War its a must read about how we here in the u. S. Use humanitarian intervention to justify horrible acts of war and you start off by by talking a little about the Trump Presidency and probably almost everyone watching this can agree hes been a catastrophe in myriad ways so many ways you know you cant really count them all but in terms of for him paul policy its very telling when the Mainstream Media and the establishment truly freak out when they freak i mean they do the moments they truly lose it and how terrible trump is they freak out in moments such as when trump said hed be withdrawing our troops from syria or when he threatened to create peace with north korea can you talk about what the reaction of our media and really most members of Congress Tells us yeah well another great example is a clue. Trump is saying he wants to remove 9000 troops from germany we have like 35000 troops in germany very few people probably know that i was surprised to know we had that many and so trump is saying we dont need him there lets bring him home immediately in the media has jumped on him of course raising the russian menace hysteria saying oh youre giving in a putin iloveyou take 9000 troops out of germany you have congressman eliot engel a leading democrat out of new york he is trying to pass legislation to prevent trump from taking the troops out of germany so its quite interesting another great example was of course trumps overtures to north korea to make a peace plan again he was highly criticized for that he was portrayed as some side type of a do for kim jong un and of course that Peace Process has has eviscerated he recently said we need to end air and less wars. Thats something that a lot of people could get behind in the media seems very yesterday about that notion and then conversely they called trump president ial another wonder for accolades when he started bombing syria i want to stay on that topic here for a minute john boltons book you know his new book has been leaked out and he in it ive read the 1st few chapters its tough to read such tripe but im doing the best i can but a couple of hours and its fascinating bungs talking about syria and about how they had used chemical weapons and the u. S. Needed to respond and yet he couldnt get general mattis and donald trump to really bomb aggressively to really blow syria up he talks about is his frustration about not getting them to do that and how mattis was was to warning is efforts but of course whats never said in all of that and in all of the discussion ive seen in the Mainstream Media is that were talking about a war criminal john bolton another war criminal general mattis and a war criminal donald trump all talking about how best to commit more war crimes based on reports of chemical weapons attacks that we now know were cooked up can you talk about that for a moment the idea that we just had to you know again humanitarian intervention we had to bomb syria based on these un verified reports of chemical weapons. Yes and weve seen this a number of times we saw it under obama weve seen it under trump on several occasions theres been klines of Chemical Attacks in syria as you note theres good evidence that some some of those at least were staged. And immediately people including the media including liberals and human Rights Groups called for bombings and again it was interesting to see that as you know for the 1st time in maybe only time ever trump was called president ial was when he did bomb syria and the critique of the trump syria policy is that he has bombed too much but that he has been bombed enough meanwhile you see very little reports very recently that the u. S. Has been destroying wheat fields in syria which is a war crime but again that appears to be completely on where the. Press is attention. So lets move on to the overall idea of humanitarian and her venture in which is the most of what your book is about when i was a wee College Student at university of virginia my girlfriend was dying to see an author speak someone i had never heard of and so i went with her and and i was very impressed by this young woman speaker who explained how we had this obligation to protect victims of genocide around the world that womans name was Samantha Power and she all tamil a was important in the Obama Administration of course its easy to convince a naive college kid that we have to help out the rest of the world but Samantha Powers goals were much more pernicious than that talk about who Samantha Power is and what she represents. Well she is a very interesting figure she wrote a book which as you said said that the u. S. And the west need to be a ball work against genocide in the book is called a problem from hell and the interesting thing about the book which weighs in about a 1000 pages is that the basic assumption is that everyone else in the world commits genocide not the west not to us and that is right and that its our moral duty to stop these genocide one of course it ignores is that many of our military actions and many of our. Governments in other countries that we know literally support actually create genocide in the most interesting and terrible case of this was something Samantha Power was yourself involved and she had some of the warty of it under the Obama Administration as the ambassador u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. She and Hillary Clinton and susan rice is now being considered for b. P. Pushed obama to help lead the nato invasion of libya. What we now know many of us knew then was that this invasion undermined human rights actually created a genocide. Against subsaharan africans living in libya and libya now as a result of the jihad is being put back our by obama and Samantha Power at all now there are subsaharan africans being sold on the street is slates and service amanda power the irony of people like Samantha Power is they say that we need to intervene to protect human rights when almost invariably our interventions undermine human rights. Right right the invasion of liberal libya is a perfect example we did that along with nato and you know we took one of the most developed and successful african nations and like you said turned it into a hellhole of competing warlords and slave markets but we did this to help them we thank goodness we were there to help them create slave markets and then now know you know thanks to emails from wiki leaks that we know that behind closed doors while our leaders and Samantha Power and Hillary Clinton will go forward and talk about humanitarian needs in public behind closed doors in their private emails theres as you point out in your book theres almost no discussion of humanitarian needs of the of these countries when were going to bomb or invade them. Well yes in fact the emails show that i do detail in the book that Hillary Clinton to any team in particular knew this by the time nato started bombing libya any true Human Rights Concerns they had had vanished by that point you know they claimed amongst other things that they were in libya to say then from being attacked by the khadafi forces if you look at the emails between Sidney Blumenthal the Clinton Clintons closes his eyes around this and Hillary Clinton he makes it clear this is not it was safe and under the control of the opposition by the time nato starts bombing but he says specifically we need to keep going we need to keep going we need to create regime change and why because we need to be able to take over libya for the west for oil for Infrastructure Investment and for his gold and thats exactly what have you know the other countries within nato had had their own reasons because you know he got a major donation from gadhafi for his campaign and he didnt want that to come out and believe it was in a league with able to get out of billions of dollars they live in by bringing down gadhafi really is a despicable motivation behind this socalled humanitarian intervention recently the trump administrator who has been working very hard to destroy the power of the International Criminal court the i. C. C. But theyre not the 1st of illustration to say the i face a cannot investigate or prosecute american why is it so important for the u. S. To undermine an International Body that prosecutes war crimes. Yeah well because its pretty incontrovertibly that its the us that commits the most work crimes around the world largely because its the us that is engaged in multiple wars around the world like no other country and from the very beginning the u. S. Had great antipathy towards even the idea of the International Criminal court bill clinton. As president helped to negotiate the rome statute of the International Criminal court made sure that its provisions particularly to go after countries who wars of aggression he made sure that those provisions were weak that the i. C. C. Was weak and then he backed out of the i. C. C. All again the u. S. Is not even a party to the u. S. Also does not sign on to as you talk about the book the convention of the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women nearly every country has signed on to it but not the u. S. Is that same reasoning behind the eyes if they are wise of the u. S. Wont sign on to that while the u. S. In this case has a very specific reason because that convention requires equal pay for equal work of course as we know the u. S. Does not have Legal Protection for equal pay for equal work we know in practice women make a fraction of what men do for the same work and so the u. S. Didnt want to sign on to a convention that would require it to fix that problem. Yeah youre discuss in your book how every war the us fights is a war of choice can you speak about that in and why that matters so much. Yeah i mean so 1st of all because we have a nation that runs from the pacific to the atlantic and because were so strong militarily we urgently face no serious outside military threats now and certainly of any sustained kind and so every war we go get involved in which tend to be halfway around the world are ones of choice meaning we can do it out of self defense were not fighting to protect the homeland its not like a pearl harbor type attack that were fighting and by the way is a mention under the u. N. Charter its only in matters of selfdefense that a country can act unilaterally. To use military force and yet the u. S. Time and again use military force because it has some other interests it wants to advance again it is some. Long far away part of the world and against countries that invariably cant even defend themselves from arab nations. In this the last minute i just wanted to kind of sum it up here we do we dont sign on to the sea dog and to protect women we dont sign on to the i think say were dropping roughly a bomb every 12 minutes around the world we spend more on military than Something Like the next 10 countries combined we have 900000 military bases around the world so the question is is the United States of america a rogue state in your opinion i would absolutely agree it is people like noam chomsky has been saying that for years that the u. S. Is the rogue state in the world that really needs to be reined in and i totally agree with that Dan Kovalchuk the book is no more war i cant thank you enough keep doing great work. Thank you really really appreciate it if you go to a short break but real quick i want to let you know that soon the full redacted to night episode will be available on the free streaming app portable t. V. Its at portable dot tv slash download all the segments of our shows will still be available at youtube dot com slash redacted tonight but for the full episodes go to portable t. V. A lot more. Americans are growing it propitious rates because america empire right because its easy for the top to see everything and everyone else america will be better off if it was not an empire so the collapse of the us dollar will be thankful for a period of time but what comes on the other side will be i think a lot more amenable to. Some rumors as soon as you. Remember if you just came up with it because youre there. Is a very international community. Used to. Do this because this. Was a position that they would use to get the business for their new cars through. Everything because he was polluted with the cd with. Mexico but he decided not to take its like. Better. Welcome back im still leave camp im sure youre getting sick im a so lets go to correspondent only giovannis for some more redacted stories thankfully that works cancelled the t. V. Reality show cop the longest Running Program in the u. S. Along with its off through live p. T. After only 3 weeks of demonstrations against Police Violence for the show cops it made sense the show was declining in popularity anyways but line p. D. Had millions of viewers these come up again to shows had it coming for a long time activists were trying to shut these shows down for decades not only was it problematic misery porn in their pursuit of criminals these shows were committing crimes who knew making justice a circus would distort it face right and people who wouldnt sign release forms and encouraged cops to make more arrests that lead to more brutal encounters Law Enforcement leaders who worked with those programs say the presence of t. V. Crews resulted in more traffic stops to keep the action moving you can just say after a low crime shift all right back up boys hope someone shows up with a few grams of weed in their car tomorrow and i hope those viewers are happy with 3 hours of the open road and 5 minutes of a traffic stop for a going 30 in a 25. These counts actually hope something will happen when i do a search hopefully we can find. While these cancellations unfold live p. D. Is dealing with a scandal involving destroying the footage of a fatal traffic stop that started because an austin man named Javier Ambler didnt dim his headlights Williamson County texas police had a chase that ended in death that was filmed by live p. D. The video of the tragic death of Javier Ambler was captured by body cams worn on the officers involved as well as the producers of life feed who are riding with certain officers involved it is a very very serious concern to any of us who are in Law Enforcement that their decision to engage in that chase was driven more by a need to provide entertainment and then it was to commute keep Williamson County residents say come on we knew it was a bad idea all all song exploiting Vulnerable People on the worst day of their lives for entertainment was a perverse sport so of course it was canceled and if you think im exaggerating by calling it a sport the Williamson County sheriff robert showed he made baseball cards and t. Shirts with pictures of local deputies filmed on the show some of which are currently being sold on line and now im demanding more transparency those officers are not putting their weight on those cards after all transparency is what lie p. D. Says they offer since it airs almost live with a delay to edit out extremely unflattering episodes to Police Murdering somebody the producer dan abrams was shocked 6 and beyond disappointed about this to the loyal live p. D. The nation please know why we did everything we could to fight for. For you and for our continuing effort transparency in policing this is shocking to many who believe these shows are of the truth these company ganda lovers are asking in this Society Without live cop shows who will harass people at their homes hoping they do something illegal with full production crews who will normalize aggressive Police Violence who will make cops feeling superheroes and i ask you citizens who when a cop is running after the suspect who will then run after him with the blue money were not only surrounded by an unnecessary amount of police in america were also inundated with media friendly to police and some media even working for the Police Telling only their story and cop again is war widespread than you think cops consult on movies and series helping mold the characters to their self conception and then they take cubes from those characters in their own police work so t. V. Cameras me cops behave worse and body cameras dont make any difference at all however a samsung a home by a bystander can change policing forever i did think the cancellations happened a little fast i mean think about a homeowner reality show consumers to satisfy their craving for conflict and grittiness with a sense of justice where are they going to go shipping wars. Where they argue about how to deliver a boat. A disgrace to. The skies damaged the boat im the one of them taking the blame you may tie it down. Well if you dont want it rain around in the back here truck i would im about 2 seconds away from using homeboys moustache to tie it down but you know what. I can get into this and finally as many people are waking up to the reality of our racist country perhaps its time to talk about a way or central park came from a new york city i lived there for 12 years not in central park only only a couple of years were on the benches of central park but i lived in new york for 12 years and central park as everyone knows is a pivotal and important area of new york city and its got some mind blowing old history there is now when we go. Gentrification its the reason why you might not see anyone who looks like me in the neighborhood of a major American City or why your citys culture has been reduced to a running club at your local shake shack and why a former new york governor candidate who looks like he movie lights of santa claus at a very progressive mall repeatedly said rent its too damn hard and if youre a native new yorker from burroughs like brooklyn and queens youve seen your neighborhoods turning whiter than the poop from a dog belonging to a woman now internet famous for refusing to leave shit while shes sick the cops on a black man for calling her out but the part that women stood in central park is actually the site of one of new york citys earliest examples of gentrification a chunk of modern day central park was 1st home to a black community formed in the 18th twenties called Seneca Village black residents bought plots of land that formed the communities several years before new york state officially abolished slavery in july 18th 27 and agreed to become a community of mostly working class and middle class families who want to stay the hell away from the busier and more racist parts of manhattan the same way native new yorkers know to stay the hell away from pictures of time square mascots. Look what you get when you ask gary busey to draw his favorite cartoon characters from memory yet as Seneca Village thrived Lower Manhattan was getting of crowded of that florida bar where an 88 woman and her 15 friends all got the coronavirus by the mid 1950 s. City ringback officials who had the means to travel dreamt of a centralized public park modeled after fancier ones theyve seen during travels to europe despite the fact the United States fought a whole ass war less than a century earlier to not be like europe but the over 700. 00 acres of future parkland the new york government had their eyes on had Seneca Village in its crosshairs the sort lee when white people saw something they wanted that minorities already had they usually murdered and pillaged to get it unless its our skin color they definitely dont want that but when traditional pillaging looks bad thats where government sanctioned pillaging comes in in the form of land seizure through Eminent Domain and its much easier to garner public support for kicking people out of their homes if you vilify them thats why the National Park service noted that as the development of central park grew closer newspapers and politicians began to describe the villages as shanty towns they called the residents denizens squatters vagabonds and scoundrels as much as i hate coded language 19th century insults like vagabond and scoundrel so much more romantic than just calling them pieces of. Or doing what the New York Times did and just straight up calling it the n. Word village might watch this thing. If its Eminent Domain then at least they got money for their labor. And if you truly believe the senate the village residents were actually compensated fairly for what the land was already worth then youre probably someone who thinks that the creator of living single actually got credit for creating a show about 6 single friends living in new york city before the creator of friends ripped it off a year later. Today the modern equivalent is private venture capitalists who get tax breaks to develop an economically depressed areas which drives up the cost of living and displaces residents whose generational wealth was held in their home resulting in culturally sanitized spaces filled with cops who give gentrifiers a sense of security while making the lives of displaced residents a living hell. We certainly cant bring Seneca Village back but if manhattans black ancestors exacted revenge im willing to bet it was the diarrhea that new york cops tried to spin as poisoning at a manhattan shake shack. To be fair being that full of injustice can be hard to digest. This is Natalie Mcgill for redacted tonight and thats the show can you believe its over so soon but watch out for a brand new episode of redacted tomorrow night and to get full episodes of redacted anytime you want to grab the free app portable t. V. Also check out my new book bullet point and punch lines got an intro for jimmy door forward from chris hedges its at least cam book dot com good night and good 5. Shots. Actually felt. Strong both of those to. Which your thirst for action. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person or those with. No dares thinks. Week here to ask. Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military and the decision little sheltered lives every came to a complete. The day that i was writing. You know told a shot to kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me in. My own. Right mean. If you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tat happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished from the offender and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or woman. 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