Upon sanctions and the 3rd and and the demand that the United States we remain inside of iraq against the will of the people in government and parliament there that is what makes this all asymmetrical and i think you can draw different conclusions about as the media likes to do who won and who lost go ahead alex and well heres what i mean i think the fundamental difference is that the radios just. Range all of their assets together that that Foreign Policy that diplomats they bring to get their political leaders they build bringing their intelligence operatives message me people also their economic assets such as they are and they set themselves very clear objectives which they dont let themselves be done from and that objective is not clearly defined easy as to trying to get the United States. The middle east out of iraq specifically areas where they can threaten new iraq iran the United States why contrast what we see there is a dysfunctional government which doesnt have any kind of
All Things Considered on this edition of. A post mortem of the recent us around conflict what has changed and what bodes for the future issues the Mainstream Media refused to discuss. Some real news im joined by my guest going is a professor at the Higher School of economics as well as author of the case of western civilization and resurgence of russia we also have Dimitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst and editor in a smi internet media project. Andy in london we Cross Alexander macarius he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com our german crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to alexander in london you know over the past 10 days or so weve heard the term escalation deescalation proportional and one of the things i think that is mr very much is the how the behave the behavior on the side of the leadership and to iran and in washington we term asymmetrical was used all of the time
Men as well as opposition denounces what its calling a parliamentary could last the Opposition Leader is blocked from entering. And unrest in liberia with the many unhappy with the political debate. Im joining us roscoe with the sport football returns to its early after the winter break and so does racism as mary about a tele faces abuse from the stands again. The funeral procession for iranian general customs for their money has just finished and ted on the fallout from his assassination on friday in a u. S. Air strike continues to grow irans Supreme Leader ayatollah ali how many and president Hassan Rouhani led prayers at the funeral proceedings in the iranian capital early on monday soleimani his body would now be taken to come on. Hell be buried on tuesday while amid the funeral proceedings u. S. President donald trump has warned iraq that hell impose heavy sanctions if it expels american troops the rocks parliament voted in favor of removing Foreign Forces and retaliation for the
And very welcome to you youre watching R T International with me nikki airing our top story a senior u. N. Official is accusing the United States of torturing whistleblower Chelsea Manning with her continued incarceration a letter from the world bodys special rapporteur on torture to the u. S. Government from last november has now only just come to light. The practice of coercive depreciation of liberty for civil contempt involves the intentional infliction of progressively severe mental and emotional suffering for the purposes of coercion and intimidation at the order of judicial authorities such deprivation of liberty does not constitute a circumscribed sanction for a specific offense but an open ended progressively severe measure of coercion for filling all the constitutive elements of torture or other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Chelsea Manning was a u. S. Military Intelligence Analyst but was arrested in 2010 for leaking classified information to wiki leaks
A very warm welcome to your watching R T International with me and our top story this hour a senior u. N. Official is accusing the United States of torturing whistleblower Chelsea Manning with her continued incarceration a letter from the world body special rapporteur on torture to the u. S. Government from last november has now only just come to light. The practice of coercive depreciation of liberty for civil contempt involves the intentional infliction of progressively severe mental and emotional suffering for the purposes of coercion and intimidation at the order of judicial authorities such deprivation of liberty does not constitute a circumscribed sanction for a specific offense but an open ended progressively severe measure of coercion for filling all the constitutive elements of torture or other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Chelsea Manning was a u. S. Military Intelligence Analyst but was arrested in 2010 fully can classified information to wiki leaks she