International conflict all of the resolution they were supposed to be binding in areas across the middle east but also you know the Global Economy and all the different intricacies there why had to choose somalia and why to continue to utilize our our military forces in that way also the cost associated with it and i have no answers as to why this is the plan of action and think that people should start asking those questions of your luck because the pentagon has some really wonderful answers for you are you ready for this ok here we go. The april 3rd strike the just recently happened. In somalia u. S. Marine corps Brigadier General bradford j. Gehring of africa these are the Deputy Director of operations so he might have some answers he says quote its our commanders responsibility to support our partners so this terrorist Group Alshabaab can expand and strike the u. S. Homeland as its leaders desire to do. Ok but i mean basically this falls on the. Same thing of like the u. S. As you know that their air strikes are assisting the government of somalia in order to you know when its war against the non star state armed Group Alshabaab the terrorist group to increase the security to smaller people in the you know to keep them from you know coming to our shores and tackling us and also to keep the terrorists from indiscriminately attacking innocent civilians and so what extent has that success been measured. And well were very good at killing civilians and you know the extent that we measure i mean its really it really blows my mind because to me its like its that standard tired excuse to use all the time its we have to attack these terrorists over here because they might come back here and her except the more people that we kill on the ground the more civilians we kill in these airstrikes the more terrorists we create and the more people and i mean al shabaab has grown dire i mean astronomically since the u. S. Spurstow operations in africa why because of our influence there and the more you do it the more you increase the you more the more you destabilize that area and i think that there is something to be said about that as well and the amount of trust that somalian people have with the u. S. Or the u. S. Government knowing that these casualties a naga war into new to happen on a regular basis thats a really good point its you cant build trust when youre killing civilians i mean it really does it really does hurt i mean Amnesty International reported deaths of 14 civilians in just 5 airstrikes last year that they were able to even begin to investigate you know africa says they investigate but they dont actually talk to families they dont talk to people find out actually who was killed they just claim it was all terrors it sounds a lot like what we were claiming you know was going on in iraq right after the war although everyone is an insurgent. Where theres a will theres a way and where there is a big business the little man will always come up short i believe thats what were seeing in ohio. The State Government has concocted a way to continue putting workers at risk for closing 1000. 00 meanwhile ringback abstain from paying them Unemployment Benefits as the Buckeye State reopens its economy leaders fear some will refuse to work or quit due to the threat of coronavirus so be clear workers should be afraid considering mitigation efforts are minimal and a mutated strain of the virus was recently announced ohio seems to what workers to pay that no mind at all and get back to work or else the Ohio Department of job and Family Services website now has a form that allows employers to confidentially report employees who quit or used to work due to cope in 1000 this internal flag would prevent workers from being eligible for Unemployment Benefits kevin beary president of united food and commercial workers local 75. 00 said its unfortunate that people are being forced to make a decision between losing their jobs and exposing themselves to the virus adding that the local union has been able to create and establish policies and procedures to protect 30000 members. The stickler though also lies in the wording of the states notice to employers saying individuals cannot with eve Unemployment Benefits if they can work but refuse or quit without good cause what constitutes good cause. If you think all of this sounds harsh it is right here watchers we recently reported on covert sweeping through ohio is prisons with more than 37000 inmates testing positive and a senior scholar from the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security found that not a thing will us state has met the key criteria to open safely what would you do if youre tasked with either going to work and putting your health at risk or advocating for yourself and losing your livelihood that is the most important question of the day as we have in the may june when everyone talking about lifting all the stay at home orders and Everybody Needs to go back to work and to me with this sounds like its basically you better go back to work or you know were putting a gun to your head you have to go back to work and thats essentially what it they might as well it said it because these people have families they have other folks that theyre taking care of they many of them dont have Health Insurance a lot of these are low income workers already so if they do get sick. Lord help them in terms of being able to find proper care the other part is and i think that we talked about this a little bit earlier is that ohio is probably not the only state with this type of interesting laws right now are forcing people to go back to work theyre trying to get their economies opened back up theyre not really taking into consideration all of the Health Precautions that are necessary before you can open up safely and that puts people at risk but they dont want to pay them Unemployment Benefits thats what really gets me with this its like you could you cant have it both ways you cant put the gun to the American Workers had already work around the world forced to go back to work under these kind of conditions and say you need to work we need to get our economy you need to put your life on the line for me but then say at the same time over were not going to take care of you at all if indeed you do get sick from going back to work or if you choose to stay home and keep yourself and your family safe potentially because thats what you believe in thats what medical science is telling you but were still not going to help you and thats the wrong choice and how dare you say no its absolutely ridiculous so unemployment claims are to. Subject to review you already know this. But the review does it typically state the types of things were seeing here and the problem with that is that the employer gets to decide whether or not what what your unemployment claim not only is legitimate but also using coronavirus as a mechanism to determine who gets unemployment funds and who does not and secretly theyre doing a lot of these businesses are because if too many people claim unemployment they can not claim the Small BusinessSmall Business funding from the federal government so they need people on the job but its so twisted because its like when you think about this its its. Its that thing of like we just dont want to give anybody any kind of break we dont want to give anybody any kind of money and this tired old excuse that you hear over and over again from people who are against like on Employment Benefits and things like that the targets as well then theyll just stay at home and they wont want to work at all or you know theyll make more money for employment than they will of their jobs well guess what thats not the governments fault thats not the jobs fault if the jobs cant pay their workers a livable wage and they can get it from unemployment even if they really care but i mean if the you know if they can thats the businesses fault at the end of the day exactly you should not be punishing the worker because you are paying them slave wages that is not the workers fault exactly thats the mail its like but yet we have this twisted backwards thinking that somehow will no business is ever a fault for mistreating workers you know good businesses are never you know you can put a gun to their make and come to work in a time when they shouldnt and pay them garbage wages but oh god we never should help the worker we only should bail out the business the other issues that were learning more and more about coronavirus every day about how it passes about the people that are more susceptible about now you know the latest news about Young Children and how its affecting them there are a lot of reasons why people are set to have some very serious precautions particularly the communities that are affected the most right now were seeing that be the africanamerican and Latino Community what we know about. 2 communities is that a lot of their households are multigenerational so the person whos going out working could bring back over 1000 even if theyre not showing any symptoms to a grandmother to an aunt to an uncle who ever else is in that household you mention john hopkins and put out this like you know criteria you know that state should look at before they open a business what are those criteria is doing. Absolutely so one of the criteria is that for 2 consecutive weeks you had to have in coronavirus cases some states have that not all states the sticking points were the other 2 reasons that there had to be enough Public Health capacity to conduct Contact Tracing currently no state has that that there has to be enough diagnostic Testing Available for everyone no one has that and that the health care for capacity has to be there to be able to treat everyone safely and effectively as you know there are a lot of hospitals and clinics that have been shut down the capacity isnt their beds are going to be too was typically a rule areas. Where does the funding come from people are asking for you know so much more from the state in the federal government to be able to support coronavirus cases and yet were still reopening. You could you could totally see by just going over what you just listed there for the we are in no condition actually to reopen even on any kind of infrastructural level to actually handle reopening exactly and thats what were most afraid of it is not you know there radek a sion of the virus in and of itself is that we do not currently have a Health Care System that is prepared to handle you know tailless greatest current levels much less the gets worse nor do we have an economy that can kick the can handle this apparently because like grandma got a crowd and shuts down for 2 months we get a certain bill every business except for the american actual the American Worker the American People thats the saddest part about this entire problem all right everybody good report thank you howard everybody as we go to break remember that you can also start watching dogs on demand through the brand new portable t. V. Which is available on the smart bombs or google play on the Apple App Store by searching poor. So youd be or you could stream us through your t. V. You dont have cable by downloading the 4 ball to be the apple t. V. Or online affordable but. This will be available for devices coming soon keep up with that coming up its time to look into the recently had botched coup attempt in venezuela by water why dont the merry band of american mercenaries who do not want to take to the watchable. Join me every thursday on the elec so im unsure when ill be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you there. Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military and the decision lotos sheltered lives every song came to a complete. The day that i was right to be instructed you know told to shut up but theyd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me with his birth ink area if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or woman. So many 5 years ago the scourge of schizm was defeated in your the soviet union and its western allies were victorious what is the meaning of that victory today what explains freezing words to read write history in the efforts to diminish the sacrifice me by the people of the soviet union. By it is the. Police. Or operation in. Some of the wealthier neighborhoods its been far more contained and the numbers are much lower than some of the more neighborhoods star city. We think were working with can source outside of the state is there just so it is here so i think that it was. All right welcome back everyone as i mentioned earlier at the top of the show the United States efforts to remove venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from power have reached who are pretty new level of bubbling brilliance my friends on may 4th yes may 4th the venezuelan government announced the capture of 2 former u. S. Special forces soldiers now turning mercenaries were involved in a failed plot to invade the country and lead a coup to remove venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from power apparently dubbed operation gideon and run out of a florida Security Company titled silver corps usa some have called. This is the keystone kops version of the bay of pigs in fact according to the Washington Post a mysterious Strategic Committee run by Juan Jose Rondo and their political advisor to one weibo involved in these efforts actually compiled a dossier on the failed bay of pigs attempt to liberate cuba from the government to put out castro to which journalist Charles Pearson esquire magazine upon hearing of this news observed i can count on the fingers of one hand the number of accounts of the bay of pigs operation since 1962 but did not also contain the word fiasco why someone in 2020 would compile a dossier on a disastrous attempt to invade cuba as part of the preparation for a commando raid into venezuela is best left to broader thinkers than i am well we here are those broad thinkers lets break down this latest attempt to remove the democratically elected leader of venezuela from office and install mr corporate democracy itself one guy though as we are joined by author and human rights attorney dan koblick m. The author and professor of latin American History from Pomona College we go to go solace thank you both for joining me today thank you so theres an incredible amount to unpack with this story and not a lot of time before its lets start with the basics down as of this broadcast who do we know where the players involved in this botched operation beyond just the 2 captured u. S. Mercenaries. 7 edition of them yet have to be. Founder of the usa and jordan do drone who seems to be in the mastermind of this they ask. He founded this mercenary organization 2 years ago and now here is a new your indignation its been involved in for example the elections in 2018 which would solve it in the election scenario and also the. They were involved with richard branson. Charity event on the colombia venezuela border about a year ago in addition to him. There were colombian paramilitary forces. Otherwise known as death squads and some. Folks who had left the Venezuelan Military and what we know is that silvercorp usa signed a contract with a long way to carry out this operation with the objective being to kidnap president Nicolas Maduro and bring him to the United States most likely to try to get the 15000000. 00 bounty that donald trump put on his head while. Thing just keeps getting deeper on this next one is for you miguel the United States secretary of state might come pale in the u. S. President donald trump have both distanced themselves from this operation with pump ale in batek lead denying involvement declaring that quote there was no United States government direct involvement given the United States history of intervention in Venezuelan Affairs do you believe the u. S. Government was not involved in this operation. I think the key word there is direct involvement what i perspective my perspective is that the u. S. Knew about the program they knew us greenlighted it if it succeeded fantastic we were able to remove and it we did it with a very cheap operation we lowball the contract and we were able to get a mother with the reality is that they knew about it the experience of the colombian border as one of the most surveilled borders in the area where you have a complete consulate u. S. Overflights and information the fact that the colombians were aware that there was training going on the venezuelans knew that training was going on in fact in march of 202020. In his own program the Vice President the former Vice President and 2nd. A man in venezuela mentioned the fact that we have north americans training rebels on the border with colombia so the fact is they knew about it they hoped it would succeed if it succeeded they had achieved their mission if they didnt they would have plausible deniability which is essentially what they wanted with the bay of pigs as well you have plausible deniability and when in either case but again the context is the us established the context with increasing the sanctions against venezuela during a pandemic attempting to put a price on mother who had attempting at the same time with Elliott Abrams and paul d impale to increase the tension on venezuela even when there was a call within the country for negotiations by both sides to try to deal with a pandemic they upped it for regime change in the middle of a crisis that worsened conditions for venezuelans on the ground it truly is really wretched wouldnt you think about it in that context to see that were still trying to do these kind of operations especially during a worldwide pandemic emergency youd think ok lets put all these things aside im curious dan about this Company Silver car out of florida you know you had mentioned it earlier today and got into that you know whether its headed by u. S. Green beret john grew dro im also curious what are is its ties to the trumpet ministration i mean i know you mentioned that your work security back concert at the was a better way way or whatever was that happened a while back but what are its ties to the trumpet ministration and one weibo. Well again the connections with like you know very strong theres a contract thats been released in publicized by the Washington Post which. Server corp usa sign an agreement one white 0 to carry out this operation in return for cash that cash would have come by the way from the United States to i know from money to the u. S. For those and then c. D. s from the venezuelan government they have now given no means of dollars of that is why do so 1st of all. Its very clear that the money ultimately came. From the United States apparently does jordan good road or has done security for the Trump Campaign and is connected to Security Leaders for donald trump i saw one report that in fact you do have a map with dollar trump the white house not too long ago if i if i could mention one other fact you know the one the one thing the media has not talked about is who would help stop this kid it was ordinary fishermen who helped intercept these people to beat anyone and the reason they thought they could win and overthrow the government of venezuela is they thought the people would rally around them to help them instead the people ordinary people fisherman on the shore confront them and call and then its when with the wording to put down the coup the reason they failed is because why no and the United States has no Popular Support in venezuela they certainly dont. Emma gelt what do you believe will be the fallout from this in venezuela both politically and socially. Well the fallout is that the opposition has lost the last fig leaf they were hiding behind we know very clearly that this opposition has adopted an insurrection a list approach that they staged a coup in april of 2019 in which they attempted to have bad luck out of wrote a military base in caucus rebel it didnt happen we know that theyve opted to withdraw themselves from the internal political process hoping that the u. S. Would support them that the group of limit would support them the colombia would support them in other words they have little faith in the democrats in the venezuelan people going to spoil it needs as many people in the country have said is negotiations to release the money that the u. S. Has taken from venezuela and the. Money provided by human aid for venezuelan immigrants that are abroad the 5000000 immigrants that are abroad as well as the venezuelans within the country but for the opposition i think that even their most ardent supporters are now questioning what they did how theyve approached this and that their continued support for an insurrection alist policy that is about whatever means necessary has really been exposed because they signed that document it was white though it was hope to hold out and go on his Campaign Manager the same person by the way hold the hold out and go on who ran the campaign for a while even in colombia who ran the opposition in mexico who ran even other campaigns a lot america and who promised he would do as well as again they have no secrets to hide between they supported the coup the way they have previously its incredible how far that rabbit hole goes i want to thank you and professor silas thank you so much for coming on pleasure having you both on thank you. 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Pushout a journalist and an author of 30 books a political philosopher and the executive director of the Tri Continental Institute for social research they talked about the failures of our government to deal with this crisis the demands workers should be making and much more than redacted correspondent Natalie Mcgill will talk about some mind blowing old news from Medieval Times the era the eatery then i will go into how big businesses are taking Small Business support good news for people who like breathing and how the virus is remaking the College ProcessCollege Education process but 1st lets go to that interview between we camp and v. J. Thank you so much really there. Im a big fan of your writing you wrote an excellent article recently in which you said during a pandemic the private sector austerity model has fallen apart weve seen such a tremendous collapse of the capitalist state institutions that are supposed to help people during a crisis the guidelines for what to do have been all over the place the medical gear is not available the hospitals are overwhelmed that the test still arent widely available in the u. S. Can you talk about why it is that our institutions have failed us so it thoroughly. You see you. Really. Should by the budget or government how do you know what is still gallus legal austerity should actually be called auditors or the United States government since the financial crisis of 2008 has deeply cut into these areas the area of education and social safety which is why on the one side there was no preparation for the emergency on the other side you know you have a relatively hallucination driven Political Class just not science based you know they dont actually have an understanding of reality it seems to me so right. That the World Health Organization declared a global endemic donald trump and alex is expected 3 were trying to convince the public that this is not a big deal this was right up through march 11th so when you have a hallucination driven political last certainly not going to mobilize whatever the sources are also look and because of austerity there are very few indeed you try to mobilize these resources of course they didnt they did nothing this ad only hands and now theyre back. Yeah its a great way to describe it a whole new set nation driven class that that that Political Class that the ruling wealthy class youve said they are their world order is kind