hot debate on cross talk peter lavelle asks is guest if double standards are at work in the treatment of libya by western governments compared to bahrain where the royal family remains in control that's coming up next. if. you think you are. alone in the welcome to crossfire i'm peter lavelle we're told libya's khadafi must go but the royal family of bahrain must stay is this a double standard is freedom allowed for some well others are not worthy of the same and will the west later regret its differing approaches to the arab awakening . across five different reactions towards the arab awakening i'm joined by hussein in pensacola he's the director of americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain in san francisco we cross the street and zoom this he's a professor of politics and international studies at the university of san francisco and in new york we have matthew schaffer he is a writer for the national review online all right gentlemen this is cross talk i mean you can jump in anytime you want to before we start our discussion here let's take a look at some of the issues in r

next peter lavelle and just crosstalk discussed whether double standards are at work in the treatment of libya by western governments compared to where the royal family remains in control despite. wealthy british style. markets by now scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the cause a report on r.g.p. . can. start. hello and welcome to crossfire and i'm peter lavelle we're told libya's gadhafi must go but the royal family of bahrain must stay this is a double standard is freedom allowed for some while others are not worthy of the same and will the west later regret its differing approaches to the arab awakening . you can still see. cross-talk different reactions towards the arab awakening i'm joined by hussein of july in pensacola he's director of americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain and san francisco we crossed the stevens in this he's a professor of politics and international studies at the university of san francisco and in new york we have matthew schaffer he is a writer for the national review online all right gentlemen this is cross tal

alone and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle opening the door to tear the al qaeda franchise has been largely absent from the arab awakening in north africa people appear to be embracing democracy and not radical islam however this may change the military intervention in libya and the violence in yemen could be an opportunity for al qaida. can. still see. just guess al-qaeda in the arab world today i'm joined by an old abbas he's in washington he's a senior political scientist at the rand corporation also in washington we have been rami he is a human and civil rights program director at the muslim american society freedom and in austin we go to derrick crow he is a political director at the brave new foundation and another member of our cross talking you know on the hunger right derrick in austin you got up early as for this program so i'm going to go you first. is we've we've faced you know during the day we look at the. transformation of the arab world the him the embrace of democracy and getting rid of these vicious dictators have been around for for decades the dictators and

welcome back to cross talk peter lavelle remind you we're talking about the arab revolution. ok stephen if you go back to san francisco before we went to the break we were talking about the iranian angle here i mean they must be very amused watching how the united states is tripping all over itself with former allies in the region here when iran for all intensive purposes been pretty consistent if you like it or not consistent. what's very disappointing to hear dennis ross speak at a conference i was advised i'd spoken out on a previous panel in washington d.c. where ross who. has an important position in the administration as a. special advisor on the greater middle east for the abound in stray ssion he was going on and on about how iran was manipulating the. the crisis in bahrain etc etc not one word criticizing their oppression i mean remind me so much of the cold war when whenever any kind of leftwing pro-democracy movement challenging right when you take a shit was somehow this conspiracy that came from the survey union in cuba but you know this president can you remind

along with the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle fifty years after the cia back bay of pigs operation the castro dynasty still dominates havana but has the u.s. hardline stance on cuba had unintended consequences for the revolution is it time finally did and the embargo is never achieved its original aims. started to. discuss u.s. cuban relations or lack of them i'm joined by ray waltzer in washington he's a senior policy analyst at the heritage foundation in berkeley we cross the salt landau he is a senior fellow at and vice chair of the institute for policy studies he's also a filmmaker and his new film is will the real terrorist please stand up and in san francisco we have gloria she is a corner of the national committee to free the cuban five all right this is cross talk that means you can jump anytime you want but first let's have a short look at a short report on recent relations between washington and obama. fifty years following the failure of the u.s. back bay of pigs up aeration to alice fidel castro's government and cuba the two nations remain at loggerheads decades of wash

the low end welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the building breaks of the future some of the world's fastest growing emerging markets are meeting in china and they're called the brics brazil russia china india and south africa their plan is simple be an alternative to a western centric world is this an inevitable reality or just wishful thinking. that you can. see. just as the role of the brics in the world today i'm joined by the escobar and from palo he's a journalist and author of obama does globalist on in brussels we have frederick erickson he is a director and a co-founder of the european center for international political economy and in denver he crossed the kind he is a professor of economics at the university of denver gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want to go to you poppy first because you've been on the program before ten years ago we came across this term well known sachs came up with it bricks and it was a well let's hope what it was was a sexy tool to sell the emerging markets stocks well ten years later it has taken on a life of its

along in welcome to cross talk and peter lavelle as the arab spring interested six months it appears to have run into some serious headwinds to some arab desperadoes have a learning curve and are the democratic rights of some people limited by the west geopolitical interests. to. discuss what may be called a counter revolution in the arab world i'm joined by nineteen she hardy in london he's an associate fellow in house also in london we have gilbert ashqar he is a writer and professor at the university of london and in washington we go to lawrence korb he's a senior fellow at the center for american progress all right gentlemen this is crosstab it means you can jump in anytime you want first i'd like to go to goldberg in london are we seeing different paradigms being developed in the arab spring moves forward the arab awakening as some people call it we have the twenty's or maybe the egypt model where we have some think maybe approaching a revolution a real revolution a change in the guard there and then maybe the bahrain model backed up by the saudi arabia they wrote the script the

alone when welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle arming to when the conflict in libya has reached a stalemate should western powers expand their intervention and arm the and take it off the rebels would this be tantamount to choosing sides in a growing civil war and as time passes does an end game in libya become even more elusive. can. you discuss the ongoing stalemate in libya i'm joined by jim el-gamal he's in london he's a libyan writer and political activists he's also a british coordinator for the rebel interim national council of libya in washington we have i've been e-mailing he's a senior fellow and director of the center on peace in liberty at the independent institute and in tucson we have hudson she is an associate professor of near east studies at the university of arizona and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right this is across town that means you can jump in anytime you want. i could go to tucson should you the united states and its western allies one way or another legally or illegally or a split the difference between the law and what we want

the next peter lavelle and cross talk guest discussed whether foreign intervention in libya may pave the way for al qaeda it's take root in the country stay with us what's coming up next. can. stand. alone and welcome to cross talk i'm peter a little opening the door to tear the al qaeda franchise has been largely absent from the arab awakening in north africa people appear to be embracing democracy and not radical islam however this may change the military intervention in libya and the violence in yemen could be an opportunity for al qaida. can. start. discussing al qaeda in the arab world today i'm joined by an old abbas like he's in washington he's a senior political scientist at the rand corporation also in washington we have graham rami he is a human and civil rights program director at the muslim american society freedom and in austin we go to derrick crow he is a political director at the brave new foundation in another member of our cross talk in jail on a hunger strike derrick in austin you got up early as for this program so i'm going to go you first. is with we've thanks y

are at our chains alice cooper live for us in small and then peter lavelle across talk o. is here with me in the studio as we continue our coverage of the commemoration ceremony of the plane crash that claimed the life of the polish president the country's political elite a year ago. hungry for the fulsome we've got it for us the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. he's available in. central. europe most full stop. i'm a taste in bosnia and herzegovina. and bit of each.

and the latest edition of crossfire peter lavelle his guest explore how western powers orchestrating foreign politics may now be skating on thin ice in. what's coming to you next hour. the west has got to understand that's if they go in. if they go into countries and gets involved into politics i do not understand if they fail to in the cultural and tribal mixes are integrated on the ground so then you can find out so they can have similar situations what we have. in iraq and most recently the old somalia i will force now we're seeing similar situations we've libya. and now to other news stories from around the world japan's government have the word the operator of the fukushima nuclear plant to pay some twelve thousand u.s. dollars to each household forced to evacuate because of radiation it is estimate of the compensation could end up topping twenty five billion dollars meanwhile japanese emergency response crews are carrying out the first intensive searches for earthquake and tsunami victims near the nuclear plant. two thousand bodies could be in the area the recovery of which was

welcome back i'll start i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're talking about the position of the bric countries on the global stage. and you can. find it i like to go to you in brussels but i was talking about something that i think was very interesting before we went to the break and as it had these countries get richer and richer and their political clout may or may not depending on how collectively they work together become more powerful but we have these institutions that are in place today that he was talking about nato also we have the united nations security council mean you were going to have to have institutional evolution to accommodate these growing populations in richer populations we cannot continue with the one nine hundred forty five political order and i'm looking at the united nations security council how do you think that's going to happen is the west receives in power and wealth and the rest of the world comes up for a good other part of the world what's the institutional change that has to occur. well i mean that's a very good question i'm afraid i don't have a goo

low and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle is u.s. president barack obama still an honorable recipient of the nobel peace prize to be fair he inherited two wars but assuming office but he is also a new war on his watch and that is libya should obama's peace prize be revoked and should politicians from future consideration. can start. to discuss the issues around barack obama's nobel peace prize i'm joined by bill snyder in washington he's a distinguished senior fellow and resident scholar at third way in london we have to take ali he is a writer and filmmaker and in knoxville we have john williams he is the editor and publisher of new millennium writings and another member of our cross talk team deal on hunger right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want bill schneider as i pointed out in the introduction barack obama inherited two wars ok fair enough he didn't stardom a lot of people criticized his escalation of the war in afghanistan and libya is truly his war i mean nobel peace prize and all those

welcome back to on the money i'm peter lavelle and we're discussing russian companies and i.p.o.'s but first let's have a quick recap of russia's experience with i.p.o.'s. russian companies spring in themselves to the market but equally international listings if you have both sold a business case and a commitment to sell in that business case to meijer investors of course investors cannot rely on their own and that was the research or just that or the company or so or all the investors making their own decision most liberals probably are one of the meetings with the management. question still comes down to management but it's capable. of course. the upper or organized professional or to always looking for success also russian corporate culture has come a long way in the last decade filesystem process can still be quite challenging as a corporate culture transparency is the preparedness of the all members of the business you know all too common sort of all point we talk about all national structure which sometimes continues to be in the company it was called altamont beneficiaries

joined here at they do gather at the desk by our chief political commentator and cross talk host peter lavelle with more insight on this so now you're saying we know and i was not on a really only are we. at the funeral together as a very beautiful ceremony this is very beautiful to a lot is happened in the us since then a lot of cooperation but disagreements as well we have to remember we're dealing with poles and russians and we have a couple hundred years of not the best relations and i say that with a grain of salt there horse. is a very very painful experience for poland. and we know that for decades the soviet union in night any involvement and and in the early ninety's we had full disclosure and and for the poles you know full disclosure that is something that is very important to them russia is working very very hard with them the fact that they're having their ceremony together is a testimony to how far these two countries are going to leader a leader should cultures have come and i think that's very important because let's not fool ourselves that there's a long way to go. we will be

welcome back to on the money i'm peter lavelle and we're discussing russian companies and i.p.o.'s but first let's have a quick recap of russia's experience with i.p.o. . russian companies themselves to the market but internationally still need to have both a solid business case and a commitment to sell in that business case to meijer investors of course and restless cannot get away. and that was true so it's or just but then it will become. all the best risk making their own decision. for the management. to raise questions. as well as capable. of course. organized professional world always looking for success over russian corporate culture has come a long way in the last decade the least in process can still be quite challenging for corporate culture transparency as a preparedness or alters of the business here nor there. sort of our open we talk about their ownership structure which sometimes continues to be in motion in the in the company it was called out and what beneficiaries of the business to disclose the. sort of stuff that's usually was kept there we from the public eye

welcome back to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're talking about al qaeda in the arab world. but first let's see what russians think about this organization that is. with democracy in the air many in the arab world now have hope and expectations of change to the people's pope were appears to have marginalized radical fundamentalists in other groups though only then yemen this may not be the case and there is growing evidence that al qaeda is on the move in both countries the public opinion foundation asked russians what is the target of al qaeda thirty nine percent of the respondents say it's the entire non muslim world and another thirty two percent say al qaeda is actions targeted only against some particular countries it remains to be seen if civil war and foreign military intervention will play into the hands of al qaeda and other groups. right and how inane washington i'm going to you know we were talking this brand issue that kind of house it's a really big problem as pointed out earlier part of the program but they are resilient and it isn't going to go away i mean ex

as we have lines next peter lavelle's crosstalk guess the scots weather america's mounting debt is beating the dollar into submission. if you can. start. to. think that. chloe unwelcome across time peter a little on the brink of bankruptcy time is running out for the american budget deficits failure to raise the debt ceiling could have catastrophic consequences not only for the u.s. but for the entire world how can piling on more debt begin to solve america's fiscal woes. can't. discuss america's out of control debt situation i'm joined by martin henniker in hong kong he's an associate director at the tykes group in cambridge we have jeffrey frankel he's a professor of capital formation and growth at the harvard kennedy school and in new york we cross to joe weisenthal he is a deputy editor at the business insider all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a quick look at america's debt mess. going broke going for broke want to get asked if the l.s.o. fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling is lifted by need money on the

libya rages on questions remain over who exactly is calling the shots and later on cross talk peter lavelle's gas share their views on the issue here's a quick look at what. we have to be a little skeptical that that's a you're good u.s. strategy to go in and then hope for it is the idea to be of hope i guess to quote the president's own saying to run a strategy like this or we're going to get into some bombing and that sort of thing and hope for the best and i just don't see going to war in that way as responsible and i can't believe the us foreign policy establishment is supporting that type of a half baked option but this is not the u.s. against gadhafi in fact the u.s. is taking a backseat through this is a forty three countries internationally us who are against it i'm not even going through it is the u.s. against. providing those who commit crimes and i bring please can i finish my point please five out of countries two of them are engaged in the military action norway canada. netherland started then month one to three countries france britain you know this is not the us against gadhafi

welcome across talk i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're talking about cuba and the united states. the topic of. ok gloria just before going to the break things are getting heated up and i noticed you wanted to jump in so i'm going to give you a chance now but i want i want re-install to resolve the issues they started in the first part of the program go ahead gloria. yes well the last united nations general assembly vote was overwhelming and it keeps growing and growing with only three countries voting in favor of the u.s. blockade and over one hundred eighty three voting against it but the u.s. has far more power because of the security council and the pressure that applies to other countries the it's ironic that the blockade is tightening ever more including under the obama administration at a time when cuba is exporting jocker is helping with hundreds of doctors providing medical care for free in haiti in venice well and many other countries and i think that what the u.s. fears most of all is the example that cuba provides we have. learned that ray excuse me let me finish let m

welcome back to on the money i'm peter lavelle and we're discussing the russian companies and i.p.o.'s but first let's have a quick recap of russia's experience with i.p.o.'s. russian companies brand themselves to the market particularly international listings you can have both and so the business case and the commitment to sell in that business case to major investments. investors cannot feel why it was. always going to so much work because the world has been the company so all the best first making their own decision was based on one of the musics with the management. to raise questions on this. one that's capable. of course. for all but organized professional world for always looking for success over russian corporate culture has come a long way in the last decade the least and crosses can still be quite. challenging the corporate culture and the transparency of the preparedness of the orders of the business and you know to come sort of our open we talk about their ownership structure which sometimes continues to be in motion is there in the company in terms of cause ultimate benef

welcome back across time peter lavelle to remind you we're talking about the future of nuclear energy. and. benjamin if i go back to you and paris i mean irrespective of your attitude towards nuclear energy one thing is for sure demand for energy is going to continue to grow weak specially in china was already mentioned in the program as we speak right now there's a lot of controversy about nuclear power plants being built in. dia and another market that desperately needs more energy and and we live in a very volatile world gentlemen i mean the politics of all oil the geopolitics of oil is out there in our face now we don't know what the world's going to be like and twenty years twenty five years but you everybody has to plan for their energy security so then what about that i mean irrespective you like nuclear power not. just a lot of countries just feel compelled to go in that direction because it will be their energy. there's a lot with unpack with a comment first i think bill's you know soundbite that it's either pro-nuclear or provocative is brilliant it's a great comment but it

welcome back on the money i'm peter lavelle and we're discussing russian companies and i.p.o.'s but first let's have a quick recap of russia's experience with i.p.o.'s. russian companies spring in themselves to the market particularly international listings need to have both a solid business case and a commitment to sell in that business case to major investments. and rest can walter white one well. and that was to research or close to or the company so for all the investors making their own decisions most of which is probably one of the was not synced with the management. to raise questions on the management but it's capable. of course. organized professional world show always looking for success over russian corporate culture has come a long way in the last eight kate fill. the process can still be quite challenging the corporate culture transparency is the preparedness of that warners of the business you know to come sort of out openly and talk about of the ownership structure which sometimes continues to be in motion in the in the company you could have called out in the be