today sara flounders from the american activist group international action center joining us live in new york thanks for your time on. to libya and the country seeing more bloodshed as colonel gadhafi is clinging to the last vestige of a country which only a matter of days ago he presided over in tiny the capital tripoli now reportedly the only parts still under his control gadhafi screwed on thousands of mercenaries to defend his best you know he's faced with more defections the region regime removal death toll for ten days of unrest has been difficult to determine conflicting reports put the number between three hundred and two thousand meanwhile the swiss government is one of the freezer many locally held assets belonging. to the libyan leader. from a conflict analysis think tank believes the crisis we're currently witnessing in the arab world is a consequence of years of wrongful policies in the west but is happening at the moment and they are. taken everybody by surprise there is definitely an intelligence failure on the part of the worst big part of it is actually the outcome o

we are trying to sara flounders from the international action center about the alleged corruption in the country and the role the us has played. well it's hardly surprising that it's coming out now but this is thirty years of absolute corruption and every u.s. corporation that did business in egypt and of course the u.s. military the cia they all knew that mubarak was their man and other words for payoffs he was willing to be a traitor to his own people who have ended up impoverished egypt underdeveloped infrastructure in educational standards in employment for its young people and yet mubarak one of the richest men in the world and not only mubarak his whole regime is corrupt this goes for silly monaco's for the generals the security apparatus every one of them are in on the take and it's a well known fact it's known very well by the people of egypt just how corrupt it is and how much they have lost it's also true poor and working people here in the u.s. need to know what it means when u.s. corporations and the u.s. government supports a dictator like this giving billions of dollars

flanders from the american activist group international action center says washington is making an example of a sound so that others do not follow in his footsteps. it is threat coming directly from the u.s. it's politically motivated it's an effort to shut down wiki leaks to intimidate others from taking action of revealing u.s. secrets which are enormous it's the way the government does business but particularly the threat or the possibility that julian assange could be brought to the u.s. when you consider the terrible conditions under which bradley manning is held of really locked down the isolation in solitary confinement it's a form of torture intimidation and repression is always an effort to stop what already exists and will continue because people all over the world have a drive to know there is a technology technological ability today to reveal this and so the threat of imprisonment in the u.s. is so one specter that they raised just as around the world they raised secret rendition kidnappings and torture. such as has been news from the grave to. mayor ford of space to guantanamo

more on the strength based approach, a person centered approach, more so than identifying the person by an action. and john, should we be looking internally first and, and if so, how do we approach the education of our field first, you know, because as we're sitting here, you know we're talking about how everyone else perceives, you know, their, their moral value-laden approach towards this field. and, and how do we deal internally? it's a good question. i think we have to treat it the same way as we, as we treat out, you know individuals trying to convey the message outside of the field. it's very ironic to me that in the studies that have been done, they've been done a lot of with mental health clinicians actually who are professionally focused in the area of addiction and mental health. actually hold, have been shown to hold very biased prejudiced, stigmatizing attitudes towards people, clever studies that have been done have shown this. so what you're talking about seems to be supported by empirical evidence which always is kind of baffling when you, you know, think about people actually educated in the areas that they're actually, an

actions of the corporations and we are planning to. in different areas like for example. the brits will help us to make the international financial center we expect to cooperate on the energy efficiency so basically i'm very optimistic about the economic areas of corporation between our two countries and as far as your job case what areas have you target said that you will focus on in terms of cooperation frankly have to to to to to to point to you know all the all the areas there are so this is politics definitely this is economy this is technology because you know we're building skolkovo with the brits building you know the same center not far from london so basically we're talking about the modernization and they're talking about the corporation based on the knowledge and of course this is culture you know conflict between the people these are regime we're in favor of the better conditions you know we want the same conditions as we have with the routine union and we're really you know to move in this direction and definitely will try you know to see good reaction you know from the u.k. on the. i mean the whole area because you know t

center of the storm, embattled republican governor, scott walker. >>> also the future of the middle east remains in doubt as libya's brutal dictator cracks down on protesters. >> these actions violate international norms and every stander of common decency. this violence must stop. >> what's next? and has the administration done enough? joining me this morning from the site of such unrest earlier this month, cairo, egypt, the ranking member on the senate armed services committee. republican john mccain. >>> then our political roundtable, what rising oil costs could mean to our own economy. can washington avoid a government shutdown over spending? and the rhetorical start to 2012, leading republicans exchanging blows and union activists mobilizing. with us, president of the afl-cio, republican governor of mississippi and former rnc chairman, haley barbour. chairman of the congressional black caucus, emmanuel cleaver. host of msnbc's, the last word, lawrence o'donnell. and editorial board member and columnist for "the wall street journal," kim straser. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning, protests grew in madison, wisconsin, after days of demonstrations by pro labor supp