Use humanitarian intervention to justify a horrible act of war and you start off 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 forum paul policy its very telling when the Mainstream Media and the establishment truly freak out when they freak i mean they the moment 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 the current one trump is saying he wants to remove 9. 1000 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 the media has jumped on him of course raising the russian menace hysteria saying oh youre giving in to 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 trum 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 i think a lot of people could get behind in the media seems very just about that notion and then conversely they called trump president ial and other 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 no he talked about in his prostration about not getting them to do that and how mad it was was to warding its 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 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 kinds of Chemical Attacks in syria as you note theres good evidence that some some of those 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 is 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 isnt that he has bombed too much but that he hasnt bombed enough meanwhile you see there is little reports that very recently the us has destroyed wheat fields in syria which is a war crime but again that appears to be completely on where the. Press is attention yeah yeah lets move on to the overall idea of humanitarian intervention 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 id 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 get men to 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 of all 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 of us and that its 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 and the most interesting in terrible case of this was something Samantha Power was herself involved and she had some of the warty of it or 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 when 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 power by obama and Samantha Power at all now there are subsaharan africans being sold on the street as slaves and so Samantha Power the irony of people like Samantha Power is they say that we need to intervene to protect human rights when oh most invariably are interventions undermine human rights. Right right there the invasion of liberate 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 hell hole 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 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 there is 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 yeah in fact the emails show that i do detail in the book that Hillary Clinton team the team in particular knew that by the time nato started bombing libya any true Human Rights Concerns they. Had vanished by that point you know they claim amongst other things that they were in libya to save ozzy from being attacked by the gadhafi forces if you look at the emails between Sidney Blumenthal the Clinton Clintons closest allies around this and Hillary Clinton he makes it clear. This may not seem was safe and under the control of the opposition by the time nato starts bombing but he says specifically but we need to keep going we need to keep on arming we need to create a 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 happened. Yeah the other countries within nato had had their own reasons sarkozy and you know he got a major donation from gadhafi for his campaign and he didnt want that to come out and believe it was adelaide with able to get out of billions of dollars they they owed libya by bringing down gadhafi it really is a despicable motivations behind it this called humanitarian intervention recently the trauma administration has been working very hard to destroy the power of the International Criminal court the i. C. C. But theyre not the 1st evisceration to say the i. C. C. Cannot investigate or prosecute americans 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 u. S. That commits the most were 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 why is it the u. S. Wont sign on to the. Well 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 u. S. Fights is a war of choice can you speak about that and why that matters so much. Yeah i mean so 1st of all because we have a nation that runs from the pacific of the atlantic and because were so strong militarily we urgently face no serious outside military threats none 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 selfdefense 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 in their ability 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. 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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 they threaten people who wouldnt sign release forms and encourage 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 cd who are writing 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 online 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 feel like simple heroes 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 more 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 police work so t. V. Cameras me cops behave worse and body cameras dont make any difference at all however a famine sung a home by a bystander can change policing forever i did think the cancellations happened a little fast i mean think about homeowners reality show consumers to satisfy their craving for conflict and grittiness with a sense of justice we are are they going to go shipping wars. Where they argue about how to deliver a boat. Just scream into these guys they missed the boat im the one taking the blame me tie it down ours well if you dont want it rolling around in the back your truck i would i have about 2 seconds away from using homeboys moustache to tie it down