now we are more unequal.o yes, it is possible to have capitalism with a much more human face than the ones we have here in the united states and in britain particularly where we have allowed things to go in a very different direction. >> but isn't italy in a mess today? we all know about the euro crisis. those governments are in trouble, austerity's being imposed throughout the mediterranean area. we had this explosion with cyprus -- explosion of fear with cyprus being bailed out and the depositors in the banks having to contribute to the cost of bailing out. a tiny island threatens to bring the euro system down again. >> absolutely, and that cyprus story is extremely important. even though it's a very small country and people might not pay attention because it is small. here is the austerity program of raising taxes and cutting government spending, taking a qualitative new step to help bail out a capitalism that hasn't worked in europe and that has crippled this little country of cyprus. the step taken to tr

and this is a day about how being treated unequally scars your soul and makes a difference in people'slives in the protections they do or don't have. so this was a day about how people need their government to treat them fairly and equally. >> a lot of people have made predictions. a lot of people in cable news in. but if the court strikes down doma in a way this case was presented to them, what would happen next? >> the clearest practical consequences that same-sex couples who are legally married will now be treated like other married couples in their state, whether it means they pay more in taxes or less, but they are married and they come to the federal government as married people and plug into that social safety net and all those protections and all the responsibilities that come along with it. that's the clearest consequence. no effect on the laws of other states. >> so states where you can't currently get married if you're a same-sex couple, this ruling wouldn't have any impact. >> yes, this is about the unusual rule that congress made in fact 1996 to say we're not going to foll

that is true, but we're twice as unequal here in the u.s. look at that chart.uela, according to the ratios they use on inequality 4.4, the united states is 16.0. we're number one! if we think that hugo chavez did a terrible job with income and even equality, get a load of our leaders. i bring in david sirota author of "back to our future," and many more to come. david, a complicated character hugo chavez. what do we make of him? what is your immediate analysis here? >> well, look, hugo chavez on human rights, on democratic rights, on press freedom is no saint. i think we need to acknowledge that at the very beginning. this is a guy who while he was certainly democratically elected, nobody takes issue with that he's a guy who was not--he had a tenuous relationship with basic, small democratic freedoms. the united states has a tenuous relationship with basic small democratic freedoms. i tell everybody in the united states watch about throwing stones from a glass house when throwing rocks on those issues. but california chavez has become a cartoon. he was an outsp

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sun equal force a that is unequal force and not the same thing. >> but what the two guys who beat himey bear any responsibility, holly? >> well, they should be charged with their own charges. they are looking at battery and assault charges and depending upon how much damage is done, they could be facing aggravated assault which takes it out of the misdemeanor rank and up to the felony charge. everybody here needs to be charged with something here, don, because it is a broad range of possibilities. >> so they bear responsibility, because they tried to run him off of the road and then he instigated the fight. had he walked up on them, and say this, this is the question that i want to know, and had he walked up on these guys and instigated the fight and they had done nothing and beat him down then do they bear responsibility or just defending themselves. >> well, if he takes a swing at them, then they are defending themselves, and if he is going up with words and saying, why did you run me off of the road and what is happening here, and it depends who took the first swing, because road r

separate and unequal. >> i want to play this because i know that you want to address this.had an e-mail exchange. i did get it in the show just for you. ralph reid making controversial remarks on today's "meet the press." >> what i said was the verdict of social science is overwhelming and irrefutable. that is without regard to straight or gay. in other words, this -- applies to one parent households and it applies to foster homes. it applies to the whole plate. they looked at them all. that the enduring a, loving,ing in tact, biological mother and father is -- for children and not a close call. and the only issue before the court is there a social good to that and does the government have a legitimate interest in protecting and strengthening? that's the issue. >> i was talking to the television and kept saying not true. as he was saying that. not true, not true. if you look at the studies. studies show the exact opposite of what ralph reid was saying. what do you say that? >> you know, i have no issue with ralph reed. i have to tell you i found that is painful. it pained m

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but globally, women are less than unequal. and we believe that by coming together as women and using the peace process to, you know, highlight the work of women around the world working for sustainable peace with justice and equality, we could, you know, maybe lift -- lift up is terrible. we could help women everywhere make change which is good for us all. it isn't that we want to be men or think men are awful. there are awful women, there are awful men. but it is irrefutable that women suffer more in this world. violence against women is a global pandemic. which is one of the reasons why we spearheaded an international campaign to stop race and gender violence and conflict. just like in the land mine campaign, bringing organizations together because together we have a better chance at changing the world. and it wasn't to exclude men. but i point this out all the time. in the history at the time,s we -- in the history since we established the nobel peace initiative, there have been 12 women. something like 90 men. there's neve

that is unequal force. it's not the same thing. >> it shows him instigating it. but what about the two guys who beat him up? do they bear any responsibility here? >> well, absolutely. and they should be charged with their own charges. they're probably looking at battery charges, assault charges and depending on how much damage was done. they could even be facing aggravated assault taking it out of the misdemeanor rank and put it up into the felony rank. it's a broad range of possibilities. >> they bear responsibility because they tried to run him off the road. then he instigated the fight. had he just walked up on them, let's say this -- this is a question i want to know. had he just walked up on these guys and instigated the fight and they had done nothing and these guys beat him down, then do they bear any responsibility or are they just defending themselves? >> if he takes a swing at them, they're defending themselves. but if he's going up with words saying, why did you run me off the road, depends on who took the first swing. road rage, we all have it. but mo

before hugo chavez came into power in one thousand nine hundred nine venezuela was one of the most unequal societies are not and that gap has been reduced because of a number of social programs that were bought ten by hugo chavez thanks to be immense boil well that this country has and. chavez came to power in one thousand nine hundred nine much of that oil wealth was obviously going into the pockets of a very small elite in venezuela. and which. supporters today say form the backbone essentially of the opposition that if the opposition again took power then essentially the country would robust back to pre-one thousand nine eleven stream and equality obviously we know that there's going to be elections in the next thirty days and among chavez's supporters who are the people who have been out in the streets today very confident that the vice president nicolas maduro is going so comfortably win the next elections but of course you know that remains to be seen. for washington the death of her chavez will bring an end to a constant stream of criticism but professor of latin american studies mi

once it defines marriage, how can the federal government treat two different marriages both lawful unequallyit may not have to reach the question of equal protection it. may go off on state's rights. we win. you win. >> it's kind of interesting, though. it took until 1967 for interracial marriage to be declared the law of the land. land, permissible in every state, the 16 states that forbade it had to get rid of it because of a supreme court decision, so this is a fundamental question about fairness at stake here, and the thing that i think is so interesting because'm sur you're right that the justices are likely to punt on this and really i think both doma and prop 8 are going to go down at the lower court level because of what the supreme court decides, and yet there won't be sort of a huge precedent, but the issue of standing is what's troubling the adjusts. >> kennedy, the swing vote. >> and they're saying the citizens of california who pushed forward this making gay marriage illegal under prop 8 don't really of standing, and the house republicans who are behind maintaining defense of ma

society which prior to chavez coming to power in one thousand nine hundred nine was one of the most unequal in the world in terms of the divide between rich and poor and the people here today are very much from the poorest parts of venezuela the poorest parts of the cities known as the barrios and also from the countryside and today they say they're very much united in their collective determination to continue their socialist project their nose bolivarian is them which chavez initiated which they say not only transformed our lives but also changed many parts of the world and the people here say that chavez is very much an immortal kind of figure who will continue to shape venezuela for generations lizzie feelin artsy. more than thirty has a say from all over the world i expected to attend to the us as a state funeral procession among those who have already paid tribute to flooding me to pitch in who said this has become a legendary figure across latin america. chavez was a brave and very sorry man who is able to showcase strong character to go through with his plans he genuinely wants to r

outside the central bank headquarters and fear of losing their jobs thursday's crowds marched through unequal c.-a this time led by the opposition commute is poteen johnny mcgraw the head of the wide awake and news portal says the situation may still turn violent people feel the full effect of the measures. the european stability mechanism was set up a lot of people self included were talking about almost two years ago that it is global it is financial governance over europe i don't think they care what the citizens of europe the five hundred million people of the european continent feel about how this crisis or these crises are being handled it is governed by crisis to the next extreme you know they were polite and said we're going to deck you early on in this crisis four or five years ago and now they're making a very bold statement they're not asking any more they're just going to take it if someone's trying to rob you then it would make sense that it could certainly lead to by woods i think i mean that is the ultimate outcome if somebody is trying to get access what is theirs you know the

in a society which prior to coming to power in one thousand nine hundred nine was one of the most unequal in the world in terms of the divide between rich and poor and the people hey it's a day very much from the poorest parts of venezuela the poorest parts of the cities known as the barrios and also from the countryside and today they say that very much united in the collective to time and nation to continue those socialist project their nose bolivarian is them which chavez initiated which they say not only transformed by lies but also changed many pas of the wilds and the people here it's say that chavez is very much an immortal kind of figure who will continue to shape venezuela for generations the feelin the gattaca russian president vladimir putin thinks display or not chavez has already written his name into the history books. to the one who chavez was a brave and very thorough a man who is able to showcase strong character to go through with his plans he genuinely wants to rid the country's poor citizens of them points and improve their lives but his became the symbol of independen

society which prior to chavez coming to power in one thousand nine hundred nine was one of the most unequalin the world in terms of the divide between rich and poor and the people here today are very much from the poorest parts of venezuela the poorest parts of the cities known as the barrios and also from the countryside and today they say that very much united in the collective to time and nation to continue those socialist project their nose bolivarian ism which chavez initiated which they say not only transform their lives but also changed many parts of the world and the people here say that chavez is very much an immortal kind of figure who will continue to shake venezuela for generations lizzie feelin gattaca so chavez will become the fourteenth world leader to be involved when his body is left for all the world to see the museum of revolution which is still under construction and he said no he looks back at the tradition of making late prominent leaders the last thing symbol. many controversal figures live on after their deaths through legacy but for a handful that's not enough for t

spy program on the grounds that it treats unequally muslims from other groups and unfortunately this is why people are doing is doing here is similar to what the n.y.p.d. did in the sixty's to anti-war groups and student groups what they did yeah i was there we were i was in s.t.s. we were in full gear thank you so thank you so much for sure good luck with. appreciate it appreciate. it just. the. it is the good the bad in the very very in a hollow boat taishan only glued together the good to resit house democrats libertarians aren't the only ones worried about drones on monday eight democrats including keith ellison barbara lee and raul grijalva sent a letter to obama expressing concern with the constitutionality of his administration's remote assassination program group identified the program's unlimited geographic scope broad definition of the phrase imminent threat and use of secretive kill lists as particularly troubling anyone who calls themselves a progressive should absolutely worry about expansive executive power and extrajudicial killings the left needs politicians like repr