. informant john do you think it's possible that u.s. intelligence agencies weren't just turning a blind eye to the operation but intimately involved in it. i certainly do i recommend reading the book is connecting the dots by kevin fenton which essentially makes the case that the cia was seemingly protecting those two hijackers in san diego i also recommend the works of rain over shall ski. rory o'connor and john duffy which elaborate on this issue what are some other things that they say in the books that we should know about can you summarize and it. well they took. the cia agent supposedly sent a memo that talked about how these hijackers. entered the country and they never sent this memo but they lied about it and said that they did this is just one of the things that they talk about a lot of lies and that's for sure likewise everywhere you look. at eleven commission report also said that the funding behind these terrorist attacks were of little practical significance that's actually an exact quote john is that true. well as i said prince bandar's why is that what you really c

to be u.s. army in a war one of most important leaders in american history today henry uses his logic induct workshops on renewable energy and teach the oglala sioux tribe everything there is to know about solar and wind power i sat down with henry to discuss the legacy of his great great grandfather and how renewables and help build a sustainable future for the reservation. we grow up learning about crazy horse in american history but not red cloud you're his great great grandson what is the legacy of red cloud mean to you basically his whole life you know war you're. more to the leader of the good people diplomat peacemaker. all of that gives me an understanding you know direction on what they saw you know grandfather's fact which included you know sitting bull big. spot it red chair. a young man afraid of his horses red cloud and the various ones that was able you know fortunate to go out east and once they returned they they said you know people were living on top of each other and there was no way that war can continue and be won so they need to re strategize in the two sev

no hard life or death amid public anger over fracking in the u.s. a new report says there are many more complaints of contamination than authorities and drilling companies are willing to admit. the nation's deal with that by joining the great european fire sale we look at whether it's actually helping patch up national budgets.

decrease in money is actually illegal and stands in violation of longstanding treaties between the u.s. government and native american communities but government cutbacks and broken promises aren't the only hurdles facing the lakota nation the inner corruption within the council itself is of concern when it comes to the allocation of funds if this were to pass we would like the alcohol revenues to be set in a separate account not come into the chives general because the tribe has something called the general fund and the general fund is pretty much money that's spent where there's you can't really tag it or track it. you know i mean they call it the black hole only time will tell if legalization is the right course of action for a community devastated by alcoholism but more importantly is whether the tribal council will spend these potential funds in a way that can build a sustainable future for generations to come in pine ridge south dakota cody snell r t. having just spent time at pine ridge reservation in south dakota and hearing about the tales of the wounded knee i can't help but

be bought with interest the offer by the u.s. now sits in a trust and it's worth over a billion dollars and although there are rumors of potential negotiations happening nearly every single tribe member i spoke to was adamant the black hills are not for sale for western minds it's kind of hard to grasp why the second most economically devastated community in the country would turn down a billion dollars so i sought to find out why. our culture our language our souls our our ceremonies all of the earth water way and. everything you know coexist on the earth here where we're related to and everything that is comes from the black hills the black hills my grandfathers told me you know it's really par for a spiritual thing is not in those no money a price you can put on that and so that's the reason why we never sell the all the land with then does red border that is not dark brown. was stolen by the federal government and given to the white people the black hills should be restored to its proper ownership. aside from the forced destruction of a culture and the genocide the took plac

the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of u.s. president john f. kennedy it's an incident still surrounded by questions that many americans are trying to answer one of the filmmakers made the best attempt to put the disparate pieces together for a time academy award winning director oliver stone now he's commemorating the canby anniversary by rereleasing has epic film j.f.k. and an ultimate director's cut the collector's edition also includes a segment from oliver stone's showtime series the untold history of the united states a film adaptation of the joint book authored by stone and historian her cousin that take a look. at the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike. that the torch has been asked to a new generation of americans. with his murder the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan. systematically destroyed the promise of kind of these last year as they returned the country to war and repression joins me now to discuss j.f.k. and their five year long project oliver stone excellent to have yo

the eighth largest native american reservation in the u.s. and its home of the two one of the seven the sub tribes of the code of people approximately forty thousand and all the tribe members live across two point one million acres with gorgeous rolling hills and untamed wilderness it's no wonder why pine ridge is held so sacred to the tribe that inhabits the land despite the multitude of problems facing a community that depends on federal funding to survive many tribe members have taken it upon themselves to empower the lakota people to secure a brighter future for the people there were hugely inspiring and we love pine ridge greatly humbled by their stories over the next two days i'll share some of those stories with you to shed light on one of the most unreported and neglected issues in america today the abysmal failure by the federal government to provide adequate social services up hold centuries old treaties and to allow the sovereignty of native american communities to prosper so stick around because we're going to break in a set that should have been broken a long time ago.

implicated the u.s. government or elements of the government and his assassination how do you think the american people would react what you're asking me if it came out now i think we've reached a sort of a because of kennedy's death that we went back in time i think we had a backlash of conservatism ronald reagan and all the presidents i mentioned in those clips and they they brought us to a place where were far more to the right than we were when kennedy was alive this is a shame and but this is a bit american military intelligence policy secure. the policy that has built up since world war two look the soviets disappeared in one thousand nine hundred one we kept right on going we got bigger and bigger now we have eavesdropping across the world we have a we have seven hundred thousand foreign bases six thousand domestic use we have. full spectrum dominance air sea land cyber warfare space war we are way ahead of everybody else we have first strike superiority once again so it's a very troubling time but you ask me of an important question i didn't answer it before about if kennedy

to the u.s. canada south africa japan they've all facilitated extraordinary expansions of their money expansions of their mana. leading some to call this a competitive basement currency now in two thousand and ten we don't want to take out brazil's finance minister famously procrit proclaimed quote we're in the midst of an international currency war a general weakening of currency that was three years ago so where are we now i spoke with james record and asked if we have passed the point of no return take a look. we may be past the point of no return although it takes a while for the consequences to play out it's a very good point we're in uncharted waters in some ways certainly quantitative easing is a massive experiment we're all just you know consumers and everyday americans and people around the world are just guinea pigs a fact an essential bearing experiment so there really is no precedent for that there is a precedent for money printing and currency wars those have happened several times before and talk about this in my book currency wars there was a current who are from

monday janet yellen makes history by becoming the first woman to chair the u.s. federal reserve now a senate vote set for five thirty pm in washington d.c. will usher in the sixty seven year old who has served as vice chair of the fed since twenty ten now seceding ben bernanke he whose term ends on january thirty first yellen has been an unwavering advocate of the fed's aggressive steps to boost the u.s. economy by way of quantitative easing now guillen's of main task as chairwoman will be to navigate the central bank away from its current bond buying program now despite yellen why it spread support among economists true means a contentious figure for some in washington there are those who fear her support of burnout easy money policy will have a negative long term consequence on the economy. now elsewhere high frequency traders now have a trade group all their own a collection of high frequency trading firms have hired a pair of heavy hitting political strategist told to revamp their image now refuting what they say is the industry's unfair reputation of high speed trading as a disru

take my word for it or to the iraqi government a u.s. military court and an f.b.i. investigation at least fourteen of the seventeen iraqis killed that day were shot without cause it was also never confirmed that a car bomb even went off in iraq interior ministry that explosion was from two mortar shells that landed in the vicinity of the heavily secured compound blackwater was protected and furthermore according to several interviews blackwater guards said quote during the operation at least one guard continued firing on civilians walk holy eggs urgently called for a cease fire but here in prince deflected blame for the massacres he oversaw is not even a part of the every that irks me the most print said during the web only part of the discussion. so if you feel that the government actually actively turned against you and began to persecute you and someone indeed and you know meeting with congressional staffs me to get a look at this matter what you guys going to do we're going to ride you into you're out of business queue up the tiny. i didn't realize the seventeen murdered iraq is

of the next fifteen nations too much. the u.s. military uses more oil than any other entity on the planet so this is the head at this point. of a beast since jimmy carter proclaimed the doctrine that bears his name in early may even at its high end ownership of all the world's resources securing them has proven very expensive in terms of if you try and save a little planet and human lives there's no undoing the horrors of empire in which you doubling down as near as i can distinguish the typical american loves american empire because it uses those toys and uses those computer screens and gives us the ability to play on facebook you know and do all the things that we've come to take for granted even though they haven't been around for very long one start to life let's talk about solutions here because i'm getting a little bit depressed here you seem intent in collapse i do think that a collapse is necessary before a new model can be enacted that works harmoniously with nature or even though we can change from the growth paradigm to conscious capitalism before this mass die off i use

looks into whether the u.s. government is willing to restrict the n.s.a.'s mass spying that's in brecon to set . ok paul so i'm a goes i'm not a martin and this is breaking the set so much the duck dynasty controversy that the mainstream media is trumpeting there's actually positive news to report a panel appointed by obama just released its recommendations to scale back the n.s.a. and the document they recommended forty six changes to add transparency accountability the agency but most importantly they suggest scaling back its authority to snoop and every aspect of our lives so time the pop the champagne and all those right not so fast this is only good news if obama actually decides to embrace the advice and here's the cold hard truth even if the recommendations are adopted it's not going to prevent mass surveillance and the president's review panel did nothing to answer the questions raised about the constitutionality of the n.s.a.'s global spying tentacles so while it's a nice gesture for members of the administration to condemn the n.s.a. as attack on privacy until there is

sex with her right there. there's absolutely no doubt that there's a mental health epidemic. u.s. military in fact in two thousand and twelve alone there was a shocking fifteen percent rise in the suicide rate from just the previous year but at least nowadays being neglected by the department of veterans affairs and being pumped full of pharmaceuticals doesn't compare to the insane method of treatment veterans used to receive for p.t.s.d. severino their brain stem yup last week the wall street journal published a stunning report about a world war two era government program involving mentally ill vets from the late one nine hundred forty s. to the early one nine hundred fifty s. v.a. doctors performed forced the bottom e. nearly two thousand veterans who had been diagnosed as depressed psychotics and schizophrenia casually on people identified as homosexuals and although this practice was known in small medical circles at the time the dark stain on america's past had been largely forgotten until now according to medical journals that documented these procedures these low bottom us

contracts of boston amec previously had with the u.s. military great so i guess the real question here is why should we trust a corporation that holds so much of our personal information to develop absurd war machines for ethical purposes after all we really want private companies and in up with robots that can do this. i don't know if i'm ready for google to have a private army of iron man and let's break the set. of the police. it was a. very hard. line that are stacked with the terrorists there. there is absolutely no doubt that there is a mental health epidemic in the u.s. military in fact in two thousand and twelve alone there was a shocking fifteen percent rise in the suicide rate from just the previous year but at least nowadays being neglected by the department of veterans affairs and being pumped full of pharmaceuticals doesn't compare to the insane method of treatment veterans used to receive for p.t.s.d. severino their brain stem yup last week the wall street journal published a stunning report about a world war two era government program and valving mentally ill vets from the

russian minister of foreign affairs. but we've just heard from john kerry the u.s. secretary of state he's made a couple of potentially wiring comments as it's understood at this peace conference that the main condition for talks was that there would be no have create conditions and there was the u.s. secretary there are the u.s. secretary of state john kerry saying there is no future for syria if it stays in power mr kerry saying that assad cannot be any part of a new government that assad has no credibility and there could be no place for the perpetrator of the violence in syria in fact it's been it's been reported countless times from our analysts and reporters around the world that indeed the violence that's been ongoing in syria is the result of both sides of both sides of this continued war of both committed atrocities it is a two way street the focus is supposed to be peace and not about a transitional government in fact john kerry referring to the syrian leader assad saying that in till the transition takes place that can be no end to the terrorism in syria and that the

is such a problem in the u.s. what is it about this country that has made addictions demick. well that's a great question and really that's the question that we ask in the movie that we're about five percent of the world's population but we're using eighty percent of the world's prescription hydrocodone which are in drugs like biking and norco and fifty percent of all the prescription drugs in general so this is just not happenstance this is a purposeful movement to get people to take medications and let's face it sick people are is a good business people that stay a long alive for a long period of time so when people stay alive and they have chronic disease these pills become the answer instead of just sort of a band-aid to become the answer for the problem sascha the u.s. is only one of two countries in the world other than new zealand that has direct to consumer advertising on prescription medicine how much of that do you think feeds into this problem. well it's a large problem you know it's very interesting this film to give a little background you know gregory approached me i

on the spine of those who listen to it today it was not only a speech but a warning to every u.s. citizen that the defense industry had begun its takeover of america's democracy despite the fact that this speech has become the most memorable moment of eisenhower's presidency he was largely responsible for the unabated growth of the u.s. military machine and during the height of the cold war and knowing the role he played in the military industrial complex perhaps it was guilt that led him to give this great address. to the bell to create a permanent armaments industry a bathrobe or should i do this three in the house million men and women are directly engaged in the deed been systems. we ban on military security alone more than the net income of all the united states corporations corporations. think about what he said for one second in one nine hundred sixty one the us was already spending more in its defense on the net income of all u.s. corporations at the time if eisenhower thought that was a disturbing trend now what do you think now that u.s. corporations have become bigger

finally in which u.s. cities are you most likely to achieve the american dream harrison i will tell you today's big deal it's all coming up and it all starts right now. leading our headlines today the federal reserve announced it's on track to trim its seventy five billion dollar a month bond buying program for a second time in six weeks a reduction to the sixty five billion dollars a month stimulus down ten billion dollars from its current level could be announced at the january fed meeting on the twenty eighth of january which will be the last meeting for outgoing chairman ben bernanke now mr bernanke who suggested the december news conference that officials were inclined to continue cutting purchases in ten billion dollar increment so long as the economy keeps strengthening. elsewhere the international monetary fund has raised its global growth forecast the i.m.f. raised its forecast for global growth this year as expansions in the u.s. and u.k. accelerate and advanced economies to maintain monetary accommodations in the. or to strengthen the recovery the report says the global e

would not again reemerge because again the u.s. treasury was convinced that it was the economic problems that ultimately pave the path to war and now i want to talk a little bit about more bretton woods stuff in a little while but first i want to ask you would you consider the gold standard inflexibility also a contributing factor to the depression. well. it's not clear that the gold standard could not have been reestablished successfully for example if britain had really entered the gold standard in one nine hundred twenty five this significant leigh devalued rate a big change it might have been possible to keep the system. functioning at an acceptable level with out causing recession in gold standard countries for quite a bit longer now under the bretton woods system the us dollar was the anchor currency that you know gold was other pair other currencies were then pegged to in u.s. dollars because the u.s. currency was called would you consider this a kind of watered down gold standard or something entirely different. it was actually something quite similar to the one nine hun

partnership between the f.b.i. . u.s. department of homeland security and a whole range of very large network of private companies many of. basically fortune five hundred companies it's something like i mean the figure in the report was twenty thousand but actually it's. an old figure it's more it's approaching thousands ago thirty thousand just under thirty thousand very very large corporations in partnership with the f.b.i. and this partnership basically involves them basically feeding information into the f.b.i. . and what they want the f.b.i. to basically. get involved in terms of espionage in terms of intelligence activity so it's no surprise. range of various leaked documents and other kinds of information that's come out of the last year it also shows that the f.b.i. has been systematically spying. systematically helping. to spy on. groups the uk okupe i was. street activists were spied on organizations like greenpeace have been spied on and the pretext of fortunately has been terrorism we've actually used the specter of terrorism to justify some of these operations but there w

the agency use unwitting u.s. and canadian test subjects to carry out mind control experiments using psychedelic drugs hypnosis sensory deprivation verbal and sexual abuse and torture these experiments took place in the course of two decades and involved the compliance of at least forty four different colleges and universities or we can point to the infamous to stevie experiment which involved the us public health service injecting deadly syphilis into role african-american men who thought that they were receiving free health care and not believe a bully this went on for forty years and wasn't stopped all the way up until the one nine hundred seventy three it took up until one thousand nine hundred seven or for victims of this despicable cruelty to even receive an apology from their own government jump forward to a couple decades of work and rational report. by senator john rockefeller revealed the department offense had intentionally exposed test subjects to mustard and nerve gas radiation and psycho chemicals for at least thirty years. the list goes on and on from operation papercl

hardest drugs you'll find on the street now might shock you to learn that the u.s. is number one when it comes to the consumption of prescription pills and back to two thousand and thirteen study by the mayo clinic shows that nearly seventy percent of americans are on at least one prescription drug and more than half take at least two of the most commonly prescribed antidepressants and painkillers the subatomic is the subject of a of a documentary called american addict and it explores the road that led this country from being the land of the free to the land of the addicted. by the representatives are universally attractive they get recruited from places like cheerleading squad to dig ten schools what i'm told is a ball of so approach those perks is that anti-psychotic medication it's very popular it's very expensive this moment some of the others will show you are very very commonly diverted the reason being is again the medical programs insurance programs pay a lot of money. these drugs. joining me now are the producer and director of the film and dr gregory smith from l.a. th