hello and welcome to cross talk for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle this year the nato alliance is seventy years old is it time now to shut down this cold war relic also liberal media can say sorry and choke on russia again. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest in moscow he's a political analyst we spoke meek international and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he is the editor of politics first magazine all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate marcus i. i want to talk about nato and i'm going to use the words of nato from the nato secretary general stoltenberg and he addressed congress last week it was a real spectacle and i'm going to ask you and demon to reflect upon it so let's go to this. we do all this not to provoke a calm flicked but to prevent complet and to preserve peace not to fight but to deter not to attack but to defend how do we act or that markets go ahead. well nato is an offensive criminal and degenerates organization that is the root cause today of instability in th

go ahead peter. and a little bit of a different perspective on this than much she does and she talked about forty years rainy and miti tour of the united states as a star and i go back to one thousand nine hundred fifty three iranians have good reason for not trusting the united states united states the cia overthrew the most at that government in one thousand nine hundred fifty three in iran you talk about russian interference in the american election or the cia consciously deliberately proposed simply overthrew a very popular government in iran because the iranian government was nationalizing british oil interests so how would we feel if iran had come in and overthrown the kennedy government in one thousand nine hundred sixty two and this is they who they were context we have to understand this and so yes and this these sanctions are hurting the iranian people definitely an iranian economy is suffering as a result what is going to be the outcome of this as china going to go along with with us deman

yeah peter i you know i really hope that they release an underaged acted mula report because you had the first time that they that they suffered this breakdown which was when barr gave his four five page summary they couldn't accept it now they have the redacted mueller report a month later and they still can't accept no collusion no obstruction i really really hope you did they release a third report so we can call the next cross talk triple down because they won't accept anything other then you know taking taking trump out of the white house in ariz judge jumpsuit in handcuffs when they've lost their mind yes but alex there will there certainly will be more reports but it's going to be the other shoe dropping it will be very interesting how they cover those reports are demon is that it's just part of the business model i mean they don't know what else to do other than attack the president of united there's many reasons to attack donald trump and his administration and many of his policies but this isn't it and they can't let it go it's there and it's a stockholm syndrome playing ou

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle what is the definition of insanity doubling down on the conspiracy theory and why russia may be the key to peace on the korean peninsula. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dmitri he's a political analyst we spoke nick international. and in nicosia we cross to alexander krista for oh he is the director and writer for the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go do i cyprus first. i really have to say watching the panel's endless panels on c.n.n. and and this n.b.c. it looks like a psychiatric. ward and they're all going through some kind of group therapy they can't they can't even get past denial so they're doubling down that's what i'm calling this program your reaction. yeah peter i you know i really hope that they release an underaged acted mueller report because you had the first time that they that they suffered this breakdown which was when barr gave his four five page summ

peter what peter we hear this debate about what about all these people from syria that we were has been supporting these terrorist groups for the last eight years to overthrow assad well we get a lot of come back to america come back to britain i have an idea the. committed their crimes in syria saw in state why not turn them over to the syrian government that's a good idea max you know your thought before we go to the break here go ahead yeah i mean the largest franchise of al qaeda right now exists under the banner of sham in the it live province and this was essential in the creation of the u.s. and gulf back proxy war in syria but we have to remember when we talk about islamophobia that the main force that fought this organization and that has died in numbers exceeding one hundred thousand deaths is the mostly sunni syrian arab army which consists mostly of observant muslims we have to remember this we have to remember that people in libya did not want isis to take over syria but this is our creation and then of course it blows back to us in the west and when i say us i mean our eli

yeah this is this is peter this is the worst election hangover the hangover defeat in history i mean we're three years now two years from the election three years of this of this trump russia collusion hoax and that's what it is it's a hoax it was a hoax from the beginning it's been proven a hoax. barr specifically says there was no collusion he is not recommending that mueller is not recommending any more indictments it's over ok release the three four hundred pages fine no one no one in their right mind expects to see anything different i'm sure the mainstream media the democrats will nit pick and they'll fight a few items to keep this narrative going just a little bit longer but peter they're running on fumes at this point and we all saw what happened that day after barr released his summary what happened to the ratings of rachel bad of c.n.n. of them as n.b.c. tucker carlson and his one hour show got more viewers than all of c.n.n. come bite that means a significant amount of people mostly i would guess independent voters who are buying into this narrative for two three years tha

peter we've discussed the legislative framework that's being put in x. in europe right to resist but to restrict media freedom here we see what i talked about a week or two ago the use of the criminal law the glass of information and this is what we call dictatorship you know exhibit a joining us is an australian citizen his own government didn't lift a finger no surprise there we can weeks is an operation that is not based in the united states. the department of justice now is making a claim and then it has its reach is global if if the department of justice determines that you have committed some kind of crime s. be nice for example against the united states you could be prosecuted anywhere in the world. and i to underline that on the contrary. manning on the snowden. never work for. us services. is not a twitter of anything and listening to. that is a member of the known state intelligence agency it's completely crazy and. of course i couldn't agree more that using. were not only for. fighting on the economic call point of view but even of fodder for

or the literary way of answering your question about failure peter. what i think is that again if we look to the theater of the absurd and to surrealistic. we can find we can begin to wait make our way to the to find an answer one of the most famous examples of surrealist literature is the italian author appear in delos play six characters in search of an author when the soviet union collapsed in one thousand nine hundred one you had fifteen republics in search of a history fifteen republics who had historically been part of russia when i say historically i mean going back many many centuries even in the case of the baltic states and suddenly they found themselves obliged to invent a story for themselves no history yet the word story and history is the same in every other language apart from english the story in russian in german east while in french they had to invent a story for themselves and you know one way and the out one way or the other all of them managed to do it you may not have agreed with the story you may not have agreed with the baltic

welcome back to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter we're discussing china. ok let's go back to remy in new york i think we should all speak the obvious what's going on here right now and we see a major transformation of the global economy and geopolitics and and china's got the deep pockets it has the technology it has the will and as i've pointed out i mean we'll find out i suppose but they're not bringing a lot of political baggage with them ok it's not promoting democracy at the end of the the barrel of a gun i mean they're just saying there's an opportunity here we can win you could win and let's do it and it seems that they doing pretty well it's the united states doesn't want to lose europe as a part of its orbit that's really obvious ok no one wants to say it in such clear language but that's the case go ahead romy well if you're saying it is true indeed but in another element it's important to look at when you look at normative values to to to invest in the international relationship that's actually what was interesting to look at over the last few d

comes a bar here cuz barr who is going to do what trouble probably just in two thousand and sixteen peter barr is going to drain the swamp and the optics the optics of that press conference we've talked about it many times was bart take control in a very calm manner and who was behind. find him like a deer that is just seen right head like this or rot rosenstein rod rosie was brought to huey and you can see it in his face it's a very good book but demon you know from our perspective our side of the pond here . comes to the conclusion that there was no collusion but it damaged us russian relations amazingly so almost to the point of irrepairable so there is a consequence so we have a fake we have a hoax conspiracy but we have real policy changes that are very very dangerous emo it's not only a thirty five million dollars that are spent on the mueller's commission and then a stack spade of money the real damage is much greater because not only do we have the sanctions and the mutual sanctions between russia and the united states and the euro then of course the e.u. at least five hundred bil

hello and welcome to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of the program we discuss one and one issue only the fate of julian assange and the fate of journalism itself. talking astonishing i'm joined by my guests here in moscow is a very morrow he's the founder of the center of political strategic analysis trap well and in france we cross with john laughlin he is a lecturer in political philosophy at i says the catholic university are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go first to france a job and i was reading an excellent article by chris hedges which was a republican consortium news title chris hedges the moderate martyr room of julian assange is julian assange a martyr a martyr for journalism a martyr for the law maybe a martyr for justice go ahead. i think there's absolutely no doubt about that i mean we know from the moment that he left the ecuadorian embassy in london that his original claim made seven years ago that he was trying to escape extradition to the united states

hello and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle that is finally happening julian assange was arrested within the ecuadorian embassy in london is widely expected he will be extradited to the united states to stand trial expected charges are espionage this is truly a dark day for journalists and journalists. cross talking julian assange i'm joined by my guest joe laurie in washington he's the editor in chief of consortium news dot com and author of how i lost my hillary clinton with the forward by julian assange also in washington we have brain mcgovern is a former cia analyst and co-founder of veteran intelligence professionals for sanity and in new york we cross the sara flounders she is co-director of international action center as well as author and an anti-war activists or across talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it joe let me go to you first because you're very familiar with julian joining us on the road the forward to your book what are your feelings right now because you know from my perspective i

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle china has arrived in europe in a very big way and not everyone in the west welcomes this italy's support of china's felten road initiative is a game changer the washington consensus that has dominated the world for the past seven decades. cross knocking china i'm joined by my guest patrick lawrence in new york he is a foreign affairs commentator whose columns appear in consortium news in other publications also in new york we have remy he is a senior director at america's market intelligence as well as a research associate on political cost the françois he is president of asia center i jump in crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate this but this program has been inspired by an article you wrote in the consortium news i saw the the white house's reaction to italy joining this initiative this chinese initiative belton road this is coming from the national the national security spokesman mark cases italy is a major goal of global economy and great investment d

hello and welcome to cross town where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle that can be known as journalism is under assault and it didn't start with the trials of julian assange and wiki leaks once it was a noble act to report on the nefarious activities of those in power now it is being criminalized free speech is now the privileged few. across talking journalism i'm joined by my guest john white in edinburgh he's a political commentator and writer in london we have george galloway he's a former member of parliament broadcaster and writer also in london we have michael patch and joyce he is a barrister with a place chambers specializing in european international law cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i'm going to ask all three of you the same question from the very start here is journalism being criminalized george first in london yeah i think you're right to pin this is a systemic problem it's not just about julian assange this is just the latest station for the cross on the via dolorosa heading to the final demise of

second point peter. look at history for seventy years. america was the unchallenged dominant power right it did not have to say gary much it did not have to imagine alternative perspectives it did not really need diplomacy right that it it was just in the driver seat suddenly the world has changed and. washington is rather school rhotic it's not accustomed to thinking it's not accustomed to new circumstances and it's not accustomed to seeing king other than we just proceed to do what we've always done since one nine hundred forty so it's kind of been shaken awake rather abruptly and . i think it's going to take quite a long time and a great number of mistakes some of the extremely unfortunate before washington is able to wake up and see the twenty first century food for what it is at the moment washington frankly speaking doesn't really much care for the twenty first century good point romney as you pointed out earlier in the program me what you said it's thirty thirteen countries in the european union and already. been dealing with china

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle a comedian has won the first round of ukraine's presidential election although it doesn't have strong policy positions maybe that was his greatest appeal though he made it clear corruption is ukraine's biggest challenge fixing ukraine's very serious problems is no laughing matter. crosstalk in ukraine i'm joined by my guest. in london he is a political consultant and foreign affairs analyst also in london we have alexander make your us he is the director and writer for the duran dot com and in sonoma california we crossed to john jordan he is a political strategist right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it well one of my rules of my program is a week i go to the person that got up early is for this program and that goes to john good morning i hope you had your coffee my first question is what kind of game changer is this election in ukraine it's far from. but we have a comedian that won the largest number of votes and we'll talk abo