means for media's coverage may have messed up we are joined today by all there and journalist max blumenthal thank you so much for days max now at least as i said earlier sixty people there were killed in protests on monday and human rights groups are saying that just because protestors were approaching crossing or damaging the fence on the gaza israeli

idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons investigative journalism max blumenthal told us that the current us attitude towards asylum shows that the american authorities well are afraid of him. us has refused to speak to julian assange except under duress under harsh conditions possibly after solitary confinement which shows that they don't want to know what julian us knows they don't want to interrupt their narrative with with what could be facts almost no one in washington in the press corps will stand up and defend julian assange as a fellow journalist who is facing some of the harshest conditions any journalist in the west is facing because he embarrassed the u.s. government and he embarrassed the cia and we should also remember that there is no grand jury for julian a son is for the d.n.c. hack or leak or whatever it was it only relates to the revelation internal cia documents so this is a case that sets a precedent for the rest of the media and how other journalists will be treated if they reveal classified information and it seems like there's very little co

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media coverage may have missed it we are joined today by author and journalist max blumenthal thank you so much for day max now at least as i said earlier sixty people there were killed in protests on monday and human rights groups are saying just because protestors were approaching crossing or damaging the fence on the gaza israeli border does not amount to life lost or serious injuries so max do you think israel was out of wind and use excessive force here you know i think we really have to consider the feelings from the israeli perspective of that fence i mean the poor electrified fence the poor militarized walls that actually are perched with machine guns remote controlled machine guns you know that's really what we're hearing from the likes of the washington post editorial board which referred to those fifty eight people who were killed shot by snipers with leeds laser range finders from long range at some points as nominal civilians nominal civilians not even civilians so of course israel used excessive force but what i want to do is kind of interrogate the context behind these ki

idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons investigative journalist max blumenthal told us that our songes activities make officials in washington nervous . u.s. has refused to speak to julian assange except under duress under harsh conditions possibly after solitary confinement which shows that they don't want to know what julian us knows they don't want to interrupt their narrative with with what could be fact almost no one in washington in the press corps will stand up and defend julian assange as a fellow journalist who is facing some of the harshest conditions any journalist in the west is facing because he embarrassed the u.s. government and he embarrassed the cia and we should also remember that there is no grand jury for julian a son for the d.n.c. hack or leak or whatever it was it only relates to the revelation of internal cia documents so this is a case that sets a precedent for the rest of the media and how other journalists will be treated if they reveal classified information and it seems like there's very little concern about that within the journalis

american journalist max blumenthal believes that lobbying in the united states is a type of corruption disguised as business we get kind of a a cook narrative that leaves out the real source of corruption in washington which is our allies buying influence and taking american policy over the brink in the middle east foreign governments are paying billions of dollars into think tanks. lobbying firms and even hollywood in order to curry favor in the u.s. the term collusion can certainly be applied to this lobbying this is the story i think that everyone in washington is missing out on because it's considered business as usual and it's basically collusion only takes place. there's a grammont new assessment of progress made by the united states in its drawn out mission in afghanistan government auditors say efforts have stalled at best and at worst are failing here's donald quarter. you'd think that after sixteen years the u.s. led mission in afghanistan would finally have something to show for its trouble well here's how the federal authority tasked with overseeing reconstruction sees it.

website is saying the israel lobby is calling the shots in trump's rollback policy on iran.n max blumenthal, who i know you know well.ro president trump, who has been campaigning for years against this deal, apparently you are the one calling the shots. it's either john bolton calling the shots were the israel lobby calling the shots even thoughg the president has been single-mindedly focused on this issue for years. >> it's been no secret what israel's position has been on this deal. the prime minister of israel came to congress and spoke up against this deal and what he said at the time, people should remember, is the danger of the deal is not that iran is going to violate it, it's that they can keep this deal and walk into an entire nuclear arsenal. what the prime ministers showed last week, last monday were the secret archives where iran was keeping in these vaults all the information they need. >> laura: i love the props he had. all the binders, that was great. >> what are they doing with that information? they are going to use it in the future and they want to use it >> laura: i love

independent plan is parental analysts let's move on to another guest because we can speak to max blumenthal is all for and journalists on the line great to have your facts so we discussed a few issues there and if you're able to hear some of that conversation i'm interested though in the situation that results because you have most of the signatories of that twenty fifteen deal don't like the u.s. stance on this to what extent if any do we see israel in the u.s. now pitted against the likes of russia and china major powers who wanted to stick with that deal. well the u.s. is already putting itself under the new trump doctrine against russia and china but what we have to see this new emerging trump policy first of all in the light of the first bush term were bush was substantially under the control of neo conservative elements but also in light of the transition between clinton and bush and their policies on iraq which the previous guest alluded to clinton's policy on iraq was containment he passed the iraqi iraq liberation act which gave ninety million dollars to the iraqi national congress

four o'clock local time there last afternoon next blumenthal's in our washington studio author and senior editor of the real news network hi there max it's been a very difficult day in the odds here amasses been actively encouraging people to rally in gaza and israel border some is it fair to say that they're responsible for these deaths or they should be calling people but from a border at this time when they knew it would kick off. the palestinians inside the gaza strip have been actually staging these kind of protests since at least twenty fifteen they're doing so because they've been under siege for a decade this commemorates seventy years of ongoing dispossession an ethnic cleansing by a mostly refugee population and so this is sort of what the population in the gaza strip has wanted to do this is the form of resistance they want to take it's very different from the kind of militarized form that we've seen under the watch of hamas and so this is really a representation of the agency and the will of the population of the gaza strip and civil society even even though the not equally solid if you like my weapons coming from were.

means for media's coverage may have messed up we are joined today by all there and journalist max blumenthal thank you so much for days max now at least as i said earlier sixty people there were killed in protests on monday and human rights groups are saying that just because protestors were approaching crossing or damaging the fence on the gaza israeli border does not amount to life lost or serious injuries so much do you think israel was out of wind and use excessive force here you know i think we really have to consider the feelings from the israeli perspective of that sense i mean the poor electrified sense of the poor. militarized walls that actually are perched with machine guns remote controlled machine guns you know that's really what we're hearing from the likes of the washington post editorial board which referred to those fifty eight people who were killed shot by snipers with lades laser range finders from long range at some points as nominal civilians nominal civilians not even civilians so of course israel used excessive force but what i want to do is kind of interrogate the co