so tonight let's speak to one of the plaintiffs in person here discuss with me is chris hedges pulitzer prize winning reporter and senior fellow at the nation institute he's also author of his latest book death of the liberal class chris thanks so much for being back on the show tonight if you are you were nice looking about this before shortly after you first decided to pursue this lawsuit against the obama administration but now let's talk about this right you guys talking about how this is an incredibly troubling and really scary step that now you can allow for the indefinite military detention even of u.s. citizens despite of course a promise by the president that he wouldn't do it but this is a big deal so why are there only seven plaintiffs you know why isn't this the biggest lawsuit we've ever seen well first of all the has received very little publicity including by my former employer the new york times. it is. a piece of legislation that. was essentially supported by our two political parties by both parties and indeed the response was in the bill now carl levin a democrat and

now some are going to speak with chris hedges about his lawsuit against the obama administration over the da then kevin zeese and bruce fein join us for our monday hangover panel we'll talk syria nuclear drones and a supreme court ruling on strip searches in prison and jordan flaherty found out of the n.y.p.d. came all the way out to new orleans to monitor him at a political event or get the story from him first hand while fall back on morphine tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to me. all right so there's a pretty disturbing story out there today that we've learned about thanks to the a.c.l.u. and it involves not better all agencies doing national security related investigations but local police departments hundreds of them tracking your cell phones. this study finds that numerous police departments across the country are now using cell phone tracking often without court orders to find suspects and then investigate criminal cases and you see all you surveyed more than two hundred law enforcement agencies and most said that

we talked to chris hedges an author and war veteran also a us war correspondent he tells us all about washington's upcoming foreign policy and the possible conflicts about it. chris hedges is an american author journalist former war correspondent and respected expert on middle east politics the pulitzer prize winner is also a man who is suing the us president and secretary of defense will be talking about that and a range of other issues as mr hedges joins me now for a one on one interview thank you very much for sitting down with r.t. sure we have seen a lot of violence and instability over the past couple of years the arab spring foreign intervention in libya uncontrollable debt problems and riots in the u.s. and throughout europe threats of global recession how do you think these political and economic crises feed off of one another and keep the momentum going well it's all the same crisis which is the collapse of globalization it doesn't work anymore and it manifests itself through the rise of commodity prices forty seven million americans live in poverty they're not spending half

chris hedges author and u.s. war correspondent the middle east says under the guise of democracy washington is pushing its own interest in the region. that anyone in the muslim world thinks that we care much about human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war planted military bases some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claims that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria my feeling is that everything should be pushed through to create some kind of a ceasefire rather than pass a resolution that calls for assad removal or resolution. that calls for intervention or anything else there's no real formal opposition you know it's a sort of a mess and they just went through this in libya. i can see the full interview with author and u.s. war correspondent chris hedges in twenty minutes time here on r.t. . tehran is where we welcomed the recent report that the u.s. could allow iran to c

war correspondent chris hedges in about twenty minutes time here on r.t. . to iran as warily welcomed their recent reported that the u.s. could allow iran to continue enriching uranium if islamic republic agrees to unrestricted inspections this comes after talks resume between tehran and world powers now some on capitol hill have been calling for a direct engagement with iran but is there he's going to get reports that cry for conflict remains louder. juror thirty six and number of u.s. lawmakers have proposed the bill two and the no contact policy between the u.s. and iran after three decades of diplomatic silence congressman dennis kucinich is one of them which he says the old approach when washington wants to resolve differences with iran through not talking to them is unsustainable we're being told we should have any contact with them we're being told that we shouldn't be negotiating with them we're being told. to get ready for war all of that is wrong what we need to do is to have direct negotiations we need to be talking with iran and we need to stop t

absolutely certainly sounds like an interesting experience because you keep us posted as always chris hedges columnist for trysting also author of the book the death of the liberal class. well the patriot act has made a law in this country about six weeks after the attacks of nine eleven while sounding quite patriotic it actually gave the u.s. government far reaching power to monitor citizens in the name of course of terrorism and the last ten years and then was renewed recently under president obama and now there's a new proposed law that's likely to pass in great britain and looks a whole lot like the u.s. patriot act it would give one of britain's national security agencies the power to monitor phone calls texts e-mails and online activities all in the name of quote investigating serious crime and terrorism to protect the public and this is interesting because it means some internet companies will actually be required to install a special kind of hardware that would give the agency the ability to access who an individual or group is in contact with how long and how frequently they're in c

us here at sea that washington is being hypocritical now you can watch the full interview with chris hedges later this hour . anyone in the muslim world thinks that we care much about human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war planted military base some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claim that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria everything should be pushed through to create some kind of a ceasefire because rather then pass a resolution that calls for assad removal or a resolution that you know calls for intervention or anything else i would rather see them work more incrementally. this is art see now the world's number one whistleblower returns to our screens on tuesday with the latest episode of his controversial show julian assange of course has already interviewed the head of hezbollah and then brought together two political extremes from both sides of the atlantic laura smith previews the next installment. well this is the third episode of

something to say i listen now first i want to respond if you are that watched our interview with chris hedges about the n.b.a. and the lack of mainstream media coverage surrounding it groups one nine hundred seventy two comments on you tube and said the reason the media won't cover it is because obama is there and they don't want him to look bad if bush were president you can guarantee the media would cover the story and i've got a feeling that kind of true not a silly but obama is the entire media's guy i don't believe that but if bush had been the one across the and there would have been a much stronger response especially from the channels out there like and as n.b.c. parts of the other hand we know were you know they're into that kind of thing so i don't find all that shocking but i for the first point it goes for a lot of the things that obama's done in this presidency in the shadow wars the assassination of american citizens all of which the more left leaning media has been largely mute to do the same thing of happening or bush i really don't think so i think of the some sort of collect

i mean we've interviewed chris hedges several times he's a journalist he's concerned how some of the n.d.a. provisions will affect journalists same with says by mean we go on websites all the time that you know. people the government doesn't like our on we're doing research and some of that guilt by association stuff is a little scary sure it's very scary as a journalist myself i get a lot of crazy emails i get some scary e-mails from people and you know i have no part in that i'm just receiving the e-mail i'm not the one sending it but under cispa they could basically come after me and they could use that connection to read through all of my online activity this destroys the internet there are so many businesses that are no longer going to thrive as a result of this book so that's the other thing i don't understand is not only is this bad for our privacy it's actually bad for big internet businesses kind of embarrassing or supporting it i was just going to a good kind of interesting too that so many people are voted in favor of this law so much more government overreach are the same

news this hour but stick around the a lot of show is coming up in just a half hour and tonight chris hedges about his lawsuit against the obama admin and .

mack, the losst discussions is book with chris hedges. >> i wanted to ask you first probably about the vision about religion. which is a kind of utopian sort of look -- a re- formation of secular society. it probably you could lay out some of the ideas in the book. >> secular society has not worked everything out. in other words, once we reject religion, if we reject religion -- we still have some gaps. .. the notion of an institution, which of course a few other things besides. >> and you have some very specific or pose those, you know, examples from religious life issue essentially would like secularize and incorporated into the wider society. perhaps you can expound upon those. >> it strikes a religions are in the way joint educational machines. in the secular world can we take education very seriously. and a lot of money is devoted to institutes of higher education. when people try to understand why we educate, funny and serious skills, for jobs, for the economy to compete and be competitive. but there is another more noble founding ambition, which creeps enter in the more lyrical

hedge funds who want to lobby me and i'm only a columnist. i can only imagine who comes into your office. >> it's a both end situation, chris. i think in part like the oil vote, there's just special interest money out there and special interest power out there and that has a significant effect. at the same time, you also have to remember that a great number of these people swore an oath to grover norquist and that oath obliges them to protect all sorts of tax loopholes and oppose any increase even when it's from a lower rate for a multimillion dollar income up to the same level that middle class taxpayers pay which you think would be simple tax fairness that everybody would appreciate. i think both of those things come together and that's what makes it in some respects an easy vote for republicans. because they are so at odds with the american people and fundamentally on the merits it's wrong, that's what makes it a hard vote. that's why the involvement of the public is so important. and i want to thank everybody who went to buffettrulebill.com and registered their vote. the public pressure will make the difference here. >>

hedging for another oil price spike is prudent. so what's the best way to protect themselves some joining us is chris walker who is currency strategisthris, thanks for joining us. in europe of course the oil play traditionally has been the norwegian crown. but they sur are priced everybody by cutting rates a month or so ago. so what do you do with the crown and the oil spike risk? >> there are also misconceptions about how should be trade and a lot of people still use it as an oil hedge as you alluded to just because it is one of the major exports as people assume that, yeah, we should buy this and the correlation between brent prices is still positive. but because of some of the in-flows we've seen into norway, we've seen a rapid appreciation of the currency and now they say enough is enough and we want to tackle in the same way that many of the central banks have been doing. so this provides an interesting dynamic. in the short term, we do remain constructive on the and we see some appreciation on a relative basis. but over the longer term, we see that capped. the way the central bank looks at it is by looking at the i-44, sort of