who is holed up in the country's london embassy for the latest joined by geo political analyst eric draitser who is in new york eric thanks very much for being with us now opinion polls show that korea has a lead of more than fifty percent over his nearest rival i've met the guy is pretty affable why is he so popular with the general public. well introduction there i think you hit on one of the major points in that is that the korea government in the in the face of a global economic depression in the face of countries that are dependent upon petro dollars their economies sagging correia and his government decided instead of austerity to go with social spending and in particular massive investment in infrastructure in education and in health care all of which is designed to boost human capital and to boost the lives of the poor and the working class and so for that reason alone he's incredibly popular now of course we should also remember korea's oppositional stance to the united states and to u.s. imperialism korea's oppositional stance to multinational corporations such as chevron and other

was jailed for five years his and for his anti regime tweets for more we can cross to analyst eric draitserfrom new york mr thanks very much for being with us as always now amnesty international has often condemned the abuse of human rights in kuwait yet the international community is turning a blind eye why do you think this is. well because kuwait is a client state of the united states it is part of the u.s. imperial system along with saudi arabia and qatar and bahrain and a number of other countries so for that obvious reason because they they can't really step out of line from what the line is from washington from london and from elsewhere so that's the primary reason and the secondary reason is quite simple as well because it is against the strategic interests of the western powers if you are to have destabilization in kuwait and you are to have the western community the international community as it's called committing condemned the ruling family you will have an overthrow of that regime you will have a destabilization of the region which benefits democratic forces but which is very m

few days after another man was jailed for five years his and for his anti regime tweets analyst eric draitsersays it will not react to pressure unless it comes from washington. kuwait is a client state of the united states it is part of the u.s. imperial system along with saudi arabia and qatar and bahrain and a number of other countries so for that obvious reason because they they can't really step out of line from what the line is from washington from london and from elsewhere so if you were to have destabilization in kuwait and you were to have the western community the international community as it's called coming in damn the ruling family you will have an overthrow of that regime you will have a destabilization of the region which benefits democratic forces but which is very much detrimental to the united states and their agenda for the region the monarchies are looking around and they're seeing a democratization a wave of democratic upsurge in the region and they know that their regimes will not withstand it unless they're able to crack down on these forces and to maintain their strateg

whistleblower julian a song was holed up in the country's london embassy geo political analyst eric draitser believes korea's challenge to american influence in south america means washington does not want him in power. we've seen repeated attempts by the united states and other international forces to subvert the korea government to subvert the morale is government in bolivia as well and of course chavez in venezuela we saw against the korea government an attempted coup a couple of years ago using some strategically bought off officials within the police apparatus we should also remember korea's oppositional stance to the united states and to us imperialism a courageous oppositional stance to multinational corporations such as chevron and other corporations which seek to exploit indigenous populations in places like ecuador now close to our heart here at r.t. he has known for granting asylum to julian assange as last year something that angered america as well was considered a pre-election move to gain some support here i think partially that's part of it i think it was also a way of kind o

were also sentenced to ten and five years for writing anti regime messages on twitter and analyst eric draitsersays kuwait will not react to pressure unless it comes from washington. kuwait is a client state of the united states it is part of the u.s. imperial system along with saudi arabia and qatar and bahrain and a number of other countries so for that obvious reason because they they can't really step out of line from what the line is from washington from london and from elsewhere so if you were to have destabilization in kuwait and you were to have the western community the international community as it's called coming in damn the ruling family you will have an overthrow of that regime you will have a destabilization of the region which benefits democratic forces but which is very much detrimental to the united states and their agenda for the region the monarchies are looking around and they're seeing a democratization a wave of democratic upsurge in the region and they know that their regimes will not withstand it unless they're able to crack down on these forces and to maintain their str