U. S. Was an outspoken critic of Bashar Alassad and hezbollah. At least five killed and 300 arrested as Egyptian Security forces fired water canons and tear gas into a clash of hundred of Mohamed Morsi forces. 1,000 people in Central African republic have been killed, and a ceasefire has been agreed. 72 u. N. Peacekeepers arrived in south sudans capital, joining thousands who were already there. Im morgan radford. Those are the headlines. America tonight is up next. Utah set to fight a federal ruling allowing same sex marriage in that state. Consider this, will it challenge land in the u. S. Supreme court potentially back firing on Marriage Equality opponents. Also, two judges with two opposing rulings on the constitutionality of nsa programs. As the courts fight it out, what does it mean for the monitoring of your telephone calls. Also a major casino doubles down anteing up employees salaries. And smaly americans, recruited by an american offshoot. Widespread group of american immigra
Is detrstroying older ways of le and that attraattracts people o gives recesenment. And the jews are tied to capitalism. When it comes to the way people think of capitalism, one of the interesting theme is i found when premodern thinkers thought about finance and money making they connected it to the jews because of their history as merchants in the middle ages. And i found when i was writing an earlier book, the way in which modern thinkers thought about capitalism was the way they thought about jews. And then there was the fact that because of jews commercial background and a number of other reasons, when jews found themselves in situations in the modern world where they had equality of legal opportunity, they did well in capitalistic societies. And that led to envy and in the wake of the holocaust, jews themselves, while they thought among themselves saw this dis o disproportion, they tended to die it down. And in the decades after the holocaust, their tended to be less of it. In re
Said jews had been intimately connected with the history of capitalism. In ways in which people have thought about capitalism and the actual practice. When it comes to the way people think of capitalism, one of the interesting themes is that i found with three modern thinkers the of commerce about financing and money making they connected with the jews with a deep historical reasons as merchants in general with the middle ages and often enough when i was writing an earlier book that the way modern intellectuals thought about capitalism was related to the way they thought about jews. Then the fact because of their commercial background for a number of other reasons, when jews found themselves in situations of the modern world with a modicum of legal opportunity theyve would be disproportionately both the and capitalist cited societies because in some cultures especially those suspicious of Commerce World where it was felt to the issues were doing better than others sometimes lead to env
In march 8, 1971, a group of activists come including a cab driver, a daycare director, into professors, broke into an fbi office in media, pennsylvania. They stole every document they found an elite the press shocking details about fbi abuse and the then secret cointelpro program. , the firstr letter file i read was about a group of fbi agents who were told to enhance the paranoia and the Antiwar Movement and create an atmosphere that there is an fbi agent behind every mailbox. No one was ever caught for the fbi breakin. The identities of the media burglars made a secret until this week. Today, three of them join us on the show as well as the former Washington Post reporter, Betty Medsger, who first broke the story of the still of fbi documents in 1971. This week she revealed the identities of the burglars in her new book, the burglary the discovery of j. Edgar hoovers secret fbi. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im a
Was in the most buccaneer times, after the civil war. We had rockefeller. The robber barons making a lot of money. I think it was easy for them because they had been running around with low rent con artists , now lets go with the big boys. They were beautiful and they were tough and they were driven. They were driven for power and individualism, but they could have been courtesans, they could have kept in a fine manner if they wanted. They pushed for their and dependence and womens independence. Independents and womens independence. Two little remembered victorian sisters changed the course of american womens rights and American History. Sunday on q a. Itself is not unusual. Similar streets have popped up in other cities. Beaumont, texas. Fort worth, texas. Denver. What makes ogdens 25th street unique is that it grows right in the middle of the mormon settlement. Arose right in the middle of the mormon settlement. The railroad was bringing in nonmormons. It swelled the length ranks of