: the old army in war and peace." booktv is on location in annapolis, maryland. >> and now a couple of interviews from booktv's college series. first, booktv interviewed professor john l. jackson jr. about his book, "racial paranoia." the interview was conducted at university of pennsylvania's annenberg school for communication, and it's about 25 minutes. >> john l. jackson jr. is a professor of communication, anthropology and africana studies at the university of pennsylvania. of and he is the author recently of this book, "racial paranoia: the unintended consequences of political correctness." dr. jackson, when you talk about racial paranoia, who's paranoid? >> well, i would argue we're all paranoid when it comes to race. and probably for good reason. i mean, one of the points i make in the book is that race as a category itself is about the embedding of paranoia into the way we look at social life. so, for instance, the whole point of race is to say some differences are so paramount, so biological, so hard wired th

the war colleges and there is an army war college and air war college and marine war college and national defense university, naval war college, of those i consider the naval war college where i am a faculty by a member to be a flag ship academic institution because of its strong defense of academic freedom and increasing willingness to go out and find faculty who are willing to kind of be in house heretics and i am always very careful on occasions like this to say when i'm talking i'm talking for myself. i'm not representing the government or government positions but being able to do that is something that is not always the case at all of the other institutions so i took advantage of my position as a tenured faculty member to write this book. one of the things i talked about extensively in this book going back to administrators, most of the administrators are retired military officers. very well-meaning patriots, good americans that no background in education, no background in academic administration. that means the things they are being asked to do, curriculum development, hiring facult

two wars like a war with regard to vietnam. the other point about time and how long these kinds of wars take, you are right, and original strategy is to use nation-building and counterinsurgency, if that is to achieve the policy aim, irrational strategy would say and come out front and be honest about it that if we're going to apply our nation building to keep al qaeda at bay in afghanistan, then it is going to take a long time and it is not going to take 18 months or eight years or 18 years. we're talking about a multi generally shingle effort. then my point in my talk all along is if we're doing strategy right, the way i explained, especially with regard to afghanistan, we have this limited corps policy aim which is the destruction of al qaeda, which was pretty much accomplished by early 2002. why did we need to put into place this huge operational framework that committed us to a decade of war, trillions in blood and treasure, to achieve that limited corps policy? that is why i think our strategy from the beginning has been

covert wars with his new book an upcoming documentary film called dirty wars take a look. hard to say when the story began greetings from kabul afghanistan this was supposed to be the frontline in the war on terror listening to this but i knew i was missing the story there was another war in the us. to see the two men in the guest house for the first people killed. in the. you saw the u.s. forces take the bullets out of the bodies. were these men that stormed into and why would they go to such horrifying likes to cover up their actions so to talk about the evolution of u.s. foreign policy in the mindset that the world is a battlefield i was joined earlier for an in-depth interview investigative journalist and author of blackwater and dirty wars jeremy scahill. so here are some on the street if the u.s. that were they'd probably say no obama added the wars here on the troops but your book and film dirty wars clearly show that that is very far from the truth to talk about the concept of dirty wars and how expansive the shadow war program is across the world part of the reaso

for me this is not the war. asked his wife to stay for a while with the children in a rented flat and tell him he didn't want them to be put off by living in an unfinished house. we called this in syria must really be a green facility in syria would you like me to list lots. we are trying to find this. reasoning here it's not set. in syria nancy had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking gotten in a damascus suburb she looked after her three children and her husband had a lucrative business but when bombs began to explode in front of their house the couple had to throw it all to the wind and seek refuge where there were no gunshots to frighten the children. this fourth or it's my car. and this is my lever one door. or some bomb didn't explosion miss my kitchen. broke windows broke the very sad because this is the only channel where dreams me to make ends meet and thanks came. to. the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to take care of her leave. her house there. they

for me this is not the war. i asked his wife to stay for a while with their children in a rented flat in town he didn't want them to be put off by living in an unfinished house. we pulled this in syria must leave us maybe it means us to be in syria we like to refer to this to lots of fellows who we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not selfish. in syria nancy had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking golden in a damascus suburb she looked after her three children and her husband had a lucrative business but when bombs began to explode in front of their house the couple had to throw it all to the wind and seek refuge where there were no gunshots to frighten the children. this fourth or it's my car. and this my lever one door. or some bomb didn't explosion miss my kitchen door broke windows broke would be very sad because this is the only channel where dreams me to make ends meet and my scheme. the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to protect her probab

when bill clinton was president and covered the war in yugoslavia covered the undeclared war in iraq that took form and to the took place in the form of economic sanctions and these so-called no fly zone bombings and when i went to afghanistan though with rick reilly the director of a film is a great an embedded journalist himself we were investigating a series of u.s. night raids and one of the raids that we investigated really did shake my world as a human being and as a journalist and it was an incident that took place in february of two thousand and ten when u.s. special operations forces raided what they thought or had been told based on the faulty intelligence was the home of a taliban militant who was preparing for a suicide bombing and they raid this home and they end up killing a number of men and two pregnant women and it turned out that the family was in fact not taliban but rather supporters of the united states the home of a senior afghan police commander and they were having a party in this home to celebrate the naming of a newer child that it's a tradition to. the sixt

but war games i mean you know the war games was only one aspect of getting through to secretary rumsfeld that there was at least one member on the house armed services committee who was paying attention to what they said and you know but the value as i think back on it of me being there and being able to put these things on the record was that i did the same thing i was equal opportunity you know so i did it i asked penetrating questions of madeleine albright when she was secretary of state i asked the same penetrating questions of collin powell when he was secretary of state because the bottom line is that we live in a republic and the people who we vote for and the lads have a responsibility to represent our interests and our values and that's what i tried to do every day that i was on capitol hill where don rumsfeld deflected all of your questions but they were very important simply i mean this is particularly one of the most important aspects of nine eleven because why would they have all these war games scuttlebutt took the fighters far away from where there is a space station and i

a war. but i think regime change would be in fompletd they are going to go to all out war. >> regime change has gotten a bad name thanks to george w. bush. we're nowhere near that. this is not 1962 where we're at the edge of our chairs. we're not going to have 28,000 troops turn tail, come home because we don't want to protect our allies. so, i mean -- >> sick years since the cory i can't be war. 20 years since the cold war ended. what are they doing? >> allies are allies, as long as -- >> how long are they going to be there? >> let's go to the exit question. did you finish your point? >> i'm just standing up for south korea. >> so you're on the right side. >> i was dog to say, kim is trying to roll that policy back. he's already rescinded the earlier armistic ekes. he's doing every kind of saber rattling that he can do. meantime we don't know what he's up to. we don't even know exactly how old he is. some say 28, some say 29, some say 30. hopefully by the time they're able to deliver a nuke

don't want to trivialize war because war is really horrible but. certainly there's a battle against. whistleblowers in my in my view i also think that we need to in terms of endangered species i hope not i hope not ok marc weigh in well the always been that we're conflict against will stop lords because whoever the whistleblower is blowing the whistle on doesn't wanted to be known they've done misconduct that's true whether it's a government or corporation i'm a big fan the whistle blowers there's a proper way to do it whistleblowers are sensual in a free country to be able to expose government misconduct without fear of jail were being fired but there is a proper way to do it and the way to do it is to go to your boss and then your boss's boss. that works that works you really believe that works. well sounds a dozen times it does in my favorite will so blog to govern a well i can show you and you know you're. jeannie go ahead jump in. i'm going to say there's a lawyer i've represented many missile was a blowers. from in my experience not necessari

the rich man's war and poor man's viability comes a fight as well. the women start to reroute power. they make themselves a powerful constituency. then there is a wave of food riots that started when a in for a month, i think it's more than a dozen. armed bands of women and it's followed by a cloud of a thousand other people. the press thinks it's a conspiracy. they have conspiracy theories. in richmond, the mayor indicted the women. and all the court records are there to show these women were being planned for at least 10 days. she called all these women to a public meeting and she told them to come to the market the next morning two of their children at home. they did. they showed up the next morning. and they lifted up. for a month, the confederacy -- davis tried to stop the telegraph lines so it would not get out to the union but it did. they thought, this must be the end. the women are up in arms. so they step into the making of history in a decisive way. they put the states on notice and it's a really interesting and important political moment.

"west pointers and civil war: the old army in war and peace" but the subtitle. first of all, what do you mean by the old army? >> guest: the old army is used by historians referring to the regular army. there's a joke the old army is before everywhere. my book starts with a professionalization right after the war of 1812 and. it's about how the process occurs in the old army and how that plays out in the civil war. >> host: give us a snapshot of what the old army prior to the 1812 was late. >> host: before the war of 1812 and this is trying unhistorical literature by historians such as william skelton. we call it a nonprofessional. its officer corps is mostly obtaining positions through political influence as a part of the american political history system is a consequence they are not professionals who went three body of education that were promoted by some system of merit. they don't perform very well. washington d.c. is the dearly attempts to invade canada don't go very well. it's my impression that canadian look at a great victory of american theaters. so af

to war with iraq in light of former u.s. president george w. bush's speechwriter recently validating that notion here's what he had to say. right from the beginning it was very clear that there was no legitimate reason to go into iraq the only compelling reason would be to try to help corner the market on oil it didn't work out that way for those who thought that it would but the fact of the matter is oil was so. well known as to be a motivating factor that when i ran for president two thousand and four going cross the country i'd ask audiences tell me what this is about this war is about in three letters and thousands of people would respond simultaneously oil ever it was not it was never a secret. in two thousand and seven congressman you actually introduced articles of impeachment against george bush and dick cheney when you look at things like nixon being ousted for wiretapping clinton being ousted for an affair how is it that these two men could not be held accountable for initiating an illegal war based on known lies well i think we have

once again for us the story has been all over the place but back to the war on terror the so-called war on terror is is which this is brought i think a reasonable discussion forward is it a geo political campaign or is it a domestic law enforcement issue that was one of the big debates after nine eleven you know is this an act of war or is this the act it is across let's ask our guests in tonight's bigger picture national security panel right now i'm joined by michael breen if you have director truman national security project the center for national policy that's not. shy hid batar executive director with the bill of rights defense committee and corey saylor national legislative director at the council on american islamic relations thank you all for joining us today we've been trying to stop coughing here forgive me. most of the media actually first of all. i'm curious show head to in your thoughts is it possible for us to fight terrorism without infringing on civil liberties absolutely there are any number of novel policy solutions that the policy establishment hasn't even quite frank

war two. there's a reason why the forgot morris are forgotten. korea, vietnam, the u.s.-mexico border, these are wars that either did not necessarily work out for us or wars that we just -- as of the kind of course that americans fight. so i guess the american argument that this book makes and that i try to tell the story objectively, but the objective truth of it is that it really was a problematic for command was in many ways a bad war. you know, these are things that people need to think about, even today. what kind of war should we be fighting? and what is our responsibility as citizens in relation to the federal government? of the federal revenue gets involved and what the real biggies just demolish we do? in my book i show that during the u.s.-mexico wore a lot of people got together and they started an anti-war movement, and they actually ended the war. pope would have continued fighting a war, whenever ultimately probably taken more land from mexico if a lot of people, including a rame

don't want to trivialize war because war is really horrible but. certainly there's a battle against. whistleblowers in my in my view i also think that we need to in terms of endangered species i hope not i hope not ok marc weigh in. well the always been that we're conflict against will solve lords because whoever the whistleblower is blowing the whistle on doesn't wanted to be known they've done misconduct that's true whether it's a government or corporation i'm a big fan of whistleblowers there's a proper way to do it and whistle blowers are essential in a free country to be able to expose government misconduct without fear of jail were being fired but there is a proper way to do it and the way to do it is to go to your boss and then your boss's boss and. you think that works that works you really believe that works. well sounds a dozen times it does in my favorite will so blog to govern a well i can show you and you know where. jimmy go ahead jump in. i'm going to say there's a lawyer i've represented many missile was a blowers. from in my experi

change the wars on the war of the change the world i think it has changed the perspective people have on the information sharing in the power that information can have in making historical changes and i think that we have contributed to a very very important change that it is. nobody argues against the fact that the diplomatic cable release started to in the towards the end of the year two thousand and ten did have a catalyst to go for the arab spring and the tremendous changes we have seen in the region. there are so many stories that have come out that have changed our views on the world and have changed history yes it's always in the years afterward that we discover the most about the war from the present question her often said what he likes pokes person thank you for joining us thanks for having me so we have heard from one of the soldiers on the ground that day of the collateral murder video we just heard from the wiki leaks spokesperson talking about his take on the aftermath of the video and the iraq war now let's hear from some of the other players who were involved the peopl

president and he wanted to be a war president a little bit longer that's why he went to war with andrew we've got to leave it there was a great time tonight i'm going to get no singapore to the telegraph thank you very much. coming up on the program on r t live still ahead the sensational history lesson for the world's top whistleblower we delve into nearly two million diplomatic cables published by which put america's foreign policy of years past under the spotlight. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future. thank. the international landlord in the very heart of moscow. logan trapped in ecuador an embassy for over nine months but still fighting to blow the lid on global politics julian assange has now released over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic cables for the nine hundred seventy s. but she's dubbed the most significant political publication ever. been examining wiki leaks his biggest release to date as it is. according to julian assange the us administration can't be trusted with controlling its own history so he's had to come along and do this he

>> the idea of the war on drugs is not a war on drugs. it's a war on people. the documentary allows you to identify real stories that happen. we have shown this documentary and real consequences that have happened as well. we have shown this documentary to high school students to the group in washington, d.c. when asked to raise their hands, how many of you know about the experience within your own family or someone you knew, nearly the whole audience of black students raised their hand. these men and young men and women knew the story, but also knew that they were in harm's way and in danger by the same circumstances as well. you can put this in chicago and it resonates the same way. you can put it in new york, it resonates the same way. those communities that have been directly affected by the experience, they know the story. the beautiful thing about this, we have been able to do with a number of our documentaries is find the constituent audience. find that audience to directly identify with the story by their experience. so in this film, it validates an ex

to war with iraq a lot of former u.s. president george w. bush's speechwriter recently validating that notion here's what he had to say. right from the beginning it was very clear that there was no legitimate reason to go into iraq the only compelling reason would be to try to help corner the market on oil it didn't work out that way for those who thought that it would but the fact of the matter is oil was so. well known as to be a motivating factor that when i ran for president two thousand and four going cross the country i'd ask audiences tell me what this is about this war is about in three letters and thousands of people would respond simultaneously oil ever it was it's not it was never a secret. in two thousand and seven congressman you actually introduced articles of impeachment against george bush and dick cheney when you look at things like nixon being ousted for wiretapping clinton being ousted for an affair how is it that these two men could not be held accountable for initiating an illegal war based on known lies well i think we

did rescue the jews in the second world war is that a war crime when obama is not intervening in syria is that a war crime i mean it's a very very much he said look when talking about the violation of international law international criminal court we're looking at law established international criminal court will will of eventually be the arbiter of these kind of issues but this is something that it is going to take some time to make clear what how how you define it ivan eland how you define it which defined. well i think you know i think we often in the united states define terrorism and war crimes and all this other stuff too to. you know alleviate our own government of some blame of course you know you know in the in the terror bombings in world war two we always kind of forget about those but nations can commit acts of terrorism and in fact of kill more people with terrorists acts against civilians than little rebel groups like even around it so i think nation states are not especially powerful nation states are never held to these types of things because they up there the pillars

against saddam in the first gulf war? and bush sat there and he said, well, i rely on a higher father rather then the earthly father. so i -- chris: that's like the hebrew national tv commercial. i answer to a higher authority. >> and he -- i think to a certain extent he did answer it that way. if in your mind you track this and i was able to track it almost day by day and hour by hour in the decision-making process going to war, i think he thought it would be a liberator. i think he thought he was going in and take down those statues of saddam and they're going to actually erect statues of me. chris: anyone else understand the religious piece? >> there was always a sense he was on something -- i don't want to go too far -- of a sacred mission, particularly the freedom agenda. he gave many speeches about this. freedom was given by god and that in to some extent he seemed like he was jahr carrying it out. there were other people who saw that and said let's caboose our agenda on to it. let's make them at least whole and fre

covert wars there's a new book an upcoming documentary film called dirty wars take a look. it's hard to say when the story began greetings from kabul afghanistan this was supposed to be the frontline in the war on terror with the name of this military but i knew i was missing the story there was another war hidden in the shadows. and i great. to see the two men in the guy's house for the first people could. see because. they're going to know those on the other you saw the u.s. forces take the bullets out of the body. pretty early on were these men that stormed into homes and why would they go to such horrifying likes to cover up their actions so to talk about the evolution of u.s. foreign policy in the my. that the world is a battlefield i was joined earlier for an in-depth interview with investigative journalist and author of blackwater and dirty wars jeremy scahill. so you know some of the street if the u.s. that were they'd probably say no obama ended the war as he drew down the troops but your book and film dirty wars clearly show that that is very far from the truth to

it becomes a war crime the second question is how do you draw the line about war crimes when franklin roosevelt did rescue the jews in the second world war is that a war crime when obama is not intervening in syria is that a war crime i mean it's a very very but stephen we're told we're talking about a violation of international law international criminal court we're looking at law established the international criminal court will will of eventually be the arbiter of these kind of issues but this is something that it is going to take some time to make clear how how you define it ivan eland how you define it which defined. well i think you know i think we often in the united states define terrorism and war crimes and all this other stuff too to. you know alleviate our own government of some blame of course you know you know in the in the terror bombings in world war two we always kind of forget about those but nations can commit acts of terrorism and in fact of kill more people with terrorists acts against civilians than little rebel groups like even around it so i think nation states

it becomes a war crime the second question is how do you draw the line about war crimes when franklin roosevelt did rescue the jews in the second world war is that a war crime when obama is not intervening in syria is that a war crime i mean it's a very very but stephen we're totally talking about the violation of international law international criminal court we're looking at law established the international criminal court will will of eventually be the arbiter of these kind of issues but this is something that it is going to take some time to make clear how how you define it ivan eland how you define it which defined. well i think you know i think we often in the united states define terrorism and war crimes and all this other stuff too to. you know alleviate our own government of some blame of course you know you know in the in the terror bombings in world war two we always kind of forget about those but nations can commit acts of terrorism and in fact of kill more people with terrorist acts against civilians than little rebel groups like even around it so i think nation states ar

it becomes a war crime the second question is how do you draw the line about war crimes when franklin roosevelt did rescue the jews in the second world war is that a war crime when obama is not intervening in syria is that a war crime i mean it's a very very but stephen we're totally talking about the violation of international law international criminal court we're looking at law established the international criminal court will will of eventually be the arbiter of these kind of issues but this is something that it is going to take some time to make clear how how you define it ivan eland how you define it which defined. well i think you know i think we often in the united states define terrorism and war crimes and all this other stuff too to. you know alleviate our own government of some blame of course you know you know in the in the terror bombings in world war two we always kind of forget about those but nations can commit acts of terrorism and in fact of kill more people with terrorists acts against civilians than little rebel groups like even around it so i think nation states a

saddam in the first gulf war? and bush sat there and he said, well, i rely on a higher father rather then the earthly father. so i -- chris: that's like the hebrew national tv commercial. i answer to a higher authority. >> and he -- i think to a certain extent he did answer it that way. if in your mind you track this and i was able to track it almost day by day and hour by hour in the decision-making process going to war, i think he thought it would be a liberator. i think he thought he was going in and take down those statues of saddam and they're going to actually erect statues of me. chris: anyone else understand the religious piece? >> there was always a sense he was on something -- i don't want to go too far -- of a sacred mission, particularly the freedom agenda. he gave many speeches about this. freedom was given by god and that in to some extent he seemed like he was jahr carrying it out. there were other people who saw that and said let's caboose our agenda on to it. let's make them at least whole and fre

control in germany and these two men, the democrat and the dictator linked first in conflict then to war and rice to the beginning of the roosevelt administration discussions over the persecution of jews in germany. >> two was leading those discussions? >> probably the leading% was an informal adviser who roosevelt had known much earlier when he was assistant secretary of the navy and they reestablished the friendship when roosevelt ran for governor in 1928 against a jewish opponent and frankfurter was an important to initiate those discussions and what americans can do about it also the secretary of labor frances perkins who was a labor activist and a major advocate for refugees. >> secretary perkins and frankfurter worth a jewish? gimmicky was although he did not become justice until the thirties but frances perkins was not but oddly she was attacked by anti-semites basically anyone who supported jewish issues was jewish franklin roosevelt himself was accused of being jewish people talk about president rosenfeld and he had a wonderful response i am not jewish but i think people are won

of it is a war crime so the government could not give immunity to the u.s. soldier. and obama decided to pull out all the troops far earlier than expected and we have a short amount of time left but i do want to get julian a songe and find out what his current status is can you i haven't i don't talk about what what joyous launch is up to these days well i mean he's still doing the work that he has been doing throughout all the time that he has been in the house arrest or in the ecuadorian embassy in london still doing his work he has a good internet connection and we are continuing to work and we have actually a press conference on monday in washington to see who. the. new projects and this is all of course under the direction of julius jones we hope that your tuition will change and you could walk free hopefully very soon and finally your organization was lambasted for leaking this video and arguably the largest document drop in american history with these leaks has anything that you have done change the wars in your opinion. changed the war zone the order to chang

it becomes a war crime the second question is how do you draw the line about war crimes when franklin roosevelt did rescue the jews in the second world war is that a war crime when obama is not intervening in syria is that a war crime i mean it's a very very but stupid look out we're talking about a violation of international law international criminal court we're looking at law established the international criminal court will will of eventually be the arbiter of these kind of issues but this is something that it is going to take some time to make clear how how you define it ivan eland how you define it looks defined. well i think you know i think we often in the united states define terrorism and war crimes and all this other stuff too to. you know alleviate our own government of some blame of course you know you know in the in the terror bombings in world war two we always kind of forget about those but nations can commit acts of terrorism and in fact of kill more people with terrorists acts against civilians than little rebel groups like even al qaida around it so i think nation s

iraq war veteran emily yates had told r.t. that washington's main reasons for going into the conflict are with financial. my job i was actually i was a public affairs specialist in the military that's their name for a journalist my role was to basically make the war sound really wonderful to those of us who were fighting it to keep morale of course i knew that saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction because i had been involving the news coming out of that and following the reports and i knew it wasn't you know really about liberation as soon as i saw the huge mess that we made of the infrastructure in iraq and the fact that still to this day corporations that received these jane or miss contracts to rebuild iraq's infrastructure still haven't done that and they don't even know where the money has gone i believe. the war affectively was for oil because big oil efficiently american oil. has really ever really been the main picture. the stability promised by nato forces that is a nowhere to be seen in places like koku atta

release of the collateral murder video it gave the public a shocking look at the brutality of the iraq war and the human rights abuses that the military tried to cover up we'll revisit that day and speak with one of the soldiers featured in that video and while questions still loom over president obama's drone program activists have begun to protest against the very companies that make these weapons more on that ahead plus you've heard about the growing tensions in the korean peninsula from the mainstream media but what does the military buildup look like will give you a glimpse at the numbers. it's friday april fifth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm making lopez and you are watching r t well today is the third anniversary of the release of the video known as collateral murder it's a video that highlights the brutality of the iraq war showing a helicopter a target and kill a group of iraqi civilians up until this point we've heard an outcry from the public after seeing this video we've witnessed the manhunt by the government to find the people responsible for leaking the tape but we've neve

one, closed the war colleges. the second is close to war colleges and some of these military officers to civilian academic institution. i would argue closing the war college is not a good idea, that students need these educations more than other, that the environment is more complex. their need for the understanding is in this complex environment more than ever. second, the idea we can close the war college and send everyone to civilian academic institution is untenable. we are talking thousands of students a year. we would want them to go to top schools for security studies programs, but there aren't enough of those programs. so i would have been his student senate going to some other schools without an appropriate program and take courses relevant to somebody, but not a military officer. so we don't want them going to any school, taking anything. furthermore, one of the key benefits of the war colleges to stephen if they meet other students in other branches of the military, and other fields and they have an opp

the korean war, the vietnam war. and these two wars, stimulated the japanese economy. in 1950 you know during the korean war, the united states purchased stocks from toyota. this is what got the toyota automobile company its start. >> reporter: a more modest industrial start can be seen on this video. japanese collected the discarded empties and manufactured toy cans from the beer cans. gis paid 30-cents a piece for the toys. >>> when we come back on a second look, the morris lab, how it came into being. >>> and a bit later, visiting the tmz. the tense stand off between north and south korea that has lasted for six decades. [ male announcer ] the southwest airlines nationwide sale lets you go from working hard... to hardly working. ♪ big sales that help you get away. that's how we fly. act now to grab flights all over the country as low as $59 one-way. these fares won't last long so hurry and book now, only at southwest.com. we are southwest. welcome aboard. wam i don't know. any medications? last immunization shots? really? honey, what's my blood pressure medicine c

i think war appears in my book to put war in context, not to describe war so much as being part of, part of our history. and for us all, especially for veterans, obviously, it's part of our individual history. we've confronted this thing. that many of us for our sins set out to seek. this is from the chapter "ash," and i'll just read this section. during my first tour, i convinced myself i was invulnerable, i was not careless, but i was unafraid because fearlessness was required of me. yarines withac our endangerment. when we took our first casualty, we were at a loss to completely believe it and went back to our ritual of patrols as if nothing had happened. while i deployed my family worried, all of them keeping their worry from me as much as they could. my second tour was different. i expected to be killed in ramadi. after i was wounded, it was worse for my wife and parents, the mystery of my situation expanding my peril in their imagination. but the belief in immortality and the certainty of doom produced almost the same lack of anxiety in me. on june 16th we were going south to cross

it becomes a war crime the second question is how do you draw the line about war crimes when franklin roosevelt did rescue the jews in the second world war is that a war crime when obama is not intervening in syria is that a war crime i mean it's a very very but stupid look out we're talking about the violation of international law international criminal court we're looking at law established the international criminal court will will of eventually be the arbiter of these kind of issues but this is something that it is going to take some time to make clear how how you define it ivan eland how you define it defined. well i think you know i think we often in the united states define terrorism and war crimes and all this other stuff too to. you know alleviate our own government of some blame of course you know you know in the in the terror bombings in world war two we always kind of forget about those but nations can commit acts of terrorism and in fact of kill more people with terrorists acts against civilians than little rebel groups like even al qaida around and so i think nation stat

the war horrors he saw almost made him take his own life. to clear out citing uncontrollable. south korean warship. the north border. with asia. the world at its. economic forum kicks off today in china politicians. nobel prize winners are looking to. take advantage of china's new a strain of bird flu kill six. we investigate who could thrive spreading. pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today it is saturday here in the russian capital and we have your worldwide news around the. it's been exactly three years since wiki leaks published a graphic video which left. a lot on america's reputation and the footage which shows u.s. helicopters slaying over a dozen iraqi civilians not only shocked the world but had a dire impact on the lives of american soldiers who saw the massacre with their own eyes we spoke to a former army veteran who shared his memories of a day that he would rather forget. morning walk by the way it was the video that put wiki leaks on the map turned the tide of war in iraq and landed private first class bradley manning in military detention but for army

just come out of the proposal we're going to war. real control over the region of course not just going to come out and and how many people are going to sign up to risk their lives for exactly exactly where most every day we do what we're told and . we hold you know this you know this right says our maintenance we're going to last word there you know we're going to fight over but he thinks the war was for him i personally think it was for. us to you know hunting a foothold here to receive was a region you know i don't believe. you tell me that it was for it wasn't that mass destruction so long as lives lost is does not work that robs you know now today there was still no weapons to be found you don't know be worth it was through. through a country of a dictator yes but that was done was all reason there's a lot of dictators and a rule that has to be taken out to halt i would it was kind of the reason i look for the right reason is because i how can i not. reach a. conclusion is now worth just. thank you very much for your time. as or

covert wars with his new book an upcoming documentary film called dirty wars take a look. it's hard to say when the story began greetings from kabul afghanistan this was supposed to be the frontline in the war on terror with the name of the military but i knew i was missing the story there was another war in the shadows. and i agree. to see the two men in the guest house where the first people go. to show. they're going to others and on the other you saw the u.s. forces take the bullets out of the body. three hundred thirty were these men that stormed into home and why would they go to such horrifying likes to cover. so to talk about the evolution of u.s. foreign policy in the mindset that the world is a battlefield i was joined here for an in-depth interview with investigative journalist and author of blackwater and dirty wars jeremy scahill. so if you notice in the street if the u.s. is that war they'd probably say no obama ended the war as he drew down the troops but your book and film dirty wars clearly show that that is very far from the truth to talk about the concep

wars. i know his press his parents are nothing like him they didn't raise him to be who he became in the youtube videos so unless we ask questions how do people become the people on the youtube video or the people calling for the downing of american airliners unless we ask how that happened then we're just doing to keep repeating this cycle i mean it's. become a self-fulfilling prophecy and you know we're just we're it's a flywheel we're just regenerating enemies creating new enemies everywhere we go with these policies and of course those questions aren't addressed and so it's to have painted with a brush i get email every day saying i coddle terrorists or terrorist supporter i like to hang out with terrorists i'm sure if journalists don't go and interview the person that their nation says is the enemy then we're bankrupt media culture and how we're supposed to understand who we've been fighting because the media becomes the naga for as they just repeat government press releases and they d

unless we go to this war, we can't go to the next war. we will go to the next war. day want all these wars. >> it's a neocon, hawkish. they're all part of the same unit here. i don't think they need to be cued. they're at this point already. they've never met a foreign policy crisis where a military intervention and more of it wasn't the right answer. and the thing that gets me about this particular line of argument is, if you talk to anyone who knows anything about any of this, all the military options are really difficult. they may not even be effective. i ran into a congress -- a democrat -- >> they don't care as long as they're in it. >> they don't care as long as we're in it. ask lindsey graham, what is your plan? what do you want to do? it's always do something, do something. but why should we do anything that won't work, or that might be ineffective just because iran will go after, laugh at us if we don't? it is backward logic. it's like they're playing a game with the lives of the americans who they will sacrifice to show that they're tough. >> bobby ghosh,

it's a lot of financial war and one of the main ingredients of this financial war is psychological operations. for twelve psyops this is from hugo salinas price our friend we flew to greece with them in greece isn't the headline later but the definition of psyops psychological operations applies to the events of friday april twelfth and monday april fifteenth two thousand and thirteen when the price of gold was taken down to thirteen eighty and to get it down to thirteen eighty max it took one thousand one hundred tons of paper gold according to commerce bank which is forty five percent of annual production of gold well it stands to herbert on this on many occasions i have told you the audience out there around the world about my concept of price propaganda we live in an age of price propaganda in the old days back in the last century propaganda to the form of media propaganda image propaganda news propaganda at the age of manufacturing consent as noam chomsky would talk about this is price propaganda if you can move the price to a certain level then people's perception will change based on p

and china's position on that has been firm and strong there will be no war and of course more stories ahead for you including the time taken for venezuelans to choose their successor to the late get shopping with former bus driver actually president nicolas maduro pledging to preserve the common downturns heritage and expert opinion on the presidential race is coming in just a few minutes. the u.n. general assembly has passed a treaty to control the trade of controversial arms it prohibits experts in violation of arms embargoes or weapons that would be used for war crimes of terrorism it also requires states to prevent controversial weapons reaching the black market but as always going after counterforce now many feel the deal isn't big years unlocking clarity. at the u.n. general assembly passed this tuesday is the first attempt by the international community to try and regulate global arms straight the treaty covers the export of conventional weapons and that's a long list that includes fighter jets warships tanks as well as small arms the document has knowing foresman mechanisms so

intelligence analysts say the threat of nuclear war is minimal the war rhetoric from high level north korean officials is not letting up and as a result the u.s. announced that in a precautionary move they'll be speeding up the deployment of advanced missile system defense to the region in the next few weeks this following a series of u.s. training exercises in south korea as a show of military straight including sending b. two stealth bombers each of which cost taxpayers more than three billion dollars but wait before you run for your bunkers supported understand the legitimacy of these threats and the context of why they're happening in the first place so to help us dig deeper into just that i'm joined now by eugene period per year you never say last name organizer for the answer coalition thank you so much for coming it's going to be so for people who are freaking out and i'm seeing it all over corporate media that north korean attack is nuclear weapons how likely is this scenario well i think it's not very likely that north korea would attack us with nuclear weapons i mean the one

intelligence analysts say the threat of nuclear war is minimal the war rhetoric from high level north korean officials is not letting up and as a result the u.s. announced that in a precautionary move they'll be speeding up the deployment of advanced missile system defense to the region in the next few weeks this following a series of u.s. training exercises in south korea as a show of military straight including sending b. two stealth bombers each of which cost taxpayers more than three billion dollars but wait before you run for your bunkers support understand the legitimacy of these threats and the context of why they're happening in the first place so to help us dig deeper into just that i'm joined now by eugene period per year you never say last name organizer for the answer coalition thank you so much for coming great so it's going to be so for people who are freaking out and i'm seeing it all over corporate media that north korea is an attack of nuclear weapons how likely is this scenario well i think it's not very likely that north korea would attack us with nuclear weapons i

after the war. but in this particular war, we have had a much higher, much higher incidence of utilization of health care and claims for benefits. and this is for a variety of reasons, both because we have expanded the number of claims that veterans can apply for and also because veterans have been applying in record numbers with very complex claims. for example, in vietnam the average disability claim for three conditions and the average disability claim for iraq and afghanistan claims for eight conditions. and this, again, is related to the fact that the tours of duty are long, that there are many repeat tours of duty, that we have higher survival rates, that we have much more expensive and better medical care, that we are keeping many people alive who would not have you survived in previous wars, and the whole environment in terms of people's willingness to step up and claim for mental health conditions and related conditions as changed. -- has changed. and that's all for the good, that's all pro

it becomes a war crime the second question is how do you draw the line about war crimes when franklin roosevelt did rescue the jews in the second world war is that a war crime when obama is not intervening in syria is that a war crime i mean it's a very very much he said look we're talking about the violation of international law international criminal court we're looking at law established law international criminal court will will of eventually be the arbiter of these kind of issues but this is something that it is going to take some time to make clear how how you define it i've been ill and how you define it which defined. well i think you know i think we often in the united states define terrorism and war crimes and all this other stuff too to. you know alleviate our own government of some blame of course you know you know in the in the terror bombings in world war two we always kind of forget about those but nations can commit acts of terrorism and in fact of kill more people with terrorists acts against civilians than little rebel groups like even al qaida around and so i think

the shrine in tokyo honors japan's war dead including some who are convicted of war crimes. officials with the south korean foreign ministry expressed deep concern and regret in a statement. they urged the japanese government to correctly recognize history and take responsible action. japan's chief cabinet secretary yoshihide suga says the ministers visited the shrine as private citizens. >> translator: every country has a different position. it should not affect bilateral diplomacy. >> as japanese politicians work on relations with south korea, a separate effort to smooth things over with china has hit a snag. a group of lawmakers has canceled a visit to beijing after a request to meet chinese leaders was refused. the vice president of the ruling liberal democratic party was going to lead the mission next week. he is a leader of the bipartisan group that promotes japan/china friendship. the delegates wanted to meet xi jinping and the premier li keqiang, but chinese officials say the leaders are too busy dealing with domestic affairs. the japanese lawmakers say friction over

almost song war. but today when you actually it was a surprising move from the window i saw everything why knowing. who. i was for my children to live in peace away from war they would learn russian and they would go to school we go to university. they will become russian citizens we will do. it some other time. live. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. for says my grandfather was among those driven from the country after the caucasian war now we are returning i'm happy but also worried about what's happening in syria it's where i was born and where i have many close friends yet oh oh oh oh. oh. i've done my star spent a lifetime working as a teacher in syria he was even a school principal when he arrived eight months ago the local council of elders asked him to be on him up in arabic means example to follow their entrusted with ensuring a spiritual education. i have compiled an arabic i dig a dictionary to preserve the culture and language of the very ones a cordial he finished at