As fighting intensifies in Eastern Ukraine, the Obama Administration is now considering directly Arming Ukrainian forces against russianbacked rebels. This comes as former soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warns the confrontation in ukraine cold war. We will speak to professor Stephen Cohen. Then to turmoil in north africa and the middle east. The general impression is the countrys rate close to total chaos, and if they miss this opportunity, it is very difficult to imagine there will be a secure nation in the country that will allow is only to start a new process. As libya faces its worst crisis since the u. S. Backed ouster of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, we look at a region in tremendous turmoil from syria to iraq to lebanon to yemen to saudi arabia to egypt. We will speak to professor Vijay Prashad. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has unveiled his 4 trillion Budget Proposal for next year
Why are you engaged in this work . Are you engaged . We are really excited about this project. We have joined women to promote and advance. It opens a number of possibilities for us. How can we use these Digital Technologies and learn fm them to change education on our alone campus. What weighs will we see based on the experience of these mass courses. How can that transform in cambridge and boston. Secondly, we see it as a way to get harvard ideas and harvard teaching out to a broader world and way to accumulate a lot of data that can be an extraordinary resource for anybody who like to use that material to ask questions about the nature of human learning and how it ought to be structured. On the point about spreading learning to the rest of the world, i have a very moving reaction to one bit of data. One of the pilot courses. When i was in india, i met with people in india who were wanting to interact with harvard. There is a need for engagement with our schools public health. We hav
The impact, hey, theyre back there calling the shots. Would that have a demoralizing impact on the unit . If you were still with that unit . Oh, no. American forces are going to do whatever they can every single day to do what theyre supposed to do. I dont think theyre really worried about anybody else. Okay. Mr. Walsh, in terms of permanent impact on policy, have we set a precedence by doing this in regards to all the other terrorists groups 1234. I believe we have, congressman. I believe weve set a dangerous precedent and id encourage this body to look at future efforts towards release and calls to close guantanamo. We had these gentleman detained. Men and women gave their lives to detain them. And now, unfortunately, i believe, men and women will give their lives to capture or kill them once again. Thank you. And i want to thank the panel. I yield back. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Vargas, for five minutes. Mr. Chairman, thank you, again. Thank you for hol
For the week to come. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Hoyer mr. Speaker, before i inquire of the majority leader, i want to say at the outset, i have now and have had Great Respect for the majority leader. The majority leader is a person of significant intellect, he cares about this institution, cares about our country and works hard on behalf of the principles which he believes in and which his party believes in. And i have enjoyed the opportunity to work with him. We obviously, as people have seen from the colloquys from time to time, have not always agreed on what we ought to be doing. Mr. Cantor, from the state of virginia, served in his house of delegates, in his General Assembly for eight years. He served there with distinction and then was elected to the house of representatives in 2000 to succeed a good friend of mine, the former mayor of richmond, tom bliley, who mr. Cantor chaired his campaign for at least three cycles. Obviously su
But, you know, without an american advisory effort and american units to partner with, theres no one there to oversee bad commanders, to say this guy needs to be relieved. When we were there, for instance, maliki removed every single bedivide commander in the Brigade Commander in the National Police and twothirds of the [inaudible] some of them twice. So we forced accountability on the state. But when we removed that check on malikis baser tendencies, he was able to do whatever he wanted to do starting with the attempted arrest of the Vice President of the state of iraq. And just to follow up on that , maliki has his own set of Political Considerations only some of which are to have an effective fighting force and some of which are to create Patronage Networks and all those sorts of things. One of the things that was interesting to me about your account of the charge of the knights is it wasnt clear to me whether maliki thought the u. S. Was actually vital in his inning. And maliki may