you know great point ross baker who what why dot com thanks a lot for coming on thank you. in other news as we talked about on the show last night the republican strategy on capitol hill of legislating through hostage taking work yesterday and now unions are screwed house republicans demanded that a routine f.a.a. spending bill include a harsh anti-union language that makes it harder for transportation workers to organize see the change raises the threshold for those who want to seek a union from getting thirty five percent interested to fifty percent for transportation workers. and republicans basically said that if democrats don't agree to it then they'll shut down the f.a.a. again just like they did last year yesterday despite nineteen labor organizations writing a letter to democrats calling on them to oppose the bill. democrats kate and a majority of senate democrats helped pass the bill and new anti-union laws for transportation workers by a seventy five to twenty vote and this is just the latest in a nationwide war led by republicans against working people from washi

well earlier i spoke to ross baker investigative journalist for who what why dot com and the author of the book family of secrets he explained his reasoning on why he thinks the media's coverage of syria has been one sided it's even worse i think than the coverage of libya if that's possible and why do you say it at. well you know who what why dot com we've been studying these things very very closely and we find a complete absence of journalistic due diligence essentially just to give you an example i'm looking at a piece from the new york times from today and they could extensively from an opposition group talking about how many people have been killed atrocities a military massacre of fifteen detainees or etc etc and then at the end it says these accounts could not be independently verified and that you have to ask the question well what is that worse certainly if the syrian government makes a claim i think those are treated with a real skepticism and really at all ought to be treated with skepticism also i would apply a bit of logic to it and ask why the syrian government would be

pursuing their own agendas in the region that's the view of award winning investigative journalist ross baker. we're seeing a similar pattern to what we saw in libya and that is this the western countries clearly want bashar assad out just as much as they wanted khadafi out and we are seeing this introduction of tremendous amounts of force very skilled sophisticated operations like the assassination of that cleric like the assassination of a general the other day in damascus very skilled operatives are bringing this battle right. to assad and that is not the sign of a traditional peaceful uprising that's not to say that there are not a large number of people in syria who would like to get rid of assad but i think that that sentiment a part of the population is being dramatically helped along by outside forces. so they head for you this hour a year off the uprising against gadhafi on going bonnets and claims of torture in libya cost of dulux shining on the country and if there's three celebrations. the foreign media has a new doubling of the russian blogger an anti corruption activist. for his

the terrorist group are actually fighting on the same side because as investigative journalist ross baker believes foreign states are helping armed rebels to. we're seeing a similar pattern to what we saw in libya and that is this the western countries clearly want bashar assad out just as much as they wanted khadafi out and we are seeing this introduction of tremendous amounts of force very skilled sophisticated operations like the assassination of the cleric like the assassination of a general the other day in damascus very skilled operatives are bringing this battle right home to assad and that is not the sign of a traditional peaceful uprising that's not to say that there are not a large number of people in syria who would like to get rid of assad but i think that that sentiment of part of the population is being dramatically helped along by outside forces while international pressure on syria grows and force it's over for of libya as a country marks a year since the revolt against the gadhafi regime celebrations are tainted by ongoing gunfire on the streets and claims of torture. als

is there more to this new censors censorship policy than meets the eye investigative journalist ross baker joins me now moment of connect the dots . and if you commit a fraudulent action you go to jail but if a bank executive commits the same broad action they're rewarded with more and more money. they answer in tonight's. in the best of the rest of the news during last year's arab spring movement it wasn't just the plight of working people in tunisia or the kleptocracy of the mubarak regime in egypt that led to revolution it was also a social networking platform it was twitter twitter allow those involved in the protests an uprising to share ideas and to communicate and most importantly to organize in fact out organize police and security forces on the streets it's simple if there was no twitter or facebook revolution might have been achieved but it would have been a heck of a lot harder now one of those nations that is escaped the arab spring relatively unscathed so far is saudi arabia and it looks like saudi arabia may have a hand in silencing or i should say paying off twitter with the

very deliberate and calculated propaganda campaign press thanks for coming on the show that was ross baker founder and and editor. who what why dot com. also had an r t want to buy land too if by sea but america's greatest star it might not be a by either of the is coming up we'll show you why america's internet insecurity has politicians worried and contractors counting the dollars. that just brings your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual paper it's a food product essentially. it's much stronger than anything you'd be by a lot. of times and stronger than any.

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