Throughout the weekend, American History tv is featuring Corpus Christi texas. Our staff recently traveled there to learn more about its rich history. Learn more about Corpus Christie and other stops at cspan. Org local content. Youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. During the war for independence american revolutionaries had more than 13,000 prisoners, many in the tension camps the lancaster, pennsylvania. Next, ken miller, author of works during the war for independence. He talks about the tensions and problems caused by the prison camps. Not only were the british and hessian prisoners to find defiant, they were often loyal. What i would like to do tonight is just tell you a story , a story about a particular revolutionary community, the community of lancaster pennsylvania, a large predominately german speaking town in the atlantic interior. As it turns out, lancaster offers an especially fascinating case study. Early american historians have an ex
Golden pinstripes for charity. His critics are less generous in their assessment of mr. Modis motives. And also on the program, aarons here. Hes having a look at that what is it 270 billion poker play. Hey, david, in the immortal words of the clash, should i stay or should i go now, if i stay there will be trouble, if i go it will be double. Yes, there will be trouble either way, but greece is still telling europe reject or accept, its up to you. Thanks for joining us here on gmt. Before we go to the situation in brussels i want to take you straight to some news coming out of moeggidishu, the capital of somalia. Were getting attacks of a suicide bomb attack. According to ministers, the deputy Prime Minister has been injured in that attack. There may be as many as 11 dead. There are some conflicting Agency Reports coming in at the moment and possibly a second government minister caught up in that attack as well. But as we understand it at the moment, a suicide bombing at a hotel in moga
Was trivializing what that was about. If anything, we give more protection to political speech. Not just speech in the theater or Something Like that. There is nothing that is more protected under american law band commentary about how the world ought to function, who ought to be elected, how government ought to behave, assessments of people. Under our law i dont believe the fire in a crowded theater motion really helps too much, because if anything it understates the level of First Amendment protection that is given and is needed with respect to political or socially relevant speech. If i go on television and suggest a really good idea would be to kill all the First Amendment lawyers in the u. S. , when you think that would be protected . [laughter] it is just an example. There was a cartoon was in the new yorker, with the Supreme Court sitting around a table and one of the justices says do you ever have a day when everything seems unconstitutional . [laughter] that is what your quest
Theres all kinds of unfortunate overlap that seemed to press the apa to support military policy, uncritically and sometimes perhaps behindthescenes. Amy then Human Rights Watch accuses the Saudiled Coalition of dropping banned cluster bombs manufactured and supplied by the United States near rebelheld villages in yemen. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The britishbased syrian observatory for human rights has accused the u. S. Led coalition of killing 64 civilians in an airstrike on a syrian village controlled by the selfproclaimed Islamic State. The group said 31 children were among those killed late last week near the Northern City of kobani in what it called the worst civilian loss from a single attack since the United States launched its campaign against isil. The pentagon says it is still assessing whether it should open an investigation, but denied there was any information to suggest civilians we
Coauthors of the new report all the president s psychologists the American Psychological associations secret complicity with the white house and u. S. Intelligence community in support of the cias enhanced Interrogation Program. Theres all kinds of unfortunate overlap that seemed to press the apa to support military policy, uncritically and sometimes perhaps behindthescenes. Amy then Human Rights Watch accuses the Saudiled Coalition of dropping banned cluster bombs manufactured and supplied by the United States near rebelheld villages in yemen. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The britishbased syrian observatory for human rights has accused the u. S. Led coalition of killing 64 civilians in an airstrike on a syrian village controlled by the selfproclaimed Islamic State. The group said 31 children were among those killed late last week near the Northern City of kobani in what it called the worst civilia