is almost completely run by people who are beholden to those interests investigative journalist gareth porter great having you there is so much more to talk about we didn't even get to the impact of scary china and what that is having on our defense budget maybe we'll talk about that and then i really want to thank you for joining me today. now look at another way in which we've changed since the attacks of nine eleven it was actually ten years ago today that a man named osama bin laden a muslim was named as the suspect behind the attacks but in many ways the fear of this one man has morphed into the rise and spread of islamophobia throughout society across the country more than a dozen states have adopted legislation banning shari'a law there's also been countless examples of the f.b.i. infiltrating mosques and systematic entrapment of quote most of the muslim terrorists so is this government leaders same diligent will vigilance or does it illustrate where people seem to revel in the idea of a muslim boogeyman article or spot on associate churkin or takes a look. anti muslim sentiment in the

now is gareth porter investigative journalist and that's all the time we have for more on the stories we cover and go to r.t. dot com slash usa and christine for sound and so much for watching. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amount of damage done by earle bombs by napalm. coming from the cities whether it's our song. or it's the first world fields in iraq or it's strong. purposes just goes on and on the geneva convention fourteen states that there shall be changed in the war to protect. against widespread long term and severe damage to the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions one has taken exception to that. thais are facing herbert basically so let me explain something this alex shaffer before he was an unknown artist now his work is acclaimed and in demand all over the world this burned chase portrait twenty five thousand two hundred dollars on e bay there's no let up on demand for

lot of challenges here and i think it merits a closer look now may do that earlier i spoke to gareth porter an investigative journalist who specializes in covering u.s. national security policy. what santorum said is the official line of not just the u.s. government but more concretely the national security part of the government because unless you take a position that that the threat of terrorism including nine eleven has nothing to do with u.s. military presence in the middle east or wars of the united states sites on the soil of islamic countries then you're going to have a problem justifying a policy and so what happens here is that within the u.s. government and more broadly as it is essentially spread through news media in this country to the general population we get the general notion that we can't talk about any link between the wars that the united states fights in islamic lands against islamic people and the threat of terrorism when in fact you know it's very very well established that there is such a link and in fact in my article i quoted perhaps the most. the most important mo

is almost completely run by people who are beholden to those interests investigative journalist gareth porter great having you there is so much more to talk about we didn't even get to the impact of kerry china and went that is having on our defense budget maybe we'll talk about that another time really want to thank you for joining me on a saturday. i want to talk now about a system that has been created to help gather data about cultural trends across the world it's a system that we can thank the internet for that has helped researchers use google books to search terms and connect the gun it's called cold ceramics now on one hand researchers have use it to study the origins of words where they came from and when but one report also found that by analyzing thirty years' worth of news articles culture omics quote have predicted the revolutions in tunisia egypt and libya and the location of us all and in lines bunker to a two hundred kilometer radius in or pakistan so i want to talk about this and get to know more about it and to do that i have the author of that report to leave the track taro

counsel's office in the same district let's get more insight now from investigative journalist gareth porter he's in the u.s. capital joining us live now on r.t. garth good to see here on our team now washington and brussels have been quick to play down the kabul attack even before it's ended but just how concerned should they be with this. well i think they have to be very concerned because what this shows is once again over the last period of a year i would say or nearly a year the taliban have been able to strike targets that have made over and over again the same point which is that we are everywhere we cannot be kept out of the most supposedly the most secure places in afghanistan and really what they have been able to show is that they cannot be prevented from making their point and they are in fact it is very clear that they are in fact making a strong impact on the perceptions of afghans they are in fact controlling the war narrative and i think that is something that the united states and nato are very concerned about well top afghan officials that in the government in kabul have al