the russian prison system is built on the gulags analogy.hen gulags were first created, everything continues. the heritage. we lived through difficult times. but, compared to germany, in russia, in the concentration camps, the government doing really everything to prevent the society to realize what is going on. it is an old system. the humanuppressing spirit. it happens to everyone. nobody is singled out for this oppression. everybody is subject to it. right now we are speaking for human rights. for prisoners. it is a very difficult task. a very ambitious, bold. we want to do it. as far as ability to reflect on the past and the position of our media, suchnd mass that stalin is not just a mistake. it is for some, a point of pride. and i was in prison, i watched how various programs, new monuments were opened honoring stalin's people of generation, but also young people, new pioneers are being raised and brought up. they are not there to comprehend. we want to go back to the old ways. and restore the soviet union. we have a heroic tradition.

the russian prison system is really built on the gulags analogy. when gulag first was created, everything continues. the stalin's heritage. we lived through difficult times and horrific times, but compared to germany and russia in the concentration camps, the government is really doing everything to prevent the society to realize what's going on. and it is an old system aimed at suppress, human spirit. it happens to everyone. nob is singled out for this kind of oppression. everybody is subject to it. so right now -- >> i hear you. >> we are speaking for human rights of prisoners, and it's a very difficult task, everywhere ambitious goal, and we hope to do it. >> ( translated ): as far as sort of ability of people to reflect on the past and the position of our government and the mass media is such that stalin is not just simply a mistake. it is now for some a point of pride, and when i was in prison, i watched how in various programs, where new monuments are opened, not only honoring people of stalin's generation, but also young people, new pioneers

her upcoming book is "the lost khrushchev: journey into the gulag of the russian mind." thank ambassador jack matlock, former ambassador to moscow. christopher miller, who is with the kiev post, speaking with us from kiev. when the come back, the scandal that is rocking the sports world. stay with us. [♪] >> "they don't care about us" by michael jackson. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. is set to release a response to the racist comments of donald sterling. a tape has sterling lambasting a woman identified as his girlfriend. on the recording, he is upset that she posted a picture on instagram with magic johnson. sterling tells her not to publicize her association with african-americans. >> is it a benefit to me? doesn't matter if they are white or blue or yellow? >> sterling's comments have set off one of the biggest controversies in decades. past and present stars have called for his removal, including michael jordan, kareem abdul-jabbar, lebron james, and kobe bryant. magic johnson spoke out to espn. understand -- you cannot understan

the writer says that while the world looked at russia as a land of gulags and then in the 1990's, thathere might be hope and real change -- latitude now is that russia is a country full of horrors and it will not change. >> what has the american press had to say? washington has a major challenge. >> it does indeed. there was a lack of coverage in the american press. if you go to the washington post, there is an editorial saying -- be too late to prevent war in ukraine. another quote from the editorial board is " if ukrainians are forced to fight for their country, they should be helped." by that, they mean with small arms. i want to look at the huffington post. i thought that was the comedy page initially. it did not turn out to be the case at all. it is a story about the deputy prime minister. he wants to annex the moon. we can laugh, but there are serious things at stake here. the argument is that we do not want to make several trips to the moon. we want to have a permanent base, a presence in space and do some mining up there. they're are considering no limits to russian ambition at

and he was in the gulag his captors brought to him a cover and said, look. here is your reagan. here is your reagan. cowboy neanderthal cost us even empire. and as soon as they left he could not contain his glee. he was jumping up and down. the stars tapping in morse code on the cell wall to the guy next door. reagan called as an evil empire. next custers leaping upon them and start tapping. pretty soon you have -- imagine long long breaking with the words evil empire. the president finally spoken the truth commanded resonated. it made a difference. those words were more damaging than a fleet of cruise missiles. >> wrigley click on a follow-up, what do you think -- with that ideology what you think the reagan approach would do right now? have you think he would deal with this? >> a great question that i get asked all the time, and i'm always leery. what reagan had invaded? i can say, really good example, and i was critical of obama. june 2009 when the iranian streets first erupted and obama made some really weak kind of carter-like statements. even the democrats were astounded a

more than half a million acres in twenty thirteen which according to the gulag is a thirty six percent increase from the previous year. to beat the boks at the event is the tough part is that nearly one million dollars worth of the crop last year our own from the opium economy a lifeline for thousands of afghan farmers but also funded drug traffickers. one problem that extends far beyond the country's borders three decades of war and instability in the hospital to drop production efforts to stop but simply how that works. the us has spent seven billion dollars to counter narcotics since two thousand till another three billion dollars on a cultural programs. there was supposed to help grow or switch to other crops. xd i get the sense that nineteen of the country's thirty four provinces are now growing opium but also reflect an increase in recent years the presidential elections of the foreigner on top of the main withdrawal of most foreign troops. afghanistan's booming drug trade is the major concern for global implications. western allied governments don't do what the cattle production

the gulag the eu and ukraine. they made tentative steps towards me seen each other ha wait to try and dance the moms of cuzco carlisle to research i discussed what came not from the session with the congo be wide awake. please don't call me turning the corner the doctrine that are discussed in geneva a coleslaw made illegally armed groups to lay down their weapons with the league lead and individuals to the people that want to ask her to stay under the control and protection in locke's of russia. they could be forced to live to give up their weapons are some of these as we noted the neo groups can be forced to give up their weapons that are backed by the west window dressing is that this surge appears to be to me it means so as to what you think the actual planned constitutional process will really be able to appease the most of the people he can ukrainian society. again not an accident that this situation has turned into such a quagmire that has been a week we the us. shoulder a lot of this bird and sixty five pl

more than half a million acres in twenty thirteen which according to the gulag is a thirty six percent increase from the previous year the predicted date the box at the event is the tough part is that nearly one hundred dollars worth of last year alone. the legal opium economy a lifeline for thousands of afghan farmers but also funded drug traffickers. one problem that extends far beyond its country's borders. three decades of war and instability in afghanistan has healed drug production in an effort to stop but simply how that works for us to spend seven billion dollars to counter narcotics since two thousand till another three billion dollars on agricultural programs. to help grow or switch to other crops. but the flight back to the idp since that nineteen of the country's thirty four provinces are now growing opium. it also reflects an increase in recent years the presidential elections a foreigner on top with a looming withdrawal of most foreign troops. afghanistan's booming drug trade is the nature concerned with global implications. western how might the government don't want tha

and he was in the gulag his captors brought to him a cover and said, look. here is your reagan. here is your reagan. cowboy neanderthal cost us even empire. and as soon as they left he could not contain his glee. he was jumping up and down. the stars tapping in morse code on the cell wall to the guy next door. reagan called as an evil empire. next custers leaping upon them and start tapping. pretty soon you have -- imagine long long breaking with the words evil empire. the president finally spoken the truth commanded resonated. it made a difference. those words were more damaging than a fleet of cruise missiles. >> wrigley click on a follow-up, what do you think -- with that ideology what you think the reagan approach would do right now? have you think he would deal with this? >> a great question that i get asked all the time, and i'm always leery. what reagan had invaded? i can say, really good example, and i was critical of obama. june 2009 when the iranian streets first erupted and obama made some really weak kind of carter-like statements. even the democrats were astounded a

it seems that kim jung unhas no problem with putting people in the gulag.t off his ability to import porn and crown royal, and he listens. the problem is in the six party -- >> is he having trouble importing porn? >> he needs hard currency. >> it's possible to come up with some sanctions that bite. i don't know that the administration is willing to do it. >> next up, the friday lightning round. because what we all really want... ...is more. there's a reason it's called an "all you can eat" buffet. and not a "have just a little buffet". that's the idea behind the more everything plan. it's more of everything you want, for less. because, c'mon. no one ever takes the second biggest cookie. get more with our best plans on the best network. for best results, use verizon. >>> each week we ask to you vote online in our fry lightning round poll for panel topic. tonight he chose the recent death of veterans. waiting for care from an arizona veterans care fittings. take a listen to senator mccain on that. >> never before have i seen an the coverup of 40 people dying.

and a fellow of the foreign policy in new york city, her latest book is "the lost journey into the gulag of the russian mind." >> ambassador, you have warned that this might not end with crimea, that russia will want more and after the unrest ukraine sent some of the security forces into donetsk after russia had warned them not to. it seems like the situation in eastern ukraine is developing into a powder keg. >> yes, that's correct. with 40,000 russian forces mobilized on the border of ukraine, they have been at a high state of alert for a couple of weeks. you can't keep troops in a high state of alert for very long. it's true that the troops have sustaining capabilities, like field hospitals. they are there for activity that will be pretty large. what will be different now though than the crimean situation, where the russians have tactical surprise, this time there'll be resistance from the ukrainians. >> an oped piece in forbes said that this is all part of a coordinated attack on putin's part, that he started a covert destabilising of eastern ukraine by paying some of the forces and

what is interesting now, they're not afraid of the gulag, the upper middle class, they're afraid of beingumped from middle class back to coach. and it is working for putin. his approval ratings are through the roof. >> and the worrying thing, the most worrying thing, bill, is that it may not be entirely the product of propaganda although there was clearly a great deal of propaganda. i think that the russians have a very different narrative of what happened. the way the russians see it, putin expresses this kind of stridentally. but a lot of liberal russians believe this. they gave up not only the soviet empire but they gave up the 300-year-old czarist empire. in return for which, what did they get? they have nato expansion into poland. the czech republic into hungary, there is a narrative that says we kept giving in. you kept pushing us. part of this is the russians have always been somewhat distrustful of the west. there is another argument, we gave them a lot of aid after the end of the cold war. but my only point is a lot of russians believe that propaganda. so it is amping up the volu

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. >> it was like being in a a gulag.] >> jimmy: yeah. [ light laughter ] >> what happened to lenny? >> jimmy: he didn't know anything. >> he moved to south carolina. you had to know that in latin. >> jimmy: i grew up -- they got rid of the latin. because i guess there was a a shortage of altar boys. [ light laughter ] >> well, i mean -- >> jimmy: it's too hard. >> to this day i don't know what i'm saying. i know it has something to do with god. "deum" is god. that's it. >> jimmy: that was it, yeah. >> that was it, yeah. >> jimmy: i was good at ringing the bell. i loved the bell, i was the bell guy. >> i like the incense, too. >> jimmy: i love the smell of incense. >> i could clear the church with the incense. >> jimmy: oh, i know. >> if you go like this -- if you go real high -- >> jimmy: yeah. it was like yeah, you might as well have a lava lamp. it was one of those, type a a haze. >> this is true. we used to do weddings and the best man would come in and give you a couple of bucks to tip the altar boy. >> jimmy: me too

yet one group saying that would be like the russian gulags where we put the people we don't have to talk to, that was coming from one of friends. another was saying we are putting people there against their will and they are not allowed to have their rights will stop so you have this him perfect storm to move to shut the hospital system down. people have a right to get well. this is where this gets grossly misinterpreted from people who will say this person should have the ability to refuse treatment. i understand sometimes people are there with late stage cancer and they say it's time, but when someone is not even well and they can't even make a decision and they don't know what planet they are on, how do we suddenly say they're going to make a decision? have them die with their rights on. impassionedlly comments and they said most of the homeless he deals with have no idea that they have a mental illness. so let's give the people the right to get better and the right to treatment instead of they can refuse treatment if they want. let them have this incredible option to feel healthy bec

although now one of the country's most powerful anti taliban voices finally i mean once favorite warlords gulag are sherzai nicknamed the bulldozer for his ruthlessly efficient way of getting things done whoever wins has a world of work ahead this aid to dependent economy is likely to take a hit with the departure of foreign troops corruption is pervasive and the taliban are still waging an insurgency you see catherine of. afghanistan. well millions of afghans have been affected the twelve years of u.s. led occupation and the war that has taken place they traveled across the country met some of the people whose lives are actually been shattered let's take a look at some of the pitches that this woman you can see here she lost her daughter in a taliban attack on a guesthouse it was just a week before the election. this photograph a twelve year old boy who was shot by the taliban he's now recovering in hospital and here's a mother who had to resort to burning scraps of cardboard in a kabul refugee camp just to keep her child warm firewood is considered an affordable luxury well it was job it will

bush administration but it's nothing compared to the gulags and worth work camps in north korea and thosevoter id laws governor huckabee thinks are so good and make our country less not more democratic so i don't really know where he was going without computers comparing obama's america and north korea is not only inaccurate it's just plain irresponsible it's the kind of thing that makes the far right fringe think it's time to raise on the inst the government and that would be through their. coming up right now hundreds of millions of people across the globe could lose their homes and livelihoods thanks to rising sea levels across the planet how high are our seas right now and what can be done to prevent the kind of widespread devastation we saw here in the u.s. during hurricane sandy. nothing has been done this complex by the military since world war two. this is quite frankly in historical terms with berlin airlift it reverse. course seven or seven go down a load shift on takeoff because you're going to become unstable you're talking really billions of dollars to move billions of dollar