hundred years the cuban say get out the united states say the state says to cuba go to hell the united states has placed the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding well if you will this i'm going to go in the united states process of democratization it could recognize that the opposition on that island is not that well wishers i mean it mercenaries in the pay of the united states it can begin to open up an excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with our team. download the official tea allocation chobani phone the i pod touch from the saps to . life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s mine comes and says feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the com. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future covered. wealthy british scientists. are not. the market. to. find out what's really happening to th

the united states and particularly its intelligence services worry about an attack on the united states that is not nuclear weapons chemical that is not biological but is technological. a surprise attack against its satellites is a catastrophic. scenario study by the u.s. forces by knocking out fifty u.s. military satellites chinese could literally cripple the u.s. . they could prevent the military from being able to communicate with its forces they could blind the u.s. intelligence community which uses electro optics satellites. military force movements around the world and they could also cripple the guidance systems that are used on persuasion guided munitions. in many sense it could be a kind of an electronic pearl harbor. without space the u.s. would be unable to conduct any type of military operation in an effective way. the civilian space industry generates more than two hundred fifty billion dollars every year the destruction of even a single orbiting satellite could put at risk the economy daily lives and millions of citizens. if you look at space lots of times you think about.

hundred years the cuban say get out the united states say states says to cuba go to hell the united states has placed the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding well if you will this and i'm going to go in the united states process of democratization it could recognize that the opposition leaders on that island is not which is a minute mercenaries in the pay of the united states it can begin to open up an excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with r.t. . we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals with the bar props we do not want anymore a new deal molds. our core system is to say there was a cause more experience and i'm just i'm just appalled that that's allowed to go on americans. are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like the board to experiment w

past couple months it is becoming increasingly brutal police state and yet the united states stands by the monarchy united states has refused to condemn the intervention by the neighboring family dictatorships to suppress what is at least as a legitimate a pro-democracy movement as you've seen in other arab states and matthew where you think about that in new york. i think that we've heard the phrase double standard thrown around i think that what we're actually seeing is a relatively consistent set of standards applied to wildly differing circumstances in libya there was an urgent call to action the arab league asked us to intervene forces were moving towards benghazi and moammar gadhafi promised to raise the city and killed citizens in bahrain there are these abuses in their tragic and they're awful and they're evil there is not something that we can do we can stop a motorcade from going to particular city because these forces are in the same city they're both women are much. so there's just not the same urgent call for a response and so what do you think about that i mean there are

as alarming as such numbers maybe, the united states homicide rate involving -- it is the united states homicide rate involving handguns that makes the united states stand apart internationally. in 1996, for example, handguns were used to murder 30 people in great britain, 106 in canada, 15 in japan, and 9,390 in the united states. the cdc, center for disease control, reports the rate of firearm deaths, that is the number of americans shot to death per hundred thousand as hovers between 8.8 and 9.2 for white americans in 2000 and 2005, between 7.5 and 7.8 for hispanic or latino americans, and between 18.4 and 19.3 for african-americans. such statistics suggest that there is something unique and frightening happening in the united states. of course, the homicide rate is only one measure of violence. i talk about all kinds of different things in the book. and in part, that's the point. to sort of look at under currents of violence in american life to look at what i call the ethoughts of violence in american culture and american society. and accordingly, i spend time in the book in the fir

and many of the you could say the united states waffles from country to country and is it just because the united states wants to make sure there's an outcome that it can live with actually have an ally or new ally with a more democratic face or a new ally that will attempt to reform real or imagined i mean that's what the waffling is all about because united states is can say in principle we're going to move forward in this direction and we're going to support protestors and democracy why can't we do that because we won't because we're looking after our interests first and foremost right. i think yes we are looking after our interests are also looking after geo political stability i mean if you want to talk about death repression horrible things i mean those things are as likely or more likely to result from war than they are from every passive regime so i mean war you just need to massively destabilize the middle east make the al assad feel so threatened that they had to act out when i mean it is a dying ruling foundling that could it you know cause a lot more death and destr

would of course united states lead. well yet again please you know so you think it's all just a ploy that the united states has kind of slowly step back and aren't already taneja with what we know nato wouldn't be there if united states didn't seem to be . so so then that raises the question why the united states wants him to be there why does the united states waiting for a game it's the united states now i think the end game is to. get rid of that regime for several reasons one breaks up the channels or supply from libya to it gets rid of gadhafi who refused to join the united states african command you know we've set up an african command and two thousand and seven and the purpose i think was to counteract china's economic penetration. with american military organization so look at forty nine of the african countries and the united states african man and he does he refused so that's another reason to want him out and a third reason is he's not a us puppet and so we the americans don't completely control the mediterra

is the for support of the united states militarily for for. actions that we're not sure about yet i think if you dare say what i said i'm sorry i have a few more time but it is a very interesting point many thanks my guess a day in washington and austin and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are t. see you next time and remember cross talk rules. and you can. download the official anti up location giovanni phone the i pod touch from the i ching sampson. the jaunty life on the go. video on demand keys a minefield comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the quality dot com. it. could. be. wrong.

to i know the united states also just now criticized for something that a lot of people see as a human rights abuse and that is the case of first class bradley manning. united nations representative on torture i'm talking about one mendez he just issued a reprimand to the united states and this is something that's where this is something that doesn't happen in terms of the u.n. issuing reprimands to the u.s. usually it's to much more authoritarian countries and it says you know he wanted to meet with bradley manning and the u.s. refused to let him so that's that's one case that's going on here but it's interesting when you look at this report this human rights private came out and talk about some of the finding activists like yourselves journalists detained and arrested talk about some of the sort of what you see as hypocrisy in this report that the government here criticizes but also in strange ways follows well as a personal experience having been incarcerated in jail. i just have a very small experience of the kinds of treatment that the general population. is is experiencin

to tech united states to put the united states out of the middle east and the authoritarian regimes of the united states in the middle east would then fall so saudi arabia would fall and the mubarak regime would fall. this was the principal aim of the law non 9/11. the opposite happened. we occupied if and stan and iraq. the strategy did not think carefully in terms of what he was actually trying to achieve. none of the outcomes have anything to do with al qaeda. it was the popular revolution about any cannibal government. the strategy didn't work on 9/11. we made some strategic missteps in response. osama bin laden going back to the question of why is more the answer he thought war was the answer because it was the only way to basically put enough pressure on the united states to change its policies in the muslim world. that turned out to be untrue. when we spoke to him in 1997 he based that analysis on the idea of the united states is week as the former soviet union which he had fought in afghanistan. he based that on our withdrawal from vietnam and beirut in 1983 after the attacks a

the support of the united states militarily for for. actions that we're not sure about yet i think if you dare say what i've done we're going to have to give you more time but it is a very interesting point many thanks my guest today in washington and austin and thanks to our viewers for watching us here arche see you next time and remember cross talk rules.

danger is the support of the united states militarily for fact. is that we're not sure about yet i think if he dares our web site down which i have to give you more time but it is a very interesting point many thanks my guest today in washington and austin and thanks for viewers for watching us here arky see you next time and remember cross talk rules. to see. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission. a mission he successfully accomplished. became the first several encounters. of the soviet union one of the best known persons in the world. all his thoughts were focused on someone. who he ever thinks that his life's work would cost him his life . one happened in those few seconds. and what city could see silda barrels still.

like you mentioned earlier at the top of the program the region in which the united states is backing armed forces inside libya is a region that is sent numerous people to fight americans in iraq and afghanistan and there are actually members of the libyan resistance movement that if admitted they have actually been in iraq in afghanistan fighting against the americans and these are the same folks that we're trying to arm with with expensive united states weapons and and trying to back with airstrikes but you know back to the topic of a kind of first second we had mentioned that they want to take advantage of chaos i mean al qaeda is in a brand a crisis right now like there's these democratic uprisings in egypt and other places have really kind of shown how how impotent their. ideology is in speaking for the aspirations of the people across the muslim world and it's a real threat to them when people without weapons stand up and try to take control their own destiny rather than going through al qaeda is broken ideology but you're right that the overall point that you're making

hundred years because i would say get out the united states say states says to cuba go to hell the united states is place the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding well if you will this i'm going to go on the united states process of democratization it could recognize that the opposition on that island is not mercenaries in the pay of united states it can begin to open up an excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with our team. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the t.v. . they say this is not a problem in the war. which it should say everybody is sure to support the dream speech so they have no idea about the hardships to face. plate one it says it all comes to the same. for any army the life that you say is the most precious thing in the world. uses of self-sacrifice a

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the support of the united states militarily for faction. that we're not sure about yet i think if the terrorists will strike down which i have to give you more time to do that it's a very interesting point many thanks my guess a day in washington and austin and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are t. see you next time and remember cross talk rules. from . home.

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yes i do the even though the united states is -- >> the united states -- people are moving into enclaves, john, by race and ethnicity, all over this country. >> irish need not apply was the sign in the window when this date nation was dominantly what, uk settled? >> no, this was dominantly british. >> right. >> but it took generations before the irish were -- >> because of the set into which they came! this setting today is different. >> john, take a look -- >> it's multi-cultural! it's multilingual. >> john, you got a multi- cultural -- >> go ahead. >> i don't think the wave of the future is racial and ethnic enclaves this this country. i think people are and will assimilate but i also think a lot more americans will learn to speak spanish, and i think that's a fine thing. >> again, i get back to the distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. legal immigrants that come from central and south america assimilated. they're grateful to be in the united states. they exercise their right to vote. the illegal immigrants and we've seen this over the past couple months, actuall

united states. united states. and a very capitalist economy we certainly have islands of socialism and the interesting thing is that whether you are talking about little islands in the socialism of the united states or democratic socialist countries or hard-core communist countries, you see the same sorts of failures across all the socialist enterprises and they they -- they are particularly characteristic of socialism. >> host: what makes them characteristic him characteristic you say in your book is that they are developed according to a plan, and that it is the nature of human existence that our socialization synthesize we live in are far too complex to be limited and in scoped by a plan and the effort to do so is the founding act of hubris that makes socialism unworkable. >> guest: exactly. there has always been a great moral case made against socialism and political case made against socialism and the reason we have done that so much is because the great socialist of the 22nd century for monste

abandon ship because they think that united states. support and support it's a very good point frankly united states. is extremely important if the rhetoric that we're seeing and the rhetoric that you think equivalent to president obama. or market action going to the street and shooting people themselves in syria when when you're with the united nation they're giving the regime like kill ok gilbert i want to go to get in line here i think this is you guys are going to where i really want to get in this program i mean there is this obvious double standard here well once again already had. i think everyone is extremely optimistic first of all of being believing that all the regimes will collapse. and secondly there. is more powerful than weapons and all that well i think. if you have only rhetorical in libya use in libya the station in libya would have been stabilized under his rule long ago actually. not really extremely optimistic about the scenario in syria. so it's not it's not that easy because precisely as i said there's a basic di

. >> more often than not, people come expecting the united states to be, if not fixing problems, to be parent of fixing whatever problems an individual state has or region has. and our biggest-- one of our biggest foreign policy challenges right now is to get our own house in order. that is something i feel very strongly about. i know the president does as well, because we have to consolidate our own economic and political position in order to be able to continue to influence events in the future. >> rose: conversations on diplomacy with former secretary of state henry kissinger and secretary of state hillary clinton when we continue. ♪ ♪ if you've had a coke in the last 20 years, ( screams ) you've had a hand in giving college scholarships... and support to thousands of our nation's... most promising students. ♪ ( coca-cola 5-note mnemonic ) every story needs a hero we can all root for. who beats the odds and comes out on top. but this isn't just a hollywood storyline. it's happening every day, all across america. every time a storefront opens. or the midnight oil is burned. or when s

they commit crimes, they get convicted in a court somewhere in the united states, either a state court or a federal court. they are sent to the state penitentiary or the federal penitentiary while they are incarcerated. serving their time. the system works very well because i.c.e. comes in, puts a detainer on them for deportation. they have a deportation hearing so that as soon as they get out of the penitentiary they are supposed to be deported back to the country they came from. that's the way the system is supposed to work. it works like that sometimes but not all the time. because, you see, there are some countries who won't take back their crumbal aliens. what -- criminal aliens? what do you mean they won't take them back? their criminal aliens come into our country, they commit a crime, while incarcerated they are ordered to go back home as soon as they get out, and when we get ready to deport them back from where they came, their country says, don't send them back to us. we don't want them. they got enough criminals of their own, i guess. they refuse to take back their criminal

netherlands else why in europe that you speak of, and you see that expansion taking place in the united states. again going back to this core issue, what's cash dash is there any additional evidence of that? we have a church state wall between the two. doesn't that function pretty effectively to keep out influences which may diminish yew bumper sticker watty and force of our religious moraliub religious morality. but generally i think to look at a little bit of a paradox or a contribution what people believe and actual behavior. professing in religious values we also look what the fastest city over the last decades las vegas. the most popular one of the popular television programs right now is "desperate housewives." i mean there's you can make an argument that america has more hypocrisy on these issues that the europeans did that our behavior is not fend mentally different. >> we just finished an election. in 11 states was a referendum rejected it. does that give a lie to the irresistible values. >> backlash. i think in the political system we often see a backlash to what is happening in the

personnel on the issue of blackwater specifically the owner of blackwater air prince has fled the united states has relocated in a muslim country in the united arab emirates where he lives under the protection of the. monarchs there and has been essentially trying to get himself contracts in really old fashioned mercenary business on the continent of africa recently a source of mine in mogadishu told me that he saw erik prince in the v.i.p. at the mogadishu airport and that was then subsequently confirmed in the new york times that prince had been doing business in somalia with a french mercenary company called seris and that was going to was being investigated by the u.n. for violating the arms embargo there the company blackwater which was renamed z. and then renamed again u.s. training center has a new sort of management that's been brought in to give it a different kind of a public face and a former admiral is now going to be bobby ray inman who actually. clinton nominated him to take over as defense secretary after les aspin passed away he now is officially running the board of blackwater

ok the united states wants assad to go the question is that there's no way that they can do it in and a cost effective manner in terms of intervening because on like egypt the military and police support assad and similarly in terms of the rhetoric they would like the saudis and the. what how do we know i mean for gosh sakes i mean when we went into libya the reason that that we know that we did it is the arab league asked us to go away and so we did not want to have a situation where the united states particularly you those seals they were going to you should have been the willing to let me finish ok let me finish i don't interrupt you ok let me finish ok. let me finish here let me finish air you know let me make my point ok well let me finish i don't interrupt through when you're speaking ok i'm just saying that the united states does know there's no way in which the west can interfere in syria without making the situation worse on the ground were toric lee they are saying they have condemned what assad is doing but in terms of the ability to do something it's not like libya where y

how will this affect the united states and just the geopolitical kind of issues that are that are at the forefront because the brics countries have really different relations with many of the countries the u.s. has in the last well i think early every china have a battle like this a big part of what people are fighting about is the next time you have about a like this so i think if you know if your played the scene in the future with another country another attempt the u.s. british french military mention under the cover u.n. security council resolution i suspect it would get a very different result you think that it went past you think of these countries that work together and achieve the goal that they essentially want to achieve now it is a magic solution and non military intervention and it wouldn't even get to the point where there was a book. wow ok well that is we're going to have to wait and see what happens after this meeting and the next time that one of these major resolutions comes to the table that was robert namely his prediction of how it would turn out director of jus

policy goes beyond just banning trade between two countries the united states think sions corporations around the world as silent as said punishments banks that except cuban money and from the very first day of the blockade and before the stated intention was to make the cuban people suffer and try to force them to overthrow their government and i think it's time for the american people to realize that we have an obligation to demand that our government stop dictating to other countries speaking of dictatorship there is now a third war going on against libya and i don't think the people of this country voted for that but i've been to cuba many times and seen the suffering that has taken place because of denial of medicine by the united states and you know i've seen medical cards and machinery that has been paralyzed because the u.s. prevents european countries from selling those parts to cuba the the block which is a machine really and herrick. glory you know well i'll tell you want there was a peak there is a pediatric heart hospital in havana which could not use a blood gas analyzer

one hundred years the cuban say get out the united states say states says to cuba go to hell the united states has placed the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding and well in the school system in florida and the united states' process of democratization could recognize that the opposition is on that island is not mercenaries in the pay of the united states it can begin to open up and excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with r.t. . close up to you has been to the show ya been screeching for the long lost secret of thomas steel it's been discovered. the finale archie goes east of lake baikal with the longest russian railway line runs. for the sunday desert lies among siberian mountains the first people full of the same roots as hundreds of years ago . welcome to the trance like kali. russian close up on the part. wealthy british scientists. dr. marg

because people are going to remember that the united states and its allies supported keiran in the middle east for the last fifty years what about the argument some people say that you know for example in libya the united states is there to try and set up a puppet government that is more sympathetic to the us a more sympathetic to us interests like a darfur which you know western leaders would regard as not quite gain so subordinate although i know he did help in the wind tear it up he was an extremely valuable ally for the united states in terms of our number one enemy which was going to have its allies just like saddam was although we didn't talk to saddam as long as saddam was in favor of the mujahideen were not coming out of south asia in the persian gulf toward the local and so long as the us so quickly turned on him is that oil more important now then i am sure if it spoil i think we have the last four presidents we've had the united states have really seen the world that they want and they want to democratic peaceful humanitarian world which is a great aspiration but the

each year this design meant initiative is rejected by the united states. it is hundred sixty two one hundred seventy two one united states is the only nation actually voted against this were isolated on this issue. while we john is pushed our allies into consideration of more strategic independence from the united states in space and some people would argue perhaps in europe that that's a good thing maybe it's better that europe has strategic independence and space because they can service account away but from a a us view point it would seem to me that you would want your allies integrated into your system. to flick of russia dollar by the european military should equip itself with a wider array of military space systems in support of telecommunications navigation and information for ground troops from disorganized there are only as i thought. so we don't have them which certainly weakens the european armed forces to poland and nato makes them very dependent on the american spirit. is going to what does one need when one isn't gauged in a military. in eur

united states really is. according to the justice department, the homicide rate declined from a spike of 10.5 per 1 hundred thousand in 1991 to 6.1 in 2000. both of those in 1967. by comparison according to the who homicide rate in france, germany and great britain the word 0.6, zero.six and zero.9 respectively. children in the united states are far more likely to be shot and killed by their counterparts in other industrial nations. the firearm homicide rate is 16 times higher for american children. united states homicide rate in evolving -- it is the united states homicide rate involving handguns that makes the united states stand apart internationally. in 1996 handguns were used to monitor--murder 30 people in great britain, 106 in canada. fifteen in japan and 9,390 in the united states. the center for disease control reports the rate of firearm deaths, the number of americans shot to death as hovering between 8.8 and 9.2 for white americans from 2000 to 2005. between 7.5, and seven.8 for hispanic or latino

this is when the united states finally went in. this is the exception that proves the rule and shows how far the bar has come for actual military intervention. >> this is never a good idea. >> this is a conundrum. one part of the problem is that the dictators, they have been brought in from the cold, and they have been received in the western capitals over the last few years. this is for whenever cynical reasons. >> it is cynical to try to give him up his program. this was not cynical. >> what is the practical thing that you do then? in his natural -- national interest is this? aside from syria, this is a terror funding state. this provides a sanctum for hezbollah, and destabilize the region. >> how do you know this? >> if the people rise up and the dictator of guns down as many people as possible, you have to make a decision. if you think that this dictator is good to keep. it would be good to lose them. >> thank you very much. one part of the arab world where the u.s. has been involved is the republic of yemen. they have earned t

i'm sure you know richer protesters in the room that is where the united states stands on the issue. analysts such as rose off drew the conclusion gates would have had to know about the saudi intervention and that the u.s. was therefore complicit in it an effort to counter a bronze influence in the region just a reminder bahrain is a sunni ruled but it has a shia majority believed to be sympathetic to iran now reports came out that bahrain needs were concerned to they thought they were becoming the target of a proxy battle between the us and sunni arab countries versus shiite ruled iran so we're waiting to see what comes out of the gates meeting with saudi arabia he told reporters that he has evidence iranians are trying to exploit the situation in bahrain we want to know what's going to happen now meanwhile thousands of protesters have taken to the streets yet another day in yemen against their longtime president the pentagon has spoken out calling for a swift transition of power and makes the protests and violence against protesters by the government but remember the pentagon has a

told many times the united states will not tolerate a nuclear iran or united states is likely to get involved into force in the twenty first century against the strait is pretty dangerous the whole region can be put in flames. of world economy and international relations many. they still have for you this hour the forces behind the prize in that emerges u.s. stick funded organization sponsored of all this in the arab world we hear why there's a cash to follow change in libya. that he gets hard on european aids house the blocks that billions of boards but there are claims that it is easing of this poverty it's probably hard for the regime as. i turn very ill russian president is pleading for the right to die doctors they get another woman's these conditions critical of the card at the chip that he desperately needs was in jail or he's already been sold euthanasia is not an option because around here in russia and russia has had to meet him. cannot east forty five and he's dying and insulin dependent diabetic has lost sixty canapes in ten months now only blind he can hardly distinguish

does attempts to exert i mean the united states when it is in a difficult position politically. which is the bulk of people in puerto. a full interview with giuliana sides coming your way out here on r.t. . russia is cutting petrol exports after fuel shortages hit the whole market as a result prob prices pump prices are burning a bigger hole in motorists pockets italian overcover takes a look at why the world's biggest oil producer is fighting itself going without. russia with no sounds ridiculous yet what you did we went to five different gas stations all of them were closed here we've been waiting in line for hours what is this isn't this supposed to be the oil rich country overnight you prices jumped to twenty five percent in several russian regions as the federal runs out comprise goes out even more their supplies are not only for two weeks world prices skyrocketed at the beginning of the year but russian authorities made an effort to get battle costs at a consumer friendly level as a result foreign markets became much more attractive and profitable for russia with producers