fawning over greenspan's book so what's that all about and who's really to blame as a comedian danny schechter author and blogger at newsday sector dot net is here to tell us he's also filmmaker of plunder and the crime of our time danny it's really nice to see you thanks for being on the show. and thank you i think you're doing a great job here and overall the people talking about business on television thank you for the happiest and the most incisive program. maybe you're not a ph d. maybe you're not a ph d. economist makes it possible to do it you know that's a great point that's a great point you wouldn't be the first is made of but i really about a ph d. in economics but i really appreciate those very coming from you danny with a friend of this topic now that you've been writing about here you wrote a really good blog post about best and you know despite a lot of the reasons why you would imagine that greenspan's image would be tarnished reputation would be tarnished based on a lot of the evidence that i just laid out you make the case that he's still highly respected and has been bond ov

you thought it was interesting be sure to stick around for our five pm show we're going to have danny schechter the newsdesk sector on the programs tell us why the u.s. just might be addicted to war but the capital account is up next on our t. let's check in with lauren lister to see what is on today's agenda or going to be talking about the crisis in the eurozone a live one also revealed talking about this is what captures all the headlines so if indeed he in greece again ok this is how this is branded yet another time that we see a deadline for greece seriously though when it is going to be at the same time we see mario doggie's super mario as some refer to him he's the president of the e.c.b. he's out defending the e.c.b. the easy money policies we are going to take a step back and look at what's really going on look at the contingency plans that countries appear to be making you have switzerland you have germany taking steps to audit their gold to make sure their gold is in your country or at least they know where it is it's one move we're seeing are they worried about a nuclear option is g

in new york we have danny schechter he is a journalist author and independent filmmaker and also in new york we have charles koch he's a writer for the national review all right folks this is crossfire going to use you can jump in anytime you want bernie dean bernie and if i can ask you go to you first what has been accomplished in the last six months with the occupy wall street movement. i think. that people have self appropriated their activism they've they've really come out and decided to actualize their thoughts and feelings about what's going on in america about the injustice about the disparity of income and power i think pretty much people have have come to really find their voice and find their ability to. ok charles i mean obviously there's been a lot of demonstrations in the last six months and there's been a lot of commentary about it positive or negative as it meant anything is it true in strand slated into anything beyond just a lot of noise i don't think. if it had it would of course bother me because i don't agree with their aims but that's a separate question from wheth

sixty years danny that all the time we have for today thank you so much for weighing in that was danny schechter filmmaker and blogger for news that in fact they're not now. and that's going to do it for now for more on the story and coverage you can go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america will be right back here in a half hour. on . monday. morning's today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada after the . giant corporations are on the day.

hopefully it doesn't get to that point danny thank you so much for coming on the show that was danny schechter filmmaker and blogger at newsday sector nat's well below the show is coming up in just a half an hour let's check in with a loan it to see what's on today's agenda a lot of what we look forward to their lives well first of all we're going to have congressman dennis kucinich come on the show don't forget on tuesday it wasn't just super tuesday for the presidential election but also congressman for the senate and that losing out in the primary to another democrat marcy kaptur so we're going to have to ask him who now is going to hold the progressive mantle in congress once he's going to have to go and also if you've noticed lately everyone's going crazy over this viral video it's a documentary put out there about just a pony the leader of the l r a and uganda and so everyone's talking about it it's has thirty seven million views i believe right now on you tube we're going to break down some of the details that you need to know about this video the truth about the situation and some of t

street versus a pac earlier i was joined by danny schechter filmmaker and blogger for new dissect net and her staff about how the two groups differ take. well you know first first of all it's important to realize that apec is is an organization of organizations it is an organization of the presidents of the jewish organizations many of them unelected not representative of any particular constituency except financed by a relative handful of people who claim to speak on behalf of the whole jewish community in america yet when jews are actually polled and surveyed you'll find a majority want peace in the middle east want are willing to trade land for peace are willing to reach an accommodation with palestinians so this is not a very representative force but it's a very powerful force because of the money that it has and the momentum that it has after being in office and being around the congress for so many years and also is affiliated you know kind of not publicly perhaps within the evangelical christian community that is also supportive of the more extreme voices in israel now i have i

years danny that's all the time we have for today thank you so much for weighing in that was danny schechter filmmaker and blogger for news that sector now that's going to wrap it up for now we'll see you right back here tomorrow. i started this is the cause a report oh we're hunting until we shall go tallyho plus more. hunting for joining lloyd blankfein goldman c.e.o. lloyd blankfein reportedly hunting for muppets so c.e.o. lloyd blankfein told partners in a conference call this week that he's scanning internal e-mails for the term up it and other evidence that employees referred to clients in a derogatory way yeah ok so he's going through everybody's email looking for muppets in their bedroom even the bathroom is examining everyone looking for the word muppet looking in the mirror lloyd blankfein that's the biggest muppet of them on you you go up in the joke's on you well two things first of all he's buddies with the n.s.a. i'm sure he can just call them and say me all the references from my firm and number two just look at the headlines around the world because that's what we're going to