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Joining us now to analyze today's
headlines as Raoul Mahajan He's

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a sociologist and author of
Full Spectrum Dominance U.S.

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Power in Iraq and beyond Iraq whole. Rican
banks have closed down and limited cash

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withdrawals and the latest chapter
in Greece's bailout discussions

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a day ahead of the deadline for

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a deal Greek prime minister
Alexis Tsipras of the N.T.

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Yesterday cities are party lambasted the
bank's closures as impeding the democratic

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expression of the Greek people German
Chancellor Angela Merkel chided C.

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Pressing that he needed to compromise and
that no one can get one hundred percent

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she added that the
troika of creditors made

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a quote generous offer that
was our contribution to

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a compromise the German parliament has
scheduled to debate on Greece this Wednesday

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and Greeks will be voting in

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a referendum on whether to remain in the
euro zone next Sunday Meanwhile Nobel

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Prize winning economist Joseph
Stiglitz speculated that

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a Greek exit from the
eurozone could prompt

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a serious geo political crisis for Europe
and proposed that the only way forward

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would be to write off Greece's debt
or not require payment for more than

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a decade or all it looks extremely likely
that there will be no agreement by

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tomorrow right. Yeah it looks that
way I mean you don't you don't put

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a national referendum with

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a completely vaguely defined question
at the last minute as anything except

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a sort of extraordinary emergency measures
so you know I think the last straw for

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a surprise was the fact that the Greek
proposal which involves among other things

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trying to shift the tax burden to make
it more progressive put more more on

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businesses and last time consumers was
was roundly rejected by by the European

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creditor is in favor of making the situation
even more aggressive than it is in

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a country that is already under the crisis
of having you know added twenty five

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percent G.D.P.

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Reduction in the last five years so there's
all the only way to interpret this

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rough around. Is as

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a preliminary justification for an
exit from the Eurozone it was simply

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a matter of rejecting this particular
deal it's hard to understand why the

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government would have had to take it to
the Greek people. And here in the United

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States

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a battle over the Confederate flag continued
over the weekend most newbie when

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a young African-American activist named to
Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole of the

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South Carolina state house in Colombia
and took down the offensive symbol using

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inspired massive support online and more
than one hundred thousand dollars in

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donations toward her legal fees when she
and her fellow activist were arrested she

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is a filmmaker and musician and the
daughter of player in St Newsome who was

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a dean at Howard University Meanwhile
NASCAR chairman Brian France just announced

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to that all Confederate flag symbols will
now be banned from the race car sporting

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event that's quite popular in the
southern states and last night

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a Boston Civil War Memorial pink tribute
to the first all black regiments fighting

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for the union was desecrated
when someone hung

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a Confederate flag over it well has
the battle over the flag turned into

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a sort of proxy war over the US

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a struggle with racism. Well I'm
not sure I think the battle of

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the flag has been

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a proxy war for for racism or proxy for
racism at least since about two thousand

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and one in a very active way that's the
first time it became a major issue in

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a presidential campaign I think what's
happened right now is that while. No serious

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concessions are going to be made on the
broader issue of racism in the kinds of

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ways institutionalized in for example the
criminal justice system at least not

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right away the flag is the fly is

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a reasonable sacrificial lamb and it's
being it's being thrown to the winds by

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people who I think even two years ago could
not have imagined admitting that the

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flag is an expression of white supremacy
and not simply. A celebration of Southern

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history and finally Texas State Attorney
General Ken Paxton has decided to defy

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Friday's historic Supreme Court ruling
legalizing marriage in all fifty states Mr

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Paxton called it

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a quote lawless ruling and said that while
Texas clerks could be fined for refusing

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to issue marriage licenses his office would
defend them in court pro bono some gay

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couples in Texas were able to get
married over the weekend but others in

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Mississippi and Louisiana were barred
from doing so it was Yanna Governor Bobby

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Jindal who just announced his candidacy for
the Republican presidential nomination

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said that while the ruling was clear there
was no mandate to begin issuing licenses

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immediately like others among the Christian
right he insisted that the ruling was

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an affront to religious freedom pride parades
around the world on Sunday celebrated

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the U.S. Decision will run as far as you
know this is a done deal right in the U.S.

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Doesn't the Christian right need to just
declare this war over. Well the South has

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a long history of declaring the right
knowledge occasionally laws and in one way or

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another in Texas in particular has

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a history of for example the legislature
refusing just ignoring requirements by

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the court for example to come up with

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a plan for equitable funding of school
districts to do this for decades in this

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case however although they're tapping into
that kind of rich tradition of refusal

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this is really dark in the manger stuff
for two reasons One is that you can't get

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everyone to go along with it with an illegal
violation of the Supreme Court's order

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so as long as people start getting married
in Texas there's going to be very hard

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to sustain some sort of revolt by

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a handful of people and secondly with regard
to say Obamacare which we thought was

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a done deal they took the legislative
decision to the courts this time it's

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a court decision and they have nowhere to
take thank you as always for joining us

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and helping untangle some of these headlines
thanks so much. My guest Rahul Mahajan

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a sociologist and author of
Full Spectrum Dominance U.S.

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Power in Iraq and beyond this
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