you know i really don't think it's good business i think that the united states has been. an empire i think clearly the inequalities of wealth that we're seeing in the united states is tied to an empire i mean this is clearly part of a kind of the domestic a military and you see here that how when he when he comes to anything that's important domestically in the united states such as health care reform it's almost impossible to get any serious health care reform done but when it comes to military intervention i mean he's just done overnight i mean obama just says we're going to do this we're going to bomb libya there's no discussion no. no no and no kind of congressional oversight we just go ahead and bomb and it's the same goes with any kind of war at all you know we had last week we had a stories in the new york times about obama ordering a sign gentlemen much more to disguise a fascinating discussion but we've run out of time many thanks and i guess a day in new york and in wasilla and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember last

this case i marxist analysis is really absurd where is the united states where's the evidence of the united states involvement in syria i mean obviously the united states would love to see assad fall but we're not entirely happy about what the consequences of that might be and that is a continuing conversation that is taking place in our state department at the moment the idea that the united states knows what it wants to achieve in syria is ridiculous while her they want to see her in all fairness sure you want to hear in all fairness the secretary of state this has assad must go so the united states does have an interest in the fate of syria one way or another ok and what is the united way that is it is a city in the middle that it wasn't really something everybody wanted to ease please every time the united states says somebody has to go you know what they do eventually john in boston you want to jump in. yes yes i want to go back to a couple things first of all i want to go back to something herb said he said that the idea of isolationism is nothing new in american politics well i

sectarianism i think the sectarianism has been willed into existence largely by the policies of the united states ok where you want to jump in on that. well i would disagree with george i think that no national sectarian differences rivalries and conflicts are inherent where the west and the international community have a role is that they they can if there is a leader they can help contain those things but look you know the conflicts that you're talking about go well beyond the middle east look at east asia we have china and japan in rivalries japan and south korean rivalries china disputing islands with the philippines in vietnam that's not because of u.s. meddling or anything like that that's inherent in international politics especially when you don't have a strong leader and what we've seen from the united states is really in some ways a lack of strong leadership to help contain those conflicts and sometimes george is correct we've actually engaged in correct strategies and policies that policies that have exacerbated conflicts ok we're going to was a lot said right there i think it's

in mali i mean again this was always likely once the united states aligned itself with various radical islamic forces very very groups that are already listed as terrorist organizations and the same thing is clearly happening in syria we've seen that the the civil war which has been clearly few and funded and financed by the united states has now spilled over into lebanon and this as this war continues as it will do. lebanon will almost certainly be engulfed in the civil war so i think these are policies that great powers particularly the united states will into existence because they weaken possible opponents ok and what do you think about that it works to america's advantage and its allies to have these sectarian differences particularly in looking at a syria in the region. well on the one hand i think ryan is right that the u.s. doesn't deliberately want there to be the secretary in conflict but on the other hand the u.s. has other should teach it goals in the way it pursues them actually exacerbates and fuel sectarian conflict so when the u.s. looks at a place like syria they see b

engage in these kinds of activities i think it hurts their soft power but that doesn't mean that the united states does not have soft power or the capacity to leverage some of its political values or its foreign policy to achieve some sort of foreign policy objective i think it's not so clear cut a picture for the united states and its software if i could say with you could you give me an example where a positive soft power you get a positive outcome when looking at u.s. foreign policy. well we one of the things that you know people have talked about is whether or not the events in the middle east represent a victory for soft power such as the arab spring and on the one hand you can look to this as an example of democracy as a political value succeeding or at least starting to succeed in the region on the other hand right it's not necessarily the case that this is a quote unquote victory for american soft power america doesn't own the institution of democracy it's not uniquely american but on the same of the same token right it's important to recognize that soft power isn't necessarily abou

and the united states. hope the rule of law, the understanding of what the asylum convention meant in 1951, what asylum means today, will be adhered to by the british. >> michael ratner, the significance of baltimore garzÓn becoming one of the attorneys for julian assange, the well- known spanish judge and prosecutor who is consulting with the ecuadorian government. what about his presence as part of your team? >> part of our team would be an understatement balthazar garzÓn really is the head of the team. he has the ability of political ability to move in that america and around the world, but to be able to negotiate and politically with the next steps are for julian assange. but what is really interesting about baltasar garzÓn case is how similar would happen to him related to what is happening to julian assange. baltasar garzÓn lost his job as a judge in spain because he wanted to be a truth teller, open up the thousands that were disappeared in the spanish war in the 1930's. the conservative, the right w

it is always is the gateway of the united states to china. as the economic and trade cooperation between china and the united states and california deepens, now we believe that trade and investment keeps growing. china is the third largest export destination for california. many multinationals like hp, intel, cisco, and chevron are doing well in china. they're making money in china. at the same time, as the close relationship is going on, many chinese companies are working in san francisco in california. i would like to name a few. the tsl, ciuts, just to name a few. these are successful chinese companies working here. as the american companies in china, the chinese companies working in california in san francisco are also making contributions to job creation and the development of the economy in local areas. we're thinking these are very good signs. as the previous speakers mentioned, we paid a visit to the united states last february. governor brown proposed that we set up a working group for the u.s., a state, and china provinces to coopera

three others claim they had come to the united states to warn us. time in september something may come out of the sky in our direction. when we defend it? no, we would not. has this ever been investigated? no, it has not. it was a termination because of the midterm election, there was a pro forma committee in congress. they have said nothing less for three years later. it is shameful. the media, which is controlled by the great conglomerates which control the political system, has done an atrocious job of reporting, though sometimes good stories get in. i have worn my eyes out studying the wall street journal, which despite its dreadful editorial policies, is a pretty good newspaper of record, which "the new york times" is not. if you read "the wall street journal" you can pretty much figure out what happened that day. according to law, faa, it is mandatory within four minutes of a hijacking, fighter planes from the nearest military base go up to scramble, meaning they forced the airplane down and find out what is happening. one hour and 50 minutes,

absolutely that's right not just saudi arabia and qatar but the united states the united kingdom and france are on one side in this war as russia and china are absolutely right to insist on resisting that effort and to propose a cease fire although wrong of course to be arming the assad regime as the as the powers on the other side are wrong to be arming the resistance just as the u.s. government was wrong several years ago to be sending our prisoners over to assad's regime to have him tortured them ok christian what do you think about the rebels ok are these jeffersonian democrats in your mind why are we supporting them why western powers has been the why are they supporting them to the extent they are and arming them by the way what. for a lot of questions there the you know throughout arab spring this has been the big question who the rebels are and i think it's important to realize they're diverse just as they're diverse in egypt iversen libya and now diverse here i mean there are some very unappealing elements among them including some al qaeda although those numbers are probabl

in 2004, 7.6 million latinos voted in the united states. that is according to research that has been done at the national level. in 2008, that jumped up to 9.7 million. now there are estimates that this upcoming election in november, this number could go up to as high as 12 million. that number is only going to grow. it makes it all the more relevant to examine the life of somebody like marco rubio. in some respects, i kind of think of him a little bit is almost a test case for how the american population relates to latino politicians. that was reason enough for me to write a book about it. you look at the reasons why you want to write a newspaper article. -- you also have asked that question when you're setting out to write a book. i have come up with several interest-rate one was the answer that i had my first idea when i was writing about, that came to me. the other was one i was done writing the book and afterwards printmaking to me. so what was the first answer to the question? first answer was that this guy has better prospects of the

i think that the united states in that you made a very good point at the start of your question there and that is i don't feel that the bush administration or the obama administration has been straight with the american public as to exactly why we are fighting in afghanistan what led to this war in afghanistan and that goes back to the one nine hundred eighty s. when or even in the one nine hundred seventy s. before the soviet union invaded in according to secretary defense former secretary of defense robert gates in his book from the shadows as well as president jimmy carter's national security adviser zbigniew brzezinski who said in an interview with nobel observatory a french magazine in one thousand nine hundred eight we drew this we wanted to draw the soviet union into afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. in order to pay it back cord into them for what it did to us in vietnam so what happened was this is the same thing today on a different level it became a proxy war in which the united states used with pakistan its ally the mujahideen to fight against the soviet union a

and you are referring to the prc into the united states. -- the prc and to the united states. >> i thinkrent answers but first of all, the imbalance in the international economy in a way is a reflection of the imbalance between the u.s. and chinese economies. if you believe in -- the united states spends too much and save still. chinese safety much and spends too little. and that gets reflected in a trade surplus with china and deficit for the united states and so on. it's really an interest of both countries, simultaneously to move in the direction of the other were china truly has has a consumer led economy and the united states has more balance between savings, investment and consumption. that is easy for me to say. it's very hard for the two societies today because there are vested interests who like the situation as it is, and benefit from the imbalance. and so it's going to require leadership in both countries to sort of change domestic and then external priorities. with respect to taiwan, taiwan is not a big player in international economy but it is an important player. the questi

when the soviets were there and the united states was backing the mujahideen or today now that we're fighting those whose sons whose fathers we backed then they will not give in either many people feel that if the u.s. and nato draw down that the taliban will have fewer people to fight there's no infidel inviting invaders on on the ground however i don't think anybody believes that the united states is going to pull out and in this war in two thousand and fourteen the pentagon does not want to lose this war no army wants to lose this war and right now the united states is clearly not winning this war because the taliban and its backers as we've all seen in the last few weeks with these terrible incidents of. afghans killing the very min that are training them and what president obama said in one of the third part of his speech that you showed here was that we want to create a security system an army a system that can take the place of us and that we can therefore leave afghanistan right now it's not clear that this army that we can't even guarantee is on our side one hundred percent

the has come for honest government in the united states of america. so tonight, i do not promise millennium in the morning. he do not promise we can evad quate poverty and eliminate, but i do promise action, and new policy for peace abroad. a new policy for peace and progress at home. look at our problems abroad. do you realize we face the stark truth that we're worse off in every area of the world tonight than we were when president eisenhower left office eight years ago. thathat is the record. and there is only one answer to such a record of failure. that is a complete housecleaning of those responsible for the failures of that record. the answer is a complete reappraisal of the policies in every section of the world. we shall begin with vietnam. we all hope in the room that there is a chance that current negotiations may bring an honorable end to the with and we'll say nothing during the campaign that may destroy that chance. but if the war has not ended, when the people choose in november, the choice will be clear, here it is: for four years, this

of the security council failing to unite and work out a solution to the syrian crisis at. the trial of the russian punk group who see a rise of rogue said chorus of responses from artists and politicians from all around the world the three members could spend up to seven days in prison for performing an anti putin stunt in the country's naples this cathedral. the regime closure has a gathering seals in the gulf region saudi arabia's crown down on dissenters claiming more lives while dozens have been arrested and injured in bahrain where demonstrators demanded more freedoms from its morning. headlines and right now you know scale of this force and you know i guess if russia and paeans were at school their report would read must try harder yes indeed or stop smoking behind the bike shed because there was twenty plus gold medals up for grabs on saturday russia didn't win any of them but still absorbing day all out ahead right now. thanks for joining us this is plenty indeed ahead including the stories in bree. serina williams claims olympic gold in ladies tennis blitzing mari

in the gulf states. united nations observer mission wraps up its four month long presence in syria citing increasing violence reports suggesting british intelligence is helping rebels fight the regime. and broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow where it is six o one on the monday morning and this is our t.v. recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program. julian assange has called for the u.s. to stop its witch hunt against whistleblowers and also thanked ecuador for granting him political asylum he made his long awaited statement on the balcony of the latin american countries a london embassy surrounded by british police who were ready to sweep him into custody if he set foot outside the building party's lawyer smith reports from outside that embassy in london. what happened to this afternoon has been nothing left in a rally that was several speakers who came on the floor today in a sound sort of whom are packed his longtime supporters including tara cali the renowned station list but o

the united states mofo that it will not seek to prosecute. or else the court of. the united states must pledge before the world that it will look as huge unless put siding shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful. the sons went on to mention the names of several people people like bradley manning thomas drake william binney the staff and supporters of wakely wiki leaks all of them are the new faces or i should say the new victims of an assault spearheaded by the united states against those who are trying to bring corruption war crimes constitutional violations and corporate and governmental abuse into the spotlight they are the whistleblowers in freedom of information activists who are exposing the corporate state its assault on dissent and its ruthless expansion of influence around the planet they are the ones at the forefront of a struggle that is bigger than julian assange and bigger than wiki leaks it's a struggle all to believe for the soul of our nation when julian assange has asked the united states to do the right thing he's asking our nation a

we need to be concerned about creating jobs in the united states. it is totally unacceptable that a u.s. manufacturer has to pay a 13.5% tariff for the same imported cotton material that a foreign country, under these trade agreements, can send in for zero. how is it that an american manufacturer can compete? they cannot. in my own state, there are hundreds of jobs. there are over 10,000 jobs. i hope the administration is going to work with us toward the cotton and world -- and wool trust funds and create a level playing field that you want for hemispheric the best hemispheric trade. is that something we can get -- hemispheric trade. is that something we can get help on? >> yes, thank you. the fixes will help create jobs. it is important and we appreciate your support. i am well aware of the issue you raised. in my office, we focus on textile and apparel. i look forward to working with you and your staff and constituent companies to see how we can help them on this particular issue and any other issues they have in supporting their manufacturing effo

well i have no idea interestingly just a couple days afterwards i was doing some of my work at the united nations and i was looking at the human development report and it dawned on me that the data to compare the united states to other wealthy countries is readily available you can look at it you can see how we're doing and from there you can identify if we're doing better or worse and in the areas we're not doing as well one of the lessons we can learn from other countries so when you do the comparison what you find is overall the united states doesn't do that well on health safety democracy and equality we get some of the lowest rankings for education roughly in the middle but one of the disappointing factors is we used to be one of the best in most of those categories in the case of social mobility you found that america is not the land of opportunity it promises to be as a matter of fact you say countries such as canada and germany. rank better than america what exactly did you find out this is what i found to be one of the most surprising results in the book i grew up believing in th

of who gets to stay in the united states and who must go. [speaking spanish] the translator instructed. raised your right hand. he said i swear in spanish. of the records pedro victor garcia sounds calm and respectable he would maintain his three cigars per day have it and ask the people on to a political party is in cuba. >> he said we don't have political parties. so he became a guiding spirit it ended a he was ordered deported from the united states he caught a break you're not put on a plane and sent back right away you were ordered to leave and expected to do so. a few days later but i talk about his grandson having good timing he was born under a thatched palm rubin in rural q but his mother was a litter and had polio was a child had good timing. a few days later the united states announced there were missiles on the island of cuba and the cuba missile crisis was on. nobody would get on a plane to go to two but deported or not. all of the airports were closed. so he lived in the united states for the next five years with no documents. n

-- for the office of president of united states of america. [applause] >> the chair recognizes the delegates from the great state of virginia. >> throughout his life, people have turned to a leader when they needed help. each time, mitt romney answered the call and he led. mitt romney, with him of the become agrees, and diligence has succeeded at everything he has done. as a governor, with a cabinet, it was 50% women. a turnaround at the scandal- plagued olympics. as a father, a grandfather, and a trusted friend. he is a man uniquely prepared and committed to lead america at this critical point when we can do so much better with the right leadership. i am so pleased that this week the american people are again leading this man in seeing with some many of us to know what we have always seen, this is a man to admire, trust, and in trust the leadership of the country. i am proud to second the nomination of mitt romney for the office of president of the united states of america. [applause] >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. >

you know it it's gone well for the united states and of the united states suffered minimal casualties nato suffered minimal casualties for the victims of the nato bombs i don't think it's going well at all right gentlemen i'm going to jump in we're going to go to a short break and after that short break in your discussion of the new world order state. the from. brighton. song from feinstein. who's closed on tati dot com. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. in the news a secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care only. up to the top and if you. want to. welcome back to crossfire i'm going to remind you we're talking about what is changing the world today. and it. started. ok i would like to

very much in the pattern of the united states of america. one of those states is itself called the state of mexico. it is not to be confused with the nation of mexico. a republic. nieto has been governor of the state of mexico for the last six years. 2005 to 2011. nieto is married to a soap opera actress. she is a full-blooded mexican and is well known. he will soon be the president of the republic of mexico. he was opposed by manwell lopez obrador who wran against him in the just completed mexican election, he came in second. obrador was the endorsed candidate from the democratic revolution party. and he says the won was brought and the party of pri has a long history of being boug 38%. beating obrador by seven points with 31%. obrador filed his challenge sev obrador files his challenge with the federal tribunal which is investigating whether the election was bought. the tribunal will either ratify or reverse the election by september 6. >> question, with what is the good news coming out of mexico today? you can also predict who is going to

in mali i mean again this was always a likely one see realty this instability is working for the united states we want to get rid of the regime in iran ok this is the end game isn't it so instability works. i think it depends you want instability if you're unhappy with the status quo if you're happy with the status quo like we were in egypt then you don't look upon things like revolutions very kindly but in terms of what's happened in libya and syria the u.s. was late in the game to getting involved i think that's incorrect to blame the u.s. soley for what's happening in those countries the u.s. very reluctantly got involved and we're still not fully involved in look at how long it took president obama to call him bashar assad to resign he was criticized heavily by the syrian opposition for that in fact the syrian opposition continues to criticize the u.s. it didn't take very long at all it didn't take it's over a year ago that they called for bashar assad to step down that's that's that's incorrect so the point and the point is not just that now you know you guys i don't think that the

the draw and. protesters in bahrain and saudi arabia are such. people are united in their call against the ruling elite which are asking they think their crackdown. up next is all the latest sports with paul. thank you very much karen welcome along to the sports headlines here is what's coming up. hillary much roger federer going head to head for a limpid gold in a repeat of the wimbledon final of just four weeks ago. saints go marching on signings in petersburg maintain their perfect start to the russian premier league season with victory over a fellow title hypos. and a russian are roulette. the wild irish audiences with a thrilling routine at the latest stage of the cliff diving world series. first the london olympics was the final day of competition in the tennis tournament and russia could be in line for a bronze medal not even to throw over our maria kirilenko reaction later in the bronze medal match in the women's doubles they face a tough test against american generally so very mundane little cuba cuba is ranked as the number one doubles player on the plan