and that was ross baker editor of who what why dot com and author of the vulcan family secrets the bush dynasty well that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to artsy dot com slash usa you can also check out our youtube page if youtube dot com slash r t america you can also follow me on twitter liz wall the big picture of thom hartmann is coming up in just a half an hour that's going to do it for me i'm liz wall had a great night.

and that was ross baker investigative journalist and author of the book family of secrets the bush dynasty and syrian authorities have reached a final agreement with the arab league this following the arab league's demand that tanks be pulled off the streets and a dialogue be established with the government opposition president assad had stated earlier that he would only be open to talking to parties that had no legs to foreign powers or what he called terrorism some three thousand and counting have been killed since violent clashes between protesters and government security forces erupted in nearly a month ago arts he's a test arcilla reports from damascus. the protests government crackdowns and violence continue to plague parts of syria the capital damascus is still largely sheltered from but beneath the calm many will remind you that in syria walls most certainly have years more but at the country's intelligence service has political clout in syria that's one of the state's secret and says the unrest began in march protestors have accused them of violent interrogations. before i was cha

admits tensions ran so high that it forced her to the brink of resigning joining me now for more is ross baker editor of who what why dot com. rest thanks for joining us the other best book right here family secrets the bush dynasty ross thanks for joining us so this memoir reveals some tension among top political leaders in the white house what do you think it says about politics and what really goes on behind closed doors in washington you know in every administration you have exactly the same thing there are always disagreements and then people leave you want to make their mark they want to be in the book. and it's them because you know. it being this new york times reading it it's really hard to get anything of in there of good interest the primary idea is that condi rice is not as much of a hawk. rumsfeld and that she really didn't have as much influence as they did and that's hardly surprising because she was running largely as a kind of a figurehead in a sort of representative of bush's father's group who are much much more arduous. about foreign and military policy and. it's about the

there in atlanta where they are finally at least at least symbolically coming together so well said ross baker thanks so much for being with us tonight thank you very much and keep up the great work it's just the fact that we're already been doing for years and years luckily occupy wall street has been able to grow and flourish despite the lack of reliable coverage in the corporate media let's hope it continues. crazy alert find a new eternal resting place a spanish cemetery is threatening to a vic thousands of people from their supposedly final resting places claiming that their leases are up and their caretakers and relatives need to pay up for some reason many spanish cemeteries no longer allow people to buy gravesites instead they offer leases up to forty nine years which falls well short of the intended move out day you know eternity already the remains of four hundred twenty people have been dug up for failure to pay rent but the backlash is now underway occupants of the graveyard to form their own afterlife political.