the nobody really can tell the difference between a good compression and one that isn't. the end of nations being bombed into democracy winds of ministration says no more. change the old habits may die. its national criminal court though it is a probe into alleged israeli war crimes in palestine but israel. i c c i view it the international circus of clowns. canceling the books by famous children's. hurtful stereotypes takes them to the top of the bestsellers list on amazon. and 64 percent of americans believe council culture does pose a threat to our freedoms we put the issue up for the but. we have to keep in mind

that a lot of people only want. that simply should no longer exists well i would hate to live in a world where one people or heck even a group of people got to decide what was and wasn't racist and therefore what was and was not acceptable. very good morning and thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. will she do says no more to costly foreign military interventions with president biden strongly supporting nato bombing of yugoslavia was in the ninety's and secretary of state blinken advocating to supply ukraine with weapons and ask whether the new slogan is likely turn to translate into a real policy shift we will incentivize democratic behavior. but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to

overthrow off regimes by force. we've tried these tactics in the past however well intentioned they haven't worked quite an interesting use of words but the pattern from the united states of intervening in the affairs of other countries destabilizing and overthrowing governments around the world is quite well known one looks at the history of iraq of libya afghanistan one looks throughout south and central america one can see many examples of the united states intervening in other countries affairs destabilizing and overthrowing governments and in fact in recent years we've heard many calls from u.s. leaders for governments around the world to be overthrown and for leaders to step down assad needs to go we will continue to work with our partners in the international community to press. the to leave the time has come for nicholas murderer to go what's interesting is that just a day ago we actually had a tweet from anthony blinken in which he gave full support to one guede 01 grade 0

is an individual in venezuela who has proclaimed himself to be the president and has been engaging in violent attempts to destabilize venezuela to overthrow the elected government there if you haven't been u.s. military contractors that have been involved in those military coup attempts so having anthony blinken you know you know voicing support for one great oh the unelected individual who claims to be venezuela's leader kind of flies in the face of his claim that the united states won't be using force now if there was one loophole you could say in anthony blinken remarks he did create a pretext in which the united states would be continuing to use force against governments of course we will never hesitate to use force when american lives and vital interests are at stake now what exactly would constitute such a threat he did not lay out any specific criteria so it seems that though the

united states through its new secretary of state is announcing that no more force will be yours. many wonder if this will simply be a changing of rhetoric looks like the united states will most likely be continuing its foreign policy activities but only time will tell he did leave that huge loophole where he said vital interests vital interests can mean almost anything mars the moon you name it it could be a vital interest to america if a politician wants to say that's the case it seems like rhetoric you know trump certainly had his own style that was very bombastic and out there and other presidents have been more reserved in their or in their description of activities but when you look at the actual policies we've seen no change and i think it sounds like rhetoric not something that we can count on yet you know president trying started a trade war with china and now president biden's talking about well we're going to cooperate with other countries but we're also going to have trade agreements that protect our workers and do this and that which in the end probably means the exact

same policies as a national trade war biden i see him rebranding a lot of the same old thing. the blinken has repeatedly echoed joe biden's america is back slogan but some of been questioning what exactly that means especially given the country's recent history.

america is back. america stands to say quite a lot of cash if it does for the stop to foreign military interventions a recent report found the u.s. had wasted billions of dollars on unserviceable buildings and vehicles in its longest war afghanistan often the early $7800000000.00 in capital assets reviewed in his prior records special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction identified by a $2400000000.00 in assets that were used to rebound and had not been used for their intended purposes had deteriorated or were destroyed. the cigar report

also found the since 2008 just over $1000000000.00 of u.s. funded assets were used as intended for the $340000000.00 worth of equipment is still being well maintained u.s. war in afghanistan began in 2001 but despite pledges from various presidents to withdraw troops from the war torn country there are still around 2 and a half 1000 american soldiers there brian becker from the answer coalition believes u.s. tax dollars could have been better spent this is amazing levels of waste fraud and abuse and perhaps. you have $2400000000.00 of equipment that's no longer available to be used buildings that were constructed in can't be used because they're industry appear but this is reflective of how the afghan war has gone from the beginning hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent. and i would say tens of billions of dollars have either been looted by american military

personnel or their elway's in afghanistan or the money has been completely disregarded so it's fraud and it's abuse the reality is the american government the congress passes these giant military budgets almost a trillion dollars a year and there's no accountability at but if you have these huge bundles of money available to be spent then there's an incentive to make a contract with someone who's going to build a building and perhaps not really build it or build a building that's not needed take some of the money in the form of profit and give it to goes who made the contract for them in other words a kickback this is a big system of criminal activity and it is a form of corruption but because it's in the name of national security in the name of defense no one asks important questions. the international criminal court has no stake probe into alleged war crimes by israel

in palestine this includes the 2014 gaza war one of the deadliest conflicts between the 2 sides. the decision to open the notice to geisha full of the painstaking problem in your examination undertaken by the office that lasted close to 5 years our central concern must be for the victims of crimes both palestinian and israeli arising from the long cycle of violence and insecurity that has caused deep suffering and despair on all sides in february the trial chamber of the international criminal court determined that the hague court has jurisdiction for opening a criminal investigation into the activities of israel and the hamas leadership for alleged war crimes in east jerusalem gaza and the west begged the palestinians have said that this is a victory for the victims they say it's a landmark historic decision but as expected the israelis for some time has been

campaigning against precisely what was announced today back in february the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had this to say we are too soon to go to israel for free. this is pure anti semitism. his promise to resume i assure you we will fight this barrage of justice with our might what this means is that hundreds of his radius could find themselves out on the wrong side of the law and we're talking here about the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu right on his ministers and even ordinary soldiers the country's defense minister benny gantz has said that he's never been afraid of crossing over in the lines and this announcement doesn't make him feel full either you have for years had human rights organizations who has been warning of israeli violations against palestinians.

yeah yeah. the united states has been a longtime ally of israel and when the former president donald trump was in power way he sanctioned the international criminal court after a tried to open an investigation in the palestinian territories now however under his successor joe biden it is possible that there is pressure to lift the sanctions and of course israel is lobbying against this what remains to be seen is just what comes out of this investigation that they're all my colleague in the near discuss the investigation with enough to burn their tos israel's former defense minister and current can do that for prague mr. this is a perversion of justice of any basic morals you know when one side or

another the 2nd side has a right to self-defense the court is not a court you know they call it the i.c.c. i view it the international circus of clowns let me tell you something you know i thought in quite a few wars defending my family come us shoots rockets at israel east from within hospitals within homes within schools and then when we want to fight back then this i.c.c. thing tells us that we're immoral and you are saying that the militants were based in hospitals on schools but by firing bach were actually schools and nurses and doctors where working civilians were killed there is very much a sense of proportionality to be to be held here isn't there an israel did not. is there you know if someone is shooting your kids your kids from within the school how proportional are you going to react well there's a sense of self defense of course i agree with but in terms of doing that do you

not prolong the war on the victims in israel as well as palestine making it even worse for future generations surely there's a stage where you have to say listen we're going to go off to these people but we're not going to try to kill as many civilians as we did before oh no you're distorting things we never are out to kill civilians. being killed. oh they've been killed by their own government hamas which places rockets next to their children so yes let me but you know if your weapons ever places rockets from within civilians he is murdering his own people not israel there is an evil side that is an attack him there's a good side that's defending and the only side that holds any responsibility is the offender let me be very clear you know if there is a list of people who are going to the ha going to be at the top of the list we will never the hands of an israeli soldier while defending itself.

amazon a seen a huge spike in sales of the classic dr seuss children's books and some to the publisher decided to discontinue the series for can turning what it says were racial stereotypes these books put 3 people in ways that were hurtful and wrong seating sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure dr seuss enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and families the announcement the 6 books would be scrapped was made on the late author's birthday after the statement book sells on amazon skyrocketed by more than 5000000 percent in just 24 hours taking them to the top of the bestsellers u.s. researchers say that several books contained examples of white supremacy and negative betrayals of asian people including the depictions of a japanese character with a yellow face which was found to be racist the study also found an image of 3 asian

people carrying a white person was an example of white dominance but the story of the grinch one of dr seuss's most famous works that still available. this response. christmas music here. washed up. on the altar step daughter supported the publisher's decision but said that dr seuss didn't have a racist bone in his body editorial director who believes the author's relative had no option but to bow down to the work brigade. all this has been manufactured to the point where of course she's probably going to say something like that because it's the smart thing to say so that long term it doesn't damage the dr seuss brand going forward to that face that i mean that's their family's moneymaker they

don't want to get canceled the imagery that people are are kind of harking on and making a big deal about i guess could be considered by people who are extremely sensitive and probably looking for something to be upset about but i but again i think that this is an example of you know 1st world problems let's call it that when you've got nothing else to worry about than did this is what you're going to focus on kind of nonsensical stuff and i think that the cancel culture the p.c. police we live in a time of phony outrage maybe i'm a little bit different maybe just whatever and i don't know if it's the way that i'm wired but i don't personally find offense to it but then again i don't walk around online watching t.v. walking the streets looking for something to be offended by you know to me that's not really you know. something that we should be upset about like you know the

anti-semitism of the 1930 s. in germany is something that merits our dr seuss's books do not somehow he goes from being this great children's all sir that you know cream up with these great stories that have you know provided wonder to children for years to being some sort of odd nazi or something. on the rise a circle council culture is speaking seen by some as such a threat to freedom of space the one us little will make is calling on congress to address the nation. council culture is a dangerous phenomenon and whether you agree or disagree with the views been censored if cancel concert continues unchallenged it is not just the unpopular controversial viewpoints that are at risk. a recent poll found 64 percent of americans agree boycotting or removing certain types of content does pose a threat to freedoms in the country but also about 80 percent of republicans consider council culture a threat only 48 percent of democrats to the issues been highlighted by

a number of high profile cases over the past year sweet amazon pulled a book by a conservative author that challenged the transgender movement earlier to democrat representatives called on cable companies to stop posting conservative leaning use channels and in 2020 an editor at a new york times resigned over an opinion piece by republican senator that advocated the use of military force in protests we discuss these issues with a panel of guests. the problem with cancel culture is that when we're looking into people's past 20 years ago 30 years ago in some cases what does it look like holding people responsible now for things that they have done i mean almost a generation ago can't people change can't people become better people as time goes on cancell culture does not allow for that have i said things that i think you know in 20 years maybe you'll look and say oh you should have said that while that's true and it makes us all need to be more mindful of how we conduct ourselves and what we say it's not ok to just speak so freely about people of different colors of

different races socioeconomic status or handicaps we need to be mindful that our society has locals of so many types of people there are of course racist people out there is the best way to change their minds and improve race relations to simply silence anyone who goes against the narrative or should we actually be doing more to engage with those people and maybe explain why their actions might hurt others or try to change their opinions how many people have had their mind changed by being silenced it just doesn't seem like a long term strategy that will work our society is largely built on racism our society is largely built for and things that are just and racism to some integrity to who america is that. people that racism seems anti american and so who have people who want a little better instead she's all know this with my great great grandfather well her great great grandfather who need that black people were who pulls them and that

they should have rights so you know we have to keep in mind that you have a lot of people wholly willing to ideologies that simply should no longer exist well i would hate to live in a world where one people or heck even a group of people got to decide what was and wasn't racist and therefore what was and was not acceptable in the public sphere that goes just intrinsically against the concept of freedom of expression which is essential if you hope to have a culture in a society where different people with different. indians can actually live peacefully together we're not going to continue to coddle racism in america and that's simply not the role that we we should probably take it's best that we began to doubt all of the structures that are harmful whether they are on facebook or a mine and in a park it's time to take those down and move forward and here you're with us or you're not. coming up the f.b.i. is called the capital riots domestic terrorism which poses a threat to america similar to that of i still more on the top of the brain.

there's a myth metabolife small molecule that our bodies make of. meth and make less of it as we get older this is one of the things i work on it's. because we have less of it we become more prone to infection and the crazy thing is that could 19th sars could be to one of its ways of attacking the body to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit

down and talk. and. welcome back the f.b.i. director was called capitol riot protesters domestic terrorists labeling them a top threat to american society that attack. that siege was criminal behavior plain and simple as behavior that we the f.b.i. feel is domestic terrorism back in june of 2019 under my leadership we elevated racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism to our highest threat priority

on the same level with isis and homegrown strains. many of the same question centers around the f.b.i.'s handling a very poor from the eve of the riots it warned of online post predicting trouble in washington capitol police leaders are said they were unaware of the report and received no intelligence from the f.b.i. 5 people died as a result of the riot including a capitol police officer and a woman who was shot a few trying to enter the house chamber with lawmakers still inside. the f.b.i. had also said that there's no evidence to suggest that anti trunk groups were involved in the right contrary to what some republicans have said we spoke earlier to jennifer damascus to an anti terror expert and legal analyst she says the people's political leanings affect their attitude towards events. we cannot have an f.b.i. that downplays violence against us like b.l.m. even if it's not the majority there must equal justice under the law we must

discuss threats equally clean when the george floyd riot started were allowed to have thousands of people on the streets looting businesses burning down buildings thread mean it threatening people arson all over it and so the kind of violence that we saw coming from that you're looking at 2 side by sides if you haven't seen a report and seen this is a completely mostly peaceful protest with buildings on fire behind them and on the other side of the screen you're seen a guy with some horns walking around taking selfies with capitol police and one of those has been called horrific domestic terrorism the other one has been called mostly peaceful we have a problem it is concerning what when depending on your political ideology you can get away with literally burning down somebodies building burning down some is livelihood as long as you're part of the right political ideology. ok time to take a quick look at other stories happening around the world 1st of all space x. is a sentence space ship has exploded following its 3rd test flight. no there was all

oh my god do you go unlike the other flights this time he did manage to land successfully bartz blew up 8 minutes later the vehicle reached an altitude of 10 kilometers company hopes to take people to mars one day using. a. house where a man wielding an axe is injured 8 people in sweden the 20 year old suspect was shot by police and hospitalized police said they're investigating possible terror motives behind the attack a number of the victims are in a serious condition according to a police spokesman is into curd in the town the vet land 340 kilometers south of stockholm. and central greece is being rocked by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hundreds of buildings have been damaged in the quake which was felt as far away as albania and kosovo have been no reports of serious

injuries 6 people have been rescued from the rubble of their collapsed. the bridge rather today thanks to company and again don't forget to check out plenty more stories we have for you on our website r.t. dot com. since that other the boy doesn't. come home with me pay for them as. i'm about to him i'm. not going to type his opinion to me in the next his tongue's arms mom i'm going to have. been. few and few get. close to belgium wish them good again it was on those on the left.

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of american politics and the future of the republican party and i'm far from licking his roots don't look fit to strengthen his political hold on the party he once led from presenting success to comprehensive defeat today we interviewed 2 ringback top guests with a vastly different views on the road ahead for the grand old party as martin president of the phyllis schlafly eagles and rhenish albert outa who is fighting to of republican women for biting. all of that much more to come up in the show but 1st charity to emails and messages in response to our show last week featuring professor richard murphy in our discussion on economics and political economy kerry says professor murphy is extremely eloquent he makes complex issues accessible view such as his and those of common weale are what we need coming out of the pandemic terrorists al says it was an excellent show as always but particularly good this

week as richard murphy explains what a newly independent scotland can be and how energy will see it we are happy says exciting stuff from professor murphy encouraging for scotland norman says we need to get that information to the professor was discussing there so that more can hear and realise that scotland has an incredible opportunity to decide its own destiny and place in the world iris says the e.u. will one scotland definitely as a foolproof european either contributor and we should be part of that european union as a full and equal partner sunda whoever says and pay a lot for it too and finally alan mccarthy says excellent show richard murphy is an asset that scotland should be using with his excitement of course through an economic argument thank you well thank you very much indeed alan for your comment and then over to alex who's interviewing rina shah finder of republican women for biden really show welcome to the island so i'm sure.