form on this we can cross live to washington and john glaser from antiwar dot com and shed some light on this story john please and thank you so much for joining us here on our t.v. now one may ask this so why was the u.n. an able to prevent this massacre. well the u.n. is unable to do much of anything because the reason the conflict has been progressively worse and has not gotten any better even with this ceasefire is because outside powers apparently insist on continuing to militarize the conflict on the one hand you have the u.s. and other western countries along with the gulf states in the arab gulf states funneling money and weapons and other kinds of aid to the syrian opposition despite the fact that they themselves have committed crimes and on the other hand you have russia and iran continuing to send arms and support to the assad regime this outside intervention in bold in both sides and it prevents a more peaceful resolution from from being ports coming now i mean looking at the situation right now what is the like effect of this the latest blessid on the situation in syria.

happen when they're implemented by police forces here at home to answer that and more i'm joined by john glaser assistant editor for antiwar dot com john do you think that drones are as successful as they say they are. well they're successful in killing a lot of people they're not successful in terms of strategy i mean for years now throughout the barack obama drone war years particularly in pakistan but also in yemen there have been a few small voices doing real journalism exposing the drone war as killing hundreds and hundreds of civilians despite the it is administration's claims that drones in the able them to hit with chris cision very specific targets and we learned of course in the new york times or what that article reiterated yesterday was that there's a very specific reason the obama administration has been able to claim absurdly that little to no civilian casualties have resulted from the drone war and that's because of the way they've chosen to counts of illions and what they have said is that any and all military age people that happen to be present when we drop a missile in pakist

philippines on a number of occasions in the south china sea an area thought to be rich in oil and gas john glaser assistant editor of antiwar dot com thinks the u.s. is trying to contain china. the motives of the u.s. in the philippines as well as in asia pacific generally is. imperial dominance it's the same that is as the are their motives in the in the middle east and in central america the obama astray sion has instigated a strategic pivot to asia pacific mainly to contain china is rising economic and military influence. washington considers military power and economic progress prerogatives of their own only and so. they want to know that we have military bases in troops in japan and singapore in. in south korea in the philippines. in australia and the aim here is to make our military power known invisible in order to contain china take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe gunfights ever uttered in mallees capital bamako was troops who overthrew the government in march clashed with forces loyal to the ousted president several reportedly killed when loyalist storm

in london he is a british labor party politician and member of parliament in washington we have john glaser he is assistant editor at antiwar dot com and in warsaw we go to small our he is a senior fellow at the polish institute of international affairs and a visiting senior fellow at the center for european studies right gentlemen crossed the girls and i mean you can jump in anytime on john if i can go to you first hear mr barack obama said in chicago nato has been the bedrock of common security freedom and prosperity for nearly sixty five years it hasn't just endured it has thrived because our nations are stronger when we stand together eleven years after the occupation of afghanistan to those words ring true to you well we should ask if they ring true to an afghan or to a libyan or to a lot of people in the balkans the issue is that obama sees nato as securing western influence and western power and western security. he's. enough to know that nato is not about. progressing democracy or or transporting freedom to the war world and so forth afghanistan is a perfect example nato has laid wa

john glaser from end to war dot com says the west should review its tag takes before supply more weapons to anyone in syria. the un is unable to do much of anything because it's the reason the conflict has been progressively worse and has not gotten any better even with the cease fires because outside powers apparently insist on continuing to militarize the conflict you have the us and other western countries along with the gulf states in the arab gulf states funneling money and weapons and other kinds of aid to the syrian opposition despite the fact that they themselves have committed crimes this outside intervention in bold in both sides and it prevents a more peaceful resolution from from being ports coming and outside powers need to think again if their policy right now is to militarize the conflict in arm either side. prime minister dmitri medvedev has been appointed the chairman of the country's ruling united russia party his modernization mantra is already in evidence as a valid a major overhaul at the top as well as the whole primaries and to increase democratic competition withi

john i'm so sorry to cut you short we're almost out of time thanks so much for coming on that was john glaser assistant editor of antiwar dot com america is losing its luster and its famed phrase a land of opportunity there's a growing migration of highly skilled children of immigrants leaving the u.s. for countries with the merging economies artie's marina port iowa brings us the story of two young entrepreneurs chasing the american dream in india. karen in asia is an american citizen pursuing his professional dream in a country his parents abandoned decades ago the twenty six year old relocated to one of the world's fastest emerging economies seeking the success and security that america just couldn't offer i thought that in india there was more scope to actually break through and do something that was revolutionary rather than just follow the trends the berkeley graduate has launched a health care business in new delhi providing medical services to people of all ages and asia isn't just an entrepreneur he's the face of a growing migration trend which shows highly skilled children of u.s. i

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