day week by week month by month year by year we have noticed you know cece have been in the u.s. since 880 s. were the rich 130 year plus history and you know to comment on 6 having a category in itself is

a huge money mental when it should help alleviate you know certain concerns. in regards to how the department of commerce the u.s. census bureau the office of management and budget and if the department of justice actually works these all these 4 organizations are to work together i think it will. help integrate and lower crime statistics now the other issue that we have going on is you know educating the police officers and law enforcement as well they go off the assumption in the use crimes that are calm stat now you know just by a person's visual you know. section if someone looks at why a mexican in asian they don't know what type of asian they'll make a guess so you know if there's crimes that are happening they're not being coded

properly as well so you know the u.s. census bureau and the department of justice definitely need to work together very closely on that and i'm very confident you know moving forward as an american community educates themselves on how to you know thought the form appropriately as other race and market seek and you know having a count in a voice in america is very important. allows the lawmakers to actually look at the community as a whole and know that you know on average ravin about $250000.00 hate crimes that are happening and i caseload the f.b.i. is only handling 70 to 7300 of those cases will not really tell me. yeah you tell me is the government actually working or not they're actually not there there's sleep at the wheel well there are a lot of this sort of injustice sam's about to spend an unprecedented

$1000000000.00 on the 2020 advertising campaign to encourage all of us to be counted the survey will be conducted in 13 languages and you can take it online some of expressed concern that older americans are less comfortable with online form so they can fill out a hard copy version and paper forms will go to areas where broadband is scarce do you have any other concerns among the sikh community about survey methodology. well we've noticed that the methodology has changed from the 2000 to 2010 to 2020 now part of that is technology is gun far superior as well so the way that they're layering the data and using social innovation and calculating. and actually doing seek separately should be beneficial for the sikh american community at this point sikhs as

a whole really don't have a voice you know that having a voice in america is very important and knowing the count of your population in a community is a very powerful thing to have i think it's. an absolute beneficial plus pika trump rally any trump rally and it's clear that this president's manner actually is a lack of manners as coarse and america christina under a minute so i need the short version has life changed for taiwanese americans under this president. so i think you're trying to you're you're mentioning about more of international affairs a looking at taiwan taiwan's politics to united states in general. i don't think that has generally. affect the taiwanese americans as more so than

most of the minorities but i do want to mention it's quite interesting. the relationship with taiwan. has been. more upfront withing the taiwanese american community we tend to be more progressive so there's a natural tension there all right thank you both for your context and perspective on the upcoming 2020 census and thank you for watching the big picture if you see us somewhere else you can also watch r t america live at youtube dot com slash r t america we're also live a direct t.v. channel 321 in cord cutter heaven pluto t.v. we are channel 279 and on the dish dish were 280 and all of our shows are available anytime anywhere on any device at youtube dot com slash the big picture r.t. i'm holland cook in washington and holland cook on twitter where if you follow me

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