mr. i marci and the quincy institute for bringing this fresh air in terms of what is going on in middle east, i am a veteran of indo-china war. they would ignore lesson of history, romans -- involvement in the middle east, they took their eye off the ball in terms of dealing with tribes on northern border, i pray to god we don't get involved with another war in middle east, the eye on the ball for us is mainland china, communist china, that is the real game. >> do you think that biden administration has an overall strategy for middle east. >> they did have, was what i said early year, they set aside almost all other issues and focused on the idea of securing normalization agreement, politically iee can see why that was attractive, strategyicallyy did not see a basis for it working. idea in addition to that, we would be offering saudis a defense package and a nuclear technology, raised questions marks about what ises big gain in this to offerha something as drastic aso that, united states does not have any agreement with any other state in middle east except for turkey who is a member of nato

mr. frank amspack, worker's independent news joining us from madison wisconsin. hello and i like to welcome you both to the program. i guess ma'am. we'll start with you uh miss marcy baker there in washington dc. now the us uh health industry rates over 4. trillion dollars in revenue, why are we seeing people in that sector striking? well, it's been about a half century since the deregulation of the us healthcare delivery system, mean hospitals, it in the past there was regulation, you couldn't buy and sell hospitals across borders, all of that was changed for private interests to move into the income stream. you can go that and it's now break strikes in the past few months, 14,000 nurses in new york city, thousands in california, some in michigan. this is a dramatic event, i'm speaking to you from 20 kilometers from one of the kaiser permanente hospital facilities here in northern virginia, but it's part of the breakdown in the healthcare delivery system in the... nation, we're losing hospitals themselves, they're shutting down, especially in rural states and the condition of health of people in the country is declining, as you can see in just statistics where th