Report from occupied territory where he laid out issues were grappling today, stop and frisk, alienated communities, Police Brutality. These are back and its incumbent upon the nation i think to have debates about where these different moments come together and diverge. I totally agree, and i would add, this is another example, because i go with katrina on the cruises fundraising cruise, we had a panel and Jesse Jackson was on this, the beginning of this cruise, and he got off the ship after the first half, and on the panel, our columnist eric walterman, who is a very smart person, who goes out of his way, i keep telling him, to make unnecessary enemies. I love eric, and hes a really good writer, and i look forward to his column regularly. Eric said after jesse was off the boat, just in passing on this panel, im very glad that the first black president obama had been elected was not Jesse Jackson but was barack obama. At which point Jeremy Scahill brilliant Investigative Reporter and c
Cared about words a lot, and so you stayed out of his way when you were editing him and basically in my experience was you said yes or no to what he wanted to do, and you could say no, and its not for us, and but i like to say grow gore vidal. I was going to speak of someone else in the protradition of great writers and essayists contributing to the nation. Tony cushner, who i brought on to the editorial board, he in 1994 was so incensed by Andrew Sullivans piece on the case for gay marriage because it was in a very participatory aroundal capitalist, militaristic framework and we talked about it and he wanted to reply. I knew as victor has done brilliantly over the years he wanted to put tony cushner with any copkind, who had, who was really someone who came to the nation with a sensibility the nation had not had and did the first issue on gay rights called the gay moment when victor was editor, but in that piece, tony finally produced called the socialism of the skin its an extraordin
On the program the Saudi Crown Prince consolidates his hold on power after eleven princes and four minister is arrested in a corruption crackdown ousted Catalan Leader a catalyst for the mountain for other ministers to turn themselves in the Belgian Police and the exodus continues thousands of displaced way to make shift camps in the hope of finding a boat ride to bangladesh. Thank you for joining us we begin the program in lebanon where the leader of the iran backed his bowler movement says the surprise resignation of Prime Minister assad was imposed by saudi Arabia Hariri announced he was stepping down in a statement from the saudi capital riyadh on saturday in it he criticized iran and said he feared for his life but asked some question whether he had written the statement himself so in a holder has the latest now from beirut. Yet again lebanon is on the brink its Prime Minister has resigned a country not immune to political crises and its people know all too well what instability c
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