by let's get more on the story from eric draitser political analyst from stop imperialism dot com he joins us live from new york right now how do you assess the levels of homegrown terrorism in the u.s. right now. well that's difficult to say because of course homegrown terrorism is a term that is used by law enforcement law enforcement that we know twist these narratives for their own political agendas remember that this story has changed dramatically over the last few hours i mean going back to three o'clock in the morning when i was watching the live footage of the shootout in watertown to when i woke up this morning the entire narrative has changed and the connection with chechnya and dagestan is particularly interesting remember that we have very deep connections in the u.s. intelligence establishment to some of these organizations. having used that as a base of destabilization against russia so when we're talking about terrorist networks operating out of that region of the caucasus and then you're going to make a connection to a terrorist action in the united states that raises

i'm joined now for more analysis by eric draitser an analyst at stopping period dot com thanks for joining us so we have nicolas maduro with a big lead going into this race especially from a post chavez bump so to speak do you think that he will be the next president of venezuela or do you think it will be closer than. no i think that there's no doubt that there's going to be a resoundingly victory for nicolas maduro the question has always been not what the margin of victory would be but how the opposition and the outside forces that have been backing the opposition would respond what we've seen in the last couple of days have been accusations already being leveled by the capri lazy and the so-called opposition regarding the the validity of the results and regarding the procedures of the actual election and this is of course a a straw man argument a red herring that was seen a thousand miles away this was predicted by everybody knowing that country less had very little to stand on other than accusations of an unfair election and that is really the main thrust of what we're seeing in venez

reporting there and eric draitser an analyst at stop and parry alyson dot com he says despite china undoubtedly having a direct hold of human rights itself it does have a point in showing the world the us is in no position to lecture others. for the united states to talk about human rights it's incredible hypocrisy when you have a massive hunger strike going on in the concentration camp known as guantanamo when the united states has engaged in violating the human rights of the people of libya the people of syria of countless other nations around the world the chinese certainly have a lot to answer for for in terms of their own human rights record but we should also remember too that the it is the and it states which monopolizes control of international institutions such as amnesty international human rights watch doctors without borders and so forth which act as the arbiters of human rights sitting in judgment of countries whether they are or not violators i'm not suggesting that there aren't good people who work within some of these organizations or that the organizations themselves don't some

well eric draitser an analyst at stop imperialism dot com syncs thinks that the free market ideas of opposition candidate don't resonate though among the people on the streets there certainly are some divisions within those who support chavez some who believe that the bill of aryan revolution needs to have a slightly more direct leadership approach versus the the bottom up approach that chavez was more in favor of but these are minor differences the splits within the opposition i think are much more significant and what we've seen is that despite the international pressure the international effort to prop up the opposition it has been what i would considered and many other analysts consider an abject failure is not liked by the venezuelan people because they understand that capri lives in the opposition means a return to colonialism and to subjugation under the thumb of the united states. and remember for the latest up to the minute details on what's going on in venezuela tess is following developments at the polling stations in caracas and you can log on to her twitter feed and find