are we headed in a new direction paving the way even for a new system possibly let's bring in michael prysner a member of the party for a socialist socialism and liberation to get his take. hey there michael so how do people react when you tell them which political party you belong to. well i think it's a change over the past few years but today especially with the economic crisis that we're in when you told people a socialist and you know it's not a bad word for people anymore it's becoming stigmatized as it has been over the past several decades and so i would say from my experience there's a growing interest in socialism and that's happening for very specific reasons and there's another aspect of the pew research poll that we actually didn't see in ramon's report which shows that with american people overall not just young people sixty percent do see socialism as negative but thirty one percent see it as positive now this is this fight that is of criticism and so today you know you see pundits on the mainstream media nearly always speaking poorly about socialism and still a third of people

afghan parliament things up to twenty others could have been involved war veteran and activist michael prysner says the trials of likely to improve the afghans opinion of the u.s. . the politicians and the general down the officers in the military commanders they have made every single person in afghanistan the enemy it is an occupation that the people overwhelmingly oppose and this is the this is the nature of the occupation where every single asking him is considered fair game by the u.s. military if we look at the past bases where of massacres that have taken place in iraq and afghanistan look at the deep massacre in the source where blackwater guards massacred dozens of people and these cases of people got off with no deals and so one could argue that these were fair to the people that were indicted and they weren't simply thrown under the bus they made examples of they absolutely were not fair to the victims and their families and so for staff sergeant bales whatever his trial is for it to be really fair to the afghan people but most truly take their lives into consideration and bring jus

people are fighting for instead of waiting for it for a politician to be the change all right michael prysner a member of the party for socialism and liberation sharing his insight with us afternoon. and be sure to stick around for the alone a show is coming up at the top of the hour so i want to have state department employee and whistleblower peter van buren on the show he has come under fire recently for a critical book he wrote on the iraqi reconstruction effort he's now been stripped of his security clearance and banned from the state department headquarters for a time transfer to another job last week he received determination noticed based on the charges all this in a suppose that attempts to silence him well tonight he'll have a platform to speak on and be heard right here on t.v. that will be a new and a half hour. and for us here on the news side that's going to do it but for more on this.