the end of nations being bombed didn't to democracy bods of ministration says no more u.s. backed regime change. whether old habits may die hard. the criminal court launches a probe into alleged israeli war crimes in palestine israel it's back. they call it the i.c.c. i view with the international circus of clouds. where the discontinuation of book spy famous children. the quote from stereotypes takes them to the top of the best sellers list on amazon. 64 percent of americans believe the council culture poses a threat to freedom sweep the issue up to the back. we have to keep in mind that we

have a lot of people. that simply should no longer exist well i would hate to live in a world where one people are happy even in a group of people got to decide what was and wasn't racist and therefore what was and was not acceptable. either thanks for joining as you want you to gnash. washington says no more costly foreign military interventions but with president biden strongly supporting nato bombing of yugoslavia in the ninety's and lincoln advocating to supply ukraine with weapons we ask whether the new slogan is likely to translate into a real policy shift we will incentivize democratic. 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 is come for nicholas mcdermott 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 of even 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 are the moon you name it it could be a vital interest to america if a politician wants to say that's the case 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 so i don't see biden tearing up a lot that is substantial i see him rebranding a lot of the same old thing. and save lincoln has repeatedly echoed joe biden's america his back slogan but some of been questioning what exactly that means.

america is back. in america stan say quite a lot of cash if it does put a stop to foreign military interventions a recent report found the u.s. had wasted billions of dollars on unserviceable or abandoned buildings and the cols in its longest war in 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 riband and had not been used for their intended purposes had deteriorated over or destroyed. the cigar report also found since 2008 just over $1000000000.00 of u.s.

funded assets were used as a regionally intended the $340000000.00 worth of equipment is quote maintained in good condition the u.s. war in afghanistan started 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 u.s. soldiers there brownback a from the answer go elation believes that american tax dollars could have been better spent this is amazing levels of waste fraud and abuse and perhaps now it's 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 allies 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 is almost a probe into alleged

a war crimes by israel in palestine that includes the 2014 gaza war which was one of the deadliest conflicts between the 2 sides. the decision to open an investigation full of the painstaking problem and or 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 bag 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 when the r.c.c. investigates israel for free. this is pure anti semitism. has promised 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 any lines and this announcement doesn't make him feel for 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 my colleague you know neil discussed the best occasion with enough dolly bennett israel's former defense minister and current candidate for prime minister. 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 israeli 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 and schools but by firing bach were actually schools and nurses and doctors where working civilians were killed there's 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 when 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 after 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 come us 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 in 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. or going to the ha going to be at the top of the list we will never have an israeli soldier while defending itself.

amazon a seen a huge spike in sales of the classic dr seuss children's books that's after the publisher decided to discontinue the series for containing what it said were racial stereotypes these books put 3 people in ways that were hurtful and wrong ceasing 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 of the announcement the 6 books will be scrapped was made on the late author's birthday after the statement booksellers and i was on skyrocketed by more than 5000000 percent in just 24 hours taking them to the top of the bestsellers us researchers say several books contain examples of white supremacist and negative betrayals of asian people including the depiction of a japanese character with a yellow face which was deemed to be racist the study also concluded 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 work is still available. this christmas. crisscross music here in. my shop. and it alters stepdaughter supported the publishers decision but said the dr seuss didn't have a racist bone in his body and the tour director 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 let's face it i mean that's their families money maker they don't want to get canceled the imagery that people 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 then 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 on line 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 merit our free 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 if you know provided wonder to children for years to being in some sort of odd nazi or something. says that only the south if it is the people in america are getting tired of 2nd pencil culture that's according to a recent story after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. welcome back the rise of so-called council culture is being seen by some as such

a threat to freedom of speech the one u.s. lawmakers even calling on congress to address the issue cancel culture is a dangerous phenomenon 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 its risk. recent poll found 64 percent of americans agree that boycotting or removing certain types of content does pose a threat to freedoms in the country it also concluded 80 percent of republicans consider cancer culture a threat only 48 percent of democrats to the issue itself has been highlighted by a number of high profile cases over just the past year for example last week amazon pulled a book by a conservative author that challenge the transgender movement earlier today democrat representatives called on cable companies to stop posting conservative leaning news channels and in 2020 an editor at the new york times resigned over an opinion piece by republican senator advocating the use of military force protests

we discussed all those 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 on our society is largely built on racism our society is largely built in that region and racism is something terrible to who america is that to strip people that racism seems anti american and some who have people who want to public and better instead she's all know this is my great great grandfather well ok but her great great grandfather who need that black people were from both of 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 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 in a park it's time to take those down and move forward and either you're with us or you're not. the f.b.i. director has labeled the capitol riot protesters domestic terrorists during a hearing of the senate judiciary committee he said the threat they pose to u.s. society similar to the islamic state that attack. that cedes was criminal behavior plain and simple its behavior that we the f.b.i. views 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 violent strange. we're hearing focused on the f.b.i. stumbling of a report that came on the eve of the riots warning of possible violence the f.b.i. said it passed the information on to the capitol police who deny that they received it 5 people died as a result of the riots included a police officer and a woman who was shot to she tried to enter the house chamber. b. i had christopher a again said that there's no evidence to suggest anti trump groups organized the riot contrary to what some republicans believe we spoke to jennifer demand and to terror expert and legal analyst. 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 in the streets looting businesses burning down buildings

thread mean threatening people arson all over it and so the kind of violence that we saw come from that you're looking at 2 side by sides if you have to see the reporters in this is a completely mostly peaceful protest with buildings on fire behind him and on the other side of the street and you're seen a guy with some horns walking around taking selfies with capital collies 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 of its livelihood as long as you're part of the right political ideology. the local council in the u.k. has called for a parliamentary inquiry into paying reparations for britain's involvement in the slave trade the proposal was put forward by bristol council which also plans to introduce more initiatives to support local communities suffering from poverty city

council a clear. proposed to me believes that bristol hasn't managed to shake off its past . brew still militant group reach through african slave meant and this legacy is still with us not only in the buildings that surround us but also in the rife inequalities of wealth bawa and opportunity across our city becomes a month after protesters tore down a statue of slave trade edward colston and threw it into bristol harbor we put the sensitive issue of slavery reparations at the debate. paul african and caribbean heritage speak who constitutes one of the greatest crimes in human history the legacies of which are still being felt today so these are very real world consequences even today and i think that the. motion produced by bristol city council as a great slave being cool city boutiques well so called the exploitation and

genocide of millions of africans to drive a stick of viking sent i'm sorry but what i'd like to know is where those reparations get paid to whose pockets to they go into how is that all managed i'd also like to know how that goes any way you talk about that you talk about the cults once it is this slave or it's i mean a slavery trite you talk about cults consists of that but actually there is consequences to that a need to be addressed i mean money out for something that happened 100 years ago and will that we put a stop to it is not the answer the azzurri exists to stop this device you talk about he did this he did that deitsch mind that they should apologize for this and we should focus on taking everybody as they are based on like that their merits their character their contribution to society not taking up these things we continue continue doing that it will never end when we drove through a lot it's for you now it's reparations but what about me ok i might cite i might

not i might say i want reparations for what liking to liking state 1000 years ago why not where we draw draw a line i tell you where we draw the line we look to the future where we draw the line is where those crimes continue to present their legacies that's where we draw the line and nobody can doubt that slavery the issue of why she produces and racism continue talking a profound legacy not just here in the united kingdom but african caribbean peoples . coming money was something. all over the world so those are the 1st for you to learn a little bit where you are those who still recall transgressions by state parties you can see as well the joys of a nation. like ours money to actually solve this problem giving money just so i will all answer the question about where this money should go and i'm sure

some of it could be regionally cultural artifacts that are stuck in the museum of london they should be here today countries have already. a quick look now at other stories from around the world including a man who wield an axe and injured 8 people in sweden a 20 year old suspect was shot by police and hospitalized the police say that they're investigating possible terror about his behind the attack a number of the victims are in a serious condition according to police spokesman the incident itself happened in the town of that london 340 kilometers south of stock. elsewhere central greece be rocked by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hundreds of buildings have been damaged in that quake which was felt as far away as albania in kosovo but the no reports of serious injuries with around 6 people rescued from the rubble of their collapsed. i mean you brought up to date thanks staying with us here on r.t. updates in half an hour.

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