wall street and the world. now while the majority of those international protests stay peaceful rome is an entirely different scene court the reuters cars were torched banks were attacked the demonstrations quickly turned violent as police broke out water cannons forcing the crowd to disperse some news outlets are calling it the worst riots to hit rome in years so they are keeping all that information in mind so that a difference a month makes the national and now international news outlets pick up the coverage of these occupy movements there's one source of step to inform from the beginning i see a lot of shall we started from day one with our coverage we're dedicated to continuing watching this movement which takes us to our next story. now while the rest of the country and the rest of the world may be slowly catching on my wall street movement in new york is now officially one month old over the weekend thousands came out to march on times square and throughout the day more than seventy protesters in new yor

place wall street. failed economic policies wall street didn't spend a trillion dollars that didn't do any good wall street isn't going around the country trying to sell another four hundred fifty billion dollars they ought to be open from a riot how they're going to frustrate. heather herman cain says well thirty didn't put in failed economic policies but loss rate seems to be one of the few that is doing better financially they got valid out but they still got their big bonus says there's no question that they influence decisions in washington doesn't make them doesn't make sense that protesters are angry at last very well i think that it makes sense that there is. a lot of unrest on both sides of the aisle you know you have to a lot of comparisons to tea party and occupy wall street or d.c. or los angeles or whatever you want to say because people are frustrated and let's not forget that the occupy wall street crowd has changed it started off kind of being a small group of anarchists and it's changed

coming up tonight our coverage of occupy wall street continues to take a look at how the wall street media is covering the movement and some of those ridiculous comments made by u.s. politicians about the protesters that are fighting for change back and not. even the books of this convention to learn the secrets of. magic is the essence of life. whether it is a produced press. or a shamanistic which. on the crossroads of two religion. faith is strong and spirit is hard. now as occupy wall street protests continue we have heard one major complaint from the protesters time and time again the no major figure involved in the two thousand and eight financial collapse has faced any serious criminal charges but not enough has changed in the way the banks operate and consumer groups say that a lot of people in the financial sector didn't report the shady business practices taking place because they feared for their jobs but last year president obama signed into law the dodd frank wall street reform and consumer protection act one of the provisions signed into that law was a major revamp of w

but as students fight for what they say is their fundamental right what can move inside occupy wall street learn from these two am protests. it's wednesday october nineteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching artsy old violent riots in greece as tens of thousands of people protest the proposed austerity plan the e.u. and i.m.f. are demanding deep cuts in exchange for a bailout package in order to prevent the falls there's fear that without the bailout the rest of the eurozone will spiral into economic collapse meanwhile greece faces rising unemployment and massive government debt legislators are voting on bills that would hike taxes and cut salaries but protesters don't want to pay as they're taking their fury to the streets of athens a forty eight hour strike is shutting down the country governed. agencies closed their doors to take part in the strike price have been flights have been grounded and services are at a standstill more than one hundred thousand workers and students gathered in the streets of the capital and in front of the parliament building the demo

wall street is washington and washington is wall street look over the heads of the u.s. treasury over the last couple of presidents robert rubin goldman sachs they're moving. two to citi group then you had read paul's the treasury secretary on the bush the lies the whole top program where did he come from both the c.e.o. of goldman sachs we had to bail out goldman sachs making a bad bet of thirteen billion dollars with a i.g. who is the chief of staff for president obama where it's the oh that's bill daley i wasn't he the vice chairman of j.p. morgan chase it's the same club it's just a different version so you just have wall street as washington so does that mean that they should be taking their protests to washington they should be taking they're taking them everywhere this is really again we're not monday morning quarterbacks on this i wrote a book in one thousand nine came out in one thousand nine hundred seven trends two thousand and i was predicting what the future would look like it's right there it's are you get anywhere when we had revolutions taking place on wa

don't blame wall street.> joining us for the interview is simon johnson, professor of economic m.i.t. sloan and he serves on the panel of academic advisers to the congressional budget office and his old job was at the international monetary fund where with he was the chief economist. it is a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> last night at the republican candidates debates herman cain was cheered for doubling down on his line if you are not rich you should blame yourself. don't blame wall street. he's saying wall street didn't get us in to the economic mess we are in now it is individual human failing by the unemployed. do you understand the analysis. is there an economic point to that analysis? >> not really. wall street blew itself up. it's a financial crisis that produced the most severe recession since world war ii. it's the biggest banks, in particular that have done enormous damage, 8 million jobs lost. millions of homes lost. many massive increase in the the

and that really getting up to do something about it is one of the many messages behind the occupy wall street movement this as protesters in america follow in the footsteps of those involved in the arab spring so after hundreds of arrests a brooklyn bridge shutdown and allegations of police brutality has a season for change finally arrived in the us. the only way to get the media to notice is to be disobedient you have to start to get people to notice and stirred up is exactly what's going on as occupy wall street gets bigger and louder so with the movement expanding from coast to coast and as inequality has expanded over the years is civil disobedience now the only way for average people in america to have their voices heard. and from bridging the gap of income inequality to fighting corruption to wall street control over washington tensions continue growing between main street and wall street so as the seeds for revolution are planted we'll explore the root causes behind these protests. video it's monday october third seven pm here in washington d.c. i laurin lyster and you're watching r t

what is the occupy wall street. as the movement tries to shake things up and bring about change to the way wall street does business a new ad out is trying to paint protesters and indeed some that so is there some truth to this media blitz or is it all online. and it's not just the u.s. catching on to all occupy wall street story the movement is going global from canada to the u.k. even asia will have a report from the ground in india on those standing in solidarity with american protestors. it's friday october fourteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for watching our team and let's get to the latest in the occupy wall street movement really taking over this country patients now in dozens of cities nation. wide on this friday day twenty eight of occupy wall street here's a look at zuccotti park in new york from this morning a sight you don't see every day thousands of people standing their ground fighting even action from the park they were told by new york mayor michael bloomberg that they'd have to leav

on wall street occupy wall street could this be the beginning of some real change it could be the beginning of real change it could also just be a false start. the key is i think in a lot of ways is is this just going to be a public statement for we're going to really start taking power in specific ways or you know i want to play the mainstream media has been denigrating and downplaying the movement and i want to play a clip for you which kind of exemplifies that there's no political movement there is no thirst for any kind of political movement there they wouldn't have the backing of the american public. you know what do you think about that man is that do you think that's true there's no thirst first change or they wouldn't have the backing of the american people what do you think i think this is really in the bag in the american people i talked to workers over this country and i go to kentucky i go to minnesota i go to all kind of places and we're going to really want to see changes simply because real wages have been declining so i certainly think they do have the backing the american p

every revolution has a manifesto occupy wall street does not yet what they do have is the occupied wall street journal. attracting readers from all walks of life like bees to honey the newspaper documents the story of the occupation in the words of those out on the streets calling for change in the u.s. i think it's very good i carry on. i think. it's a wonderful move mean can i think paraguay carolina where i hear it's offered by the people here so i figure it's probably the best source for people doesn't rely on advertising like most others now in decline seventy five thousand dollars in donations were reasonably keep an eye to start of the project the. context of the revolution thoughtful articles and practical information on getting involved fillets pages people reading this on subways and parks on streets or the people or people who are curious who have heard there's a lot of noise being made at wall street what's this all about the words that are in print that shock and make the reader think a volunteer group runs the paper at a secret location among them managing editor michael l

one of your points is wall street employs k street to dominate main street.ut that includes your cofounder president obama. >> well, unfortunately, obama has raised a lot of money from wall street. this is an example of how that money can kind of take over our political system. >> i think we a graph of how much he raised here. he raised more than any other cawhit house with pple who were too ose to wall street. and, you know, since 2009, since obama took office, wall street and financial interests have spent nearly a billion dollars to fight the reforms after the crisis. and that makes it very hard to kind of do anything about their outsized power. that money in politics that is a rot at the core of our democratic -- >> i have a solution. make government not so big and then you won't need to spend all this money to manipulate it. >> the downsizing of government and attacks on government have been the problem. the people who argued let's get rid of government were often being paid by wall street lobbyists or getting campaign dollars from wall street and the wh

say anything, they are defending wall street opposed to main street.wall street extends from the far left to the far right. i have said this before. it is an issue that unites the wall street like nothing i have ever seen. but the problem is, if this blows up like what happened. >>neil: in 1968 with 9 -- the demonstrators it escalated after martin luther king's assassination and that of bobby kennedy, it took on a life its own and it was over-the-top in chicago. could we be looking at that? do they escalate? >>guest: if they are not properly organized. this is a free-floating situation, where people are coming from all their reasons. well, remember when this first started when the war was popular people listened because they were concerned about it and as it became more radical and more violent that was the beginning of negativity. >>neil: when the middle-class and upper middle class and college age kids got involved --. >>guest: that was the late 60's. the problem is it went from the substance to the violence. we are nowhere near that. we had teach-in

the biggest us march in years ending up with some of the worst police brutality so as all compile wall street spreads thousands joining the fight against corruption will we finally see some change in america. and from the money machine into the war machine thousands of protesters occupy freedom plaza right here in washington d.c. to fight against wars in afghanistan and iraq so can the masses make a difference when it comes to cutting military spending. and as americans finally wake up and take to the streets will politicians and steal the message as a way to promote and justify their own ideals will speak with andrew gavin marshall of the people's book project dot com to explore whether elites are trying to co-opt these. it's thursday october sixth five pm in washington d.c. and christine you're watching r t well let's start off with the latest from the movement that is now a swelling in strength and numbers occupy wall street tens of thousands of people are now part of this yesterday of course the unions joined in and more and more people are heading to various locations around the country

one of your points is wall street employs k street to dominate main street.es your cofounder president obama. >> well, unfortunately, obama has raised a lot of money from wall street. this is an example of how that money can kind of take over our political system. >> i think we a graph of how much he raised here. he raised more than any other candidate. >> and he staffed his white house with people who were too close to wall street. and, you know, since 2009, since obama took office, wall street and financial interests have spent nearly a billion dollars to fight the reforms after the crisis. and that makes it very hard to kind of do anything about their outsized power. that money in politics that is a rot at the core of our democratic -- >> i have a solution. make government not so big and then you won't need to spend all this money to manipulate it. >> the downsizing of government and attacks on government have been the problem. the people who argued let's get rid of government were often being paid by wall street lobbyists or getting campaign dollars from

they're getting up for doing something about it it's one of the many messages behind the occupy wall street movement this is protesters in america call in the footsteps of those involved in the arab spring or so some say but after hundreds of arrests a brooklyn bridge shut down and allegations of police brutality how's the season for change finally arrived in the u.s. . the way to get the media to notice is to disabuse you of the truth if you will notice and stir it up is exactly what's going on as occupy wall street gets bigger and louder so with the movement expanding from coast to coast is civil disobedience the only way average people in america can have their voices heard. what we. need to. use it for. and it's a war that seems to keep going so was greece's deficit rises and austerity measures fail as a method of defense the million dollar question remains is it inevitable for greece to default and if so what will this mean for the global economy. good evening it's monday october third five pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you're watching r.t. well occupy wall street pr

you've got the global insurrection against banking occupation and all the subchapters like occupy wall street and occupy various cities around the world there needs to be down move to politicize all this and i'm thinking that why not take all of the occupy movements around the world and join them with the various global pirate parties around the world had the beginning of that movement in the swedish pirate party and then it quickly spread to countries all over the world that could be the political wing of the occupy wall street movement there on the exact same page and this would give them representation because the pirate party already has representation in countries around the world and they can use the civil disobedience of abandoning the entire copyright intellectual property system that is dry kone and that is anti creativity which is basically part of the casino leg state a merger. so i believe this could be the next phase i'm calling for what do you think well it's interesting because the pirate party is responding to monopolies and harsh laws which penalize the people and that's what

hudson author of the monster how a gang of predatory lenders and wall street bankers fleeced america and spawn dick lobel crisis and michael w. hudson welcome back to the kaiser report thanks for me back to max all right michael hudson in your most recent article you chronicle what can only be called fraud in the subprime mortgage practices at countrywide and yet president obama said last week that sub prime lending was a moral but not necessarily illegal all your thoughts it's really not involved as character to really lay down the gauntlet and say this is criminal conduct this is fraud as i say he's very much i'll compromise and meeting in the middle it's interesting because if you go back a generation during the era of the first president bush they had a thousand f.b.i. agents investigating the savings and loan scandal there were a thousand as you know insiders who were convicted of felonies and a lot of big names including charles keating of keating five and lincoln savings and loan fein services substantial prison sentences we haven't seen that now we don't have a lot of f.b.i.

well here we are in new york city it is a cloudy park and occupy wall street soon as we finish the show the me we jumped in the car and got here is basses because it's about one thirty in the morning it's already started raining it's going to be raining for they say the next twelve hours and there's a lot of excitement here you still hear a lot of chanting but also a lot of tension because the cops are supposed to show up at seven o'clock in the morning if you look over here you already see a big line of police cars and that's when the start cleaning the park out as the mayor ordered now they say they're going to let people back in but they say no sleeping bags as you can see why the protesters consider this an eviction notice so they've been preparing for the worst holding meetings all evening talking about what happens if you get arrested if you're in jail what your rights are and it seems like a lot of people really are preparing for a showdown there might be a lot more people in the morning to you we're going to have to wait and see what happens but from the people that i spoke to t

the occupy wall street movement captured the attention of america one month ago tonight. now the global movement for economic justice has washington's full attention, i'd say. this weekend the 99% protesters filled the streets in over 800 american cities and over 82 different countries. the obama campaign says it will make the 99% platform a central tenant of this re-election strategy. and republicans are running scared. for the last month republicans have vilified the 99% movement. exactly ten days ago house majority leader eric cantor sounded the alarm at the value voters conference. >> i, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying wall street and the other cities across the country. >> now is that what he's saying today? he has done a complete 180 on the middle class mob. and now claims to have a plan to solve the record income gap in america. >> we agree that the economy is woefully, woefully weak. we believe that everyone ought to be lifted up. >> you have heard any republicans talk about income disparity? i think that this wall street movemen

they should get a wall street just like wall street.presumes that these are all students, mostly students. it's not something that will fly in a congress trying to cut spending. politically, it is one of the political solutions. doesn't make sense. >> bret: my point is if president obama is trying to coopt the group and that is one of the things they are talking about wanting, you can't deliver on anything close to that. >> he can't. anytime you are five weeks in this kind of, quote/unquote, movement and you don't have any idea what the agenda is, that is a huge problem. >> bret: next up, the president's healthcare law takes a major hit do you think it will eventually be repealed? vote in the online question of the day on the home page. foxnews.com/specialreport. results after this break. >>> the administration finally realized when they decided to pull the plug that this thing was just not workable. it wasn't fiscally sustainable. >> there are paths forward. it's premature to shut off discussion. so what we are going to be pushing for

so as the occupy wall street movement grows president obama kicks off as the raid a bus tour not on wall street but north carolina now president obama has said that he understands why are people are angry but why won't he take that message straight so the crowds for the obama stiffing wall street on his national bus tour how do protesters feel about the president do they support him and while obama's been linked to socialism do protesters really want to see a socialist america are the correspondent are in a fortnight in the heart of the protests in new york and pose some of those questions. five weeks and counting occupy wall street has cemented its grassroots movement in lower manhattan as these activists continue fighting to change the u.s. system where do they stand on the u.s. leader who promised change i voted for him i donated i worked hard i thought he was the wind but now. so if election day were tomorrow i mean if you guys aren't for obama slap with your old vote for him obviously because i want rick perry yes i am like. because i think he's doing the best that he can with the c

and see wall street demonstrations. we don't want that knowledge is creating more pain we're suffering more and i think people are taking in. more than a thousand people in los angeles and chose to stand in solidarity with the occupy wall street movement. at city hall the very visible center of government in power and i think demonstrators worried that the one percent who control most of the nation's wealth have gained a stranglehold over the u.s. government alexander hamilton you know referred to the people he was so afraid of as the great peace in the great peace as a way people of all walks of life have turned out for this mass ministry seen here in los angeles now a lot of the protesters here say they've gotten their inspiration from the demonstrators in new york and in athens and others are inspired by the revolution of egypt now there's still much debate about whether this is part of a revolutionary movement here in america but one thing that people can agree on is that some drastic changes need to be made as to h

as this movement grows, if it does grow and the target becomes wall street and wall street greed, it may be harder for him to finesse this point. he may not want to going into the next election. he may want to be more populist because trying to be kind to business and not bash them too much has not gotten him much from business themselves. jamie dimon had a very public break with him, the head of jpmorgan chase. he hasn't got a lot out of the business community for trying to be a good guy and still, you know, he's been up against the republicans on wall street reform. if this movement expands to come down harder on one side than the other. >> howard? >> yeah, well, i think that he will try to still straddle, and i don't think he's going to become a whole-hearted wall street basher, even if that's what the people at the obama campaign think the occupy wall street movement ends up being about. i think they would like to use the energy of the occupy wall street movement to focus on the jobs message, on the notion that president obama's the guy who proposed a jobs plan, with many pieces

what is wall street wall street is the epicenter of the corporate world again is the epicenter of the corporal both symbolically as well as literally that is why people are there indefinitely as about reclaiming that space is that enough is enough space with alternative practice is very true yes that is the message that's very it's very it's very the message that the message and the other thing the other thing i want to tell you that i mean i've been actually pleasantly surprised by the corporate media coverage and we start to over two thousand live in doubt or we emphasize the independent media and if you look at our media page of a lot of independent media covering us we also so that everybody who comes has to consider themselves the media because we believe in democratized media we teach people how to use their social networks to become a newspaper or magazine we teach because i use their i phones to become a t.v. station to do live streaming so we are trying to build that from the bottom up a new kind of media but we've been very pleasantly surprised by the media coverage you see

and thing on the occupy wall street story in new york of course the birthplace of occupy wall street is not just a movement but a group of people who say they want real change in the u.s. and their demands are starting to be shown around the world artie's on the stars which are going to take a look at one of the faces in the crowd who's helped to get other faces in the crowd shown on t.v. screens class across the globe. you know when they have some guts say go down during the week and really protest on the bankers around you know why we should be leverage here and they have now camped out in a wall street for over three weeks as a joke to start a party and their families are trying to have burning man girls living right goes out gets accused of being chaotic an educated teenage hippies in reality it's the old and the young and those in between were out on the streets all of the people here are different walks of life about something if you try to settle down every piece of the it should be to much to speak about my first. name from texas thirty one year old katie did some study polit

now tonight we continue our coverage of occupy wall street a number of unions joined the protesters in new york today to march with them some say that is a good sign of the growth and acceptance of the movement others say that means it's being co-opted to speak to somebody who's been there from the beginning to get their take then we've been exposing you to the ridicule and the mockery that many media outlets have shown for this movement and say we're going to show you a special kind of this date coming from the wall street darlings of journalism get ready person very seriously does it also as there is a rumor g.o.'s attack coming towards the new york stock exchange we're going to ask if d.d. o. s. is really a crime or just a form of protected speech where you have all that market night including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. the numbers are starting to come out about how much g.o.p. presidential candidates have raised in the last campaign period and the mainstream media is of course all over it. those money determines the

to cross talk the occupy wall street movement i'm joined by jason del gandow in philadelphia he's an assistant professor of rhetoric and public advocacy at temple university and author of rhetoric for radicals a handbook for twenty first century activists in washington we have kevin zeese he's a political activist and one of the organizers of october two thousand and eleven dot org and in los angeles we cross to tony katz he's a tea party organizer and a radio talk show host gentlemen cross talk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first musher to walk us through what's been going on at wall street well events are still unfolding peter and the dismal statistics that reveal a floundering u.s. economy the occupy wall street movement continues to gain momentum across the country and trying their fourth week the protests condemning corporate greed government inefficiency and growing income inequality have even earned the endorsement of president barack obama i think people are frustrated and. the protestors are giving voice to a more broad based frustration. abo

a moment and what exactly is fox so-called news off to when it comes to coverage of the occupy wall street movement in my daily take alaska very important question about how the one percent is reacting to the ninety nine percent who are taking to the streets. you need to know this is big news coming from the occupy wall street movement last weekend as tens of thousands of people marched on times square the occupy wall street general assembly created a working list of demands specific policy changes that they are fighting for some of these demands include banning private court contributions to politicians overturning citizens united with a constitutional amendment passed in a national single payer health care system and ending the wars as working list that has yet to be adopted by the whole general assembly in new york city the plans are underway to hold a national assembly meeting next year on july fourth in the city of philadelphia where the group's website one male and one female delegate from each congressional district are below. acted by local occupy movements and will converge on phi

occupy wall street is a sustained critique of the way washington and wall street have been run. street but it's kind of hard to escape running washington, d.c. when you're the president of the united states. you can be the insurgent only when you're out of power and you're trying to change things. and occupy wall street, there are some on the left who do like the fact that maybe we have a set of enforcers now, a lot of tea party, emerging democratic party, but that can't be helpful thor a president whose case next year has to the got to be that things are turning around, we're a stronger country than we would be if i weren't president. a movement that is attacking the way america's being run is not good for barack obama. >> this is the backdrop now to the jobs bill in the super committee. >> it is the backdrop. i would say it's a conversation that's happening organically in american cities and on the streets. it is sort of a call for washington to pay attention. to pay attention exactly to what? it's not quite clear yet. >> you think it could mean that a month ago you and i woul

occupying wall street. and raging against the war machine that we've seen the mainstream media's response garbage is everywhere these are and ok see these are the people that you know. drugs are being sold. and of course we all know the police. response. was rather hoopla surrounding the news of late that that's a great if you would be surprised not really when you think about the critical mass of frustration you know i'm really happy and by it would have happened earlier but maybe to have a point it's no secret the u.s. is going through tough times latest job numbers show nine point one percent of americans are unemployed and that's not taking into account the other struggling to find jobs long term which pushes totals twenty army sixteen per cent and with jobs few and far between young people are feeling the crunch as well with almost two million college graduates unemployed spend sixty five seventy thousand dollars and . he's not the only one you have a lot of kids graduating college can't find jobs that

where the wall street protesters are focusing on the wall street economy as a source of so much of this fire. action and society and the critical frame is wall street has abused its political power to write the rules so that it has basic control of defining our our economic priorities and economic future by pulling power away from wall street enterprises which are alone owned by local people which tend to be smaller which operate more by community values and community roles that are. challenge in responding to to occupy wall street is to recognize the need to rewrite rules so that the power is rooted back in the institutions of wall street so it's never craddick so that we have got real markets with with a degree of market discipline and we move back to a well i should say back to you because it's not clear we were had a but we move to the ideal of a one vote one person one vote democracy in contrast to our current one wall street dollar one vote a walk or see a small d democracy in a small our republic using the core principles that adam smith laid out while the nation we're really in

the wall street firm gets whatever business that lousy company wants to kick back to wall street. the company gets people to buy its lousy stock. and the people who get stuck paying the bill is like your uncle jim, the toll taker in cleveland and his pension fund that he thought they'd invest this year with all those smart young guys on wall street. it was a total scam. and wall street was so confident they were never going to get caught for it that they would openly talk about these scams they were pulling in company e-mails. eliot spitzer was new york's attorney general at the time. he used his power as attorney general to get copies of these firms' super incriminating e-mails. and then when the firms came to him wanting to settle this quietly, we'll just pay a fine, just don't tell anybody we've been doing this, don't hurt our reputations, instead eliot spitzer called a press conference and released the e-mails publicly. so like here's the merrill lynch report saying some internet company called life minders, which doesn't exist anymore, life minders is "an attractive investmen

six months ago for this before the occupy movement and wall street store we embraced in support of the occupy movement street but we started earlier because we saw a need to find a way for citizens to develop power our goal is to shift the power of the people and corporate rule corporate rule does affect the cost of college corporate rule doesn't put our students in the greatest debt they've ever been in they're paying a college debt that is equal the words i first paid when i got a law school there they are coming into a job market that's absolutely terrible and these kids are in the streets because they are being treated poorly by this economy this economy is corrupt except for the top one percent that's what we cost of ourselves of on nine nine percent and in fact we have people from the ron paul movement that are fed our freedom plaza that because they agree with us on crony capitalism corrupting the economy they agree with us that the empire economy of eleven hundred military bases and outposts around the world is not good for the united states it's not good for our national secur

wall street movement spread across the globe peter lavelle asks his guests if the activists have the potential to change world politics. and you can. start. to get. a lonely and welcome to crossfire thank you to all about with presley fifteen hundred obvious by protests occurring in eighty two countries worldwide this is a global protest movement was staying power there can be no doubt there is intense dissatisfaction with the political and economic status quo but the question remains can all of this be translated into something meaningful. and you can. start. to cross talk of the ongoing global protests i'm joined by rachel martin in paris she's an international political and communications strategist and journalist in philadelphia we go to dave lindorff he is an in war winning investigative reporter and author of the blog this can't be happening and in sacramento we cross to joseph palermo he is an associate professor at california state university sacramento all right folks this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want to me very much encouraged but first marcia th

and now back to the show this time to take a look at the latest on the occupy wall street movement stay with us. all right it's time for show and talents a night's program the last time we told you about the democrats and republicans coming together to pass a free trade agreements one of these types of agreements help or hurt u.s. economy it's going to produce a patrice and send you to find out what you had to say. this friday president obama is expected to sign trade agreements with south korea panama and colombia making the group of agreements the biggest trade deal since nafta ninety four now the u.s. department of commerce website says that free trade agreements have approved one of the best ways to open foreign markets to u.s. exporters but seventeen years later now it is as controversial as ever so we want to know what you thought do you believe that these trade agreements will help or hurt the u.s. economy well miles said any as the u.s. is a lose lose situation the u.s. is importing stuff it doesn't need and looking to export other stuff to other countries that can make it even

today that the president supports americans that are frustrated with financial system aka occupy wall street but the president is part of the problem so do they just not get that or is a desperate attempt to try to co-opt the movement david sirota is going to join us for that one and the justice department announced today that a plot by iranian agents to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. has been foiled and two men are being charged we're going to take a look at the details with jack rice and start counting down the minutes until the bomb iran crowd starts trying to get rid of all that free tonight and more including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. now before the alleged plot to take out the saudi ambassador to the u.s. was announced today which will get to later on in the show there was another terrorism case that has the attention of the mainstream media this morning that would be the case of the so-called underwear bomber. a highly anticipated terrorism trial got underway this morning in detroit a fox news alert opening statement

economy the occupy wall street movement continues to gain momentum across the country and trying their fourth week the protests condemning corporate greed government inefficiency and growing income inequality have even earned a president barack obama i think people are frustrated and you know the protesters are giving voice to a more broad based frustration about our financial system works. what started as a rally against america's corrupt democratic process has turned into an organized collective call for social justice that employs the same tactics as its ideological alternative the tea party movement experts say it is now a force to be reckoned with but unions and a growing number of democrats now expressing at least qualified support for the protesters occupy wall street is starting to look like an important event but might even eventually be seen as a turning point with the u.s. unemployment rate hovering at nine point one percent and the growth rate just above one percent it is only reasonable that a populist movement should emerge to galvanize appropriate policy response but as