host: david kramer is the executive director of freedom house. if you want to ask him questions, here is how you can do so. do you find that it takes revolts to really make these changes have been? guest: in some cases. if we think back five years or seven years ago, -- the hope is you do not need of violence or an overthrow of the regime, that regimes will come to understand that violating human rights, suppressing populations, going against minority groups -- that creates the very instability day are trying to prevent it. secretary clinton gave a speech a few days ago. she said those who cling to the status quo may be able to hold back the full impact of the country's problems for a little while, but not forever. others will fill the vacuum. we saw what happened in the tunisian. host: many of the people in the country are young people. guest: tunisia has a population of well educated people, a population of the " over 10 million. i think what we saw is that the population was driven by frustration with the economic situation, with unemployment,

host: david kramer is the executive director of freedom house. if you want to ask him questions, here is how you can do so. do you find that it takes revolts to really make these changes have been? guest: in some cases. if we think back five years or seven years ago, -- the hope is you do not need of violence or an overthrow of the regime, that regimes will come to understand that violating human rights, suppressing populations, going against minority groups -- that creates the very instability day are trying to prevent it. secretary clinton gave a speech a few days ago. she said those who cling to the status quo may be able to hold back the full impact of the country's problems for a little while, but not forever. others will fill the vacuum. we saw what happened in the tunisian. host: many of the people in the country are young people. guest: tunisia has a population of well educated people, a population of the " over 10 million. i think what we saw is that the population was driven by frustration with the economic situation, with unemployment,

funded n.g.o.s like freedom house the international republican institute and the national endowment for democracy any d. also founded in finance the electoral monitoring group the egyptian democratic academy and its two storey cairo office the group then recruited formerly militant activists. to. the before solution to. the worst of the. international issues. domestic issues. but the obama administration spends twenty million dollars annually on what it calls democracy promotion and good governance programs in egypt and sixty five times that amount and impressive one point three billion dollars in military aid fathi understand the american approach to very clear. to everybody. or some or things of. the us continues to send millions of dollars in aid and military assistance to the government in honduras while a network of u.s. government funded n.g.o.s actively pushes to finance the opposition movement. lawyer and there's no opposed the two thousand and nine military coup that ousted honduran democratically elected president he sees the current government as an extension of the coup and

gets a perfect score the washington backed watch dock freedom house as the level of liberty around the world has a client for a fifth consecutive year with moscow listed as an authoritarian regime but why american author says as long as the u.s. is seen as a standard bearer for freedom the findings will lack credibility well anybody gets to say anything we don't have to take it seriously i think such a report can be of some value but it is heavily biased in appearance because most of the funding is from the government of one country which school is a perfect score as as do many others it's a very simplistic account you're free or you're partly free or you're not free it's hard with such a simplistic report to make sense of the scores that some countries get to including russia and it overlooks the policies of the countries that are getting perfect scores it clearly has a very low standard for perfection rule of law comes into play in the analysis of many countries in the united states we now have the president able to announce the policy of assassinating us citizens and anybody else by

we have a food crisis taking place is the backdrop and within that you have these n.g.o.s like freedom house training activists in trade unions and various other organizations to demand democracy demand human rights and so forth the majority of this appears to be orchestrated very finally by by the technique that was perfected of nonviolent revolution by gene sharp's albert einstein institution in institute in cambridge the same footprint that we saw going back as far as serbia with the ouster of milosevic. russia's armed forces will soon get a new missile to deliver nuclear payloads but it doesn't of i violate any part of the nuclear arms reduction treaty with the us according to their manufacture it's also advised to penetrate any missile shield in the world and that's lighter to build in the next forty years as i have a bet it takes to let. the designers say it will be able to penetrate almost all the french shields not only current ones but ones in production for the next forty years now this concept is so unique so groundbreaking actually prompted the chief designer of the missile to co

have a food crisis taking place that is the backdrop and within that you have these n.g.o.s like freedom house training activists in trade unions and various other organizations to demand democracy demand human rights and so forth the majority of this appears to be orchestrated very finally by technique nonviolent revolution by gene sharp's albert einstein institute in cambridge the same footprint that we saw going back as far as serbia with the ouster of billows which russia's own forces now reportedly have a brand new nuclear warhead at their disposal it doesn't violate any part of the recently signed reduction treaty with the u.s. and the design is says it will be able to beat any current missile defense system and any other being built well these are the but it takes a look. the designers say it'll be able to penetrate almost all the french shields not only current ones but ones in production for the next forty years now this concept is so unique so groundbreaking actually prompted the chief designer of the missile to come out and say that thirty years ago this sort of concept would have a

freedom house trying to co-opt your students in a bid to silence them on certain issues like egyptian complicity in human rights violations in gaza once people accept this money they accept the conditions that go along with them and those conditions force them to stop talking about the political the underlying political causes of the violation. but while grant's of a thousand dollars can go a long way in poor countries like egypt the money is hardly without strings attached many of these u.s. government funded n.g.o.s focus on financing human rights work around the world without ever recognizing the underlying political military and economic causes for human rights violations many of the result of america pursuing its own interests abroad but when these organizations pay big popular movements lose out at the cost a real human rights change around the world heal and ford washington d.c. . well the washington. freedom homeless has accused china venezuela and russia of failing democracy these along with twenty other countries are classified as all for terry and while the u.s. says that t

funded n.g.o.s like freedom house the international republican institute and the national endowment for democracy any d. also founded in finance the electoral monitoring group the egyptian democratic academy and. it's two story cairo office the group then recruited formerly militant activists like boss in fact the two. democracies before so we're going to i totally believe the rumors and democracy it's an international issue. domestic issue. that the obama administration spends twenty million dollars annually on what it calls democracy promotion and good governance programs in egypt and sixty five times that amount in impressive one point three billion dollars in military aid fact the understand the american approach to very clear american support everybody supporting to be there or some or things of the ministry. for the wall streeters and the u.s. continues to send millions of dollars in aid and military assistance to the government in honduras while a network of u.s. government funded n.g.o.s actively pushes to finance the opposition with a. lawyer next earlier there's no oppose the

financed and geos like the freedom house and national endowment for democracy to create nato regime change in those former soviet union areas and to literally encircle russia now the what what's going on in the middle east with the jasmine revolution in tunisia that we saw a few days ago topple ben ali the. president there and now in egypt was mobarak yunus in his eighty's and obviously the regime is not exactly the most stable of ones well we have a food crisis taking place as the backdrop in the i.m.f. coming in telling these countries to eliminate their state food subsidies so you have of course the explosive background for popular autographs and within that you have these n.g.o.s like freedom house training activists and trade unions and various other organizations to demand democracy demand human rights and so forth so you know just to make it clear you talk about n.g.o.s. and other influences you know you had she saying that in the way that we saw in the color revolutions there was an american influence happening then you saying there is definitely an american influence behind what's

host: one of the things you do with the freedom house is to look at places in the world where there is a lack of freedom. talk a little bit about the recent reporton that. guest: the reporthat we issue was an annual survey started in 1972. we surveyed 192 countries and4 territories around the world. what we have found for the fifth consecutive year is that democracy is receding. there was a reduction in the number of democracies, from 89 down to 87. this is a record decline for our survey. welso see a reluctance among democracies to push back on authoritarian regimes that are trying to challenge the efforts to promote democraci around the world. so, this report that was unveiled this week reflects some warring trends. host: who you cited many untries stepping up measures. guest: not only within their own borders, but they are more aggressive beyond their borders and, and they are supporting other authoritarian regimes that cannot always get the news. providing economic assistance, financial assistance, to prop up these economic regimes. russia supports belarus, and russia and congratul

financed and your freedom house and national endowment for democracy and like those early revolutions people mobilized around a common goal abdel nur came all the way from us wanted to get rid of a dictator it's right to want to beat us with the police he feel it's right or to beat us was army he failed. us middle bus is an engineer qualified and jobless but he says he can't find work because of corruption we can't find jobs he paid one is inside the company sixty thousand egyptian bones so you can walk is a company and as a result europe pickens most people want to go to italy want to go to greece want to go to england so people in egypt want to leave this country because they are very frustrated and they are looking for better life for a better future and for us that means mass immigration and the problems that come with it may cause shade lives abroad but got caught up in the violence on a trip back home i don't think that the second there's enough momentum at the moment that people just continue to just go out and protest until something is done i think people are just fed up the

foundations including the national endowment for democracy the freedom house. the national endowment for democracy is really an outgrowth of the cia in fact. one of the former directors of the national endowment for democracy said we are doing legally what the cia used to do it's really the a b. c. of us foreign policy. you can always check out our website r t v dot com it's got all the latest developments blogs and analysis here's what's online among other things right now. i think it's thursday create its new can then if i am now those charges that i put forward in the con against. those accusations that the american press was talking about from one in ten years to find out what allah buddha expects from the forthcoming trial of her husband he's been extradited to the u.s. for alleged arms deals she believes the case against him is simply propaganda her exclusive interview on r.t. dot com los angeles and yoga master class as an ex-pat instructs r t how to mix russian soul with ancient indian spirit and let your thread drift away. as chinese president hu jinta

one night penny, another white volunteer and i were alone in the dark freedom house from outside and injured smashed the window beside our bad. we crouched on the floor while through the curtain he ran his hand over our bed. .. >> the movement in the peanut field of the past, opposing racism, sexism, and leadism. this those times, i understand that i would become a teacher, and at a planning meeting for the 1936 march in washington and the united states in 1963 and perhaps now was inherently revolutionary. thank you. >> judy richardson, on staff from 1963 to 1966 in atlanta and greenwood, mississippi during the 1964 freedom summer in southeast georgia and alabama. her experiences continue to influence her work as a documentary film maker, he worked on eyes of the prize and several other films and was teacher workshop, social justice organization, and as a movement, writer, and lecturer. >> now you think we are standing here. sitting here. we're looking really calm. let me just say we saw this book for the first time five days ago. we screamed. we looked like we were just normal and t

i'm with freedom house. you had mentioned earlier that in 1990s when there was creation of the fsb as we know it now, it sort of toppled the influence of svra and other agencies. my question is regarding the caucuses of which no one wants to talk about in russia. how much competition is going in controlling the situation between the -- [inaudible] and fsb and the militia units? as i understand, it sort of has been squend ey have tried to squeeze out the fsb as well but not quite exactly. so who, exactly, is controlling the situation in chechnya and other republics, especially given the new spike in militant activity and the split in the mill about militants? thank you. >> are why don't we explain gru. >> yeah. in fact, fsb used the powers and this regime and their powers, and they -- not to pretend more -- [inaudible] but to avoid it. we have, as you know, ae fsb war operation only for 31 months. it was -- [inaudible] and it was long before -- [inaudible] so the idea of the fsb was to have a free hand in che

freedom house has talked a lot about the erosion of human rights in taiwan. and it is going to be a big story in taiwan for the next two or three years. >> thank you. and -- >> if i could, your comments on taiwan. one thing, first, yes have been problems perhaps with a due process, but my god, the charges against him that have been proven are very damaging. the fact that he's in j-lo seems to make a lot of sense to someone like me. >> how long has he been in prison that? >> two years maybe. a little less than two years. >> family members in j-lo as will? >> i'm not sure where she is right now but she has been convicted. this is the corruption. and so i think the charges are worth looking at carefully. on the military side, just keep in mind with one reservation i have about this, one of the most important ones, is taiwan willing to buy? taiwan, their gdp, their military budget is less than 3% of their gdp. you are not dealing with a country that really wants to militarize itself or build itself up militarily. >> i only have five seconds. that was one of the f

freedom house has talked a lot s about the erosion of human rights in taiwan, and it is going to be a big story in taiwan for the next two or three years. >> okay. thank you.t and i just -- >> congressman, if i could just say something? >> yes, go ahead. >> your comments on taiwan. one thing -- first on the president's side, yes, there have been problems, perhaps, h with the due process. but, my god, the charges existence him that have been proven -- against him that have been proven are very damning. so the fact that he's in jail seems to make a lot of sense to someone like me.to >> how long has he been in prison now?b >> two years maybe? a little less --mayb >> family members as well? son, wife?>> f >> yes. his wife, i'm not sure where she is right now, but she's been convicted.but so this is big corruption, sir. and so i think the charges are worth looking at carefully. on the, on the military sideh l just keep in mind the one reservation i have about this, one of the most important ones, is taiwan willing to buy? taiwan is -- their gdp, their military budget is less than 3%g of th

freedom house talked a lot about the erosion of human rights in taiwan, and it is going to be a big story in taiwan for the next two or three years. >> okay. thank you. >> if i could say something? >> yes, go ahead. >> your comments on taiwan. one thing about the -- first on the government side, yes, there have been problems perhaps with the due process, but the charges against him that have been prune are very damning. the fact he's in jail makes sense to someone like me. >> how long has he been in prison? >> two years maybe? little less. >> family as well? >> yes. i don't know where the wife is. she's been convicted. this is big corruption, sir, and so i think the charges are worth looking at carefully. on the military side, just keep in mind for the one reservation i have is taiwan willing to buy? taiwan, their gdp and military budget is less than 3% of their gdp. it's not a country that wants to build up militarily. >> that's one of the frustrating parts. we pushed them to buy the weapons system and the legislature couldn't find a way to do it. >> thank you, and we thank ms. bass of c

freedom house has talked a lot about the erosion of human rights in taiwan. and it is going to be a big story in taiwan for the nexttwo or three years. >> thank you. and -- >> if i could, your comments on taiwan. one thing, first, yes have been problems perhaps with a due process, but my god, the charges against him that have been proven are very damaging. the fact that he's in j-lo seems to make a lot of sense to someone like me. >> how long has he been in prison that? >> two years maybe. a little less than two years. >> family members in j-lo as will? >> i'm not sure where she is right now but she has been convicted. this is the corruption. and so i think the charges are worth looking at carefully. on the military side, just keep in mind with one reservation i have about this, one of the most important ones, is taiwan willing to buy? taiwan, their gdp, their military budget is less than 3% of their gdp. you are not dealing with a country that really wants to militarize itself or build itself up militarily. >> i only have five seconds. that was one of the fr

freedom house executive director david kramer details his group's annual report on global political rights and civil liberties. and george washington university law professor or incur talks about a case currently before the supreme -- professor orin kerr talks about a case currently before the supreme court about allowing police into the home only after establishing that a crime is under way. >> i think it would be best to reach out to someone and make an ongoing commitment to community service. >> on the anniversary of martin luther king jr.'s birth, use the c-span video library. find a program. watch it. click. and share it. >> now, secretary of state hillary clinton provides a broad overview of u.s.-china -- u.s.- china relations. she discusses the connection between the two nations' economies and militaries as well as outstanding issues surrounding trade and human rights. her speech was billed as the first annual richard holbrooke memorial address, named after the u.s. diplomat who passed away last year. this is 40 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [capti

fifth of january and after that it will be given to the upper house of the parliament for the signing. and still ahead here on our freedom to ask about find out how a russian journalist question linking american citizens liberties to the arizona shootings raise hackles i don't white house briefing. now afghan citizens are being flown to the us where they're standing trial on charges of terrorism about the spy there being no extradition treaty between washington and kabul critics say that america could be breaking international law paula sleeper reports. he's the hero of the streets of kabul and also the symbol of american injustice mohammad jawad was only twelve when he was captured and locked inside guantanamo or seven years later he was found innocent and freed but the damage had been done he has a fair at half in society. he cannot talk with. anybody he want to sleep in at all all the time. you want to be along karim was one of the few journalists to speak with jawad but now jawad lawyers say he's being threatened don't talk to journalists or we'll send you back but afghan authorities say they've had enough of america

freedom of speech. >> reporter: in loughner's house authorities found an envelope with giffords' name on it and words i planned ahead, and my assassination. and police believe the 22-year- old may have targeted the congresswoman for years. sandra hughes, cbs news, tucson arizona. >> and congresswoman giffords is holding her own doctors say and her condition is upgraded to stable and she has responded to commands to stick out two fingers which is a hopeful sign. >> at this stage of the game, no change is good. and we have no change. that is to say, she is still following basic commands. on top of that, the cat scans are showing that there is no progression of that swelling. >> doctors say it can take sometimes three to five days for brain swelling to reach its peak. so they're watching carefully. >>> in the wake of the shooting, lawmakers have put much of the week's business on hold. a vote on repealing health care reform had been scheduled for wednesday, and that has been replaced now with a bipartisan meeting to talk about security measures. especially when lawmakers are away from capitol hill. one

recovery month, the focus ministry at gethsemane baptist church hosted a faith-based open house in the bronx. the freedom only comes under surrendering ministry is a spiritual-based, christ-centered ministry for substance abuse prevention. the event featured food, guest speakers, music from the choir, and group praise. choices recovery services made their contribution to recovery month by holding a recovery in the park celebration in sioux falls, south dakota. attendees enjoyed a nice day outdoors and were able to celebrate recovery together with food, fun, games, and prizes. the maryland state alcohol and drug abuse administration held a kickoff festival for prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery resource providers in catonsville, maryland. the event was highlighted by the governor's proclamation and also featured breakfast, speakers, and vendor displays. preferred family healthcare's achieving recovery through creativity program hosted an arts and awareness festival in honor of recovery month. the festival featured an art exhibit, performances, awareness activities, and refreshments, and was