Very well welcome you watching r. T. International with me carol its great to know. That democrats have labeled fox news an existential threat to the u. S. Describing it as a russian stooge with some on the blue halls of washington calling for the channel to register as a Foreign Agents. Voices in the mainstream of the Democratic Party have escalated their calls for the suppression of alternative views specifically about Foreign Policy the target now seems to be the Fox News Network one of the most watched Cable News Networks in the United States prominent democratic voices have called for fox news to be forced to register as a Foreign Agent and specifically a Foreign Agent of russia fox news should register with far as an agent of the Russian Federation if its going to peddle the kremlin agenda and propaganda while hurting u. S. National security interests then it should be treated the same as our t. And nick these allegations and this call for suppression of fox news and forcing it to register as an agent of russia seemed to be in response to this comment from Tucker Carlson i dont live like they are about to go out of the conflict between ukraine and russia but im curious like i tell you why and why should i run for russia because i am Tucker Carlson is a prominent host on fox news he has a nightly program and apparently it was in response to not only these comments but also comments hes made in coverage shes had of the o. P. C. W. Reports questioning allegations about syria and the chemical attack in duma and 27 seen here is some of the response that fox news has endured for its Foreign Policy coverage folks news host says he roots for russia against the west he said the quiet out loud this clip is just one more exhibit supporting the case that its no longer the left versus right but democracy versus authoritarianism i think many still underestimate the threat to the republic at this point foxs open the fascist day and g. O. P. Are existential threats to do us say weve reached out to fox news for comment on this issue in this allegation we hope to hear back from them this is not the 1st time that allegations like this have been leveled against conservative Media Outlets in the United States there is currently a case. In court in which one American News is suing m s n b c and Rachel Maddow over their allegation that Rachel Maddow referred to america one American News as quote paid russian propaganda one American News network is a conservative media outlet they say this is slanderous they are simply not a paid russian propaganda outlet and that this isnt an attack this is an unfair slander from m s n b c and from Rachel Maddow and theyre hoping to win a settlement in court of up to 10000000. 00 it seems that the allegation that one is a russian agent or a russian asset or a Foreign Agent agent of a foreign power seems to be a common theme among those calling for the suppression of alternative views. Discuss it further with chocolate more economists spectator usa welcome to the program and do you think that its come to the point now where if you dont follow a specific narrative then youre going to be called a traitor or a Foreign Agents. Right i think thats exactly right and weve been saying that for many years now and you know and its not just any Foreign Agent its a russian born agent so Tucker Carlson makes one comment which was clearly a joke and bill disclosure im a regular guest on his program i do not work for fox but. So he makes one comment thats clearly a joke and you know suddenly its all out now this is this is completely in line with with how they behaved all of these smears come from basically media matters for america nor does ation thats funded by george soros it is far left wing they basically have people who sit around and get paid to watch fox news and do nothing else and pick out little comments and jokes to which they turn into big stories and then they tell the mainstream Media Outlets what to report and those outlets reported almost word for word so if you want to talk about the war terry unism i think we see it we see it very clearly in the left wing American Media the cable news essentially has one. And non left wing voice and that is fox news and theyre the biggest ones and theyre not even super right wing Tucker Carlson sean hannity a maybe laura ingram are sort of the most conservative shows or also the most popular shows but generally speaking maybe center right even a Little Center left on a lot of things still thats way too much opposition for the authoritarian media state in this country and even to believe the Democratic Party can have some sway on the end so is it just out to smear. Its just out to smear it then thats all it is and they make these outrageous claims with absolutely no backing your no support about being a Foreign Agent which is absolutely ludicrous but they make these things with no evidence and of course the intent is not to actually get these organizations to register as Foreign Agents thats absurd the intent is to just plant this seed to plant this ridiculous notion and which theyve been doing all along theyve been doing this with the russia gate a lot that blew up in their face earlier this year now with the peace treaty hearings which is also blown up in their face and you know im not sure of our team has had to register as a Foreign Agent in this country i dont think artsy america has but why dont they talk about i dont know the b. B. C. Very. Agents of the British Government the British Government is very pro e. U. Very anti brags that we can also talk about aljazeera we can talk about a. J. Plus agents of qatari government which i certainly dont have our best interests in mind in this country so while the democrats are obsessed over foreign interference and claiming that fox news is carrying water for the russians which they certainly arent we do have other other state media operating this country that their silence on and then of course theres a question of how this would stand up against the 1st amendment which guarantees freedom of speech but do you think absolutely you know the Democratic Party in the left used to be the party of free speech the Free Speech Movement was started the 1960 s. By left wing activists and and they were also the Antiwar Movement and they used to be the party of anti war and weve seen this dramatic shift one thing that one of the comments you posted earlier that theyre correct about partially so is that we do no longer have a typical left versus right in this country the entire paradigm has been flipped on its head free speech and war and formulate foreign formulations is just 2 of those biggest issues the Democrat Party of the left is fundamentally. Anti free speech Silicon Valley is a huge multi multi multi 1000000000. 00 operation they are far left wing they are very very anti free speech the Democrat Party is constantly calling for people to be shut down and censored only if those people are affective and if people are listening to them so that is why you see the going after fox news you see them going after one of the president ial candidates come all the harris wanted through an open call to take away the president s twitter account because its so entertaining and people love it so much you see them calling for very very influential voices to be shut down you do you do not see them calling for actual hate mongers in this country like david duke or Richard Spencer theres about maybe 10 of them in this country you dont see them going for them to be censored because they are effective and they are truly odious and also you see with with Foreign Policy you see them now very very prowar theyre very theyre very mad that fox news host Tucker Carlson does not want bombing syria he does not want bombing in iran and some people say that he is he spoke directly to the president on his t. V. Show and convinced the president to not bomb iran recently thats making these people very mad and so theyve completely flipped on these issues and theyve become a really really insidious force for the constitution and for people who want a more nationalistic Foreign Policy and dont want to be engaged in all of these quagmires in the middle east and pointless foreign wars have a little ranking a columnist at the spectator usa thank you very much thank you. The case foreign secretary has been bonded i callate off to apparently refusing to talk to the family of a young man killed in a confidence the deadly incident happened in orchestra outside an American Military base in england and reportedly involved the wife at the u. S. Diplomats we spoke to that. Victims father following his confrontation with the foreign secretary. This is done. You know what very happy to see you and some of the lovely going there that they really have you know if you really thought it was right but because one of the all the. People way very happy to see you and to robert go down and try to speak to him because he had been in concho. Troubles with how restrikes sorry i went down to speak to him but he didnt want to talk to me because there was some press that would be trying to speak to mr arar for a long time on or yes jews call me he goes on a bridge knows where. Orders to just get in touch of us and we can arrange a marriage so you have. Since. Weve been asking since the start but we havent had any support from the u. K. Government really. One meeting with mr brough which wasnt very such a structure for us as a family. Member or not there has been no contact with the right we fail as a family that. Theyre more concerned with helping the american citizen is accused of killing our son then our last british citizens that they were in the country. Teenager harry dunn died 3 months ago as a result of a Traffic Accident between his motorcycle and a car the suspect in question and cyclists admitted that she was driving on the wrong side of the road she left the u. K. Afterwards and invokes diplomatic immunity so her lawyer is a cyclist said she had no time to react and apologised to the dunn family. If case Foreign Office says its providing all the necessary help to seek a resolution to the case but harry dunns father told r t law must be done for justice to happen. Probably require one ounce acuteness to come back and be charged through our courts for the crimes she has committed and except. For us that is what we are. 100 percent but also were going to try and have the governments all the countries look at this diplomatic immunity law because its a say rather loose that the spouse of an American Worker can kill a 19 year old out in the house who needs a culture on beauty i think the laws need to be updated to be more concurrent with the work you are not songs we live in we feel we cannot let this injustice go it was a young lad just starting out 19 years old started to enjoy his life and it was take your wife of him and we would feel we would not be the parents we should be for we do not try and say mr and get there just as he deserves. And i see us where a Chemical Plant in Southeast Texas is ablaze following an explosion early on wednesday morning in which 3 workers were injured. The refinery owned by the t. P. C. Group produces thousands of tons of chemical and Petroleum Based products the situation import nature is still ongoing and is emerging as the services seek to bring the fire under control as quickly as possible journalist and campaign on health and Environmental Issues all of a take l. Believes that a substantial investigation will be needed to determine any background toxicity. Some really quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufactures on this site are synergetic compound such as beauty in benzene and lots of chemical precursors going into synthetic rubber fuel additives. Lubricants how to this past really a very wide range of things many of which are toxic really quite a lot of investigation will be needed just to determine the background toxicity in the local area following this incident the local community will have a love hate relationship with this plant these plants are responsible for quite a lot of wealth in this area they provide a huge amount of employment they are the economic lifeblood of this Golden Triangle area but at the same time there are these pollution incidents i think that this incident may actually bring quite a lot of additional political pressure on to the trumpet ministration not to cut the resources of the e. P. A. As its intending to do. Theres a can of regional had of Human Rights Watch is facing expulsion from israel we take a look at why after the. You know one of the same to talk about on this show if you read the Financial Press about the latest scandal its just a new name for a recurring scandal like theres only 3 or 4 ways you can rip people off changes is the name they call to repeal the law. Welcome back delegates at the un poison gas watchdog conference are told over a new body that will be able to assign blame for toxic attacks several countries authorizing to block funding during wednesdays budget vote if it includes provisions for the new fault finding Team Previously their p. C. W. Could only say whether or not a chemical attack a taken place but as more reports even thats monday is in question after leaks from whistle blows. U. P. C. W. Was all that stood between humanity and the terrible terrible curse of chemical weapons they did this by never taking sides they never assigned blame they came they analyzed then reported not what they thought but what they knew not who but what there was never any reason not to trust that you cant argue with pure science it was utterly impartial objective apolitical it was past simple. Is highly likely that russia was responsible be twofold russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder. It was always a technical allchin where consensus prevailed and now we see that it is completely politicized with a politicized agenda from various parties we want the o. P. C. Dobby to get back to where it was before wasnt enough for the p. C. W. To present facts some wanted opinion to political opinion they wanted to give the u. P. C. W. All the power to blame the sentence and condemn nations we look forward to receiving the 1st report in the near future it will then be for us. To decide. To respond to the i to its a crucial in this to siri means of identifying the pit the trade is behind these horrific attacks we cannot accept impunity for these horrible crimes other nations are putting their foot down why they are sick would you want to destroy the essence of what made the u. P. C. W. So special so trustworthy and are you doing this in the interests of humanity or for your own personal ambitions as we know this whole attribution mechanism adventure was started to put pressure on damascus a number of these missions investigations including the last one which made headlines the incident in duma on the 7th of april 28th have convinced us that we cannot take the special missions conclusions at face value we also refused to fund in. This team and refused to grant access to a war. Confidential documents provided to the office w. And a Security Council and therefore reject any reports issued by this team i reiterate indias principle. To the i to be submitted as a due to the manner in which it was set up and didnt disregard of indias concerns on the substance as the less the process it couldnt have picked a worse time to give the o. P. C. W. A judges not lest multiple o. P. C. W. Insiders have sparked a huge scandal alleging that the organization cherry picked the facts on the alleged chemical attack in syria last year to suit a political agenda. After passing through the ceiling in impacting the floor at lower speed the cylinder continued in altered trajectory until reaching the position in which it was found the 1st whistle blower said that the gas canisters used in the attack were likely placed at the scene rather than drop. From the air. Observations of the scene of the 2 locations suggests that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were money placed at those 2. 00 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft u. P. C. W excuse that self by saying that it took into account other reports not just his then the 2nd whistle blower struck a veteran who was on the ground in syria connecting solved pools and he went one better or worse the squad big political pressure secrecy and potential fraud most of the duty and focus he reports on the instant interim report and the final report was scientifically impoverished procedurally regular and possibly fraudulent all he wanted was a little transparency to be able to speak at this conference where the vote is taking place to set things straight all he got was a letter from management telling him no i would like to. Unprofessional. Reached by. The end of the day every country in that room is going to have to decide for themselves whether to let the u. P. C. W. Play god to blame accuse and condemn nations and governments to be the excuse that sparks wars to give that power to an organization which doesnt even have the trust of its own employees. The director of Human Rights Watch for israel and palestine has vowed to continue his work after being expelled on monday from israel tell of even his own march a can of supporting a ban Boycott Movement on the country which it sees as a strategic threat. Israeli government has been trying for 3 years to expel Human Rights Watch their rationales have different have differed most recently of Israeli Government claim that we call for boycotts of israel and their focus has been our work on the illegal settlements we do not take a position on boycotts of israel what we do across the world is document abuses by all actors including businesses and call for actors to refrain from contributing to rights abuse in order to comply with their obligations under International Law and when we applied that universal call to the illegal settlements in the west bank israel said it was a call for a boycott and under a new law called revoke my work permit and then deported me on november 25th he writes want to have long been critical of the Israeli Governments rights record on the construction of settlements in the west bank is the 1st time a Human Rights Watch staff member has been expelled from its route in the organizations 30 years of operating in the country i must take a believes the ruling is part of a targeted campaign against rights advocates. Clearly theyre trying to do you by throwing out a representative of one of the Worlds Largest human rights organizations is to say to others that you know your work documenting rights abuses could result in you facing a punitive sanction this move shows the degree to which israel has lost even the pretense of 1st spect for basic International Norms if israel despite you know criticism from much of the world for its me as it did earlier this week for my Rights Advocacy how would ever stop abusing rights the reality here is the Israeli Government feels emboldened and the world spoke out against this and they still deported me so i think the message is quite clear here that the government intends not only to continue with systematic assault on human rights organizations but intends to continue its abuse of policies that weve been exposing and green to light or not he would have taken your thoughts on all of our stories they do get in touch by following us on social media and when i get the top of the i am. 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As we near the most celebrated annual event on corporate capitalisms your early calendar the aptly named black friday Corporate America is not just jumping for joy over consumerism favorite holiday but also the brand new Stocking Stuffer that they got into that was dropped into the 2020 president ial elections of course im talking about mr Bloomberg News themselves the billionaire media and business mogul and former mayor of new york city Michael Bloomberg announced his run for president as recently as last weekend in a statement bloomberg declared im running for president to defeat donald trump and rebuild america if he wins another term in office we may never recover from the damage yes once again its all about donald trump not our crumbling infrastructure not ending the endless wars not fixing our Education System just the standard rallying cry on the existential threat that is us President Donald Trump and that apparently is the only reason why we have yet another geriatric political leader running for president bloomberg clocks in that the young age of 77 years old naturally the former new york mayors announcement is not without controversy not only stemming from his Decision Making as mayor but also from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party who wonder if its really bloomberg trump bloomberg is targeting in 2020 and monday Bernie Sanders speech writer david sirota wrote bloomberg is primarily motivated by a desire to stop bernie and his working class movement. You know out to get bernie or not out to get bernie what the United States needs to start asking is do we really want 4 more years of another billionaire president and their pet media machine this year usa today is reporting that 48000000. 00 americans are still paying off debt from the last black friday and the Holiday Season that followed it with all of our money going north to the corporate billionaire class so that we can buy our family Holiday Gifts should we then also be giving them our most precious political votes as well or should we start watching the hawks. To. Get the. Real that this would. Be the bottom. Like you that i got. We. Would. Be. Pretty. Well the one watching the hawks i am tyrrel been for and joining us today its discussed yet another