feeling for the upcoming presidential debate as we see our senior fellow at the independent institute ivan eland when if it's gears now and talk about matters here at home it's a look at the state of our economy and specifically poverty and what it actually needs after all it has been at fifty years since president lyndon johnson made this speech in a call to all americans to join the army in a different kind of for this ministration. here and no explorers on virtual war on poverty in america. and our. urge there's congress and all americans to join with me in that effort. the war on poverty speech made on january eighth one thousand nine hundred sixty four for how things change today and how well is the enemy in other words poverty really understood and when will today's president declare a war on poverty and not just a cleric but send in reinforcements while help me answer those questions and many more earlier i was joined by michael snyder the founder of the economic collapse blog with the latest u.s. census data and i asked him in his view if president obama has done enough to deal with this

trying to be opposed to this with washington vowing to use its veto power however political analyst ivan eland said that when i ask the membership is a positive sign for palestine future. is symbolic idea that the all these nations wanted to let palestine in or over the objections of the u.s. and israel is very significant i think and it. tells timmins have been stymied in their efforts to have a stay and of course they're trying a new route they're trying. he's for protests the know trying this method of trying to get into more and more international organizations to build their legitimacy and i think that's a better way to go than violence the difference between this vote and the one. of their statehood bid is that of course the u.s. can be in the security council that the latter one whereas this boat there's no veto and it was voted overwhelmingly the people went against what the u.s. and israel wanted and voted in the palestine as a member of the high court in london has ruled wiki leaks founder julian assange will be extradited to sweden to pay sex assault charges after losing his legal b

says it will focus on diplomacy but is ready to keep an all options open political analyst ivan eland says washington is unlikely to support israel's push for an attack. in china when mao and the chinese got nuclear weapons mao made direct threats to nuke the united states and of course lyndon johnson explored military options etc and of course they didn't take the chinese nuclear weapons out so i think you can deter this we have thousands of nuclear warheads russia has thousands of nuclear warheads i think the iranians could do what japan has done because japan has taken it all the way up to actually building a nuclear weapon they haven't done it they've shown they have the capability it's or maybe that's what iran is trying to do maybe iran will never build a weapon they've shown that they can design a warhead that will fit on a missile getting the missile over here we've seen north korea had a lot of problems with that so we're not in the panic mode yet but i think what the foreign minister said there is absolutely correct there's no good military option here if you want to make su

strongly opposed to the bed with washington vowing to use its veto power however political analyst ivan eland says that unesco membership is a positive sign for palestine. this symbolic idea that all these nations wanted to let palestine in over the objections of the u.s. and israel is very significant i think and it. tells to me and said ben stein meet in their efforts to have a state and of course they're trying a new route they're trying. he's full protest and they're trying this method of trying to get into more and more international organizations to build their legitimacy and i think that's a better way to go than violence the difference between this vote in the one. there statehood bid is that of course the u.s. can be in the security council that the what the latter one where is this vote there's no veto and it was voted overwhelmingly that people went against what the u.s. and israel wanted and voted in palestine as a member. the leader of turkey and germany met on wednesday to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the historic guest walk a packed and of a deal hundreds of thousands

continue and urged other governments to put pressure on iran and that's word on political economic ivan eland thinks the sanctions are only going to unite the people of iran with the government of iran sanctions are a blunt tool and they try to make. razor sharp but they never are and this will probably hurt the iranian people and when you when you bomb a country it unifies the population with the government even if they don't like the government but in this case we're not yet but we're attacking them economically it has a similar effect it's really it was around the flag and i think it actually helps the regime because a lot of the people in iran especially the young people really don't like that the regime and any time you either take economic use economic warfare or actual warfare you're going to get a rally around the plague of facts and sanctions and they're good for smart persuading nations to do small things but overthrowing governments or getting them to stop nuclear weapons when they live in a dangerous neighborhood it's just not going to work i mean if you put them so yourself in th

political analyst ivan eland says that the fact that iran is moving its nuclear facility to a hard to reach location is why it's in the spotlight again. iranians are moving that facility into the mountain and once it goes in there it would be very difficult to take it down and so i think that's why there's a lot of bluster i think that's probably why they're releasing this report to put more pressure on iran iran is a totally different nut to crack than iraq or whatever yeah i mean like i say you have to invade on the ground to get these facilities basically of them even a lot of military people would say there are not many good military options except a full blown invasion and i don't know anybody who's going to advocate that now if israel does attack or the u.s. does launch airstrikes i think you instantly turn the country into an anti-u.s. cauldron again now a lot of the people are fed up with the current regime and they're not happy especially you see the arab spring iran is in a very weak position its ally syria government there may fall over there what you've got in iran the ara

to talk about the implications of this report what's in it and what it could mean for the future ivan eland is a senior fellow at the independent institute and is here with me and i mean on one hand this is nothing new people have been saying for years then even more than attacking them and talking about the fact that iran wants to develop its nuclear capabilities is this report a big deal even well i think it might be a little bit bigger deal than in the past because this report apparently says that they have the desire and capability to do it now they make the caviar they haven't necessarily started down that road they had made it is sitting so they could do what your panel has done because japan has taken it all the way up to actually building a nuclear weapon and they haven't done it they have shown they have the capability it sort of maybe that's what iran is trying to do maybe iran will never build a weapon so we don't know but i think what the foreign minister said there is absolutely correct there's no good military option here if you want to make sure you get all the stuff you have