all this time fighting viruses we still have time to drop some bombs and some brown people all around the world one thing us love to do that to me because when they remain 3rd we will always have but i'm going to try to disarm a whole population of people particularly those that we pull for good good point very good point it's crazy i mean last year under president donald trump the u.s. conducted 63 air attacks in somalia that was the most ever in a single year since the beginning of the year africa when i was $39.00 airstrikes in somalia the command mounts total $36.00 such attacks from 200-2017 i mean that's saying they were seeing these numbers rise like that i mean in 2016 it peaked in her bottle with just 19 i don't know why we're dropping bombs on somalia in the 1st place like no one's quite you know al-shabaab terrorist whatever but this seems excessive at this point i was going to be my question what is the reasoning i don't know what the reasoning was under the obama administration either but the reason for the uptick with all the other all the areas that we're involved in all of the

international conflict all of the resolution they were supposed to be binding in areas across the middle east but also you know the global economy and all the different intricacies there why had to choose somalia and why to continue to utilize our our military forces in that way also the cost associated with it and i have no answers as to why this is the plan of action and think that people should start asking those questions of your luck because the pentagon has some really wonderful answers for you are you ready for this ok here we go. the april 3rd strike the just recently happened. in somalia u.s. marine corps brigadier general bradford j. gehring of africa these are the deputy director of operations so he might have some answers he says quote it's our commanders responsibility to support our partners so this terrorist group al-shabaab can expand and strike the u.s. homeland as its leaders desire to do. ok but i mean basically this falls on the.

same thing of like the u.s. as you know that their air strikes are assisting the government of somalia in order to you know when it's war against the non star state armed group al-shabaab the terrorist group to increase the security to smaller people in the you know to keep them from you know coming to our shores and tackling us and also to keep the terrorists from indiscriminately attacking innocent civilians and so what extent has that success been measured. and well we're very good at killing civilians and you know the extent that we measure i mean it's really it really blows my mind because to me it's like it's that standard tired excuse to use all the time it's we have to attack these terrorists over here because they might come back here and her except the more people that we kill on the ground the more civilians we kill in these airstrikes the more terrorists we create and the more people and i mean al shabaab has grown dire i mean astronomically since the u.s. spurstow operations in africa why because of our influence there and the more you

do it the more you increase the you more the more you destabilize that area and i think that there is something to be said about that as well and the amount of trust that somalian people have with the u.s. or the u.s. government knowing that these casualties a naga war into new to happen on a regular basis that's a really good point it's you can't build trust when you're killing civilians i mean it really does it really does hurt i mean amnesty international reported deaths of 14 civilians in just 5 airstrikes last year that they were able to even begin to investigate you know africa says they investigate but they don't actually talk to families they don't talk to people find out actually who was killed they just claim it was all terrors it sounds a lot like what we were claiming you know was going on in iraq right after the war although everyone is an insurgent. where there's a will there's a way and where there is a big business the little man will always come up short i believe that's what we're seeing in ohio. the state government has concocted

a way to continue putting workers at risk for closing $1000.00 meanwhile ringback abstain from paying them unemployment benefits as the buckeye state reopens its economy leaders fear some will refuse to work or quit due to the threat of coronavirus so be clear workers should be afraid considering mitigation efforts are minimal and a mutated strain of the virus was recently announced ohio seems to what workers to pay that no mind at all and get back to work or else the ohio department of job and family services website now has a form that allows employers to confidentially report employees who quit or used to work due to cope in 1000 this internal flag would prevent workers from being eligible for unemployment benefits kevin beary president of united food and commercial workers local $75.00 said it's unfortunate that people are being forced to make a decision between losing their jobs and exposing themselves to the virus adding that the local union has been able to create and establish policies and procedures

to protect 30000 members. the stickler though also lies in the wording of the state's notice to employers saying individuals cannot with eve unemployment benefits if they can work but refuse or quit without good cause what constitutes good cause. if you think all of this sounds harsh it is right here watchers we recently reported on covert sweeping through ohio is prisons with more than 37000 inmates testing positive and a senior scholar from the johns hopkins center for health security found that not a thing will us state has met the key criteria to open safely what would you do if you're tasked with either going to work and putting your health at risk or advocating for yourself and losing your livelihood that is the most important question of the day as we have in the may june when everyone talking about lifting all the stay at home orders and everybody needs to go back to work and to me with this sounds like it's basically you better go back to work or you know we're putting a gun to your head you have to go back to work and that's essentially what it they

might as well it said it because these people have families they have other folks that they're taking care of they many of them don't have health insurance a lot of these are low income workers already so if they do get sick. lord help them in terms of being able to find proper care the other part is and i think that we talked about this a little bit earlier is that ohio is probably not the only state with this type of interesting laws right now are forcing people to go back to work they're trying to get their economies opened back up they're not really taking into consideration all of the health precautions that are necessary before you can open up safely and that puts people at risk but they don't want to pay them unemployment benefits that's what really gets me with this it's like you could you can't have it both ways you can't put the gun to the american workers had already work around the world forced to go back to work under these kind of conditions and say you need to work we need to get our economy you need to put your life on the line for me but then say at the same time over we're not going to take care of you at all if indeed you do get sick

from going back to work or if you choose to stay home and keep yourself and your family safe potentially because that's what you believe in that's what medical science is telling you but we're still not going to help you and that's the wrong choice and how dare you say no it's absolutely ridiculous so unemployment claims are to. subject to review you already know this. but the review does it typically state the types of things we're seeing here and the problem with that is that the employer gets to decide whether or not what what your unemployment claim not only is legitimate but also using coronavirus as a mechanism to determine who gets unemployment funds and who does not and secretly they're doing a lot of these businesses are because if too many people claim unemployment they can not claim the small business small business funding from the federal government so they need people on the job but it's so twisted because it's like when you think about this it's it's. it's that thing of like we just don't want to give anybody

any kind of break we don't want to give anybody any kind of money and this tired old excuse that you hear over and over again from people who are against like on employment benefits and things like that the targets as well then they'll just stay at home and they won't want to work at all or you know they'll make more money for employment than they will of their jobs well guess what that's not the government's fault that's not the jobs fault if the jobs can't pay their workers a livable wage and they can get it from unemployment even if they really care but i mean if the you know if they can that's the businesses fault at the end of the day exactly you should not be punishing the worker because you are paying them slave wages that is not the workers fault exactly that's the mail it's like but yet we have this twisted backwards thinking that somehow will no business is ever a fault for mistreating workers you know good businesses are never you know you can put a gun to their make and come to work in a time when they shouldn't and pay them garbage wages but oh god we never should help the worker we only should bail out the business the other issues that we're learning more and more about coronavirus every day about how it passes about the

people that are more susceptible about now you know the latest news about young children and how it's affecting them there are a lot of reasons why people are set to have some very serious precautions particularly the communities that are affected the most right now we're seeing that be the african-american and latino community what we know about. 2 communities is that a lot of their households are multigenerational so the person who's going out working could bring back over 1000 even if they're not showing any symptoms to a grandmother to an aunt to an uncle who ever else is in that household you mention john hopkins and put out this like you know criteria you know that state should look at before they open a business what are those criteria is doing. absolutely so one of the criteria is that for 2 consecutive weeks you had to have in coronavirus cases some states have that not all states the sticking points were the other 2 reasons that there had to be enough public health capacity to conduct contact tracing currently no state has that that there has to be enough diagnostic testing available for everyone no one

has that and that the health care for capacity has to be there to be able to treat everyone safely and effectively as you know there are a lot of hospitals and clinics that have been shut down the capacity isn't their beds are going to be too was typically a rule areas. where does the funding come from people are asking for you know so much more from the state in the federal government to be able to support coronavirus cases and yet we're still reopening. you could you could totally see by just going over what you just listed there for the we are in no condition actually to reopen even on any kind of infrastructural level to actually handle reopening exactly and that's what we're most afraid of it is not you know there radek a sion of the virus in and of itself is that we do not currently have a health care system that is prepared to handle you know tailless greatest current levels much less the gets worse nor do we have an economy that can kick the can handle this apparently because like grandma got a crowd and shuts down for 2 months we get a certain bill every business except for the american actual the american worker

the american people that's the saddest part about this entire problem all right everybody good report thank you howard everybody as we go to break remember that you can also start watching dogs on demand through the brand new portable t.v. which is available on the smart bombs or google play on the apple app store by searching poor. so you'd be or you could stream us through your t.v. you don't have cable by downloading the 4 ball to be the apple t.v. or online affordable but. this will be available for devices coming soon keep up with that coming up it's time to look into the recently had botched coup attempt in venezuela by water why don't the merry band of american mercenaries who do not want to take to the watchable. join me every thursday on the elec so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you there.

thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision lotos sheltered lives every song came to a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed you know told to shut up but they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me with his birth ink area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career

which i was very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. so many 5 years ago the scourge of schizm was defeated in your the soviet union and its western allies were victorious what is the meaning of that victory today what explains freezing words to read write history in the efforts to diminish the sacrifice me by the people of the soviet union. by it is the. police. or operation in.

some of the wealthier neighborhoods it's been far more contained and the numbers are much lower than some of the more neighborhoods star city. we think we're working with can source outside of the state is there just so it is here so i think that it was. all right welcome back everyone as i mentioned earlier at the top of the show the united states' efforts to remove venezuelan president nicolas maduro from power have reached who are pretty new level of bubbling brilliance my friends on may 4th yes may 4th the venezuelan government announced the capture of 2 former u.s.

special forces soldiers now turning mercenaries were involved in a failed plot to invade the country and lead a coup to remove venezuelan president nicolas maduro from power apparently dubbed operation gideon and run out of a florida security company titled silver corps usa some have called. this is the keystone kops version of the bay of pigs in fact according to the washington post a mysterious strategic committee run by juan jose rondo and their political advisor to one weibo involved in these efforts actually compiled a dossier on the failed bay of pigs attempt to liberate cuba from the government to put out castro to which journalist charles pearson esquire magazine upon hearing of this news observed i can count on the fingers of one hand the number of accounts of the bay of pigs operation since 1962 but did not also contain the word fiasco why someone in 2020 would compile a dossier on a disastrous attempt to invade cuba as part of the preparation for a commando raid into venezuela is best left to broader thinkers than i am well we

here are those broad thinkers let's break down this latest attempt to remove the democratically elected leader of venezuela from office and install mr corporate democracy itself one guy though as we are joined by author and human rights attorney dan koblick m. the author and professor of latin american history from pomona college we go to go solace thank you both for joining me today thank you so there's an incredible amount to unpack with this story and not a lot of time before it's let's start with the basics down as of this broadcast who do we know where the players involved in this botched operation beyond just the 2 captured u.s. mercenaries. 7 edition of them yet have to be. founder of the usa and jordan do drone who seems to be in the mastermind of this they ask. he founded this mercenary organization 2 years ago

and now here is a new your indignation it's been involved in for example the elections in 2018 which would solve it in the election scenario and also the. they were involved with richard branson. charity event on the colombia venezuela border about a year ago in addition to him. there were colombian paramilitary forces. otherwise known as death squads and some. folks who had left the venezuelan military and what we know is that silvercorp usa signed a contract with a long way to carry out this operation with the objective being to kidnap president nicolas maduro and bring him to the united states most likely to try to get the $15000000.00 bounty that donald trump put on his head while.

thing just keeps getting deeper on this next one is for you miguel the united states secretary of state might come pale in the u.s. president donald trump have both distanced themselves from this operation with pump ale in batek lead denying involvement declaring that quote there was no united states government direct involvement given the united states history of intervention in venezuelan affairs do you believe the u.s. government was not involved in this operation. i think the key word there is direct involvement what i perspective my perspective is that the u.s. knew about the program they knew us greenlighted it if it succeeded fantastic we were able to remove and it we did it with a very cheap operation we lowball the contract and we were able to get a mother with the reality is that they knew about it the experience of the colombian border as one of the most surveilled borders in the area where you have a complete consulate u.s.

overflights and information the fact that the colombians were aware that there was training going on the venezuelans knew that training was going on in fact in march of 202020. in his own program the vice president the former vice president and 2nd. a man in venezuela mentioned the fact that we have north americans training rebels on the border with colombia so the fact is they knew about it they hoped it would succeed if it succeeded they had achieved their mission if they didn't they would have plausible deniability which is essentially what they wanted with the bay of pigs as well you have plausible deniability and when in either case but again the context is the us established the context with increasing the sanctions against venezuela during a pandemic attempting to put a price on mother who had attempting at the same time with elliott abrams and paul 'd impale to increase the tension on venezuela even when there was a call within the country for negotiations by both sides to try to deal with

a pandemic they upped it for regime change in the middle of a crisis that worsened conditions for venezuelans on the ground it truly is really wretched wouldn't you think about it in that context to see that we're still trying to do these kind of operations especially during a worldwide pandemic emergency you'd think ok let's put all these things aside i'm curious dan about this company silver car out of florida you know you had mentioned it earlier today and got into that you know whether it's headed by u.s. green beret john grew dro i'm also curious what are is its ties to the trumpet ministration i mean i know you mentioned that your work security back concert at the was a better way way or whatever was that happened a while back but what are its ties to the trumpet ministration and one weibo. well again the connections with like you know very strong there's a contract that's been released in publicized by the washington post which. server corp usa sign an agreement one white 0 to carry out this operation in return

for cash that cash would have come by the way from the united states to i know from money to the u.s. . for those and then c.d.'s from the venezuelan government they have now given no means of dollars of that is why do so 1st of all. it's very clear that the money ultimately came. from the united states apparently does jordan good road or has done security for the trump campaign and is connected to security leaders for donald trump i saw one report that in fact you do have a map with dollar trump the white house not too long ago if i if i could mention one other fact you know the one the one thing the media has not talked about is who would help stop this kid it was ordinary fishermen who helped intercept these people to beat anyone and the reason they thought they could win and

overthrow the government of venezuela is they thought the people would rally around them to help them instead the people ordinary people fisherman on the shore confront them and call and then it's when with the wording to put down the coup the reason they failed is because why no and the united states has no popular support in venezuela they certainly don't. emma gelt what do you believe will be the fallout from this in venezuela both politically and socially. well the fallout is that the opposition has lost the last fig leaf they were hiding behind we know very clearly that this opposition has adopted an insurrection a list approach that they staged a coup in april of 2019 in which they attempted to have bad luck out of wrote a military base in caucus rebel it didn't happen we know that they've opted to withdraw themselves from the internal political process hoping that the u.s.

would support them that the group of limit would support them the colombia would support them in other words they have little faith in the democrats in the venezuelan people going to spoil it needs as many people in the country have said is negotiations to release the money that the u.s. has taken from venezuela and the. money provided by human aid for venezuelan immigrants that are abroad the 5000000 immigrants that are abroad as well as the venezuelans within the country but for the opposition i think that even their most ardent supporters are now questioning what they did how they've approached this and that their continued support for an insurrection alist policy that is about whatever means necessary has really been exposed because they signed that document it was white though it was hope to hold out and go on his campaign manager the same person by the way hold the hold out and go on who ran the campaign for a while even in colombia who ran the opposition in mexico who ran even other campaigns a lot america and who promised he would do as well as again they have no secrets to

hide between they supported the coup the way they have previously it's incredible how far that rabbit hole goes i want to thank you and professor silas thank you so much for coming on pleasure having you both on thank you. art and what he vowed as our show for you to remember everyone in this world we are not told but we love to tell you all i love you i am tight rope and for the enemy to keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night. that . you think you can. do it that if you.

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like the movie the apostle the pain you're more than the book and then you'll like it on the show stuck in the summarizing the story is forced to behold. hello and welcome to redact it's an idea i'm your host name we care of ani you know well guys i know i'm going through that really days of quarantine when we were like hey remember pants. well where's those. now we've seen every news anchors unshaven legs they're naked husband in the shower behind them and worse cuomo has gym shorts and it's not

a drop and move. anyways we have a great show for you tonight league camp sits down with b.j. pushout a journalist and an author of 30 books a political philosopher and the executive director of the tri continental institute for social research they talked about the failures of our government to deal with this crisis the demands workers should be making and much more than redacted correspondent natalie mcgill will talk about some mind blowing old news from medieval times the era the eatery then i will go into how big businesses are taking small business support good news for people who like breathing and how the virus is remaking the college process college education process but 1st let's go to that interview between we camp and v.j. . thank you so much really there. i'm a big fan of your writing you wrote an excellent article recently in which you said during a pandemic the private sector austerity model has fallen apart we've seen such

a tremendous collapse of the capitalist state institutions that are supposed to help people during a crisis the guidelines for what to do have been all over the place the medical gear is not available the hospitals are overwhelmed that the test still aren't widely available in the u.s. can you talk about why it is that our institutions have failed us so it thoroughly . you see you. really. should by the budget or government how do you know what is still gallus legal austerity should actually be called auditors or the united states government since the financial crisis of 2008 has deeply cut into these areas the area of education and social safety which is why on the one side there was no preparation for the emergency on the other side you know you have

a relatively hallucination driven political class just not science based you know they don't actually have an understanding of reality it seems to me so right. that the world health organization declared a global endemic donald trump and alex is expected 3 were trying to convince the public that this is not a big deal this was right up through march 11th so when you have a hallucination driven political last certainly not going to mobilize whatever the sources are also look and because of austerity there are very few indeed you try to mobilize these resources of course they didn't they did nothing this ad only hands and now they're back. yeah it's a great way to describe it a whole new set nation driven class that that that political class that the ruling wealthy class you've said they are their world order is kind.