Tag: RT America
Look who’s talking! Syria embraces Putin as US pulls out (Full show)
Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad on Monday in a surprise meeting in which both leaders criticized the US and Turkey for keeping forces deployed in Syria despite no approval from the internationally recognized Syrian government. Two decades were too much for Washington in its struggle to invade and reshape Afghanistan. So how has it managed to stay in Syria’s oil fields? …
Bitcoin and El Salvador’s economic sovereignty
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks on US soil on September 11th, 2001, El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender and the conventional missile race between North and South Korea. Robert J. Miller of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma talks about a Supreme Court ruling honoring Native American lands. …
US pulls missiles out of Saudi Arabia to pivot toward China (Full show)
Washington’s decision to pull most of its advanced weapons systems from Saudi Arabia may presage a shift in focus to the perceived threat posed by an increasingly assertive China. Beijing has threatened economic sanctions and even to blockade Taiwan if the US fails to abide by its long-standing official “One China policy” and warned the US that it should not “send the wrong signal” about Taiwan’s sovereignty. …
On Contact: The age of manufactured ignorance
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the age of manufactured ignorance with the scholar Professor Henry A. Giroux. Education, Giroux writes, has increasingly become a tool of domination as right-wing pedagogical apparatuses controlled by the entrepreneurs of hate attack workers, the poor, people of color, refugees, immigrants from the south, and others considered disposable. …