seventeen incident into a broader narrative that is being spun and that is the narrative of russian aggression and how this is going to translate it will translate in a number of ways one of the ways that it's happened i recently wrote a column about this that the united states and certain factions within the political establishment in the united states are trying to legislate anti russian sentiments are trying to legislate through the congress various ways that the united states is going to be able to aggressively posture in a belligerent fashion against russia the so-called russian aggression prevention act of twenty fourteen sponsored by senator bob corker and co-sponsored by john mccain and a slew of other neo cons they have this bill it is now in committee in the u.s. senate talking about things like permanently basing u.s. miller. terry forces in nato countries such as poland in romania and other places talking about providing not only military support but financial support political and diplomatic support to ukraine and to every other country that is willing to have any kind of a confro

preconceived narrative as we've seen countless times in recent years. it if i find it quite striking is that the blame is already been laid fingers are being made but it looks very clearly to me that the united states particularly does not really want an investigation because. well that investigation would probably show something they don't want to see and most likely and i'm not an expert here i'm going to wait for the investigation but it seems to me common sense says the ukrainians did it peter i don't know who did it frankly i have claimed expertise in various fields aerial warfare is not one of them one thing we do know is the americans have extraordinarily good signal intelligence they are spying on the entire world they know what you and i had for breakfast today it it defies belief to imagine that they didn't have spy satellites over the place where the events occurred that they did not have over the horizon radar watching what was going on they clearly do have in their possession. hard evidence for what brought down the plane now what they're s

but then the neoconservative narrative is that well yes the after great invasion very successful invasion there was a problem with the implementation of the occupation but then came the surge then came near victory and then obama screwed it all up by withdrawing the troops so there's seem to be able to enforce these narratives even when they don't rematch up with any factual reality but they they have enough basis and they have enough way of influencing the whole the whole way washington things so you get this very alice in wonderland effect and so and they are able to make everything fit into one of their narratives for instance the catastrophe in syria is now being blamed even though the us side is supporting with working with the saudis and others helped create this problem in syria where these extremist became very powerful as rebel forces some of the dice this group and for a front the the narrative is that if obama had only sent in more military support for the rebels earlier then it would've worked out fine so there's always a way to spin this and i think what we've seen is as we'v

and 50 years later, this remains the narrative. we have the tendency to talk about off to the side of the main narrative of the war. it's, you know, as we talk about battles and campaigns, oh, by the way, there's this crazy thing happening at anderson i have and other places. when prisons exist because of the war, prisons are influenced because of the war. this past fall, the ft. benning sergeant major's association dedicated a powmia monument 50 feet. from the train tracks. it's very bold. and on the backside, what's missing? 50 feet from where 45,000 american soldiers entered captivity. they're not present. this is about 200 feet from a monument dedicated to the heroic story of the kmoonder of that. so there's a precedent here already. at the prison site itself, they face out. they face the prison wall and the road that loops around the site designed for the visitor to stand up literally on the outside looking in. and that existence, again, prevents us from experiencing, understanding this story, you know, in very important ways.

the narrative was set from the very beginning of this. there's no questioning, no hard questioning over the areas that we should have been asking them. it is very difficult. as i said, working within r.t., you're not outright lying. i learned that with r.t. there are a million different ways to lie. it is very, very easy as a journalist to exempt yourself from responsibility of what the channel is doing on a wider level. what i said is, what we do at r.t. so effectively is take one tiny sliver of the information. a couple of the facts and then push them incredibly aggressively and without the all important context behind those, you end up getting a massively distorted version of what's going. on it is very, very effective. that's why it is so dangerous. >> so if you can give me a yes or no. do you think the truth will come out with r.t., you said no. do you think it will come out from russia? no. >> can i get your reaction from the statement that they released about your resignation. it says sarah has chosen that she chooses the truth. ap

the narrative in a conflict like this is as important as a campaign narrative. gwen: in the way you discuss it it sounds like the white house has no control over this narrative. and the president ice critics say that he seems too passive in all of this. how, then, does the white house prioritize what's important? >> they haven't looked like they know the answer to that themselves. i guess that's the best way i can put it. they seem to be tackling each issue trying to juggle all at once. i think there's some indication when you watch where their attention is going what they put aside for the moment. the president is talking and talking, which is his natural inclination, to keep the dialogue open to our u.s. allies and friends. but the analysis doesn't seem to be any clearer, i would argue, to president obama or even secretary of state kerry in the situation in israel. gwen: john, the white house -- the president said earlier today that this has been a head-snapping moment. i wonder if it is for the white house as well as for the rest of us who are citizens of the

so i want to show that narrative art. secondly, another thing is that technology is used to bring people together. it's a social networking tool. sometimes you that something and it becomes a little thing you do in your basement or in your house. but soon we trad create network, social networks to bring us computers together. so that's a theme that continues as well. one of the things about this book is things that you thought were totally new, they're actually part of the wonderful progress of a lot of people coming up with ideas. >> were you working or keeping notes for this book as you are working on the job? >> i started this book 10 years ago because i do write it so fast. 10 years ago i was trying to write a book on how the internet came to be. all these unknown people who helped pull it together. when i was working with steve jobs he said, that's interesting but what's more interesting is in the 1970s and 80s, the internet came together at the exact same time personal computers came together. so you should make it

yeah, there are small narratives that sort of feed into the overall narrative about this president and the theme that, he blusters about no cooperation and republicans not helping and not doing anything. at the end of the day, you know, where the rubber meets the road, the president is still falling short in the economy, on jobs, on a number of other things. so that kind of feeds that. the other side of this and it talks about the window that i mentioned before is that the house has sent bills to the senate that passed the house. they have not all been, you know, undo obamacare or abortion. there have been are substantive bills that passed the house on economic development and job creation and the like that have gone to the senate and stalled because harry reid doesn't let them get through the committee let alone to the floor. you have that top line narrative as well. so i think republicans can frame this about, you know, this is not just about a do nothing congress but an executive that does too much. >> very quickly. >> they are deregulation, not job creation bills. >> that's your op

but he is doing it for a narrative purpose, to show us something bigger, i think. it is interesting, natalie, you should bring this up. there is a quote from guy chapman. he was like cyril falls and that he was interested booksding a lot of war and compiling them. and he compiles this book called in 1937.y" it is an international compendium. germans, a lot of the british. it, and the introduction, he says the nearest context we have with truth are the accounts of eyewitnesses. he says that they matter far more as historical accounts or be farg else, they will more lasting in terms of the war's impact. chapman was smart enough that accounts by eyewitnesses are, of course, subject to inaccuracy. writeall, when memoirists a memoir, they are constructing a story. and like you all do when you are relating the best weekend you have ever had to your friends, you are cutting corners with the story. you are telling it for narrative of facts. after all, it is not going to sell if you don't, right? a, hemingway is writing story. this is fiction. but he is hoping to show a som

those memories include sand creek for which he adopted a narrative arc and interpretive frame, focusing on the whites and american flags flying over black nettles village, on chief white antelope falling in a hell of bullets while singing his death song and on shivington's men slicing genitalia from their victims. professional historians agreed -- a greeted the publication of skepticism that bordered on contempt. scholarlyad a few balance and had not interrogated his native sources and he distorted evidence and made errors of fact. reviewers outside the academy heaped praise on brown. "the new york times" described the book is both impossible to read and impossible to put down. the public agreed. the book and spent more than a year on the new york times bestseller list and has since sold more than 5 million copies. that is even better than pete's books have done, i think. [laughter] it also had a huge impact on readers including a rising generation of scholars who self identified as new western historians. said we all went to bed thinking about the indian wars and indians one way and wo

the narrative of where his autopsy was done who did it and why the death certificate was suppressed is still classified. although the united states was obligated to return his body to the family he was buried in an unmarked grave his family learned what happened to him through the abu ghraib photos. the world knows mr al jamaat e as the body defiled by abu ghraib guards the press focused on who tortured him and whether officers would be prosecuted for his murder one fact is rarely noted mr alger his fate was sealed by two medics a doctor and the medical command responsible for his health care according to the third geneva convention ratified by the united states. the number of doctors involved in detainee abuse is unknown but indeed classified government documents the case is just one among many involving medical complicity and cover up of torture a pathologist working for the armed forces institute of pathology collectively systematically and uniformly suppressed death reports in. u.s. prisons in afghanistan and iraq today extent that they ever became aware of them in those cia rendit

they don't have a national narrative.ealth care is not a major creditor part of what we are doing in washington or the campaigns. the contrast to what you were you talking about is what is happening in kentucky. mitch mcconnell may lose his race because the democratic governor embraced obamacare, it worked. mitch mcconnell can against it. it may be essential and central to the most important republican leader losing in the fall. >> can the senate minority leader threat the needle and run against obamacare even - excuse me, paul howard, even while connect, the kentucky programme turns out to be popular among many? >> right. i think the needle you need to thread is put together solutions that work. the health care cost started in the mid 2000s. others acknowledged that for a long time. apparently a big part is the lagging economic recovering. we know the health care cost lagging for seller years, people expect it it pick up and trend. that's right. you face the question of what are you offering on net. you can't say repeal,

conflict in ukraine which i know you recently wrote about and there are at least three distinct narratives as far as ukrainian coverage is concerned russian ukrainian and western in the article that you wrote recently you perhaps unsurprisingly described the russian and ukrainian line as political propaganda but i came away with an impression that you believe that the reporting in the western media. raised to the standards of journalism aren't you being a big why is towards your western colleagues i mean i think across the room here if you look at my record when i was a journalist and the international federation of journalists now i'm the director of the journalism network i have been consistently against any group any political group from any ideological parts community from any part of the world that have sought to try to control information in a way which is propaganda stick or unethical or to incite hate speech or to distort information i've been very critical of western media many times in the past and what we're talking about here is not a particular blow of opinion whether it's wes

the western narrative that is responsible for launching in a number of wars and killing hundreds of thousands of people and it may be self-serving to any particular government but it feels serving the global good the global public good look i'm absolutely agreeing with you about the need for it you could say that fifteen to twenty years ago the global narrative in the media system was dominated by an anglo-saxon view of the world essentially came from the b.b.c. and the american big networks therefore the introduction of a completely new set of ideas whether it's through al-jazeera. whether it's through press t.v. whether it's through teo c.c.t.v. is absolutely great it's very important because it creates a pluralistic landscape but what we have to see within that is we have to encourage people to try to understand that there is a need for respect for some universal principles of how we communicate with one another some universal values and i think respect for facts not demonizing the enemy not inciting people to intense hatred and violence these voiding propaganda these it seems to

and our centerpiece narrative film is called run by run. and this is a film about a jewish boy, a polish jewish boy about age eight who has to pose as a gentile to survive the holocaust and it is told through his eyes and he has to go to try to find a place to live and concocting a story to be taken by the different households that he goes to. >> do you know what his nationality was field was? >> an attorney, a lawyer. i'm not sure which country he came from. >> i think it may have been hungary. he was really taken with what was happening in turkey. >> so his work in this arena predates his experience in world war ii. >> interesting. >> so we're going to see another film in a moment. do you want to set this up? >> this say film by local film makers. and it focuses on their son michah and for his -- they collect base bat equipment for cuba his father was a holocaust survivor that ended up in cuba and he feels and allegiance for cuba. >> we need to pay a debt. and what better way to give people love. you got to be willing to donate any equipm

first, it validates the narrative assad has broadcast since 2007. there is also the i told you so factor. if only you had listened to us, we could have avoided that. this is a language that assad mastered. he had done so during the iraq war. his intelligence services can do a good job of it. there is the expectation that there will be cooperation with rebel groups under pressure from isis. you start with tactical cooperation and then you go to those famous truces and cease-fires that we see left and right. i am not sure this is a sustainable strategy or will happen. , the problemhing in the west about what to do about isis is a source of delight. just today, in the new york times, they were arguing about direct cooperation with isis. this is good for the regime anyway. others argue, no, it is not good news for assad. has failedly assad to get westerners to embrace his view of the threat. i think here, we should give credit to john kerry. bad things tof say about u.s. policy, but on this specific point, i think some of this is a good centralizing of

the neoconservatives have also been very successful in controlling the narratives of washington they succeed so for instance you have the catastrophe in iraq in the last decade but then the neoconservative narrative is that well yes the after great invasion was very successful invasion there was a problem with the implementation of the occupation but then came the surge then came near a victory for instance the catastrophe in syria is now being blamed. even though the the u.s. side is supporting with working with the saudis and others helped create this problem in syria where these extremist became very powerful as rebel forces some of the isis group an illness or a front the the narrative is that if obama had only sent in million more military support for the rebels earlier then it would have worked out fine. now don't forget we've also got a website sting the stories including teenage game is in china will probably be turning off the console is after having to do push ups in a real life colin campbell you can learn about the country's new way to fuel internet addiction at our own w

and the reality is that dueling narratives and images is very much a part of this struggle. and always has been. and depending on where you are in the world, various constituencies are more receptive or amenable to one narrative or the other. i can the asymmetry and in the casualties and certainly in the middle east, the unwillingness to give any benefit of the doubt plays greatly in the favor of the palestinian narrative in this case. and europe, as well. i think there is a high degree of sensitivity and sensibility to the very notion that the stronger party, israel, should be the more magazine man mouse one. only in the united states where there are a number of other foundations and it has a strong foundation, do you find the palestinian narrative and the israeli narrative cashing with most people, i think prepared to give israelis the benefit of the doubt. >> well, but aaron, as far as the benefit of the doubt, i think critics look at these images and say how can this powerful military, with all of its sophisticated equipment, say it's making every effort to avoid civilia

. >> we played into the narrative. isis versus al qaeda here. experts are saying that isis is growing in popularity on the jihad scene. it's more exciting for terrorists, as you indicated, the call fin. is there a rivalry here? >> it's already begun. there have been fighting bloody battles in syria for months, and the war of words has been going on for at least as long. and the war of words in the past 48 hours after the declaratilar has been very heated. the declaration has basically split the jihad movement down the middle. with isis on one hand saying it's fantastic. isis finally managed to do what no other jihad group has been able to do for decades. and al qaeda supporters saying it's preposterous. how do they dare to declare this without consulting anyone else and demanding all other jihad i did groups pledge allegiance to them. the debate is sort of new guard versus old guard. it's a youth rebellion, to some extent. most of the support seems to be coming from junior aidealings ad fool soldiers. >> thomas, we're

she's right, media could and accept thea narrative of hillar and bill. >> it's the only thing she's gotell, so it's a paradox, the more we focus on it. >>> sometimes television is just as guilty. here's a piece from sacramento's abc affiliate about a local man who barely avoided a lightning strikes in yosemite, the reporter is kxa's tv george war reas republican. >> you saw it and i saw it, but the guy who shot the video didn't see it. >> there was no sense of a flash, we just knew it was very close. >> at new york's wcbs, a reporter riched o ripped off th and voices the script word for word. >> here's more on this incredible video and how it happened. >> you saw it and i saw it, but amazingly, the guy who shot the video didn't see it. >> warren in sacramento says he think that wcbs got the tape during a video sharing agreement that his station has with cnn, but he still considers it unethical. >> people's work gets ripped off all the time, not to this extent. we would watch as the cover, the headlines of usa today would become the local news leads that afternoon, of course. >> without

so great to have you here. >> guest: very good to be here.l >> host: now, rollicking narrative is not usually the -- [laughter] and this strikes me at not really a politician's book.to h this isn't designed to sort oful yet you further up the greasy pole. why did you write it? >> guest: well, i've always been interested in history. that was what my major was in, i've also got a doctorate inl history. i have also got a doctorate in history and i think when we look at what happened in 2008, the financial crisis, huge amounts of debate, loads of books, i mean loads of books but they all looked at all looked a very short-term perspectives at the short-term perspective. they were looking at the banks. they were looking at maybe hedge funds. they were looking at videos and creditor that it's that i thought let's take a step back and try to understand something about the global financial system something about the current cease that we have the dollar sterling and the nature of gold as well. one of the features of this book is to remind people that for 400 years for 450 years we had a gold b

we'll probably see that this becomes a non-story in many ways because it now no longer fits the narrative that the administration was hoping for and that media was hoping for and they'll move on to the next story. this week there were reports that the seventeen crash was affecting the private life blood of my daughter who lives with her partner in the netherlands although british tabloid the daily mirror was caught out for not checking its facts on friday's front page the paper published a couple of photo it said showed the russian president and his oldest daughter the story claiming she had fled her home but the woman next to putin naturally has no connection to him whatsoever she is in fact a lawyer who was working for russia's federal agency for youth affairs at the time the picture was taken. how she reacted to the blunder. it was a nice sunny day the president was walking on my left so i remember that day that photo was taken by chance in two thousand and eight someone posted it on the internet without checking the facts it's strange that now a media organisation with such a big name

understandably tempting narratives. they are also simplistic. secondary level of development that has a direct impact on the big picture. , whene 2012, early 2013 the regime was weakening, it was also reorganizing to push back. it did so pretty well. two months ago, the regime regioned most of the alongside the border with lebanon and everyone focused on that victory, which is a very important victory. it secured the highway between rebelus and -- it cut supply lines, etc. at the same time, people ignored real rebel advances. -- when it doesn't fit the broad never thosewe tend to ignore facts. there is another point of warning. resist the temptation of being intellectually lazy. my comments refer to the tendency to describe the syrian conflict as a proxy war. i say this for two reasons. direct iranian intervention. terminology matters. it is not proxy. there is direct intervention with uniformed percentile fighting on the ground. there is no denying that there is a strong regional aspect to the struggle in syria that exacerbates the violence. bu

it's a resurrection story that y, we fits neatly within christian narratives. in this way we trance figure the civil war's history of violence icted into virtue and the tragedy into triumph but sand creek depicted as a massacre bucks the we typ redemptive currents that run through most national historic ma sites.rk we typically favor neat depictions of history marked by steady progress, punk waited by . the occasional righteous war fork site often chaotic and frack churled past. the sand creek site, though, reminds visitors as much as they might wishl that theca history proceeded in regimented fashion, the past can't be so easily m drilled to fall into line. the massacre story indicts and pi heroes cast. citizen soldiers.s causes union officials. and reflects a darker vision of the civil war's causes and -- consequences. expansion into the american west touched off the war thatsl destroyed slavery, it's true, s but also other wars with the plains tribes that left behind no simple lessons for federal commentators that may be bending the memory. they're grappling

that was the narrative that they were trying to sell then and obviously it wasn't true. so no, i don't think his policies have helped peace and tranquility throughout the world. >> john, what do you think? >> you know, i don't think the obama administration has improved things but i think that hardly makes it unique. my problem is with the aid in general. we talk about the fallibility of politicians but seemingly when it comes to foreign policy they can do no wrong. i would argue that a lot of our global involvement makes us less safe and i don't like the idea of putting the american worker on the hook for the well being of countries around the world. i think that's wrong. >> rich, you might enjoy the idea of free trade and certainly i do. i think it has led to prosperity around the world but when they claim that their sanctions are doing good in anyway shape or form, we know that putin and all the russians are laughing at the sanctions. they are toothless, are they not? >> yeah. but that is because this administration is terrible at using back channel diplomacy that eve