for more on iraq's elections we want to bring in the contributor juan cole joining us from los angeles. good to see you. >> hi, thomas. >> what are the concerns this election, i know security being one. >> the molly death rates are up, 800 a month, and people are saying well, he talks a good game, but he's not actually producing. >> let's talk about the difference religious factions here. we're talking about the sunnies, the shiites. which side seems to dominate in these elections? >> well, the problem with the system that the u.s. and u.n. set up for iraq is that it's a parliamentary system, and it's based on provinces as the electoral unit. the provinces are mono chrome. you have shiite provinces, kurdish provinces, so they return ethnic candidates and parties and then they have to find a way to make a coalition after the electioafter the elec. >> you don't think we'll see any real reform here? >> i think iraq needs like a labour party, a business party that would unite people across these ethnic divisions, and it just doesn't have any such thing. the two big shiite blocks, and can y

. >> juan cole, our international affairs contributor, good to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you. >> crews may have caught a break in the search for the missing malaysian airliner. australia confirmed that electronic signals heard by a chinese ship are consistent with the frequencely of an aircraft's bla black box the the ping was detected about a thousand miles off the australian coast. three members of the crew heard the ping but did not have time to record it, it's unclear if it's from the missing plane. black boxes have a life of 30 days, but what is in it remains intact if the battery dies. >> listening equipment is dropped under water. the ocean and search area is six to 13,000 feet teen. the ship pulls the device for signals. they can be picked up only about a mile away meaning the ship would have to be close to hear that sound. as the search enters the fifth week malaysia promised not to give up. >> it's been almost a month since mh370 went missing. the search operation has been difficult, challenging and complex. but in spied of all this, our dete

seventy percent of gaza residents once lived where it's now considered southern israel historian juan cole notes in a recent article how the segregation that exists within villages is not found on any map citing that somewhere around ninety thousand arabs live in one hundred seventy six unrecognized villages inside israel inhabitants of these villages are considered internal refugees displaced after the nine hundred forty eight war having fled their homes with nowhere else to go and being unrecognized by israel means that tens of thousands of arab residents have no access to public services like water roads education health care or even electricity but hey we have to be careful not to get carried away and start comparing israel of south africa right i mean come on it's not like israel was forcibly injecting african immigrants with birth control some sort of nuanced eugenics program. waving as apparently as many as one hundred thirty thousand ethiopian women were forcibly sterilized. whole rats drop in the birth rate of ethiopian israelis by twenty percent. all right all right but at least

instead of the country's crumbling infrastructure all schools the uncomfortable truth no school of juan coleas most corrupt state by far is the us as for accusing others of being dictates is callous occurrence no some america's become the dictator nation fifty five million people have been killed by us bombing and western backed coup since nine hundred forty five morphing the numbers killed by nazi death squads the money required to keep this unprecedented machine going now takes sixty eight cents of every tax dollar of americans now live below or near the poverty line and seventeen million us children go to bed hungry on able to afford enough food for first to chose the us government itself has become a regime and requires urgent change the current structure in nine hundred eighty one becomes systematic dismantling of the. new deal inequality has shot up ever since and the figurehead changes nothing to the joins us great to speak to you why do you write these systems of democracy while americans like to think of themselves as a democracy in a corporate gene it's more what i call a core popp

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