Going back many, many years and having lived there as the Time Magazine correspondent and now i almost go every year but my publisher actually i finish my previous book and he gastight take a year and write about it. I started to look through years and i thought about 1938 as an interesting year is in china, 1944, the year that Joseph Stilwell was kicked out of china and barbara took care of that topic forever. So i started to look at 1945 through the end of world war ii and a few months after world war ii. A and i realized to thing is. One, it was a good topic, and whenever watershed moment as well as chinese history but i like to think of this book as more American History than chinese history. And number two, the was a certain prevailing conventional wisdom about what happened at that time. I thought i would write a book that would substantiate that conventional wisdom that i would just write it in a very readable way to bring this incredible cast of characters to life but i wouldnt
Only one. For a while i didnt think i was going to make it. Thank you all for coming. And again thank you to politics and prose for having me. One of kind of a standard tropes of publishing the book is that you have to answer the question why did you write about this topic in the first place. And you are supposed to a thoughtful answer about how youve had a lifelong interest in this topic and youve always dreamed about exploring it more deeply. In fact, this topic was supposed to be by my publisher. I have had a lifelong interest in china, almost a lifelong interest, having studied it studied chinese going back many many years and having lived there for a few years as the Time Magazine correspondent their, and traveled to there. Even today i go almost every year. But it was my publisher actually. I finished my previous book and he asked me to pick a year and write a book about in china. And so started looking through years, and i thought about 1938. Thats a very interesting year in chi
Legendary journalist William Worthy. At the height of the cold war, he defied u. S. Government by reporting from cuba, china, the soviet union, and iran. He went to north vietnam. The folksinger phil ochs once even wrote a song about him. Went down to cuba am a hes not an american anymore. Somehow it is strange to hear the state department say, youre living in the free world in the free world you must day we will air excerpts of our 1998 interview with William Worthy and speak to three journalists who knew him. Jeremy scahill and former Washington Post reporter Scott Armstrong. He took documents bill worthy brought back from iran and published them in the Washington Post when the New York Times refused. We will also speak with the worthys close associate photographer Randy Goodman who went with him to iran on a number of trips. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Dozens of people have been killed and tens
Today we remember the life of legendary journalist William Worthy. At the height of the cold war, he defied u. S. Government by reporting from cuba, china, the soviet union, and iran. He went to north vietnam. The folksinger phil ochs once even wrote a song about him. Went down to cuba am a hes not an american anymore. Somehow it is strange to hear the state department say, youre living in the free world in the free world you must day we will air excerpts of our 1998 interview with William Worthy and speak to three journalists who knew him. Jeremy scahill and former Washington Post reporter Scott Armstrong. He took documents bill worthy brought back from iran and published them in the Washington Post when the New York Times refused. We will also speak with the worthys close associate photographer Randy Goodman who went with him to iran on a number of trips. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Dozens of peo
Listen to expertise. We will see you in a few moments. Thank you very much. Next to be you in person. I think we are going to get going with the next segment. I am delighted to be joined by our colleagues. We have a lot to cover. It is a good think that i know they will have a lot to say. Please remember to keep in mind we would love to have your questions toward the end. I want to dive right in and i want to start with you if i could. I would love for each of you to give your reaction to what was shared with us. If there are areas of interest or confusion or that you think are important to be aware of, anything that really caught your attention. Mike thanks, melanie. I will focus on one issue because it is the issue that has troubled me with the National Security strategy and Foreign Policy in general, which is the potential to overdo the china threat. I dont think they do anything wrong, the choice of term pacing challenge is right on and he explained very clearly why it is a pacing