as hosni mubarak to be to step aside i don't think so united states should. every every arab country who faced uprising united states should immediately as the head of that seems to be a step aside i think this is would be simplistic unrealistic and doesn't reflect the reality on the ground i think and doesn't reflect the complexity of the social politics of the different countries in the middle east. strategic geopolitical elements are very important but i think we have really a new phenomenon year if you see like what i notice is that you seen united states or european countries are not taking in regard with syria or egypt or other libya or yemen they're not taking a unilateral actions if you see their. mind come on then they will when you when the united states as well hillary clinton says this leader must go ok that's pretty unilateral sounding to me and sounds very definite as well what right does the united states have a say in the leadership and what they should go if if i might come in here jump in jumping if i might come in here years you know i thin

the goal ought to be the role of the united states plays in the former soviet union. and not perfect results. in some post-soviet states, nonetheless the united states support genuine democratic reform. not reform of democracy. the united states supported the versification of the economy and did not focus just on energy. i believe u.s. policy to they've focused exclusively on oil and that is not in the long-term national interests of iraq to engender the next -- and united states can never go wrong in its international relations. i don't think this is the pollyanna view. it can never go wrong standing up for the ideals. iraq has tremendous influence in iraq. ambassador feldman said the same thing so i won't repeat of the arguments here. i will finish with this. i will recognize this is an election year in the united states. and the of the contested election. there are vital strategic interests in the area. ambiguous has committed itself to promoting democracy and institutions in iraq. it is also the only way iraq can become a genuinely stable, functioning state again.

sometimes we in the united states it darvin be criticized united nations for restrict teen the united states ability of the nato countries. for example of the united nations is a useful forum for the combat is fun if it doesn't try to bias or is steered in a certain way, sometimes overreact us that with regard to the palestinian israeli problem. when it serves or countries can come together and debate and try to be diplomatic solution is a powerful function. when the united nations perform some of the specialized function but she mentioned earlier in discrete areas that can perform an important focus of countries for a specific issues. so one should not, for example, understate the u.n. achievement in the area of international health and food security and relief, education and so on. on the question is whether all that needs to be done by the same institution you does there need to be one united nation that tries to be an umbrella that supervises all these other functions or as some have it suggested whether it might be better for the u.n. to sort of decentralized into more discrete i

the united states did in libya. primarily with our force, the air force and supplying arms. the secretary panetta said that the united states legally could not intervene in syria because the u.n. security council had not authorize the operation as it did in libya. as a member, the obama administration waited three weeks to get the un security council before intervening. we have a debate. we can always talk about whether mr. panetta is also correct when he said we don't need congress's permission, but the u.s. permission. there you have the secretary of defense publicly saying that we need the permission of one of these neutral independent international organizations to give its approval before the united states can do something. another one is in the alien tort statute litigation that has been going forward against american corporations, the supreme court has a case right now called the coble case where the question is , of foreign governments violates international law and the treatment of its own citizens and alle

move many see as an attempt to undermine china's growing clout now this comes on the heels of the united states building up its own military presence in the region. syria says government troops will stop all military operations on thursday morning in accordance with the u.n. brokered deadline for a ceasefire with opposition fighters despite some western countries again lashing out of the assad regime for its alleged failure to stick to commit acts. and a powerful earthquake and subsequent aftershocks triggered tsunami warnings in indonesia and several other countries in the indian ocean there were no immediate reports of deaths or damage following the eight point six magnitude quake. china is poised to become the next global economic power player but just how soon will it happen and to find out right now are crossed. and you can. start. to. build. a low a welcome across the uk i.q. level rising and surpassing this is one way to describe china's truly amazing ascent on the international stage but with success comes challenges is the u.s. ready to be second best in china and as china becomes numb

if you permit me the east european lab mark then i think even united states getting wasn't this may be that unique here you're in few months the story after well going well with the welfare state where so many people in fact safety. three daum and so on don't make too much fun of people again i think it's not as he left for it was a disastrous period europe europe is a cultural theme park and in significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state it just took you are out of the pot i have had personally i have personal experience with a socialist green paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like you have a party but important thing to have the official speaking system which some think has broken down the suite the swedes have no morals the david striving towards your target the striving towards a better position even if even if their position is liberty it is more liberty that is a striving a direction that people wish to have if they can measure and temper events by the direction of their hopes and ideals have we now abandoned that true religion because religi

but what they do want is the americans to leave the peninsula and they want recognition by the united statesd they want to be recognized as an independent power, permanently, and they don't want to be united -- >> and big bomb with china. >> what is the expectation of china and china's relationship with them? >> china -- >> china, we're using china to find some way to contain with north korea because china, like us, feels north korea's government is pretty much of a wild card. and so that's something they're very -- hard to believe how totally controlled they that family will have [overlapping speakers] >> knowledgeable about north korea, how much money are we expanding to north korea to meet their food aid? >> this i don't know. i don't know it's that significant. but it will be significant in north korean terps. >> that's what i meant. >> it's not breaking the bank at home. and frankly, the north koreans are very depend ent on it. but they siphon a lot of that food aid and feed the troops and have a million -- [overlapping speakers] >> new young successor, ruler in north korea. >> that's t

chamber's agenda here in the united states. and after a tenure as president maybe tom donohue will invite you back to the chamber to talk about how we can work together. i thought that was a terrific comprehensive speech, not only because you also plugged the u.s. chamber's mexico leadership initiative, and we thank you for your strong support, but because it gave you a true sense of what has happened in mexico under president calderon's leadership. i'd like to open up the floor for a few questions. go ahead. ahead. even though you are known to all of us, please introduce yourself. i want to congratulate the president for his great speech today. mainly because of the numbers you have presented to us today the i am sure i am speaking on behalf american chamber of commerce to mexico to congratulate you during the five years. you have really supported free trade. you have really supported foreign investment in mexico. and that is something that is helping the country and the numbers are showing it today. congratulations, mr. presi

united states get rid of then and the taliban in afghanistan immediately afterwards the united statescalled iran an axis of evil and i would also like to remind you that the person who actually restarted the iranian nuclear program at the end of his term in office was president hard to me and the reason why he did it was because iran halted its nuclear program for two years and it allowed intrusive inspections through the additional protocol that are implemented an emotional rage will be all right out of time fascinating discussion we go on for another hour for sure many thanks to my guest today in washington and in beirut and thanks to our viewers for watching us here to see you next time and remember. you. still. want to. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then even something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. life. market why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global econ

you can go back and look at any of the wars the united states has fought. but, if you consider why we're there and the fact that thank goodness we've not been attacked again since 9/11 and we have dismantled al qaeda thanks to a lot of great work when leon was at the cia before going to the defense didn't. i think there is no doubt that america is more secure. afghanistan is more secure. but, we're not resting on our laurels. we're looking forward to what kind of relationship we will all have, nato and the united states after 2014 to help afghanistan continue on this path. >> you trust afghan's president mr. secretary? >> he is a leader of afghan tan. >> you trust him? >> i have sat down with him. we talk pretty frankly with each other. he is the leader and she the person we have to deal with. >> does that mean you trust him, though? >> certainly you trust the leaders that you have to deal with, but you always kind of watch your back at the same time. >> that doesn't sound like a reigning endorsement of the leader of afghanistan. >> it is true for any leade

by the united states strongly condemn. illegally shoot five hundred days now being detained without charge but that hasn't stopped us. today on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. today i am joined by into a cool superstar the slovenian philosopher. a former anti communist dissident now turned so described communist together we call david horowitz a former left wing radical black panther ally now a fiery right wing zionist i want to know what they think about the future of europe and the united states the conversation becomes heated you get has to be physically restrained we shout rant and talk calmly about nothing and palestinians black panthers and israelis about a bomb or romney and stalin. david you describe yourself as a conservative and you describe yourself as a communist but nonetheless both of you have had a picture of stalin. spasms god is going to make free money don't mess. him in a minute and shout about it out. yeah right. can't talk to an international shop. all right go ahead

of course there are, and many of them resides in the united states as loyal americans. and millions more reside around the world. there are many places where they are in power, notably -- but a brave view are actually struggling to create within the religion a thheads an organizatn called the american islamic forum for democracy and is about to publish a book that is called the -- and i hope you will all buy when it's published. at princeton's name madison's program, who recently delivered a lecture, arguing that there are ways in which -- so as to oppose the classical sharia, the election is published in the november 2000 issue. the regrettable part of this story is that i'm sure as many people in this room know, first thing as a catholic, not a muslim publication, but make no mistake, as numerous as they may be, among those who pronounce doctrine, the moderates are the distinct and weaker majority. the majority is -- lightly prominent on the world stage. he said that the term nod rat islam is as he put it ugly or offensive. he said there is no moderate islam, islam is

so this gives them tremendous incentive to locate profits and businesses outside of the united states. >> brown: is, i'll start with you martin sullivan, is all this bringing about a larger debate about, with states at the federal level about changing the tax code as technology changes, as commerce changes? >> well, there's an enormous debate going on right now in the international tax community on the one hand there's the argument by conservatives and republicans to totally exempt foreign taxes, foreign profits from tax. and meanwhile, you have folks on the other side of the spectrum who say we need to close these loopholes in order to help pay down the deficit. there is some middle ground. the middle ground would be to reduce our corporate tax rates to improve our competitiveness, as i think almost everybody in washington is arguing for that right now, the president and the republicans. but we need to pay for that some way, and to pay for that we must close loopholes. and this type of loophole that charles is talking about is probably the biggest loophole we have. >> brown: charles,

this is why i call my book the united states of year because it is the infusion of fear into the societythat's created the national security state as we know it. that state is incredible. the cold war state is huge. there was released in the cold war a country that we call an enemy and it had a huge nuclear arsenal that had an enormous military. it now we have around the world a couple of minority insurgencies, a few thousand jihadi people that want to do something to the united states, we have a couple of regional powers we declare enemies coming and in the national security state based on fear is so much bigger than anything in the cold war period. it's absolutely staggering. one thing you could say -- go ahead. >> adding directly to the best part of what you said there. when i flew into jfk from yemen a couple weeks ago, i have a nice little chat with the guy and customs. he said what are you doing? and told him i'm a journalist. he said welcome home, blood you're safe. he's white high passport and said whoa! and i ended up in a place in jfk called area three am i counterterrorism int

there were problems between the british and united states government. britain wanted to sustain its neutrality in the raging civil war and became somewhat skittish about continuing this agreement for the belief that the confederacy, which was still very active fighting the war, would interpret this as british power coming in and endorsing the emancipation proclamation, and not only doing that, but relocating the slave participants abroad. menard himself is also somewhat unsettled by the events that occurred in his absence. he comes back to new york and he learns that the new york draft riots of 1863 had occurred, when several free african-americans in the city were lynched. they were attacked on the streets, including henry highland garnett, who had to take cover in his home and remove the sign from his door to prevent the mob from coming in and attacking him and his family. this definitely unsettles several members of the free black community and they perceive british honduras for a brief period as a possibility to escape to. but at the same time, mena

the iran cannot conquer the united states. the united states if it decided to could conquer iran. it would be big mess. i don't support doing so. in terms of material power, there is simply no comparing the two countries. given that, if you look at things from iran's perspective, any diplomatic deal would involve making lots of substantial security assurances to iran. if you do this, not only will we not -- not only will we do something on the one hand but we also agree not to do something in the future. the question becomes how could iran trust assurances provided by a country with overwhelming power and indeed i believe is still a uni polar power in the international system? how do you make credible assurances to a relatively weak state as a uni polar power that if it decided to do renag at any point. this is a point not terribly well grasped or at least i don't see evidence it is well grasped by the administration or certainly by the congress, and it is just very difficult no matter how genuine the intention to kredably convey that to a country with which coming from both sides

the united states, europe is not whole. they're always needs to be a partnership between the two parts across the a planted. >> i want to focus on the relationship between the united states -- across the atlantic. >> i want to focus on the relation between the united states, because it goes back a long way. some of the basis of your constitution was based on our constitution as well. >> you are right. >> but it is a peaceful country. if i read correctly, 35,000 in the army. that is very small. you are also involved in both afghanistan and iraq, and that surprises me. >> well, we were involved in the first iraq effort. if we did not participate with our troops in the -- we did not participate with our troops in the recent iraqi military movements. but we have been very half -- active in afghanistan. if you calculate it per capita, is a very strong participation. >> the united states is a big investor, is in it, and the checks -- in the czech republic? >> i wish it was more. >> but it is in the top five, is that right? >> it

to me in the present i mean the chinese are watching the united states tear itself to pieces ok and the chinese just keep slowly going up and up i mean it's remarkable to watch from a distance. yeah i think the chinese are going through an industrial revolution of sorts in a similar way that the united states has gone through it in the twentieth century taking over the power of europe and europe in in the nineteenth century so i think you're right that there is a lot of parallels to be drawn here between the declining power of the united states and the declining powers of europe but let us remember that even after the decline european quality of lives g.d.p. per capita air quality. education level control over corruption are still much much better than most emerging markets so to say that china. only needs the united states to grow is also i think an extreme point of view i believe that china i think there's no i'm just simply by growing internally in the same way that the united states grew internally in the twentieth century ok joshua jump in go ahead. i think there's an impor

the united states, these 34 countries, ranks 32 of 34. and it shows that one of the countries that allegedly is somehow more competitive, germany, their tax burden is 55% higher than the united states tax burden. that's the oecd, not me. and the united kingdom, another country a few weeks ago this committee was debating they are somehow stealing our ipos, they have a 42% higher tax burden than the united states. greece has a tax burden of 25% higher than the united states. even turkey's tax burden is higher. the only two countries that have a lower tax burden than ours are chile and mexico on this list. so i'd like to submit that for the record. i ask this mr. secretary because we heard if europe is somehow doing a good job dealing with their issues, and all they are doing is one side of the ledger which is the austerity measure which is fine, am i wrong to think that the u.s. made significant cuts in the last years through budgets? >> yes. congress reached agreement last summer to cut more than $1 trillion in spending over the next 10 ye

states like the united states and the soviet union and others could sign it as nuclear states, they have an obligation to move towards disarmament. i think actually the obama administration shares the view that there are obligations on both sides, which is why they moved aggressively forward on new s.t.a.r.t., which is not an insignificant political risk. i think matt, for example, thinks some of those cuts go too deep, but i don't know if that's true or not. in any case, i think the administration believes, basically, that we also have to make good-faith efforts to start to sh shrink our arsenal. but it doesn't excuse iran's commitment under the npt. some ask doesn't iran have the right if p the u.s. has it and others? they gave up the right to have them when they signed the npt. unless they're willing to pull out -- the israelis aren't a part but we are -- that right is ironclad regardless of what we're doing. >> i would say when you put yourselves in the shoes of the leaders in tehran and how they're making their nuclear calculations, i think they're probably thinking would nuclear we

in response to the horrors in syria, the united states and our partners at the united nations have supported an immediate halt to the vie leps and negotiated peaceful transition and a responsible democratic process. despite russia and china twice vetoing security council action, the united nations general assembly and human rights council have repeatedly and overwhelmingly condemned the carnage and the united nations has played an important role in supporting arab league efforts to end the crisis including through the joint appointment of special envoy co-fee annan. in line ya the u.n. led gadhafi from massacring his own people. to end nuclear weapons programs, the united states pushed the security council to impose the toughest sachss ever on iran and north korea. as the president has made clear, we will prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. and as long as iran fails to meet its international obligations, the pressure will build. the united nations played a critical role in supporting the creation of a newly independent south sudan. the u.n. ensured a democratically elected presiden

viewpoint that even a virtual nuclear iran is very dangerous, whereas i would argue although the united states does not want even an iranian nuclear weapons capability, it is better able to handle that capability. its interests are not as at stake as israeli interests on the issue. and president obama has stated that containment is not his policy. but he's also going for re-election. and policies change after presidents are elected. so, there is a possibility even that the united states could move toward a policy of containment toward iran and i don't think this is something that israelis want. not just the israelis, but our other allies in the middle east, especially arab countries of the persian gulf. >> time for two more questions. on this side, i have two folks right there. keep your hand up high there, greg. there you go. >> greg talman, arms association. i agree with the skill of obama handling the israeli pressure in march but it does seem that in the process of doing that, he ended up making a very clear promise that if iran moved to acquire nuclear weapons, he would respond with milit

turkey las a nuclear umbrella from the united states. the most likely candidate is saudi arabia but not because they build one but because they tried to buy one from pakistan. of course, the pakistani would be extraordinarily nervous about providing this in violation of the npt marking themselves os an outlaw. it's not clear they would be willing to do that either. matt and most other scholars that looked at this don't believe iran itself would use a weapon. it's sufficiently rationale to know that to use a wep against israel and the united states would bring about massive retaliation. that's not the scenario we're talking about. possibility of iran being emboldened to use its proxy like hamas or other groups in the region, i think that is an issue we should take seriously. but of course, iran already does this without nuclear weapons. this isn't a danger an goes away from you stop iran from getting a bomb. the real quell is whether a emboldened nuclear iran and israel would find themselves in a situation that would escalate to nuclear w

the united states has levers of power. iraq, at least when i was in the foreign ministry, was talking about entry into the world trade organization. that is a tremendous incentive. i agree with dan that arms supplies are an avenue. and by the way, i think the president is looking down the road at an iraqi air force that he's not quite sure is going to be used only for external defense, and also there are levers regionally that i think the united states could make better use of if its agenda were a human rights agenda in iraq. >> thank you. let's take another batch of three questions. we'll start over here and in the back. >> my question is about the relationship between maliki and syria. it's true that he did not invite assad to the summit, but everybody told him that if he does, the conditions will go up. but his position has been supportive of assad, he does not want him to go, doesn't want to arm the opposition. he's standing in the other camp against the camp that you are supporting on syria. i was wondering if you can

i think this is really a signal to the united states that if the united states or israel attacks iran and iran's nuclear facilities, then iran can increase the support to the taliban. so far we haven't seen very sophisticated iranian weapons go to the taliban, including advance surface-to-air missiles that could target just helicopters or explosively formed projectiles that did so much damage to u.s. forces, that cost so many u.s. casualties in iraq. but there is the possibility that iran could step up its support to the taliban in case of an attack. and this fits iran's overall national security doctrine of letting others do the fighting for it. there have also been reports of iran having significant ties to al qaeda. iran is known to host senior al qaeda members within its territories. it's not clear how active iranian support of al qaeda is currently. a lot of al qaeda members are known or reported to have been actually under house arrest in iran, and iran could be using al qaeda members as a negotiating -- as a leverage against the united states. again, if the united states attack

united states get rid of their and the taliban in afghanistan immediately afterwards the united states called iran an axis of evil and i would also like to remind you that the person who actually restarted the iranian nuclear program at the end of his term in office was president hard to me and the reason why he did it was because he run halted its nuclear program for two years and it allowed intrusive inspections through the additional protocol there in the summer and i am sure it will be all right out of time fascinating discussion we go on for another hour for sure many thanks to my guest today in washington and in beirut and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember roster of . i am mission free accreditation free lance for charges free. range and free. free free stereotype free. download free blogging as a plug in video for your media projects a free meal gogarty dot com. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . is to get the maximum political impact possible. before source material is what helps keep journalism honest when. we want to presen

of mexico, and it is consumed here in the united states. so the energy that we are create ing here in the united states is partly responsible due to fact alone we imported less than a million barrels a day than we had in the prior year. a million barrels a day. so the energy that is being produced here is, in fact, being used here in the united states. on the issue of gas prices, as everybody here in this audience knows, it is determined through global economics no one has the abili ability, not even harry potter, to wave a magic want and say we're going to have gas prices $259 or $2.50 or $3. it doesn't work that way. it doesn't happen that way, and that really is the point that i hope most americans understand, that there's no silver bullet, there's no magic want. and if we're going to find our way to addressing the -- one of the very most important fundamental questions of the united states, you need to have an energy framework and energy policy in place like the one president obama and his team have put into place, and that's an "all of

because the united states -- people of the united states were never slaves. they were always free. this is an unusual statement to make in a country with 4 million equal in bondage. but okay. so meigs said already. we won't have the liberty bell. and so, he sent back to crawford for a third design. and this is what crawford came back with and this is the freedom from triumphant warrant peace we have today. crawford is feeling today is crawford's intent is to create an indian princess and you have this buckskin skirt here. but at the waist, debt disappears and then you have kind of a greek thing here. and then you have this remarkable headdress which was supposed to be an eagle and eagle feathers, but instead looks like a rooster with its mouth open. meigs had been urging thomas crawford constantly to go to the vatican library and look up some books that pictures of indians because he suspect it, quite rightly, that crawford had no idea what indians looked like. anyway, crawford comes back to this. davis just absolutely loves it and meigs didn't say anything a

anybody can be a target in the united states. up to a million people on the watch list, and a lot them are innocent people, a lot of them are there by mistake. a lot them are there because they said the wrong word at the wrong time or were in the wrong place at the wrong time. and it has nothing to do with terrorism. >> history about the nsa. established by president truman on november 4, 1952, created to conduct post-war era code breaking as james bamford said. two missions, gather adversary secrets and protect u.s. national security info. on the missions, gather adversaries secrets. you write, in the lead graph, on the cover of this magazine, that american citizens need to be watching what they're saying. are they spying on americans? >> certainly. that was the whole controversy over the warrantless ease dropping program under president bush, was eavesdropping on americans. the interstate was formed like the marines or other organizations that are formed for foreign wars, was formed to eavesdrop outside the united states. marin

between us and the united states the united states is really hated in many parts of the muslim population do you think that by having such a close relationship with this well it is jeopardizing its international standing even further. not at all. there are many who say that. israel is so much attacked politically and so much incitement against israel in the arab and muslim world. because we were present western to mark receives and western civilization so it's kind of the other way around and indeed unfortunately in the muslim in the arab world there have been some brainwashing for generations by islamist elements by palestinians and they do not see the facts there is only one narrative. which is kind of a block for them for real opening their minds and hearts to somebody which is different from someone who somebody which really wants their. benefits and in that respect i believe all of us are in the same basket whether it's the united states whether it's europe whether it's russia or whether it's israel israel is still to have seven hundred nuclear weapons and it is the one who threatens

the president of the united states. but what's the reality? we can put the words back up, we can put the words frup 2009, 2010, 2011, but what's the reality? the reality, sadly, is this chart. you can't see it from where you are, madam speaker, but it's a chart from "the wall street journal" entitled the debt boom. it charts the public debt of the united states from the year 2000 to 2012 and what we see is as a percent of g.d.p., it was entirely too high in the bush year, don't get me wrong, there's not a party in town that is blameless in this debate. for pete's sake we were having economic boom times and our debt was 35% of g.d.p. 35% of all the economy of the united states of america was being borrowed in debt. but look what happens. look what happens. president obama is sworn in in january of 2009. you see a debt boom where we rise from 35% of g.d.p. as our debt level, up to 80% of g.d.p. as our debt level. now again, i can put the words back up. time for sacrifice. families are tightening their belts, we must do the same. everyone must sa

iran very much wants to talk directly to the united states. iran feels that the united states is the country which is going to deliver the goods. and the beginning of this process from 2003 to 2006, the europeans were doing most of the negotiating and the united states was not even present at the table. and diplomats told me that they always felt that the iranians were looking over their shoulders to see where were the americans to guarantee the kind of security guarantees, the kind of delivery of technology that would make a deal work. so i think a key sign of success at this meeting is if there's a bilateral talk between the iranian representative and between the american representative. and the talks assemble in geneva the last two talks, there were no bilaterals between the americans and the iranians. if we get through this first round, and if we get to a second round, which would happen fairly quickly, that's where the real difficult things begin because you want to have a confidence-building measure. now, if this can't be a fuel swap, wh

documented and undocumented, presence in the united states. their earnings were enhanced by about 2.7%. why? it's complicated and i'll send a link to the commission so you can look at the exciting charts and graphs and do that to your heart's desire. it comes down to a simple idea which is intuitive and you know it. the economy is not a fixed pie. when you expand the labor curve, a simple economist will say the price of labor goes down and we're all hurt. the more people that work here, the more people that are chasing jobs and we're all doomed. wrong. the expansion of the available labor force creates opportunities that did not exist before. you have innovation a

united states -- "the united states of fear" is what one guy could produce in a year of reading, writing, talking and considering the american world and the absurdities in it that are accepted as ordinary reality. as those of you who read tomdispatch.com know i'm right along myself. despite what everyone thinks about brevity and attention spans and the internet. before jeremy and i talked i will read two pieces from the book both on the shorter side. the first is you will see is really my thoughts about guys in rooms. i wrote it in march 2010 before the military was out of iraq and just after the supreme court issued its citizens united decision but before it was clear that the floodgates that opened so wide that what might be called the politics of the rich in america which soon becomes simply american politics i called it on being a critic, all the world is a stage for us. in march of 2010 i wrote about a group of pundits and journalists eager not to see the u.s. military leave iraq. that piece was on the op-ed page of the los angeles times and a longer version at tomdispatch.com and b

to review, you can see in the last page this beautiful map about the states of america or the united statesnd for each one you can observe the size of the export of that specific state and the number of american jobs that depends on the exports to mexico. so i strongly recommend to read this carefully later. [laughter] because i don't want to lose your attention. while i was talking about this, mexico is more export than the rest of the latin american countries come bind. combined. export by destination, of course, that is the point. is not only mexican exports towards the united states, but it's also american products going to mexico. and that means jobs for the american people and american workers. so the american exports, america -- united states export almost $200 billion to mexico every single year. somebody say that china is quite important, the economy's growing really fast, is crucial. a lot of american exports used to go to china. yes. but we mexicans are importing more american products than chinese or japanese people combined. so we are more important death nation for -- destinat

and settled in the united states, at united states children and citizen wife. as a whole we want to address this issue. >> host: palm beach, florida. >> caller: thank you. very hard work. i want to comment on the integration of the u.s. army with the mexican army and heading towards north american union and something that might be dangerous for our health and safety laws friday while enforcement perspective. >> host: do you see a lack of sovereignty? >> guest: that won't happen. very simple, mexico is a sovereign nation. they are proud to be a sovereign nation. we are sovereign nation in the united states. we all need to cooperate as neighboring countries for the security. not just of our region but the security of the entire world. we work closely together. i want to say i am proud of the service, work very much on our

finally mature enough as a nation to ask the question can the united states do better than capitalists and your book coming out now called occupy the economy challenging capitalism could answer some of those i tried to show some of the new ways to organize a reorganize our economy that would avoid the problems we've now seen will learn from our experience and begin to move in a different economic direction and i think that's a reasonable way i don't expect everyone to agree but what i mostly hoping for is to reignite a national debate and discussion let those who like capitalism defend it but those who criticize what's wrong and offer some alternatives and i try to do that in the book and i have to leave it there thank you very much for speaking with r.t. my pleasure thank you. michigan three couldn't take three. three. three. three. three. three volunteers to go for your media drug free video john darche to talk. lines in the ocean would be soon which bryson if you remove the sun from funds to crush in these. stunts on tea. party's top stories the russian capital is rock right to majo

why the united states in particular needs to be engaged? why corporation is so vital and what does the imf must play a bigger role? let me begin with the global economy. things have improved quite a bit over the last two months. there are signs of improvement -- this started back in the summer. right in the middle of august. people should never go on vacation in august. [laughter] we see encouraging signs from financial stabilization in europe. we are seeing encouraging signs in the united states as well. manufacturing activity. as you said, we should not delude ourselves into a false sense of security. the recovery is still very fragile. the financial system in europe is still under heavy straits. debt is still high. stubbornly high unemployment is straining the seams. oil prices are another cloud on the horizon. policymakers make use of the current moment. breathing space to put in place the policies and contained the job they have started. i would say to take a matter of completing and continuing the job. remember that we are here not be

united states can confidently say we'll reopen it. if iran has nuclear weapons, it's much more complicated. would we be willing to risk nuclear war to open the strait of hormuz? maybe, maybe not. a nuclear armed iran i think would lead to a long-term risk premium being built into oil prices that be could in place as long as iran had nuclear weapons. a lot of these other national security interests we're in a bad situation regardless of the way we go >> look, i think that -- the best outcome is clearly a diplomatic outcome here. there is a lot of anxiety causing oil price tosses tick up. but a military strike on iran, i don't model this tough, i'm not an economist or a trader, not traitor, i'm neither one actually. but you know, the folks i've talked to said a strike could easily push gas prices to between $5 and $6 a gallon in the near term. the question would be, if the markets became anxious that the war would continue to escalate or drag on, then this isn't a short-term blip, a two to three-week thing. this is something that goes t

if you'll permit me to east european lab mark then i think even united states getting wasn't this may be the unique period in few months after one of the who went for state benefit so many people leave in such safety. three dollars and so on don't make too much fun of the world again i think it's fine i think the last always was a disaster spirit europe europe is a cultural theme park it's significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state it just took you are out of the plight i have had personally i personally experience with the socialist green paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like you have a time thing but it wasn't pretty sort of the official speaking from the if something has broken then you have to sweet the swedes have no morals the david striving towards the target the striving towards a better position even if even if that position is liberty it is more liberty but is the striving a direction that people wish to have if they can measure and temper events by the direction of the hopes and ideals have we now abandoned that true religion because

osama bin laden declared war on the united states. nobody paid much attention when he did it and i think 1998, because of the presence of american troops, have been left there after the first gulf war. so the united states has gotten ourselves into a position where importing now a little bit less because of these improved technologies. we are still dependent for half of our oil from foreign sources, so the only way that we can prevent the united states from being taxed if you will, every time we have any type of economic growth by increased oil prices that are set by cartel that would not be legally possible if it were operating inside the united states is to diversify our fuel simply along the lines that we mentioned. so even though i'm a conservative and i support free market principles, this is not a free market problem. it is a military and national security problem and it should be looked at in the same vein as if we're buying another couple l squadrons of f 35 or another aircraft carrier and the technology that bob had talked ab

to turn the frowns upside down that's pretty darn sure since nine eleven the people of of the united states of america all suffered greatly and we are suffering more and more every day because it's turning into a police state and i think that the outcry of trayvon martin is the finger of the pulse has to be touched it's an outrage because it's happening in every state everywhere the brutality and the invasion of privacy by law enforcement and now it's going to continue in the jails and if you look at what happened in this case what happened to albert lawrence you know you guy who was strip searched this is right where the kids came from he's in the passenger seat his pregnant wife is driving he's got a four year old son in the back seat they're going to the mother in law's for dinner and she gets pulled over for speeding and he says this is my car here's the registration sir you have an unpaid ticket well i really don't and i have a piece of paper proving i've paid this ticket i keep getting pulled over so i carry proof i paid the ticket get out of the car and you can skate it was dismissed

expose the world secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemned. illegally should pull five hundred days now being detained without charge but that hasn't stopped us . today on the quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. today i am joined by an intellectual superstar. a former communist dissident now turned so described communist together we call david horowitz a former left wing radical black panther i now a fiery right wing's ionise i want to know what they think about the future of europe and the united states become versation becomes he did you get has to be physically restrained we shout rant thankful calmly about knotty and palestinians black panthers and israelis but out of barmah romney and stalin. david you describe yourself as a conservative and describe yourself as a communist but nonetheless both of you have had a picture of stalin. standing. measuring a don't mess. yeah right king george washington international shop. i like go ahead david and you tell me what do you mean by conserva