United States presidential contender Ron Paul has warned that his country is slipping into a twenty-first century fascist system with a broke government ruled by big business.
Stephen Lendman, radio host and author agrees that current US policies are evidence that the country has indeed developed a fascist system.
VT contributors Kevin Barrett, Jim Fetzer, and Joshua Blakeney discuss last September's Toronto 9/11 Hearings, and next June's Vancouver Hearings, on Truth Jihad Radio.
01-28-2012: VT Columnist Stephen Lendman appears on RT TV today discussing Syria and why Assad should tell USA to go to hell.
The Arab League has frozen its monitoring mission in Syria, because of the escalation of violence there. More than a hundred people are thought to have been killed in clashes between Syrian security forces and opposition groups in the past two days. The UN Security Council remains split on how to end the crisis. Russia has given a resound "no" to a new resolution on Syria, drafted by the EU and Arab states, that warns of further action if Damascus fails to comply. The text called for President Assad to transfer power to a deputy. Moscow says the resolution should not contain any threat of sanctions or imply any outside intervention. RT talks to political analyst Stephen Lendman, from the Center for Research on Globalisation. Amid intensifying fighting between the Syrian army and opposition groups, RT's Sara Firth has been to an area near the capital, which was recently taken over by rebel fighters. As she reports, although the opposition is united against the regime, they're poles apart on their methods.
01-27-2012: VT Managing Editor and Columnist Jim W. Dean on with SHORT END OF THE STICK with host Mike Harris of Republic Broadcast Radio discusses 9/11, Israel and the all the lost monies on wars in lands far far away.
01-26-2012: VT Columnist Allen L Roland on with SHORT END OF THE STICK and host Mike Harris from Republic Broadcast Radio. Roland discusses the issues of coming Election 2012
Some 200 Libyan protesters stormed the headquarters of the country's transitional government on Saturday in a show of frustration with the slow pace of national reform. But will their calls for post-Gaddafi transparency fall on deaf ears? Two weeks of protests in the city of Benghazi -- the heart of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi last February -- came to a head when protestors used grenades to blow the gates off the National Transitional Council (NTC) compound housing the interim government.
01-26-2012: VT Columnist Josh Blakeney talks with PressTV on the Barack Obama State of the Union 2012 Smear Speech. Blakeney discusses the reality that the U.S. president, in his bid for re-election, is channeling the wishes of his backers in that it's putting the interests of Israel before the interests of it's own people.
01-26-2012: VT Columnist Allen L Roland on PressTV discusses Iranian Sanctions, Oil Tensions, Petro Dollars and the collapse of the US Currency as the main global trading medium.. Roland says Western-backed sanctions on Iran have lost their credibility and will not dissuade many countries from trading with the Iranian Islamic Republic.