coming up next crosstalk with peter lavelle looking out what's ahead for the occupy wall street protest movement just six months before it was boring. please. liz. liz. you can. start. listening to the words. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle with the arrival of spring occupy wall street protesters are coming out of their winter hibernation with plans for we knew demonstrations six months after the movement was born what has been accomplished if anything and what lies ahead for this undefined in the loose knit community of programs. the slim pickings are slim. to cross-talk a six month anniversary of the occupy wall street demonstrations i'm joined by bernard zennie in washington she's a spokesperson for now d.c. in new york we have danny schechter he is a journalist author and independent filmmaker l. also in new york we have charles koch he's a writer for the national review all right folks this is crossfire that means you can jump in any time you want bernie again if i can ask you go to you first what has been accomplished in the last six months with the occupy wall s

and that does it for me but coming up peter lavelle and his guests debate the popularity of u.s. republican presidential candidate ron paul is next right here on our. and you can still. listen to. follow in welcome across dark i'm peter lavelle the candidates the of ron paul what makes him tick why is he so popular among younger voters why do republicans smear him while at the same time fear him and those mainstream media fairly cover his campaign big. ticket. to cross not the republican candidate ron paul i'm joined by mark williams in sacramento he is founder and former chairman of the tea party express and radio host in washington we have mark levine he is a senior fellow with the truman national security project and a talk radio host and in new york we have michael brandon he is politics editor at business insider i'd gentleman this is cross-eyed that means you can jump in anytime you want last week we did a program on mitt romney and i got a ton of mail saying what no one mentioned ron paul once and i thought maybe i'm doing the same thing that american media is doing to ron

own fate the global debt crisis is causing world markets to fluctuate yet again and that's our peter lavelle and his cross guest debate whether more financial regulation will make for a healthier international economy here's a sneak peek. if we look at what's going on in the world at the moment there's this huge bill going through america called the huge advisedly i mean it's now up to something like six and a half thousand pages how can anybody in their right mind expect to use that to create any sort of a framework apart from a large amount of paper that you can go and sit on or possibly make. and i think that's the problem we're running into here peter is that actually we can talk about these lovely concepts all day but actually we've got a nightmare coming up because everybody's going to be potentially in danger of wearing an orange jumpsuit because they won't do what they're able to do and if we don't have any markets whatsoever then reasonable commerce is going to come to a halt because actually i think arnold said it best first of all you can't be extreme you can't have total regulati

below in welcome to a special edition of cross talk i'm peter lavelle decision two thousand and twelve russians have gone to the polls and chosen a new president how is this campaign change politics in russia what does it say about the voters and what does the future hold for the political opposition. led. to the slim. ok to cross-talk first results of the election i'm joined by eric wahlberg in toronto he's an author and journalist and writes about russian affairs and weekly in cairo in brussels we have gilbert doctorow he's an independent scholar and author of great post cold war american thinkers on international relations also here in the studio with me is yon hell of a he is a managing partner of the law firm hell of a klein and who served and author of all his art on democratic competition all right gentlemen crosstalk rosen effect it means you can jump in anytime you want yeah and hell of it you've been writing about russian politics for a long time how is this campaign change the the climate environment of russian politics. well i think we have seen a very big change in russian

still to come later this hour peter lavelle's cross-talk he think debate on another volatile african country uganda the controversial documentary film kony twenty twelve you can see that discussion in about fifteen minutes time but here's a preview for you. this should've been accurate in terms of the portrayal of uganda today if you want to talk about it historically it should have been clear that it was a store corporate trail a good instead of prison and all the facts as if their current and that that and the messaging make famous were good two fundamental flaws i think of corny two thousand and twelve video but i but i also think from the point of view of looking at us policy that we should not be equally simplistic all they're just trying to chase. all they're just militarized. go go ahead go ahead julie jump in paris. we're just we're not being simplistic we're saying that efforts are not made where they should be i mean in my opinion like i said it is high time for that us is africa other then a simple stock of natural resources it's also. a potential economic potential that s

presidential election is also the main focus of debate and cross talk coming up later friday peter lavelle grills his guests about the prospects of republican party nominees rivaling barack obama and how important the state of the u.s. economy will be to the final outcome. republicans have more money than god if they can produce anyone that is even mildly attractive i mean obama looks like a rock star next to these guys i think a lot of the really strong viable republican candidates are waiting for the next election cycle i think twenty sixteen you're going to be see some really good candidates but right now the economy is such a mess that no matter who is elected in two thousand and twelve is going to have a very hard fight on their hands and could be committing political suicide group but he wants to. use it a couple of times focus on the economy focus on the economy the economy is a mess it's sort of again it's worth noting that the economy is picking up there is an uptick. you know if you see it through i'm going to disagree with you there i mean when we have sixteen trillion dollars i

a low in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle with the arrival of spring occupy wall street protesters are coming out of their winter hibernation with plans to renewed demonstrations six months after the movement was born what has been accomplished if anything and what lies ahead for this undefined in the loose knit community of protesters. slim can still slim. cross-talk the six month anniversary of the occupy wall street demonstrations i'm joined by bernard and many in washington she's a spokesperson for now d.c. in new york we have any sector he is a journalist author and independent filmmaker al also in new york we have charles cook he's a writer for the national review all right folks this is crossfire going to as you can jump in anytime you want bernie dean verde and if i can ask you go to you first what has been accomplished in the last six months with the occupy wall street movement. i think with many copulations that people have self appropriated their activism they they've really come out and decided to actualize their thoughts and feelings about what's going on in america ab

alone and welcome the crosstalk i'm peter lavelle invisible children are very visible truths and propaganda the documentary film that went viral on you tube about uganda's child soldiers and a warlord joseph kony has engendered very strong reactions is the film about the suffering of children or a well orchestrated plan preparing public opinion for still another western military adventure in a foreign country. illegally can. start. to cross that the county two thousand and twelve campaign i'm joined by io johnson in london he is to rector at viewpoint africa and in award winning journalist on african affairs in paris we go to julie alone oh she is head of the africa desk at internet without borders and in washington we go to jendayi frazier she is a distinguished service professor at carnegie mellon university hines college and department of social and decision sciences all right folks this is crossfire going to use you can jump in anytime you want and i often go to you first and wondered what was your reaction to this documentary because i watched it very carefully twice actually for its p

taking a lot more on those stories for you in half an hour from now on and meantime as promised peter lavelle and his guests debate whether the crisis in syria is about democracy terrorism or geopolitical strategies over iran that next. wealthy british scientists. sometimes. the. markets finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our key. can start. to. slowly and welcome across our computor all about syria and the law of unintended consequences as the syrian civil war crimes on calls for an outside military intervention grows louder and louder while at the same time there is ample evidence that foreign countries in groups are already waging a clandestine war in the country it is hard to see a peaceful end to this conflict particularly for the people on the ground. we can. start. to cross stop a civil war in syria i'm joined by rod one day in washington he's a visiting scholar at the institute for middle east studies at the elliott school of international affairs at george washington university also in washington we go to jacob hornberger he is f

the low in welcome the crosstalk on peter lavelle recasting the arab middle east and beyond what is the condition of the arab spring are humanitarian interventions effective what about the law of unintended consequences and is the west still determining the geopolitical fate of this past region. live. to kick. start. the process of the future of the arab world and muslim lands i'm joined by richard white's in washington he is a senior fellow and director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute and an expert at wookey stout also in washington we have james phillips he is the senior research fellow for middle eastern affairs at the douglas and sarah allison center for foreign policy studies at the heritage foundation and in london we go to doubt he is the current deputy secretary general of the muslim council of britain all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want richard i'd like to go to you first you know i did and i this is a very broad brush program looking at a lot of events of the last year about a year ago

and coming up later on cross talk with peter lavelle opinions clash over whether the u.s. should weigh in with force to solve the syrian iran. who is not the international law or the united nations to maintain equilibrium after world war two was the united states navy if you're talking about the relative peace that we've had in the world we've had relative peace because of u.s. intervention you might call it imperialism i would call it a part of the role that the united states is playing in maintaining the balance only with the fully easily heard opened up a can of worms here lindsey you first go ahead virtually nobody in iraq will say the thing has been a success has been also failure the troops had to leave the british troops left several years ago the american troops have now left for the most also have left the country and then left a totally broken country but quite incredibly trying to do the same again both in syria as in my view even more dangerous they in the wrong and. you have to recognize that this view. of the whole of world peace has been that the americans i

a new wave of demonstrations against corporate corporate greed and inequality in the next hour peter lavelle and his cross talk guests debate whether the movement has been successful here's a preview. if you think got calls for justice are only being raised by socialists then i wonder why you are in a socialist because we need more justice in our society you think you are going where is with you to just even from your own point of view ok trying to define justice i'm just going to get you also replying one fairly high and charles by and large putting the words in front of justice you can just say socialist is what is not socialistic i want to redistribute wealth nationalize various industries what is not socialistic about that well what's wrong with it either i know charles nobody except you nobody except you is raise the question of nationalization i don't think that is your view on this but i think some of the international review you're still fighting the last true war. at least fifty people have been killed and more than one hundred fifty wounded in two days of travel clashes in southern

were coming up later here in order to cross talk peter lavelle gets a first hand the cold from human rights watch on the scale of rebel atrocities in syria. we sent a letter to the syrian national council raising some issues with we've started the committee some cases of abuse by opposition forces it's not clear how much control the syrian national cold calls here of the free syria army have over there but you know there's been a few instances where. you know summary executor people may be tortured kidnapped. so there are a couple of problems there and we think the syrian national council should speak out even though this is really control of these people. french police are still surrounding the home of the gunman suspected of killing three jewish schoolchildren a rabbi and three paratroopers around to lose the interior ministry has denied previous reports of his arrest prison sarkozy is interludes and was attending the funerals of the murdered soldiers had a nearby military base the suspect named as mohamed merah is reported to be a french national of algerian origin and claims he b

blowing and welcome across stark i'm peter lavelle syria and the law of unintended consequences as the syrian civil war grinds on calls for an outside military intervention grows louder and louder while at the same time there is ample evidence that foreign countries in groups are already waging a clandestine war in the country it is hard to see a peaceful end to this conflict particularly for the people on the ground. keep the. streets. to cross back to civil war in syria i'm joined by rod one busy day in washington he's a visiting scholar at the institute for middle east studies at the elliott school of international affairs at george washington university also in washington we go to jacob hornberger he is founder and president of the future of freedom foundation and in new york we have the lead looking on he is the united nations director at human rights watch all right gentlemen crosstalk rosenfeld that means you can jump in anytime you want jacob if i can go to you first i've been watching the syrian conflict on american british t.v. western media in general and it's basically good

flow and welcome the crosstalk i'm peter lavelle tragedy fear and a lot of politics the massacre in toulouse france again highlights the lack of consensus in europe and the western world when it comes to national identity and the impact of globalization in election year there's a lot of talk about controlling immigration but is the essence of western maternity the real problem. to take. to cross not the issue of violence and globalization i'm joined by kent and corrupt in stockholm he's a member of the sweden democrats party and a member of the swedish parliament and oxford we go to roger griffin he is a professor and academic political theorist at oxford brookes university and in leeds we have mohammed shafique he is the chief executive and founding member of the ramadan foundation all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want roger i'd like to go to you first as i pointed out in the introduction this is an election year and we have seen elections all through europe since the financial crisis of two thousand and eight we've seen a significant drift to wha

promising a new wave of demonstrations against corporate greed and inequality they are the sour peter lavelle and his cross truck as debate whether the movement has been successful has pretty. if you think all calls for justice are only being raised by socialists then i wonder why you aren't a socialist because we need more justice in our society you think you are going to do that just even from your own point of view ok charlie's line justice i want children going but you're also replying one fairly i'm charles by and large putting the words in front of justice you can't use a socialist what is not socialistic about wanting to redistribute wealth nationalize various industries what is not socialistic about it well what's wrong with it either. charles nobody except you nobody except you is raise the question of nationalization i don't think that if you are doing is going to be in the national review you're still fighting the last through your. police fifty people have been killed and more than one hundred fifty wounded in two days of tribal clashes and second libya it comes as the country is

paris financial woes have been causing world markets to fluctuate later peter lavelle and his cross style cast are paid whether more or fewer regulations well make for healthier stock exchanges. but we've got the nightmare coming up because everybody's going to be potentially in danger of wearing an orange jumpsuit because they won't know what they're able to do and if we don't have any markets whatsoever then reasonable commerce is going to come to a halt because actually i think arnold said it best first of all you can't be extreme you can't have total regulation because that stalin ism and those markets didn't work terribly well and you come to a complete ought not capitalism which admittedly we've never really seen in the world but i suppose you could argue happened during the industrial revolution because that's going to be a mess my argument is as a practitioner we need pragmatism and not mean simplicity and the problem is as we do on and on and on and every time there seems to be a question we out another degree of complexity to the regulation it's not going to work if you zoom the

coming your way in a little more than an hour cross talk with peter lavelle opinions on the program collide over whether the u.s. should weigh in with force to solve the syrian and arrests take a listen. there was not the international or the united nations to maintain equilibrium after world war two it was the united states navy if you're talking about the relative peace that we've had in the world we've had relative peace because of u.s. intervention you might call it imperialism i would call it a part of a role that the united states is playing and maintaining a balance on the we will see you know where he's not in these women it's also true that the same thing with your friends in the least the united states plays a very significant role in maintaining the kind of peace that you would like to see even in iraq because as you look at this is really. going to be the reason for a little easily herbert opened up a can of worms here and. still ahead this hour here on r t fuel frenzy drivers in the u.k. rushing to the promises they're warned of a possible fuel tanker strike across. it's really

it seized control to restore order in the country before the polls so a bit later this hour and peter lavelle heated debate on another volatile african country uganda and the controversial documentary film kone two thousand and twelve you can see that discussion here in just about ten minutes but here's a preview right now. the film should have been accurate in terms of the portrayal of uganda today if you want to talk about it historically it should have been clear that it was a store corporate royal but instead it presented all taxes if they're current and that and that and the messaging may call me pain as were the two fundamental flaws i think of our call the twenty twelve video what i what i also thing from the point of view of looking at us policy that we should not be equally simplistic all they're just trying to chase. all their tails militarizing. go go ahead go ahead julie jump in and parents. we're just we're not being think this think we're saying that efforts are not made where they should be i mean in my opinion like a sad it is high time for us these africa either then a simple

glowing welcome to on the money with the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle being elected for a third six year term as russian president vladimir putin returns to power in a very different country than only four years ago candidate who ran on a mostly populist platform can be elected politician deliver the goods and keep the economy growing as well as interest foreign investors. to discuss the economic and financial environment in russia if what i mean putin will face as he returns office i'm joined by. the chief economist at deutsche bank and given chicago he is the chief economist for russia and c.i.s. at renaissance capital we also have been heiress he is the editor in chief of business new europe as well as he is the chief strategist at oakridge but first let's have a look at how russia's new president may transform the country's economy. in four years time russia is expected to break into the ranks of the top five economies in the world with annual g.d.p. growth reaching up to seven percent however it's contingent on a thriving and innovative business sector the deman

blowing welcome across talk i'm peter lavelle the return of lot of mere putin to the russian presidency how did the campaign change russian politics how will russia transform of the next six years and has a new dialogue started within society about the country's future. you can still see. the cross-talk a new period in russian politics i'm joined by john laughlin in paris he is director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in london we have married a chef skee she is the chief editorial writer and a columnist at the independent and here in the studio with me is ben eris he is editor in chief of business new york all right cross talk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want then i'm going to go to you first here in the studio was this election. game changer how was this election different from previous elections it was different in the sense that you know it was a lot more than a critic and so much as a person had to play to the gallery in the way that he hasn't done before i think the picture is a good thing yes yes i think the big change is you kno

coming up peter lavelle and his guests discuss the tight relationship between israel and the united states that's in cross talk next on our team. please. liz. liz. you can. start. to. blow in welcome to crossfire you know all about is it a case of wag the dog this is how some would characterize the current drumbeat for war against iran at the center of this campaign is the american israel political figures come to your aid package is attacking iran in america's interest or even israel's. live can. start. to cross a kite relations between israel and united states i'm joined by valerie lindsay in washington she is the editor and principal researcher for iran watch also in washington we have order khichri he is a tenured professor of law at arizona state university and in jerusalem we go to my a coronary she is a freelance journalist and writer all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it i my if i go to you first are a public opinion poll came out in israel last week it was found that nineteen percent of israelis favor attack

coming up in a little more than twenty minutes cross talk with peter lavelle opinions clash over whether the u.s. should weigh in with force to solve the syria arrest. it was not the international law of the united nations to maintain equilibrium after world war two was the united states navy if you're talking about the relative peace will be bad in a world we've had relative peace because of u.s. intervention you might call it imperialism i would call it a part of the role that the united states is playing and maintaining a balance somebody will see. that he's not in the same as he had lacey's yes also. with your attention in the least the united states plays a very significant role in maintaining the kind of peace that you would like to see even in iraq because as you look at this is doing. the right of. herbert opened up a can of worms here and. stay with us here on r t still to come this hour fuel frenzy drivers in the u.k. rushing to the pumps as they're warned of a possible fuel tanker strike plus. it's really creepy to have someone holding up the machines here plays that you have

flow in welcome across dark i'm peter lavelle the candidates the of ron paul what makes him tick why is he so popular among younger voters why do republican smear him fly out at the same time fear here and does mainstream media fairly cover his campaign big. ticket. crossed off the republican candidate ron paul i'm joined by mark williams in sacramento he is founder and former chairman of the tea party express and radio host in washington we have mark levine he is a senior fellow with the truman national security project and a talk radio host and in new york we have michael brandon dowdy he is a politics editor at business insider i'd gentlemen this is crossfire that means you can jump in any time you want last week we did a program on mitt romney and i got a ton of mail saying what no one mentioned ron paul once and i thought maybe i'm doing the same thing the american media is doing to ron paul so michael first of all explain to my international viewers who is ron paul what is the all about and if there were an election on you tube why would he win. oh well ron paul is a libertaria

coming up later on cross talk with peter lavelle opinions clash over why washington has taken such an uncompromising stance toward the syrian government. the united states is acting out of humanitarian desire to see this in this does not mean that we will engage in direct military intervention as i suggested despite the fact that senator mccain and others have suggested we do so and so i think it's perfectly clear that we have an interest in seeing assad ousted we also have an interest and seems to belittle occur after assad is removed how that stability would occur remains to be seen will it be a democratic will it be democratic impulses i doubt it the muslim brotherhood is well organized to take control of the country ok maybe. for me briefly as the leader forty years ago when i need what have you to speak of this is number one what if that rule of muslim brotherhood does come to power in syria democratically then we have to accept the outcome right herbert exactly and this is really the matter is what are you saying if you don't like the current government in syria but the potentia

blow him welcome across town peter lavelle serious divides as the peace plan for syria gains international support worries remain it is only a lull before the civil war in the country resumes with greater intensity and violence on all sides because the west and its allies in the region still harbor plans for another humanitarian intervention. came. across not the new peace plan for syria i'm joined by herbert lunden in new york he is president emeritus of the hudson institute in brussels we go to someplace mon he is a writer and author of humanitarian imperialism and in london we have lindsey german she is the convener of the british anti-war organization stop the war coalition right folks this is cross i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encouraged her but if i go to you first in new york what's your sense of kofi annan peace plan for syria is it a beginning or is it a dead end post probably a dead end largely because the civil war is likely to go on saddam has engaged in murderous activities thousands of people have lost their lives it's a terrible situation the probl