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Electoral Commission Says there is no issue with the British Party receiving advice from a Foreign Political Party providing it receives funding from it so its fair enough but what the reaction be if the advice was coming from a Russian Party will there be a great outcry as there would be if politicians from any political or from any other country were trying to advise politicians or tell them what to do but i mean what we should all be doing of course is talking to politicians from other countries not to get advice from them not to be told what to do but simply to find out whats going on in those countries we are straining for an interview to discuss the party but they said they were too busy however they made their feelings about our year saying that o. T. Would look to undermine it also accused the channel of being a propaganda to answer jested that russia had interfered in the brigs boat dividing the u. K. For europe despite a lack of concrete evidence. Real new clearly doesnt have a problem when it comes to seeking the advice of a foreign power such as france when it comes to reversing brigs it a referendum in which the majority of voters pleased to leave the u. So it seems that for a new meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved challenged even ski r. T. Paris. A recent poll has found that most americans believe their media is biased and it comes at a time when ever more former senior Government Employees are moving into t. V. Punditry with the control the see surrounding the recent new years memo giving them laws to talk about america can explore as if there are grounds for presumption of bias. Many people seeking expertise on the nunez memo must be switching through channels these days so is it a big deal or is it underwhelming was the right to release it well heres a familiar face answer all of your questions the fact that seven innocent republicans deny the ability of the minority of the democratic members of that committee to put out its report is just appalling he has abused the office of the chairmanship yes that was john brennan former cia director and now a member of the m s n b c family as a contributor brennan was a prominent figure in the Intelligence Community appointed by barack obama but that background doesnt necessarily mean hes biased right but bret is not the only intelligence official whos joined the ranks of Mainstream Media we also have Josh Campbell who resigned from the f. B. I. And joined c. N. N. As a Law Enforcement analyst hes yet to make his first appearance on the network but before he does heres an excerpt from his latest New York Times op ed defending his former employee these political attacks on the bureau must stop those critics of agency persuade the public that the f. B. I. Cannot be trusted they will also have succeeded in making our nation less safe its not hard to guess what campbell will say on c. N. N. Regarding the nunez memo which accuse the f. B. I. Of bias and just a little reminder he was also james komi special assistant the same komi who is accused of wrongdoing in the memo but of course campbell and brennan are the first to make the switch there is an absolute leftist bias in the country most of the networks if you just add up for example the time that they speak negatively about the president is about ninety percent of the time and there are numerous studies that show this where for example president obama he would do things to say things and there would be no Media Coverage of it whatsoever and case in point are the recent memos that were all seeing come out of course the republican memo released the new memo great scrutiny over most of the american media. Little coverage when what should happen based on that memo for example would be that that molar is investigation should be expanded but thats not what the media has called for now it said that you can never teach an old dog new tricks so how can we expect these x. Government officials to magically shed their previous political associations. Thank you thank you. Thank you thank you. Thank you. Thank. You. In the seventys president Richard Nixon was relentlessly mocked by the media for imitating a character from the film patton if that was life or should i say politics imitating art ironically what we have these days is the media imitating politics samir khan r. T. Washington d. C. Germany finally forms a grand coalition of a five to five months of talks we look at what price the parties have paid to get a result are tough for the short break. Her. When lawmakers manufactured consent instinctive public wealth. When the ruling classes to protect themselves. With the primary go around the lives only the one percent told. Us to ignore middle of the room signal. To the real news is really the only. One else childes seem wrong on why dont we all just dont know all. 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Welcome back but its been a long five months but it looks like germany is finally getting itself a new government the countrys teary largest parties have put their differences aside to agree on a coalition piece are the has the details but locals conservative block has hammered out a deal with the social democrats it was described as needing a painful compromise by angular merkel and it came on day three of extra time of these negotiations and followed a twenty four hour session we heard from peter the current incumbent of the finance ministry the Christian Democratic Union member of parliament as he was leaving those talks he said it was definitely time for a shower a very tired looking Peter Altmire as well there so what is this painful compromise well the social democrats they will hold on to the Foreign Ministry the Labor Ministry the Justice Family and environment ministries that they held in the previoUs Government but they will gain the very powerful German Finance Ministry now after a moment its unknown which position Martin Schulz would favor whether he would want to be the foreign minister although whether he would want to head up that finance ministry whatever position Martin Schultz ultimately takes he may well regret giving this statement back in september. And. Mr schultz do exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by merkel or that c. D. U. C. S. U. Yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government so what happens next well it all goes down to a vote by the s. P. D. Membership thats four hundred sixty thousand people that will be casting a vote by mail so are expecting a result from that ballot over the next few weeks trying to. To drum up support for the deal we saw the negotiating team sending a selfie out to a social democratic whats up chat saying they were tired but satisfied and encouraging their membership to get behind the vote it is going to be very tight though should the social democratic membership go vote yes well that means Angela Merkel will have to go ahead to form a new government and we could expect to see that in place by easter six months after the actual election in september if that is a no though from the social democrats then this whole deal well it all falls apart and all this negotiating has been for nothing and really the only option facing germany would be a brand new election. U. S. Defense secretary james mattis has urged congress to approve a massive funding boost for the military one of the reasons cited was the growing Nuclear Threat from russia and china. Moscow advocate the theory of Nuclear Escalation for military conflict Congress Must commit both an increase and just aimed investment in our capability been modernized in the weapons as well as other look just trying to would modernize it and expand its already considerable Nuclear Forces we need congress to lift the defense spending cap to support the budget for a military. Several days ago the pentagon issued a Nuclear Policy review in which it names north korea china and russia among the main threats to the country the Defense Department claims there can be no possible to late the modernization of the countrys Nuclear Forces the review also says washington reserves the right to use a Nuclear Response against a nonNuclear Threats the Trump Administration is pushing for a seven hundred billion dollar Defense Budget for this year which is ninety billion more than last years political commentator lou rockwell thinks that any such increase certain global stability. But they want more money because they just want more money i mean thats what the government lives to do it lives to spend also when you start using these weapons its all too easy to escalate its a horrendous thing the u. S. Has got its bases about a thousand bases in this world all around these other countries its threatening their destruction and i dont know whats going to happen but its very very disturbing that these guys are talking openly about this kind of military escalation its an outrage that the American People should be letting this go on and maybe they dont even realize whats going on but its important that all of us understand whats going on learn something about what theyre doing its its its its threatening to everybody in the world and anybody whos got children or grandchildren would like to see their families continue into the future was not to be worried about this desperately worried. 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One must feel sorry for the future tenants they did not even know that if its a hotel for example its a hotel of horrors and torture let one whos at the top of their. Two americas too intensely charged in opposing narratives to Cable News Networks reflect these divisions or rather function as triggers intensifying cultural divide. What has happened to journalism is a profession inhabited by hacks in the political process. In america a College Degree requires a great deal. Sometimes quite literally. Want other true colors of universities in the us. About gender times here were going underground just forty eight hours since british courts prevented the extradition of british finnish freedom activist larry love to the United States that the u. K. Arrest warrant decision in the past twenty four hours concerning wiki leaks founder Julian Assange coming out of the show why did Washington PostKatharine Graham praised in the new spielberg film the post cold war harry a watered down journalism we pay tribute to the reporter whose work was archived by the cia after he exposed defacto british back to Us Government smuggling of drugs and weapons around the. World and forget fake news here on earth what about fake news in outer space through physicist and founder the storm is best of all israeli and argues for International Cooperation instead a mere liberal collusion from the headlines we are spreading stones are killing who in syria and jews fighting in yemen all the civil coming up in todays going on the ground but first where around ten days from britains answer to the Academy Awards and arguably reflecting the state of British Journalism no award this year will go to a film purportedly about the pentagon papers Steven Spielbergs the post this even after recent years revealed that britains pride in not joining the us a war which killed around four million vietnamese may be misplaced that in fact there was indeed covert support for the Kennedy Johnson nixon carnage in the spielberg film meryl streep backed and supposed heroine Katharine Graham of the Washington Post newspaper now a subsidiary of the online retailer amazon but. If you publish the Supreme Court next. Week we could all go to prison to make this decision. For a company thats been. Spared but was Katherine Graham really so heroic because thats not the way shes seen by many of the journalists filmmakers and whistleblowers around the globe who paid tribute to journalists and founder of Consortium News robert perry who passed away last week Seymour Hersh described perry as not even so much as a critic of us Mainstream Media as a critic of lousy reporting and from the iran contra scandal the mainstream coverage of russia and ukraine his work cut through propaganda and skewered lazy neo liberal journalism joining me now via skype from San Francisco in the usa is Norman Solomon the founder of the into. If you for public accuracy and long time friend of Bob Perry Norman welcome back to going underground so for those who havent heard of robert perry why was his journalism so relevant to the lives of people fail living in nato countries like britain well heres a guy who came out of the mainstream what i call mainline media with Associated Press then on to newsweek and the p. B. S. Frontline show and his year was always very international he became well known in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. By breaking stories the first story is really about the iran contra scandal the arms for hostages deal and i think most importantly the us against american law was arming the contras in nicaragua the cia backed army against the elected sandinista government perry was somebody who was. Committed to independent journalism and that increasingly i think put him at odds with not only the conservative part of the u. S. Power structure but also of the liberal part as well ok well that take us back a little what with the scale of u. S. Backing for de facto drug smuggling that bo perry exposed you know there was one of the big stories i mean not only the weapons flying in from u. S. Sources to the contras in nicaragua and then id seen eightys but the planes would come back not empty but with drugs to supply. In the United States some of the drug. Conveyance ally and of course money coming from that as well so they were called off the shelf deals we are if the cia or the u. S. Government couldnt through legal channels fund the contras with the weapons and the socalled nonlethal way the drug trade could help. Free up a whole lot of money and so perry really exposed that the Reagan Administration from the top down. It wasnt just oliver north contrary to media myth but the Reagan Administration from the very top or was involved in that illicit and deadly warfare against u. S. Law and then just wiped it out perry went to guatemala and el salvador just the slaughterhouse that was being funded by the u. S. Government in the Reagan Administration at that time and i think if we look you know the last several decades since then but kerry didnt really change in that he was always a very tough investigative journalist he believed as the great reporter i of stone said many decades ago all governments a lie and nothing they say should be taken on faith and its because of that commitment that robert perry continued to be a very important reporter after he was a. P. A newsweek in recent quarter century really he was crucial and remains even having passed away a crucial the important journalist as the independent reporter who exposed crimes going on from the top of the u. S. Government reagan of course a great ally of mrs that has here in britain he went to mulberry went on to win the i have stone medal but hill through expose their own reagan deliberately delayed the return of the u. S. Hostages from iran. Yeah Reagan Campaign socalled october surprise. Four hundred forty days the u. S. Hostages being held in the embassy former embassy in tehran and bumper he made a convincing case just shoe leather journalism that in fact the Reagan Administration ahead you know vien with iran saying you know you can get a better deal from us if you dont give jimmy carter the release of those hostages until after the election and in fact symbolically and notably those hostages were elected or rather released on you know a gratian day for on the break and these are the kind of stories that bob insisted on doing meticulously going through documents and really granular level of research there earned him a lot of disrepute among the Mainstream Media he simply became a pariah and that was more and more the case not only for the right wingers in the media and government to adore Ronald Reagan quote it also became true of those who adored barack obama yeah ill get on to the growth in a second i know you want the day that im not sure if you see this Steven Spielberg film hanks film the post but its certainly extols the virtues and one of the great journalist. Katharine graham. Yeah i dont know how you have this thing to share the same ideas about her as the tom hanks and Steven Spielberg. Well perry actually worked for what was then called the post Newsweek Company the Washington Post being the owner of newsweek and as he told me later on. Bob was working on a story about u. S. Foreign policy and he was told it would have to be watered down because Katharine Graham had Henry Kissinger as a weekend house guest and this is an example of what bob was willing to say in public that was routinely kept private you know inside the stacked him of the media and because he was willing to disclose that kind of sum on a scale of whats supposed to be objective journalism. He really became somebody in disrepute for someone like Katharine Graham i have to say you know i have not gone and seen the film yet the post but i did perhaps one of the very few know if only negative reviews Katharine Grahams quotes are winning one of our graffiti personal history when it came out a couple of decades ago it was very selfserving it was exactly the kind of slop and idiot logically driven material that bob kerrey rejected fundamentally his Work Together to get through how he then in later life before he died annoyed the liberals because eat eat try to debunk the idea that russia was responsible for basically all the ills of the United States that these to be going on in your country right now. Well i should say in context it was always finely attuned as a washington reporter to the way that the intelligence agencies of the United States and the news media tended to work in lockstep certainly in tandem and so it was the same sensibilities that caused him to go against the grain on the Reagan Administrations line on Central America it also caused him to go against the careen in terms of the received wisdom what everybody was supposed to believe in us media and politics about russia and as is the case with me bob kerrey was no fan of the russian government what he was an enthusiastic that was to look at history past and current and to look at facts rather than spin and that led him to fundamentally dispute on the basis not of idiology but of facts the claims that russia had engaged in some kind of nefarious and effective plot to sway the twenty sixteen u. S. President ial election and that further you know he needed neutrally i think him from the big power brokers u. S. Media i mean he just in Consortium News dot com the website that he founded almost a quarter century ago he was daily ripping into the latest. Launched propaganda from the New York Times in the Washington Post about russia and it simply made by a not only a pariah but also a trailblazer he burned a lot of bridges in the process but thats what independent journalists should do and some people even tried just where im going him so im going to putin useful idiot because he owes a different about ukraine didnt me oh he fundamentally had a very different narrative about ukraine a different narrative about nato in general in terms of its expansive efforts he like anybody paying attention really saw. There was a pledge made and broken from the u. S. Government after glenn wall fell about not moving nato eastward in. Current events in that context and he frankly would not do well in other countries either in terms of power structures he would be under tremendous pressure if you were a journalist in russia you would be in prison if you were journalist in china he simply had an independent mentality that said that journalists should not be functionaries for any Political Party or any government and in the current context that made him someone who to my mind was a truth teller about the conflicts now between russia and the United States because he saw a very clearly that its the United States with eight hundred military bases overseas its the United States that has encroached upon and moved upon or what have traditionally been the close in border areas of russia and you know he saw that journalists either theyre going to be independent or theyre going to be flunkies for power interests in their own country and the journalist cant really do both we always invite the Chinese Government to respond to that allegation from you norman but if one Lasting Legacy of people like you saying grady is do you think another one is the fact that the cia took such an interest in him and developed i visit material his work and himself no doubt cia always attentive to authentic journalism that runs counter to its own dominant narrative but always had a very adversarial relationship to the cia after all he exposed its deadly machinations in Central America during the Reagan Administration and always understood the difference between journalistic intelligence and government intelligence and that has to say the least peak interest from the cia and certainly the opposite of admiration known zalman thank you after the break. 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