The receiving line, hope it is not too chaotic, not everybody can make it through because there is a period of time to do this and he will not sign anything. If you will line up over there to the left, you have to line up against the wall to my left, thank you for coming this morning. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] every saturday night we feature author programs from our archives and tonight our focus is on former president s to have written books. Of next is president bill clinton who served in office from 1993 to 2001. His memoir my life was written in 2004 and sold over 1 million copies in its first week. He has since written four the books including thrillers with james patterson. From june of 2000 for president clinton talked about his over 900 page memoir, book expo which is the publishing industrys convention, here is president bill clinton. [inaudible con
That the United States would always have the right to restore the u. N. Sanctions that would prevent iran from developing a Nuclear Weapon we paid a fortune for a failed concept and a failed policy a policy that would have made it impossible to have peace in the middle east by canas following the story for us from washington. In terms of resolution 2231 which is the one which actually set out the or a new nuclear deal that makes very clear that snapback and sanctions can only be called by a country or a member who is a participant in that deal now remember President Trump the us out of the deal back in 2018 so the very strong argument and the legal supposition would be there as no longer a party to their deal by its own definition the us has got no right to demand anything let alone some kind of snapback effect like this and one must remember as well that the deal makes very clear that there are certain parameters that iran must stay within to avoid such a snapback the other members th
Artifacts featured in their joint publication. In this, they discuss objects relateded to the july 1863 draft riots in new york city. This conversation took place online due to the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Historical society provided the video. Good evening, everyone. Im delighted to again have the opportunity to talk with my good friend and professional colleague, Harold Holzer. Before we get started, i want to remind you, you can ask questions anytime during the program by using the q a button at the bottom of in my case, top of your screens. Well get to your questions after our conversation. And now lets turn our attention to some objects that help us describe the civil war. In the history museum, objects do a lot of heavy lifting and standing in for larger historical narratives beyond the characteristics that define the object itself. So, lets just talk for a moment about the book, civil war and 50 objects, which inspired this program. Harold, tell us about it and how did
I was doing a lot of work. Sewing my seeds and the harvest came up. I was out there working and American Radio Networks recognized my work. They said, we may have a position open and i said okay. I thought it was for a dc bureau chief. Mind you, i had done local government. I even dabbled in washington. I anchored the weekends at wtop. But never in my wildest dreams would i imagine id be questioning american president s and they would call me by name. Well, at least three. But i did the work. And i started out local. Local being baltimore. My home, my love, being baltimore city. I came south and said lets try this. I thought id be there actually, i didnt want to stay when i first got here. I thought id stay for 23 years. Ive been here for 23. I started out being a reporter and i realized coming in what power was. Washington power was having a president call your name. The people who kept telling me i needed to have a president call me by name meaning the first president i covered, wher
Very giving thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. Google and facebook Business Models threats and human rights by being based on surveillance thats according to a new Amnesty International report the Group Alleges the tech giants of violate privacy and freedom of expression but in a culture that has more. Amnesty international released a report outlining how facebook and google abuse human rights that its increasing dominance over the new Global Public square controlling the main channels the companys surveillance based Business Model forces people to make a fenced in bargain whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human rights abuse their report accuses google and facebook of violating the right to privacy on an unprecedented scale as well as freedom of expression not only does it represent an intrusion into billions of peoples private lives that can never be necessary or proportionate but the companies have co